Bob Chakales
Cleveland Indians 1951–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954; Cleveland Indians 1954; Chicago White Sox 1955; Washington Senators 1955–1956; Boston Red Sox 1957; Washington Senators 1957
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 17 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .350 | .350 | .500 | .850 | 129.9 | 135.8 | .384 | 0.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 195.2 | 189.2 | .467 | -0.7 |
| 1953 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 50.1 | 58.4 | .265 | 0.6 |
| 1954 | 41 | 29 | 25 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .360 | .385 | .400 | .785 | 119.3 | 117.0 | .366 | 1.6 |
| 1955 | 36 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1956 | 43 | 23 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .150 | .150 | .300 | -37.1 | -20.4 | .139 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 22 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .300 | .500 | .800 | 110.6 | 111.6 | .355 | -1.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 80 | 36 | 43 | 32 | 3 | 68.3 | 4.74 | 1.800 | 4.21 | 4.10 | 106.5 | 81.2 | 0.2 |
| 1952 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 12.0 | 9.75 | 2.250 | 5.25 | 5.36 | 157.1 | 35.0 | -0.7 |
| 1953 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 27.0 | 2.67 | 1.407 | 2.00 | 4.31 | 113.0 | 143.0 | 0.6 |
| 1954 | 41 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 38 | 55 | 47 | 8 | 99.7 | 3.43 | 1.405 | 4.24 | 4.16 | 113.6 | 106.8 | 1.6 |
| 1955 | 36 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 34 | 31 | 34 | 6 | 67.0 | 4.57 | 1.448 | 4.57 | 4.01 | 101.5 | 86.5 | 0.1 |
| 1956 | 43 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 43 | 57 | 33 | 3 | 96.0 | 4.03 | 1.573 | 3.09 | 4.10 | 98.3 | 103.4 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 40 | 21 | 28 | 7 | 50.3 | 7.15 | 1.868 | 5.01 | 4.41 | 111.7 | 55.1 | -1.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-07-19 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1951-05-13 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1957-04-15 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1951-05-20 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-09-27 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-04-15 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 7.0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
| 1955-06-12 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 3.2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 1951-07-01 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1951-06-06 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 8.2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1951-05-13 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 6.1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 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.