Jim Lentine
St. Louis Cardinals 1978–1979; Detroit Tigers 1980; St. Louis Cardinals 1980
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .182 | .250 | .182 | .432 | 11.6 | 16.7 | .219 | -0.1 |
| 1979 | 11 | 26 | 23 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .391 | .462 | .435 | .896 | 158.9 | 145.7 | .423 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 76 | 205 | 171 | 20 | 43 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 28 | 32 | 2 | 1 | .251 | .363 | .327 | .691 | 98.7 | 91.2 | .331 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-06-08 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1980-07-30 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1980-06-06 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1980-09-27 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 1978-09-24 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
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.