Lee Grissom

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornOctober 23, 1907 · Sherman, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1934

Final gameSeptember 24, 1941

Seasons8 (1934–1941)

Cincinnati Reds 1934–1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; New York Yankees 1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941; Philadelphia Phillies 1941

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

95.8

77.1

58.3

8.3

97.9

68.8

SHO

95.8

193

44.8

12.5

149

95.8

59.4

223.7

78.1

ERA

3.26

WHIP

1.279

70.8

K/9

6.00

90.6

FIP

3.33

91.7

FIP-

88.7

ERA+

115.1

61.5

sWAR

3.1

70.8

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1934	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.2	-100.0	.000	-0.8
1935	3	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.3	-100.0	.000	0.1
1936	6	10	9	2	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	.000	.100	.000	.100	-68.7	-70.3	.075	-0.5
1937	51	74	64	2	7	0	0	0	4	20	0	.109	.162	.109	.271	-27.9	-23.5	.139	3.1
1938	14	16	16	1	3	0	0	1	0	4	0	.188	.188	.188	.375	-7.7	5.1	.173	-0.5
1939	33	54	47	5	4	0	1	1	2	18	0	.085	.157	.128	.285	-30.8	-22.1	.147	0.9
1940	19	24	23	1	5	0	0	0	1	11	0	.217	.250	.217	.467	20.1	27.7	.223	2.0
1941	33	43	38	2	7	1	0	2	0	7	0	.184	.205	.211	.416	6.8	17.4	.197	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1934	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	13	12	7	4	0	7.0	15.43	2.857	5.14	4.94	123.3	26.0	-0.8
1935	3	3	1	1	0	1	0	31	9	4	13	0	21.0	3.86	1.667	5.57	2.35	59.7	102.3	0.1
1936	6	4	1	1	0	0	0	33	17	9	13	1	24.3	6.29	1.726	4.81	3.62	94.5	60.9	-0.5
1937	50	30	12	17	6	14	5	193	81	93	149	7	223.7	3.26	1.279	6.00	3.33	88.7	115.1	3.1
1938	14	7	2	3	0	0	0	60	30	22	16	4	51.0	5.29	1.608	2.82	4.54	123.8	69.3	-0.5
1939	33	21	9	7	0	3	0	145	70	56	53	14	153.7	4.10	1.308	3.10	4.42	114.6	94.0	0.9
1940	19	10	2	5	0	3	1	63	23	36	57	3	78.3	2.64	1.264	6.55	3.18	79.4	151.5	2.0
1941	33	19	2	13	1	2	0	130	61	78	79	6	142.7	3.85	1.458	4.98	3.69	102.0	93.8	1.0

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

163

230

205

RBI

.1268

OBP

.1713

SLG

.1415

OPS

.3128

Pitching

G (P)

162

SHO

702

SO (P)

384

BB allowed

305

ERA

3.886

WHIP

1.3867

K/9

4.93

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	RBI	TB
1939-09-29	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	4
1941-06-09	PIT @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
1941-05-18	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	2	1
1938-08-24	PHI @ CIN Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1	1
1937-05-10	CIN @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1937-07-27	ATL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	1	11
1940-09-29	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	6	11
1937-05-15	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	2	2	0	2	8
1937-09-06	CIN @ CHC Gameday	8.0	1	2	1	3	8
1937-06-30	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5.1	6	5	5	2	8

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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.