Willie Horton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 209 lb

BornOctober 18, 1942 · Arno, VA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1963

Final gameOctober 5, 1980

Seasons18 (1963–1980)

Detroit Tigers 1963–1977; Texas Rangers 1977; Cleveland Indians 1978; Oakland Athletics 1978; Toronto Blue Jays 1978; Seattle Mariners 1979–1980

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

162

93.5

696

89.2

646

52.5

180

85.6

17.3

89.9

RBI

106

91.4

112

88.5

.279

51.1

OBP

.326

28.8

SLG

.458

68.3

OPS

.784

54.7

wRC+

105.9

43.9

OPS+

106.9

46.8

wOBA

.347

48.2

sWAR

1.0

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

118.5

OPS+

120.3

79.8

sWAR

30.1

96.5

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
1963	15	43	43	6	14	2	1	1	4	0	8	2	0	.326	.326	.488	.814	123.6	122.0	.359	0.2
1964	25	92	80	6	13	1	3	1	10	11	20	0	0	.163	.272	.288	.559	50.1	55.3	.256	-0.4
1965	143	572	512	69	140	20	2	29	104	48	101	5	9	.273	.340	.490	.831	131.8	132.7	.366	3.3
1966	146	578	526	72	138	22	6	27	100	44	103	1	1	.262	.321	.481	.802	126.5	125.6	.354	3.0
1967	122	445	401	47	110	20	3	19	67	36	80	0	0	.274	.338	.481	.819	142.0	138.0	.372	3.2
1968	143	578	512	68	146	20	2	36	85	49	110	0	3	.285	.352	.543	.895	170.4	166.8	.400	5.9
1969	141	568	508	66	133	17	1	28	91	52	93	3	3	.262	.332	.465	.796	114.9	118.2	.357	2.2
1970	96	404	371	53	113	18	2	17	69	28	43	0	1	.305	.354	.501	.855	132.1	133.5	.379	2.4
1971	119	498	450	64	130	25	1	22	72	37	75	1	5	.289	.349	.496	.845	135.5	135.9	.378	3.1
1972	108	367	333	44	77	9	5	11	36	27	47	0	0	.231	.293	.387	.681	97.0	100.5	.313	0.5
1973	111	443	411	42	130	19	3	17	53	23	57	1	4	.316	.362	.501	.863	136.4	135.9	.388	2.9
1974	72	263	238	32	71	8	1	15	47	21	36	0	1	.298	.361	.529	.891	151.0	150.0	.400	2.1
1975	159	667	615	62	169	13	1	25	92	44	109	1	2	.275	.319	.421	.740	98.1	103.6	.332	0.2
1976	114	456	401	40	105	17	0	14	56	49	63	0	0	.262	.342	.409	.751	115.2	115.7	.347	1.0
1977	140	573	523	55	151	23	3	15	75	42	117	2	3	.289	.337	.430	.767	106.3	108.1	.340	0.8
1978	115	425	393	38	99	21	0	11	60	28	69	3	1	.252	.303	.389	.692	89.7	94.7	.311	-0.4
1979	162	696	646	77	180	19	5	29	106	42	112	1	1	.279	.326	.458	.784	105.9	106.9	.347	1.0
1980	97	384	335	32	74	10	1	8	36	39	70	0	4	.221	.306	.328	.635	74.3	73.2	.296	-1.0

Career totals

2,028

235th-most career G

8,052

284th-most career PA

7,298

250th-most career AB

873

1,993

302nd-most career H

284

325

129th-most career HR

RBI

1,163

186th-most career RBI

620

500th-most career BB

1,313

160th-most career SO

.2731

OBP

.3324

SLG

.4566

422nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7890

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1970-06-09	MIL @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	7	0	12
1977-05-15	TEX @ KC Gameday	3	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
1971-04-17	BOS @ DET Gameday	6	2	5	0	2	6	0	11
1965-05-14	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	5	0	10
1965-05-13	DET @ TEX Gameday	4	4	3	1	2	5	1	10

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.

Honors

4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.