Billy Lush
Washington Senators 1895–1897; Boston Beaneaters 1901–1902; Detroit Tigers 1903; Cleveland Naps 1904
Percentile snapshot
1904 season — qualified batters
of 89 qualified 1904 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .400 | .333 | .733 | 96.4 | 90.2 | .361 | 0.0 |
| 1896 | 97 | 425 | 352 | 74 | 87 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 45 | 66 | 49 | 28 | 0 | .247 | .369 | .369 | .738 | 99.4 | 94.8 | .361 | 1.1 |
| 1897 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -27.7 | -60.6 | .111 | -0.2 |
| 1901 | 7 | 30 | 27 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .267 | .296 | .563 | 65.9 | 62.7 | .275 | 0.0 |
| 1902 | 120 | 502 | 413 | 68 | 92 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 76 | 56 | 30 | 0 | .223 | .346 | .262 | .608 | 99.3 | 88.4 | .319 | 1.8 |
| 1903 | 119 | 528 | 423 | 71 | 116 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 33 | 70 | 53 | 14 | 0 | .274 | .379 | .390 | .769 | 136.4 | 133.2 | .365 | 3.5 |
| 1904 | 138 | 577 | 477 | 76 | 123 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 50 | 72 | 63 | 12 | 0 | .258 | .359 | .325 | .684 | 124.6 | 117.7 | .336 | 2.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903-09-26 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 1903-07-16 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1903-09-18 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1904-05-25 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1904-07-05 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-19 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-23 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-26 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | ATL @ LAD 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.