Ben Lively
Philadelphia Phillies 2017; Kansas City Royals 2018; Philadelphia Phillies 2018; Kansas City Royals 2019; Cincinnati Reds 2023; Cleveland Guardians 2024–2025
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 15 | 26 | 26 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .462 | .692 | 69.8 | 75.3 | .288 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 2023 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.8 |
| 2025 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 90 | 42 | 24 | 52 | 13 | 88.7 | 4.26 | 1.286 | 5.28 | 4.99 | 115.7 | 101.2 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 19 | 15 | 27 | 4 | 30.3 | 5.64 | 1.846 | 8.01 | 4.85 | 117.1 | 73.7 | -0.3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.0 | 27.00 | 3.000 | 9.00 | 14.26 | 302.6 | 17.4 | -0.2 |
| 2023 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 53 | 25 | 79 | 20 | 88.7 | 5.38 | 1.365 | 8.02 | 5.36 | 120.1 | 82.9 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 29 | 29 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 139 | 64 | 49 | 118 | 23 | 151.0 | 3.81 | 1.245 | 7.03 | 4.58 | 114.0 | 105.4 | 1.8 |
| 2025 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 16 | 15 | 29 | 6 | 44.7 | 3.22 | 1.187 | 5.84 | 4.51 | 108.5 | 128.9 | 0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-09-05 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017-06-24 | PHI @ AZ Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017-08-31 | PHI @ MIA Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017-06-03 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017-08-20 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-09 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 6.2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| 2023-05-24 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| 2023-05-19 | NYY @ CIN Gameday | 5.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 2017-08-26 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 4 |
| 2017-09-10 | PHI @ WSH Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
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.