Player Report for #19 Billy Pierce

Player Demographics
	Name:	Billy Pierce	Height:	5' 10"
	Nickname:		Weight:	164 lbs
	Date of Birth:	April 2, 1936	Bats:	L
	Drafted:	Drafted by the Kansas City Athletics with the 12^th pick in the 3^rd round of the inaugural draft	Throws:	L
	Current Status:	Retired
	Links:	Development History

Honors and Awards
Award	Years	Times Won
Robert Moses Grove Award	1963	1
All-Star	1963, 1964, 1965	3
Pitcher of the Month	6/64, 4/71	2

Pitching Stats

Year/Team	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HP	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERC	FIP	ERA+
1945 -	9	5	0	0	0	0	1.80	10.0	6	2	2	1	10	10	1	0	0	0	1.60	.200	-0.2	4.42	5.50
1948 -	12	22	5	3	0	0	6.34	55.3	47	40	39	5	51	36	1	0	0	0	1.77	.241	-0.7	5.03	5.84
1949 -	13	32	26	7	15	0	3.88	171.7	145	89	74	11	112	95	0	0	8	0	1.50	.240	0.6	3.77	4.88
1950 -	14	33	29	12	16	1	3.98	219.3	189	112	97	11	137	118	2	0	15	1	1.49	.245	1.4	3.68	4.65
1951 -	15	37	28	15	14	2	3.03	240.3	237	93	81	14	73	113	1	0	18	1	1.29	.266	3.5	3.22	3.93
1961 - KCA	25	37	33	10	16	0	3.06	255.7	242	95	87	8	64	124	3	0	6	0	1.20	.279	5.6	2.80	3.39	115
1962 - KCA	26	32	32	13	16	0	3.50	241.7	221	102	94	19	70	178	4	0	12	4	1.20	.285	4.6	3.11	3.62	96
1963 - KCA (AS)	27	33	33	20	9	0	2.18	268.7	184	71	65	17	77	237	4	0	20	6	0.97	.235	7.6	1.87	3.12	160
1964 - KCA (AS)	28	33	33	18	7	0	3.72	242.0	228	115	100	25	64	186	8	0	8	2	1.21	.285	5.0	3.35	3.80	102
1965 - KCA (AS)	29	33	33	13	6	0	2.69	244.0	220	97	73	19	57	173	3	0	3	1	1.14	.274	5.5	2.79	3.50	130
1966 - KCA	30	33	33	13	15	0	3.63	265.0	252	113	107	25	84	187	4	0	13	5	1.27	.286	4.5	3.50	3.97	103
1967 - KCA	31	32	32	15	10	0	2.96	237.3	214	82	78	16	59	122	2	0	11	3	1.15	.263	4.4	2.82	3.79	122
1968 - KCA	32	34	34	13	17	0	4.71	254.0	304	144	133	35	85	139	3	0	10	3	1.53	.314	1.7	5.21	4.90	75
1969 - KCA	33	31	0	2	4	3	3.89	34.7	35	16	15	2	13	22	0	0	0	0	1.38	.295	0.3	3.55	3.81	88
1970 - KCA	34	32	32	10	13	0	3.78	247.7	242	119	104	20	60	110	4	0	6	2	1.22	.270	4.0	3.26	4.09	102
1971 - KCA	35	32	32	13	16	0	4.93	233.7	261	140	128	31	51	84	12	0	6	1	1.34	.286	2.0	4.44	4.86	82
1972 - KCA	36	29	0	4	2	1	2.54	39.0	34	16	11	4	11	13	2	2	0	0	1.15	.224	0.0	2.87	4.71	139
w/ DET		27	5	3	0	0	5.65	65.3	53	42	41	6	61	46	2	0	0	0	1.74	.236	-0.9	4.94	5.79
w/ CAR		102	83	34	45	3	3.59	631.3	571	294	252	36	322	326	3	0	41	2	1.41	.252	5.5	3.53	4.44
w/ KCA (1xPOY, 3xAS)		391	327	144	131	4	3.49	2563.3	2437	1110	995	221	695	1575	49	2	95	27	1.22	.278	45.4	3.26	3.91	109
Per 162 games		38	30	13	13	1	3.56	237.1	223	105	94	19	78	142	4	0	10	2	1.27	.272	3.6	3.35	4.05	109
Totals		520	415	181	176	7	3.56	3260.0	3061	1446	1288	263	1078	1947	54	2	136	29	1.27	.272	50.0	3.35	4.05	109

Expanded Pitching Stats

Year/Team	Age	BF	PI	R/9IP	H/9IP	K/9IP	BB/9IP	HR/9IP	K/BB	QS	QS%	CG%	GF	GB	FB	GB%	WP	BK	BS	SV%	SVO
1945 -	9	47	0	1.80	5.40	9.00	9.00	0.90	1.00	0	0.0	0.0	4	44	48	47.8	0	0	0	0.0	0
1948 -	12	267	0	6.51	7.64	5.86	8.30	0.81	0.71	0	0.0	0.0	9	67	63	51.5	1	0	0	0.0	0
1949 -	13	776	0	4.67	7.60	4.98	5.87	0.58	0.85	0	0.0	30.8	4	194	226	46.2	5	2	0	0.0	0
1950 -	14	992	0	4.60	7.76	4.84	5.62	0.45	0.86	0	0.0	51.7	3	261	279	48.3	4	0	0	100.0	0
1951 -	15	1038	0	3.48	8.88	4.23	2.73	0.52	1.55	0	0.0	64.3	6	304	304	50.0	1	0	0	100.0	0
1961 - KCA	25	1048	3658	3.34	8.52	4.37	2.25	0.28	1.94	22	66.7	18.2	3	310	290	51.7	5	0	0	0.0	0
1962 - KCA	26	992	3531	3.80	8.23	6.63	2.61	0.71	2.54	18	56.2	37.5	0	261	249	51.2	5	0	0	0.0	0
1963 - KCA (AS)	27	1061	3994	2.38	6.16	7.94	2.58	0.57	3.08	29	87.9	60.6	0	278	271	50.6	3	0	0	0.0	0
1964 - KCA (AS)	28	1004	3628	4.28	8.48	6.92	2.38	0.93	2.91	17	51.5	24.2	0	245	260	48.5	7	1	0	0.0	0
1965 - KCA (AS)	29	998	3689	3.58	8.11	6.38	2.10	0.70	3.04	26	78.8	9.1	0	288	236	55.0	7	2	0	0.0	0
1966 - KCA	30	1109	4133	3.84	8.56	6.35	2.85	0.85	2.23	21	63.6	39.4	0	296	270	52.3	2	0	0	0.0	0
1967 - KCA	31	963	3457	3.11	8.12	4.63	2.24	0.61	2.07	25	78.1	34.4	0	254	301	45.8	6	1	0	0.0	0
1968 - KCA	32	1129	4137	5.10	10.77	4.93	3.01	1.24	1.64	21	61.8	29.4	0	288	298	49.1	4	0	0	0.0	0
1969 - KCA	33	152	542	4.15	9.09	5.71	3.38	0.52	1.69	0	0.0	0.0	24	42	38	52.5	1	0	0	100.0	3
1970 - KCA	34	1026	3583	4.32	8.79	4.00	2.18	0.73	1.83	17	53.1	18.8	0	281	315	47.1	8	1	0	0.0	0
1971 - KCA	35	1000	3577	5.39	10.05	3.24	1.96	1.19	1.65	14	43.8	18.8	0	277	310	47.2	3	1	0	0.0	0
1972 - KCA	36	165	545	3.69	7.85	3.00	2.54	0.92	1.18	0	0.0	0.0	17	40	61	39.6	2	0	1	50.0	2
w/ DET		314	0	5.79	7.30	6.34	8.40	0.83	0.75	0	0.0	0.0	13	111	111	50.0	1	0	0	0.0	0
w/ CAR		2806	0	4.19	8.14	4.65	4.59	0.51	1.01	0	0.0	49.4	13	759	809	48.4	10	2	0	100.0	0
w/ KCA (1xPOY, 3xAS)		10647	38474	3.90	8.56	5.53	2.44	0.78	2.27	210	64.2	29.0	44	2860	2899	49.7	53	6	1	80.0	5
Per 162 games		1001	2798	3.99	8.45	5.38	2.98	0.73	1.81	15	50.6	32.8	5	271	278	49.4	5	1	0	87.5	0
Totals		13767	38474	3.99	8.45	5.38	2.98	0.73	1.81	210	50.6	32.8	70	3730	3819	49.4	64	8	1	87.5	5

Batting Stats

Year/Team	Age	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	HP	SH	SF	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR	wOBA	OPS+
1945 -	9	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.0	.000
1948 -	12	22	17	5	0	2	0	2	5	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.294	.294	.529	.824	0.0	.342
1949 -	13	39	51	9	0	0	0	2	7	5	0	6	0	15	0	0	.176	.250	.176	.426	-0.7	.189
1950 -	14	40	77	20	3	0	0	6	10	6	1	4	1	13	0	0	.260	.318	.299	.616	-0.3	.271
1951 -	15	39	79	16	1	0	0	3	10	9	0	5	1	17	0	1	.203	.281	.215	.496	-0.7	.226
1961 - KCA	25	37	66	11	1	0	0	2	5	9	0	11	1	4	0	1	.167	.263	.182	.445	-0.6	.192	33
1962 - KCA	26	32	67	15	3	0	1	2	7	3	0	18	0	16	0	0	.224	.257	.313	.571	-0.3	.201	68
1963 - KCA (AS)	27	33	87	16	2	0	0	5	5	2	0	17	0	29	0	0	.184	.202	.207	.409	-1.0	.156	21
1964 - KCA (AS)	28	33	67	10	1	0	0	4	5	3	1	17	1	21	0	0	.149	.194	.164	.359	-1.0	.138	7
1965 - KCA (AS)	29	33	74	10	4	0	0	4	5	10	0	10	0	22	0	0	.135	.238	.189	.427	-0.9	.187	28
1966 - KCA	30	33	84	11	4	0	0	2	4	3	2	13	0	28	0	0	.131	.180	.179	.358	-1.1	.146	4
1967 - KCA	31	32	69	13	2	1	0	8	8	6	0	15	1	18	0	0	.188	.250	.246	.496	-0.6	.191	50
1968 - KCA	32	34	80	12	2	0	0	5	4	1	4	7	1	19	0	0	.150	.198	.175	.373	-1.1	.163	15
1969 - KCA	33	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0	.000	0
1970 - KCA	34	32	71	6	1	0	0	1	5	1	2	17	0	17	0	0	.085	.122	.099	.220	-1.4	.087	-38
1971 - KCA	35	32	62	13	2	0	0	4	1	4	1	15	0	21	0	0	.210	.269	.242	.511	-0.5	.195	44
1972 - KCA	36	29	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.2	.000	-100
w/ DET		27	19	5	0	2	0	2	5	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	.263	.263	.474	.737	0.0	.306
w/ CAR		118	207	45	4	0	0	11	27	20	1	15	2	45	0	1	.217	.287	.237	.524	-1.7	.233
w/ KCA (3xAS)		391	728	117	22	1	1	37	49	42	10	141	4	195	0	1	.161	.216	.198	.413	-8.6	.165	22
Per 162 games		162	288	50	8	1	0	15	24	19	3	47	2	74	0	1	.175	.232	.212	.444	-3.1	.181	22
Totals		536	954	167	26	3	1	50	81	62	11	156	6	245	0	2	.175	.232	.212	.444	-10.4	.181	22

Expanded Batting Stats

Year/Team	Age	PA	Outs	EBH	TB	IBB	PS	PS/PA	PA/HR	BB/K	GDP	PwrSpd	SB%	RC	RC/27	BBABIP	ISO
1945 -	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.00	1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	.000	.000
1948 -	12	17	12	2	9	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	2.6	6.0	.385	.235
1949 -	13	62	48	0	9	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.33	2	0.0	0.0	2.6	1.5	.250	.000
1950 -	14	89	62	3	23	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.46	1	0.0	0.0	8.0	3.5	.308	.039
1951 -	15	94	70	1	17	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.53	2	0.0	0.0	5.3	2.0	.254	.013
1961 - KCA	25	87	68	1	12	0	275	3.16	0.0	2.25	2	0.0	0.0	4.0	1.6	.175	.015
1962 - KCA	26	88	70	4	21	0	258	2.93	88.0	0.19	0	0.0	0.0	6.4	2.5	.280	.090
1963 - KCA (AS)	27	106	88	2	18	0	347	3.27	0.0	0.07	1	0.0	0.0	4.4	1.3	.276	.023
1964 - KCA (AS)	28	89	75	1	11	0	291	3.27	0.0	0.14	0	0.0	0.0	3.4	1.2	.213	.015
1965 - KCA (AS)	29	94	74	4	14	0	310	3.30	0.0	0.45	0	0.0	0.0	4.6	1.7	.192	.054
1966 - KCA	30	102	86	4	15	0	311	3.05	0.0	0.11	3	0.0	0.0	2.9	0.9	.196	.048
1967 - KCA	31	91	72	3	17	0	269	2.96	0.0	0.33	1	0.0	0.0	5.3	2.0	.250	.058
1968 - KCA	32	93	76	2	14	0	285	3.06	0.0	0.05	1	0.0	0.0	3.3	1.2	.194	.025
1969 - KCA	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	.000	.000
1970 - KCA	34	91	82	1	7	0	257	2.82	0.0	0.06	0	0.0	0.0	1.6	0.5	.111	.014
1971 - KCA	35	82	64	2	15	0	284	3.46	0.0	0.19	0	0.0	0.0	5.3	2.2	.317	.032
1972 - KCA	36	2	2	0	0	0	5	2.50	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	.000	.000
w/ DET		19	14	2	9	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.00	1	0.0	0.0	1.9	3.7	.357	.210
w/ CAR		245	180	4	49	0	0	0.00	0.0	0.44	5	0.0	0.0	15.5	2.3	.274	.019
w/ KCA (3xAS)		925	757	24	144	0	2892	3.13	925.0	0.22	8	0.0	0.0	40.3	1.4	.216	.037
Per 162 games		359	287	9	61	0	874	2.43	1189.0	0.25	4	0.0	0.0	17.4	1.6	.233	.037
Totals		1189	951	30	202	0	2892	2.43	1189.0	0.25	14	0.0	0.0	57.5	1.6	.233	.037

Fielding Stats

Year/Team	Age	Pos	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	SBA	RTO	RTO%
1945 -	9	P	5	0	0	2	0	2	0	1.000	10.0	1.80	-0.0
1948 -	12	P	22	0	2	9	0	11	0	1.000	55.3	1.79	-0.1
1949 -	13	P	32	0	12	33	2	49	4	.918	171.7	2.36	-0.3
1950 -	14	P	33	0	4	30	1	35	1	.971	219.3	1.40	-0.3
1951 -	15	P	37	0	11	38	4	51	2	.961	240.3	1.83	-0.4
1961 - KCA	25	P	37	33	13	32	3	47	2	.957	255.7	1.58	-0.4
1962 - KCA	26	P	32	32	19	30	3	51	2	.961	241.7	1.82	0.2
1963 - KCA	27	P	33	33	20	21	0	44	3	.932	268.7	1.37	-1.0
1964 - KCA	28	P	33	33	12	20	3	35	3	.914	242.0	1.19	-0.2
1965 - KCA	29	P	33	33	18	23	1	46	5	.891	244.0	1.51	-2.8
1966 - KCA	30	P	33	33	12	32	3	47	3	.936	265.0	1.49	-0.1
1967 - KCA	31	P	32	32	14	24	2	40	2	.950	237.3	1.44	-0.0
1968 - KCA	32	P	34	34	21	33	1	58	4	.931	254.0	1.91	-2.5
1969 - KCA	33	P	30	0	2	4	0	6	0	1.000	34.7	1.56	-0.0
1970 - KCA	34	P	32	32	17	31	2	50	2	.960	247.7	1.74	0.1
1971 - KCA	35	P	32	32	16	27	2	44	1	.977	233.7	1.66	0.8
1972 - KCA	36	P	29	0	0	3	0	5	2	.600	39.0	0.69	-1.1
Pitcher			519	327	193	392	27	621	36	.942	3260.0	1.61	-8.2

Leaderboard Appearances

Year	SH	Rank
1962	18	1
1963	17	4
1964	17	4
1966	13	9
1967	15	5
1970	17	4
1971	15	8

Year	GS	Rank
1965	33	10

Year	W	Rank
1962	13	10
1963	20	2
1964	18	4
1967	15	9

Year	L	Rank
1961	16	3
1962	16	4
1966	15	4
1968	17	3
1970	13	7
1971	16	7

Year	Win%	Rank
1963	.690	2
1964	.720	3
1965	.684	3
1967	.600	6

Year	IP	Rank
1961	255.2	9
1963	268.2	10
1966	265.0	10

Year	BF	Rank
1961	1048	10

Year	HRA	Rank
1962	19	10
1964	25	7
1966	25	9
1968	35	4
1971	31	4

Year	BB	Rank
1966	84	9
1968	85	10

Year	K	Rank
1961	124	10
1962	178	7
1963	237	5
1964	186	7
1965	173	9
1966	187	8

Year	WP	Rank
1970	8	9

Year	ERA	Rank
1961	3.06	8
1963	2.18	1
1965	2.69	3
1966	3.63	10
1967	2.96	5

Year	BABIP	Rank
1963	.235	2
1966	.286	9
1967	.263	4
1970	.270	9

Year	WHIP	Rank
1961	1.20	9
1963	0.97	1
1964	1.21	8
1965	1.14	9
1966	1.27	9
1967	1.15	7
1970	1.22	10

Year	K/BB	Rank
1962	2.54	9
1963	3.08	4
1964	2.91	4
1965	3.04	6

Year	RA/9IP	Rank
1961	10.88	6
1963	8.88	1
1964	11.16	9
1965	10.33	7
1966	11.55	7
1967	10.43	4
1970	11.12	9

Year	HR/9IP	Rank
1961	0.28	3
1963	0.57	6
1965	0.70	10
1967	0.61	5
1970	0.73	9

Year	H/9IP	Rank
1961	8.52	10
1963	6.16	1
1966	8.56	6

Year	BB/9IP	Rank
1961	2.25	10
1963	2.58	10
1964	2.38	9
1965	2.10	4
1967	2.24	7
1970	2.18	4
1971	1.96	4

Year	K/9IP	Rank
1962	6.63	5
1963	7.94	3
1964	6.92	4
1965	6.38	9
1966	6.35	8

Year	VORP	Rank
1961	75.7	6
1962	81.2	10
1963	67.0	2
1964	84.2	7
1965	79.4	6
1967	86.1	8
1970	92.2	10

Year	QS	Rank
1961	22	8
1963	29	1
1965	26	8
1966	21	9
1967	25	6

Year	QS%	Rank
1961	66.7	9
1963	87.9	1
1965	78.8	4
1966	63.6	8
1967	78.1	1

Year	CG	Rank
1962	12	6
1963	20	2
1964	8	10
1966	13	6
1967	11	8

Year	CG%	Rank
1962	37.5	6
1963	60.6	1
1966	39.4	6
1967	34.4	5

Year	SHO	Rank
1962	4	2
1963	6	2
1964	2	7
1966	5	1
1967	3	4
1968	3	3
1970	2	8

Year	GB%	Rank
1965	55.0	1
1966	52.3	3
1968	49.1	9

Year	WAR	Rank
1961	6.69	5
1963	8.53	2
1964	5.26	9
1965	5.95	10
1970	4.29	10

Career Metrics
Black Ink	7
Gray Ink	100
HOF Standards (pitching)	24

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Kyle Hendricks	924
Pink Hawley	923
Hal Newhouser	912
Chris Sale	909
Charlie Root	909
Jim Bunning	908

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P Rex Cecil	970
P Larry Jackson	969
P Doc Ayers	968
P Tim Hudson	966
P Orel Hershiser	966
P Red Munger	962
P Carl Hubbell	962
P Bobby Shantz	962