Ted Abernathy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 215 lb

BornMarch 6, 1933 · Stanley, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1955

Final gameSeptember 30, 1972

Seasons14 (1955–1972)

Washington Senators 1955–1957; Washington Senators 1960; Cleveland Indians 1963–1964; Chicago Cubs 1965; Atlanta Braves 1966; Chicago Cubs 1966; Cincinnati Reds 1967–1968; Chicago Cubs 1969–1970; Kansas City Royals 1970; St. Louis Cardinals 1970; Kansas City Royals 1971–1972

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.8

60.3

sWAR

14.3

90.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	40	30	26	1	4	0	0	0	6	.154	.154	.154	.308	-33.4	-16.6	.144	-1.7
1956	5	11	11	1	2	0	1	0	5	.182	.182	.182	.364	-17.8	-3.5	.169	0.3
1957	26	28	24	3	4	1	1	1	5	.167	.231	.208	.439	14.3	20.1	.215	-2.1
1960	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	491.6	436.3	.920	-0.2
1963	43	7	5	1	2	1	0	1	2	.400	.500	.600	1.100	220.1	208.3	.490	1.2
1964	53	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.6	-100.0	.000	0.0
1965	84	22	18	1	3	0	2	0	7	.167	.211	.167	.377	-0.4	6.3	.184	3.2
1966	58	13	12	0	2	0	0	1	5	.167	.231	.167	.397	9.5	13.7	.197	-0.1
1967	70	17	17	0	1	0	2	0	10	.059	.059	.059	.118	-99.5	-67.7	.055	4.2
1968	78	20	17	2	0	0	0	3	12	.000	.150	.000	.150	-56.6	-52.9	.113	2.5
1969	56	8	8	1	2	1	1	0	2	.250	.250	.375	.625	57.0	65.0	.283	1.7
1970	58	20	17	1	3	0	2	0	7	.176	.176	.176	.353	-17.4	-2.0	.163	2.0
1971	63	14	13	0	1	0	0	0	7	.077	.077	.077	.154	-82.3	-55.8	.072	1.6
1972	45	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-144.0	-100.0	.000	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
1955	40	14	5	9	0	3	2	136	79	67	79	9	119.3	5.96	1.701	5.96	3.95	100.0	66.3	-1.7
1956	5	4	1	3	0	2	0	35	14	10	18	2	30.3	4.15	1.484	5.34	3.26	78.3	100.3	0.3
1957	26	16	2	10	0	2	0	100	64	65	50	9	85.0	6.78	1.941	5.29	5.04	130.3	57.0	-2.1
1960	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	4	1	0	3.0	12.00	2.667	3.00	5.74	143.5	33.3	-0.2
1963	43	0	7	2	12	0	0	54	19	29	47	3	59.3	2.88	1.399	7.13	3.00	82.9	125.5	1.2
1964	53	0	2	6	11	0	0	66	35	46	57	5	72.7	4.33	1.541	7.06	3.77	104.3	83.3	0.0
1965	84	0	4	6	31	0	0	113	39	56	104	7	136.3	2.57	1.240	6.87	3.12	85.1	142.4	3.2
1966	58	0	5	7	8	0	0	84	47	53	60	9	93.0	4.55	1.473	5.81	4.41	120.0	80.8	-0.1
1967	70	0	6	3	28	0	0	63	15	41	88	1	106.3	1.27	.978	7.45	2.42	65.1	293.3	4.2
1968	78	0	10	7	13	0	0	111	37	55	64	9	134.7	2.47	1.233	4.28	3.78	119.9	127.4	2.5
1969	56	0	4	3	3	0	0	75	30	42	55	8	85.3	3.16	1.371	5.80	4.10	103.1	125.6	1.7
1970	58	0	10	3	14	0	0	65	24	55	59	3	83.0	2.60	1.446	6.40	3.78	97.1	149.3	2.0
1971	63	0	4	6	23	0	0	60	23	50	55	3	81.0	2.56	1.358	6.11	3.56	104.2	133.5	1.6
1972	45	0	3	4	5	0	0	44	11	19	28	2	58.3	1.70	1.080	4.32	2.89	91.8	185.3	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

681

204

181

RBI

.1381

OBP

.1746

SLG

.1547

OPS

.3293

Pitching

G (P)

681

143rd-most career G (P)

148

93rd-most career SV

SHO

1,148

SO (P)

765

BB allowed

592

ERA

3.458

411th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3959

K/9

6.00

377th-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	TB
1957-06-08	MIN @ CLE Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2
1963-06-27	CLE @ BOS Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2
1969-05-18	CHC @ HOU Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2
1967-05-05	CIN @ ATL Gameday	1	0	1	0	2	1
1956-09-14	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-04-23	NYY @ MIN Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	7	7	0
1970-09-29	KC @ MIN Gameday	4.0	6	4	4	2	7	0
1963-07-04	BOS @ CLE Gameday	2.2	5	3	2	1	7	0
1955-08-24	MIN @ ATH Gameday	3.0	8	4	4	0	6	1
1955-09-11	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	5	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.