MLB / Players

Ellis Valentine

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornJuly 30, 1954 · Helena, AR, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1975

Final gameOctober 2, 1985

Seasons10 (1975–1985)

Montreal Expos 1975–1981; New York Mets 1981–1982; California Angels 1983; Texas Rangers 1985

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

146

38.1

575

548

53.2

43.9

151

48.9

68.3

33.1

70.5

RBI

70.5

4.3

38.8

56.1

25.9

.276

46.8

OBP

.303

11.5

SLG

.454

63.3

OPS

.758

43.2

wRC+

104.2

OPS+

106.2

43.9

wOBA

.338

36.7

sWAR

1.5

28.8

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.2

OPS+

112.8

67.9

sWAR

12.4

89.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1975	12	35	33	2	12	4	0	1	3	2	4	0	0	.364	.400	.576	.976	171.8	164.0	.447	0.4
1976	94	341	305	36	85	15	2	7	39	30	51	14	1	.279	.339	.410	.749	112.9	110.2	.351	1.6
1977	127	541	508	63	149	28	2	25	76	30	58	13	5	.293	.331	.504	.835	122.4	122.6	.369	2.7
1978	151	612	570	75	165	35	2	25	76	35	88	13	8	.289	.330	.489	.820	129.4	129.0	.370	3.5
1979	146	575	548	73	151	29	3	21	82	22	74	11	9	.276	.303	.454	.758	104.2	106.2	.338	1.5
1980	86	343	311	40	98	22	2	13	67	25	44	5	5	.315	.367	.524	.891	152.0	147.9	.403	2.9
1981	70	261	245	23	51	11	1	8	36	11	49	0	4	.208	.238	.359	.597	61.2	68.3	.273	-0.7
1982	111	350	337	33	97	14	1	8	48	5	38	1	3	.288	.294	.407	.701	91.9	95.0	.317	0.3
1983	86	294	271	30	65	10	2	13	43	18	48	2	1	.240	.283	.435	.719	93.8	96.2	.317	0.3
1985	11	40	38	5	8	1	0	2	4	2	8	0	1	.211	.250	.395	.645	70.1	72.9	.284	-0.1

Career totals

894

3,392

3,166

380

881

169

123

RBI

474

180

462

.2783

OBP

.3153

SLG

.4577

416th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7730

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1981-09-24	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	5	0	10
1978-07-07	WSH @ PHI Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	3	0	9
1980-07-15	WSH @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1977-05-21	SD @ WSH Gameday	9	1	3	2	1	1	1	8
1977-07-04	WSH @ CHC Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	5	1	8

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× Gold Glove1× 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.