MLB / Players

Lee May

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornMarch 23, 1943 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 1965

Final gameSeptember 24, 1982

Seasons18 (1965–1982)

Cincinnati Reds 1965–1971; Houston Astros 1972–1974; Baltimore Orioles 1975–1980; Kansas City Royals 1981–1982

Percentile snapshot

1978 season — qualified batters

148

44.6

590

41.7

556

64.7

12.2

137

33.1

7.2

4.3

85.6

RBI

73.4

13.7

110

7.9

36.7

.246

10.1

OBP

.286

2.9

SLG

.414

51.1

OPS

.700

25.2

wRC+

96.9

27.3

OPS+

101.7

34.5

wOBA

.313

18.7

sWAR

0.1

2.2

of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.5

68.8

OPS+

116.8

74.3

sWAR

22.8

94.6

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	5	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1966	25	75	75	14	25	5	1	2	10	0	14	0	1	.333	.333	.507	.840	126.1	122.2	.371	0.4
1967	127	472	438	54	116	29	2	12	57	19	80	4	8	.265	.308	.422	.730	97.6	97.7	.332	0.4
1968	146	602	559	78	162	32	1	22	80	34	100	4	7	.290	.337	.469	.805	137.2	134.1	.366	3.2
1969	158	665	607	85	169	32	3	38	110	45	142	5	4	.278	.331	.529	.860	131.4	133.3	.381	3.3
1970	153	649	605	78	153	34	2	34	94	38	125	1	1	.253	.297	.484	.782	103.1	106.6	.344	1.1
1971	147	602	553	85	154	17	3	39	98	42	135	3	0	.278	.332	.532	.864	146.5	145.0	.387	4.1
1972	148	647	592	87	168	31	2	29	98	52	145	3	1	.284	.343	.490	.833	136.6	137.4	.373	3.6
1973	148	590	545	65	147	24	3	28	105	34	122	1	1	.270	.310	.479	.789	111.4	116.9	.347	1.5
1974	152	590	556	59	149	26	0	24	85	17	97	1	0	.268	.294	.444	.738	104.2	108.7	.335	1.0
1975	146	626	580	67	152	28	3	20	99	36	91	1	2	.262	.308	.424	.732	107.4	112.7	.330	1.4
1976	148	583	530	61	137	17	4	25	109	41	104	4	1	.258	.312	.447	.759	122.5	128.4	.343	2.0
1977	150	629	585	75	148	16	2	27	99	38	119	2	2	.253	.296	.426	.722	97.1	100.8	.317	0.6
1978	148	590	556	56	137	16	1	25	80	31	110	5	2	.246	.286	.414	.700	96.9	101.7	.313	0.1
1979	124	491	456	59	116	15	0	19	69	28	100	3	4	.254	.297	.412	.709	90.3	93.8	.313	-0.3
1980	78	239	222	20	54	10	2	7	31	15	53	2	0	.243	.289	.401	.690	87.0	89.5	.309	-0.3
1981	26	58	55	3	16	3	0	0	8	3	14	0	1	.291	.328	.345	.673	97.4	95.9	.316	0.1
1982	42	107	91	12	28	5	2	3	12	14	18	0	0	.308	.393	.505	.898	145.9	145.0	.395	0.7

Career totals

2,071

213th-most career G

8,219

255th-most career PA

7,609

201st-most career AB

959

408th-most career R

2,031

279th-most career H

340

345th-most career 2B

354

98th-most career HR

RBI

1,244

139th-most career RBI

487

1,570

63rd-most career SO

.2669

OBP

.3127

SLG

.4593

398th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7720

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	HR	RBI	TB
1973-06-21	HOU @ SD Gameday	5	4	4	0	3	5	13
1974-04-29	CHC @ HOU Gameday	5	3	5	0	2	4	11
1977-05-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	5	11
1978-06-26	BAL @ TOR Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	3	11
1970-08-15	PHI @ CIN Gameday	7	2	4	0	2	5	10

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

3× 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.