Billy Werber

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornJune 20, 1908 · Berwyn, MD, USA

MLB debutJune 25, 1930

Final gameSeptember 5, 1942

Seasons11 (1930–1942)

New York Yankees 1930; Boston Red Sox 1933; New York Yankees 1933; Boston Red Sox 1934–1936; Philadelphia Athletics 1937–1938; Cincinnati Reds 1939–1941; New York Giants 1942

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

109

35.3

477

35.3

418

35.3

43.2

100

21.6

13.7

42.4

RBI

43.9

62.6

58.3

91.4

36.7

.239

12.9

OBP

.328

31.7

SLG

.299

8.6

OPS

.627

15.8

wRC+

81.8

23.7

OPS+

78.9

21.6

wOBA

.307

22.3

sWAR

0.7

30.2

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.1

OPS+

97.7

sWAR

20.9

93.9

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
1930	4	17	14	5	4	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	0	.286	.412	.286	.697	96.7	84.1	.347	0.1
1933	111	473	427	64	110	30	6	3	39	33	39	15	5	.258	.311	.377	.688	77.6	79.9	.318	0.6
1934	152	716	623	129	200	41	10	11	67	77	37	40	15	.321	.397	.472	.868	119.5	119.2	.401	4.3
1935	124	549	462	84	118	30	3	14	61	69	41	29	7	.255	.357	.424	.781	97.4	97.0	.363	1.7
1936	145	639	535	89	147	29	6	10	67	89	37	23	13	.275	.382	.407	.790	94.5	91.7	.371	1.5
1937	128	576	493	85	144	31	4	7	70	74	39	35	13	.292	.386	.414	.799	103.6	101.0	.372	2.3
1938	134	599	499	92	129	22	7	11	69	93	37	19	15	.259	.377	.397	.774	97.5	94.1	.365	1.9
1939	147	707	599	115	173	35	5	5	57	91	46	15	0	.289	.388	.389	.777	116.1	111.0	.368	4.0
1940	143	663	584	105	162	35	5	12	48	68	40	16	0	.277	.361	.416	.777	117.3	115.4	.360	3.8
1941	109	477	418	56	100	9	2	4	46	53	24	14	0	.239	.328	.299	.627	81.8	78.9	.307	0.7
1942	98	429	370	51	76	9	2	1	13	51	22	9	0	.205	.308	.249	.557	67.4	64.0	.282	-0.1

Career totals

1,295

5,845

5,024

875

1,363

271

RBI

539

701

381st-most career BB

363

215

326th-most career SB

.2713

OBP

.3641

396th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3917

OPS

.7558

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
1935-06-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1940-05-13	STL @ CIN Gameday	7	2	5	4	0	0	2	0	9
1933-05-30	ATH @ BOS Gameday	7	1	4	1	2	0	2	0	9
1935-06-14	BOS @ DET Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1935-07-17	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	3	4	4	0	0	4	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-15	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-20	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-22	ATH @ NYY 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.