Luke Sewell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1901 · Titus, AL, USA

MLB debutJune 30, 1921

Final gameAugust 1, 1942

Seasons20 (1921–1942)

Cleveland Indians 1921–1932; Washington Senators 1933–1934; Chicago White Sox 1935–1938; Cleveland Indians 1939; St. Louis Browns 1942

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

128

34.2

509

30.8

451

26.7

32.5

113

30.8

44.2

37.5

RBI

57.5

62.5

74.2

81.7

30.8

.251

5.8

OBP

.332

18.3

SLG

.350

9.2

OPS

.682

11.7

wRC+

68.2

5.8

OPS+

67.0

5.8

wOBA

.322

sWAR

0.5

23.3

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

69.9

3.1

OPS+

70.2

2.6

sWAR

8.7

85.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1921	3	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1922	41	95	87	14	23	5	0	0	10	5	8	1	1	.264	.312	.322	.634	62.8	64.8	.299	0.2
1923	10	11	10	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	.200	.273	.400	.673	68.7	74.9	.311	0.0
1924	63	194	165	27	48	9	1	0	17	22	13	1	0	.291	.387	.358	.745	95.3	90.5	.364	0.9
1925	74	262	220	30	51	10	2	0	18	33	18	6	2	.232	.337	.295	.633	66.3	61.4	.313	0.2
1926	126	499	433	41	103	16	4	0	46	36	27	9	3	.238	.302	.293	.596	54.1	55.7	.288	-0.2
1927	128	512	470	52	138	27	6	0	53	20	23	4	8	.294	.328	.377	.705	79.4	82.0	.328	1.3
1928	122	457	411	52	111	16	9	3	52	26	27	3	4	.270	.318	.375	.693	78.1	80.3	.320	1.2
1929	124	457	406	41	96	16	3	1	39	29	26	6	6	.236	.287	.298	.585	45.4	48.2	.275	-0.6
1930	76	315	292	40	75	21	2	1	43	14	9	5	2	.257	.293	.353	.646	57.8	60.0	.293	-0.1
1931	108	422	375	45	103	30	4	1	53	36	17	1	1	.275	.341	.384	.725	85.1	85.2	.338	1.4
1932	87	343	300	36	76	20	2	2	52	38	24	4	5	.253	.337	.353	.691	76.9	75.4	.325	0.7
1933	141	536	474	65	125	30	4	2	61	48	24	7	2	.264	.335	.357	.692	86.4	85.3	.326	1.9
1934	72	231	207	21	49	7	3	2	21	22	10	0	1	.237	.313	.329	.642	69.4	68.5	.305	0.2
1935	118	458	421	52	120	19	3	2	67	32	18	3	2	.285	.336	.359	.694	76.2	77.5	.325	1.0
1936	128	509	451	59	113	20	5	5	73	54	16	11	2	.251	.332	.350	.682	68.2	67.0	.322	0.5
1937	122	459	412	51	111	21	6	1	61	46	18	4	5	.269	.343	.357	.700	78.3	77.4	.328	1.1
1938	65	236	211	23	45	4	1	0	27	20	20	0	0	.213	.284	.242	.526	33.6	32.7	.258	-0.7
1939	16	25	20	1	3	1	0	0	1	3	1	0	0	.150	.261	.200	.461	29.6	22.6	.235	0.0
1942	6	13	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	.083	.154	.083	.237	-42.0	-32.9	.131	-0.1

Career totals

1,630

6,041

5,383

653

1,393

272

RBI

696

486

307

.2588

OBP

.3233

SLG

.3413

OPS

.6646

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	TB
1933-05-08	MIN @ BAL Gameday	6	1	5	2	0	1	3	10
1930-08-03	CLE @ BAL Gameday	3	1	3	2	0	1	2	8
1928-07-29	NYY @ CLE Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	0	3	7
1936-08-24	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	3	7
1933-06-18	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	3	0	0	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1921-04-13	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-14	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-15	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-16	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-19	CLE @ DET 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.