Ted Wills
Boston Red Sox 1959–1962; Cincinnati Reds 1962; Chicago White Sox 1965
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .375 | .669 | 76.8 | 78.5 | .305 | -0.1 |
| 1960 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .375 | .708 | 90.8 | 88.0 | .330 | -0.8 |
| 1961 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1962 | 27 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .313 | .313 | .313 | .625 | 64.8 | 67.6 | .286 | -0.2 |
| 1965 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 54.4 | 7.8 | .247 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 68 | 33 | 24 | 24 | 9 | 56.3 | 5.27 | 1.633 | 3.83 | 5.02 | 123.7 | 77.0 | -0.1 |
| 1960 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 25 | 16 | 28 | 4 | 30.3 | 7.42 | 1.780 | 8.31 | 4.15 | 102.8 | 54.4 | -0.8 |
| 1961 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 13 | 19 | 11 | 2 | 19.7 | 5.95 | 2.186 | 5.03 | 5.61 | 135.3 | 69.6 | -0.2 |
| 1962 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 36 | 24 | 58 | 12 | 61.0 | 5.31 | 1.426 | 8.56 | 4.80 | 118.6 | 75.5 | -0.2 |
| 1965 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 6 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 19.0 | 2.84 | 1.632 | 5.68 | 4.87 | 151.3 | 113.3 | 0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960-08-01 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1959-05-30 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1959-06-28 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1959-06-11 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1959-06-21 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-07-15 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1962-06-16 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1959-06-06 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 7.1 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1959-06-28 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| 1962-08-04 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 6.1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
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.