MLB / Players

Lefty Bell

HandednessThrows Left
Born1921
Seasons1 (1948–1948)

Homestead Grays 1948

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.0
38.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19485220000000000.000.000.000.000-101.0-100.0.0000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19485000000844308.34.321.4403.243.88109.282.10.0

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

G
5
PA
2
AB
2
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.0000
OBP
.0000
SLG
.0000
OPS
.0000

Pitching

G (P)
5
GS
0
W
0
L
0
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
8
SO (P)
3
BB allowed
4
ERA
4.320
WHIP
1.4400
K/9
3.24

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1948-04-25BEG @ HOM Gameday000000000
1948-04-29BEG @ HOM Gameday000000000
1948-05-02HOM @ NYC Gameday000000000
1948-05-09HOM @ NE Gameday000000000
1948-05-11HOM @ BEG Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1948-06-20PHS @ HOM Gameday1.0100020
1948-07-04NE @ HOM Gameday3.0222310
1948-04-25BEG @ HOM Gameday2.0100000
1948-07-05HOM @ BEG Gameday2.0422100
1948-06-27NYC @ HOM Gameday0.1000000

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.