MLB / Players

Eddie Lake

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 159 lb

BornMarch 18, 1916 · Antioch, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1939

Final gameSeptember 30, 1950

Seasons11 (1939–1950)

St. Louis Cardinals 1939–1941; Boston Red Sox 1943–1945; Detroit Tigers 1946–1950

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

158

100

732

100

602

95.1

84.5

127

52.4

RBI

30.1

120

98.1

24.3

83.5

3.9

.211

OBP

.343

35.9

SLG

.322

4.9

OPS

.665

11.7

wRC+

89.0

19.4

OPS+

84.2

10.7

wOBA

.329

17.5

sWAR

2.3

53.4

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 489 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.3

40.1

OPS+

92.2

26.5

sWAR

13.9

90.4

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
1939	2	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	88.1	73.8	.335	0.0
1940	32	80	66	12	14	3	0	2	7	12	17	1	0	.212	.342	.348	.690	92.1	87.3	.330	0.2
1941	45	92	76	9	8	2	0	0	0	15	22	3	0	.105	.253	.132	.384	14.5	8.2	.216	-0.5
1943	75	269	216	26	43	10	0	3	16	47	35	3	6	.199	.345	.287	.632	93.3	84.5	.323	1.0
1944	57	153	126	21	26	5	0	0	8	23	22	5	2	.206	.329	.246	.575	73.4	66.0	.296	0.3
1945	133	586	473	81	132	27	1	11	51	106	37	9	7	.279	.412	.410	.822	146.1	136.5	.401	5.9
1946	155	703	587	105	149	24	1	8	31	103	69	15	9	.254	.369	.339	.708	100.8	94.6	.345	3.2
1947	158	732	602	96	127	19	6	12	46	120	54	11	10	.211	.343	.322	.665	89.0	84.2	.329	2.3
1948	64	264	198	51	52	6	0	2	18	57	20	3	3	.263	.427	.323	.751	113.8	100.0	.382	1.4
1949	94	307	240	38	47	9	1	1	15	61	33	2	8	.196	.359	.254	.613	75.2	64.5	.322	0.3
1950	20	8	7	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-69.2	-66.1	.095	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1944	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	9	11	7	2	19.3	4.19	1.603	3.26	5.34	156.5	81.5	0.3

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

835

3,199

2,595

442

599

105

RBI

193

546

312

.2308

OBP

.3661

354th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3233

OPS

.6894

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.190

WHIP

1.6034

K/9

3.26

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1940-05-07	LAD @ STL Gameday	6	2	3	1	2	5	0	10
1946-08-15	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	0	9
1945-06-27	BOS @ CWS Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	4	1	8
1947-07-04	DET @ CLE Gameday	3	3	2	0	2	5	2	8
1945-08-01	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1944-07-09	CLE @ BOS Gameday	3.0	5	3	3	2	3
1944-07-05	DET @ BOS Gameday	6.0	6	3	3	2	1
1944-06-23	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4.0	3	1	1	3	1
1944-05-17	BAL @ BOS Gameday	2.1	4	3	1	2	1
1944-06-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	1	1

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.