CATLMLB🏛 Hall of Fame · 2020 · 81.3%8× All-Star1× Silver Slugger🌅 Early Bloomer · 1975

Ted Simmons

6'0" · 200 lbsBorn August 9, 19491968–1988Draft: 1967MLB.com ↗

MLB Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

MLB profile

Peak 3Y VAL

14.4

1975, 1977, 1978 avg

Career VAL

142.7

Value Above League

Games

2,456

Hits

2,472

Home Runs

248

Runs Batted In

1,389

Batting Avg

.285

Playoff VAL

16.5

postseason

All-time standings

Career boards only, within MLB

Cross-sport prominence: 99.1th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

Boards that rank MLB careers

MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ Leaders MLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 K MLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps MLB Career Arc Types MLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories MLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in October MLB Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape MLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust MLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One Scale MLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern Terms MLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team MLB Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Hitters and Pitchers)MLB Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on Cooperstown's Doorstep MLB Journeymen MLB League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading Seasons MLB Loyalty

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.

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Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	VAL
1968	18–19	STL	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.333	.500	.333	.833	—
1969	19–20	STL	5	14	0	3	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	.214	.250	.357	.607	—
1970	20–21	STL	82	284	29	69	8	2	3	24	2	37	37	.243	.333	.317	.650	1.4
1971	21–22	STL	133	510	64	155	32	4	7	77	1	36	50	.304	.347	.424	.771	7.5
1972	22–23	STL	152	594	70	180	36	6	16	96	1	29	57	.303	.336	.465	.801	11.4
1973	23–24	STL	161	619	62	192	36	2	13	91	2	61	47	.310	.370	.438	.808	11.6
1974	24–25	STL	152	599	66	163	33	6	20	103	0	47	35	.272	.327	.447	.774	9.9
1975	25–26	STL	157	581	80	193	32	3	18	100	1	63	35	.332	.396	.491	.887	15.2
1976	26–27	STL	150	546	60	159	35	3	5	75	0	73	35	.291	.371	.394	.765	9.1
1977	27–28	STL	150	516	82	164	25	3	21	95	2	79	37	.318	.408	.500	.908	13.8
1978	28–29	STL	152	516	71	148	40	5	22	80	1	77	39	.287	.377	.512	.889	14.2
1979	29–30	STL	123	448	68	127	22	0	26	87	0	61	34	.283	.369	.507	.876	10.9
1980	30–31	STL	145	495	84	150	33	2	21	98	1	59	45	.303	.375	.505	.880	11.7
1981	31–32	MIL	100	380	45	82	13	3	14	61	0	23	32	.216	.262	.376	.638	0
1982	32–33	MIL	137	539	73	145	29	0	23	97	0	32	40	.269	.309	.451	.760	6.3
1983	33–34	MIL	153	600	76	185	39	3	13	108	4	41	51	.308	.351	.448	.799	9.6
1984	34–35	MIL	132	497	44	110	23	2	4	52	3	30	40	.221	.269	.300	.569	0
1985	35–36	MIL	143	528	60	144	28	2	12	76	1	57	32	.273	.342	.402	.744	6.5
1986	36–37	ATL	76	127	14	32	5	0	4	25	1	12	14	.252	.313	.386	.699	0.9
1987	37–38	ATL	73	177	20	49	8	0	4	30	1	21	23	.277	.350	.390	.740	2.4
1988	38–39	ATL	78	107	6	21	6	0	2	11	0	15	9	.196	.293	.308	.601	0.3

Ted Simmons

MLB Stats

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Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

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