Lefty Wilson
Kansas City Monarchs 1936; Washington Elite Giants 1936; Kansas City Monarchs 1937; Memphis Red Sox 1937–1940; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -71.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -29.6 | -49.6 | .084 | 1.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -76.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.8 |
| 1939 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .300 | .600 | 73.1 | 74.7 | .283 | 0.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -15.7 | -24.6 | .121 | 0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 22.3 | 6.04 | 1.478 | 3.22 | 5.06 | 104.5 | 80.2 | -0.2 |
| 1937 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 50 | 16 | 12 | 37 | 0 | 53.3 | 2.70 | 1.163 | 6.24 | 3.37 | 75.4 | 165.8 | 1.2 |
| 1938 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 17 | 15 | 37 | 0 | 50.0 | 3.06 | 1.220 | 6.66 | 3.47 | 81.3 | 139.3 | 0.8 |
| 1939 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 31.3 | 3.45 | 1.340 | 4.88 | 3.09 | 78.2 | 114.9 | 0.5 |
| 1940 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 14 | 12 | 22 | 1 | 39.7 | 3.18 | 1.160 | 4.99 | 3.93 | 95.2 | 130.0 | 0.7 |
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
Pitching
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-16 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1939-06-14 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1937-05-13 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1937-06-21 | SLS @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1940-04-07 | BEG @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-06-06 | BBB @ MEM Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 0 |
| 1937-08-29 | MEM @ CIN Gameday | 8.0 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1937-05-22 | CIN @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1939-05-07 | CAG @ MEM Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1937-07-18 | MEM @ CIN Gameday | 10.1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 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.