MLB / Players

Ted Blankenship

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 170 lb

BornMay 10, 1901 · Bonham, TX, USA

MLB debutJuly 2, 1922

Final gameMay 24, 1930

Seasons9 (1922–1930)

Chicago White Sox 1922–1930

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified pitchers

48.9

32.8

SHO

186

43.5

34.4

15.3

26.7

29.8

158.0

49.6

ERA

4.61

28.2

WHIP

1.684

10.7

K/9

2.05

9.2

FIP

4.87

19.8

FIP-

122.4

3.1

ERA+

86.3

19.1

sWAR

0.3

21.4

of 132 qualified 1928 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.0

15.2

sWAR

10.0

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1922	24	45	41	3	7	1	1	0	3	1	8	.171	.190	.244	.434	1.7	12.6	.200	1.5
1923	44	78	76	8	16	0	2	3	8	0	13	.211	.211	.382	.592	41.1	54.2	.264	1.3
1924	25	54	46	10	15	2	1	1	5	4	6	.326	.392	.478	.870	123.9	125.0	.405	0.7
1925	40	96	88	7	18	2	2	2	15	4	23	.205	.239	.341	.580	42.6	49.1	.265	5.2
1926	29	88	76	8	10	4	0	0	2	6	18	.132	.195	.184	.379	-3.6	1.4	.189	2.4
1927	38	87	80	9	15	5	1	3	14	6	22	.188	.244	.388	.632	57.8	64.3	.286	0.0
1928	27	62	59	4	10	4	0	0	7	0	17	.169	.169	.237	.407	-5.1	6.5	.183	0.3
1929	8	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	22.5	29.5	.231	-0.7
1930	7	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-1.0	2.7	.183	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1922	24	15	8	10	1	7	0	124	54	47	42	4	127.7	3.81	1.339	2.96	3.85	95.7	105.6	1.5
1923	44	23	9	14	0	9	1	219	99	100	57	8	204.7	4.35	1.559	2.51	4.38	110.9	90.8	1.3
1924	25	11	7	6	1	7	0	167	72	38	36	1	129.3	5.01	1.585	2.51	3.57	85.5	83.4	0.7
1925	40	23	17	8	1	16	3	218	78	69	81	11	232.0	3.03	1.237	3.14	3.92	93.3	138.7	5.2
1926	29	26	13	10	1	15	1	217	84	65	66	13	209.3	3.61	1.347	2.84	4.04	104.9	106.8	2.4
1927	37	34	12	17	0	11	3	280	133	74	51	14	236.7	5.06	1.496	1.94	4.36	108.8	79.3	0.0
1928	27	22	9	11	0	8	0	186	81	80	36	9	158.0	4.61	1.684	2.05	4.87	122.4	86.3	0.3
1929	8	1	0	2	0	0	0	28	18	9	7	3	18.3	8.84	2.018	3.44	5.85	138.8	47.7	-0.7
1930	7	1	2	1	0	0	0	23	15	7	2	0	14.7	9.20	2.045	1.23	4.81	105.4	49.6	-0.6

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

242

519

475

RBI

109

.1958

OBP

.2314

SLG

.3200

OPS

.5514

Pitching

G (P)

241

156

SHO

1,331

SO (P)

378

BB allowed

489

ERA

4.288

WHIP

1.4662

K/9

2.56

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
1927-04-18	CWS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	4	0	6
1927-08-02	CWS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	0	6
1925-07-04	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	4	1	5
1928-07-16	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	0	3	2	0	0	2	0	5
1923-10-04	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1923-08-27	BOS @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	7
1927-04-30	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	7
1922-08-30	CWS @ DET Gameday	11.0	7	1	1	3	6
1925-08-17	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	2	1	3	6
1925-08-24	ATH @ CWS Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	6

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.