Lem McDougal
Indianapolis ABCs 1917; Chicago American Giants 1919; Chicago Giants 1920
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 6 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .091 | .258 | -9.8 | -15.9 | .146 | -0.3 |
| 1919 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 327.2 | — | .765 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .667 | .833 | 123.8 | 148.2 | .371 | -1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 13 | 18 | 1 | 29.3 | 3.38 | 1.432 | 5.52 | 2.68 | 121.3 | 65.5 | -0.3 |
| 1919 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3.3 | 8.10 | 2.400 | 5.40 | 5.77 | 175.7 | 40.5 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 15.3 | 10.57 | 2.543 | 2.93 | 5.27 | 146.7 | 34.0 | -1.0 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-30 | CHG @ DTS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1920-05-02 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-02 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-09 | CHG @ CAG Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-29 | CHG @ DTS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-30 | CHG @ DTS Gameday | 7.2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| 1920-06-29 | CHG @ KCM Gameday | 5.0 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 1920-06-14 | CHG @ DAY Gameday | 2.1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-06-28 | CHG @ KCM Gameday | 0.1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-02 | CHG @ ABC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.