Willie Wilson

1976–1994 · 19 seasons · Bats both sides, throws right · Born 1955

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1976	Kansas City Royals	AL	12	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	0.0
1977	Kansas City Royals	AL	13	37	34	10	11	2	0	0	1	1	8	6	.324	.343	.382	.725	0.2
1978	Kansas City Royals	AL	127	223	198	43	43	8	2	0	16	16	33	46	.217	.280	.278	.558	0.3
1979	Kansas City Royals	AL	154	640	588	113	185	18	13	6	49	28	92	83	.315	.351	.420	.771	4.9
1980GGSS	Kansas City Royals	AL	161	745	705	133	230	28	15	3	49	28	81	79	.326	.357	.421	.778	7.5
1981	Kansas City Royals	AL	102	465	439	54	133	10	7	1	32	18	42	34	.303	.335	.364	.700	3.5
1982SS	Kansas City Royals	AL	136	621	585	87	194	19	15	3	46	26	81	37	.332	.365	.431	.796	5.4
1983	Kansas City Royals	AL	137	611	576	90	159	22	8	2	33	33	75	59	.276	.316	.352	.669	2.5
1984	Kansas City Royals	AL	128	588	541	81	163	24	9	2	44	39	56	47	.301	.350	.390	.740	4.9
1985	Kansas City Royals	AL	141	642	605	87	168	25	21	4	43	29	94	43	.278	.316	.408	.724	3.3
1986	Kansas City Royals	AL	156	675	631	77	170	20	7	9	44	31	97	34	.269	.313	.366	.679	2.5
1987	Kansas City Royals	AL	146	653	610	97	170	18	15	4	30	32	88	59	.279	.320	.377	.698	1.8
1988	Kansas City Royals	AL	147	628	591	81	155	17	11	1	37	22	106	35	.262	.289	.333	.622	1.1
1989	Kansas City Royals	AL	112	423	383	58	97	17	7	3	43	27	78	24	.253	.300	.358	.657	1.4
1990	Kansas City Royals	AL	115	345	307	49	89	13	3	2	42	30	57	24	.290	.354	.371	.725	1.3
1991	Oakland Athletics	AL	113	318	294	38	70	14	4	0	28	18	43	20	.238	.290	.313	.603	0.3
1992	Oakland Athletics	AL	132	437	396	38	107	15	5	0	37	35	65	28	.270	.329	.333	.662	3.3
1993	Chicago Cubs	NL	105	237	221	29	57	11	3	1	11	11	40	7	.258	.301	.348	.649	-0.2
1994	Chicago Cubs	NL	17	23	21	4	5	0	2	0	0	1	6	1	.238	.273	.429	.701	0.0
Career	19 seasons		2154	8317	7731	1169	2207	281	147	41	585	425	1144	668	.285	.328	.376	.704	43.9

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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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: AL (American League), NL (National League).

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