Cliff Lee
Pittsburgh Pirates 1919–1920; Philadelphia Phillies 1921–1923; Cincinnati Reds 1924; Philadelphia Phillies 1924; Cleveland Indians 1925–1926
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 42 | 120 | 112 | 5 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | .196 | .237 | .286 | .523 | 48.8 | 55.6 | .249 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 37 | 81 | 76 | 9 | 18 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .237 | .275 | .316 | .591 | 64.1 | 68.8 | .279 | 0.1 |
| 1921 | 88 | 304 | 286 | 31 | 88 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 29 | 13 | 34 | 5 | 2 | .308 | .338 | .427 | .764 | 89.4 | 91.8 | .347 | 0.1 |
| 1922 | 122 | 462 | 422 | 65 | 136 | 29 | 6 | 17 | 77 | 32 | 43 | 2 | 3 | .322 | .371 | .540 | .912 | 117.1 | 119.4 | .408 | 2.0 |
| 1923 | 107 | 382 | 355 | 54 | 114 | 20 | 4 | 11 | 47 | 20 | 39 | 3 | 3 | .321 | .357 | .493 | .850 | 105.9 | 108.5 | .384 | 1.0 |
| 1924 | 27 | 65 | 62 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | .258 | .281 | .435 | .717 | 71.4 | 79.2 | .320 | -0.1 |
| 1925 | 77 | 258 | 230 | 43 | 74 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 42 | 21 | 33 | 2 | 1 | .322 | .378 | .491 | .870 | 116.6 | 119.1 | .398 | 1.1 |
| 1926 | 21 | 46 | 40 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .175 | .283 | .275 | .558 | 46.3 | 45.7 | .276 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-07-26 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 1923-09-28 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1923-08-14 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1922-05-30 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1922-07-28 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919-04-24 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-25 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-26 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-27 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919-04-29 | PIT @ CIN 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.