Lou Criger

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornFebruary 3, 1872 · Elkhart, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1896

Final gameJune 3, 1912

Seasons16 (1896–1912)

Cleveland Spiders 1896–1898; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900; Boston Americans 1901–1907; Boston Red Sox 1908; St. Louis Browns 1909; New York Highlanders 1910; St. Louis Browns 1912

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

wRC+

76.0

6.6

OPS+

71.8

3.3

sWAR

9.7

86.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1896	2	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	-16.5	-54.0	.129	-0.1
1897	39	165	138	15	31	4	1	0	22	23	12	5	.225	.340	.268	.608	73.8	61.4	.311	0.2
1898	84	338	287	43	80	13	4	1	32	40	22	2	.279	.377	.362	.739	113.7	111.5	.367	2.4
1899	77	294	258	39	66	4	5	2	44	28	10	14	.256	.333	.333	.667	86.4	82.8	.327	1.0
1900	80	294	288	31	78	8	6	2	38	4	4	5	.271	.286	.361	.647	75.3	77.9	.303	0.6
1901	76	288	268	26	62	6	3	0	24	11	9	7	.231	.270	.276	.546	59.1	53.1	.261	-0.1
1902	83	298	266	32	68	16	6	0	28	27	18	7	.256	.324	.361	.685	91.2	89.9	.325	1.3
1903	96	358	317	41	61	7	10	3	31	26	31	5	.192	.256	.306	.562	67.0	66.2	.265	0.7
1904	98	337	299	34	63	10	5	2	34	27	27	1	.211	.283	.298	.580	81.7	80.6	.282	1.4
1905	109	377	313	33	62	6	7	1	36	54	20	5	.198	.322	.272	.593	96.3	87.7	.303	2.2
1906	7	19	17	0	3	1	0	0	1	1	4	1	.176	.222	.235	.458	38.5	41.7	.225	0.0
1907	75	257	226	12	41	4	0	0	14	19	17	2	.181	.251	.199	.450	47.0	43.7	.233	0.0
1908	84	257	237	12	45	4	2	0	25	13	14	1	.190	.232	.224	.456	43.5	46.4	.227	0.0
1909	74	250	212	15	36	1	1	0	9	25	22	2	.170	.261	.184	.444	47.3	41.9	.236	0.0
1910	27	79	69	3	13	2	0	0	4	10	15	0	.188	.291	.217	.509	60.7	55.2	.267	0.2
1912	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-104.6	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,012

3,619

3,202

337

709

RBI

342

309

225

.2214

OBP

.2946

SLG

.2898

OPS

.5844

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
1903-09-16	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	1	4	0	8
1903-06-13	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1901-05-02	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	0	1	1	6
1902-08-04	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	0	5
1904-07-16	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BOS @ ATH 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.