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This day in baseball · September 16, 1871: the New York Mutuals visited the Boston Red Stockings at South End Grounds I. Boston Red Stockings 9, New York Mutuals 7. W1871 in baseball↗

From the vault · October 15, 2008 · 2008 NLCS, Game 5: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5–1 at Dodger Stadium to win the NL pennant, 4 games to 1. ▶ Video ↗

Billy HoeftWWikipedia↗

Bats: L · Throws: L · Born 1932-05-17 · Played 1952–1966 · Career WAR 20.4 (bWAR) ·

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1952	DET	AL	34		40	3	6	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	15	.150	.190	.175	.365	0.0
1953	DET	AL	30		64	8	11	1	0	0	4	0	0	9	17	.172	.274	.188	.462	0.2
1954	DET	AL	35		52	5	10	6	0	0	6	0	0	10	24	.192	.317	.308	.625	0.5
1955	DET	AL	36		82	9	17	2	0	0	4	0	0	10	25	.207	.293	.232	.525	0.3
1956	DET	AL	42		80	16	20	3	1	0	9	0	0	12	22	.250	.348	.312	.660	0.7
1957	DET	AL	42		67	13	10	2	0	3	10	0	0	5	14	.149	.205	.313	.518	0.4
1958	DET	AL	43		44	10	12	0	2	0	5	0	0	4	11	.273	.327	.364	.691	0.5
1959	DET	AL	3		3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.666	0.1
1959	BOS	AL	7		3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000
1959	BAL	AL	16		12	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.250	.250	.333	.583
1960	BAL	AL	19		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0.0
1961	BAL	AL	35		39	1	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	4	13	.179	.250	.179	.429	0.0
1962	BAL	AL	57		19	5	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	7	7	.158	.385	.263	.648	0.4
1963	SFN	NL	23		1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	0.2
1964	ML1	NL	42		9	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	3	.222	.417	.222	.639	0.2
1965	CHN	NL	29		11	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.273	.273	.273	.546	0.0
1966	CHN	NL	36		4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	0.0
1966	SFN	NL	4		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total			533		531	73	107	18	3	3	47	0	0	67	162	.202	.291	.264	.555	3.5

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1952	DET	AL	2	7	34	10	1	0	4	125.0	123	60	14	63	67	4.32	1.488	0.8
1953	DET	AL	9	14	29	27	9	0	2	197.2	223	106	24	58	90	4.83	1.422	2.2
1954	DET	AL	7	15	34	25	10	4	1	175.0	180	89	22	59	114	4.58	1.366	-0.1
1955	DET	AL	16	7	32	29	17	7	0	220.0	187	73	17	75	133	2.99	1.191	5.0
1956	DET	AL	20	14	38	34	18	4	0	248.0	276	112	22	104	172	4.06	1.532	2.0
1957	DET	AL	9	11	34	28	10	1	1	207.0	188	80	15	69	111	3.48	1.242	3.0
1958	DET	AL	10	9	36	21	6	0	3	143.0	148	66	15	49	94	4.15	1.378	0.9
1959	DET	AL	1	1	2	2	0	0	0	9.0	6	5	0	4	2	5.00	1.111	-0.7
1959	BOS	AL	0	3	5	3	0	0	0	17.2	22	11	1	8	8	5.60	1.698
1959	BAL	AL	1	1	16	3	0	0	0	41.0	50	26	6	19	30	5.71	1.683
1960	BAL	AL	2	1	19	0	0	0	0	18.2	18	9	2	14	14	4.34	1.714	0.0
1961	BAL	AL	7	4	35	12	3	1	3	138.0	106	31	7	55	100	2.02	1.167	4.1
1962	BAL	AL	4	8	57	4	0	0	7	113.2	103	58	7	43	73	4.59	1.284	-0.5
1963	SFN	NL	2	0	23	0	0	0	4	24.1	26	12	5	10	8	4.44	1.479	0.0
1964	ML1	NL	4	0	42	0	0	0	4	73.1	76	31	9	18	47	3.80	1.282	0.3
1965	CHN	NL	2	2	29	2	1	0	1	51.1	41	16	3	20	44	2.81	1.188	0.7
1966	CHN	NL	1	2	36	0	0	0	3	41.0	43	21	4	14	30	4.61	1.390	-0.8
1966	SFN	NL	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	3.2	4	3	0	3	3	7.36	1.909
Total			97	101	505	200	75	17	33	1847.1	1820	809	173	685	1140	3.94	1.356	16.9

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1952	DET	AL	P	34			5	25	2	4
1953	DET	AL	P	29			14	24	2	0
1954	DET	AL	P	34	25	175.0	6	18	1	2
1955	DET	AL	P	32	29	220.0	7	21	0	2
1956	DET	AL	P	38	34	248.0	5	28	1	1
1957	DET	AL	P	34	28	207.0	8	28	2	2
1958	DET	AL	P	36	21	142.0	6	15	3	2
1959	DET	AL	P	2	2	9.0	0	2	0	0
1959	BOS	AL	P	5	3	17.2	4	3	0	0
1959	BAL	AL	P	16	3	41.0	0	7	1	1
1960	BAL	AL	P	19	0	18.2	3	3	0	1
1961	BAL	AL	P	35	12	138.0	9	25	0	2
1962	BAL	AL	P	57	4	113.2	10	17	2	2
1963	SFN	NL	P	23	0	24.1	1	4	2	0
1964	ML1	NL	P	42	0	73.1	4	14	0	0
1965	CHN	NL	P	29	2	51.1	0	7	1	0
1966	CHN	NL	P	36	0	41.0	5	8	0	0
1966	SFN	NL	P	4	0	3.2	0	0	0	0
Total				505	163	1523.2	87	249	17	19

Ejections (1)

Date	As	Reason
1954-07-18	Player	Bench jockeying