MLB / Players

Lee Handley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 160 lb

BornJuly 13, 1913 · Clarion, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1936

Final gameSeptember 28, 1947

Seasons10 (1936–1947)

Cincinnati Reds 1936; Pittsburgh Pirates 1937–1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1944–1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

124

40.3

509

459

42.4

132

49.6

38.8

41.7

RBI

29.5

39.6

94.2

36.7

.288

63.3

OBP

.338

38.1

SLG

.344

28.1

OPS

.682

31.7

wRC+

91.9

31.7

OPS+

92.4

32.4

wOBA

.324

30.2

sWAR

1.3

44.6

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

82.6

13.3

OPS+

83.9

14.5

sWAR

5.6

80.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1936	24	86	78	10	24	1	0	2	8	7	16	3	.308	.365	.397	.762	111.0	110.1	.355	0.4
1937	127	522	480	59	120	21	12	3	37	37	40	5	.250	.305	.363	.668	79.7	81.6	.309	0.6
1938	139	629	570	91	153	25	8	6	51	53	31	7	.268	.332	.372	.704	93.0	93.2	.328	1.7
1939	101	421	376	43	107	14	5	1	42	32	20	17	.285	.341	.356	.697	88.3	88.4	.327	0.9
1940	98	335	302	50	85	7	4	1	19	27	16	7	.281	.340	.341	.681	89.4	88.6	.321	0.8
1941	124	509	459	59	132	18	4	0	33	35	22	16	.288	.338	.344	.682	91.9	92.4	.324	1.3
1944	40	93	86	7	19	2	0	0	5	3	5	1	.221	.247	.244	.491	27.3	36.3	.234	-0.4
1945	98	340	312	39	93	16	2	1	32	20	16	7	.298	.340	.372	.712	92.7	94.4	.337	0.9
1946	116	456	416	43	99	8	7	1	28	29	20	4	.238	.289	.298	.587	57.6	64.1	.283	-0.6
1947	101	306	277	17	70	10	3	0	42	24	18	1	.253	.312	.310	.623	66.5	67.9	.295	-0.1

Career totals

968

3,697

3,356

418

902

122

RBI

297

267

204

.2688

OBP

.3232

SLG

.3454

OPS

.6686

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
1946-05-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	6	1	4	0	1	0	3	0	6
1941-08-24	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	6
1938-06-16	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	4	0	6
1937-05-02	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1938-06-18	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	3	2	1	0	1	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-17	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-18	CIN @ CHC 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.