Nap Lajoie

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornSeptember 5, 1874 · Woonsocket, RI, USA

MLB debutAugust 12, 1896

Final gameAugust 26, 1916

Seasons21 (1896–1916)

Philadelphia Phillies 1896–1900; Philadelphia Athletics 1901; Cleveland Bronchos 1902; Philadelphia Athletics 1902; Cleveland Naps 1903–1914; Philadelphia Athletics 1915–1916

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

129

33.3

520

36.4

490

47.9

23.6

137

55.8

76.4

32.1

15.8

RBI

70.3

10.9

74.5

24.8

48.5

.280

56.4

OBP

.301

15.2

SLG

.355

OPS

.656

27.3

wRC+

89.2

22.4

OPS+

96.2

33.3

wOBA

.317

24.2

sWAR

1.3

35.2

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

144.4

97.4

OPS+

149.2

97.8

sWAR

94.5

99.9

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
1896	39	178	175	36	57	12	7	4	42	1	11	7	0	.326	.330	.543	.872	116.2	127.6	.395	0.7
1897	127	577	545	107	197	40	23	9	127	15	25	20	0	.361	.392	.569	.960	139.3	151.6	.440	4.0
1898	147	641	608	113	197	43	11	6	127	21	23	25	0	.324	.354	.461	.814	124.2	132.4	.386	4.3
1899	77	337	312	70	118	19	9	6	70	12	7	13	0	.378	.419	.554	.974	154.4	165.8	.454	3.6
1900	102	471	451	95	152	33	12	7	92	10	8	22	0	.337	.362	.510	.872	130.4	139.4	.403	3.6
1901	131	582	544	145	232	48	14	14	125	24	9	27	0	.426	.463	.643	1.106	183.4	199.2	.503	8.6
1902	87	385	352	81	133	35	5	7	65	19	7	20	0	.378	.419	.565	.984	166.3	174.9	.450	4.7
1903	125	525	485	90	167	41	11	7	93	24	26	21	0	.344	.379	.518	.896	164.9	169.8	.408	6.2
1904	140	594	553	92	208	49	15	5	102	27	19	29	0	.376	.413	.546	.959	202.6	203.1	.445	9.8
1905	65	271	249	29	82	12	2	2	41	17	8	11	0	.329	.377	.418	.795	150.0	151.8	.380	2.7
1906	152	655	602	88	214	48	9	0	91	30	19	20	0	.355	.392	.465	.857	167.1	169.2	.408	7.9
1907	137	558	509	53	153	30	6	2	63	30	28	24	0	.301	.347	.395	.742	135.9	138.1	.360	4.4
1908	157	667	581	77	168	32	6	2	74	47	20	15	0	.289	.352	.375	.727	137.8	137.4	.355	5.5
1909	128	521	469	56	152	33	7	1	47	35	19	13	0	.324	.378	.431	.809	153.1	152.7	.392	5.4
1910	159	678	592	94	227	51	7	4	76	60	18	26	0	.383	.444	.514	.958	197.1	197.3	.459	10.3
1911	90	353	315	36	115	20	1	2	60	26	15	13	0	.365	.420	.454	.874	141.3	142.3	.418	2.8
1912	117	500	448	66	165	34	4	0	90	28	11	18	5	.368	.414	.462	.876	145.2	148.2	.419	4.5
1913	137	525	465	66	156	25	2	1	68	33	17	17	0	.335	.398	.404	.802	133.6	131.6	.391	4.2
1914	121	468	419	37	108	14	3	0	50	32	15	14	15	.258	.313	.305	.619	79.9	82.3	.307	0.3
1915	129	520	490	40	137	24	5	1	61	11	16	10	6	.280	.301	.355	.656	89.2	96.2	.317	1.3
1916	113	455	426	33	105	14	4	2	35	14	26	15	0	.246	.272	.312	.584	66.5	75.2	.284	-0.2

Career totals

2,480

66th-most career G

10,461

58th-most career PA

9,590

44th-most career AB

1,504

74th-most career R

3,243

15th-most career H

657

8th-most career 2B

163

33rd-most career 3B

RBI

1,599

37th-most career RBI

516

347

380

89th-most career SB

.3382

25th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3802

183rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4663

320th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8465

213th-highest career OPS

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
1901-08-09	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	4	5	0	0	2	2	0	11
1901-07-30	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	6	0	10
1904-07-13	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	4	4	0	3	0	4	1	10
1911-08-07	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	1	2	0	10
1902-09-10	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	3	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BOS @ ATH 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

Hall of Fame, 1937 (BBWAA)

1× Triple Crown

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