MLB / Players

Lefty Phillips

HandednessThrows Left
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 182 lb
BornMay 24, 1917 · Nashville, TN, USA
Seasons3 (1939–1941)

Baltimore Elite Giants 1939–1941

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
-0.2
26.7

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
193931000000010001.000310.9.758-0.5
194032101000000001.0001.0001.0002.000393.8421.8.9350.2
19411220000000000.000.000.000.000-86.4-100.0.0000.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19393101000873502.031.505.50022.503.2867.715.4-0.5
19402000000314103.72.451.9092.456.76129.4212.70.2
19411100000502103.00.002.3333.004.97112.70.1

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

G
7
PA
5
AB
3
R
0
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
1
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.3333
OBP
.5000
SLG
.3333
OPS
.8333

Pitching

G (P)
6
GS
2
W
0
L
1
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
9
SO (P)
7
BB allowed
9
ERA
8.308
WHIP
2.8846
K/9
7.27

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.