MLB / Players

Ted Williams

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornAugust 30, 1918 · San Diego, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1939

Final gameSeptember 28, 1960

Seasons19 (1939–1960)

Boston Red Sox 1939–1942; Boston Red Sox 1946–1960

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified batters

129

517

18.3

411

1.4

64.8

135

50.7

22.5

78.9

RBI

80.3

97.2

67.6

8.5

91.5

.328

95.8

OBP

.458

100

SLG

.584

94.4

OPS

1.042

100

wRC+

182.1

98.6

OPS+

177.1

97.2

wOBA

.457

100

sWAR

6.3

of 72 qualified 1958 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

193.3

100

OPS+

191.7

99.9

sWAR

134.8

100

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
1939	149	677	565	131	185	44	11	31	145	107	64	2	1	.327	.436	.609	1.045	158.4	161.4	.463	6.6
1940	144	661	561	134	193	43	14	23	113	96	54	4	4	.344	.442	.594	1.036	163.2	162.4	.457	6.8
1941	143	606	456	135	185	33	3	37	120	147	27	2	4	.406	.553	.735	1.287	235.3	238.2	.563	11.6
1942	150	671	522	141	186	34	5	36	137	145	51	3	2	.356	.499	.648	1.147	218.8	217.3	.521	11.3
1946	150	672	514	142	176	37	8	38	123	156	44	0	0	.342	.497	.667	1.164	224.1	215.7	.519	11.6
1947	156	693	528	125	181	40	9	32	114	162	47	0	1	.343	.499	.634	1.133	212.6	205.7	.513	11.1
1948	137	638	509	124	188	44	3	25	127	126	41	4	0	.369	.497	.615	1.112	192.7	190.0	.508	8.8
1949	155	730	566	150	194	39	3	43	159	162	48	1	1	.343	.490	.650	1.141	193.3	192.2	.517	10.1
1950	89	416	334	82	106	24	1	28	97	82	21	3	0	.317	.452	.647	1.099	166.7	167.8	.486	4.5
1951	148	675	531	109	169	28	4	30	126	144	45	1	1	.318	.464	.556	1.019	168.8	163.4	.467	7.2
1952	6	12	10	2	4	0	1	1	3	2	2	0	0	.400	.500	.900	1.400	274.9	273.0	.600	0.3
1953	37	110	91	17	37	6	0	13	34	19	10	0	1	.407	.509	.901	1.410	265.2	266.3	.598	2.5
1954	117	526	386	93	133	23	1	29	89	136	32	0	0	.345	.513	.635	1.148	213.2	201.4	.515	8.4
1955	98	417	320	77	114	21	3	28	83	91	24	2	0	.356	.496	.703	1.200	207.5	209.8	.519	6.2
1956	136	503	400	71	138	28	2	24	82	102	39	0	0	.345	.479	.605	1.084	177.4	172.7	.483	5.8
1957	132	546	420	96	163	28	1	38	87	119	43	0	1	.388	.526	.731	1.257	233.8	232.2	.535	9.5
1958	129	517	411	81	135	23	2	26	85	98	49	1	0	.328	.458	.584	1.042	182.1	177.1	.457	6.3
1959	103	331	272	32	69	15	0	10	43	52	27	0	0	.254	.372	.419	.791	112.4	112.1	.358	1.2
1960	113	390	310	56	98	15	0	29	72	75	41	1	1	.316	.451	.645	1.096	189.6	187.9	.476	5.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	2.0	4.50	1.500	4.50	1.92	42.7	100.0	6.8

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

2,292

118th-most career G

9,791

100th-most career PA

7,706

187th-most career AB

1,798

20th-most career R

2,654

77th-most career H

525

47th-most career 2B

382nd-most career 3B

521

20th-most career HR

RBI

1,839

16th-most career RBI

2,021

4th-most career BB

709

.3444

11th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4817

Highest career on-base percentage of all time

SLG

.6338

3rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

1.1155

3rd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

4.50

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1946-07-14	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	4	4	0	3	8	0	13
1954-05-16	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	2	5	1	2	5	0	12
1957-06-13	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
1957-05-08	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	4	1	12
1947-07-18	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	5	0	2	5	0	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	SO
1940-08-24	DET @ BOS Gameday	2.0	3	1	1	1
1939-04-20	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	ATH @ BOS Gameday	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1966 (BBWAA)

2× Triple Crown2× Most Valuable Player17× 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.