Hal Lanier
San Francisco Giants 1964–1971; New York Yankees 1972–1973
Percentile snapshot
1969 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 98 | 401 | 383 | 40 | 105 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 5 | 44 | 2 | 1 | .274 | .283 | .347 | .630 | 73.8 | 76.3 | .285 | 0.3 |
| 1965 | 159 | 556 | 522 | 41 | 118 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 39 | 21 | 67 | 2 | 1 | .226 | .256 | .289 | .545 | 47.0 | 52.9 | .248 | -1.4 |
| 1966 | 149 | 484 | 459 | 37 | 106 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 37 | 16 | 49 | 1 | 0 | .231 | .256 | .290 | .546 | 42.3 | 51.2 | .243 | -1.3 |
| 1967 | 151 | 557 | 525 | 37 | 112 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 42 | 16 | 61 | 2 | 2 | .213 | .239 | .255 | .494 | 38.2 | 43.4 | .231 | -1.4 |
| 1968 | 151 | 518 | 486 | 37 | 100 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 12 | 57 | 2 | 2 | .206 | .222 | .239 | .461 | 29.8 | 39.3 | .218 | -1.6 |
| 1969 | 150 | 537 | 495 | 37 | 113 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 25 | 68 | 0 | 1 | .228 | .263 | .251 | .514 | 39.9 | 46.3 | .241 | -1.3 |
| 1970 | 134 | 463 | 438 | 33 | 101 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 21 | 41 | 1 | 2 | .231 | .265 | .279 | .543 | 42.4 | 47.0 | .250 | -1.1 |
| 1971 | 109 | 227 | 206 | 21 | 48 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 15 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .283 | .286 | .569 | 57.1 | 62.9 | .264 | -0.2 |
| 1972 | 60 | 107 | 103 | 5 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 2 | .214 | .234 | .243 | .476 | 34.7 | 44.5 | .226 | -0.3 |
| 1973 | 35 | 90 | 86 | 9 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .244 | .244 | .489 | 37.0 | 41.1 | .232 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-06-21 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1966-06-05 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1966-09-05 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1967-08-29 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1966-08-20 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
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.