Frank Lary

1954–1965 · 12 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1930

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Pitching: 14 of 18 columns. Folded away: HR, BFP, CG, SHO. Hitting: 17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Pitching

SeasonTeamLgGGSIPWLSVSOBBHERERAWHIPWARFIP
1954Detroit TigersAL303.700053412.461.910.12.13
1955Detroit TigersAL3631235.0141519889232813.101.374.23.30
1956Detroit TigersAL4138294.0211311651162891033.151.384.93.44
1957Detroit TigersAL4035237.711163107722501053.981.352.33.87
1958Detroit TigersAL3934260.31615113168249842.901.224.33.39
1959Detroit TigersAL3232223.01710013746225883.551.223.93.42
1960Detroit TigersAL3836274.315151149622621073.511.184.13.51
1961GGDetroit TigersAL3636275.3239014666252993.241.165.13.43
1962Detroit TigersAL171480.0260412198515.741.49-0.45.29
1963Detroit TigersAL1614107.3490462690393.271.080.04.30
1964New York MetsNL241487.73513724101495.031.43-0.84.90
1965New York MetsNL28884.0233372371313.321.120.33.49
Career12 seasons3502922162.312811611109961621238383.491.2727.9

Hitting

SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1954Detroit TigersAL300000000000
1955Detroit TigersAL36918241620024290.195.233.220.452-0.6
1956Detroit TigersAL411191031419201128250.184.239.233.472-0.8
1957Detroit TigersAL4084734901042220.123.147.151.297-1.1
1958Detroit TigersAL391008861511163200.170.198.239.436-0.9
1959Detroit TigersAL32928071011124260.125.167.200.367-1.0
1960Detroit TigersAL39108931117412137320.183.240.312.552-0.3
1961Detroit TigersAL42115108132520153270.231.259.278.537-0.5
1962Detroit TigersAL222624340101290.167.231.250.481-0.2
1963Detroit TigersAL1638352801061100.229.250.286.536-0.1
1964New York MetsNL243327120001570.074.219.074.293-0.3
1965New York MetsNL282221350002040.238.238.238.476-0.1
Career12 seasons36282873468130126654392110.177.220.234.454-5.9

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest. On a season where this player both batted and pitched, the WAR column is left unshaded either way: the data keeps one WAR ranking for the year and does not say which of the two it belongs to, and a guess here would put a league lead on the wrong line.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

Not every award existed yet. This database has Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.