Billy Jurges

1931–1947 · 17 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1908

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1931	Chicago Cubs	NL	88	335	293	34	59	15	5	0	23	25	41	2	.201	.264	.287	.551	-1.5
1932	Chicago Cubs	NL	115	426	396	40	100	24	4	2	52	19	26	1	.253	.288	.348	.637	2.0
1933	Chicago Cubs	NL	143	526	487	49	131	17	6	5	50	26	39	3	.269	.313	.359	.672	3.0
1934	Chicago Cubs	NL	100	385	358	43	88	15	2	8	33	19	34	1	.246	.289	.366	.655	1.4
1935	Chicago Cubs	NL	146	584	519	69	125	33	1	1	59	42	39	3	.241	.304	.314	.618	1.7
1936	Chicago Cubs	NL	118	459	429	51	120	25	1	1	42	23	25	4	.280	.321	.350	.671	1.2
1937	Chicago Cubs	NL	129	506	450	53	134	18	10	1	65	42	41	2	.298	.365	.389	.754	2.4
1938	Chicago Cubs	NL	137	540	465	53	114	18	3	1	47	58	53	3	.245	.335	.303	.638	1.3
1939	New York Giants	NL	138	611	543	84	155	21	11	6	63	47	34	3	.285	.349	.398	.747	4.9
1940	New York Giants	NL	63	248	214	23	54	3	3	2	36	25	14	2	.252	.347	.322	.669	1.2
1941	New York Giants	NL	134	528	471	50	138	25	2	5	61	47	36	0	.293	.361	.386	.747	3.7
1942	New York Giants	NL	127	520	464	45	119	7	1	2	30	43	42	1	.256	.324	.289	.612	2.5
1943	New York Giants	NL	136	544	481	46	110	8	2	4	29	53	38	2	.229	.310	.279	.589	1.4
1944	New York Giants	NL	85	281	246	28	52	2	1	1	23	23	20	4	.211	.279	.240	.519	-1.1
1945	New York Giants	NL	61	201	176	22	57	3	1	3	24	24	11	2	.324	.405	.403	.808	1.9
1946	Chicago Cubs	NL	82	270	221	26	49	9	2	0	17	43	28	3	.222	.351	.281	.631	0.4
1947	Chicago Cubs	NL	14	49	40	5	8	2	0	1	2	9	9	0	.200	.347	.325	.672	-0.2
Career	17 seasons		1816	7013	6253	721	1613	245	55	43	656	568	530	36	.258	.325	.335	.660	26.1

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.