MLB / Players

Ted Lewis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 158 lb

BornDecember 25, 1872 · Machynileth, Powys, Wales

MLB debutJuly 6, 1896

Final gameSeptember 26, 1901

Seasons6 (1896–1901)

Boston Beaneaters 1896–1900; Boston Americans 1901

Percentile snapshot

1901 season — qualified pitchers

81.8

71.2

21.2

66.7

74.2

SHO

24.2

299

34.8

124

15.2

22.7

103

62.1

316.3

83.3

ERA

3.53

42.4

WHIP

1.233

77.3

K/9

2.93

42.4

FIP

3.78

16.7

FIP-

105.5

22.7

ERA+

101.5

sWAR

3.1

56.1

of 67 qualified 1901 pitchers (min 138 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.2

67.4

sWAR

17.9

92.6

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1896	6	18	18	1	2	1	0	2	0	1	0	.111	.111	.167	.278	-17.6	-27.4	.127	0.7
1897	38	126	113	15	28	0	1	8	6	14	3	.248	.286	.265	.551	52.6	45.9	.269	4.0
1898	42	142	131	17	37	6	0	18	6	11	0	.282	.314	.328	.642	83.0	83.7	.312	5.9
1899	29	102	96	9	25	1	1	9	4	9	1	.260	.290	.292	.582	62.0	59.5	.282	3.3
1900	30	86	73	10	10	0	0	5	11	13	0	.137	.250	.137	.387	26.7	8.2	.214	0.9
1901	39	133	121	14	21	2	1	10	11	18	0	.174	.242	.207	.449	39.7	26.7	.224	3.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1896	6	5	1	4	0	4	0	37	15	27	12	2	41.7	3.24	1.536	2.59	5.28	121.2	134.5	0.7
1897	38	34	21	12	1	30	2	316	124	125	65	11	290.0	3.85	1.521	2.02	4.76	110.7	111.8	4.0
1898	41	33	26	8	2	29	1	267	101	109	72	9	313.3	2.90	1.200	2.07	3.81	105.8	124.2	5.9
1899	29	25	17	11	0	23	2	245	91	73	60	10	234.7	3.49	1.355	2.30	4.02	104.4	110.3	3.3
1900	30	22	13	12	0	19	1	215	96	86	66	11	209.0	4.13	1.440	2.84	4.17	112.9	89.4	0.9
1901	39	34	16	17	1	31	1	299	124	91	103	14	316.3	3.53	1.233	2.93	3.78	105.5	101.5	3.1

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

184

607

552

123

RBI

.2228

OBP

.2729

SLG

.2518

OPS

.5247

Pitching

G (P)

183

153

136

280th-most career CG

SHO

1,405

SO (P)

378

BB allowed

511

ERA

3.530

471st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3452

K/9

2.42

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
1901-08-13	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	0	2	1	1	0	5
1901-09-12	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2
1901-06-21	CLE @ BOS Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2
1901-07-17	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2
1901-08-07	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-05-16	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	9	8	6	2	7	0
1901-06-13	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	14	11	6	2	7	0
1901-07-10	ATH @ BOS Gameday	6.0	13	9	6	5	7	1
1901-08-21	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	11	5	3	2	6	0
1901-09-20	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	3	6	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.