Charlie Lau
Detroit Tigers 1956; Detroit Tigers 1958–1959; Milwaukee Braves 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961; Milwaukee Braves 1961; Baltimore Orioles 1962–1963; Kansas City Athletics 1963; Baltimore Orioles 1964; Kansas City Athletics 1964; Baltimore Orioles 1965–1966; Atlanta Braves 1967; Baltimore Orioles 1967
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .222 | .444 | 7.8 | 18.7 | .207 | 0.0 |
| 1958 | 30 | 82 | 68 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .147 | .293 | .221 | .513 | 37.8 | 39.9 | .250 | -0.1 |
| 1959 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -25.0 | -9.9 | .153 | -0.1 |
| 1960 | 21 | 61 | 53 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .271 | .226 | .498 | 42.1 | 43.7 | .235 | -0.1 |
| 1961 | 45 | 151 | 129 | 6 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 1 | .194 | .279 | .256 | .535 | 42.6 | 48.4 | .242 | -0.2 |
| 1962 | 81 | 208 | 197 | 21 | 58 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 37 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .294 | .319 | .462 | .781 | 111.2 | 114.8 | .342 | 1.5 |
| 1963 | 91 | 257 | 235 | 19 | 64 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 15 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .272 | .313 | .366 | .679 | 82.4 | 85.9 | .303 | 0.8 |
| 1964 | 105 | 308 | 276 | 27 | 73 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 27 | 45 | 0 | 0 | .264 | .330 | .391 | .721 | 96.4 | 99.5 | .320 | 1.6 |
| 1965 | 68 | 152 | 132 | 15 | 39 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .295 | .371 | .409 | .780 | 118.1 | 121.6 | .347 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .588 | .833 | 1.422 | 299.4 | 308.3 | .587 | 0.5 |
| 1967 | 63 | 60 | 53 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .189 | .267 | .283 | .550 | 49.0 | 59.3 | .247 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-07-13 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1962-07-19 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-07-19 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1962-08-17 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1963-09-20 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-06-30 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-07-01 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-09-06 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-09-06 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-09-07 | ATL @ PIT 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.