Steve Bilko

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 230 lb

BornNovember 13, 1928 · Nanticoke, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1949

Final gameAugust 23, 1962

Seasons10 (1949–1962)

St. Louis Cardinals 1949–1953; Chicago Cubs 1954; St. Louis Cardinals 1954; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958; Detroit Tigers 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961–1962

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

154

77.4

641

64.3

570

60.7

34.5

143

32.1

38.1

13.1

71.4

RBI

64.3

71.4

125

78.6

.251

7.1

OBP

.334

23.8

SLG

.412

35.7

OPS

.746

wRC+

92.9

OPS+

92.9

22.6

wOBA

.335

23.8

sWAR

0.3

10.7

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.4

75.2

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
1949	6	22	17	3	5	2	0	0	2	5	6	0	0	.294	.455	.412	.866	143.4	131.6	.413	0.2
1950	10	37	33	1	6	1	0	0	2	4	10	0	0	.182	.270	.212	.482	25.2	27.0	.238	-0.3
1951	21	82	72	5	16	4	0	2	12	9	10	0	0	.222	.309	.361	.670	78.6	79.7	.310	-0.1
1952	20	78	72	7	19	6	1	1	6	4	15	0	0	.264	.303	.417	.719	93.6	98.0	.325	0.0
1953	154	641	570	72	143	23	3	21	84	70	125	0	1	.251	.334	.412	.746	92.9	92.9	.335	0.3
1954	55	120	106	12	24	8	1	4	13	14	25	0	0	.226	.317	.434	.751	91.2	91.4	.335	0.0
1958	78	210	188	25	44	5	4	11	35	18	57	0	0	.234	.295	.479	.774	93.4	96.0	.336	0.1
1960	78	250	222	20	46	11	2	9	25	27	31	0	1	.207	.292	.396	.688	82.5	83.2	.314	-0.2
1961	114	354	294	49	82	16	1	20	59	58	81	1	1	.279	.395	.544	.940	145.3	143.0	.415	2.4
1962	64	198	164	26	47	9	1	8	38	25	35	1	1	.287	.374	.500	.874	131.4	131.6	.384	1.0

Career totals

600

1,992

1,738

220

432

RBI

276

234

395

.2486

OBP

.3363

SLG

.4436

OPS

.7799

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	TB
1953-07-20	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	10
1953-09-13	PHI @ STL Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	1	3	9
1958-05-30	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	2	8
1962-04-15	LAA @ MIN Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1953-09-01	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-04-19	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-23	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-24	CHC @ STL 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.