Gary Lavelle
San Francisco Giants 1974–1984; Toronto Blue Jays 1985; Oakland Athletics 1987; Toronto Blue Jays 1987
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
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 65 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .200 | .111 | .311 | -17.4 | -13.1 | .171 | 1.6 |
| 1976 | 65 | 15 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .077 | .077 | .154 | -81.2 | -56.6 | .072 | 2.2 |
| 1977 | 73 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 67 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .067 | .067 | .133 | -83.0 | -61.8 | .062 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 70 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 35.8 | 41.4 | .232 | 2.1 |
| 1980 | 62 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 34 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .333 | .364 | .697 | 105.2 | 100.8 | .332 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 68 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .231 | .385 | -5.6 | 7.0 | .174 | 2.2 |
| 1983 | 56 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.7 |
| 1984 | 77 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -38.1 | -48.8 | .126 | 1.9 |
| 1985 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.6 |
| 1987 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 16.7 | 2.16 | 1.440 | 6.48 | 3.73 | 98.6 | 174.9 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 65 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 27 | 48 | 51 | 3 | 82.3 | 2.95 | 1.555 | 5.57 | 3.71 | 98.4 | 127.7 | 1.6 |
| 1976 | 65 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 33 | 52 | 71 | 6 | 110.3 | 2.69 | 1.396 | 5.79 | 3.54 | 98.3 | 133.6 | 2.2 |
| 1977 | 73 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 27 | 37 | 93 | 4 | 118.3 | 2.05 | 1.208 | 7.07 | 2.54 | 65.3 | 189.4 | 3.5 |
| 1978 | 67 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 36 | 44 | 63 | 3 | 97.7 | 3.32 | 1.433 | 5.81 | 3.14 | 90.9 | 104.3 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 70 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 27 | 42 | 80 | 5 | 96.7 | 2.51 | 1.324 | 7.45 | 3.08 | 87.1 | 140.5 | 2.1 |
| 1980 | 62 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 38 | 36 | 66 | 4 | 100.0 | 3.42 | 1.420 | 5.94 | 3.03 | 86.0 | 102.8 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 28 | 23 | 45 | 3 | 65.7 | 3.84 | 1.234 | 6.17 | 3.04 | 89.1 | 88.8 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 68 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 31 | 29 | 76 | 6 | 104.7 | 2.67 | 1.204 | 6.54 | 2.90 | 81.0 | 134.4 | 2.2 |
| 1983 | 56 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 25 | 19 | 68 | 4 | 87.0 | 2.59 | 1.057 | 7.03 | 2.36 | 66.2 | 138.1 | 1.7 |
| 1984 | 77 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 31 | 42 | 71 | 5 | 101.0 | 2.76 | 1.327 | 6.33 | 3.31 | 93.6 | 127.9 | 1.9 |
| 1985 | 69 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 25 | 36 | 50 | 5 | 72.7 | 3.10 | 1.239 | 6.19 | 3.75 | 89.2 | 135.6 | 1.6 |
| 1987 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 2 | 32.0 | 5.91 | 1.938 | 6.47 | 4.31 | 96.2 | 75.6 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-06-08 | HOU @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1981-08-26 | SF @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1975-05-25 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1976-05-02 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1978-06-16 | NYM @ SF Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-06-06 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 3.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1976-05-02 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1981-05-30 | HOU @ SF Gameday | 4.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1975-05-04 | HOU @ SF Gameday | 3.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1982-09-18 | SD @ SF Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.