Lew Ritter
Brooklyn Superbas 1902–1908
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 16 | 61 | 57 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | .211 | .237 | .228 | .465 | 41.6 | 43.5 | .231 | -0.1 |
| 1903 | 78 | 288 | 259 | 26 | 61 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 37 | 19 | 30 | 9 | 0 | .236 | .290 | .317 | .607 | 75.9 | 74.8 | .295 | 0.7 |
| 1904 | 72 | 241 | 214 | 23 | 53 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 20 | 34 | 17 | 0 | .248 | .318 | .276 | .593 | 87.9 | 83.9 | .296 | 1.0 |
| 1905 | 92 | 334 | 311 | 32 | 68 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 15 | 39 | 16 | 0 | .219 | .255 | .293 | .547 | 64.4 | 66.5 | .264 | 0.4 |
| 1906 | 73 | 250 | 226 | 22 | 47 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 6 | 0 | .208 | .263 | .239 | .502 | 59.6 | 60.5 | .254 | 0.1 |
| 1907 | 93 | 298 | 271 | 15 | 55 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 40 | 5 | 0 | .203 | .255 | .232 | .488 | 55.2 | 57.7 | .247 | 0.4 |
| 1908 | 38 | 108 | 99 | 6 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .192 | .245 | .232 | .478 | 52.0 | 54.7 | .239 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903-09-26 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1905-08-02 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1905-05-03 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1905-04-22 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1903-05-19 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-04-17 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-18 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-19 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-21 | LAD @ PHI 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.