MLB / Players

Charlie Lea

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 194 lb

BornDecember 25, 1956 · Orleans, Centre-Val de Loire, France

MLB debutJune 12, 1980

Final gameOctober 1, 1988

Seasons7 (1980–1988)

Montreal Expos 1980–1984; Montreal Expos 1987; Minnesota Twins 1988

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified pitchers

9.7

74.2

62.4

65.6

SHO

198

62.4

84.9

49.5

123

46.2

37.6

224.3

66.7

ERA

2.89

90.3

WHIP

1.186

80.6

K/9

4.93

40.9

FIP

3.75

48.4

FIP-

108.8

22.6

ERA+

119.2

76.3

sWAR

3.4

68.8

of 94 qualified 1984 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.3

86.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1980	21	39	37	1	3	0	1	1	1	11	.081	.103	.135	.238	-51.2	-33.7	.111	0.7
1981	16	20	15	1	2	0	0	0	1	7	.133	.188	.133	.321	-15.9	-7.6	.165	-0.3
1982	27	71	65	0	8	1	0	2	5	22	.123	.186	.138	.324	-13.0	-8.2	.166	2.5
1983	33	84	70	6	8	1	0	3	2	29	.114	.139	.129	.267	-37.2	-24.7	.130	3.2
1984	30	85	72	3	8	0	0	0	1	24	.111	.123	.111	.234	-44.7	-32.0	.113	3.4
1987	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1988	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1980	21	19	7	5	0	0	103	43	55	56	5	104.0	3.72	1.519	4.85	3.94	109.9	96.3	0.7
1981	16	11	5	4	2	2	63	33	26	31	4	64.3	4.62	1.383	4.34	3.77	107.6	76.0	-0.3
1982	27	27	12	10	4	2	145	64	56	115	16	177.7	3.24	1.131	5.83	3.57	97.7	112.7	2.5
1983	33	33	16	11	8	4	195	77	84	137	15	222.0	3.12	1.257	5.55	3.47	96.4	115.2	3.2
1984	30	30	15	10	8	0	198	72	68	123	19	224.3	2.89	1.186	4.93	3.75	108.8	119.2	3.4
1987	1	1	0	1	0	0	4	4	2	1	1	1.0	36.00	6.000	9.00	19.87	474.8	11.6	-0.4
1988	24	23	7	7	0	0	156	70	50	72	19	130.0	4.85	1.585	4.98	4.88	120.6	83.6	0.1

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

152

299

259

RBI

.1120

OBP

.1444

SLG

.1274

OPS

.2718

Pitching

G (P)

152

144

SHO

923

SO (P)

535

BB allowed

341

ERA

3.538

WHIP

1.3051

K/9

5.21

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	RBI	BB	TB
1983-09-27	WSH @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	0	3
1980-08-03	ATL @ WSH Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	0	3
1982-05-21	WSH @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	2
1980-09-02	WSH @ SD Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
1982-04-18	WSH @ NYM Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1983-06-17	NYM @ WSH Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	9	0
1983-07-20	CIN @ WSH Gameday	8.2	7	4	3	2	9	1
1981-05-10	SF @ WSH Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	4	8	0
1982-06-16	WSH @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	1	7	0
1982-08-22	WSH @ HOU Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	7	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

1× 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.