Don Lang
Cincinnati Reds 1938; St. Louis Cardinals 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 21 | 52 | 50 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .288 | .420 | .708 | 90.5 | 96.0 | .320 | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 117 | 379 | 323 | 30 | 87 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 31 | 47 | 38 | 2 | 0 | .269 | .364 | .356 | .720 | 96.1 | 92.5 | .342 | 1.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-08-20 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1948-09-22 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1948-09-07 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1948-05-02 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1948-08-15 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-04-19 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-20 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-21 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-22 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938-04-23 | CIN @ 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.