MLB / Players

Mark Lemke

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 167 lb

BornAugust 13, 1965 · Utica, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1988

Final gameMay 25, 1998

Seasons11 (1988–1998)

Atlanta Braves 1988–1997; Boston Red Sox 1998

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified batters

135

10.9

562

18.4

498

12.2

127

8.2

3.4

6.1

RBI

5.4

37.4

93.2

37.4

.255

OBP

.323

15.6

SLG

.319

2.7

OPS

.642

5.4

wRC+

72.1

8.2

OPS+

69.7

4.8

wOBA

.298

6.1

sWAR

0.1

10.2

of 148 qualified 1996 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

70.6

3.6

OPS+

72.0

3.5

sWAR

0.5

58.5

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
1988	16	64	58	8	13	4	0	0	2	4	5	0	2	.224	.274	.293	.567	58.0	59.1	.269	-0.1
1989	14	60	55	4	10	2	1	2	10	5	7	0	1	.182	.250	.364	.614	70.1	70.9	.284	0.0
1990	102	266	239	22	54	13	0	0	21	21	22	0	1	.226	.286	.280	.567	49.2	53.1	.264	-0.6
1991	136	308	269	36	63	11	2	2	23	29	27	1	2	.234	.305	.312	.617	69.9	70.5	.289	0.1
1992	155	491	427	38	97	7	4	6	26	50	39	0	3	.227	.307	.304	.611	65.6	70.8	.283	-0.1
1993	151	569	493	52	124	19	2	7	49	65	50	1	2	.252	.335	.341	.676	81.2	83.1	.306	0.8
1994	104	394	350	40	103	15	0	3	31	38	37	0	3	.294	.363	.363	.726	88.1	91.1	.323	0.9
1995	116	453	399	42	101	16	5	5	38	44	40	2	2	.253	.325	.356	.681	79.1	79.1	.310	0.5
1996	135	562	498	64	127	17	0	5	37	53	48	5	2	.255	.323	.319	.642	72.1	69.7	.298	0.1
1997	109	397	351	33	86	17	1	2	26	33	51	2	0	.245	.306	.316	.622	61.6	63.2	.286	-0.4
1998	31	100	91	10	17	4	0	0	7	6	15	0	1	.187	.232	.231	.463	17.0	21.3	.213	-0.6

Career totals

1,069

3,664

3,230

349

795

125

RBI

270

348

341

.2461

OBP

.3168

SLG

.3238

OPS

.6406

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	HR	RBI	TB
1993-05-07	ATL @ COL Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	2	9
1995-09-27	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	2	1	2	8
1996-04-14	ATL @ SD Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	2	8
1990-08-18	ATL @ CHC Gameday	6	1	5	1	0	2	6
1994-06-24	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	3	6

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.