Josh Billings
Cleveland Naps 1913–1914; Cleveland Indians 1915–1918; St. Louis Browns 1919–1923
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 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 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1914 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .375 | .708 | 108.2 | 108.5 | .348 | 0.1 |
| 1915 | 8 | 24 | 21 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .190 | .190 | .238 | .429 | 12.6 | 26.1 | .205 | -0.1 |
| 1916 | 22 | 35 | 31 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .212 | .161 | .373 | -0.7 | 9.8 | .194 | -0.2 |
| 1917 | 66 | 147 | 129 | 8 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 21 | 2 | 0 | .178 | .243 | .233 | .475 | 40.6 | 44.6 | .241 | -0.1 |
| 1918 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 88.2 | 94.6 | .324 | 0.0 |
| 1919 | 38 | 82 | 76 | 9 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .218 | .237 | .455 | 12.9 | 25.3 | .217 | -0.4 |
| 1920 | 66 | 178 | 155 | 19 | 43 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .277 | .353 | .335 | .688 | 82.3 | 80.0 | .333 | 0.5 |
| 1921 | 20 | 47 | 46 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .217 | .217 | .435 | -3.0 | 8.6 | .202 | -0.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .429 | .429 | .571 | 1.000 | 156.6 | 155.4 | .453 | 0.1 |
| 1923 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-07-31 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1920-05-31 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1919-06-16 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1920-06-26 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1919-09-27 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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.