MLB / Players

Sammy Ellis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 11, 1941 · Youngstown, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1962

Final gameJune 8, 1969

Seasons7 (1962–1969)

Cincinnati Reds 1962; Cincinnati Reds 1964–1967; California Angels 1968; Chicago White Sox 1969

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

94.7

6.7

90.7

SHO

150

89.3

62.7

10.7

164.0

1.3

ERA

3.95

2.7

WHIP

1.256

14.7

K/9

5.10

22.7

FIP

3.97

1.3

FIP-

136.7

ERA+

73.5

2.7

sWAR

-1.1

2.7

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

87.4

3.2

sWAR

2.4

71.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1962	8	10	10	2	2	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	-3.2	7.3	.183	-0.6
1964	52	31	24	4	2	0	0	4	12	.083	.214	.083	.298	-7.8	-13.1	.171	2.8
1965	44	108	96	5	12	2	4	5	44	.125	.168	.146	.314	-23.8	-12.7	.153	2.3
1966	43	83	70	3	8	1	1	4	28	.114	.162	.129	.291	-33.2	-20.5	.144	-1.9
1967	32	59	49	2	4	0	2	4	23	.082	.151	.082	.233	-48.2	-34.6	.127	1.3
1968	42	53	44	3	2	0	0	0	21	.045	.087	.045	.132	-80.2	-58.2	.073	-1.1
1969	10	8	6	0	1	0	0	1	3	.167	.286	.167	.452	31.7	26.3	.241	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1962	8	4	2	2	0	0	0	29	21	29	27	6	28.0	6.75	2.071	8.68	6.79	169.5	59.4	-0.6
1964	52	5	10	3	14	2	0	101	35	28	125	9	122.3	2.57	1.054	9.20	2.37	65.4	140.9	2.8
1965	44	39	22	10	2	15	2	222	111	104	183	22	263.7	3.79	1.236	6.25	3.58	95.8	98.7	2.3
1966	41	36	12	19	0	7	0	226	130	78	154	35	221.0	5.29	1.376	6.27	4.44	114.6	73.1	-1.9
1967	32	27	8	11	0	8	1	197	75	67	80	18	175.7	3.84	1.503	4.10	4.29	115.2	96.9	1.3
1968	42	24	9	10	2	3	0	150	72	56	93	22	164.0	3.95	1.256	5.10	3.97	136.7	73.5	-1.1
1969	10	5	0	3	0	0	0	42	19	16	15	6	29.3	5.83	1.977	4.60	5.74	149.8	65.7	-0.4

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

231

352

299

RBI

134

.1037

OBP

.1599

SLG

.1137

OPS

.2736

Pitching

G (P)

229

140

SHO

1,004

SO (P)

677

BB allowed

378

ERA

4.150

WHIP

1.3396

K/9

6.07

354th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	BB	TB
1965-10-01	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	2
1965-06-15	NYM @ CIN Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
1965-05-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	0	1	1	0	0	2
1965-05-25	CIN @ HOU Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	0	2
1966-09-14	CIN @ STL Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-05-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	10	4	3	3	13	0
1965-07-28	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	12	0
1966-05-03	PIT @ CIN Gameday	12.0	8	5	5	1	11	2
1965-06-29	CIN @ PIT Gameday	14.0	4	1	1	7	10	0
1965-06-25	CIN @ ATL Gameday	11.0	8	1	1	4	10	1

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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.