MLB / Players

Red Lucas

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornApril 28, 1902 · Columbia, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1923

Final gameOctober 1, 1938

Seasons16 (1923–1938)

New York Giants 1923; Boston Braves 1924–1925; Cincinnati Reds 1926–1933; Pittsburgh Pirates 1934–1938

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified pitchers

75.6

81.1

58.9

SHO

178

67.8

71.1

85.6

32.2

63.3

175.7

ERA

3.18

92.2

WHIP

1.161

95.6

K/9

2.72

15.6

FIP

3.45

93.3

FIP-

85.4

85.6

ERA+

127.2

76.7

sWAR

3.2

68.9

of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.1

sWAR

34.7

97.3

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-114.8	-100.0	.000	0.2
1924	33	34	33	5	11	1	0	0	5	1	4	0	.333	.353	.364	.717	94.5	95.4	.332	-0.3
1925	6	23	20	1	3	0	0	0	2	2	4	0	.150	.227	.150	.377	5.4	1.8	.193	-0.2
1926	66	91	76	15	23	4	4	0	14	10	13	0	.303	.384	.461	.844	131.3	130.8	.390	2.5
1927	80	169	150	14	47	5	2	0	28	12	10	0	.313	.368	.373	.741	104.3	102.7	.350	4.1
1928	39	78	73	8	23	2	1	0	7	4	6	0	.315	.351	.370	.721	89.7	90.6	.335	3.2
1929	76	155	140	15	41	6	0	0	13	13	15	1	.293	.353	.336	.689	78.6	76.0	.324	5.1
1930	80	137	113	18	38	4	1	2	19	17	4	0	.336	.423	.442	.866	118.2	114.4	.394	1.6
1931	97	171	153	15	43	4	0	0	17	12	9	0	.281	.333	.307	.641	78.5	77.6	.304	2.7
1932	76	164	150	13	43	11	2	0	19	10	9	0	.287	.335	.387	.722	95.9	95.8	.327	5.6
1933	75	137	122	14	35	6	1	1	15	12	6	0	.287	.356	.377	.733	112.7	109.7	.344	2.6
1934	68	112	105	11	23	5	1	0	8	6	16	1	.219	.261	.286	.547	41.4	45.5	.254	0.8
1935	47	76	66	6	21	6	0	0	10	7	11	0	.318	.392	.409	.801	117.3	113.7	.371	2.6
1936	69	119	108	11	26	4	1	0	14	8	17	0	.241	.293	.296	.589	57.1	58.6	.279	3.2
1937	59	89	82	8	22	3	0	0	17	7	6	0	.268	.326	.305	.631	74.0	73.1	.300	0.7
1938	33	51	46	1	5	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	.109	.163	.109	.272	-33.2	-24.0	.140	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	0	4	3	0	5.3	0.00	2.438	5.06	4.09	105.2	—	0.2
1924	27	4	1	4	0	1	0	112	48	18	30	5	83.7	5.16	1.554	3.23	3.87	103.3	72.6	-0.3
1926	39	11	8	5	2	7	1	161	63	30	34	6	154.0	3.68	1.240	1.99	3.59	97.7	99.9	2.5
1927	37	23	18	11	2	19	4	231	90	39	51	6	239.7	3.38	1.127	1.92	3.38	89.6	111.6	4.1
1928	27	19	13	9	1	13	4	164	63	42	35	9	167.3	3.39	1.231	1.88	3.81	97.8	114.8	3.2
1929	32	32	19	12	0	28	2	267	108	58	72	14	270.0	3.60	1.204	2.40	4.12	91.7	124.7	5.1
1930	33	28	14	16	1	18	1	270	126	44	53	15	210.7	5.38	1.491	2.26	4.61	97.1	88.3	1.6
1931	29	29	14	13	0	24	3	261	95	39	56	10	238.0	3.59	1.261	2.12	3.54	96.3	102.3	2.7
1932	31	31	13	17	0	28	0	261	88	35	63	10	269.3	2.94	1.099	2.11	3.33	87.8	128.9	5.6
1933	29	29	10	16	0	21	3	248	83	18	40	13	219.7	3.40	1.211	1.64	3.25	97.7	97.7	2.6
1934	29	21	10	9	0	12	1	198	84	40	44	14	172.7	4.38	1.378	2.29	4.36	105.9	94.1	0.8
1935	20	19	8	6	0	8	2	136	48	23	29	10	125.7	3.44	1.265	2.08	4.19	102.5	119.0	2.6
1936	27	22	15	4	0	12	0	178	62	26	53	7	175.7	3.18	1.161	2.72	3.45	85.4	127.2	3.2
1937	20	20	8	10	0	9	1	150	60	23	20	12	126.3	4.27	1.369	1.42	4.44	114.8	90.5	0.7
1938	13	13	6	3	0	4	0	90	33	16	19	5	84.0	3.54	1.262	2.04	3.66	96.6	107.3	0.4

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

907

1,608

1,439

155

404

RBI

190

124

133

.2808

OBP

.3395

SLG

.3475

OPS

.6870

Pitching

G (P)

396

301

349th-most career GS

157

241st-most career W

135

247th-most career L

204

131st-most career CG

SHO

218th-most career SHO

2,542

243rd-most career IP

SO (P)

602

BB allowed

455

ERA

3.721

WHIP

1.2553

358th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.13

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	RBI	TB
1934-05-19	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	5
1929-07-25	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	4
1926-05-21	LAD @ CIN Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	3	4
1927-05-04	CIN @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	4
1932-08-05	CIN @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-25	STL @ CIN Gameday	17.0	12	4	4	3	7	1
1929-08-25	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	1	6	0
1934-07-03	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	6	0
1936-06-26	PIT @ ATL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	6	0
1929-05-20	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	11	5	5	2	5	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.