Lou North
Detroit Tigers 1913; St. Louis Cardinals 1917; St. Louis Cardinals 1920–1923; Boston Braves 1924; St. Louis Cardinals 1924
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 26 | 33 | 31 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .250 | .258 | .508 | 41.5 | 48.2 | .242 | 0.6 |
| 1921 | 40 | 20 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .200 | .158 | .358 | -9.3 | -3.5 | .176 | 1.0 |
| 1922 | 53 | 50 | 47 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .250 | .340 | .590 | 48.4 | 53.9 | .267 | 0.8 |
| 1923 | 34 | 23 | 22 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .217 | .182 | .399 | 3.8 | 7.1 | .194 | -0.3 |
| 1924 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -28.8 | -16.3 | .142 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 6.0 | 15.00 | 3.167 | 4.50 | 8.16 | 277.6 | 19.6 | -0.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 11.3 | 3.97 | 1.588 | 3.18 | 3.88 | 144.8 | 67.5 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 24 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 90 | 32 | 32 | 37 | 3 | 88.0 | 3.27 | 1.386 | 3.78 | 3.36 | 110.6 | 93.0 | 0.6 |
| 1921 | 40 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 34 | 32 | 28 | 5 | 86.3 | 3.54 | 1.309 | 2.92 | 4.24 | 113.6 | 105.4 | 1.0 |
| 1922 | 53 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 164 | 74 | 64 | 84 | 4 | 149.7 | 4.45 | 1.523 | 5.05 | 3.70 | 94.0 | 88.5 | 0.8 |
| 1923 | 34 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 41 | 31 | 24 | 8 | 71.7 | 5.15 | 1.688 | 3.01 | 5.17 | 131.2 | 76.5 | -0.3 |
| 1924 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 32 | 28 | 19 | 2 | 50.0 | 5.76 | 1.760 | 3.42 | 4.39 | 116.7 | 65.3 | -0.7 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-09-13 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1922-09-09 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1922-07-14 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1920-09-11 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1920-08-09 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-07-12 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1922-08-18 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1922-05-29 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 10.0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1923-05-15 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1923-07-14 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4.2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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.