George LaChance

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 183 lb

BornFebruary 14, 1870 · Putnam, CT, USA

MLB debutAugust 15, 1893

Final gameApril 28, 1905

Seasons12 (1893–1905)

Brooklyn Grooms 1893–1895; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1896–1898; Baltimore Orioles 1899; Cleveland Blues 1901; Boston Americans 1902–1905

Percentile snapshot

1904 season — qualified batters

157

96.6

626

573

76.1

130

30.7

51.1

20.5

22.7

RBI

39.8

19.3

39.8

1.1

.227

11.4

OBP

.265

9.1

SLG

.283

OPS

.548

6.8

wRC+

67.8

10.2

OPS+

70.5

9.1

wOBA

.263

sWAR

-1.8

of 89 qualified 1904 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.0

24.7

OPS+

91.6

25.8

sWAR

1.9

69.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1893	11	38	35	1	6	1	0	0	6	2	12	0	.171	.237	.200	.437	32.4	16.4	.222	-0.2
1894	69	281	261	48	83	13	8	5	52	16	32	20	.318	.360	.487	.846	98.5	102.2	.384	0.6
1895	128	581	541	102	170	23	9	8	111	29	48	37	.314	.358	.434	.793	100.8	103.6	.370	1.1
1896	89	380	348	60	99	10	13	7	58	23	32	17	.284	.331	.448	.779	99.5	104.1	.362	0.6
1897	126	548	520	86	160	28	16	4	90	15	38	26	.308	.333	.446	.779	99.5	104.6	.361	0.9
1898	136	576	526	62	130	23	7	5	65	31	60	23	.247	.299	.346	.645	83.5	84.4	.313	0.3
1899	125	508	472	65	145	23	10	1	75	21	38	31	.307	.350	.405	.755	103.7	106.4	.359	1.0
1901	133	564	548	81	166	22	9	1	75	7	22	11	.303	.314	.381	.696	91.2	93.4	.322	0.3
1902	138	575	541	60	151	13	4	6	56	18	35	8	.279	.309	.351	.660	81.8	82.7	.309	-0.5
1903	141	579	522	60	134	22	6	1	53	28	56	12	.257	.303	.328	.631	87.6	87.2	.297	-0.2
1904	157	626	573	55	130	19	5	1	47	23	51	7	.227	.265	.283	.548	67.8	70.5	.263	-1.8
1905	12	51	41	1	6	1	0	0	5	6	5	0	.146	.255	.171	.426	44.7	35.2	.228	-0.3

Career totals

1,265

5,307

4,928

681

1,380

198

236th-most career 3B

RBI

693

219

429

192

396th-most career SB

.2800

OBP

.3180

SLG

.3793

OPS

.6973

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
1904-09-20	ATH @ BOS Gameday	3	3	3	1	2	0	1	1	8
1903-07-31	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1903-05-24	BOS @ CWS Gameday	5	0	5	1	0	0	2	0	6
1901-08-10	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	0	4	0	6
1901-06-18	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-24	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.