Ewell Blackwell
Cincinnati Reds 1942; Cincinnati Reds 1946–1952; New York Yankees 1952–1953; Kansas City Athletics 1955
Percentile snapshot
1951 season — qualified pitchers
of 53 qualified 1951 pitchers (min 155 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 33 | 63 | 56 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .107 | .123 | .125 | .248 | -52.5 | -28.4 | .120 | 3.6 |
| 1947 | 33 | 114 | 106 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .123 | .131 | .142 | .272 | -45.5 | -27.5 | .126 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 22 | 51 | 48 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .229 | .292 | .521 | 29.9 | 41.5 | .235 | 0.5 |
| 1949 | 30 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .211 | .211 | .421 | -1.4 | 12.5 | .193 | 0.6 |
| 1950 | 40 | 101 | 89 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .191 | .157 | .349 | -17.9 | -7.3 | .169 | 5.8 |
| 1951 | 39 | 89 | 82 | 10 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .293 | .333 | .390 | .724 | 90.4 | 92.5 | .329 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 28 | 38 | 37 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .162 | .162 | .216 | .378 | -14.0 | 4.6 | .170 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1955 | 2 | 1 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 6.00 | 2.000 | 3.00 | 4.62 | 141.7 | 54.3 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 33 | 25 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 160 | 53 | 79 | 100 | 1 | 194.3 | 2.45 | 1.230 | 4.63 | 2.64 | 80.1 | 134.2 | 3.6 |
| 1947 | 33 | 33 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 23 | 6 | 227 | 75 | 95 | 193 | 10 | 273.0 | 2.47 | 1.179 | 6.36 | 2.72 | 67.3 | 163.5 | 7.0 |
| 1948 | 22 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 134 | 70 | 52 | 114 | 12 | 138.7 | 4.54 | 1.341 | 7.40 | 3.26 | 84.1 | 85.3 | 0.5 |
| 1949 | 30 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 36 | 34 | 55 | 7 | 76.7 | 4.23 | 1.487 | 6.46 | 3.73 | 91.1 | 96.9 | 0.6 |
| 1950 | 40 | 32 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 18 | 1 | 203 | 86 | 112 | 188 | 12 | 261.0 | 2.97 | 1.207 | 6.48 | 3.05 | 73.3 | 140.3 | 5.8 |
| 1951 | 38 | 32 | 16 | 15 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 204 | 89 | 97 | 120 | 16 | 232.7 | 3.44 | 1.294 | 4.64 | 3.61 | 89.9 | 116.7 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 28 | 19 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 119 | 62 | 72 | 55 | 6 | 118.0 | 4.73 | 1.619 | 4.19 | 4.10 | 110.9 | 78.1 | -0.3 |
| 1953 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 19.7 | 3.66 | 1.525 | 5.03 | 4.91 | 129.5 | 103.5 | 0.1 |
| 1955 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4.0 | 6.75 | 2.000 | 4.50 | 9.18 | 223.5 | 60.9 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-07-15 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-05-12 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1951-05-10 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1951-07-07 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1947-04-20 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-07-01 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 10.0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 1 |
| 1948-07-08 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| 1947-09-03 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 12 | 2 |
| 1947-06-30 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 1946-05-12 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.