MLB / Players

Ted Lyons

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb

BornDecember 28, 1900 · Lake Charles, LA, USA

MLB debutJuly 2, 1923

Final gameMay 19, 1946

Seasons21 (1923–1946)

Chicago White Sox 1923–1942; Chicago White Sox 1946

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

39.8

50.9

79.6

55.6

93.5

SHO

39.8

167

42.6

33.3

14.8

180.3

60.2

ERA

2.10

95.4

WHIP

1.070

94.4

K/9

2.50

14.8

FIP

3.25

72.2

FIP-

91.7

63.9

ERA+

169.2

91.7

sWAR

5.3

96.3

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 148 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

116.7

85.7

sWAR

71.2

99.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	9	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	.200	.333	.200	.533	54.2	43.0	.285	-0.4
1924	41	87	77	10	17	0	1	0	6	5	13	0	.221	.277	.247	.524	35.1	36.6	.258	0.6
1925	43	110	97	6	18	3	0	0	7	3	13	0	.186	.218	.216	.434	9.0	12.9	.208	4.9
1926	41	113	104	7	22	1	1	0	3	1	10	0	.212	.219	.240	.459	12.4	22.3	.215	5.4
1927	41	123	110	16	28	6	2	1	9	6	17	0	.255	.293	.373	.666	70.4	74.4	.307	7.4
1928	49	97	91	10	23	2	0	0	8	1	9	0	.253	.261	.275	.536	35.6	41.7	.248	2.5
1929	40	104	91	7	20	4	0	0	11	9	13	0	.220	.290	.264	.554	44.9	43.9	.267	3.0
1930	57	130	122	20	38	6	3	1	15	2	18	0	.311	.323	.434	.757	88.4	91.6	.336	6.0
1931	42	38	33	6	5	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	.152	.200	.152	.352	-3.8	-4.7	.176	1.1
1932	49	84	73	11	19	2	1	1	10	4	10	0	.260	.308	.356	.664	74.4	75.4	.306	5.0
1933	51	96	91	11	26	2	1	1	11	4	6	1	.286	.316	.363	.678	78.6	81.1	.314	2.4
1934	50	106	97	9	20	4	0	1	16	3	19	0	.206	.245	.278	.523	26.8	32.6	.246	1.7
1935	29	89	82	5	18	4	0	0	6	3	4	0	.220	.256	.268	.524	27.9	34.1	.247	4.9
1936	26	76	70	2	11	0	0	0	5	5	12	0	.157	.213	.157	.370	-9.1	-8.0	.187	1.6
1937	23	72	57	6	12	0	0	0	3	9	14	0	.211	.318	.211	.529	43.4	36.6	.270	2.6
1938	24	77	72	9	14	2	0	0	4	2	9	0	.194	.216	.222	.438	2.8	9.7	.205	4.0
1939	21	72	61	5	18	3	0	0	8	5	7	0	.295	.348	.344	.693	79.4	78.3	.326	5.3
1940	22	79	75	4	18	4	0	0	7	2	7	0	.240	.260	.293	.553	37.7	43.8	.252	4.2
1941	22	78	74	8	20	2	0	0	6	2	6	0	.270	.289	.297	.587	52.1	57.4	.274	2.9
1942	20	73	67	10	16	4	0	0	10	3	7	0	.239	.282	.299	.580	61.2	65.7	.278	5.3
1946	5	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	.000	.067	.000	.067	-101.3	-80.0	.050	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	9	1	2	1	0	0	0	30	16	15	6	2	22.7	6.35	1.985	2.38	5.64	142.7	62.2	-0.4
1924	41	22	12	11	3	12	0	279	117	72	52	10	216.3	4.87	1.622	2.16	4.27	102.2	85.8	0.6
1925	43	32	21	11	3	19	5	274	95	83	45	7	262.7	3.26	1.359	1.54	4.08	97.3	128.9	4.9
1926	39	31	18	16	2	24	3	268	95	106	51	6	283.7	3.01	1.318	1.62	3.97	102.9	127.9	5.4
1927	39	34	22	14	2	30	2	291	97	67	71	7	307.7	2.84	1.164	2.08	3.55	88.5	141.3	7.4
1928	39	27	15	14	6	21	0	276	106	68	60	11	240.0	3.98	1.433	2.25	4.00	100.5	100.2	2.5
1929	37	31	14	20	2	21	1	276	118	76	57	11	259.3	4.10	1.357	1.98	4.03	95.6	102.9	3.0
1930	42	36	22	15	1	29	1	331	125	57	69	12	297.7	3.78	1.303	2.09	4.11	89.9	120.8	6.0
1931	22	12	4	6	0	7	0	117	45	33	16	6	101.0	4.01	1.485	1.43	4.69	111.1	105.2	1.1
1932	33	26	10	15	2	19	1	243	84	71	58	10	230.7	3.28	1.361	2.26	4.15	97.0	130.5	5.0
1933	36	27	10	21	1	14	2	260	111	74	74	10	228.0	4.38	1.465	2.92	3.93	93.6	95.7	2.4
1934	30	24	11	13	1	21	0	249	111	66	53	15	205.3	4.87	1.534	2.32	4.58	98.7	95.4	1.7
1935	23	22	15	8	0	19	3	194	64	56	54	15	190.7	3.02	1.311	2.55	4.48	98.3	150.8	4.9
1936	26	24	10	13	0	15	1	227	104	45	48	21	182.0	5.14	1.495	2.37	5.25	102.4	99.8	1.6
1937	22	22	12	7	0	11	0	182	78	45	45	21	169.3	4.15	1.341	2.39	5.02	109.9	110.3	2.6
1938	23	23	9	11	0	17	1	238	80	52	54	13	194.7	3.70	1.490	2.50	4.23	87.8	130.3	4.0
1939	21	21	14	6	0	16	0	162	53	26	65	7	172.7	2.76	1.089	3.39	3.38	73.7	166.1	5.3
1940	22	22	12	8	0	17	4	188	67	37	72	17	186.3	3.24	1.208	3.48	3.93	90.7	134.0	4.2
1941	22	22	12	10	0	19	2	199	77	37	63	9	187.3	3.70	1.260	3.03	3.37	83.3	109.4	2.9
1942	20	20	14	6	0	20	1	167	42	26	50	11	180.3	2.10	1.070	2.50	3.25	91.7	169.2	5.3
1946	5	5	1	4	0	5	0	38	11	9	10	2	42.7	2.32	1.102	2.11	3.22	94.8	146.4	0.8

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

705

1,726

1,563

162

364

RBI

149

201

.2329

OBP

.2702

SLG

.2853

OPS

.5555

Pitching

G (P)

594

251st-most career G (P)

484

59th-most career GS

260

42nd-most career W

230

20th-most career L

356

24th-most career CG

SHO

148th-most career SHO

4,161

37th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,073

500th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,121

70th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.668

WHIP

1.3482

K/9

2.32

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
1934-05-23	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	3	7
1933-04-23	CLE @ CWS Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	2	6
1941-08-03	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	2	5
1933-05-08	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	1	5
1930-09-26	CWS @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-08-18	NYY @ CWS Gameday	12.0	14	5	4	4	9	0
1935-07-28	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	11	6	5	4	9	1
1927-05-07	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	13	8	2	1	8	1
1942-04-23	CWS @ DET Gameday	8.0	16	9	8	1	8	1
1939-09-13	CWS @ MIN Gameday	11.0	7	1	1	2	7	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1955 (BBWAA)

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.