Laymon Yokely

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornMay 30, 1906 · Smithfield, NC, USA

Seasons14 (1926–1944)

Baltimore Black Sox 1926–1932; Baltimore Sox 1933; Philadelphia Bacharach Giants 1934; Philadelphia Stars 1935–1937; Washington Black Senators 1938; Baltimore Elite Giants 1944

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

17.1

14.1

14.6

10.6

11.1

RBI

8.5

5.5

45.2

32.2

.176

OBP

.211

SLG

.206

OPS

.417

wRC+

15.8

OPS+

8.1

3.5

wOBA

.199

3.5

sWAR

4.7

92.5

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 21 PA)

1936 season — qualified pitchers

16.7

13.3

72.2

11.1

SHO

82.2

78.9

81.1

16.7

63.3

77.0

16.7

ERA

4.79

WHIP

1.455

46.7

K/9

4.44

73.3

FIP

5.50

5.6

FIP-

107.6

15.6

ERA+

106.6

42.2

sWAR

0.7

15.6

of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 73 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.1

65.1

sWAR

10.6

87.5

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1926	23	45	42	2	6	3	0	0	4	1	4	0	.143	.163	.214	.377	4.9	2.6	.177	1.2
1927	35	59	52	1	4	0	0	0	2	3	0	0	.077	.143	.077	.220	-28.5	-41.2	.121	2.2
1928	22	74	68	5	12	2	0	0	4	2	5	0	.176	.211	.206	.417	15.8	8.1	.199	4.7
1929	30	87	78	5	15	1	0	1	7	2	1	1	.192	.213	.244	.456	16.0	11.1	.212	5.1
1930	11	27	23	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.087	.160	.087	.247	-24.5	-41.3	.134	0.9
1931	14	25	24	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.208	.208	.208	.417	19.3	14.5	.192	-0.7
1932	8	11	11	2	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.182	.182	.455	.636	62.6	73.1	.281	-0.4
1933	6	17	17	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.059	.059	.118	.176	-43.7	-53.0	.076	-1.6
1934	5	15	14	1	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	.143	.200	.143	.343	9.4	-3.0	.177	-0.6
1935	3	7	6	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	133.6	145.8	.428	0.9
1936	17	34	31	1	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.097	.125	.097	.222	-31.6	-42.7	.111	0.7
1937	6	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-24.6	-35.4	.114	-0.5
1938	5	8	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.286	.375	.286	.661	86.4	76.7	.325	-0.9
1944	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-89.3	-100.0	.000	-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
1926	23	16	5	10	0	7	0	130	61	57	61	7	126.0	4.36	1.484	4.36	4.69	104.8	102.7	1.2
1927	35	18	10	9	3	8	2	146	71	68	69	9	164.7	3.88	1.300	3.77	4.66	101.7	118.1	2.2
1928	22	20	12	6	0	17	2	140	58	68	103	4	175.3	2.98	1.186	5.29	4.36	82.9	176.8	4.7
1929	30	25	17	8	1	18	1	202	89	93	99	6	213.3	3.75	1.383	4.18	5.02	92.1	145.1	5.1
1930	11	9	2	4	0	3	0	74	37	23	34	4	67.3	4.95	1.441	4.54	5.47	101.5	108.9	0.9
1931	14	10	2	8	1	5	0	88	42	20	34	7	68.7	5.50	1.573	4.46	4.50	122.5	66.8	-0.7
1932	8	5	1	2	0	1	0	40	22	18	10	1	29.7	6.67	1.955	3.03	5.27	126.1	62.6	-0.4
1933	6	4	0	5	0	3	0	54	40	21	21	4	41.7	8.64	1.800	4.54	5.67	131.6	49.9	-1.6
1934	5	4	0	4	0	2	0	40	25	14	15	2	33.0	6.82	1.636	4.09	5.22	115.7	66.2	-0.6
1935	3	2	2	0	0	2	1	13	2	6	9	0	18.0	1.00	1.056	4.50	4.05	79.5	509.9	0.9
1936	16	10	5	5	0	4	0	82	41	30	38	7	77.0	4.79	1.455	4.44	5.50	107.6	106.6	0.7
1937	6	3	0	3	0	2	0	29	20	16	13	5	22.7	7.94	1.985	5.16	8.13	163.0	62.8	-0.5
1938	5	4	0	4	0	0	0	30	22	9	8	1	17.0	11.65	2.294	4.24	5.73	113.3	43.4	-0.9
1944	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	6	2	3	0	3.0	18.00	3.000	9.00	3.74	86.6	24.0	-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

186

419

383

RBI

.1488

OBP

.1809

SLG

.1880

OPS

.3689

Pitching

G (P)

185

130

SHO

1,057

SO (P)

517

BB allowed

445

ERA

4.562

WHIP

1.4376

K/9

4.40

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	TB
1935-08-18	NE @ PHS Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2	4
1932-06-06	CLS @ BBS Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1934-06-24	PBG @ ND Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2	2
1933-05-31	BBS @ IND Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	2
1936-05-10	HOM @ PHS Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-07-14	PBG @ CAG Gameday	9.0	11	8	7	5	9	2
1937-07-22	HOM @ PHS Gameday	8.0	8	9	7	9	8	1
1936-07-11	NBY @ PHS Gameday	7.1	5	3	2	2	7	0
1936-07-18	HOM @ PHS Gameday	4.2	2	2	1	3	6	0
1935-08-14	PHS @ TIC Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	4	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.