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Billy Klaus
William Joseph Klaus

Bats: Left , Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10" , Weight: 165 lb.

Born: December 9, 1928 in Fox Lake, IL
High School: Grant Community (Fox Lake, IL)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1946. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1952
Final Game: May 17, 1963
Died: December 3, 2006 in Sarasota, FL
Relatives: Brother of Bobby Klaus
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Billy Klaus
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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
1952	23	BSN	NL	7	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	-39	0	0	0	0			/6
1953	24	MLN	NL	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0

1955	26	BOS	AL	135	610	541	83	153	26	2	7	60	6	0	60	44	.283	.351	.377	.729	89	204	4	0	4	5	0	*6/5	MVP-13,RoY-2
1956	27	BOS	AL	135	620	520	91	141	29	5	7	59	1	0	90	43	.271	.378	.387	.764	93	201	7	1	6	3	0	*56
1957	28	BOS	AL	127	537	477	76	120	18	4	10	42	2	0	55	53	.252	.326	.369	.695	86	176	12	0	1	4	0	*6
1958	29	BOS	AL	61	93	88	5	14	4	0	1	7	0	0	5	16	.159	.204	.239	.443	19	21	2	0	0	0	0	6
1959	30	BAL	AL	104	377	321	33	80	11	0	3	25	2	4	51	38	.249	.350	.312	.662	86	100	6	0	3	2	1	65/4
1960	31	BAL	AL	46	53	43	8	9	2	0	1	6	0	0	9	9	.209	.346	.326	.672	84	14	1	0	1	0	0	46/5
1961	32	WSA	AL	91	287	251	26	57	8	2	7	30	2	2	30	34	.227	.311	.359	.670	83	90	1	2	1	3	3	56/47
1962	33	PHI	NL	102	283	248	30	51	8	2	4	20	1	1	29	43	.206	.290	.302	.593	62	75	4	1	4	1	3	564
1963	34	PHI	NL	11	20	18	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.056	.105	.056	.161	-52	1	0	0	1	0	0	/65
11 Seasons				821	2887	2513	357	626	106	15	40	250	14	7	331	285	.249	.335	.351	.686	82	882	37	4	21	18	7
162 Game Avg.				162	570	496	70	124	21	3	8	49	3	1	65	56	.249	.335	.351	.686	82	174	7	1	4

BOS (4 yrs)				458	1860	1626	255	428	77	11	25	168	9	0	210	156	.263	.346	.370	.716	86	602	25	1	11	12	0
PHI (2 yrs)				113	303	266	31	52	8	2	4	20	1	1	30	47	.195	.279	.286	.564	55	76	4	1	5	1	3
MLN (2 yrs)				9	7	6	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.143	.000	.143	-57	0	0	0	0
BAL (2 yrs)				150	430	364	41	89	13	0	4	31	2	4	60	47	.245	.350	.313	.663	86	114	7	0	4	2	1
WSA (1 yr)				91	287	251	26	57	8	2	7	30	2	2	30	34	.227	.311	.359	.670	83	90	1	2	1	3	3

AL (7 yrs)				699	2577	2241	322	574	98	13	36	229	13	6	300	237	.256	.342	.360	.702	86	806	33	3	16	17	4
NL (4 yrs)				122	310	272	35	52	8	2	4	21	1	1	31	48	.191	.275	.279	.555	52	76	4	1	5	1	3

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1952	23	BSN	NL	5	4	0	0.0	95	.000	.000	.258	.200	.330	.000	.384	.200	.714	-39	.000	-0.7	-0.1	.250	.250	.000
1953	24	MLN	NL	2	2	0	0.0	105	.000	.000	.267	.000	.337	.000	.416	.000	.753	-100	.000	-0.6	-0.1	.000	.000	.000

1955	26	BOS	AL	610	401	78	5.2	111	.295	.283	.278	.351	.359	.377	.414	.729	.773	89	.558	-8.3	-0.8	.689	.216	.094	6.5
1956	27	BOS	AL	620	395	83	5.6	117	.283	.271	.282	.378	.366	.387	.430	.764	.797	93	.572	-3.4	-0.3	.759	.290	.115	1.8
1957	28	BOS	AL	537	374	59	4.3	104	.263	.252	.270	.326	.343	.369	.407	.695	.750	86	.486	-9.8	-1.0	.631	.237	.117	3.3
1958	29	BOS	AL	93	76	4	1.4	103	.183	.159	.268	.204	.338	.239	.408	.443	.746	19	.116	-10.2	-1.0	.342	.136	.080	.0
1959	30	BAL	AL	377	256	37	3.9	96	.273	.249	.257	.350	.328	.312	.392	.662	.720	86	.444	-3.7	-0.4	.594	.215	.062	2.4
1960	31	BAL	AL	53	36	5	3.7	100	.242	.209	.262	.346	.336	.326	.401	.672	.737	84	.417	-0.6	-0.1	.657	.326	.116	.0
1961	32	WSA	AL	287	201	30	4.0	100	.235	.227	.258	.311	.332	.359	.401	.670	.734	83	.429	-5.7	-0.6	.619	.251	.131	3.1
1962	33	PHI	NL	283	207	23	3.0	100	.233	.206	.266	.290	.333	.302	.404	.593	.737	62	.313	-13.1	-1.3	.520	.214	.097	1.6
1963	34	PHI	NL	20	18	0	0.0	88	.071	.056	.253	.105	.315	.056	.378	.161	.693	-52	.000	-3.5	-0.4	.118	.056	.000
11 Seasons				2887	1970	319	4.3	106	.266	.249	.271	.335	.347	.351	.410	.686	.757	82	.477	-59.7	-6.0	.634	.236	.102	20.7
162 Game Avg.				570	389	63	4.3	106	.266	.249	.271	.335	.347	.351	.410	.686	.757	82	.477	-59.7	-6.0	.634	.236	.102	4

BOS (4 yrs)				1860	1246	224	4.8	110	.277	.263	.276	.346	.356	.370	.417	.716	.773	86	.523	-31.8	-3.2	.672	.242	.107	13.2
PHI (2 yrs)				303	225	23	2.7	100	.222	.195	.265	.279	.332	.286	.402	.564	.734	55	.286	-16.6	-1.7	.489	.203	.090	1.6
MLN (2 yrs)				7	6	0	0.0	98	.000	.000	.261	.143	.332	.000	.395	.143	.727	-57	.000	-1.3	-0.1	.167	.167	.000
BAL (2 yrs)				430	292	42	3.9	96	.270	.245	.258	.350	.329	.313	.394	.663	.722	86	.440	-4.3	-0.4	.601	.228	.069	2.7
WSA (1 yr)				287	201	30	4.0	100	.235	.227	.258	.311	.332	.359	.401	.670	.734	83	.430	-5.7	-0.6	.619	.251	.131	3.1

AL (7 yrs)				2577	1739	296	4.6	107	.271	.256	.271	.342	.349	.360	.411	.702	.760	86	.500	-41.8	-4.2	.654	.241	.104	19.1
NL (4 yrs)				310	231	23	2.7	100	.217	.191	.265	.275	.332	.279	.402	.555	.734	52	.276	-17.9	-1.8	.480	.202	.088	1.6

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1952	23	BSN	NL	5	0.0%	20.0%	20.0%	0.0%		1.00	4.0				60%
1953	24	MLN	NL	2	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%					2.0		100%

1955	26	BOS	AL	610	1.2%	7.2%	9.8%	5.7%	23%	0.73	12.3	77.3	9.0	0.85	81%
1956	27	BOS	AL	620	1.1%	6.9%	14.5%	6.6%	29%	0.48	12.1	74.3	8.8	0.63	76%
1957	28	BOS	AL	537	1.9%	9.9%	10.2%	6.0%	27%	0.96	9.0	47.7	11.4	0.86	78%
1958	29	BOS	AL	93	1.1%	17.2%	5.4%	5.4%	36%	3.20	5.5	88.0	12.6	0.76	76%
1959	30	BAL	AL	377	0.8%	10.1%	13.5%	3.7%	18%	0.75	8.4	107.0	12.8	0.76	75%
1960	31	BAL	AL	53	1.9%	17.0%	17.0%	5.7%	33%	1.00	4.8	43.0	7.2	1.55	62%
1961	32	WSA	AL	287	2.4%	11.9%	10.5%	5.9%	30%	1.13	7.4	35.9	8.4	0.78	74%
1962	33	PHI	NL	283	1.4%	15.2%	10.3%	5.0%	28%	1.48	5.8	62.0	12.4	0.88	71%
1963	34	PHI	NL	20	0.0%	20.0%	5.0%	0.0%	0%	4.00	4.5			1.00	70%
11 Seasons				2887	1.4%	9.9%	11.5%	5.6%	26%	0.86	8.8	62.8	10.1	0.79	76%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1955	26	BOS	AL	7	0	37%	271	6	0	100%	5	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	24	52%	33	23	10	13	8	5	22	2	20
1956	27	BOS	AL	6	0	37%	282	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	6	17	41%	48	31	16	7	4	3	25	11	14
1957	28	BOS	AL	1	0	40%	208	2	0	100%	0	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	3	20	59%	23	13	10	3	3	0	15	1	14
1958	29	BOS	AL	0	0	22%	22	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	50%	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
1959	30	BAL	AL	3	0	23%	172	2	4	33%	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	2	30%	27	21	6	4	4	0	6	1	5
1960	31	BAL	AL	0	0	41%	32	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	29%	4	3	0	0	0	0	3	1	2
1961	32	WSA	AL	5	0	23%	117	2	2	50%	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	5	43%	12	10	2	3	1	2	6	1	5
1962	33	PHI	NL	4	0	34%	101	1	1	50%	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	6	42%	20	13	7	3	2	1	8	3	5
1963	34	PHI	NL	0	0	50%	2	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11 Seasons				26	0	34%	1207	14	7	67%	10	8	3	1	1	1	6	0	20	77	45%	168	114	52	34	23	11	85	20	65
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1955	26	BOS	AL	610	77%	153			1	0	0	1	3.88	7	0	20	6	1	4	3	0	4	4	100%	143	4	3%	79	21	27%	430	55	13%	19	11	58%	35	14	40%	0
1956	27	BOS	AL	607	72%	141			5	1	0	0	0.60	7	0	10	6	1	4	3	0	6	6	100%	134	7	5%	72	21	29%	374	52	14%	27	16	59%	38	20	53%	13
1957	28	BOS	AL	502	80%	120			8	2	0	0	1.44	10	0	7	8	1	8	1	0	1	1	100%	87	12	14%	53	15	28%	255	32	13%	17	10	59%	35	15	43%	35
1958	29	BOS	AL	92	96%	14			38	6	0	5	1.33	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0		16	2	13%	9	1	11%	45	6	13%	3	2	67%	1	1	100%	1
1959	30	BAL	AL	377	94%	80			4	0	0	0	1.77	3	0	10	3	0	1	2	0	3	3	100%	62	6	10%	26	6	23%	185	22	12%	19	9	47%	11	4	36%	0
1960	31	BAL	AL	53	91%	9			3	0	0	0	1.22	1	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	100%	9	1	11%	6	1	17%	38	5	13%	1	1	100%	4	1	25%	0
1961	32	WSA	AL	287	89%	57			17	3	0	2	1.58	7	1	6	7	0	2	5	0	1	1	100%	49	1	2%	22	9	41%	162	23	14%	14	8	57%	20	7	35%	0
1962	33	PHI	NL	283	93%	51			27	5	0	2	1.28	4	0	4	3	1	1	3	0	7	4	57%	61	4	7%	37	13	35%	181	17	9%	16	4	25%	14	5	36%	0
1963	34	PHI	NL	20	95%	1			8	1	0	0	1.54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	4	0	0%	2	1	50%	9	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
11 Seasons				2831	83%	626			111	18	0	10	1.38	40	2	61	35	4	20	19	0	24	21	88%	565	37	7%	306	88	29%	1679	212	13%	116	61	53%	158	67	42%	49
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1952	23	7	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	-39	0	0	0	0
1953	24	9	7	6	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.143	.000	.143	-57	0	0	0	0
1954	25	9	7	6	4	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.143	.000	.143	-57	0	0	0	0
1955	26	144	617	547	87	153	26	2	7	61	6	0	61	45	.280	.349	.373	.722	88	204	4	0	4	5	0
1956	27	279	1237	1067	178	294	55	7	14	120	7	0	151	88	.276	.363	.380	.743	90	405	11	1	10	8	0
1957	28	406	1774	1544	254	414	73	11	24	162	9	0	206	141	.268	.352	.376	.729	89	581	23	1	11	12	0
1958	29	467	1867	1632	259	428	77	11	25	169	9	0	211	157	.262	.345	.369	.714	85	602	25	1	11	12	0
1959	30	571	2244	1953	292	508	88	11	28	194	11	4	262	195	.260	.346	.359	.705	86	702	31	1	14	14	1
1960	31	617	2297	1996	300	517	90	11	29	200	11	4	271	204	.259	.346	.359	.704	86	716	32	1	15	14	1
1961	32	708	2584	2247	326	574	98	13	36	230	13	6	301	238	.255	.342	.359	.701	85	806	33	3	16	17	4
1962	33	810	2867	2495	356	625	106	15	40	250	14	7	330	281	.251	.337	.353	.690	83	881	37	4	20	18	7
1963	34	821	2887	2513	357	626	106	15	40	250	14	7	331	285	.249	.335	.351	.686	82	882	37	4	21	18	7

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1952	23	7	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	0	7
1953	24	2	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	2

1955	26	141	630	563	78	157	27	2	7	56	6	62	46	.279	.348	.371	.719	73	135
1956	27	141	629	536	80	140	29	5	7	52	1	89	45	.261	.366	.373	.739	73	135
1957	28	134	564	502	79	126	19	4	10	44	2	58	56	.251	.326	.365	.691	61	127
1958	29	64	96	91	5	14	4	0	1	7	0	5	17	.154	.198	.231	.429	4	61
1959	30	109	400	341	36	89	12	0	3	27	2	57	40	.261	.365	.323	.688	41	104
1960	31	48	58	47	9	11	2	0	1	7	0	11	9	.234	.379	.340	.720	6	46
1961	32	91	292	255	27	61	9	2	7	31	2	32	34	.239	.325	.373	.698	31	91
1962	33	102	282	250	30	53	8	2	4	20	1	30	43	.212	.298	.308	.606	23	102
1963	34	11	19	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.053	.000	.053	0	11
11 Seasons		850	2977	2609	348	651	110	15	40	245	14	346	295	.250	.336	.349	.685	312	821
162 Game Avg.		162	567	497	66	124	21	3	8	47	3	66	56	.250	.336	.349	.685	59	821

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1955 AL (13, 8%) 0.08 Career Shares (957th)	Doubles s c a p y 1955 AL 26 (9th) 1956 AL 29 (4th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 1956 AL 90 (6th)	Singles s c a p y 1955 AL 118 (10th)
AB per SO s c a p y 1955 AL 12.3 (8th) 1956 AL 12.1 (9th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink Batting - 6 (1660), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 5 (2537), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Name and misspellings: William billie Billy Joseph Klaus

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Gray Ink	Batting - 6 (1660), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 5 (2537), Average HOFer ≈ 50