Ed Sprague
Oakland Athletics 1968–1969; Cincinnati Reds 1971–1973; Milwaukee Brewers 1973; St. Louis Cardinals 1973; Milwaukee Brewers 1974–1976
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 47 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1969 | 27 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .400 | .600 | 58.6 | 68.3 | .265 | -0.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -130.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
| 1972 | 33 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1973 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.3 |
| 1975 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 47 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 25 | 34 | 34 | 5 | 68.7 | 3.28 | 1.238 | 4.46 | 3.75 | 129.4 | 88.5 | 0.2 |
| 1969 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 23 | 31 | 20 | 4 | 46.3 | 4.47 | 1.683 | 3.88 | 4.76 | 137.0 | 77.7 | -0.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 11.0 | 0.00 | .818 | 5.73 | 1.54 | 45.6 | — | 0.6 |
| 1972 | 33 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 6 | 56.7 | 4.13 | 1.429 | 3.97 | 4.56 | 139.7 | 79.0 | -0.1 |
| 1973 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 34 | 40 | 24 | 4 | 56.3 | 5.43 | 1.704 | 3.83 | 4.97 | 139.3 | 65.4 | -0.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 94 | 25 | 31 | 57 | 3 | 94.0 | 2.39 | 1.330 | 5.46 | 2.89 | 79.7 | 151.4 | 2.3 |
| 1975 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 35 | 40 | 21 | 5 | 67.3 | 4.68 | 1.797 | 2.81 | 4.77 | 124.7 | 81.8 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7.7 | 7.04 | 2.217 | 0.00 | 3.79 | 108.5 | 49.6 | -0.3 |
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
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-05-02 | MIL @ ATH Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1968-04-10 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-04-16 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-04-18 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-04-22 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974-07-04 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1974-07-08 | CWS @ MIL Gameday | 6.1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| 1974-06-09 | ATH @ MIL Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1974-06-26 | MIL @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1974-06-20 | BAL @ MIL Gameday | 8.1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 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.