Vance Lovelace
California Angels 1988–1989; Seattle Mariners 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1.3 | 13.50 | 3.750 | 0.00 | 19.32 | 497.5 | 28.8 | -0.1 |
| 1989 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 9.00 | 3.85 | 100.7 | — | 0.1 |
| 1990 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2.3 | 3.86 | 3.857 | 3.86 | 10.95 | 277.2 | 102.4 | 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
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-04-06 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1990-08-18 | SEA @ NYY Gameday | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1988-09-30 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1990-09-22 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1988-09-11 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 0.1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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.