Ellis Kinder
St. Louis Browns 1946–1947; Boston Red Sox 1948–1955; Chicago White Sox 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Chicago White Sox 1957
Percentile snapshot
1950 season — qualified pitchers
of 61 qualified 1950 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 33 | 23 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .053 | .143 | .053 | .195 | -62.0 | -45.1 | .116 | 1.1 |
| 1947 | 34 | 67 | 62 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .129 | .143 | .129 | .272 | -49.5 | -25.5 | .131 | 0.0 |
| 1948 | 28 | 73 | 62 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .097 | .200 | .097 | .297 | -24.7 | -20.9 | .169 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 43 | 107 | 92 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .130 | .184 | .152 | .336 | -28.9 | -13.1 | .171 | 5.1 |
| 1950 | 48 | 77 | 71 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .183 | .205 | .268 | .473 | -0.2 | 15.7 | .217 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 63 | 35 | 34 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .143 | .147 | .290 | -45.5 | -24.7 | .139 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 23 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -142.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 2.0 |
| 1953 | 69 | 30 | 29 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .379 | .379 | .414 | .793 | 108.1 | 109.4 | .364 | 4.2 |
| 1954 | 48 | 34 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .241 | .259 | .501 | 20.1 | 32.0 | .239 | 1.7 |
| 1955 | 43 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .308 | .250 | .558 | 45.5 | 46.8 | .275 | 1.8 |
| 1956 | 51 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 33 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 78 | 32 | 36 | 59 | 8 | 86.7 | 3.32 | 1.315 | 6.13 | 3.53 | 96.4 | 110.2 | 1.1 |
| 1947 | 34 | 26 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 201 | 97 | 82 | 110 | 11 | 194.3 | 4.49 | 1.456 | 5.09 | 3.29 | 85.7 | 85.6 | 0.0 |
| 1948 | 28 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 183 | 74 | 63 | 53 | 10 | 178.0 | 3.74 | 1.382 | 2.68 | 3.98 | 89.7 | 118.5 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 43 | 30 | 23 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 6 | 251 | 94 | 99 | 138 | 21 | 252.0 | 3.36 | 1.389 | 4.93 | 3.68 | 82.9 | 132.3 | 5.1 |
| 1950 | 48 | 23 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 212 | 98 | 78 | 95 | 23 | 207.0 | 4.26 | 1.401 | 4.13 | 4.38 | 88.5 | 116.3 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 63 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 108 | 36 | 46 | 84 | 9 | 127.0 | 2.55 | 1.213 | 5.95 | 3.26 | 72.8 | 175.7 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 85 | 28 | 28 | 50 | 11 | 97.7 | 2.58 | 1.157 | 4.61 | 3.70 | 94.8 | 151.0 | 2.0 |
| 1953 | 69 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 22 | 38 | 39 | 8 | 107.0 | 1.85 | 1.140 | 3.28 | 3.93 | 94.2 | 225.6 | 4.2 |
| 1954 | 48 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 106 | 43 | 36 | 67 | 7 | 107.0 | 3.62 | 1.327 | 5.64 | 2.99 | 73.8 | 111.9 | 1.7 |
| 1955 | 43 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 21 | 15 | 31 | 5 | 66.7 | 2.84 | 1.080 | 4.19 | 3.19 | 75.2 | 149.9 | 1.8 |
| 1956 | 51 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 19 | 17 | 23 | 5 | 55.3 | 3.09 | 1.319 | 3.74 | 3.64 | 92.9 | 128.3 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 0.00 | 5.40 | 143.9 | — | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-06-20 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1950-08-06 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| 1948-07-04 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1949-09-03 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1950-07-02 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-08-03 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 1 |
| 1947-06-24 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| 1951-07-07 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| 1946-09-19 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 7.1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 1949-05-18 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
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.