Eric Ludwick
St. Louis Cardinals 1996; Oakland Athletics 1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1997; Florida Marlins 1998; Toronto Blue Jays 1999
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -118.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -122.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 10.0 | 9.00 | 1.400 | 10.80 | 7.09 | 170.0 | 46.4 | -0.5 |
| 1997 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 29 | 22 | 21 | 8 | 30.7 | 8.51 | 2.152 | 6.16 | 7.40 | 165.6 | 52.3 | -1.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 27 | 17 | 27 | 7 | 32.7 | 7.44 | 1.929 | 7.44 | 5.76 | 140.7 | 55.1 | -1.0 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 27.00 | 5.000 | 0.00 | 9.20 | 187.6 | 18.2 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-09-01 | COL @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996-09-12 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996-09-14 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996-09-22 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1996-09-25 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998-04-03 | MIL @ MIA Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| 1998-07-13 | WSH @ MIA Gameday | 5.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
| 1997-08-28 | ATH @ LAD Gameday | 5.2 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1996-09-29 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 5.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 1998-04-26 | AZ @ MIA Gameday | 5.0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 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.