MLB / Players

Bob Lemon

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 22, 1920 · San Bernardino, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1941

Final gameJuly 1, 1958

Seasons15 (1941–1958)

Cleveland Indians 1941–1942; Cleveland Indians 1946–1958

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified pitchers

69.8

84.9

15.1

86.8

96.2

SHO

41.5

230

22.6

45.3

26.4

35.8

255.3

79.2

ERA

3.03

86.8

WHIP

1.249

75.5

K/9

3.31

7.5

FIP

4.06

FIP-

96.9

43.4

ERA+

138.1

94.3

sWAR

6.3

94.3

of 54 qualified 1956 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

119.6

89.2

sWAR

57.1

99.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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
1941	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	28.3	36.4	.232	0.0
1942	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1946	55	99	89	9	16	3	0	1	4	7	18	0	1	.180	.240	.247	.487	32.3	40.0	.235	2.1
1947	47	64	56	11	18	4	3	2	5	6	9	0	0	.321	.387	.607	.994	178.5	182.4	.448	2.8
1948	52	129	119	20	34	9	0	5	21	8	23	0	0	.286	.331	.487	.818	114.3	121.2	.373	8.3
1949	46	123	108	17	29	6	2	7	19	10	20	0	0	.269	.331	.556	.886	127.9	137.6	.399	7.4
1950	72	153	136	21	37	9	1	6	26	13	25	0	0	.272	.340	.485	.825	109.9	115.1	.373	5.8
1951	56	112	102	11	21	4	1	3	13	9	22	0	0	.206	.270	.353	.623	68.3	73.3	.290	4.0
1952	54	134	124	14	28	5	0	2	9	4	21	0	0	.226	.250	.315	.565	52.5	62.2	.261	7.0
1953	51	125	112	12	26	9	1	2	17	7	20	2	0	.232	.277	.384	.661	74.8	81.2	.301	5.1
1954	40	113	98	11	21	4	1	2	10	6	24	0	0	.214	.257	.337	.594	54.1	63.3	.274	6.1
1955	49	99	78	11	19	0	0	1	9	13	16	0	0	.244	.344	.282	.626	76.1	70.5	.310	3.0
1956	43	110	93	8	18	0	0	5	12	9	21	0	0	.194	.272	.355	.627	61.6	64.3	.291	6.3
1957	25	46	46	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	14	0	0	.065	.065	.152	.217	-66.5	-41.9	.094	-0.4
1958	15	14	13	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	.231	.286	.231	.516	45.3	45.9	.249	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1946	32	5	4	5	1	1	0	77	26	68	39	1	94.0	2.49	1.543	3.73	3.93	118.6	133.0	2.1
1947	37	15	11	5	3	6	1	150	64	97	65	7	167.3	3.44	1.476	3.50	4.00	114.8	101.3	2.8
1948	43	37	20	14	2	20	10	231	92	129	147	12	293.7	2.82	1.226	4.51	3.63	88.6	145.1	8.3
1949	37	33	22	10	1	22	2	211	93	137	138	19	279.7	2.99	1.244	4.44	3.92	97.6	134.2	7.4
1950	44	37	23	11	3	22	3	281	123	146	170	28	288.0	3.84	1.483	5.31	4.34	100.1	112.7	5.8
1951	42	34	17	14	2	17	1	244	103	124	132	19	263.3	3.52	1.397	4.51	3.95	102.6	109.4	4.0
1952	42	36	22	11	4	28	5	236	86	105	131	15	309.7	2.50	1.101	3.81	3.22	94.4	136.6	7.0
1953	41	36	21	15	1	23	5	283	107	110	98	16	286.7	3.36	1.371	3.08	3.87	101.6	113.5	5.1
1954	36	33	23	7	0	21	2	228	78	92	110	12	258.3	2.72	1.239	3.83	3.25	88.3	135.3	6.1
1955	35	31	18	10	2	5	0	218	91	74	100	17	211.3	3.88	1.382	4.26	3.65	91.9	102.5	3.0
1956	39	35	20	14	3	21	2	230	86	89	94	23	255.3	3.03	1.249	3.31	4.06	96.9	138.1	6.3
1957	21	17	6	11	0	2	0	129	60	64	45	9	117.3	4.60	1.645	3.45	4.45	118.8	81.3	-0.4
1958	11	1	0	1	0	0	0	41	15	16	8	3	25.3	5.33	2.250	2.84	5.37	145.1	69.4	-0.2

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

615

1,330

1,183

148

274

RBI

147

241

.2316

OBP

.2881

SLG

.3863

OPS

.6744

Pitching

G (P)

460

350

221st-most career GS

207

107th-most career W

128

286th-most career L

188

155th-most career CG

SHO

104th-most career SHO

2,850

163rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,277

343rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,251

43rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.234

277th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3368

K/9

4.03

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
1949-07-24	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	3	2	0	0	2	2	1	8
1950-09-24	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	1	0	7
1948-08-01	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1952-06-20	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	6
1948-06-20	ATH @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1948-05-25	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	11
1949-09-25	DET @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	4	11
1948-06-20	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	10
1948-09-03	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	9
1950-09-20	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	5	9

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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1976 (BBWAA)

7× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.