Lowell Palmer
Philadelphia Phillies 1969–1971; Cleveland Indians 1972; St. Louis Cardinals 1972; San Diego Padres 1974
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 26 | 25 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .174 | .273 | .447 | 15.9 | 24.6 | .206 | -0.9 |
| 1970 | 38 | 30 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .207 | .259 | .466 | 21.3 | 24.6 | .219 | -0.6 |
| 1971 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 1.2 | 14.5 | .186 | -0.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 23 | 23 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .087 | .087 | .174 | .261 | -45.1 | -27.2 | .117 | -1.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 91 | 52 | 47 | 68 | 12 | 90.0 | 5.20 | 1.533 | 6.80 | 4.65 | 131.0 | 68.2 | -0.9 |
| 1970 | 38 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 62 | 55 | 85 | 15 | 102.0 | 5.47 | 1.500 | 7.50 | 4.86 | 120.1 | 74.0 | -0.6 |
| 1971 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 15.0 | 6.00 | 1.733 | 3.60 | 7.74 | 225.0 | 57.3 | -0.3 |
| 1972 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 16 | 28 | 28 | 2 | 36.7 | 3.93 | 1.636 | 6.87 | 4.07 | 119.8 | 86.4 | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 22 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 46 | 59 | 52 | 9 | 73.0 | 5.67 | 1.740 | 6.41 | 5.48 | 154.7 | 62.4 | -1.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-05-03 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-07-19 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1974-06-16 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1970-08-27 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1969-07-13 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-05-03 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 8.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 1969-06-25 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 4.1 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1969-06-21 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 7.2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1974-06-25 | SF @ SD Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1969-07-09 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 8.2 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
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.