MLB / Players

Charles Bender

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornMay 5, 1884 · Crow Wing County, MN, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1903

Final gameJuly 21, 1925

Seasons16 (1903–1925)

Philadelphia Athletics 1903–1914; Baltimore Terrapins 1915; Philadelphia Phillies 1916–1917; Chicago White Sox 1925

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified pitchers

17.6

34.4

4.8

16.8

51.2

SHO

198

52.8

26.4

83.2

44.8

27.2

178.3

25.6

ERA

3.99

4.8

WHIP

1.318

19.2

K/9

4.49

68.8

FIP

2.60

72.8

FIP-

85.8

80.8

ERA+

76.0

6.4

sWAR

0.1

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.6

78.2

sWAR

45.6

98.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1903	43	129	120	10	22	4	1	0	8	3	14	3	0	.183	.216	.233	.449	31.1	32.5	.212	2.6
1904	31	87	79	8	18	3	2	0	5	5	12	3	0	.228	.282	.316	.599	85.7	86.4	.287	1.8
1905	38	97	92	11	20	3	2	0	14	3	19	3	0	.217	.242	.293	.536	64.9	69.4	.256	2.0
1906	44	113	99	9	25	4	0	3	13	9	13	2	0	.253	.333	.384	.717	123.5	122.7	.348	4.0
1907	45	109	100	10	23	6	1	0	8	5	6	2	0	.230	.267	.310	.577	79.0	82.5	.281	4.0
1908	20	61	50	5	11	1	0	0	2	10	13	1	0	.220	.350	.240	.590	102.7	89.6	.311	3.1
1909	40	103	93	6	20	5	0	0	9	5	10	1	0	.215	.255	.269	.524	60.0	64.3	.258	5.7
1910	36	106	93	6	25	3	2	0	16	6	8	0	0	.269	.333	.344	.677	116.4	116.7	.334	5.9
1911	32	87	79	9	13	0	0	0	8	2	14	2	0	.165	.195	.165	.360	3.0	2.6	.180	4.3
1912	27	69	60	5	9	1	1	0	4	6	3	2	2	.150	.227	.200	.427	30.6	25.0	.220	2.5
1913	48	89	78	7	12	3	1	0	10	6	17	1	0	.154	.214	.218	.432	23.9	28.0	.217	4.3
1914	28	70	62	4	9	1	0	1	8	4	13	0	0	.145	.197	.210	.407	14.3	23.4	.204	2.7
1915	26	66	60	7	16	2	0	1	2	6	6	0	0	.267	.333	.350	.683	101.1	100.8	.331	0.1
1916	28	47	43	2	12	4	0	0	5	3	9	0	0	.279	.326	.372	.698	111.8	111.8	.331	-0.1
1917	20	41	39	3	8	0	0	1	4	2	3	0	0	.205	.244	.282	.526	52.5	59.1	.252	2.8
1925	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1903	36	33	17	14	0	29	2	239	92	65	127	6	270.0	3.07	1.126	4.23	3.12	102.0	99.9	2.6
1904	29	20	10	11	0	18	4	167	65	59	149	1	203.7	2.87	1.110	6.58	2.03	76.3	92.8	1.8
1905	35	23	18	11	0	18	4	193	72	90	142	5	229.0	2.83	1.236	5.58	2.83	106.7	93.6	2.0
1906	36	27	15	10	3	24	0	208	67	48	159	5	238.3	2.53	1.074	6.00	2.12	77.8	107.7	4.0
1907	33	24	16	8	3	20	4	185	50	34	112	1	219.3	2.05	.998	4.60	1.89	73.3	125.4	4.0
1908	18	17	8	9	1	14	2	121	27	21	85	1	138.7	1.75	1.024	5.52	1.64	66.7	140.1	3.1
1909	34	29	18	8	1	24	5	196	46	45	161	1	250.0	1.66	.964	5.80	1.65	66.0	151.0	5.7
1910	30	28	23	5	0	25	3	182	44	47	155	1	250.0	1.58	.916	5.58	1.74	72.4	152.2	5.9
1911	31	24	17	5	3	16	2	198	52	58	114	2	216.3	2.16	1.183	4.74	2.84	88.3	148.7	4.3
1912	27	19	13	8	2	12	1	169	52	33	90	1	171.0	2.74	1.181	4.74	2.57	80.3	117.0	2.5
1913	48	21	21	10	13	14	2	208	58	59	135	2	236.7	2.21	1.128	5.13	2.24	78.4	129.7	4.3
1914	28	23	17	3	2	14	7	159	45	55	107	4	179.0	2.26	1.196	5.38	2.38	88.5	118.6	2.7
1915	26	23	4	16	1	15	0	198	79	37	89	5	178.3	3.99	1.318	4.49	2.60	85.8	76.0	0.1
1916	27	13	7	7	3	4	0	137	51	34	43	3	122.7	3.74	1.394	3.15	3.00	112.4	71.3	-0.1
1917	20	10	8	2	2	8	4	84	21	26	43	1	113.0	1.67	.973	3.42	2.61	94.4	165.4	2.8
1925	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	1	1.0	18.00	2.000	0.00	19.11	455.4	23.3	-0.1

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

507

1,274

1,147

102

243

RBI

116

160

.2119

OBP

.2662

SLG

.2799

OPS

.5461

Pitching

G (P)

459

334

244th-most career GS

212

97th-most career W

127

294th-most career L

493rd-most career SV

255

73rd-most career CG

SHO

44th-most career SHO

3,017

136th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,711

156th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

712

369th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.455

37th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1127

34th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.10

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
1906-05-08	ATH @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	8
1905-10-05	ATH @ MIN Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	0	4	1	5
1907-07-18	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1905-10-05	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	3	0	5
1917-08-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1904-07-13	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	13
1910-08-24	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	2	12
1911-04-26	MIN @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	5	12
1904-09-27	ATH @ BAL Gameday	10.0	5	0	0	1	11
1910-08-27	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	1	11

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

Hall of Fame, 1953 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.