Dock Ellis

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornMarch 11, 1945 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 18, 1968

Final gameSeptember 29, 1979

Seasons12 (1968–1979)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1968–1975; New York Yankees 1976–1977; Oakland Athletics 1977; Texas Rangers 1977–1978; New York Mets 1979; Pittsburgh Pirates 1979; Texas Rangers 1979

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified pitchers

42.5

47.5

SHO

21.3

211

56.3

66.3

62.5

106

42.5

63.8

213.0

ERA

3.63

53.8

WHIP

1.291

61.3

K/9

4.48

FIP

3.82

53.8

FIP-

94.2

56.3

ERA+

111.8

sWAR

3.1

57.5

of 81 qualified 1977 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.0

53.8

sWAR

23.8

94.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1968	27	32	29	1	2	1	2	0	11	0	.069	.069	.103	.172	-75.9	-48.4	.079	1.5
1969	37	77	68	2	6	0	1	2	40	0	.088	.114	.088	.203	-55.2	-41.6	.102	1.6
1970	38	76	70	9	7	1	1	2	37	1	.100	.125	.114	.239	-42.9	-34.1	.116	3.3
1971	44	95	79	11	16	0	12	6	29	2	.203	.259	.203	.461	32.2	33.9	.229	3.5
1972	36	61	59	6	9	0	1	1	22	0	.153	.167	.153	.319	-21.0	-7.1	.152	2.8
1973	29	73	65	2	7	0	0	2	32	1	.108	.134	.108	.242	-41.6	-30.8	.120	2.8
1974	30	69	56	6	12	1	4	8	15	0	.214	.313	.232	.545	66.0	57.6	.279	2.8
1975	30	48	36	3	4	1	1	5	8	0	.111	.220	.139	.358	5.0	2.6	.195	1.0
1976	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1977	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1978	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1979	30	29	27	2	2	0	1	1	7	0	.074	.107	.074	.181	-62.0	-48.8	.093	-2.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1968	26	10	6	5	0	2	0	82	29	38	52	4	104.0	2.51	1.154	4.50	3.17	107.4	117.7	1.5
1969	35	33	11	17	0	8	2	206	87	76	173	14	218.7	3.58	1.290	7.12	3.00	85.9	97.7	1.6
1970	30	30	13	10	0	9	4	194	72	87	128	9	201.7	3.21	1.393	5.71	3.60	91.8	122.1	3.3
1971	31	31	19	9	0	11	2	207	77	63	137	15	226.7	3.06	1.191	5.44	3.05	89.6	111.5	3.5
1972	25	25	15	7	0	4	1	156	49	33	96	6	163.3	2.70	1.157	5.29	2.49	74.1	124.5	2.8
1973	28	28	12	14	0	3	1	176	65	55	122	7	192.0	3.05	1.203	5.72	2.71	76.0	116.8	2.8
1974	26	26	12	9	0	9	0	163	62	41	91	13	176.7	3.16	1.155	4.64	3.33	95.1	110.8	2.8
1975	27	24	8	9	0	5	2	163	59	43	69	9	140.0	3.79	1.471	4.44	3.45	97.0	93.9	1.0
1976	32	32	17	8	0	8	1	195	75	76	65	14	211.7	3.19	1.280	2.76	4.00	115.2	108.8	2.8
1977	33	32	12	12	1	8	1	211	86	64	106	19	213.0	3.63	1.291	4.48	3.82	94.2	111.8	3.1
1978	22	22	9	7	0	3	0	131	66	46	45	15	141.3	4.20	1.252	2.87	4.31	114.9	89.3	0.6
1979	30	24	4	12	0	1	0	183	90	52	52	15	138.7	5.84	1.695	3.38	4.52	117.9	65.7	-2.0

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

388

560

489

RBI

201

.1329

OBP

.1783

SLG

.1411

OPS

.3194

Pitching

G (P)

345

317

307th-most career GS

138

325th-most career W

119

340th-most career L

SHO

436th-most career SHO

2,128

380th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,136

451st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

674

426th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.456

409th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2883

500th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.81

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	RBI	BB	TB
1971-06-11	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	3	0	2
1971-08-27	PIT @ HOU Gameday	3	0	2	1	1	2
1974-07-31	PIT @ NYM Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2
1970-07-09	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2
1972-09-12	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1970-04-09	NYM @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	5	13	0
1977-07-13	BAL @ TEX Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	2	12	0
1969-09-12	NYM @ PIT Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	3	11	0
1971-09-28	PIT @ PHI Gameday	8.0	8	6	3	0	11	3
1969-06-22	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	10	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.

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.