Willie Kirkland
San Francisco Giants 1958–1960; Cleveland Indians 1961–1963; Baltimore Orioles 1964; Washington Senators 1964–1966
Percentile snapshot
1961 season — qualified batters
of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 122 | 470 | 418 | 48 | 108 | 25 | 6 | 14 | 56 | 43 | 69 | 3 | 2 | .258 | .332 | .447 | .779 | 103.7 | 105.7 | .341 | 1.2 |
| 1959 | 126 | 511 | 463 | 64 | 126 | 22 | 3 | 22 | 68 | 42 | 84 | 5 | 3 | .272 | .335 | .475 | .810 | 118.8 | 118.7 | .357 | 2.3 |
| 1960 | 146 | 567 | 515 | 59 | 130 | 21 | 10 | 21 | 65 | 44 | 86 | 12 | 7 | .252 | .315 | .454 | .769 | 112.0 | 114.5 | .338 | 1.9 |
| 1961 | 146 | 585 | 525 | 84 | 136 | 22 | 5 | 27 | 95 | 48 | 77 | 7 | 0 | .259 | .318 | .474 | .793 | 107.6 | 111.7 | .347 | 1.8 |
| 1962 | 137 | 470 | 419 | 56 | 84 | 9 | 1 | 21 | 72 | 43 | 62 | 9 | 1 | .200 | .272 | .377 | .649 | 70.9 | 75.0 | .289 | -0.7 |
| 1963 | 127 | 478 | 427 | 51 | 98 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 47 | 45 | 99 | 8 | 2 | .230 | .303 | .375 | .677 | 87.7 | 89.5 | .304 | 0.7 |
| 1964 | 98 | 282 | 252 | 22 | 52 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 35 | 23 | 56 | 3 | 2 | .206 | .272 | .345 | .618 | 65.0 | 70.9 | .275 | -0.7 |
| 1965 | 123 | 337 | 312 | 38 | 72 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 54 | 19 | 65 | 3 | 2 | .231 | .270 | .401 | .671 | 84.2 | 88.5 | .299 | 0.0 |
| 1966 | 124 | 182 | 163 | 21 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 17 | 16 | 50 | 2 | 0 | .190 | .261 | .325 | .586 | 61.9 | 67.9 | .262 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-07-09 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 12 |
| 1958-08-06 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| 1963-06-14 | TEX @ CLE Gameday | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1961-07-29 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1960-09-19 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 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.