Billy Sullivan
Chicago White Sox 1931–1933; Cincinnati Reds 1935; Cleveland Indians 1936–1937; St. Louis Browns 1938–1939; Detroit Tigers 1940–1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947
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+ 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 92 | 392 | 363 | 48 | 100 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 33 | 20 | 14 | 4 | 4 | .275 | .315 | .364 | .679 | 79.8 | 81.3 | .314 | 0.4 |
| 1932 | 93 | 328 | 307 | 31 | 97 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 3 | .316 | .358 | .384 | .742 | 96.7 | 96.7 | .343 | 0.6 |
| 1933 | 54 | 140 | 125 | 9 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .252 | .208 | .460 | 25.4 | 24.2 | .227 | -0.9 |
| 1935 | 85 | 265 | 241 | 29 | 64 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 36 | 19 | 16 | 4 | 0 | .266 | .324 | .361 | .685 | 86.1 | 85.7 | .316 | 0.1 |
| 1936 | 93 | 339 | 319 | 39 | 112 | 32 | 6 | 2 | 48 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | .351 | .382 | .508 | .890 | 114.9 | 117.9 | .400 | 2.2 |
| 1937 | 72 | 190 | 168 | 26 | 48 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 1 | 4 | .286 | .355 | .446 | .801 | 99.5 | 100.8 | .364 | 0.8 |
| 1938 | 111 | 401 | 375 | 35 | 104 | 16 | 1 | 7 | 49 | 20 | 10 | 8 | 5 | .277 | .316 | .381 | .697 | 67.7 | 71.3 | .319 | 0.3 |
| 1939 | 118 | 374 | 332 | 53 | 96 | 17 | 5 | 5 | 50 | 34 | 18 | 3 | 3 | .289 | .362 | .416 | .778 | 94.9 | 94.8 | .359 | 0.8 |
| 1940 | 78 | 256 | 220 | 36 | 68 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 41 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .309 | .399 | .450 | .849 | 115.8 | 112.8 | .388 | 1.8 |
| 1941 | 85 | 269 | 234 | 29 | 66 | 15 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 35 | 11 | 0 | 3 | .282 | .375 | .393 | .769 | 98.7 | 96.1 | .362 | 1.3 |
| 1942 | 43 | 115 | 101 | 11 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .267 | .345 | .337 | .682 | 101.9 | 99.6 | .331 | 0.8 |
| 1947 | 38 | 61 | 55 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .255 | .328 | .309 | .637 | 67.1 | 67.1 | .304 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-09-04 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1937-08-08 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1936-05-27 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1931-07-27 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1931-08-01 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-04-14 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-15 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-16 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-18 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1931-04-19 | CWS @ BAL 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.