Lee Meadows

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 12, 1894 · Oxford, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1915

Final gameApril 29, 1929

Seasons15 (1915–1929)

St. Louis Cardinals 1915–1918; Philadelphia Phillies 1919; St. Louis Cardinals 1919; Philadelphia Phillies 1920–1923; Pittsburgh Pirates 1923–1929

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified pitchers

83.7

100

89.9

41.1

97.7

SHO

65.9

315

113

36.4

81.4

19.4

299.3

96.9

ERA

3.40

65.9

WHIP

1.273

73.6

K/9

2.53

FIP

3.65

FIP-

88.7

80.6

ERA+

121.1

69.8

sWAR

4.9

88.4

of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.7

60.1

sWAR

35.4

97.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	39	91	83	2	8	0	0	0	4	7	31	0	.096	.167	.096	.263	-25.0	-19.8	.143	1.2
1916	51	98	95	3	15	3	2	0	4	0	32	0	.158	.158	.232	.389	-0.6	17.8	.180	2.9
1917	43	97	89	5	9	1	0	0	4	1	32	0	.101	.111	.112	.223	-49.5	-31.1	.108	0.4
1918	31	59	55	5	7	1	1	0	2	2	17	0	.127	.158	.182	.340	-7.2	4.4	.166	-0.5
1919	43	88	80	5	9	1	0	0	1	1	19	0	.113	.145	.125	.270	-37.0	-20.4	.135	3.3
1920	39	87	82	3	14	2	0	0	4	3	18	0	.171	.200	.195	.395	-4.2	9.7	.191	3.7
1921	28	70	62	9	13	1	0	3	8	4	18	0	.210	.258	.371	.629	49.3	56.9	.284	1.8
1922	33	93	86	8	27	4	0	0	5	1	25	0	.314	.330	.360	.690	63.3	67.9	.319	4.2
1923	39	103	98	11	26	4	3	1	17	2	19	1	.265	.280	.398	.678	69.5	74.7	.306	3.5
1924	36	84	82	5	16	1	3	0	3	0	14	0	.195	.195	.280	.476	15.0	26.5	.213	3.6
1925	35	110	97	10	17	3	0	1	7	7	21	0	.175	.238	.237	.475	15.4	19.4	.227	4.6
1926	36	93	88	11	20	0	0	0	9	2	5	0	.227	.261	.227	.488	25.4	30.3	.235	2.1
1927	40	122	115	3	18	0	1	0	6	4	20	0	.157	.185	.174	.359	-16.2	-5.9	.173	4.9
1928	4	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	166.2	158.7	.463	-0.3
1929	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	39	26	13	11	0	14	1	232	81	88	104	5	244.0	2.99	1.311	3.84	2.91	105.4	92.5	1.2
1916	51	36	12	23	2	11	1	261	83	119	120	3	289.0	2.58	1.315	3.74	2.99	112.5	102.8	2.9
1917	43	37	15	9	2	18	4	253	91	90	100	5	265.7	3.08	1.291	3.39	2.94	109.5	87.0	0.4
1918	30	23	8	14	1	12	0	176	66	56	49	1	165.3	3.59	1.403	2.67	2.98	109.9	75.5	-0.5
1919	40	29	12	20	0	18	4	228	72	79	116	5	250.3	2.59	1.226	4.17	2.83	93.7	117.8	3.3
1920	35	33	16	14	0	19	3	249	78	90	95	5	247.0	2.84	1.372	3.46	3.29	97.5	118.5	3.7
1921	28	27	11	16	0	15	2	226	93	62	52	10	194.3	4.31	1.482	2.41	4.14	99.8	96.4	1.8
1922	33	33	12	18	0	19	2	264	106	71	62	8	237.0	4.03	1.414	2.35	4.03	87.6	114.2	4.2
1923	39	30	17	13	1	17	1	290	105	59	76	3	246.7	3.83	1.415	2.77	3.23	79.7	105.7	3.5
1924	36	30	13	12	0	15	3	240	83	51	61	7	229.3	3.26	1.269	2.39	3.54	92.2	117.8	3.6
1925	35	31	19	10	1	20	1	272	104	67	87	11	255.3	3.67	1.328	3.07	3.87	87.1	121.1	4.6
1926	36	31	20	9	0	15	1	254	100	52	54	10	226.7	3.97	1.350	2.14	3.74	94.9	99.4	2.1
1927	40	38	19	10	0	25	2	315	113	66	84	11	299.3	3.40	1.273	2.53	3.65	88.7	121.1	4.9
1928	4	2	1	1	0	1	0	18	9	5	3	0	10.0	8.10	2.300	2.70	3.67	89.9	50.4	-0.3
1929	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	0	0.7	13.50	4.500	0.00	7.81	163.1	35.5	-0.1

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

498

1,200

1,117

201

RBI

272

.1799

OBP

.2083

SLG

.2301

OPS

.4384

Pitching

G (P)

490

470th-most career G (P)

406

134th-most career GS

188

152nd-most career W

180

74th-most career L

219

114th-most career CG

SHO

175th-most career SHO

3,161

117th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,063

BB allowed

956

132nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.374

357th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3402

K/9

3.03

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
1923-06-22	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	0	1	5
1921-04-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	4	5
1921-04-16	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	5
1917-07-12	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	4
1923-07-12	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1917-09-22	ATL @ STL Gameday	14.0	10	0	0	0	10	0
1919-07-30	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	1	10	0
1919-09-15	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	3	1	3	10	0
1915-07-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	7.0	10	4	3	4	9	2
1919-07-17	STL @ PHI Gameday	12.0	4	0	0	3	8	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.