Joe Lillard
Chicago American Giants 1932–1934; Chicago American Giants 1937; Cincinnati Tigers 1937
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 12 | 25 | 24 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .240 | .208 | .448 | 41.8 | 37.2 | .221 | 0.3 |
| 1933 | 13 | 39 | 38 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .395 | .410 | .658 | 1.068 | 174.1 | 187.3 | .469 | 0.3 |
| 1934 | 35 | 130 | 120 | 11 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .238 | .242 | .480 | 40.0 | 34.7 | .232 | -1.2 |
| 1937 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .750 | .750 | 1.000 | 1.750 | 332.6 | 380.3 | .791 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 23.7 | 3.04 | 1.099 | 4.56 | 3.06 | 82.0 | 122.5 | 0.3 |
| 1933 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 27.0 | 6.00 | 1.667 | 4.67 | 4.59 | 106.5 | 71.8 | 0.3 |
| 1934 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 6.0 | 12.00 | 2.167 | 9.00 | 5.24 | 116.0 | 37.6 | -1.2 |
| 1937 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7.7 | 12.91 | 2.478 | 1.17 | 8.39 | 187.4 | 34.7 | -0.4 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-08-24 | TIC @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1934-06-03 | CAG @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1937-06-29 | DTS @ CAG Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1934-07-26 | TIC @ CAG Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1933-06-03 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-06-03 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 8.0 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| 1934-06-25 | CAG @ BEG Gameday | 3.0 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 1933-04-29 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1933-07-05 | CAG @ CBB Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1933-05-01 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 3.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 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.