MLB / Players

Lute Barnes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb
BornApril 28, 1947 · Forest City, IA, USA
MLB debutAugust 6, 1972
Final gameSeptember 26, 1973
Seasons2 (1972–1973)

New York Mets 1972–1973

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
0.1
47.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
197224797251722066401.236.291.319.61172.476.7.2820.1
19733222100010100.500.500.5001.000193.6181.7.4660.0

Career totals

G
27
PA
81
AB
74
R
7
H
18
2B
2
3B
2
HR
0
RBI
7
BB
6
SO
5
SB
0
BA
.2432
OBP
.2963
SLG
.3243
OPS
.6206

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1972-08-09NYM @ STL Gameday322010024
1972-09-24PHI @ NYM Gameday302100103
1972-09-12NYM @ PHI Gameday201010213
1972-08-20CIN @ NYM Gameday302000012
1972-08-22HOU @ NYM Gameday402000002

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.