Denny Lyons

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornMarch 12, 1866 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1885

Final gameJuly 23, 1897

Seasons13 (1885–1897)

Providence Grays 1885; Philadelphia Athletics 1886–1890; St. Louis Browns 1891; New York Giants 1892; Pittsburgh Pirates 1893–1894; St. Louis Browns 1895; Pittsburgh Pirates 1896–1897

Percentile snapshot

1896 season — qualified batters

118

33.3

519

40.3

436

27.8

40.3

134

34.7

77.8

22.2

54.2

RBI

45.8

90.3

36.1

13.9

.307

54.2

OBP

.406

76.4

SLG

.420

56.9

OPS

.825

68.1

wRC+

117.3

73.6

OPS+

117.6

68.1

wOBA

.397

73.6

sWAR

3.0

72.2

of 73 qualified 1896 batters (min 406 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.6

90.9

OPS+

139.0

95.1

sWAR

37.7

97.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1885	4	16	16	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	.125	.125	.188	.313	20.2	-0.2	.142	-0.1
1886	32	135	123	22	26	3	1	0	11	8	0	7	.211	.281	.252	.534	79.2	68.2	.266	0.1
1887	137	623	570	128	209	43	14	6	102	47	16	73	.367	.421	.523	.943	142.2	160.6	.438	5.7
1888	111	504	456	93	135	22	5	6	83	41	43	39	.296	.363	.406	.769	133.5	145.8	.368	4.1
1889	131	596	510	135	168	36	4	9	82	79	44	10	.329	.426	.469	.895	141.4	154.3	.427	5.4
1890	88	406	339	79	120	29	5	7	73	57	0	21	.354	.461	.531	.992	168.1	191.3	.477	5.0
1891	120	557	451	124	142	24	3	11	84	88	58	9	.315	.445	.455	.900	146.5	157.0	.441	5.3
1892	108	451	389	71	100	16	7	8	51	59	37	11	.257	.359	.396	.755	123.2	127.9	.368	3.0
1893	131	596	490	103	150	19	16	3	105	97	29	19	.306	.430	.429	.858	125.7	128.1	.418	4.0
1894	72	315	257	52	82	14	4	4	51	43	13	14	.319	.424	.451	.876	111.3	110.9	.412	1.5
1895	34	151	132	24	39	6	0	2	25	15	7	3	.295	.380	.386	.766	100.2	97.7	.369	0.5
1896	118	519	436	77	134	25	6	4	71	67	25	13	.307	.406	.420	.825	117.3	117.6	.397	3.0
1897	37	160	131	22	27	6	4	2	17	22	5	5	.206	.346	.359	.705	91.8	86.0	.346	0.1

Career totals

1,123

5,029

4,300

933

442nd-most career R

1,334

244

405th-most career 3B

RBI

756

623

495th-most career BB

280

224

302nd-most career SB

.3102

119th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4074

49th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4423

OPS

.8497

198th-highest career OPS

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.