Lew Richie

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 165 lb

BornAugust 23, 1883 · Ambler, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 8, 1906

Final gameAugust 8, 1913

Seasons8 (1906–1913)

Philadelphia Phillies 1906–1908; Boston Doves 1909; Philadelphia Phillies 1909; Boston Doves 1910; Chicago Cubs 1910–1913

Percentile snapshot

1912 season — qualified pitchers

66.7

58.6

65.5

50.6

SHO

88.5

222

43.7

41.4

40.2

33.3

29.9

238.0

59.8

ERA

2.95

49.4

WHIP

1.244

60.9

K/9

2.61

6.9

FIP

3.45

34.5

FIP-

102.9

33.3

ERA+

113.6

55.2

sWAR

3.0

60.9

of 88 qualified 1912 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.7

82.1

sWAR

18.8

93.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1906	33	68	60	1	3	1	1	4	7	15	0	.050	.149	.100	.249	-20.7	-22.0	.144	2.3
1907	25	47	43	3	7	0	1	2	2	7	0	.163	.200	.209	.409	21.3	29.7	.204	2.2
1908	25	53	52	0	11	2	1	1	1	8	0	.212	.226	.288	.515	53.3	63.1	.246	2.9
1909	33	63	60	1	9	0	1	5	2	12	0	.150	.177	.183	.361	-1.3	9.4	.179	2.6
1910	34	49	44	6	9	4	1	1	3	8	0	.205	.255	.341	.596	69.2	77.3	.286	2.1
1911	36	96	91	7	14	0	1	4	3	23	0	.154	.181	.176	.357	-4.1	0.9	.175	5.1
1912	39	87	76	7	10	1	0	4	5	19	2	.132	.185	.145	.330	-9.2	-8.5	.169	3.0
1913	16	20	17	2	2	1	0	0	2	4	0	.118	.211	.176	.387	12.0	11.1	.200	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1906	33	22	9	11	0	14	3	170	55	79	65	3	205.7	2.41	1.211	2.84	3.06	117.2	108.4	2.3
1907	25	12	6	6	0	9	2	88	23	38	40	0	117.0	1.77	1.077	3.08	2.43	101.1	136.1	2.2
1908	25	15	7	10	1	13	2	125	32	49	58	1	157.7	1.83	1.104	3.31	2.35	98.7	130.1	2.9
1909	33	14	8	8	3	9	2	158	44	62	53	2	176.7	2.24	1.245	2.70	2.80	103.6	120.8	2.6
1910	34	13	11	7	4	8	3	137	44	60	60	1	146.3	2.71	1.346	3.69	2.94	99.5	109.2	2.1
1911	36	28	15	11	1	18	4	213	65	103	78	6	253.0	2.31	1.249	2.77	3.56	106.8	144.2	5.1
1912	39	27	16	8	0	15	4	222	78	74	69	5	238.0	2.95	1.244	2.61	3.45	102.9	113.6	3.0
1913	16	5	2	4	0	0	0	77	42	30	15	3	65.0	5.82	1.646	2.08	4.19	131.0	55.0	-1.4

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

241

483

443

RBI

.1467

OBP

.1923

SLG

.1941

OPS

.3864

Pitching

G (P)

241

136

SHO

246th-most career SHO

1,359

SO (P)

438

BB allowed

495

ERA

2.536

47th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2396

291st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.90

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	RBI	TB
1910-05-22	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	0	4
1907-04-27	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	3
1910-10-06	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	3
1912-06-12	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
1906-09-11	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1912-04-20	CIN @ CHC Gameday	10.0	9	4	2	5	6
1906-08-31	SF @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	2	0	4	6
1909-08-19	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	6
1910-05-15	ATL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	0	6
1910-05-22	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	3	0	3	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.