MLB / Players

Willie Wilson

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 9, 1955 · Montgomery, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1976

Final gameMay 16, 1994

Seasons19 (1976–1994)

Kansas City Royals 1976–1990; Oakland Athletics 1991–1992; Chicago Cubs 1993–1994

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified batters

147

37.2

628

60.5

591

79.1

155

61.2

7.8

97.7

3.1

RBI

3.1

106

20.2

89.1

29.5

.262

36.4

OBP

.289

8.5

SLG

.333

10.1

OPS

.622

6.2

wRC+

71.9

OPS+

74.4

5.4

wOBA

.283

6.2

sWAR

0.3

5.4

of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.8

29.7

OPS+

93.6

28.7

sWAR

20.8

93.9

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
1976	12	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	-16.1	-1.6	.157	-0.1
1977	13	37	34	10	11	2	0	0	1	1	8	6	3	.324	.343	.382	.725	99.5	98.5	.329	0.1
1978	127	223	198	43	43	8	2	0	16	16	33	46	12	.217	.280	.278	.558	55.6	56.7	.265	-0.8
1979	154	640	588	113	185	18	13	6	49	28	92	83	12	.315	.351	.420	.771	106.8	106.5	.347	2.0
1980	161	745	705	133	230	28	15	3	49	28	81	79	10	.326	.357	.421	.778	113.7	112.1	.353	3.4
1981	102	465	439	54	133	10	7	1	32	18	42	34	8	.303	.335	.364	.700	103.1	103.5	.324	1.4
1982	136	621	585	87	194	19	15	3	46	26	81	37	11	.332	.365	.431	.796	120.0	118.1	.358	3.1
1983	137	611	576	90	159	22	8	2	33	33	75	59	8	.276	.316	.352	.669	84.7	84.6	.305	0.8
1984	128	588	541	81	163	24	9	2	44	39	56	47	5	.301	.350	.390	.740	107.1	105.1	.337	2.8
1985	141	642	605	87	168	25	21	4	43	29	94	43	11	.278	.316	.408	.724	96.8	97.7	.322	2.2
1986	156	675	631	77	170	20	7	9	44	31	97	34	8	.269	.313	.366	.679	83.8	84.0	.306	1.2
1987	146	653	610	97	170	18	15	4	30	32	88	59	11	.279	.320	.377	.698	83.6	83.7	.310	1.1
1988	147	628	591	81	155	17	11	1	37	22	106	35	7	.262	.289	.333	.622	71.9	74.4	.283	0.3
1989	112	423	383	58	97	17	7	3	43	27	78	24	6	.253	.300	.358	.657	85.3	86.1	.303	0.9
1990	115	345	307	49	89	13	3	2	42	30	57	24	6	.290	.354	.371	.725	108.3	105.4	.337	1.3
1991	113	318	294	38	70	14	4	0	28	18	43	20	5	.238	.290	.313	.603	72.1	72.3	.280	-0.3
1992	132	437	396	38	107	15	5	0	37	35	65	28	8	.270	.329	.333	.662	92.2	91.0	.311	1.2
1993	105	237	221	29	57	11	3	1	11	11	40	7	2	.258	.301	.348	.649	74.0	74.8	.295	0.2
1994	17	23	21	4	5	0	2	0	0	1	6	1	0	.238	.273	.429	.701	78.2	80.4	.307	0.0

Career totals

2,154

175th-most career G

8,317

229th-most career PA

7,731

184th-most career AB

1,169

216th-most career R

2,207

190th-most career H

281

147

56th-most career 3B

RBI

585

425

1,144

269th-most career SO

668

12th-most career SB

.2855

OBP

.3264

SLG

.3758

OPS

.7022

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
1979-06-15	KC @ MIL Gameday	6	4	4	0	0	2	6	0	10
1983-08-09	MIL @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1982-07-21	KC @ TOR Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	4	0	7
1985-06-20	MIN @ KC Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	0	1	1	7
1986-05-09	KC @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	7

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

2× Silver Slugger1× Gold Glove2× 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.