MLB / Players

Luke Easter

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 240 lb

BornAugust 4, 1915 · Jonestown, MS, USA

MLB debutAugust 11, 1949

Final gameMay 4, 1954

Seasons8 (1947–1954)

Homestead Grays 1947–1948; Cleveland Indians 1949–1954

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

127

486

437

9.3

26.7

115

9.3

21.3

94.7

RBI

18.7

13.3

86.7

.263

34.7

OBP

.337

37.3

SLG

.513

93.3

OPS

.850

82.7

wRC+

138.4

OPS+

143.0

89.3

wOBA

.385

78.7

sWAR

2.8

49.3

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.3

88.2

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
1947	62	251	223	35	60	11	6	5	36	25	0	2	0	.269	.351	.439	.790	112.2	115.4	.371	1.0
1948	41	174	144	34	45	9	3	6	37	27	3	2	0	.313	.428	.542	.969	172.0	179.5	.451	2.0
1949	21	54	45	6	10	3	0	0	2	8	6	0	1	.222	.340	.289	.629	75.1	70.9	.317	-0.1
1950	141	623	540	96	151	20	4	28	107	70	95	0	3	.280	.373	.487	.860	122.1	124.7	.393	2.7
1951	128	532	486	65	131	12	5	27	103	37	71	0	1	.270	.333	.481	.814	120.5	125.8	.370	2.1
1952	127	486	437	63	115	10	3	31	97	44	84	1	1	.263	.337	.513	.850	138.4	143.0	.385	2.8
1953	68	230	211	26	64	9	0	7	31	15	35	0	2	.303	.361	.445	.806	120.8	121.8	.370	0.9
1954	6	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-29.0	-7.6	.155	-0.1

Career totals

594

2,356

2,092

325

577

104

RBI

413

226

296

.2758

OBP

.3556

SLG

.4804

OPS

.8360

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1951-09-29	DET @ CLE Gameday	6	3	4	1	2	5	0	12
1951-07-16	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	5	0	9
1952-08-24	CLE @ MIN Gameday	6	2	3	0	2	5	1	9
1953-08-14	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1951-06-03	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-20	HOM @ NBY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-27	NBY @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-27	NBY @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-05-03	NYC @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-05-03	NYC @ HOM Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.