MLB / Players

Roxie Lawson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornApril 13, 1906 · Donnellson, IA, USA

MLB debutAugust 3, 1930

Final gameSeptember 28, 1940

Seasons9 (1930–1940)

Cleveland Indians 1930–1931; Detroit Tigers 1933; Detroit Tigers 1935–1939; St. Louis Browns 1939–1940

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified pitchers

74.2

35.5

12.9

46.2

11.8

SHO

188

46.2

25.8

15.1

32.3

162.0

ERA

5.28

12.9

WHIP

1.716

7.5

K/9

2.61

9.7

FIP

5.14

10.8

FIP-

107.3

24.7

ERA+

90.8

23.7

sWAR

0.7

22.6

of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.6

72.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	7	14	11	3	1	0	0	0	2	7	.091	.231	.091	.322	-4.9	-16.3	.185	-0.2
1931	17	15	14	0	2	0	1	1	0	5	.143	.200	.286	.486	16.4	23.0	.224	-1.2
1933	4	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.4	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1935	7	15	13	1	4	1	0	3	1	2	.308	.357	.385	.742	95.7	96.0	.346	1.6
1936	41	47	45	2	10	0	1	5	2	6	.222	.255	.267	.522	26.7	29.4	.245	0.7
1937	37	92	81	11	21	3	0	6	6	14	.259	.310	.296	.607	51.8	53.1	.287	1.1
1938	27	47	45	1	2	0	0	1	1	9	.044	.065	.044	.110	-89.6	-72.7	.057	0.3
1939	39	53	47	6	8	1	1	1	0	8	.170	.170	.234	.404	-11.9	0.5	.181	0.7
1940	30	22	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	5	.045	.045	.045	.091	-99.0	-76.7	.042	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1930	7	4	1	2	0	2	0	46	23	23	10	1	33.7	6.15	2.050	2.67	5.29	109.8	78.3	-0.2
1931	17	3	0	2	0	0	0	72	47	36	20	5	55.7	7.60	1.940	3.23	5.64	122.0	60.9	-1.2
1933	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	17	13	17	6	2	16.0	7.31	2.125	3.38	7.09	165.1	58.8	-0.4
1935	7	4	3	1	2	4	2	34	7	24	16	3	40.0	1.58	1.450	3.60	5.07	118.8	270.7	1.6
1936	41	8	8	6	3	3	0	139	78	71	34	13	128.0	5.48	1.641	2.39	6.04	120.6	91.3	0.7
1937	37	29	18	7	1	15	0	236	127	115	68	17	217.3	5.26	1.615	2.82	5.12	110.1	88.4	1.1
1938	27	16	8	9	1	5	0	154	77	82	39	13	127.0	5.46	1.858	2.76	5.77	114.6	92.3	0.3
1939	38	15	4	8	0	5	0	188	95	90	47	11	162.0	5.28	1.716	2.61	5.14	107.3	90.8	0.7
1940	30	2	5	3	4	0	0	77	41	54	18	5	72.0	5.13	1.819	2.25	5.58	123.3	88.2	0.0

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

209

310

283

RBI

.1731

OBP

.2095

SLG

.2120

OPS

.4215

Pitching

G (P)

208

SHO

852

SO (P)

258

BB allowed

512

ERA

5.368

WHIP

1.7319

K/9

2.73

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
1939-08-27	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	5
1936-06-11	DET @ NYY Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	2	4
1935-08-28	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	3	3
1937-05-07	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	3
1937-04-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-05-03	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	12	4	4	9	7	0
1935-09-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	6	6	0
1937-05-16	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	4	6	0
1937-09-05	CWS @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	5	5	4	6	0
1938-06-17	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	5	5	2

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.