MLB / Players

Ron LeFlore

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornJune 16, 1948 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 1974

Final gameSeptember 3, 1982

Seasons9 (1974–1982)

Detroit Tigers 1974–1979; Montreal Expos 1980; Chicago White Sox 1981–1982

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

2.2

369

18.2

337

24.8

48.2

15.3

70.1

RBI

7.3

32.8

12.4

97.1

5.1

.246

16.1

OBP

.304

14.6

SLG

.300

6.6

OPS

.604

7.3

wRC+

78.8

10.2

OPS+

77.2

7.3

wOBA

.288

8.8

sWAR

0.0

4.4

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 328 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.5

52.9

OPS+

103.3

49.1

sWAR

20.1

93.6

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
1974	59	272	254	37	66	8	1	2	13	13	58	23	9	.260	.301	.323	.624	76.2	77.1	.294	0.3
1975	136	591	550	66	142	13	6	8	37	33	139	28	20	.258	.302	.347	.649	77.8	79.3	.303	0.7
1976	135	603	544	93	172	23	8	4	39	51	111	58	20	.316	.376	.410	.786	131.8	126.5	.371	4.6
1977	154	698	652	100	212	30	10	16	57	37	121	39	19	.325	.363	.475	.838	124.8	122.4	.373	4.8
1978	155	741	666	126	198	30	3	12	62	65	104	68	16	.297	.361	.405	.766	115.5	114.0	.351	4.3
1979	148	654	600	110	180	22	10	9	57	52	95	78	14	.300	.355	.415	.770	107.7	105.5	.349	2.7
1980	139	587	521	95	134	21	11	4	39	62	99	97	19	.257	.337	.363	.700	102.0	96.7	.331	1.4
1981	82	369	337	46	83	10	4	0	24	28	70	36	11	.246	.304	.300	.604	78.8	77.2	.288	0.0
1982	91	357	334	58	96	15	4	4	25	22	91	28	14	.287	.331	.392	.723	99.4	98.9	.326	1.3

Career totals

1,099

4,872

4,458

731

1,283

172

RBI

353

363

888

455

53rd-most career SB

.2878

464th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3423

SLG

.3917

OPS

.7340

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
1980-06-18	WSH @ LAD Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	10
1978-05-17	DET @ MIL Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	8
1978-05-28	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	8
1977-08-10	MIL @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	3	8
1977-06-16	TOR @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	8

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

1× All-Star

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