MLB / Players

Ted Wilks

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 178 lb
BornNovember 13, 1915 · Fulton, NY, USA
MLB debutApril 25, 1944
Final gameAugust 5, 1953
Seasons10 (1944–1953)

St. Louis Cardinals 1944–1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951; Cleveland Indians 1952; Pittsburgh Pirates 1952; Cleveland Indians 1953

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified pitchers

G
36
71.6
GS
21
35.8
W
17
87.4
L
4
83.2
SV
0
0
CG
16
75.8
SHO
4
90.5
H
173
60
ER
61
64.2
BB
49
55.8
SO
70
55.8
HR
12
14.7
IP
207.7
65.3
ERA
2.64
84.2
WHIP
1.069
96.8
K/9
3.03
40
FIP
3.33
60
FIP-
93.9
63.2
ERA+
134.1
84.2
sWAR
4.1
83.2

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
14.8
90.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
194436756469200651500.141.203.172.3751.47.2.1884.1
19451835302400014700.133.235.133.3698.04.4.2011.9
19464025245500011500.208.240.208.44813.526.7.2191.0
194737761100001200.167.286.167.45225.721.5.2390.0
19485736301510043700.167.242.200.44214.319.0.2193.5
194959292701000111500.037.071.037.108-90.6-70.4.0591.4
195018440000000100.000.000.000.000-132.0-100.0.000-0.5
19516515130100001700.077.143.077.220-56.3-40.7.1182.4
195251980100000000.125.125.125.250-58.3-32.3.1151.0
19534000000000000-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19443621174016417361497012207.72.641.0693.033.3393.9134.14.1
1945181647041103322928998.32.931.3422.564.17110.6128.81.9
194640480100883638401395.03.411.3263.794.52130.3101.71.0
194737040500572811281050.35.011.3515.014.81115.883.00.0
19485726613101133839715130.72.621.1634.892.8770.4155.93.5
19495901039001054938717118.33.731.2085.403.0674.3110.61.4
1950180200002718915424.36.661.4795.554.59108.063.9-0.5
1951651351310883229487100.72.861.1624.293.2578.7144.62.4
19525105550073343830984.03.641.3213.214.52116.4106.11.0
19534000000533203.77.362.1824.913.93103.151.8-0.1

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

G
385
PA
235
AB
206
R
15
H
27
2B
3
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
13
BB
16
SO
59
SB
0
BA
.1311
OBP
.1937
SLG
.1456
OPS
.3393

Pitching

G (P)
385
GS
44
W
59
L
30
SV
46
399th-most career SV
CG
22
SHO
5
IP
913
SO (P)
403
BB allowed
283
ERA
3.263
WHIP
1.2212
K/9
3.97

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1945-06-17STL @ PIT Gameday402000002
1948-07-16PHI @ STL Gameday201100302
1944-07-24STL @ ATL Gameday301100102
1944-08-11PHI @ STL Gameday111100012
1944-05-21SF @ STL Gameday101000111

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1944-09-21STL @ ATL Gameday6.0744273
1946-04-23STL @ CIN Gameday5.0422362
1944-07-08ATL @ STL Gameday9.0600350
1944-08-29CIN @ STL Gameday9.0300250
1945-04-22CIN @ STL Gameday9.0800250

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.