Cass Michaels

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 4, 1926 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutAugust 19, 1943

Final gameAugust 27, 1954

Seasons12 (1943–1954)

Chicago White Sox 1943–1950; Washington Senators 1950–1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1952; St. Louis Browns 1952; Washington Senators 1952; Philadelphia Athletics 1953; Chicago White Sox 1954

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

132

511

18.7

452

13.3

9.3

114

6.7

13.3

17.3

RBI

41.3

61.3

38.7

.252

18.7

OBP

.332

25.3

SLG

.356

13.3

OPS

.688

wRC+

87.5

10.7

OPS+

88.0

10.7

wOBA

.327

sWAR

1.1

10.7

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.3

28.7

OPS+

91.7

sWAR

15.2

91.1

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
1943	2	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.9	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1944	27	70	68	4	12	4	1	0	5	2	5	0	0	.176	.200	.265	.465	19.8	32.7	.218	-0.3
1945	129	499	445	47	109	8	5	2	54	37	28	8	7	.245	.307	.299	.606	76.0	78.0	.297	0.9
1946	91	330	291	37	75	8	0	1	22	29	36	9	3	.258	.333	.296	.629	80.4	79.3	.306	0.5
1947	110	404	355	31	97	15	4	3	34	39	28	10	5	.273	.350	.363	.714	102.1	101.3	.342	1.6
1948	145	558	484	47	120	12	6	5	56	69	42	8	2	.248	.344	.329	.673	83.5	81.4	.329	1.2
1949	154	672	561	73	173	27	9	6	83	101	50	5	7	.308	.417	.421	.837	128.5	124.3	.404	4.8
1950	142	606	526	69	140	14	7	8	66	68	47	2	3	.266	.352	.365	.717	87.3	86.0	.341	1.2
1951	138	549	485	59	125	20	4	4	45	61	41	1	1	.258	.342	.340	.682	87.5	86.2	.327	1.2
1952	132	511	452	53	114	16	8	5	50	53	42	4	0	.252	.332	.356	.688	87.5	88.0	.327	1.1
1953	117	469	411	53	103	10	0	12	42	51	56	7	0	.251	.335	.363	.697	83.1	83.3	.329	0.8
1954	101	344	282	35	74	13	2	7	44	56	31	10	4	.262	.392	.397	.789	125.3	117.3	.377	2.4

Career totals

1,288

5,020

4,367

508

1,142

147

RBI

501

566

406

.2615

OBP

.3494

SLG

.3526

OPS

.7020

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
1950-05-30	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	2	8
1948-04-26	CLE @ CWS Gameday	6	2	3	1	0	1	3	1	7
1950-05-11	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1949-06-16	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1954-05-14	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-21	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-28	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Honors

2× 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.