MLB / Players

Lem Cross

HandednessThrows Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 155 lb
BornJanuary 9, 1872 · Sanbornton, NH, USA
MLB debutAugust 6, 1893
Final gameAugust 6, 1894
Seasons2 (1893–1894)

Cincinnati Reds 1893–1894

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
-0.7
9.8

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
18933861200002100.333.500.333.833133.0123.0.4330.1
1894927263611041400.231.259.346.60550.044.7.277-0.8

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
18933302020241397321.05.571.5713.005.72122.783.70.1
1894873403094502111953.08.492.1701.877.08132.962.7-0.8

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
12
PA
35
AB
32
R
4
H
8
2B
1
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
4
BB
3
SO
5
SB
0
BA
.2500
OBP
.3143
SLG
.3438
OPS
.6581

Pitching

G (P)
11
GS
10
W
3
L
6
SV
0
CG
5
SHO
0
IP
74
SO (P)
18
BB allowed
30
ERA
7.662
WHIP
2.0000
K/9
2.19

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.