Lew Ford
Minnesota Twins 2003–2007; Baltimore Orioles 2012
Percentile snapshot
2005 season — qualified batters
of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 34 | 83 | 73 | 16 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .329 | .402 | .575 | .978 | 157.4 | 153.4 | .423 | 0.8 |
| 2004 | 154 | 658 | 569 | 89 | 170 | 31 | 4 | 15 | 72 | 67 | 75 | 20 | 2 | .299 | .381 | .446 | .827 | 116.8 | 114.1 | .366 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 147 | 590 | 522 | 70 | 138 | 30 | 4 | 7 | 53 | 45 | 85 | 13 | 6 | .264 | .338 | .377 | .716 | 92.6 | 90.7 | .320 | 0.9 |
| 2006 | 104 | 255 | 234 | 40 | 53 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 43 | 9 | 1 | .226 | .287 | .312 | .599 | 58.0 | 57.3 | .273 | -0.9 |
| 2007 | 55 | 130 | 116 | 13 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 24 | 3 | 1 | .233 | .315 | .362 | .677 | 85.2 | 82.0 | .310 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 25 | 79 | 71 | 7 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .183 | .256 | .352 | .609 | 62.6 | 63.7 | .270 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-04-16 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2005-05-22 | MIL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2005-06-03 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2003-09-24 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 2006-06-07 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
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.