Steve Lake
Chicago Cubs 1983–1986; St. Louis Cardinals 1986–1988; Philadelphia Phillies 1989–1992; Chicago Cubs 1993
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 38 | 88 | 85 | 9 | 22 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .284 | .365 | .649 | 66.1 | 75.5 | .288 | 0.2 |
| 1984 | 25 | 57 | 54 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .232 | .407 | .640 | 62.1 | 70.8 | .284 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 58 | 128 | 119 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .151 | .177 | .193 | .371 | -19.0 | -0.6 | .170 | -0.9 |
| 1986 | 36 | 72 | 68 | 8 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .324 | .412 | .736 | 99.1 | 100.5 | .331 | 0.6 |
| 1987 | 74 | 195 | 179 | 19 | 45 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .251 | .289 | .346 | .636 | 60.0 | 67.5 | .279 | 0.2 |
| 1988 | 36 | 59 | 54 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .278 | .339 | .389 | .728 | 114.6 | 109.2 | .341 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 58 | 169 | 155 | 9 | 39 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .252 | .304 | .335 | .639 | 76.4 | 82.2 | .289 | 0.6 |
| 1990 | 29 | 84 | 80 | 4 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .286 | .275 | .561 | 50.6 | 55.3 | .259 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 58 | 164 | 158 | 12 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .228 | .238 | .285 | .522 | 38.6 | 47.0 | .236 | -0.2 |
| 1992 | 20 | 55 | 53 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .255 | .340 | .594 | 59.2 | 66.9 | .269 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 44 | 126 | 120 | 11 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .250 | .400 | .650 | 61.4 | 72.2 | .276 | 0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-04-26 | SD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1991-06-30 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1987-04-11 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1993-07-02 | CHC @ COL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1988-04-12 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.