MLB / Players

Charlie Grimm

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 173 lb

BornAugust 28, 1898 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutJuly 30, 1916

Final gameSeptember 23, 1936

Seasons20 (1916–1936)

Philadelphia Athletics 1916; St. Louis Cardinals 1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1919–1924; Chicago Cubs 1925–1936

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

149

81.3

616

72.9

570

77.1

58.4

175

82.5

92.2

28.3

71.7

RBI

78.3

61.4

43.4

18.1

27.7

.307

66.9

OBP

.349

48.2

SLG

.425

59.6

OPS

.774

52.4

wRC+

109.0

56.6

OPS+

109.0

wOBA

.348

45.2

sWAR

1.4

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.5

32.8

OPS+

95.8

33.1

sWAR

5.6

80.7

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
1916	12	24	22	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	0	.091	.167	.091	.258	-30.3	-22.6	.145	-0.3
1918	50	155	141	11	31	7	0	0	12	6	15	2	0	.220	.262	.270	.531	59.3	63.5	.259	-0.6
1919	14	47	44	6	14	1	3	0	6	2	4	1	0	.318	.348	.477	.825	144.7	144.8	.383	0.3
1920	148	581	533	38	121	13	7	2	54	30	40	7	8	.227	.273	.289	.562	57.1	61.0	.269	-2.4
1921	151	611	562	62	154	21	17	7	71	31	38	6	8	.274	.314	.409	.724	86.7	89.4	.329	-0.2
1922	154	649	593	64	173	28	13	0	76	43	15	6	10	.292	.343	.383	.726	87.1	87.3	.337	-0.2
1923	152	614	563	78	194	29	13	7	99	41	43	6	9	.345	.389	.480	.869	127.3	127.7	.397	2.9
1924	151	599	542	53	156	25	12	2	63	37	22	3	6	.288	.336	.389	.725	93.8	94.5	.334	0.2
1925	141	567	519	73	159	29	5	10	76	38	25	4	3	.306	.354	.439	.793	100.1	101.0	.359	0.8
1926	147	602	524	58	145	30	6	8	82	49	25	3	0	.277	.342	.403	.745	99.7	99.9	.346	0.7
1927	147	617	543	68	169	29	6	2	74	45	21	3	0	.311	.367	.398	.765	107.5	106.5	.358	1.3
1928	147	615	547	67	161	25	5	5	62	39	20	7	0	.294	.342	.386	.728	91.3	92.3	.338	0.1
1929	120	516	463	66	138	28	3	10	91	42	25	3	0	.298	.358	.436	.794	95.9	96.4	.360	0.5
1930	114	490	429	58	124	27	2	6	66	41	26	1	0	.289	.359	.403	.763	85.4	83.7	.346	-0.2
1931	146	596	531	65	176	33	11	4	66	53	29	1	0	.331	.393	.458	.851	129.6	126.9	.390	2.9
1932	149	616	570	66	175	42	2	7	80	35	22	2	0	.307	.349	.425	.774	109.0	109.0	.348	1.4
1933	107	413	384	38	95	15	2	3	37	23	15	1	0	.247	.290	.320	.610	73.0	75.9	.286	-0.9
1934	75	286	267	24	79	8	1	5	47	16	12	1	0	.296	.338	.390	.728	97.6	98.1	.333	0.2
1935	2	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.2	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1936	39	139	132	13	33	4	0	1	16	5	8	0	0	.250	.277	.303	.580	51.9	56.3	.270	-0.7

Career totals

2,166

162nd-most career G

8,745

185th-most career PA

7,917

165th-most career AB

908

471st-most career R

2,299

159th-most career H

394

213th-most career 2B

108

135th-most career 3B

RBI

1,078

234th-most career RBI

578

410

.2904

395th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3411

SLG

.3974

OPS

.7385

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
1925-04-24	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	1	2	0	2	0	9
1926-07-17	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	1	0	9
1925-06-04	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	4	0	8
1925-08-13	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	4	1	8
1931-07-18	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1916-04-12	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-13	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-15	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-18	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-19	ATH @ NYY 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.