MLB / Players

Lee Richmond

HandednessThrows Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 155 lb

BornMay 5, 1857 · Sheffield, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 27, 1879

Final gameOctober 4, 1886

Seasons6 (1879–1886)

Boston Red Caps 1879; Worcester Ruby Legs 1880–1882; Providence Grays 1883; Cincinnati Red Stockings 1886

Percentile snapshot

1881 season — qualified batters

1.8

262

252

5.5

7.3

1.8

10.9

RBI

30.9

32.7

.250

29.1

OBP

.279

30.9

SLG

.278

10.9

OPS

.556

14.5

wRC+

80.4

16.4

OPS+

74.3

14.5

wOBA

.259

16.4

sWAR

1.9

56.4

of 56 qualified 1881 batters (min 257 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

1882 season — qualified pitchers

81.3

40.6

78.1

SHO

525

3.1

171

3.1

123

65.6

3.1

411.0

78.1

ERA

3.74

15.6

WHIP

1.491

6.3

K/9

2.69

53.1

FIP

3.24

15.6

FIP-

112.4

ERA+

77.0

18.8

sWAR

1.5

34.4

of 33 qualified 1882 pitchers (min 84 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

87.6

3.5

sWAR

12.3

89.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1879	1	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	113.4	120.0	.301	0.2
1880	77	318	309	44	70	8	4	0	34	9	32	.227	.248	.278	.527	82.6	77.1	.240	7.4
1881	61	262	252	31	63	5	1	0	28	10	10	.250	.279	.278	.556	80.4	74.3	.259	1.9
1882	55	237	228	50	64	8	9	2	28	9	11	.281	.308	.421	.729	122.5	131.2	.324	1.5
1883	49	209	194	41	55	8	6	1	19	15	19	.284	.335	.402	.737	116.6	121.3	.329	1.8
1886	8	32	29	3	8	0	0	0	3	3	0	.276	.344	.276	.620	99.9	95.6	.308	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1879	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	4	2	1	11	0	9.0	2.00	.556	11.00	0.63	25.2	124.8	0.2
1880	74	66	32	32	3	57	5	541	141	74	243	7	590.7	2.15	1.041	3.70	2.24	94.3	110.5	7.4
1881	53	52	25	26	0	50	3	547	174	68	156	7	462.3	3.39	1.330	3.04	2.65	95.5	81.9	1.9
1882	48	46	14	33	0	44	0	525	171	88	123	11	411.0	3.74	1.491	2.69	3.24	112.4	77.0	1.5
1883	12	12	3	7	0	8	0	122	34	27	13	2	92.0	3.33	1.620	1.27	4.13	131.7	94.3	1.8
1886	3	2	0	2	0	1	0	24	16	11	6	0	18.0	8.00	1.944	3.00	4.62	134.2	43.0	-0.5

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

251

1,064

1,018

169

262

RBI

113

.2574

OBP

.2895

SLG

.3340

OPS

.6235

Pitching

G (P)

191

179

100

161

198th-most career CG

SHO

1,583

SO (P)

552

BB allowed

269

ERA

3.059

191st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2836

486th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.14

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.