Bill Lamar
New York Yankees 1917–1918; Boston Red Sox 1919; New York Yankees 1919; Brooklyn Robins 1920–1921; Philadelphia Athletics 1924–1927
Percentile snapshot
1925 season — qualified batters
of 163 qualified 1925 batters (min 474 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 11 | 42 | 41 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .244 | .244 | .244 | .488 | 36.1 | 47.7 | .236 | -0.2 |
| 1918 | 28 | 119 | 110 | 12 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .227 | .267 | .255 | .522 | 48.8 | 56.2 | .261 | -0.3 |
| 1919 | 59 | 177 | 164 | 19 | 46 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 0 | .280 | .310 | .329 | .639 | 80.4 | 84.2 | .305 | 0.2 |
| 1920 | 24 | 44 | 44 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .364 | .636 | 72.0 | 80.0 | .292 | 0.0 |
| 1921 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 72.6 | 75.9 | .307 | 0.0 |
| 1924 | 87 | 396 | 367 | 68 | 121 | 22 | 5 | 7 | 48 | 18 | 21 | 8 | 8 | .330 | .361 | .474 | .835 | 109.0 | 112.7 | .385 | 1.3 |
| 1925 | 138 | 604 | 568 | 85 | 202 | 39 | 8 | 3 | 77 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 6 | .356 | .379 | .468 | .847 | 107.8 | 110.2 | .389 | 1.9 |
| 1926 | 116 | 457 | 419 | 62 | 119 | 17 | 6 | 5 | 50 | 18 | 15 | 4 | 5 | .284 | .315 | .389 | .704 | 75.9 | 81.0 | .326 | -0.4 |
| 1927 | 84 | 355 | 324 | 48 | 97 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 47 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 8 | .299 | .334 | .426 | .760 | 90.9 | 94.4 | .349 | 0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925-05-21 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 1924-07-04 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1924-07-19 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1924-07-31 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1926-06-14 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-08-14 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-08-14 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-08-17 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-08-18 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-08-19 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.