MLB / Players

Jimmy Lavender

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornMarch 26, 1884 · Barnesville, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1912

Final gameOctober 3, 1917

Seasons6 (1912–1917)

Chicago Cubs 1912–1916; Philadelphia Phillies 1917

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified pitchers

45.6

56.7

37.8

21.1

61.1

22.2

SHO

163

61.1

52.2

44.4

54.4

43.3

188.0

44.4

ERA

2.82

34.4

WHIP

1.197

48.9

K/9

4.36

67.8

FIP

2.68

55.6

FIP-

101.6

35.6

ERA+

93.3

25.6

sWAR

1.2

27.8

of 91 qualified 1916 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.0

22.3

sWAR

8.7

85.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1912	42	95	87	6	13	3	0	5	5	34	0	.149	.196	.184	.380	2.5	4.8	.188	3.1
1913	40	71	68	2	8	1	0	1	0	30	0	.118	.118	.132	.250	-42.9	-28.7	.117	0.4
1914	37	74	63	8	11	3	1	5	6	25	2	.175	.268	.254	.522	56.6	55.2	.263	1.6
1915	41	70	67	1	9	3	0	0	1	31	0	.134	.147	.179	.326	-20.6	-3.7	.155	2.7
1916	36	58	53	1	8	1	0	0	2	21	0	.151	.182	.170	.352	-5.3	7.7	.172	1.2
1917	28	40	36	1	5	1	0	2	2	14	0	.139	.184	.167	.351	-3.4	6.6	.175	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	42	31	16	13	3	15	3	240	85	89	109	8	251.7	3.04	1.307	3.90	3.47	103.7	110.2	3.1
1913	40	20	10	14	2	10	0	206	83	98	91	6	204.0	3.66	1.490	4.01	3.74	117.1	87.3	0.4
1914	37	28	11	11	0	11	2	191	73	87	87	11	214.3	3.07	1.297	3.65	3.49	125.0	90.9	1.6
1915	41	24	10	16	4	13	1	178	63	67	117	5	220.0	2.58	1.114	4.79	2.64	92.0	111.2	2.7
1916	36	25	10	14	2	9	4	163	59	62	91	3	188.0	2.82	1.197	4.36	2.68	101.6	93.3	1.2
1917	28	14	6	8	1	7	0	119	51	44	52	5	129.3	3.55	1.260	3.62	3.17	114.6	78.0	-0.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

224

408

374

RBI

155

.1444

OBP

.1837

SLG

.1818

OPS

.3655

Pitching

G (P)

224

142

SHO

1,207

SO (P)

547

BB allowed

447

ERA

3.086

202nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2789

467th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.08

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	RBI	TB
1912-06-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	1	4
1914-07-10	ATL @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
1912-06-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2
1913-07-08	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
1913-08-20	CHC @ PHI Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1915-07-15	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	8	2	1	1	10
1912-09-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	8.2	11	8	5	3	10
1912-07-16	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	0	8
1915-08-31	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	1	8
1912-07-08	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	2	7

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.