Al Lyons
New York Yankees 1944; New York Yankees 1946–1947; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947; Boston Braves 1948
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 19 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .346 | .346 | .423 | .769 | 113.7 | 117.0 | .357 | 0.2 |
| 1946 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -139.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1947 | 23 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .444 | .625 | 1.069 | 184.7 | 183.5 | .479 | -1.0 |
| 1948 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 32.9 | 26.8 | .239 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 20 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 39.7 | 4.54 | 1.689 | 3.18 | 4.46 | 127.6 | 77.1 | 0.2 |
| 1946 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 8.3 | 5.40 | 2.040 | 4.32 | 4.01 | 114.7 | 64.7 | -0.2 |
| 1947 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 34 | 21 | 23 | 6 | 39.3 | 7.78 | 1.907 | 5.26 | 5.02 | 125.8 | 52.0 | -1.0 |
| 1948 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 12.7 | 7.82 | 1.974 | 3.55 | 4.70 | 121.9 | 49.3 | -0.5 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-09-23 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-05-11 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-07-23 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-06-18 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-10-02 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-06-18 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 8.1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| 1946-09-24 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 7.1 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 |
| 1944-07-23 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 6.2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1947-09-03 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5.0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 1947-08-15 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3.1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.