MLB / Players

Charlie Root

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 17, 1899 · Middletown, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1923

Final gameSeptember 2, 1941

Seasons17 (1923–1941)

St. Louis Browns 1923; Chicago Cubs 1926–1941

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified pitchers

61.3

37.6

36.6

46.2

90.3

46.2

SHO

189

45.2

49.5

53.8

32.3

167.3

47.3

ERA

4.03

45.2

WHIP

1.333

63.4

K/9

3.50

44.1

FIP

3.53

FIP-

89.8

69.9

ERA+

97.5

35.5

sWAR

1.7

50.5

of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

110.7

73.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	27	14	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.077	.143	.077	.220	-51.4	-42.4	.122	-0.5
1926	42	99	91	8	13	1	0	1	7	2	25	0	.143	.179	.187	.366	-9.3	-1.4	.175	5.3
1927	48	132	122	15	27	6	1	0	8	4	35	0	.221	.252	.287	.539	40.5	45.2	.252	3.7
1928	40	83	73	5	13	5	0	0	5	2	18	0	.178	.200	.247	.447	7.3	17.6	.206	3.1
1929	43	105	96	8	15	3	4	1	15	4	28	0	.156	.190	.302	.492	12.0	20.3	.218	6.0
1930	37	87	80	4	21	8	0	1	6	4	21	1	.263	.306	.400	.706	66.6	68.6	.313	4.0
1931	39	95	90	7	20	8	0	0	8	4	31	0	.222	.255	.311	.566	43.9	50.8	.261	4.1
1932	39	78	76	4	13	1	0	1	10	0	29	0	.171	.171	.224	.395	-5.3	6.2	.175	2.5
1933	35	93	85	1	8	3	0	0	0	4	22	0	.094	.135	.129	.264	-36.4	-23.5	.130	4.0
1934	34	41	40	3	7	3	0	2	4	0	13	0	.175	.175	.400	.575	41.1	52.2	.245	0.8
1935	38	84	69	8	14	2	1	1	7	3	22	0	.203	.236	.304	.540	41.0	45.5	.246	4.1
1936	33	17	15	1	5	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	.333	.412	.333	.745	110.2	102.8	.361	0.8
1937	43	71	67	7	12	2	0	1	9	1	19	0	.179	.203	.254	.457	12.5	22.2	.210	3.0
1938	44	53	48	2	8	1	0	0	3	4	16	0	.167	.231	.188	.418	10.6	15.4	.207	3.3
1939	35	63	57	4	10	2	1	2	6	2	21	0	.175	.217	.351	.568	39.4	49.9	.255	1.7
1940	36	34	31	4	4	0	0	0	1	2	10	0	.129	.206	.129	.335	-7.3	-4.9	.174	0.9
1941	19	42	33	4	5	1	0	1	4	5	10	0	.152	.263	.273	.536	54.0	53.2	.264	-1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	27	2	0	4	0	0	0	68	38	18	27	4	60.0	5.70	1.433	4.05	4.07	98.1	72.8	-0.5
1926	42	32	18	17	2	21	2	267	85	62	127	10	271.3	2.82	1.213	4.21	3.20	83.8	135.5	5.3
1927	48	36	26	15	2	21	4	296	129	117	145	16	309.0	3.76	1.337	4.22	3.95	102.5	102.5	3.7
1928	40	30	14	18	2	13	1	214	94	73	122	15	237.0	3.57	1.211	4.63	3.58	92.2	108.7	3.1
1929	43	31	19	6	5	19	4	286	105	83	124	12	272.0	3.47	1.357	4.10	3.92	83.7	134.7	6.0
1930	37	30	16	14	3	15	4	247	106	63	124	17	220.3	4.33	1.407	5.07	4.38	87.9	115.1	4.0
1931	39	31	17	14	2	19	3	240	97	71	131	7	251.0	3.48	1.239	4.70	3.22	82.6	112.2	4.1
1932	39	23	15	10	3	11	0	211	86	55	96	10	216.3	3.58	1.230	3.99	3.46	90.9	106.3	2.5
1933	35	30	15	10	0	20	2	232	70	61	86	14	242.3	2.60	1.209	3.19	3.49	106.7	125.7	4.0
1934	34	9	4	7	0	2	0	141	56	53	46	8	117.7	4.28	1.649	3.52	4.67	119.4	91.3	0.8
1935	38	18	15	8	2	11	1	193	69	47	94	15	201.3	3.08	1.192	4.20	3.80	96.4	127.8	4.1
1936	33	4	3	6	1	0	0	81	34	20	32	3	73.7	4.15	1.371	3.91	3.60	89.7	96.6	0.8
1937	43	15	13	5	5	5	0	173	67	32	74	18	178.7	3.38	1.147	3.73	4.04	101.4	118.0	3.0
1938	44	11	8	7	8	5	0	163	51	30	70	10	160.7	2.86	1.201	3.92	3.27	85.2	134.4	3.3
1939	35	16	8	8	4	8	0	189	75	34	65	11	167.3	4.03	1.333	3.50	3.53	89.8	97.5	1.7
1940	36	8	2	4	1	1	0	118	48	33	50	9	112.0	3.86	1.348	4.02	3.81	101.0	97.8	0.9
1941	19	15	8	7	0	6	0	133	64	37	46	8	106.7	5.40	1.594	3.88	3.72	105.2	65.5	-1.1

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

632

1,191

1,086

196

RBI

329

.1805

OBP

.2172

SLG

.2661

OPS

.4833

Pitching

G (P)

632

195th-most career G (P)

341

232nd-most career GS

201

116th-most career W

160

121st-most career L

437th-most career SV

177

177th-most career CG

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

3,197

110th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,459

256th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

889

173rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.586

WHIP

1.2951

K/9

4.11

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
1929-07-27	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	4	0	5
1931-08-29	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	0	2	0	5
1929-05-10	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	4	0	5
1929-07-17	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	0	3	1	5
1935-06-03	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1930-07-28	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	12
1926-06-28	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	3	9
1927-08-16	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	9
1929-07-07	CHC @ ATL Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	2	9
1930-04-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	11	4	4	1	9

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.