MLB / Players

Buddy Lewis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 10, 1916 · Gastonia, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1935

Final gameSeptember 30, 1949

Seasons11 (1935–1949)

Washington Senators 1935–1941; Washington Senators 1945–1947; Washington Senators 1949

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

140

50.5

568

45.6

506

47.6

41.7

132

38.8

18.4

27.2

43.7

RBI

31.1

46.6

63.1

7.8

.261

27.2

OBP

.330

20.4

SLG

.342

12.6

OPS

.672

12.6

wRC+

86.9

17.5

OPS+

87.9

18.4

wOBA

.322

13.6

sWAR

0.3

12.6

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.1

59.7

OPS+

109.8

61.5

sWAR

24.2

95.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1935	8	28	28	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	5	0	0	.107	.107	.107	.214	-58.2	-43.7	.100	-0.5
1936	143	657	601	100	175	21	13	6	67	47	46	6	6	.291	.347	.399	.746	87.2	87.7	.344	1.2
1937	156	733	668	107	210	32	6	10	79	52	44	11	5	.314	.367	.425	.792	102.2	102.8	.362	2.8
1938	151	724	656	122	194	35	9	12	91	58	35	17	9	.296	.354	.431	.785	99.6	101.3	.359	2.5
1939	140	629	536	87	171	23	16	10	75	72	27	10	9	.319	.402	.478	.879	125.0	124.7	.402	4.2
1940	148	679	600	101	190	38	10	6	63	74	36	15	10	.317	.393	.443	.836	123.9	122.7	.381	3.8
1941	149	653	569	97	169	29	11	9	72	82	30	10	7	.297	.386	.434	.820	118.5	116.5	.381	3.2
1945	69	306	258	42	86	14	7	2	37	37	15	1	2	.333	.423	.465	.888	170.7	166.6	.424	3.1
1946	150	656	582	82	170	28	13	7	45	59	26	5	3	.292	.359	.421	.780	123.2	122.7	.364	3.2
1947	140	568	506	67	132	15	4	6	48	51	27	6	6	.261	.330	.342	.672	86.9	87.9	.322	0.3
1949	95	304	257	25	63	14	4	3	28	41	12	2	2	.245	.355	.366	.721	92.8	91.5	.351	0.4

Career totals

1,349

5,937

5,261

830

1,563

249

200th-most career 3B

RBI

607

573

303

.2971

266th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3683

318th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4203

OPS

.7886

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
1936-09-20	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1936-05-24	MIN @ BOS Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	1	4	0	9
1939-08-13	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	0	4	0	9
1938-07-22	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1949-08-17	MIN @ NYY Gameday	3	2	3	1	1	1	2	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-04-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-19	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-20	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-04-22	BOS @ MIN 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.

Honors

2× 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.