Billy Hoeft stats
Bio
- Age
- 94 yearsMay 17, 1932
Billy Hoeft played 15 MLB seasons, 1952 to 1966.
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 505
- W
- 97
- L
- 101
- ERA
- 3.94
- IP
- 1,847.1
- K
- 1,140
- BB
- 685
- WHIP
- 1.36
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | DET | 34 | 2 | 7 | 4.32 | 125.0 | 67 | 63 | 1.49 |
| 1953 | DET | 29 | 9 | 14 | 4.83 | 197.2 | 90 | 58 | 1.42 |
| 1954 | DET | 34 | 7 | 15 | 4.58 | 175.0 | 114 | 59 | 1.37 |
| 1955 | DET | 32 | 16 | 7 | 2.99 | 220.0 | 133 | 75 | 1.19 |
| 1956 | DET | 38 | 20 | 14 | 4.06 | 248.0 | 172 | 104 | 1.53 |
| 1957 | DET | 34 | 9 | 11 | 3.48 | 207.0 | 111 | 69 | 1.24 |
| 1958 | DET | 36 | 10 | 9 | 4.15 | 143.0 | 94 | 49 | 1.38 |
| 1959 |  DET/BOS/BAL | 23 | 2 | 5 | 5.59 | 67.2 | 40 | 31 | 1.61 |
| 1960 | BAL | 19 | 2 | 1 | 4.34 | 18.2 | 14 | 14 | 1.71 |
| 1961 | BAL | 35 | 7 | 4 | 2.02 | 138.0 | 100 | 55 | 1.17 |
| 1962 | BAL | 57 | 4 | 8 | 4.59 | 113.2 | 73 | 43 | 1.28 |
| 1963 | SF | 23 | 2 | 0 | 4.44 | 24.1 | 8 | 10 | 1.48 |
| 1964 | ATL | 42 | 4 | 0 | 3.80 | 73.1 | 47 | 18 | 1.28 |
| 1965 | CHC | 29 | 2 | 2 | 2.81 | 51.1 | 44 | 20 | 1.19 |
| 1966 |  CHC/SF | 40 | 1 | 4 | 4.84 | 44.2 | 33 | 17 | 1.43 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 75
- SHO
- 17
- K/9
- 5.6
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | DET | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | DET | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | DET | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | DET | 0 | 17 | 7 | 5.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | DET | 0 | 18 | 4 | 6.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | DET | 0 | 10 | 1 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | DET | 0 | 6 | 0 | 5.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959 | DET/BOS/BAL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1960 | BAL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1961 | BAL | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962 | BAL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1963 | SF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964 | ATL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1965 | CHC | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1966 | CHC/SF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bio
- Age
- 94 yearsMay 17, 1932
- Debut
- 1952
What were Billy Hoeft's career stats?
Billy Hoeft played 15 seasons for the Tigers, the Orioles, the Giants, the Braves and the Cubs. He had 97 wins and 1,140 strikeouts with a 3.94 ERA over 1,847.1 innings. His best season was 1956: 20 wins, a 4.06 ERA and 172 strikeouts.
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