Willie Upshaw
Toronto Blue Jays 1978; Toronto Blue Jays 1980–1987; Cleveland Indians 1988
Percentile snapshot
1988 season — qualified batters
of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 95 | 250 | 224 | 26 | 53 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 21 | 35 | 4 | 6 | .237 | .298 | .304 | .602 | 67.5 | 67.9 | .284 | -0.7 |
| 1980 | 34 | 68 | 61 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .213 | .284 | .344 | .628 | 64.5 | 68.8 | .284 | -0.3 |
| 1981 | 61 | 123 | 111 | 15 | 19 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 1 | .171 | .252 | .324 | .576 | 60.7 | 62.1 | .272 | -0.6 |
| 1982 | 160 | 646 | 580 | 77 | 155 | 25 | 7 | 21 | 75 | 52 | 91 | 8 | 8 | .267 | .327 | .443 | .770 | 100.8 | 102.9 | .339 | 0.9 |
| 1983 | 160 | 655 | 579 | 99 | 177 | 26 | 7 | 27 | 104 | 61 | 98 | 10 | 7 | .306 | .373 | .515 | .887 | 137.3 | 137.0 | .389 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 152 | 635 | 569 | 79 | 158 | 31 | 9 | 19 | 84 | 55 | 86 | 10 | 4 | .278 | .345 | .464 | .809 | 117.2 | 120.2 | .354 | 2.1 |
| 1985 | 148 | 557 | 501 | 79 | 138 | 31 | 5 | 15 | 65 | 48 | 71 | 8 | 8 | .275 | .342 | .447 | .789 | 112.4 | 113.5 | .347 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 155 | 661 | 573 | 85 | 144 | 28 | 6 | 9 | 60 | 78 | 87 | 23 | 5 | .251 | .341 | .368 | .709 | 95.5 | 93.1 | .324 | 0.6 |
| 1987 | 150 | 577 | 512 | 68 | 125 | 22 | 4 | 15 | 58 | 58 | 78 | 10 | 11 | .244 | .324 | .391 | .715 | 89.0 | 88.3 | .318 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 149 | 564 | 493 | 58 | 121 | 22 | 3 | 11 | 50 | 62 | 66 | 12 | 9 | .245 | .330 | .369 | .699 | 95.2 | 93.5 | .321 | 0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-07-23 | TOR @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1982-06-07 | CLE @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1985-04-28 | TOR @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-08-17 | CLE @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1984-04-26 | ATH @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 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.