Frank LaCorte
Atlanta Braves 1975–1979; Houston Astros 1979–1983; California Angels 1984
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 21 | 36 | 33 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -75.9 | -49.7 | .086 | -0.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -14.1 | 2.4 | .184 | -2.8 |
| 1978 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 1980 | 55 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 45.4 | 34.7 | .241 | 1.4 |
| 1981 | 37 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 93.9 | 94.5 | .313 | 0.3 |
| 1982 | 55 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -119.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1983 | 37 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .167 | .400 | .567 | 29.6 | 57.3 | .221 | -0.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 13.7 | 5.27 | 1.390 | 6.59 | 3.42 | 91.6 | 70.9 | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 19 | 17 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 97 | 55 | 53 | 79 | 6 | 105.3 | 4.70 | 1.424 | 6.75 | 3.57 | 95.6 | 79.4 | -0.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 48 | 29 | 28 | 10 | 37.0 | 11.68 | 2.595 | 6.81 | 7.25 | 166.2 | 37.3 | -2.8 |
| 1978 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 14.7 | 3.68 | .886 | 4.30 | 2.49 | 70.4 | 95.9 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 22 | 15 | 30 | 5 | 35.3 | 5.60 | 1.274 | 7.64 | 4.11 | 111.5 | 65.0 | -0.5 |
| 1980 | 55 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 26 | 43 | 66 | 4 | 83.0 | 2.82 | 1.253 | 7.16 | 3.34 | 99.4 | 119.0 | 1.4 |
| 1981 | 37 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 17 | 21 | 40 | 1 | 42.0 | 3.64 | 1.476 | 8.57 | 2.57 | 77.0 | 91.8 | 0.3 |
| 1982 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 38 | 46 | 51 | 5 | 76.3 | 4.48 | 1.533 | 6.01 | 4.07 | 120.4 | 75.5 | -0.4 |
| 1983 | 37 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 30 | 28 | 48 | 8 | 53.3 | 5.06 | 1.181 | 8.10 | 4.51 | 131.4 | 67.8 | -0.5 |
| 1984 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 23 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 29.3 | 7.06 | 1.568 | 3.99 | 7.18 | 181.0 | 56.2 | -0.8 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-06-10 | SD @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1977-04-11 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980-04-26 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1976-08-02 | SD @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1976-09-08 | ATL @ SD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-10-03 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1976-08-17 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 6.1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 |
| 1976-09-22 | ATL @ HOU Gameday | 6.0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1976-08-31 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 6.2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1976-09-08 | ATL @ SD Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 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.