MLB / Players

Ensign Cottrell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 173 lb
BornAugust 29, 1888 · Hoosick Falls, NY, USA
MLB debutJune 21, 1911
Final gameJuly 9, 1915
Seasons5 (1911–1915)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1911; Chicago Cubs 1912; Philadelphia Athletics 1913; Boston Braves 1914; New York Yankees 1915

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
-0.5
14.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19111000000000000-0.1
19121110000000000.000.000.000.000-112.7-100.0.000-0.2
19132640110032100.250.500.5001.000202.7196.3.488-0.1
19141000000000000-0.1
19157770000000300.000.000.000.000-117.3-100.0.0000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19111000000411001.09.005.0000.005.62164.937.9-0.1
19121000000841104.09.002.2502.253.0089.437.2-0.2
1913211001015623010.05.401.7002.702.4987.053.0-0.1
19141101000213101.09.005.0009.009.26336.830.5-0.1
1915700100029877221.33.381.6882.954.06139.386.40.0

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

G
12
PA
14
AB
12
R
0
H
1
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
3
BB
2
SO
4
SB
0
BA
.0833
OBP
.2143
SLG
.1667
OPS
.3810

Pitching

G (P)
12
GS
2
W
1
L
2
SV
0
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
37
SO (P)
12
BB allowed
14
ERA
4.821
WHIP
1.9286
K/9
2.89

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1913-06-05DET @ ATH Gameday401100302
1911-04-12PIT @ CIN Gameday000000000
1911-04-15PIT @ CIN Gameday000000000
1911-04-16PIT @ CHC Gameday000000000
1911-04-17PIT @ CHC Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1913-06-05DET @ ATH Gameday9.01365220
1915-06-09CWS @ NYY Gameday7.21485221
1915-05-27NYY @ CWS Gameday6.1732320
1915-07-03MIN @ NYY Gameday2.0311121
1912-09-27CIN @ CHC Gameday4.0844110

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.