Dick Ellsworth

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 22, 1940 · Lusk, WY, USA

MLB debutJune 22, 1958

Final gameJune 23, 1971

Seasons13 (1958–1971)

Chicago Cubs 1958; Chicago Cubs 1960–1966; Philadelphia Phillies 1967; Boston Red Sox 1968–1969; Cleveland Indians 1969–1970; Milwaukee Brewers 1970–1971

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

6.7

17.3

70.7

93.3

SHO

5.3

196

46.7

65.3

94.7

106

34.7

196.0

21.3

ERA

3.03

33.3

WHIP

1.189

37.3

K/9

4.87

FIP

2.88

45.3

FIP-

91.0

ERA+

104.3

46.7

sWAR

1.7

26.7

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.0

33.9

sWAR

18.0

92.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1958	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.9	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1960	31	60	48	3	2	0	0	1	6	30	.042	.148	.042	.190	-46.9	-44.7	.116	1.6
1961	37	65	56	1	2	1	0	0	3	29	.036	.100	.054	.154	-67.8	-58.1	.086	2.0
1962	37	78	62	5	7	1	0	2	14	28	.113	.276	.129	.405	23.2	11.3	.227	-0.1
1963	37	110	94	8	9	0	0	5	8	38	.096	.167	.096	.262	-34.3	-24.0	.139	7.6
1964	37	98	87	4	4	0	0	1	4	43	.046	.087	.046	.133	-78.4	-61.9	.072	1.7
1965	36	83	73	1	7	0	1	2	4	30	.096	.143	.123	.266	-36.7	-25.3	.132	1.6
1966	38	100	90	7	14	0	1	5	4	36	.156	.200	.178	.378	-1.6	5.4	.181	1.7
1967	32	42	37	1	4	0	0	1	0	19	.108	.132	.108	.240	-45.1	-30.7	.118	-0.5
1968	31	79	72	2	4	0	0	2	1	45	.056	.081	.056	.137	-90.8	-59.1	.071	1.7
1969	36	52	48	0	6	0	0	3	2	21	.125	.160	.125	.285	-34.1	-20.0	.142	0.6
1970	43	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.0	-100.0	.000	0.6
1971	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.5	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1958	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	4	3	0	0	2.3	15.43	3.000	0.00	7.65	195.2	25.4	-0.3
1960	31	27	7	13	0	6	0	170	73	72	94	12	176.7	3.72	1.370	4.79	3.73	98.8	101.4	1.6
1961	37	31	10	11	0	7	1	213	80	48	91	23	186.7	3.86	1.398	4.39	4.11	99.2	107.5	2.0
1962	37	33	9	20	1	6	0	241	118	77	113	23	208.7	5.09	1.524	4.87	4.25	103.8	80.5	-0.1
1963	37	37	22	10	0	19	4	223	68	75	185	14	290.7	2.11	1.025	5.73	2.65	76.4	164.4	7.6
1964	37	36	14	18	0	16	1	267	107	71	148	34	256.7	3.75	1.317	5.19	4.18	113.9	97.9	1.7
1965	36	34	14	15	1	8	0	227	94	57	130	22	222.3	3.81	1.277	5.26	3.58	97.5	96.3	1.6
1966	38	37	8	22	0	9	0	321	119	51	144	28	269.3	3.98	1.381	4.81	3.58	97.1	92.6	1.7
1967	32	21	6	7	0	3	1	152	61	36	45	6	125.3	4.38	1.500	3.23	3.54	104.1	77.7	-0.5
1968	31	28	16	7	0	10	1	196	66	37	106	16	196.0	3.03	1.189	4.87	2.88	91.0	104.3	1.7
1969	36	24	6	9	0	3	1	178	67	44	52	11	147.0	4.10	1.510	3.18	3.63	97.3	90.8	0.6
1970	43	1	3	3	3	0	0	60	25	17	22	4	59.3	3.79	1.298	3.34	3.52	91.1	101.6	0.6
1971	11	0	0	1	0	0	0	22	8	7	10	1	14.7	4.91	1.977	6.14	3.52	102.6	69.8	-0.1

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

407

774

673

RBI

322

.0877

OBP

.1506

SLG

.0966

OPS

.2472

Pitching

G (P)

407

310

322nd-most career GS

115

484th-most career W

137

231st-most career L

SHO

2,156

368th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,140

445th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

595

ERA

3.716

WHIP

1.3309

K/9

4.76

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	3B	RBI	TB
1965-07-19	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	0	1	1	2	3
1966-07-10	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	1	1	1	0	3
1966-09-28	CHC @ NYM Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2
1965-05-26	CHC @ NYM Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1969-06-14	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	0	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-06-28	CHC @ PHI Gameday	11.0	10	3	3	4	11	0
1963-09-07	CHC @ HOU Gameday	8.2	5	2	2	3	11	0
1965-07-19	CHC @ SF Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	1	11	0
1963-07-28	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	10	0
1968-05-21	BOS @ LAA Gameday	7.0	8	5	5	0	10	2

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

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.