MLB / Players

Gary Lavelle

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb
BornJanuary 3, 1949 · Scranton, PA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 10, 1974
Final gameOctober 3, 1987
Seasons13 (1974–1987)

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+
125.1
93.9
sWAR
19.6
93.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
197410420000000200.000.000.000.000-131.2-100.0.0000.5
1975651090100001400.111.200.111.311-17.4-13.1.1711.6
19766515130100010300.077.077.077.154-81.2-56.6.0722.2
19777314140000000800.000.000.000.000-125.1-100.0.0003.5
19786716151100000800.067.067.067.133-83.0-61.8.0621.0
197970642100000200.250.250.250.50035.841.4.2322.1
19806214110000000700.000.000.000.000-127.0-100.0.0001.0
19813414111310011301.273.333.364.697105.2100.8.3320.4
19826815131210020400.154.154.231.385-5.67.0.1742.2
19835614140000000700.000.000.000.000-125.7-100.0.0001.7
198477650000001400.000.167.000.167-38.1-48.8.1261.9
1985690000000000001.6
198729000000000000-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1974100030001441012116.72.161.4406.483.7398.6174.90.5
19756506380080274851382.32.951.5555.573.7198.4127.71.6
197665010612001023352716110.32.691.3965.793.5498.3133.62.2
19777307720001062737934118.32.051.2087.072.5465.3189.43.5
19786701310140096364463397.73.321.4335.813.1490.9104.31.0
197970079200086274280596.72.511.3247.453.0887.1140.52.1
1980620689001063836664100.03.421.4205.943.0386.0102.81.0
19813432640058282345365.73.841.2346.173.0489.188.80.4
1982680107800973129766104.72.671.2046.542.9081.0134.42.2
198356074200073251968487.02.591.0577.032.3666.2138.11.7
1984770541200923142715101.02.761.3276.333.3193.6127.91.9
19856905780054253650572.73.101.2396.193.7589.2135.61.6
19872902310040212223232.05.911.9386.474.3196.275.6-0.2

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

G
745
PA
128
AB
111
R
5
H
9
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
4
BB
3
SO
52
SB
0
BA
.0811
OBP
.1053
SLG
.0991
OPS
.2044

Pitching

G (P)
745
81st-most career G (P)
GS
3
W
80
L
77
SV
136
107th-most career SV
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
1,085
SO (P)
769
BB allowed
440
ERA
2.928
156th-lowest career ERA
WHIP
1.3309
K/9
6.38
305th-highest career K/9

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1982-06-08HOU @ SF Gameday101100202
1981-08-26SF @ STL Gameday211100102
1975-05-25CHC @ SF Gameday101000001
1976-05-02CHC @ SF Gameday201000001
1978-06-16NYM @ SF Gameday111000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1977-06-06SF @ PIT Gameday3.2100260
1976-05-02CHC @ SF Gameday5.0311350
1981-05-30HOU @ SF Gameday4.0733150
1975-05-04HOU @ SF Gameday3.1300150
1982-09-18SD @ SF Gameday3.0100050

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

All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.