Chesley Gray
St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940; New York Black Yankees 1942; Harrisburg-St. Louis Stars 1943; Kansas City Monarchs 1945
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 27 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 25.0 | -24.4 | .195 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 12 | 32 | 31 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .290 | .313 | .290 | .603 | 74.0 | 72.3 | .291 | 0.0 |
| 1943 | 14 | 48 | 46 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .229 | .239 | .468 | 33.4 | 25.1 | .227 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 14 | 40 | 37 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .243 | .282 | .324 | .606 | 78.7 | 77.2 | .287 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-09-03 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-07-27 | KCM @ CAG Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-09-02 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-09-07 | NBY @ CLB Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1943-06-19 | HSL @ NE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-12 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-12 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-13 | HSL @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-16 | HSL @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-05-17 | HSL @ BBB 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.