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John Ellis
John Charles Ellis

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Weight: 225 lb.

Born: August 21, 1948 in New London, CT
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1966. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 17, 1969
Final Game: October 3, 1981
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John Ellis
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Standard Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1969	20	NYY	AL	22	65	62	2	18	4	0	1	8	0	2	1	11	.290	.308	.403	.711	102	25	0	1	0	1	0	2
1970	21	NYY	AL	78	249	226	24	56	12	1	7	29	0	1	18	47	.248	.305	.403	.708	98	91	5	2	0	3	0	3/52
1971	22	NYY	AL	83	271	238	16	58	12	1	3	34	0	0	23	42	.244	.322	.340	.663	93	81	12	6	1	3	5	3/2
1972	23	NYY	AL	52	144	136	13	40	5	1	5	25	0	0	8	22	.294	.333	.456	.789	137	62	9	0	0	0	0	2/3
1973	24	CLE	AL	127	494	437	59	118	12	2	14	68	0	0	46	57	.270	.339	.403	.741	106	176	13	3	1	7	2	2D3
1974	25	CLE	AL	128	513	477	58	136	23	6	10	64	1	2	32	53	.285	.330	.421	.751	117	201	16	1	1	2	3	32D
1975	26	CLE	AL	92	316	296	22	68	11	1	7	32	0	1	14	33	.230	.266	.345	.610	73	102	13	2	0	4	2	2/D3
1976	27	TEX	AL	11	31	31	4	13	2	0	1	8	0	0	0	4	.419	.419	.581	1.000	189	18	1	0	0	0	0	/2D
1977	28	TEX	AL	49	127	119	7	28	7	0	4	15	0	0	8	26	.235	.283	.395	.678	83	47	1	0	0	0	2	2D/3
1978	29	TEX	AL	34	104	94	7	23	4	0	3	17	0	1	6	20	.245	.282	.383	.665	86	36	0	0	1	3	0	2/D
1979	30	TEX	AL	111	337	316	33	90	12	0	12	61	2	2	15	55	.285	.318	.437	.754	103	138	3	2	0	4	1	D3/2
1980	31	TEX	AL	73	200	182	12	43	9	1	1	23	3	0	14	23	.236	.290	.313	.603	68	57	6	1	0	3	1	3D/2
1981	32	TEX	AL	23	64	58	2	8	3	0	1	7	0	1	5	10	.138	.219	.241	.460	37	14	3	1	0	0	1	3/D
13 Seasons				883	2915	2672	259	699	116	13	69	391	6	10	190	403	.262	.312	.392	.704	99	1048	82	19	4	30	17
162 Game Avg.				162	535	490	48	128	21	2	13	72	1	2	35	74	.262	.312	.392	.704	99	192	15	3	1	6	3

TEX (6 yrs)				301	863	800	65	205	37	1	22	131	5	4	48	138	.256	.298	.388	.686	88	310	14	4	1	10	5
NYY (4 yrs)				235	729	662	55	172	33	3	16	96	0	3	50	122	.260	.317	.391	.709	105	259	26	9	1	7	5
CLE (3 yrs)				347	1323	1210	139	322	46	9	31	164	1	3	92	143	.266	.318	.396	.714	102	479	42	6	2	13	7

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1969	20	NYY	AL	65	47	7	4.0	91	.333	.290	.250	.308	.326	.403	.377	.711	.702	102	.478	0.0	0.0	.543	.097	.113	.0
1970	21	NYY	AL	249	179	27	4.1	93	.280	.248	.252	.305	.325	.403	.385	.708	.710	98	.474	-0.6	-0.1	.625	.230	.155	.0
1971	22	NYY	AL	271	196	25	3.4	87	.281	.244	.248	.322	.319	.340	.368	.663	.687	93	.427	-1.0	-0.1	.573	.193	.097	.0
1972	23	NYY	AL	144	105	17	4.4	81	.321	.294	.243	.333	.311	.456	.351	.789	.662	137	.582	5.3	0.6	.667	.221	.162	.0
1973	24	CLE	AL	494	340	60	4.7	96	.279	.270	.263	.339	.332	.403	.386	.741	.719	106	.540	3.7	0.4	.678	.238	.133	.0
1974	25	CLE	AL	513	362	62	4.6	88	.303	.285	.257	.330	.322	.421	.370	.751	.691	117	.550	8.7	0.9	.649	.201	.136	1.8
1975	26	CLE	AL	316	246	24	2.6	92	.235	.230	.257	.266	.326	.345	.377	.610	.704	73	.287	-11.6	-1.2	.483	.159	.115	.0
1976	27	TEX	AL	31	19	7	10.0	87	.462	.419	.258	.419	.323	.581	.364	1.000	.687	189	.842	3.2	0.3	.947	.161	.161	.0
1977	28	TEX	AL	127	92	13	3.8	101	.270	.235	.267	.283	.332	.395	.407	.678	.738	83	.408	-3.2	-0.3	.598	.227	.160	.0
1978	29	TEX	AL	104	76	11	3.9	94	.270	.245	.261	.282	.326	.383	.385	.665	.711	86	.450	-1.8	-0.2	.569	.191	.138	.0
1979	30	TEX	AL	337	235	44	5.0	101	.308	.285	.268	.318	.333	.437	.407	.754	.740	103	.526	0.3	0.0	.671	.199	.152	3.4
1980	31	TEX	AL	200	148	17	3.1	96	.261	.236	.266	.290	.327	.313	.394	.603	.721	68	.326	-7.5	-0.8	.517	.170	.077	1.5
1981	32	TEX	AL	64	54	2	1.0	84	.149	.138	.249	.219	.313	.241	.362	.460	.675	37	.070	-4.6	-0.5	.352	.172	.103	.0
13 Seasons				2915	2099	316	4.0	93	.283	.262	.258	.312	.326	.392	.382	.704	.707	99	.473	-9.3	-0.9	.607	.200	.131	11.0
162 Game Avg.				535	385	58	4.0	93	.283	.262	.258	.312	.326	.392	.382	.704	.707	99	.473	-9.3	-0.9	.607	.200	.131	2

TEX (6 yrs)				863	624	94	4.0	97	.282	.256	.265	.298	.329	.388	.396	.686	.725	88	.445	-13.8	-1.4	.592	.193	.131	8.1
NYY (4 yrs)				729	527	76	3.9	88	.294	.260	.249	.317	.320	.391	.371	.709	.691	105	.479	3.7	0.4	.607	.202	.131	.0
CLE (3 yrs)				1323	948	146	4.1	92	.277	.266	.259	.318	.327	.396	.378	.714	.704	102	.488	0.8	0.1	.616	.204	.130	1.9

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1969	20	NYY	AL	65	1.5%	16.9%	1.5%	7.7%	28%	11.00	5.6	62.0	7.8	0.82	78%
1970	21	NYY	AL	249	2.8%	18.9%	7.2%	8.0%	36%	2.61	4.8	32.3	7.8	0.63	70%
1971	22	NYY	AL	271	1.1%	15.5%	8.5%	5.9%	28%	1.83	5.7	79.3	7.0	0.80	72%
1972	23	NYY	AL	144	3.5%	15.3%	5.6%	7.6%	28%	2.75	6.2	27.2	5.4	1.50	76%
1973	24	CLE	AL	494	2.8%	11.5%	9.3%	5.7%	24%	1.24	7.7	31.2	6.4	0.99	76%
1974	25	CLE	AL	513	2.0%	10.3%	6.2%	7.6%	29%	1.66	9.0	47.7	7.5	1.03	81%
1975	26	CLE	AL	316	2.2%	10.4%	4.4%	6.0%	28%	2.36	9.0	42.3	9.3	0.86	82%
1976	27	TEX	AL	31	3.2%	12.9%	0.0%	9.7%	23%		7.8	31.0	3.9	0.36	84%
1977	28	TEX	AL	127	3.2%	20.5%	6.3%	8.7%	39%	3.25	4.6	29.8	7.9	1.13	70%
1978	29	TEX	AL	104	2.9%	19.2%	5.8%	6.7%	30%	3.33	4.7	31.3	5.5	0.38	71%
1979	30	TEX	AL	337	3.6%	16.3%	4.5%	7.1%	27%	3.67	5.7	26.3	5.2	0.76	75%
1980	31	TEX	AL	200	0.5%	11.5%	7.0%	5.5%	26%	1.64	7.9	182.0	7.9	0.82	81%
1981	32	TEX	AL	64	1.6%	15.6%	7.8%	6.3%	50%	2.00	5.8	58.0	8.3	0.79	73%
13 Seasons				2915	2.4%	13.8%	6.5%	6.8%	28%	2.12	6.6	38.7	6.8	0.87	77%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1969	20	NYY	AL	1	0	5%	19	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	2	33%	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1970	21	NYY	AL	2	0	25%	81	0	1	0%	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	4	5	46%	6	5	1	3	1	2	4	1	3
1971	22	NYY	AL	5	0	16%	85	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	3	61%	10	5	5	0	0	0	8	2	6
1972	23	NYY	AL	1	0	19%	42	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	2	14%	4	4	0	3	2	1	0	0	0
1973	24	CLE	AL	6	0	29%	180	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	10	38%	34	25	9	4	2	2	17	7	10
1974	25	CLE	AL	2	0	30%	177	1	2	33%	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	8	9	47%	25	19	6	9	3	6	13	3	10
1975	26	CLE	AL	4	0	20%	107	0	1	0%	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	5	26%	11	10	1	2	2	0	6	1	4
1976	27	TEX	AL	0	0	25%	17	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1977	28	TEX	AL	0	0	9%	29	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40%	8	5	3	0	0	0	2	1	1
1978	29	TEX	AL	1	0	15%	40	0	1	0%	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	33%	3	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	2
1979	30	TEX	AL	5	0	22%	80	2	2	50%	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	44%	9	8	1	1	1	0	8	1	7
1980	31	TEX	AL	1	0	19%	53	3	0	100%	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	50%	9	6	3	0	0	0	5	0	4
1981	32	TEX	AL	1	0	8%	10	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
13 Seasons				29	0	23%	920	6	10	38%	5	7	1	1	0	2	6	0	36	42	42%	124	93	30	22	11	11	66	16	47
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1969	20	NYY	AL	65	58%	18			7	2	0	2	3.24	1	0	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	0		9	0	0%	5	1	20%	37	8	22%	6	3	50%	2	2	100%	0
1970	21	NYY	AL	249	75%	56			20	2	0	2	1.83	7	0	9	3	4	2	5	0	0	0		62	5	8%	24	3	13%	177	22	12%	16	6	38%	9	5	56%	0
1971	22	NYY	AL	271	57%	58			15	4	0	3	1.91	3	0	11	1	2	1	2	0	1	1	100%	70	12	17%	32	7	22%	225	35	16%	23	11	48%	10	4	40%	0
1972	23	NYY	AL	144	56%	40			17	4	0	3	1.57	5	0	4	2	3	3	2	0	0	0		36	9	25%	12	3	25%	122	21	17%	9	3	33%	6	4	67%	0
1973	24	CLE	AL	494	39%	118			5	1	1	2	3.14	14	0	4	6	8	7	7	0	1	1	100%	92	13	14%	32	11	34%	304	54	18%	27	16	59%	21	6	29%	0
1974	25	CLE	AL	513	40%	136			3	1	0	0	1.85	10	1	8	4	6	6	4	0	1	1	100%	78	16	21%	32	7	22%	306	56	18%	30	10	33%	24	11	46%	0
1975	26	CLE	AL	316	39%	68			9	5	0	2	1.93	7	0	6	2	5	1	6	0	0	0		52	13	25%	22	6	27%	164	25	15%	12	6	50%	17	3	18%	0
1976	27	TEX	AL	31	39%	13			4	1	0	1	2.80	1	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		5	1	20%	2	0	0%	26	7	27%	2	1	50%	3	2	67%	0
1977	28	TEX	AL	127	57%	28			14	2	0	1	2.51	4	0	3	0	4	1	3	0	0	0		20	1	5%	12	2	17%	75	12	16%	7	4	57%	8	1	13%	0
1978	29	TEX	AL	104	32%	23			5	2	0	1	2.72	3	0	8	2	1	1	2	0	1	1	100%	27	0	0%	11	4	36%	81	15	19%	13	8	62%	7	4	57%	0
1979	30	TEX	AL	337	56%	90			16	6	0	3	2.48	12	0	12	5	7	4	8	0	0	0		63	3	5%	24	6	25%	244	52	21%	24	14	58%	19	5	26%	0
1980	31	TEX	AL	200	76%	43			14	3	0	2	2.52	1	0	9	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0%	35	6	17%	16	5	31%	124	22	18%	8	6	75%	10	5	50%	0
1981	32	TEX	AL	64	73%	8			8	1	0	1	2.34	1	0	5	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		15	3	20%	8	4	50%	47	7	15%	7	4	57%	3	1	33%	0
13 Seasons				2915	51%	699			137	34	1	23	2.24	69	1	85	26	43	27	42	1	5	4	80%	564	82	15%	232	59	25%	1932	336	17%	184	92	50%	139	53	38%	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1969	20	22	65	62	2	18	4	0	1	8	0	2	1	11	.290	.308	.403	.711	102	25	0	1	0	1	0
1970	21	100	314	288	26	74	16	1	8	37	0	3	19	58	.257	.306	.403	.709	99	116	5	3	0	4	0
1971	22	183	585	526	42	132	28	2	11	71	0	3	42	100	.251	.313	.375	.688	97	197	17	9	1	7	5
1972	23	235	729	662	55	172	33	3	16	96	0	3	50	122	.260	.317	.391	.709	105	259	26	9	1	7	5
1973	24	362	1223	1099	114	290	45	5	30	164	0	3	96	179	.264	.326	.396	.722	105	435	39	12	2	14	7
1974	25	490	1736	1576	172	426	68	11	40	228	1	5	128	232	.270	.327	.404	.731	109	636	55	13	3	16	10
1975	26	582	2052	1872	194	494	79	12	47	260	1	6	142	265	.264	.318	.394	.712	103	738	68	15	3	20	12
1976	27	593	2083	1903	198	507	81	12	48	268	1	6	142	269	.266	.319	.397	.716	104	756	69	15	3	20	12
1977	28	642	2210	2022	205	535	88	12	52	283	1	6	150	295	.265	.317	.397	.714	103	803	70	15	3	20	14
1978	29	676	2314	2116	212	558	92	12	55	300	1	7	156	315	.264	.316	.397	.712	102	839	70	15	4	23	14
1979	30	787	2651	2432	245	648	104	12	67	361	3	9	171	370	.266	.316	.402	.718	102	977	73	17	4	27	15
1980	31	860	2851	2614	257	691	113	13	68	384	6	9	185	393	.264	.314	.396	.710	100	1034	79	18	4	30	16
1981	32	883	2915	2672	259	699	116	13	69	391	6	10	190	403	.262	.312	.392	.704	99	1048	82	19	4	30	17

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1969	20	22	66	63	2	19	4	0	1	9	0	1	11	.302	.318	.413	.731	8	22
1970	21	78	254	230	27	60	13	1	8	33	0	19	47	.261	.319	.430	.749	31	78
1971	22	84	282	246	20	65	13	1	3	42	0	26	42	.264	.348	.362	.709	30	83
1972	23	54	154	145	18	45	6	1	6	35	0	9	23	.310	.351	.490	.840	24	52
1973	24	127	500	442	63	123	13	2	15	73	0	48	57	.278	.348	.419	.767	64	127
1974	25	128	521	484	67	143	24	6	11	74	1	34	53	.295	.342	.438	.780	72	128
1975	26	93	316	296	24	67	11	1	7	35	0	14	33	.226	.263	.341	.604	26	92
1976	27	11	31	31	5	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	8	11
1977	28	49	128	120	7	29	7	0	4	16	0	8	26	.242	.289	.400	.689	14	49
1978	29	34	106	96	8	25	4	0	3	19	0	7	20	.260	.302	.396	.698	12	34
1979	30	112	340	319	34	92	12	0	12	63	2	15	55	.288	.321	.439	.759	45	111
1980	31	73	203	184	13	45	9	1	1	25	3	15	23	.245	.300	.321	.621	18	73
1981	32	35	98	88	4	12	4	0	2	13	0	8	15	.136	.224	.250	.474	5	23
13 Seasons		900	2999	2744	292	725	120	13	73	446	6	204	409	.264	.317	.397	.714	357	883
162 Game Avg.		162	540	494	53	131	22	2	13	80	1	37	74	.264	.317	.397	.714	64	883

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1973 AL 7 (2nd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 4 (2808), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Other Resources & Links

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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