John Lyles
Indianapolis ABCs 1932; Homestead Grays 1934; Indianapolis ABCs 1938; Chicago American Giants 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939; St. Louis Stars 1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940; Chicago American Giants 1941; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1941; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943
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 | 7 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .211 | .167 | .377 | 23.5 | 15.6 | .190 | -0.1 |
| 1934 | 12 | 46 | 43 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .326 | .370 | .372 | .742 | 111.8 | 111.7 | .341 | 0.3 |
| 1938 | 20 | 72 | 63 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | .254 | .329 | .333 | .662 | 94.0 | 91.0 | .319 | 0.2 |
| 1939 | 24 | 105 | 99 | 13 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | .283 | .324 | .343 | .667 | 93.6 | 93.3 | .318 | 0.3 |
| 1940 | 28 | 117 | 102 | 21 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .275 | .345 | .324 | .669 | 102.3 | 101.7 | .335 | 0.5 |
| 1941 | 16 | 67 | 62 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .258 | .313 | .339 | .652 | 93.5 | 93.2 | .316 | 0.3 |
| 1942 | 30 | 109 | 90 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .189 | .318 | .222 | .540 | 76.9 | 62.4 | .280 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -5.2 | -20.2 | .143 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-07-07 | JRC @ HSL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1938-06-10 | HSL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1939-06-15 | JRC @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1942-07-19 | HOM @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1942-07-10 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-04-23 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-24 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-25 | IND @ CAG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-30 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-01 | BEG @ IND Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.