Jacoby Ellsbury
Boston Red Sox 2007–2013; New York Yankees 2014–2017
Percentile snapshot
2016 season — qualified batters
of 146 qualified 2016 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 33 | 127 | 116 | 20 | 41 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 8 | 15 | 9 | 0 | .353 | .394 | .509 | .902 | 134.6 | 132.5 | .397 | 0.9 |
| 2008 | 145 | 609 | 554 | 98 | 155 | 22 | 7 | 9 | 47 | 41 | 80 | 50 | 11 | .280 | .336 | .394 | .729 | 90.5 | 89.9 | .327 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 153 | 691 | 624 | 94 | 188 | 27 | 10 | 8 | 60 | 49 | 74 | 70 | 12 | .301 | .355 | .415 | .770 | 100.2 | 99.6 | .341 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 18 | 83 | 78 | 10 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 | .192 | .241 | .244 | .485 | 25.0 | 30.8 | .226 | -0.5 |
| 2011 | 158 | 729 | 660 | 119 | 212 | 46 | 5 | 32 | 105 | 52 | 98 | 39 | 15 | .321 | .376 | .552 | .928 | 148.7 | 144.8 | .401 | 7.1 |
| 2012 | 74 | 323 | 303 | 43 | 82 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 19 | 43 | 14 | 3 | .271 | .313 | .370 | .682 | 83.9 | 84.0 | .303 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 134 | 632 | 577 | 92 | 172 | 31 | 8 | 9 | 53 | 47 | 92 | 52 | 4 | .298 | .355 | .426 | .781 | 115.4 | 112.9 | .346 | 3.6 |
| 2014 | 149 | 634 | 575 | 71 | 156 | 27 | 5 | 16 | 70 | 49 | 93 | 39 | 5 | .271 | .328 | .419 | .747 | 109.6 | 110.3 | .330 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 111 | 498 | 452 | 66 | 116 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 33 | 35 | 86 | 21 | 9 | .257 | .318 | .345 | .663 | 84.3 | 83.5 | .296 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 148 | 614 | 551 | 71 | 145 | 24 | 5 | 9 | 56 | 54 | 84 | 20 | 8 | .263 | .330 | .374 | .703 | 91.4 | 90.0 | .310 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 112 | 404 | 356 | 65 | 94 | 20 | 4 | 7 | 39 | 41 | 63 | 22 | 3 | .264 | .348 | .402 | .750 | 100.6 | 98.9 | .328 | 1.5 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-04-22 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2011-09-25 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2014-08-26 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2009-06-23 | BOS @ WSH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011-09-07 | BOS @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
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.