Red Ames

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 2, 1882 · Warren, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1903

Final gameSeptember 25, 1919

Seasons17 (1903–1919)

New York Giants 1903–1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913; New York Giants 1913; Cincinnati Reds 1914–1915; St. Louis Cardinals 1915–1918; Philadelphia Phillies 1919; St. Louis Cardinals 1919

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified pitchers

41.9

69.9

48.4

12.9

52.7

76.3

SHO

192

48.4

44.1

55.9

206.7

67.7

ERA

2.31

79.6

WHIP

1.181

76.3

K/9

2.96

51.6

FIP

2.53

77.4

FIP-

93.3

67.7

ERA+

117.5

sWAR

3.0

74.2

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 131 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.2

67.4

sWAR

36.9

97.6

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
1903	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-97.7	-100.0	.000	0.4
1904	16	43	40	3	5	1	0	0	3	3	15	0	0	.125	.186	.150	.336	8.1	3.8	.174	1.7
1905	34	107	97	6	14	0	3	0	7	4	40	0	0	.144	.178	.206	.384	11.5	14.5	.187	3.2
1906	31	70	61	2	4	0	0	0	0	8	31	0	0	.066	.174	.066	.239	-19.6	-25.2	.146	1.6
1907	39	80	69	5	12	0	0	1	5	7	34	0	0	.174	.250	.217	.467	43.9	45.3	.242	3.6
1908	18	41	36	5	7	0	0	0	2	1	12	0	0	.194	.216	.194	.411	19.7	29.4	.202	2.1
1909	34	89	81	5	6	1	0	0	6	5	33	0	0	.074	.128	.086	.214	-39.0	-33.4	.117	1.5
1910	33	65	62	1	11	1	0	1	6	1	21	0	0	.177	.190	.242	.432	15.7	26.7	.206	3.5
1911	34	72	64	2	6	0	1	0	5	5	12	0	0	.094	.159	.125	.284	-19.3	-19.3	.150	3.2
1912	33	63	58	6	13	3	0	0	3	4	23	1	0	.224	.274	.276	.550	49.5	50.8	.267	3.7
1913	39	78	72	3	8	0	0	0	3	1	27	1	0	.111	.123	.111	.234	-44.6	-32.8	.114	2.8
1914	47	101	94	6	12	1	0	1	6	2	33	1	0	.128	.146	.170	.316	-21.8	-7.7	.152	3.4
1915	32	62	55	1	5	0	0	0	2	4	24	1	1	.091	.153	.091	.243	-33.8	-26.2	.132	0.4
1916	45	73	68	3	12	0	1	0	1	3	19	0	0	.176	.211	.206	.417	16.8	27.2	.203	2.2
1917	43	73	64	3	12	1	2	0	7	6	23	0	0	.188	.257	.266	.523	59.2	61.0	.257	2.2
1918	27	75	64	1	10	1	0	0	4	7	14	1	0	.156	.239	.172	.411	28.2	27.2	.216	3.0
1919	26	24	23	0	6	1	0	0	2	0	8	0	0	.261	.261	.304	.565	60.9	68.2	.264	-1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1903	2	2	2	0	0	2	1	5	2	8	14	0	14.0	1.29	.929	9.00	2.44	74.0	256.7	0.4
1904	16	13	4	6	3	11	1	94	29	38	93	2	115.0	2.27	1.148	7.28	2.01	73.5	120.6	1.7
1905	34	31	22	8	0	21	2	220	80	105	198	2	262.7	2.74	1.237	6.78	2.41	80.6	109.0	3.2
1906	31	25	12	10	1	15	1	166	60	93	156	1	203.3	2.66	1.274	6.90	2.20	84.0	98.9	1.6
1907	39	26	10	12	1	17	2	184	56	108	146	4	233.3	2.16	1.251	5.63	2.50	100.0	115.9	3.6
1908	18	15	7	4	1	5	0	96	23	27	81	0	114.3	1.81	1.076	6.38	1.27	52.6	133.3	2.1
1909	34	27	15	10	1	20	2	217	73	81	156	2	244.0	2.69	1.221	5.75	2.02	78.1	96.1	1.5
1910	33	23	12	11	0	13	3	161	47	63	94	3	190.3	2.22	1.177	4.44	2.68	89.9	134.3	3.5
1911	34	23	11	10	2	13	1	170	61	54	118	0	205.0	2.68	1.093	5.18	2.32	69.6	124.5	3.2
1912	33	22	11	5	2	9	2	194	49	35	83	3	179.0	2.46	1.279	4.17	2.69	79.4	137.5	3.7
1913	39	29	13	14	3	14	1	220	70	78	110	7	229.0	2.75	1.301	4.32	3.16	99.0	115.9	2.8
1914	47	36	15	23	6	18	3	274	87	94	128	8	297.0	2.64	1.239	3.88	2.76	95.7	109.3	3.4
1915	32	21	11	7	2	12	3	175	65	56	74	3	181.3	3.23	1.274	3.67	2.68	96.3	86.2	0.4
1916	45	22	11	16	8	10	2	225	67	57	98	3	228.0	2.64	1.237	3.87	2.43	91.5	100.5	2.2
1917	43	19	15	10	3	10	2	189	63	57	62	2	209.0	2.71	1.177	2.67	2.77	103.5	98.8	2.2
1918	27	25	9	14	1	17	0	192	53	52	68	1	206.7	2.31	1.181	2.96	2.53	93.3	117.5	3.0
1919	26	9	3	7	2	2	0	114	49	28	23	1	86.0	5.13	1.651	2.41	3.07	106.5	56.5	-1.6

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

533

1,122

1,014

143

RBI

374

.1410

OBP

.1898

SLG

.1736

OPS

.3634

Pitching

G (P)

533

371st-most career G (P)

368

185th-most career GS

183

164th-most career W

167

97th-most career L

471st-most career SV

209

123rd-most career CG

SHO

163rd-most career SHO

3,198

109th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,702

160th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,034

103rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.629

65th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2289

251st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.79

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
1917-09-05	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	3	0	7
1910-05-25	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	1	5
1911-07-07	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2	0	4
1905-06-26	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1905-06-30	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1905-06-02	SF @ ATL Gameday	12.0	7	3	8	12
1906-09-05	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	12
1905-05-22	PIT @ SF Gameday	12.0	6	1	1	11
1906-08-03	STL @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	1	3	11
1906-10-01	STL @ SF Gameday	9.0	8	0	1	11

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.