Chad Kimsey
St. Louis Browns 1929–1931; Chicago White Sox 1932; St. Louis Browns 1932; Chicago White Sox 1933; Detroit Tigers 1936
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 29 | 32 | 30 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .290 | .533 | .824 | 96.8 | 104.4 | .358 | 0.4 |
| 1930 | 60 | 75 | 70 | 14 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | .343 | .387 | .514 | .901 | 120.9 | 122.6 | .401 | 0.1 |
| 1931 | 47 | 47 | 37 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .270 | .413 | .459 | .873 | 128.0 | 124.5 | .407 | 1.6 |
| 1932 | 41 | 21 | 20 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .333 | .350 | .683 | 72.0 | 73.1 | .317 | 1.7 |
| 1933 | 28 | 33 | 33 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .152 | .152 | .152 | .303 | -27.1 | -18.7 | .141 | -0.6 |
| 1936 | 22 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .313 | .353 | .500 | .853 | 104.6 | 108.9 | .381 | 0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 83 | 36 | 19 | 13 | 2 | 64.3 | 5.04 | 1.585 | 1.82 | 3.90 | 89.2 | 86.8 | 0.4 |
| 1930 | 42 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 139 | 80 | 45 | 32 | 8 | 113.3 | 6.35 | 1.624 | 2.54 | 5.05 | 105.1 | 75.6 | 0.1 |
| 1931 | 42 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 121 | 46 | 27 | 27 | 1 | 94.3 | 4.39 | 1.569 | 2.58 | 3.74 | 82.1 | 103.8 | 1.6 |
| 1932 | 40 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 38 | 38 | 19 | 3 | 89.3 | 3.83 | 1.466 | 1.91 | 4.45 | 95.3 | 121.8 | 1.7 |
| 1933 | 28 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 59 | 36 | 19 | 7 | 96.0 | 5.53 | 1.667 | 1.78 | 4.83 | 115.2 | 75.8 | -0.6 |
| 1936 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 28 | 29 | 11 | 2 | 52.0 | 4.85 | 1.673 | 1.90 | 5.30 | 105.8 | 103.3 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-07-04 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1931-07-05 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1929-06-25 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1929-07-04 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1930-08-28 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930-06-01 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1932-09-10 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 2.0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1930-06-09 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1933-07-23 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 7.0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 1930-08-30 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 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.