Billy Southworth

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornMarch 9, 1893 · Harvard, NE, USA

MLB debutAugust 4, 1913

Final gameJuly 9, 1929

Seasons13 (1913–1929)

Cleveland Naps 1913; Cleveland Indians 1915; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918–1920; Boston Braves 1921–1923; New York Giants 1924–1926; St. Louis Cardinals 1926–1927; St. Louis Cardinals 1929

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

135

62.7

566

67.7

507

70.9

162

75.9

73.4

62.7

92.4

RBI

90.5

44.3

53.8

77.2

47.5

.320

74.1

OBP

.365

46.2

SLG

.497

80.4

OPS

.862

75.3

wRC+

126.6

75.3

OPS+

128.3

75.9

wOBA

.391

70.3

sWAR

3.1

78.5

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.2

65.9

OPS+

111.8

65.9

sWAR

19.6

93.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1915	60	214	177	25	39	2	5	0	8	36	12	2	4	.220	.352	.288	.640	96.5	88.5	.333	0.6
1918	64	275	246	37	84	5	7	2	43	26	9	19	0	.341	.409	.443	.852	161.9	156.6	.409	2.7
1919	121	502	453	56	127	14	14	4	61	32	22	23	0	.280	.329	.400	.729	116.7	116.8	.344	2.0
1920	146	617	546	64	155	17	13	2	53	52	20	23	25	.284	.348	.374	.722	108.6	106.7	.343	1.9
1921	141	642	569	86	175	25	15	7	79	36	13	22	20	.308	.351	.441	.792	111.8	112.7	.360	2.3
1922	43	182	158	27	51	4	4	4	18	18	1	4	1	.323	.392	.475	.867	126.1	126.2	.397	1.0
1923	153	692	611	95	195	29	16	6	78	61	23	14	16	.319	.383	.448	.831	121.6	121.1	.383	3.4
1924	94	325	281	40	72	13	0	3	36	32	16	1	6	.256	.332	.335	.667	81.6	79.7	.316	0.3
1925	123	537	473	79	138	19	5	6	44	51	11	6	13	.292	.363	.391	.754	99.1	97.1	.349	1.9
1926	135	566	507	99	162	28	7	16	99	33	10	14	0	.320	.365	.497	.862	126.6	128.3	.391	3.1
1927	92	341	306	52	92	15	5	2	39	23	7	10	0	.301	.350	.402	.752	99.0	99.4	.349	0.7
1929	19	34	32	1	6	2	0	0	3	2	4	0	0	.188	.235	.250	.485	16.9	20.5	.228	-0.3

Career totals

1,192

4,927

4,359

661

1,296

173

211th-most career 3B

RBI

561

402

148

138

.2973

263rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3585

SLG

.4145

OPS

.7730

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1921-08-04	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	3	4	3	0	1	7	1	10
1919-05-31	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	1	6	0	10
1921-07-04	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1922-05-24	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	2	1	9
1925-06-16	SF @ PIT Gameday	6	2	4	1	0	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-11	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-12	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-16	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 2008 (Veterans - Managers and Umpires)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.