Ted Cather
St. Louis Cardinals 1912–1913; Boston Braves 1914; St. Louis Cardinals 1914; Boston Braves 1915
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .421 | .421 | .579 | 1.000 | 167.6 | 172.1 | .461 | 0.2 |
| 1913 | 67 | 196 | 183 | 16 | 39 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 24 | 7 | 0 | .213 | .250 | .301 | .551 | 51.7 | 56.9 | .260 | -1.0 |
| 1914 | 89 | 266 | 244 | 30 | 70 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 40 | 10 | 43 | 11 | 0 | .287 | .320 | .377 | .697 | 104.5 | 108.3 | .332 | 0.7 |
| 1915 | 40 | 126 | 102 | 10 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 4 | .206 | .319 | .314 | .633 | 99.3 | 94.5 | .314 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 54.00 | 9.000 | 0.00 | 29.62 | 928.6 | 5.9 | -1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-09-29 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1915-04-29 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1914-08-13 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1915-06-26 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1913-08-16 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913-05-04 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-11 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-13 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-14 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-15 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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.