Josh Billings
Detroit Tigers 1927–1929
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 10 | 28 | 27 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .286 | .296 | .582 | 45.2 | 49.5 | .274 | 0.3 |
| 1928 | 21 | 42 | 35 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .342 | .400 | .742 | 90.7 | 91.7 | .343 | 0.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -54.7 | -60.5 | .108 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 64 | 36 | 39 | 18 | 3 | 67.0 | 4.84 | 1.537 | 2.42 | 5.12 | 121.2 | 87.4 | 0.3 |
| 1928 | 21 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 118 | 63 | 59 | 48 | 4 | 110.7 | 5.12 | 1.599 | 3.90 | 4.37 | 105.3 | 81.0 | 0.2 |
| 1929 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 19.3 | 5.12 | 1.862 | 0.47 | 4.46 | 103.6 | 84.1 | 0.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928-05-01 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1928-04-15 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1928-06-13 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1928-06-30 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1927-09-06 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-08-21 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1928-06-30 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1928-07-29 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1928-04-15 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1928-04-11 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 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.