Champ Summers
Oakland Athletics 1974; Chicago Cubs 1975–1976; Cincinnati Reds 1977–1979; Detroit Tigers 1979–1981; San Francisco Giants 1982–1983; San Diego Padres 1984
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 20 | 25 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .160 | .167 | .327 | -9.2 | -2.1 | .158 | -0.3 |
| 1975 | 76 | 103 | 91 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .311 | .341 | .651 | 78.6 | 76.9 | .312 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 83 | 142 | 126 | 11 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 31 | 1 | 0 | .206 | .284 | .294 | .577 | 55.5 | 58.3 | .277 | -0.5 |
| 1977 | 59 | 84 | 76 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .238 | .342 | .580 | 45.7 | 53.2 | .258 | -0.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | 42 | 35 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | .257 | .381 | .400 | .781 | 124.2 | 119.7 | .364 | 0.2 |
| 1979 | 117 | 364 | 306 | 57 | 89 | 14 | 2 | 21 | 62 | 53 | 48 | 7 | 7 | .291 | .401 | .556 | .957 | 156.2 | 153.3 | .422 | 3.1 |
| 1980 | 120 | 408 | 347 | 61 | 103 | 19 | 1 | 17 | 60 | 52 | 52 | 4 | 3 | .297 | .393 | .504 | .897 | 145.2 | 143.7 | .400 | 2.6 |
| 1981 | 64 | 189 | 165 | 16 | 42 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 19 | 35 | 1 | 1 | .255 | .339 | .358 | .696 | 99.1 | 99.3 | .323 | 0.1 |
| 1982 | 70 | 147 | 125 | 15 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 16 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .248 | .342 | .384 | .726 | 110.0 | 104.5 | .342 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 29 | 30 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .333 | .136 | .470 | 58.8 | 36.7 | .269 | -0.1 |
| 1984 | 47 | 59 | 54 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .254 | .296 | .551 | 49.4 | 55.4 | .254 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-07-25 | MIL @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1980-06-12 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1979-08-25 | SEA @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1979-05-06 | HOU @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 1979-06-26 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
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.