Lou Possehl
Philadelphia Phillies 1946–1948; Philadelphia Phillies 1951–1952
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -140.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1947 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1.000 | — | — | 365.9 | — | .752 | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 26.5 | 36.8 | .231 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1952 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 13.7 | 5.93 | 2.122 | 2.63 | 4.15 | 122.4 | 57.2 | -0.3 |
| 1947 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.3 | 4.15 | 1.154 | 2.08 | 2.80 | 70.5 | 95.6 | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 14.7 | 4.91 | 1.432 | 4.30 | 5.09 | 130.8 | 79.3 | 0.0 |
| 1951 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 6.0 | 6.00 | 2.000 | 9.00 | 1.88 | 49.0 | 64.0 | -0.1 |
| 1952 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 12.7 | 4.97 | 1.500 | 2.84 | 6.52 | 178.9 | 73.3 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-09-20 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1946-04-16 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-17 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-20 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-21 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-09-18 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4.0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1948-09-20 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 1948-09-28 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 1946-08-25 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 1952-04-21 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 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.