MLB / Players

Les Fleming

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 7, 1915 · Singleton, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1939

Final gameJune 9, 1949

Seasons7 (1939–1949)

Detroit Tigers 1939; Cleveland Indians 1941–1942; Cleveland Indians 1945–1947; Pittsburgh Pirates 1949

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

156

100

662

90.4

548

69.2

160

84.9

78.1

48.6

88.4

RBI

88.4

106

97.3

63.7

8.2

.292

74.7

OBP

.412

92.5

SLG

.432

78.1

OPS

.845

87.7

wRC+

148.7

89.7

OPS+

144.5

wOBA

.404

88.4

sWAR

4.8

91.1

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.8

85.5

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
1939	8	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1941	2	8	8	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.375	.625	58.6	68.1	.279	0.0
1942	156	662	548	71	160	27	4	14	82	106	57	6	8	.292	.412	.432	.845	148.7	144.5	.404	4.8
1945	42	153	140	18	46	10	2	3	22	11	5	0	0	.329	.382	.493	.874	157.8	157.8	.410	1.3
1946	99	358	306	40	85	17	5	8	42	50	42	1	0	.278	.383	.444	.827	140.3	137.1	.387	2.2
1947	103	337	281	39	68	14	2	4	43	53	42	0	0	.242	.362	.349	.711	109.2	104.4	.347	0.8
1949	24	38	31	0	8	0	2	0	7	6	2	0	0	.258	.395	.387	.782	114.6	107.4	.371	0.2

Career totals

434

1,572

1,330

168

369

RBI

199

226

152

.2774

OBP

.3863

SLG

.4173

OPS

.8036

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1947-09-10	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1942-05-01	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	3	1	7
1942-04-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	0	7
1942-05-16	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	3	0	2	0	6
1942-06-23	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-18	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-20	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	DET @ CLE 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.