Lou Merloni
Boston Red Sox 1998–2003; San Diego Padres 2003; Cleveland Indians 2004; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2005; Cleveland Indians 2006
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 39 | 106 | 96 | 10 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .281 | .343 | .375 | .718 | 87.0 | 86.9 | .321 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 43 | 140 | 126 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .307 | .333 | .640 | 63.3 | 63.5 | .291 | -0.1 |
| 2000 | 40 | 139 | 128 | 10 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 4 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .320 | .341 | .438 | .778 | 90.7 | 94.0 | .338 | 0.4 |
| 2001 | 52 | 159 | 146 | 21 | 39 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 31 | 2 | 1 | .267 | .306 | .397 | .703 | 82.6 | 83.8 | .308 | 0.4 |
| 2002 | 84 | 222 | 194 | 28 | 48 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 20 | 35 | 1 | 2 | .247 | .332 | .392 | .724 | 93.2 | 90.2 | .325 | 0.7 |
| 2003 | 80 | 213 | 181 | 24 | 48 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 26 | 41 | 2 | 3 | .265 | .355 | .348 | .704 | 92.9 | 90.7 | .321 | 0.7 |
| 2004 | 71 | 214 | 190 | 25 | 55 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 14 | 41 | 1 | 2 | .289 | .343 | .426 | .769 | 102.9 | 103.5 | .337 | 0.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -49.5 | -56.3 | .104 | -0.1 |
| 2006 | 9 | 23 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .211 | .286 | .263 | .549 | 46.5 | 44.6 | .257 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-10-01 | BOS @ TB Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 2004-07-18 | CLE @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2001-10-03 | BOS @ TB Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1998-05-15 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 2002-08-30 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.