Lew Fonseca

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1899 · Oakland, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1921

Final gameSeptember 11, 1933

Seasons12 (1921–1933)

Cincinnati Reds 1921–1924; Philadelphia Phillies 1925; Cleveland Indians 1927–1930; Chicago White Sox 1931; Cleveland Indians 1931; Chicago White Sox 1932–1933

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified batters

147

74.1

628

70.7

573

66.4

179

78.4

75.9

53.4

43.1

RBI

75.9

55.2

44.8

62.9

18.1

.312

66.4

OBP

.361

48.3

SLG

.410

46.6

OPS

.772

46.6

wRC+

103.9

40.5

OPS+

104.1

40.5

wOBA

.357

44.8

sWAR

1.7

44.8

of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.4

44.2

OPS+

102.7

47.3

sWAR

9.8

86.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1921	82	319	297	38	82	10	3	1	41	8	13	2	3	.276	.304	.340	.644	72.3	74.8	.297	-0.2
1922	81	318	291	55	105	20	3	4	45	14	18	7	8	.361	.390	.491	.882	128.4	130.1	.400	2.3
1923	65	255	237	33	66	11	4	3	28	9	16	4	0	.278	.310	.397	.707	86.1	89.2	.323	0.3
1924	20	63	57	5	13	2	1	0	9	4	4	1	0	.228	.279	.298	.577	56.1	57.9	.271	-0.2
1925	126	506	467	78	149	30	5	7	60	21	42	6	2	.319	.352	.450	.802	90.7	93.0	.361	0.7
1927	112	459	428	60	133	20	7	2	40	12	17	12	4	.311	.333	.404	.737	86.4	90.0	.339	0.7
1928	75	288	263	38	86	19	4	3	36	13	17	4	2	.327	.361	.464	.825	112.0	113.9	.375	1.0
1929	148	643	566	97	209	44	15	6	103	50	23	19	11	.369	.427	.532	.959	142.1	140.9	.433	4.3
1930	40	140	129	20	36	9	2	0	17	7	7	1	0	.279	.316	.380	.696	70.7	72.4	.315	-0.3
1931	147	628	573	86	179	35	6	3	85	40	29	7	6	.312	.361	.410	.772	103.9	104.1	.357	1.7
1932	18	39	37	0	5	1	0	0	6	1	7	0	0	.135	.158	.162	.320	-18.8	-15.0	.151	-0.4
1933	23	66	59	8	12	2	0	2	15	7	6	1	0	.203	.288	.339	.627	67.1	67.2	.295	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	.000	0.00	3.13	73.1	—	-0.4

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

937

3,724

3,404

518

1,075

203

RBI

485

186

199

.3158

84th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3554

SLG

.4321

OPS

.7875

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

.0000

K/9

0.00

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	TB
1929-05-29	CLE @ CWS Gameday	6	3	4	0	2	2	2	14
1929-05-19	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	3	1	0	4	9
1927-09-05	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1925-04-29	PHI @ SF Gameday	6	3	5	2	0	0	4	7
1925-06-27	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	5	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP
1932-09-23	CWS @ CLE Gameday	1.0
1921-04-13	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0
1921-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0
1921-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0
1921-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	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.