Lew Riggs
St. Louis Cardinals 1934; Cincinnati Reds 1935–1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941–1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946
Percentile snapshot
1938 season — qualified batters
of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 468 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1935 | 142 | 583 | 532 | 73 | 148 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 46 | 43 | 32 | 8 | 0 | .278 | .334 | .385 | .720 | 94.9 | 94.7 | .330 | 1.8 |
| 1936 | 141 | 588 | 538 | 69 | 138 | 20 | 12 | 6 | 57 | 38 | 33 | 5 | 0 | .257 | .314 | .372 | .686 | 87.3 | 88.4 | .318 | 1.2 |
| 1937 | 122 | 411 | 384 | 43 | 93 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 45 | 24 | 17 | 4 | 0 | .242 | .289 | .359 | .648 | 75.6 | 78.7 | .298 | 0.3 |
| 1938 | 142 | 589 | 531 | 53 | 134 | 21 | 13 | 2 | 55 | 40 | 28 | 3 | 0 | .252 | .311 | .352 | .663 | 83.6 | 85.0 | .309 | 1.0 |
| 1939 | 22 | 43 | 38 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .158 | .256 | .184 | .440 | 21.6 | 20.9 | .225 | -0.3 |
| 1940 | 41 | 74 | 72 | 8 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .292 | .311 | .458 | .769 | 107.0 | 111.4 | .344 | 0.3 |
| 1941 | 77 | 220 | 197 | 27 | 60 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .305 | .357 | .487 | .844 | 132.9 | 134.4 | .387 | 1.6 |
| 1942 | 70 | 199 | 180 | 20 | 50 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .333 | .356 | .689 | 100.6 | 101.3 | .329 | 0.7 |
| 1946 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -141.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-06-13 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1937-08-15 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1941-07-31 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1936-09-11 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1936-05-31 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-18 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-19 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-21 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934-04-22 | CHC @ STL 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.