Lance Niekro
San Francisco Giants 2003; San Francisco Giants 2005–2007
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .600 | 43.8 | 52.8 | .254 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 113 | 302 | 278 | 32 | 70 | 16 | 3 | 12 | 46 | 17 | 53 | 0 | 2 | .252 | .295 | .460 | .755 | 91.3 | 94.3 | .327 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 66 | 210 | 199 | 27 | 49 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 11 | 32 | 0 | 0 | .246 | .286 | .387 | .673 | 70.0 | 71.4 | .296 | -0.6 |
| 2007 | 11 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .222 | .176 | .399 | -1.3 | 5.2 | .191 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-05-30 | SF @ MIA Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2005-06-05 | SF @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2005-05-01 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2005-06-30 | SF @ AZ Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2005-04-18 | SF @ SD Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.