Ted Gray

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 31, 1924 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutMay 15, 1946

Final gameSeptember 8, 1955

Seasons9 (1946–1955)

Detroit Tigers 1946; Detroit Tigers 1948–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Chicago White Sox 1955; Cleveland Indians 1955; New York Yankees 1955

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified pitchers

22.4

63.8

29.3

13.8

25.9

SHO

166

84.5

39.7

115

75.9

12.1

176.0

34.5

ERA

4.60

17.2

WHIP

1.375

39.7

K/9

5.88

91.4

FIP

4.52

15.5

FIP-

111.9

1.7

ERA+

87.8

8.6

sWAR

0.8

12.1

of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 158 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.8

14.9

sWAR

6.5

82.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1946	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	-10.1	-27.5	.189	-0.6
1948	26	33	29	2	7	1	0	1	2	7	.241	.290	.276	.566	45.3	50.1	.275	1.0
1949	36	72	63	5	8	0	0	0	6	27	.127	.203	.127	.330	-18.1	-11.3	.177	3.1
1950	27	58	50	4	7	2	0	3	4	22	.140	.204	.180	.384	-9.8	-1.8	.191	1.7
1951	35	73	63	3	9	1	0	3	6	27	.143	.217	.159	.376	-1.8	2.7	.193	1.8
1952	36	86	76	3	13	0	0	2	1	19	.171	.192	.171	.363	-17.3	0.3	.175	1.0
1953	32	68	61	5	14	0	1	7	6	14	.230	.299	.262	.561	49.6	51.7	.272	0.8
1954	19	22	22	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	.045	.045	.045	.091	-108.9	-74.9	.042	-1.0
1955	14	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.5	-100.0	.000	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1946	3	2	0	2	1	0	0	17	11	5	5	4	11.7	8.49	1.886	3.86	7.33	201.0	43.0	-0.6
1948	26	11	6	2	0	3	1	73	40	72	60	2	85.3	4.22	1.699	6.33	4.28	98.5	103.1	1.0
1949	34	27	10	10	1	8	3	163	76	103	96	11	195.0	3.51	1.364	4.43	3.90	94.0	118.3	3.1
1950	27	21	10	7	1	7	0	139	73	72	102	22	149.3	4.40	1.413	6.15	4.75	102.3	105.5	1.7
1951	34	28	7	14	1	9	1	194	89	95	131	17	197.3	4.06	1.465	5.97	3.91	94.5	101.8	1.8
1952	35	32	12	17	0	13	2	212	103	101	138	21	224.0	4.14	1.397	5.54	3.74	99.3	91.1	1.0
1953	30	28	10	15	0	8	0	166	90	76	115	25	176.0	4.60	1.375	5.88	4.52	111.9	87.8	0.8
1954	19	10	3	5	0	2	0	70	43	56	29	8	72.0	5.38	1.750	3.63	5.43	146.5	69.0	-1.0
1955	14	3	1	2	0	0	0	38	25	15	11	4	23.3	9.64	2.271	4.24	5.64	148.4	39.4	-1.4

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

228

419

370

RBI

123

.1595

OBP

.2166

SLG

.1757

OPS

.3923

Pitching

G (P)

222

162

SHO

1,134

SO (P)

687

BB allowed

595

ERA

4.365

WHIP

1.4700

K/9

5.45

500th-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	3B	RBI	TB
1953-09-11	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	4
1952-07-26	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	0	3	0	0	1	3
1950-05-17	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1951-06-22	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	2
1953-05-19	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-08-12	BAL @ DET Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	3	12	1
1952-09-28	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	9	8	8	4	11	2
1951-09-25	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	10	0
1948-08-10	CLE @ DET Gameday	7.1	4	3	1	5	10	0
1953-05-19	DET @ NYY Gameday	10.0	8	4	3	4	9	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.