Willie Norwood
Minnesota Twins 1977–1980
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 39 | 91 | 83 | 15 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 17 | 6 | 1 | .229 | .281 | .373 | .654 | 77.3 | 78.0 | .296 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 125 | 471 | 428 | 56 | 109 | 22 | 3 | 8 | 46 | 28 | 64 | 25 | 10 | .255 | .301 | .376 | .677 | 87.1 | 88.6 | .310 | 0.3 |
| 1979 | 96 | 294 | 270 | 32 | 67 | 13 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 20 | 51 | 9 | 5 | .248 | .299 | .385 | .684 | 78.9 | 81.2 | .307 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 34 | 76 | 73 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 | .164 | .197 | .233 | .430 | 5.4 | 14.6 | .200 | -0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-09-18 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1979-04-15 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1979-05-15 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1978-07-16 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1979-04-14 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.