Lou Klimchock
Kansas City Athletics 1958–1961; Milwaukee Braves 1962–1963; Washington Senators 1963; Milwaukee Braves 1964–1965; New York Mets 1966; Cleveland Indians 1968–1970
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .500 | .700 | 74.9 | 83.7 | .299 | 0.0 |
| 1959 | 17 | 68 | 66 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .284 | .470 | .753 | 97.1 | 100.5 | .332 | 0.2 |
| 1960 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .300 | .600 | 55.9 | 61.3 | .276 | 0.0 |
| 1961 | 57 | 128 | 121 | 8 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .215 | .244 | .289 | .533 | 32.9 | 40.2 | .243 | -0.8 |
| 1962 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -119.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1963 | 33 | 61 | 60 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .183 | .183 | .200 | .383 | -3.2 | 10.5 | .175 | -0.7 |
| 1964 | 10 | 22 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .364 | .429 | .792 | 126.9 | 122.2 | .360 | 0.2 |
| 1965 | 34 | 42 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .119 | .077 | .196 | -55.3 | -43.3 | .101 | -0.7 |
| 1966 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1968 | 11 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .176 | .133 | .310 | -47.7 | -4.1 | .117 | -0.2 |
| 1969 | 90 | 279 | 258 | 26 | 74 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 26 | 18 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .287 | .331 | .422 | .753 | 105.3 | 107.5 | .342 | 1.3 |
| 1970 | 41 | 61 | 56 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .213 | .214 | .427 | 0.6 | 16.0 | .196 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-09-27 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1958-09-28 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-07-13 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-08-26 | LAA @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-08-05 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-05-22 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-05-23 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-06-21 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-23 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-24 | CLE @ 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.