Steve Lyons
Boston Red Sox 1985–1986; Chicago White Sox 1986–1990; Boston Red Sox 1991; Atlanta Braves 1992; Boston Red Sox 1992; Montreal Expos 1992; Boston Red Sox 1993
Percentile snapshot
1988 season — qualified batters
of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 499 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 133 | 409 | 371 | 52 | 98 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 32 | 64 | 12 | 9 | .264 | .322 | .358 | .680 | 85.7 | 84.1 | .310 | 0.8 |
| 1986 | 101 | 275 | 247 | 30 | 56 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 19 | 47 | 4 | 6 | .227 | .280 | .300 | .580 | 54.1 | 57.9 | .263 | -0.6 |
| 1987 | 76 | 210 | 193 | 26 | 54 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 37 | 3 | 1 | .280 | .320 | .363 | .683 | 80.2 | 79.7 | .306 | 0.2 |
| 1988 | 146 | 526 | 472 | 59 | 127 | 28 | 3 | 5 | 45 | 32 | 59 | 1 | 2 | .269 | .313 | .373 | .686 | 91.7 | 92.2 | .312 | 1.5 |
| 1989 | 140 | 494 | 443 | 51 | 117 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 50 | 35 | 68 | 9 | 6 | .264 | .317 | .339 | .656 | 87.4 | 87.6 | .304 | 0.7 |
| 1990 | 94 | 163 | 146 | 22 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 41 | 1 | 0 | .192 | .245 | .267 | .512 | 39.6 | 45.0 | .238 | -1.1 |
| 1991 | 87 | 227 | 212 | 15 | 51 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 11 | 35 | 10 | 3 | .241 | .277 | .354 | .631 | 65.1 | 70.7 | .283 | -0.1 |
| 1992 | 48 | 59 | 55 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 3 | .200 | .241 | .273 | .514 | 37.1 | 42.8 | .242 | -0.4 |
| 1993 | 28 | 25 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | .130 | .200 | .174 | .374 | -4.9 | -0.6 | .185 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 4.50 | 3.000 | 4.50 | 7.81 | 202.6 | 85.7 | -1.1 |
| 1991 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 2.000 | 9.00 | 0.91 | 21.4 | — | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-05-27 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1985-08-14 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1987-07-03 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1986-05-01 | SEA @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1988-08-02 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
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.