Ben Chapman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornDecember 25, 1908 · Nashville, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1930

Final gameMay 12, 1946

Seasons15 (1930–1946)

New York Yankees 1930–1936; Washington Senators 1936; Boston Red Sox 1937; Washington Senators 1937; Boston Red Sox 1938; Cleveland Indians 1939–1940; Chicago White Sox 1941; Washington Senators 1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1944–1945; Philadelphia Phillies 1945–1946

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

143

69.1

631

77.7

548

72.7

67.6

157

71.2

61.9

RBI

43.9

87.8

31.7

89.9

7.2

.286

48.9

OBP

.377

66.2

SLG

.403

41.7

OPS

.781

50.4

wRC+

110.5

54.7

OPS+

107.9

49.6

wOBA

.361

48.2

sWAR

2.3

61.9

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.8

73.1

OPS+

115.2

sWAR

35.5

97.4

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
1930	138	564	513	74	162	31	10	10	81	43	58	14	6	.316	.371	.474	.845	115.1	116.7	.379	3.2
1931	149	686	600	120	189	28	11	17	122	75	77	61	23	.315	.396	.483	.879	134.7	136.2	.403	4.6
1932	151	662	581	101	174	41	15	10	107	71	55	38	18	.299	.381	.473	.854	119.8	120.4	.388	3.0
1933	147	651	565	112	176	36	4	9	98	72	45	27	18	.312	.393	.437	.830	127.4	127.0	.386	3.6
1934	149	666	588	82	181	21	13	5	86	67	68	26	16	.308	.381	.413	.795	113.4	112.7	.372	3.1
1935	140	629	553	118	160	38	8	8	74	61	39	17	10	.289	.361	.430	.791	110.3	111.3	.366	3.0
1936	133	628	540	110	170	50	10	5	81	84	38	20	9	.315	.408	.472	.880	122.0	121.9	.405	4.0
1937	148	643	553	99	164	30	12	7	69	83	42	35	12	.297	.389	.432	.822	108.5	105.9	.380	2.4
1938	127	553	480	92	163	40	8	6	80	65	33	13	6	.340	.418	.494	.912	125.2	124.2	.417	3.0
1939	149	654	545	101	158	31	9	6	82	87	30	18	6	.290	.390	.413	.802	113.5	110.8	.375	3.3
1940	143	631	548	82	157	40	6	4	50	78	45	13	7	.286	.377	.403	.781	110.5	107.9	.361	2.3
1941	85	331	300	35	71	15	1	3	29	29	20	4	4	.237	.304	.323	.627	65.9	67.3	.296	-0.6
1944	20	44	38	11	14	4	0	0	11	5	4	1	0	.368	.442	.474	.916	163.0	157.2	.428	1.6
1945	37	77	73	6	19	2	0	0	7	4	2	0	0	.260	.299	.288	.586	60.9	63.2	.282	-0.9
1946	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-140.8	-100.0	.000	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1944	11	9	5	3	6	75	30	33	37	4	79.3	3.40	1.361	4.20	3.61	99.7	106.5	1.6
1945	13	7	3	3	2	71	39	38	27	3	60.7	5.79	1.797	4.01	4.42	116.1	65.7	-0.9
1946	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	9.00	0.32	9.4	—	0.0

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

1,717

495th-most career G

7,420

376th-most career PA

6,478

404th-most career AB

1,144

230th-most career R

1,958

318th-most career H

407

184th-most career 2B

107

141st-most career 3B

RBI

977

332nd-most career RBI

824

248th-most career BB

556

287

185th-most career SB

.3023

195th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3832

166th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4398

OPS

.8230

325th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

141

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.404

WHIP

1.5461

K/9

4.15

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
1932-07-09	DET @ NYY Gameday	3	4	3	0	0	3	6	1	12
1939-05-14	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	7	0	11
1931-08-30	NYY @ BOS Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
1934-05-13	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	1	4	0	10
1936-05-03	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	0	4	1	2	0	5	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-04-28	SF @ LAD Gameday	7.0	5	3	3	5	8	0
1944-08-30	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	2	0	5	6	0
1944-09-04	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	5	6	0
1944-08-04	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	5	5	1
1944-08-11	LAD @ CHC Gameday	6.2	6	5	5	5	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.

Honors

4× 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.