Lance McCullers
San Diego Padres 1985–1988; New York Yankees 1989; Detroit Tigers 1990; New York Yankees 1990; Texas Rangers 1992
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 76 | 28 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .091 | .200 | .182 | .382 | 8.3 | 7.4 | .195 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 78 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .133 | .071 | .205 | -48.1 | -42.8 | .110 | 1.5 |
| 1988 | 60 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .583 | 80.1 | 72.1 | .290 | 2.2 |
| 1989 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 9 | 16 | 27 | 3 | 35.0 | 2.31 | 1.114 | 6.94 | 3.65 | 102.9 | 153.1 | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 70 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 103 | 42 | 58 | 92 | 12 | 136.0 | 2.78 | 1.184 | 6.09 | 3.91 | 106.6 | 131.8 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 78 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 51 | 59 | 126 | 11 | 123.3 | 3.72 | 1.411 | 9.19 | 3.47 | 87.3 | 106.7 | 1.5 |
| 1988 | 60 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 27 | 55 | 81 | 8 | 97.7 | 2.49 | 1.280 | 7.46 | 3.80 | 111.9 | 136.6 | 2.2 |
| 1989 | 52 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 43 | 37 | 82 | 9 | 84.7 | 4.57 | 1.417 | 8.72 | 3.71 | 95.7 | 84.8 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 20 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 15 | 19 | 31 | 4 | 44.7 | 3.02 | 1.142 | 6.25 | 3.86 | 97.2 | 131.4 | 0.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5.0 | 5.40 | 1.800 | 5.40 | 6.39 | 166.1 | 71.2 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-09-10 | ATL @ SD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1986-07-27 | SD @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1987-08-18 | SD @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1988-09-02 | SD @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1988-09-17 | SD @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-08-02 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 6.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| 1987-07-25 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 3.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1986-07-09 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 5.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| 1989-04-30 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 3.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1989-08-30 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 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.