MLB / Players

Doc Lavan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 151 lb

BornOctober 28, 1890 · Grand Rapids, MI, USA

MLB debutJune 22, 1913

Final gameMay 4, 1924

Seasons12 (1913–1924)

Philadelphia Athletics 1913; St. Louis Browns 1913–1917; Washington Senators 1918; St. Louis Cardinals 1919–1924

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified batters

150

79.2

607

62.4

560

69.1

40.3

145

54.4

57.7

73.8

33.6

RBI

81.9

25.5

30.9

36.2

36.9

.259

17.4

OBP

.291

5.4

SLG

.350

24.2

OPS

.641

14.8

wRC+

66.2

7.4

OPS+

69.8

10.1

wOBA

.294

9.4

sWAR

0.2

16.1

of 150 qualified 1921 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

70.3

3.2

OPS+

74.5

sWAR

5.5

80.5

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
1913	51	180	163	9	22	2	2	0	5	10	46	3	0	.135	.199	.172	.371	5.9	9.3	.192	-1.2
1914	75	263	239	21	63	7	4	1	21	17	39	6	12	.264	.318	.339	.657	97.3	99.9	.322	1.2
1915	157	580	514	44	112	17	7	1	48	42	83	13	19	.218	.281	.284	.565	69.9	71.6	.283	0.7
1916	110	382	343	32	81	13	1	0	19	32	38	7	0	.236	.305	.280	.585	77.9	78.6	.295	0.9
1917	118	388	355	19	85	8	5	0	30	19	34	5	0	.239	.284	.290	.574	72.5	76.6	.284	0.7
1918	117	493	464	44	129	17	2	0	45	14	21	12	0	.278	.302	.323	.625	84.7	91.1	.306	1.4
1919	100	376	356	25	86	12	2	1	25	11	30	4	0	.242	.264	.295	.559	64.3	70.2	.265	0.3
1920	142	569	516	52	149	21	10	1	63	19	38	11	14	.289	.318	.374	.692	98.5	101.1	.324	2.5
1921	150	607	560	58	145	23	11	2	82	23	30	7	7	.259	.291	.350	.641	66.2	69.8	.294	0.2
1922	89	293	264	24	60	8	1	0	27	13	10	3	1	.227	.271	.265	.537	41.2	41.7	.255	-0.8
1923	50	128	111	10	22	6	0	1	12	9	7	0	3	.198	.264	.279	.544	44.0	44.6	.259	-0.3
1924	4	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,163

4,265

3,891

338

954

134

RBI

377

209

376

.2452

OBP

.2878

SLG

.3081

OPS

.5959

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	TB
1922-06-12	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	0	1	6
1920-09-27	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	0	3	6
1922-04-23	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	0	1	6
1919-08-05	SF @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	6
1920-07-07	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-11	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-13	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	CWS @ BAL 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.