Lou Sleater
St. Louis Browns 1950–1952; Washington Senators 1952; Kansas City Athletics 1955; Milwaukee Braves 1956; Detroit Tigers 1957; Baltimore Orioles 1958; Detroit Tigers 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1951 | 25 | 33 | 31 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .273 | .290 | .563 | 41.9 | 48.7 | .267 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 19 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .045 | .045 | .045 | .091 | -104.0 | -74.2 | .042 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 21 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -37.5 | -18.2 | .144 | -0.9 |
| 1956 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .545 | .500 | 1.045 | 208.2 | 194.4 | .478 | 0.9 |
| 1957 | 41 | 22 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .286 | .700 | .986 | 147.6 | 160.1 | .405 | 1.1 |
| 1958 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .571 | .714 | 79.9 | 81.6 | .296 | -0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | .000 | 9.00 | 0.71 | 14.7 | — | 0.1 |
| 1951 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 88 | 46 | 53 | 33 | 7 | 81.0 | 5.11 | 1.741 | 3.67 | 5.03 | 116.5 | 84.6 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 65 | 30 | 35 | 23 | 5 | 65.7 | 4.11 | 1.523 | 3.15 | 4.34 | 121.0 | 87.2 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 22 | 21 | 11 | 3 | 25.7 | 7.71 | 2.104 | 3.86 | 5.55 | 135.0 | 53.2 | -0.9 |
| 1956 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 16 | 27 | 32 | 6 | 45.7 | 3.15 | 1.511 | 6.31 | 4.31 | 122.2 | 111.9 | 0.9 |
| 1957 | 41 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 29 | 28 | 43 | 9 | 69.3 | 3.76 | 1.284 | 5.58 | 4.10 | 107.1 | 101.8 | 1.1 |
| 1958 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 12.3 | 10.22 | 2.027 | 6.57 | 5.04 | 129.3 | 36.7 | -0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-04-22 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1957-08-17 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1957-08-21 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1957-05-30 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-05-15 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-08-31 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 5.2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1952-05-25 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1951-04-22 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| 1956-05-11 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 6.2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 1957-08-17 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 6.1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 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.