Red Lynn
Detroit Tigers 1939; New York Giants 1939–1940; Chicago Cubs 1944
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 30 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
| 1940 | 33 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1944 | 22 | 30 | 29 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .207 | .233 | .241 | .475 | 26.3 | 34.7 | .225 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 25 | 24 | 25 | 5 | 58.0 | 3.88 | 1.362 | 3.88 | 4.51 | 110.0 | 104.7 | 0.6 |
| 1940 | 33 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 18 | 24 | 25 | 3 | 42.3 | 3.83 | 1.512 | 5.31 | 4.26 | 109.7 | 101.5 | 0.4 |
| 1944 | 22 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 80 | 38 | 37 | 35 | 4 | 84.3 | 4.06 | 1.387 | 3.74 | 3.67 | 103.1 | 87.8 | 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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-10-01 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1944-08-16 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1944-07-21 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1944-08-30 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1944-09-13 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-09-13 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 8.1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1944-07-21 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 1944-08-20 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1939-09-16 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1940-07-11 | SF @ STL Gameday | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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.