Lyn Lary

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornJanuary 28, 1906 · Armona, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 11, 1929

Final gameAugust 7, 1940

Seasons12 (1929–1940)

New York Yankees 1929–1933; Boston Red Sox 1934; New York Yankees 1934; St. Louis Browns 1935; Washington Senators 1935; St. Louis Browns 1936; Cleveland Indians 1937–1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1939; Cleveland Indians 1939; St. Louis Cardinals 1939; St. Louis Browns 1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

141

59.5

661

86.8

568

78.5

152

61.2

90.9

27.3

20.7

RBI

31.4

87.6

12.4

99.2

10.7

.268

28.1

OBP

.366

57.9

SLG

.361

16.5

OPS

.727

30.6

wRC+

89.2

24.8

OPS+

85.4

wOBA

.346

37.2

sWAR

1.8

48.8

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.8

29.6

OPS+

90.1

23.1

sWAR

18.3

92.8

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
1929	80	268	236	48	73	9	2	5	26	24	15	4	1	.309	.380	.428	.808	114.5	113.7	.373	1.5
1930	117	532	464	93	134	20	8	3	52	45	40	14	2	.289	.357	.386	.743	93.9	92.0	.342	1.8
1931	155	712	610	100	171	35	9	10	107	88	54	13	10	.280	.376	.416	.793	115.4	113.8	.371	4.4
1932	91	339	280	56	65	14	4	3	39	52	28	9	3	.232	.358	.343	.701	88.9	82.9	.337	0.9
1933	52	158	127	25	28	3	3	0	13	28	17	2	1	.220	.361	.291	.653	90.6	80.4	.326	0.4
1934	130	501	419	58	101	20	4	2	54	67	51	12	5	.241	.346	.322	.668	73.9	69.6	.325	0.6
1935	132	562	474	86	127	29	7	2	42	76	53	28	4	.268	.371	.371	.743	92.5	88.9	.354	1.8
1936	155	745	619	112	179	30	6	2	52	117	54	37	9	.289	.404	.367	.771	93.0	86.7	.371	2.4
1937	156	741	644	110	187	46	7	8	77	88	64	18	8	.290	.378	.421	.799	103.0	101.3	.370	3.4
1938	141	661	568	94	152	36	4	3	51	88	65	23	6	.268	.366	.361	.727	89.2	85.4	.346	1.8
1939	66	144	108	18	19	4	1	0	10	28	22	2	0	.176	.350	.231	.582	68.3	56.6	.304	0.2
1940	27	61	54	5	3	1	1	0	3	4	7	0	0	.056	.136	.111	.247	-44.3	-36.3	.128	-0.8

Career totals

1,302

5,424

4,603

805

1,239

247

RBI

526

705

378th-most career BB

470

162

.2692

OBP

.3692

301st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3719

OPS

.7411

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
1937-05-20	CLE @ BOS Gameday	6	3	3	1	2	0	3	1	8
1932-08-29	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	3	0	0	3	0	7
1938-07-27	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1931-07-14	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	1	4	1	7
1932-05-30	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-04-18	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-21	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-23	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-24	NYY @ BOS 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.