Lou Thornton
Toronto Blue Jays 1985; Toronto Blue Jays 1987–1988; New York Mets 1989–1990
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 56 | 75 | 72 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 0 | .236 | .267 | .319 | .586 | 56.9 | 59.4 | .265 | -0.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 1.167 | 173.7 | 216.2 | .448 | -0.1 |
| 1988 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1989 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .308 | .308 | .385 | .692 | 101.8 | 102.5 | .317 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-07-27 | LAA @ TOR Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1989-09-29 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1985-09-24 | BOS @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1985-06-02 | CLE @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1985-06-01 | CLE @ TOR Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
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.