Billy Pierce

Bats L · Throws L · b. 1927, Detroit, USA · d. 2015 · MLB debut 1945-06-01, final game 1964-10-03

Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG
1945	DET	AL	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000
1948	DET	AL	22	17	5	5	0	2	0	2	0	0	4	.294	.294	.529
1949	CHA	AL	39	51	7	9	0	0	0	2	0	5	15	.176	.250	.176
1950	CHA	AL	40	77	10	20	3	0	0	6	0	6	13	.260	.321	.299
1951	CHA	AL	39	79	10	16	1	0	0	3	0	9	17	.203	.284	.215
1952	CHA	AL	35	91	11	17	1	0	0	3	0	6	20	.187	.237	.198
1953	CHA	AL	42	87	4	11	0	0	0	4	0	4	16	.126	.174	.126
1954	CHA	AL	38	57	4	11	0	0	0	5	0	4	12	.193	.242	.193
1955	CHA	AL	34	70	5	12	2	0	0	7	1	3	10	.171	.205	.200
1956	CHA	AL	39	102	6	16	0	0	0	3	0	3	22	.157	.189	.157
1957	CHA	AL	41	99	7	17	1	0	0	6	0	2	25	.172	.188	.182
1958	CHA	AL	35	83	10	17	3	0	0	4	0	4	13	.205	.250	.241
1959	CHA	AL	34	68	3	13	1	2	0	7	0	7	13	.191	.267	.265
1960	CHA	AL	32	67	4	12	1	0	0	7	0	6	14	.179	.247	.194
1961	CHA	AL	39	56	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	1	11	.143	.158	.143
1962	SFN	NL	30	56	3	12	0	0	0	5	0	3	12	.214	.254	.214
1963	SFN	NL	38	31	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	11	.129	.182	.129
1964	SFN	NL	34	9	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	.333	.333	.333
1945–1964			616	1102	94	203	13	4	0	69	1	65	232	.184	.232	.203

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO
1945	DET	AL	0	0	1.80	5	0	0	0	0	10.0	6	2	1	10	10
1948	DET	AL	3	0	6.34	22	5	0	0	0	55.1	47	39	5	51	36
1949	CHA	AL	7	15	3.88	32	26	8	0	0	171.2	145	74	11	112	95
1950	CHA	AL	12	16	3.98	33	29	15	1	1	219.1	189	97	11	137	118
1951	CHA	AL	15	14	3.03	37	28	18	1	2	240.1	237	81	14	73	113
1952	CHA	AL	15	12	2.57	33	32	14	4	1	255.1	214	73	12	79	144
1953	CHA	AL	18	12	2.72	40	33	19	7	3	271.1	216	82	20	102	186
1954	CHA	AL	9	10	3.48	36	26	12	4	3	188.2	179	73	15	86	148
1955	CHA	AL	15	10	1.97	33	26	16	6	1	205.2	162	45	16	64	157
1956	CHA	AL	20	9	3.32	35	33	21	1	1	276.1	261	102	24	100	192
1957	CHA	AL	20	12	3.26	37	34	16	4	2	257.0	228	93	18	71	171
1958	CHA	AL	17	11	2.68	35	32	19	3	2	245.0	204	73	33	66	144
1959	CHA	AL	14	15	3.62	34	33	12	2	0	224.0	217	90	26	62	114
1960	CHA	AL	14	7	3.62	32	30	8	1	0	196.1	201	79	24	46	108
1961	CHA	AL	10	9	3.80	39	28	5	1	3	180.0	190	76	17	54	106
1962	SFN	NL	16	6	3.49	30	23	7	2	1	162.1	147	63	19	35	76
1963	SFN	NL	3	11	4.27	38	13	3	1	8	99.0	106	47	12	20	52
1964	SFN	NL	3	0	2.20	34	1	0	0	4	49.0	40	12	6	10	29
1945–1964			211	169	3.27	585	432	193	38	32	3306.2	2989	1201	284	1178	1999

Awards

1956 TSN All-Star (ML)
1956 TSN Pitcher of the Year (AL)
1957 TSN All-Star (ML)
1957 TSN Pitcher of the Year (AL)

Hall of Fame voting

Year	Voted by	Votes	Ballots	Needed
1970	BBWAA	5	300	225
1971	BBWAA	7	360	270
1972	BBWAA	4	396	297
1973	BBWAA	4	380	285
1974	BBWAA	4	365	274
2003	Veterans - Players
2005	Veterans - Players
2007	Veterans - Players
2015	Veterans - Golden Era		16	12
2022	Veterans - Golden Age Era		16	12