Lloyd Davenport

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 155 lb

BornOctober 28, 1911 · New Orleans, LA, USA

Seasons10 (1935–1945)

Philadelphia Stars 1935–1936; Cincinnati Tigers 1937; Memphis Red Sox 1938–1939; Birmingham Black Barons 1941; Memphis Red Sox 1941; Birmingham Black Barons 1942; Cincinnati-Cleveland Buckeyes 1942; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942; Chicago American Giants 1943; Kansas City Monarchs 1943; Chicago American Giants 1944; Cleveland Buckeyes 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified batters

170

158

5.1

8.1

19.2

RBI

89.9

41.4

48.5

.342

87.9

OBP

.385

60.6

SLG

.462

64.6

OPS

.847

65.7

wRC+

126.2

72.7

OPS+

133.2

78.8

wOBA

.388

64.6

sWAR

1.0

29.3

of 100 qualified 1937 batters (min 167 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.3

77.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1935	18	60	56	3	10	1	1	0	2	2	0	1	.179	.207	.232	.439	17.7	10.6	.203	-0.4
1936	16	60	52	12	9	2	0	0	1	8	1	0	.173	.283	.212	.495	42.4	28.1	.253	-0.3
1937	39	170	158	33	54	11	4	0	15	10	0	5	.342	.385	.462	.847	126.2	133.2	.388	1.0
1938	32	132	117	20	38	7	2	0	10	13	1	7	.325	.392	.419	.811	128.8	133.6	.385	0.9
1939	30	123	113	10	31	6	1	0	8	10	0	6	.274	.333	.345	.678	98.1	97.4	.326	0.4
1941	5	21	18	2	2	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	.111	.238	.222	.460	49.6	39.1	.240	-0.1
1942	31	126	107	22	33	6	0	0	18	16	2	5	.308	.408	.364	.772	132.9	131.1	.376	0.9
1943	36	165	156	24	50	8	2	1	18	9	0	3	.321	.358	.417	.774	131.8	137.0	.369	1.3
1944	24	100	91	8	26	1	0	0	11	6	1	1	.286	.327	.297	.623	94.0	93.6	.306	0.3
1945	13	57	53	8	14	3	1	0	8	4	0	1	.264	.316	.358	.674	97.1	97.1	.320	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1939	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	1	0	4.7	1.93	.857	1.93	4.37	110.3	205.3	0.4
1944	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	0	2	0	5.0	3.60	1.000	3.60	2.40	71.3	93.5	0.3

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

244

1,014

921

142

267

RBI

.2899

OBP

.3489

SLG

.3681

OPS

.7170

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

2.793

WHIP

.9310

K/9

2.79

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	BB	TB
1943-09-08	MEM @ CAG Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	2	1	6
1942-07-04	JRC @ BBB Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	1	5
1943-09-23	IC @ KCM Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	2	0	5
1937-06-12	CAG @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	0	5
1939-05-14	MEM @ KCM Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1944-07-02	CAG @ MEM Gameday	2.1	4	2	2	0	2
1939-08-06	BEG @ MEM Gameday	4.2	2	1	1	2	1
1944-06-25	CAG @ CLB Gameday	2.2	1	0	0	0	0
1935-05-04	PHS @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1935-05-05	PHS @ HOM Gameday	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

6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.