Jim Lindeman
St. Louis Cardinals 1986–1989; Detroit Tigers 1990; Philadelphia Phillies 1991–1992; Houston Astros 1993; New York Mets 1994
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 19 | 58 | 55 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | .255 | .276 | .327 | .603 | 64.2 | 67.9 | .277 | -0.2 |
| 1987 | 75 | 227 | 207 | 20 | 43 | 13 | 0 | 8 | 28 | 11 | 56 | 3 | 1 | .208 | .253 | .386 | .640 | 62.3 | 66.4 | .283 | -0.7 |
| 1988 | 17 | 46 | 43 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .244 | .372 | .617 | 72.4 | 75.2 | .282 | -0.1 |
| 1989 | 73 | 50 | 45 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .163 | .133 | .297 | -24.0 | -15.0 | .149 | -1.0 |
| 1990 | 12 | 34 | 32 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .265 | .438 | .702 | 89.3 | 92.3 | .314 | -0.1 |
| 1991 | 65 | 111 | 95 | 13 | 32 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .337 | .413 | .389 | .802 | 134.6 | 128.2 | .375 | 0.7 |
| 1992 | 29 | 42 | 39 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .310 | .359 | .668 | 90.5 | 88.8 | .313 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 9 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .348 | .348 | .478 | .826 | 124.2 | 123.3 | .368 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 52 | 145 | 137 | 18 | 37 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 6 | 35 | 0 | 0 | .270 | .303 | .496 | .800 | 101.0 | 105.8 | .341 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-04-11 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1994-08-08 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1994-06-28 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1994-05-21 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1987-08-10 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.