MLB / Players

Ted Simmons

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 193 lb

BornAugust 9, 1949 · Highland Park, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1968

Final gameOctober 2, 1988

Seasons21 (1968–1988)

St. Louis Cardinals 1968–1980; Milwaukee Brewers 1981–1985; Atlanta Braves 1986–1988

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

143

27.9

592

41.2

528

41.2

17.6

144

54.4

24.3

39.7

RBI

58.8

63.2

97.1

6.6

84.6

.273

51.5

OBP

.342

54.4

SLG

.402

OPS

.743

46.3

wRC+

102.2

40.4

OPS+

103.7

43.4

wOBA

.330

sWAR

0.9

13.2

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.9

71.3

OPS+

117.0

74.6

sWAR

60.9

99.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1968	2	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	189.1	158.2	.423	0.1
1969	5	16	14	0	3	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	0	.214	.250	.357	.607	60.1	69.1	.272	0.0
1970	82	324	284	29	69	8	2	3	24	37	37	2	2	.243	.333	.317	.650	75.8	74.4	.305	0.8
1971	133	563	510	64	155	32	4	7	77	36	50	1	3	.304	.347	.424	.771	115.6	114.4	.352	4.2
1972	152	629	594	70	180	36	6	16	96	29	57	1	3	.303	.336	.465	.801	127.0	127.8	.360	5.3
1973	161	690	619	62	192	36	2	13	91	61	47	2	2	.310	.370	.438	.808	124.2	125.2	.365	5.6
1974	152	662	599	66	163	33	6	20	103	47	35	0	0	.272	.327	.447	.774	114.0	117.2	.353	4.5
1975	157	649	581	80	193	32	3	18	100	63	35	1	3	.332	.396	.491	.887	143.2	142.3	.403	6.9
1976	150	625	546	60	159	35	3	5	75	73	35	0	7	.291	.371	.394	.765	115.4	117.5	.352	4.0
1977	150	601	516	82	164	25	3	21	95	79	37	2	6	.318	.408	.500	.908	141.5	144.8	.396	6.2
1978	152	604	516	71	148	40	5	22	80	77	39	1	1	.287	.377	.512	.889	134.5	134.7	.395	5.7
1979	123	521	448	68	127	22	0	26	87	61	34	0	1	.283	.369	.507	.875	129.0	136.0	.379	4.6
1980	145	562	495	84	150	33	2	21	98	59	45	1	0	.303	.375	.505	.880	141.3	141.1	.393	5.8
1981	100	413	380	45	82	13	3	14	61	23	32	0	1	.216	.262	.376	.638	82.0	87.0	.289	0.9
1982	137	581	539	73	145	29	0	23	97	32	40	0	0	.269	.309	.451	.759	107.7	111.8	.332	3.4
1983	153	650	600	76	185	39	3	13	108	41	51	4	2	.308	.351	.448	.799	124.4	126.1	.354	4.1
1984	132	532	497	44	110	23	2	4	52	30	40	3	0	.221	.269	.300	.569	57.9	60.5	.260	-2.1
1985	143	592	528	60	144	28	2	12	76	57	32	1	1	.273	.342	.402	.743	102.2	103.7	.330	0.9
1986	76	144	127	14	32	5	0	4	25	12	14	1	0	.252	.313	.386	.698	75.5	86.8	.304	0.0
1987	73	200	177	20	49	8	0	4	30	21	23	1	1	.277	.350	.390	.740	88.2	91.2	.329	0.2
1988	78	123	107	6	21	6	0	2	11	15	9	0	0	.196	.293	.308	.601	66.9	68.7	.282	-0.2

Career totals

2,456

72nd-most career G

9,685

109th-most career PA

8,680

96th-most career AB

1,074

293rd-most career R

2,472

104th-most career H

483

82nd-most career 2B

248

261st-most career HR

RBI

1,389

81st-most career RBI

855

214th-most career BB

694

.2848

OBP

.3479

SLG

.4370

OPS

.7849

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
1980-08-18	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1979-06-22	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1979-06-11	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1980-09-25	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	6	1	9
1978-05-27	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	0	9

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

Hall of Fame, 2020 (Veterans - Modern Baseball Era)

1× Silver Slugger8× 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.