Jim Lemon

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornMarch 23, 1928 · Covington, VA, USA

MLB debutAugust 20, 1950

Final gameSeptember 29, 1963

Seasons12 (1950–1963)

Cleveland Indians 1950; Cleveland Indians 1953; Washington Senators 1954–1960; Minnesota Twins 1961–1962; Chicago White Sox 1963; Minnesota Twins 1963; Philadelphia Phillies 1963

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

148

69.1

611

61.7

528

54.3

67.9

142

50.6

4.9

93.8

RBI

100

91.4

75.3

114

2.5

23.5

85.2

.269

38.3

OBP

.354

60.5

SLG

.508

86.4

OPS

.861

86.4

wRC+

124.7

76.5

OPS+

127.2

82.7

wOBA

.378

sWAR

3.1

61.7

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.5

62.7

OPS+

111.9

66.2

sWAR

13.0

89.6

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
1950	12	37	34	4	6	1	0	1	1	3	12	0	0	.176	.243	.294	.537	35.5	40.8	.253	-0.2
1953	16	49	46	5	8	1	0	1	5	3	15	0	0	.174	.224	.261	.485	25.9	33.8	.229	-0.4
1954	37	139	128	12	30	2	3	2	13	9	34	0	0	.234	.283	.344	.626	69.1	75.2	.291	-0.2
1955	10	28	25	3	5	2	0	1	3	3	4	0	0	.200	.286	.400	.686	81.8	83.8	.318	0.0
1956	146	613	538	77	146	21	11	27	96	65	138	2	4	.271	.349	.502	.850	120.6	122.6	.381	2.9
1957	137	576	518	58	147	23	6	17	64	49	94	1	7	.284	.345	.450	.795	114.8	114.2	.359	2.2
1958	142	555	501	65	123	15	9	26	75	50	120	2	4	.246	.314	.467	.781	111.0	112.2	.347	1.9
1959	147	584	531	73	148	18	3	33	100	46	99	5	2	.279	.334	.510	.844	127.3	128.3	.373	3.2
1960	148	611	528	81	142	10	1	38	100	67	114	2	0	.269	.354	.508	.861	124.7	127.2	.378	3.1
1961	129	479	423	57	109	26	1	14	52	44	98	1	1	.258	.329	.423	.752	95.1	96.5	.337	0.7
1962	12	21	17	1	3	0	0	1	5	3	4	0	0	.176	.286	.353	.639	66.4	68.8	.290	0.0
1963	74	178	156	10	34	2	1	3	15	21	55	0	0	.218	.309	.301	.610	78.8	77.0	.287	-0.2

Career totals

1,010

3,870

3,445

446

901

121

164

RBI

529

363

787

.2615

OBP

.3318

SLG

.4598

393rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7916

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	TB
1956-08-31	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	12
1959-06-14	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	2	11
1958-08-01	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	4	10
1959-09-05	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	7	10
1961-06-24	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-08-09	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-08-29	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-08-23	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-08-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-08-28	MIN @ ATH 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.

Honors

1× 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.