MLB / Players

Billy Sullivan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 155 lb

BornFebruary 1, 1875 · Oakland, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1899

Final gameApril 15, 1916

Seasons16 (1899–1916)

Boston Beaneaters 1899–1900; Chicago White Sox 1901–1912; Chicago White Sox 1914; Detroit Tigers 1916

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

64.1

1.3

OPS+

63.9

sWAR

5.9

81.2

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
1899	22	78	74	10	20	2	0	2	12	1	8	2	0	.270	.308	.378	.686	85.4	87.5	.325	0.3
1900	72	251	238	36	65	6	0	8	41	9	33	4	0	.273	.302	.399	.702	89.1	92.7	.328	1.0
1901	98	393	367	54	90	15	6	4	56	10	38	12	0	.245	.271	.351	.623	74.4	73.9	.289	0.7
1902	76	280	263	36	64	12	3	1	26	6	32	11	0	.243	.268	.323	.592	66.5	67.0	.276	0.3
1903	32	118	111	10	21	4	0	1	7	5	13	3	0	.189	.224	.252	.476	46.8	45.9	.224	-0.1
1904	108	395	371	29	85	18	4	1	44	12	50	11	0	.229	.255	.307	.562	77.6	81.4	.266	1.4
1905	98	349	323	25	65	10	3	2	26	13	54	14	0	.201	.239	.269	.508	64.2	66.0	.246	0.5
1906	118	432	387	37	83	18	4	2	33	22	67	10	0	.214	.262	.297	.559	76.4	78.2	.272	1.4
1907	112	363	329	30	59	8	4	0	36	21	69	6	0	.179	.235	.228	.463	52.8	51.7	.233	0.3
1908	137	476	430	40	82	8	4	0	29	22	62	15	0	.191	.235	.228	.463	52.1	53.3	.230	0.3
1909	97	302	265	11	43	3	0	0	16	17	50	9	0	.162	.226	.174	.400	31.8	30.2	.208	-0.4
1910	45	151	142	10	26	4	1	0	6	7	26	0	0	.183	.227	.225	.452	42.5	45.2	.225	-0.1
1911	89	285	256	26	55	9	3	0	31	16	47	1	0	.215	.266	.273	.540	54.3	53.8	.265	0.1
1912	41	108	91	9	19	2	1	0	15	9	16	0	2	.209	.287	.253	.540	63.0	58.0	.273	0.2
1914	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1916	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Career totals

1,147

3,981

3,647

363

777

119

RBI

378

170

565

.2131

OBP

.2544

SLG

.2811

OPS

.5355

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	TB
1906-08-16	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1903-09-26	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	1	1	7
1904-10-09	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	0	4	2	0	0	3	6
1906-07-30	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	2	6
1901-09-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-24	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	DET @ CWS 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.