Babe Ellison
Detroit Tigers 1916–1920
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -37.9 | -15.4 | .138 | -0.1 |
| 1917 | 9 | 37 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .333 | .448 | .782 | 135.9 | 136.5 | .380 | 0.2 |
| 1918 | 7 | 26 | 23 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .261 | .346 | .304 | .651 | 102.2 | 98.6 | .331 | 0.1 |
| 1919 | 56 | 154 | 134 | 18 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 13 | 24 | 4 | 0 | .216 | .291 | .246 | .537 | 51.3 | 51.4 | .269 | -0.4 |
| 1920 | 61 | 171 | 155 | 11 | 34 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 26 | 4 | 1 | .219 | .258 | .290 | .548 | 41.4 | 45.7 | .259 | -1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-09-21 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1919-05-01 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1920-07-10 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1920-06-11 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1920-06-29 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-04-12 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-13 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-14 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-15 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916-04-16 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.