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Billy Butler

Billy Ray Butler (Country Breakfast) (twitter: @BillyButlerKC)

Positions: Designated Hitter and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: April 18, 1986 in Orange Park, FL
High School: Wolfson HS (Jacksonville, FL)
Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 1st round (14th pick) of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 11, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 1, 2007 (Age 21)
Team: Royals 2007-2012
2013 Contract Status: Signed (team option), 4 yrs/$30M (11-14) & 15 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 5.102, Free Agent: 2015 [*], Agents: Greg Genske, previously: Doug Rogalsky [*]
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Fine Details  · Last updated Feb 12, 2013 11:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #1076. Carlos Ruiz… #1077. Red Murray… #1078. Jim Eisenreich… #1079. BILLY BUTLER… #1080. Grady Hatton… #1081. Mack Jones… #1082. Zoilo Versalles… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2007 21 KCR AL 92 360 329 38 96 23 2 8 52 0 0 27 55 .292 .347 .447 .794 108 147 8 2 0 2 5 D3/7
2008 22 KCR AL 124 478 443 44 122 22 0 11 55 0 1 33 57 .275 .324 .400 .724 93 177 23 0 0 2 0 D3
2009 23 KCR AL 159 672 608 78 183 51 1 21 93 1 0 58 103 .301 .362 .492 .853 125 299 20 2 0 4 3 *3D
2010 24 KCR AL 158 678 595 77 189 45 0 15 78 0 0 69 78 .318 .388 .469 .857 134 279 32 5 0 9 8 *3D
2011 25 KCR AL 159 673 597 74 174 44 0 19 95 2 1 66 95 .291 .361 .461 .822 125 275 16 3 0 7 15 *D3
2012 26 KCR AL 161 679 614 72 192 32 1 29 107 2 1 54 111 .313 .373 .510 .882 140 313 20 7 0 4 9 *D3 AS,SS
6 Yrs 853 3540 3186 383 956 217 4 103 480 5 3 307 499 .300 .362 .468 .830 123 1490 119 19 0 28 40
162 Game Avg. 162 672 605 73 182 41 1 20 91 1 1 58 95 .300 .362 .468 .830 123 283 23 4 0 5 8

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2007 21 KCR AL 92 360 3 -1 0 0 -8 -6 -0.5 12 6 0.6 .493 .496 0.6 -0.7 6 D3/7
2008 22 KCR AL 124 478 -4 -1 -4 -3 -11 -23 -2.1 16 -7 -0.6 .481 .486 -0.4 -1.2 -4 $399,000 D3
2009 23 KCR AL 159 672 22 -5 -2 -8 -10 -3 -0.1 23 20 1.9 .498 .498 2.7 -1.7 28 $421,000 *3D
2010 24 KCR AL 158 678 28 -3 -5 -4 -11 5 0.8 23 28 2.9 .503 .503 3.3 -1.4 32 $470,000 *3D
2011 25 KCR AL 159 673 17 -2 -2 -2 -15 -4 -0.3 23 19 1.8 .497 .497 2.1 -1.7 21 $3,500,000 *D3
2012 26 KCR AL 161 679 30 -3 -2 -3 -15 7 0.8 23 30 2.9 .505 .505 3.4 -1.9 33 $8,000,000 *D3 AS,SS
6 Seasons 853 3540 95 -16 -14 -20 -70 -24 -1.4 120 95 9.5 .497 .498 11.7 -8.6 115 $12,790,000

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2007 KCR AL 21 DH 70 69
2007 KCR AL 21 1B 13 11 5 83.0 89 79 8 2 6 .978 0 1 1 14 9.43 6.69 .995 9.37 9.27
2007 KCR AL 21 LF 6 5 2 43.0 5 4 0 1 0 .800 -3 -1 -75 -28 0.84 0.67 .984 2.11 2.08
2007 KCR AL 21 OF 6 5 2 43.0 5 4 0 1 0 .800 -3 -1 -75 -27 0.84 0.67 .988 2.30 2.28
2008 KCR AL 22 DH 84 82
2008 KCR AL 22 1B 34 33 18 260.0 244 233 9 2 27 .992 -5 -3 -22 -14 8.38 7.12 .994 9.26 9.18
2009 KCR AL 23 1B 145 143 134 1248.0 1243 1141 92 10 123 .992 -13 -8 -13 -8 8.89 8.50 .994 9.13 9.02
2009 KCR AL 23 DH 11 11
2010 KCR AL 24 1B 127 126 120 1102.1 1104 1002 96 6 101 .995 2 -4 3 -4 8.96 8.65 .994 9.32 9.23
2010 KCR AL 24 DH 31 31
2011 KCR AL 25 DH 142 142
2011 KCR AL 25 1B 11 11 8 94.2 94 86 8 0 10 1.000 -2 -2 -22 -25 8.94 8.55 .993 9.31 9.24
2012 KCR AL 26 DH 138 138 AS,SS
2012 KCR AL 26 1B 20 20 13 165.2 165 147 15 3 18 .982 1 -3 7 -22 8.80 8.10 .994 9.27 9.22 AS,SS
6 Seasons 1B 350 344 298 2953.2 2939 2688 228 23 285 .992 -16 -19 -6 -7 8.89 8.33 .994 9.23 9.14
1 Season OF 6 5 2 43.0 5 4 0 1 0 .800 -3 -1 -75 -27 0.84 0.67 .988 2.30 2.28
1 Season LF 6 5 2 43.0 5 4 0 1 0 .800 -3 -1 -75 -27 0.84 0.67 .984 2.11 2.08
6 Seasons TOT 356 349 300 2996.2 2944 2692 228 24 285 .992 -19 -20 -7 -8 8.77 8.20 .994 9.13 9.02
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2012 *

Awards (yr lg award)
2011 ML Hutch Award

Silver Sluggers
2012 AL (DH)

Batting Average s c a p y
2010 AL  .318 (6th)
2012 AL  .313 (8th)
Active  .300 (20th)
Career  .300 (206th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2010 AL  .388 (7th)
Active  .362 (40th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2012 AL  .882 (9th)
Active  .830 (48th)
Career  .830 (248th)

Games Played s c a p y
2009 AL  159 (7th)
2010 AL  158 (8th)
2011 AL  159 (4th)
2012 AL  161 (4th)

At Bats s c a p y
2012 AL  614 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
2010 AL  189 (3rd)
2012 AL  192 (5th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2009 AL  299 (10th)
2012 AL  313 (7th)

Doubles s c a p y
2009 AL  51 (2nd)
2010 AL  45 (4th)
2011 AL  44 (8th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2012 AL  107 (6th)

Singles s c a p y
2010 AL  129 (7th)
2012 AL  130 (7th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2012 AL  140 (9th)
Active  123 (32nd)

Runs Created s c a p y
2012 AL  113 (8th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2012 AL  34 (10th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2012 AL  3.3 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2009 AL  73 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2010 AL  263 (4th)
2012 AL  253 (9th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2012 AL  .671 (9th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2010 AL  9 (6th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2011 AL  15 (5th)
2012 AL  9 (10th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2008 AL  23 (6th)
2009 AL  20 (9th)
2010 AL  32 (1st)
2012 AL  20 (10th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2012 AL  3.3 (8th)

Putouts† s c a p y
2009 AL  1,141 (5th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  145 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  1,141 (5th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  92 (3rd)
2010 AL  96 (2nd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  10 (1st)
2010 AL  6 (5th)
Active  23 (24th)

Double Plays Turned as 1B s c a p y
2009 AL  123 (3rd)

Youngest s c a p y
2007 AL  born 1986-04-18 (3rd)
2008 AL  born 1986-04-18 (8th)

             

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 29 (811), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 26 (669), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 20 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS First Base (179th), 9.5 career WAR/9.5 7yr-peak WAR/9.5 JAWS
Average HOF 1B (out of 18) = 62.3 career WAR/40.7 7yr-peak WAR/51.5 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
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  1. Don Hurst (930)
  2. Brad Fullmer (927)
  3. Greg Colbrunn (919)
  4. Rico Brogna (917)
  5. James Loney (909)
  6. Greg Walker (901)
  7. Delmon Young (900)
  8. Nick Etten (899)
  9. Mike Easler (899)
  10. Dale Long (895)
Similar Batters through 26 
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  1. John Olerud (941)
  2. Kent Hrbek (932)
  3. Keith Hernandez (920)
  4. Nick Markakis (916)
  5. Will Clark (912)
  6. Carl Yastrzemski (906) *
  7. Rafael Palmeiro (901)
  8. Delmon Young (900)
  9. Harold Baines (900)
  10. Eddie Murray (899) *
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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  1. Keith Hernandez (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Kent Hrbek (954)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. John Olerud (954)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. John Olerud (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. John Olerud (941)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
200822Kansas City Royals$399,000
200923Kansas City Royals$421,000
201024Kansas City Royals$470,000
201125Kansas City Royals$3,500,000
201226Kansas City Royals$8,000,000contracts
201327Kansas City Royals$8,000,000
201428Kansas City Royals$8,000,000
201529Kansas City Royals*$12,500,000$12.5M Team Option, $1M Buyout
Earliest Free Agent: 2015
Career to date (may be incomplete)$12,790,000Does not include future salaries
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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