Frank Ellerbe

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornDecember 25, 1895 · Marion County, SC, USA

MLB debutAugust 28, 1919

Final gameSeptember 27, 1924

Seasons6 (1919–1924)

Washington Senators 1919–1920; St. Louis Browns 1921; Washington Senators 1921; St. Louis Browns 1922–1923; Cleveland Indians 1924; St. Louis Browns 1924

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified batters

115

43.6

495

44.3

440

45.6

50.3

126

46.3

81.9

33.6

RBI

46.3

22.1

14.1

1.3

.286

36.2

OBP

.325

22.1

SLG

.405

48.3

OPS

.729

37.6

wRC+

77.1

16.1

OPS+

80.9

22.8

wOBA

.335

30.9

sWAR

0.3

22.1

of 150 qualified 1921 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-1.0

5.9

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
1919	28	116	105	13	29	4	1	0	16	2	15	5	0	.276	.290	.333	.623	69.4	76.2	.293	0.1
1920	101	376	336	38	98	14	2	0	36	19	23	5	4	.292	.331	.345	.677	80.5	81.5	.321	0.5
1921	115	495	440	66	126	20	13	2	50	22	44	1	6	.286	.325	.405	.729	77.1	80.9	.335	0.3
1922	91	390	342	42	84	16	3	1	33	25	36	1	1	.246	.303	.319	.621	57.7	60.0	.294	-0.6
1923	18	50	49	6	9	0	0	0	1	1	5	0	1	.184	.200	.184	.384	-12.7	-0.7	.185	-0.5
1924	67	195	181	14	43	4	3	1	16	3	13	0	1	.238	.254	.309	.563	34.6	43.2	.263	-0.8

Career totals

420

1,622

1,453

179

389

RBI

152

136

.2677

OBP

.3059

SLG

.3462

OPS

.6521

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
1921-09-24	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	2	0	1	1	1	8
1921-08-26	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1921-08-09	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1920-07-31	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	0	1	0	6
1921-06-04	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	0	4	1	0	0	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-04-23	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-24	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-27	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-28	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-29	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.