LeRoy Taylor
Birmingham Black Barons 1925; Chicago American Giants 1925; Indianapolis ABCs 1926; Kansas City Monarchs 1928–1930; Homestead Grays 1932; Kansas City Monarchs 1932; Indianapolis ABCs/Detroit Stars 1933; Cleveland Red Sox 1934; Kansas City Monarchs 1935–1936
Percentile snapshot
1936 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 46 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 21 | 81 | 72 | 12 | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .292 | .363 | .347 | .710 | 95.7 | 91.7 | .334 | 0.2 |
| 1926 | 68 | 311 | 289 | 51 | 82 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 18 | 0 | 8 | 0 | .284 | .330 | .329 | .659 | 73.5 | 70.3 | .310 | 0.0 |
| 1928 | 75 | 304 | 277 | 44 | 77 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | .278 | .320 | .292 | .612 | 71.6 | 68.1 | .291 | -0.4 |
| 1929 | 73 | 302 | 271 | 60 | 96 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 51 | 16 | 1 | 34 | 1 | .354 | .394 | .469 | .863 | 121.5 | 124.2 | .392 | 1.6 |
| 1930 | 58 | 238 | 215 | 42 | 61 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 0 | .284 | .336 | .381 | .718 | 91.8 | 90.6 | .331 | 0.4 |
| 1932 | 39 | 165 | 154 | 22 | 47 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .305 | .331 | .377 | .708 | 91.7 | 94.3 | .335 | 0.2 |
| 1933 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .412 | .444 | .824 | 1.268 | 216.7 | 239.0 | .545 | 0.3 |
| 1934 | 20 | 77 | 73 | 17 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .342 | .377 | .438 | .815 | 123.3 | 128.0 | .382 | 0.5 |
| 1935 | 12 | 52 | 44 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .295 | .392 | .409 | .801 | 119.4 | 118.6 | .369 | 0.3 |
| 1936 | 11 | 46 | 41 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .366 | .422 | .537 | .959 | 147.6 | 163.8 | .439 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-05-01 | CAG @ IND Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1930-06-28 | KCM @ DTS Gameday | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1930-05-12 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1934-07-22 | CRS @ ND Gameday | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1934-07-22 | CRS @ ND Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-05-10 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-11 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-11 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-12 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1930-05-14 | KCM @ BEG 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.