Jim Lyttle
New York Yankees 1969–1971; Chicago White Sox 1972; Montreal Expos 1973–1975; Los Angeles Dodgers 1976; Montreal Expos 1976
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 28 | 87 | 83 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 2 | .181 | .218 | .229 | .447 | 22.6 | 28.4 | .214 | -0.5 |
| 1970 | 87 | 140 | 126 | 20 | 39 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 26 | 3 | 6 | .310 | .355 | .452 | .807 | 126.5 | 127.4 | .363 | 0.6 |
| 1971 | 49 | 97 | 86 | 7 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 2 | .198 | .271 | .291 | .562 | 51.6 | 60.3 | .259 | -0.4 |
| 1972 | 44 | 84 | 82 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 0 | 1 | .232 | .241 | .341 | .582 | 63.3 | 71.3 | .269 | -0.1 |
| 1973 | 49 | 130 | 116 | 12 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 2 | .259 | .305 | .422 | .727 | 91.2 | 97.2 | .323 | 0.3 |
| 1974 | 25 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .364 | .333 | .697 | 60.8 | 92.3 | .284 | -0.1 |
| 1975 | 44 | 70 | 55 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .406 | .345 | .751 | 108.3 | 106.8 | .354 | 0.3 |
| 1976 | 65 | 169 | 153 | 9 | 38 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 15 | 25 | 0 | 1 | .248 | .315 | .327 | .642 | 77.1 | 83.3 | .296 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-08-23 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1972-06-23 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1976-06-18 | LAD @ WSH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1970-09-23 | TEX @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1970-08-11 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 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.