Ted Savage
Philadelphia Phillies 1962; Pittsburgh Pirates 1963; St. Louis Cardinals 1965–1966; Chicago Cubs 1967; St. Louis Cardinals 1967; Chicago Cubs 1968; Los Angeles Dodgers 1968; Cincinnati Reds 1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Kansas City Royals 1971; Milwaukee Brewers 1971
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 127 | 387 | 335 | 54 | 89 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 39 | 40 | 66 | 16 | 5 | .266 | .345 | .373 | .718 | 99.4 | 95.5 | .333 | 0.7 |
| 1963 | 85 | 166 | 149 | 22 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 31 | 4 | 3 | .195 | .268 | .322 | .590 | 68.8 | 69.9 | .273 | -0.3 |
| 1965 | 30 | 69 | 63 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 1 | .159 | .232 | .254 | .486 | 26.5 | 34.0 | .224 | -0.5 |
| 1966 | 16 | 33 | 29 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 | .172 | .273 | .310 | .583 | 64.4 | 61.1 | .274 | -0.1 |
| 1967 | 105 | 284 | 233 | 41 | 50 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 33 | 41 | 57 | 7 | 6 | .215 | .342 | .330 | .672 | 93.7 | 89.8 | .318 | 0.4 |
| 1968 | 64 | 145 | 134 | 7 | 28 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 21 | 1 | 3 | .209 | .269 | .313 | .582 | 82.1 | 80.9 | .279 | -0.1 |
| 1969 | 68 | 132 | 110 | 20 | 25 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 20 | 27 | 3 | 0 | .227 | .344 | .345 | .689 | 97.8 | 90.3 | .332 | 0.3 |
| 1970 | 114 | 343 | 276 | 43 | 77 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 50 | 57 | 44 | 10 | 6 | .279 | .402 | .482 | .884 | 149.6 | 142.7 | .405 | 2.9 |
| 1971 | 33 | 54 | 46 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 0 | .174 | .296 | .174 | .470 | 45.8 | 37.6 | .250 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-09-15 | ATH @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1962-07-04 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-06-04 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1962-07-01 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1963-05-12 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-06-07 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1963-06-19 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1963-08-07 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-08-16 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1968-08-17 | LAD @ PIT 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.