Tom Lawless
Cincinnati Reds 1982; Cincinnati Reds 1984; Montreal Expos 1984; St. Louis Cardinals 1985–1988; Toronto Blue Jays 1989–1990
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 49 | 176 | 165 | 19 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 30 | 16 | 5 | .212 | .253 | .248 | .501 | 37.3 | 40.0 | .240 | -0.7 |
| 1984 | 54 | 106 | 97 | 11 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 3 | .237 | .295 | .299 | .594 | 63.9 | 65.6 | .280 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 47 | 64 | 58 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | .207 | .270 | .293 | .563 | 59.9 | 59.4 | .268 | -0.1 |
| 1986 | 46 | 44 | 39 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 1 | .282 | .310 | .308 | .617 | 71.9 | 73.2 | .288 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 19 | 29 | 25 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | .080 | .179 | .120 | .299 | -20.0 | -18.9 | .158 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 54 | 79 | 65 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 0 | .154 | .236 | .262 | .498 | 43.4 | 43.2 | .241 | -0.2 |
| 1989 | 59 | 79 | 70 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 1 | .229 | .295 | .243 | .538 | 57.7 | 55.2 | .262 | -0.3 |
| 1990 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | -73.8 | -53.1 | .077 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988-08-28 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1982-07-29 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1982-08-05 | CIN @ SD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1987-10-21 | MIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1984-04-25 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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.