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Billy Taylor played 7 major-league seasons (1881-1887) as a P (100), OF (77), C (61), 1B (44), 3B (16). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 8 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881 | 26 | WOR|DTN|CL2 | 31 | 135 | 9 | 30 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 10 | .222 | .474 | 51 |
| 1882 | 27 | PT1 | 71 | 302 | 40 | 84 | 3 | — | 0 | 8 | — | .278 | .744 | 153 |
| 1883 | 28 | PT1 | 83 | 369 | 43 | 96 | 2 | — | 0 | 9 | — | .260 | .627 | 104 |
| 1884 | 29 | PH4 | 30 | 111 | 8 | 28 | 0 | — | 0 | 2 | — | .252 | .614 | 103 |
| 1884 | 29 | SLU | 43 | 186 | 44 | 68 | 3 | — | 0 | 7 | — | .366 | .937 | 216 |
| 1885 | 30 | PH4 | 6 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | .190 | .381 | 23 |
| 1886 | 31 | BL2 | 10 | 39 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | — | .308 | .684 | 118 |
| 1887 | 32 | PH4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .500 | 42 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881 | 26 | WOR|CL2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 5.73 | 48 |
| 1882 | 27 | PT1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16.20 | 17 |
| 1883 | 28 | PT1 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 127 | 41 | 34 | 5.39 | 61 |
| 1884 | 29 | PH4 | 30 | 30 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 260 | 130 | 44 | 2.53 | 128 |
| 1884 | 29 | SLU | 33 | 29 | 25 | 4 | 4 | 263 | 154 | 40 | 1.68 | 181 |
| 1885 | 30 | PH4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 52.1 | 11 | 9 | 3.27 | 99 |
| 1886 | 31 | BL2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 72.1 | 37 | 20 | 5.72 | 60 |
| 1887 | 32 | PH4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 3.00 | 143 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881 | OF | 28 | 0 | 65 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 1881 | P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1881 | 3B | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1882 | C | 27 | 0 | 116 | 40 | 25 | 0 |
| 1882 | 1B | 24 | 0 | 238 | 5 | 18 | 7 |
| 1882 | 3B | 14 | 0 | 19 | 29 | 16 | 0 |
| 1882 | OF | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1882 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1883 | OF | 37 | 0 | 49 | 10 | 20 | 0 |
| 1883 | C | 33 | 0 | 124 | 38 | 33 | 1 |
| 1883 | P | 19 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 0 |
| 1883 | 1B | 9 | 0 | 82 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| 1884 | P | 63 | 0 | 29 | 117 | 31 | 3 |
| 1884 | 1B | 10 | 0 | 77 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1884 | OF | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1885 | P | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1886 | P | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| 1886 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1886 | C | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1887 | P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Billy Taylor ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #52 | catchers | 1882 | 153 OPS+ |
| #104 | starting pitchers | 1884 | 181 ERA+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.