Elmer Ponder
Pittsburgh Pirates 1917; Pittsburgh Pirates 1919–1920; Chicago Cubs 1921; Pittsburgh Pirates 1921
Percentile snapshot
1920 season — qualified pitchers
of 110 qualified 1920 pitchers (min 155 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .133 | .267 | -40.1 | -20.3 | .126 | -0.3 |
| 1920 | 33 | 64 | 59 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .119 | .148 | .136 | .283 | -33.0 | -18.6 | .139 | 2.7 |
| 1921 | 24 | 45 | 43 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .093 | .093 | .116 | .209 | -63.0 | -45.1 | .095 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 21.3 | 1.69 | .844 | 4.64 | 2.34 | 83.9 | 165.0 | 0.4 |
| 1919 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 21 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 47.3 | 3.99 | 1.289 | 1.14 | 2.76 | 93.4 | 74.0 | -0.3 |
| 1920 | 33 | 23 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 182 | 57 | 40 | 62 | 3 | 196.0 | 2.62 | 1.133 | 2.85 | 2.81 | 89.2 | 120.4 | 2.7 |
| 1921 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 146 | 53 | 20 | 34 | 8 | 114.0 | 4.18 | 1.456 | 2.68 | 3.91 | 103.0 | 90.8 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-05-23 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1921-08-27 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1920-06-26 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1920-08-03 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1921-08-09 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-09-22 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1921-08-22 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 11.0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 1920-09-25 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1920-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 13.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1920-07-21 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 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.