Willie Aikens
California Angels 1977; California Angels 1979; Kansas City Royals 1980–1983; Toronto Blue Jays 1984–1985
Percentile snapshot
1982 season — qualified batters
of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 42 | 101 | 91 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 23 | 1 | 2 | .198 | .277 | .242 | .519 | 42.8 | 46.2 | .241 | -0.6 |
| 1979 | 116 | 447 | 379 | 59 | 106 | 18 | 0 | 21 | 81 | 61 | 79 | 1 | 3 | .280 | .376 | .493 | .869 | 134.0 | 136.6 | .382 | 2.3 |
| 1980 | 151 | 623 | 543 | 70 | 151 | 24 | 0 | 20 | 98 | 64 | 88 | 1 | 0 | .278 | .356 | .433 | .789 | 116.7 | 114.8 | .358 | 2.1 |
| 1981 | 101 | 419 | 349 | 45 | 93 | 16 | 0 | 17 | 53 | 62 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .377 | .458 | .836 | 139.9 | 141.8 | .375 | 2.5 |
| 1982 | 134 | 519 | 466 | 50 | 131 | 29 | 1 | 17 | 74 | 45 | 70 | 0 | 1 | .281 | .345 | .457 | .802 | 116.7 | 118.5 | .353 | 1.7 |
| 1983 | 125 | 458 | 410 | 49 | 124 | 26 | 1 | 23 | 72 | 45 | 75 | 0 | 0 | .302 | .373 | .539 | .912 | 147.3 | 148.6 | .397 | 3.1 |
| 1984 | 93 | 265 | 234 | 21 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 26 | 29 | 56 | 0 | 0 | .205 | .298 | .376 | .674 | 85.4 | 84.1 | .308 | -0.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | 24 | 20 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .292 | .400 | .692 | 84.5 | 86.7 | .306 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-09-12 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1979-06-10 | DET @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1982-06-06 | KC @ NYY Gameday | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1983-06-10 | KC @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1982-09-30 | ATH @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
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.