Ted Bowsfield
Boston Red Sox 1958–1960; Cleveland Indians 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961–1962; Kansas City Athletics 1963–1964
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 17 | 26 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -38.4 | -17.3 | .141 | 0.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.1 |
| 1960 | 28 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .200 | .143 | .343 | -11.0 | -6.0 | .172 | -0.3 |
| 1961 | 46 | 55 | 51 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .137 | .170 | .196 | .366 | -17.6 | -4.6 | .170 | 2.4 |
| 1962 | 44 | 47 | 37 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .162 | .279 | .189 | .468 | 33.4 | 28.3 | .239 | 0.9 |
| 1963 | 43 | 28 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .043 | .154 | .087 | .241 | -39.8 | -32.3 | .135 | 0.2 |
| 1964 | 52 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .174 | .095 | .269 | -34.0 | -24.0 | .143 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 58 | 28 | 36 | 38 | 3 | 65.7 | 3.84 | 1.431 | 5.21 | 3.57 | 89.1 | 104.4 | 0.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 9.0 | 15.00 | 2.778 | 4.00 | 7.46 | 184.0 | 27.0 | -1.1 |
| 1960 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 67 | 35 | 33 | 32 | 2 | 61.7 | 5.11 | 1.622 | 4.67 | 3.44 | 89.1 | 75.8 | -0.3 |
| 1961 | 41 | 21 | 11 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 154 | 65 | 63 | 88 | 18 | 157.0 | 3.73 | 1.382 | 5.04 | 4.10 | 96.8 | 113.6 | 2.4 |
| 1962 | 34 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 154 | 68 | 40 | 52 | 12 | 139.0 | 4.40 | 1.396 | 3.37 | 3.79 | 94.0 | 91.7 | 0.9 |
| 1963 | 41 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 115 | 55 | 47 | 67 | 14 | 111.3 | 4.45 | 1.455 | 5.42 | 4.24 | 109.6 | 87.0 | 0.2 |
| 1964 | 50 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 135 | 54 | 31 | 45 | 12 | 118.7 | 4.10 | 1.399 | 3.41 | 3.90 | 103.0 | 92.4 | 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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-08-14 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1961-08-19 | MIN @ LAA Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1962-08-08 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1963-04-26 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1958-08-15 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-09-01 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1960-05-30 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 7.2 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1961-08-14 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1961-09-26 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| 1961-09-14 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 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.