Lenn Sakata
Milwaukee Brewers 1977–1979; Baltimore Orioles 1980–1985; Oakland Athletics 1986; New York Yankees 1987
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 53 | 169 | 154 | 13 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 22 | 1 | 3 | .162 | .209 | .214 | .423 | 11.3 | 16.1 | .199 | -1.1 |
| 1978 | 30 | 86 | 78 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .192 | .267 | .244 | .511 | 41.5 | 45.4 | .243 | -0.3 |
| 1979 | 4 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .643 | 1.143 | 216.8 | 208.1 | .511 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 43 | 90 | 83 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 1 | .193 | .244 | .313 | .558 | 51.1 | 53.8 | .256 | -0.2 |
| 1981 | 61 | 164 | 150 | 19 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 18 | 4 | 0 | .227 | .282 | .353 | .636 | 83.0 | 83.8 | .295 | 0.5 |
| 1982 | 136 | 389 | 343 | 40 | 89 | 18 | 1 | 6 | 31 | 30 | 39 | 7 | 4 | .259 | .323 | .370 | .693 | 91.5 | 91.5 | .314 | 1.4 |
| 1983 | 66 | 152 | 134 | 23 | 34 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 8 | 4 | .254 | .338 | .373 | .711 | 103.4 | 98.6 | .329 | 0.7 |
| 1984 | 81 | 168 | 157 | 23 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 4 | 1 | .191 | .221 | .255 | .476 | 23.7 | 33.3 | .212 | -0.8 |
| 1985 | 55 | 105 | 97 | 15 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 2 | .227 | .279 | .351 | .629 | 73.6 | 73.5 | .285 | 0.1 |
| 1986 | 17 | 38 | 34 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .353 | .395 | .412 | .807 | 128.9 | 127.5 | .364 | 0.3 |
| 1987 | 19 | 48 | 45 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .267 | .313 | .444 | .757 | 99.6 | 99.4 | .331 | 0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-09-20 | MIL @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 1981-10-01 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1985-05-24 | BAL @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1981-09-06 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1984-08-09 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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.