Gene Lillard
Chicago Cubs 1936; Chicago Cubs 1939; St. Louis Cardinals 1940
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 19 | 37 | 34 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .270 | .235 | .506 | 36.8 | 37.3 | .246 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 23 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .438 | .100 | .538 | 95.6 | 51.1 | .340 | -1.0 |
| 1940 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 68 | 40 | 36 | 31 | 2 | 55.0 | 6.55 | 1.891 | 5.07 | 4.28 | 108.8 | 60.1 | -1.0 |
| 1940 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4.7 | 13.50 | 2.571 | 3.86 | 7.89 | 197.8 | 29.6 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-05-26 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1936-05-29 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1936-06-06 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1936-07-23 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1936-09-11 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-30 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1939-04-26 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1939-05-05 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 5.1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 |
| 1939-05-09 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1939-05-14 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 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.