Les Lancaster
Chicago Cubs 1987–1991; Detroit Tigers 1992; St. Louis Cardinals 1993
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 27 | 51 | 49 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .082 | .100 | .102 | .202 | -64.8 | -47.2 | .095 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 44 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .050 | .050 | .050 | .100 | -98.9 | -71.6 | .047 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 42 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .273 | .455 | 11.8 | 24.7 | .205 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 55 | 24 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .050 | .174 | .050 | .224 | -38.3 | -36.8 | .138 | 0.3 |
| 1991 | 64 | 34 | 28 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .179 | .250 | .429 | 3.8 | 16.9 | .193 | 2.2 |
| 1992 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.5 |
| 1993 | 50 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -21.6 | -39.9 | .149 | 1.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 27 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 138 | 72 | 51 | 78 | 14 | 132.3 | 4.90 | 1.428 | 5.30 | 4.24 | 99.8 | 86.9 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 44 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 89 | 36 | 34 | 36 | 4 | 85.7 | 3.78 | 1.436 | 3.78 | 3.70 | 103.2 | 94.8 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 42 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 11 | 15 | 56 | 2 | 72.7 | 1.36 | 1.032 | 6.94 | 2.10 | 56.2 | 273.8 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 55 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 121 | 56 | 40 | 65 | 11 | 109.0 | 4.62 | 1.477 | 5.37 | 4.06 | 100.3 | 87.5 | 0.3 |
| 1991 | 64 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 150 | 61 | 49 | 102 | 13 | 156.0 | 3.52 | 1.276 | 5.88 | 3.59 | 92.9 | 109.7 | 2.2 |
| 1992 | 41 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 61 | 51 | 35 | 11 | 86.7 | 6.33 | 1.754 | 3.63 | 5.50 | 137.9 | 63.0 | -1.5 |
| 1993 | 50 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 20 | 21 | 36 | 5 | 61.3 | 2.93 | 1.255 | 5.28 | 3.94 | 99.4 | 135.0 | 1.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-07-20 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1991-07-07 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1987-08-27 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1991-05-28 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1987-08-31 | CHC @ HOU Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-07-23 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 7.1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1987-07-19 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 1991-06-15 | CHC @ SD Gameday | 5.2 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1987-07-05 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| 1990-05-28 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 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.