Billy Wagner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 25, 1971 · Marion, VA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1995

Final gameOctober 3, 2010

Seasons16 (1995–2010)

Houston Astros 1995–2003; Philadelphia Phillies 2004–2005; New York Mets 2006–2008; Boston Red Sox 2009; New York Mets 2009; Atlanta Braves 2010

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

sWAR

28.9

96.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1995	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1996	37	5	5	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-113.5	-100.0	.000	1.3
1997	62	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.9	-100.0	.000	1.6
1998	58	3	3	0	1	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	78.0	79.6	.302	1.6
1999	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.2
2000	28	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.8	-100.0	.000	-0.2
2001	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2002	70	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.7	-100.0	.000	2.2
2003	78	3	2	1	0	1	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	34.5	-3.0	.245	3.4
2004	46	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.2	-100.0	.000	1.5
2005	75	3	3	0	1	0	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	71.3	73.9	.301	3.3
2006	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
2007	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
2008	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
2009	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
2010	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1995	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.00	.000	0.00	3.07	77.9	—	0.0
1996	37	2	2	9	28	14	30	67	6	51.7	2.44	1.123	11.67	3.93	99.3	162.2	1.3
1997	62	7	8	23	49	21	30	106	5	66.3	2.85	1.191	14.38	2.35	58.0	142.2	1.6
1998	58	4	3	30	46	18	25	97	6	60.0	2.70	1.183	14.55	2.38	58.1	152.0	1.6
1999	66	4	1	39	35	13	23	124	5	74.7	1.57	.777	14.95	1.59	34.4	294.3	3.2
2000	28	2	4	6	28	19	18	28	6	27.7	6.18	1.663	9.11	5.91	124.0	77.1	-0.2
2001	64	2	5	39	44	19	20	79	5	62.7	2.73	1.021	11.35	2.72	59.1	168.5	1.9
2002	70	4	2	35	51	21	22	88	7	75.0	2.52	.973	10.56	2.70	63.4	169.3	2.2
2003	78	1	4	44	52	17	23	105	8	86.0	1.78	.872	10.99	2.65	60.8	245.3	3.4
2004	45	4	0	21	31	13	6	59	5	48.3	2.42	.766	10.99	2.35	54.3	179.2	1.5
2005	75	4	3	38	45	13	20	87	6	77.7	1.51	.837	10.08	2.64	60.8	288.5	3.3
2006	70	3	2	40	59	18	21	94	7	72.3	2.24	1.106	11.70	2.81	64.3	194.9	2.4
2007	66	2	2	34	55	20	22	80	6	68.3	2.63	1.127	10.54	3.03	70.4	163.5	1.9
2008	45	0	1	27	32	12	10	52	4	47.0	2.30	.894	9.96	2.64	62.8	182.7	1.5
2009	17	1	1	0	8	3	8	26	1	15.7	1.72	1.021	14.94	2.37	51.8	262.3	0.6
2010	71	7	2	37	38	11	22	104	5	69.3	1.43	.865	13.50	2.13	53.7	277.3	2.7

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

854

RBI

.1000

OBP

.1429

SLG

.1000

OPS

.2429

Pitching

G (P)

853

42nd-most career G (P)

422

8th-most career SV

SHO

903

SO (P)

1,196

394th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

300

ERA

2.312

WHIP

.9978

K/9

11.92

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	H	RBI	BB	TB
1998-07-14	HOU @ AZ Gameday	1	1	0	0	1
2005-05-01	MIA @ PHI Gameday	1	1	0	0	1
2003-08-30	SD @ HOU Gameday	0	0	1	1	0
1995-09-13	HOU @ NYM Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1996-06-06	COL @ HOU Gameday	1	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1996-06-20	HOU @ LAD Gameday	2.2	1	0	0	2	7	0
1996-06-06	COL @ HOU Gameday	3.1	3	3	3	1	5	1
1996-08-04	SF @ HOU Gameday	2.0	1	2	0	2	5	0
1998-06-14	HOU @ CIN Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	1	5	0
1998-08-15	CHC @ HOU Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	5	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, 2025 (BBWAA)

6× All-Star

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