MLB / Players

Chet Laabs

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 175 lb

BornApril 30, 1912 · Milwaukee, WI, USA

MLB debutMay 5, 1937

Final gameJune 3, 1947

Seasons11 (1937–1947)

Detroit Tigers 1937–1939; St. Louis Browns 1939–1946; Philadelphia Athletics 1947

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified batters

151

82.6

665

90.6

580

84.1

88.4

145

73.9

80.4

76.8

94.9

RBI

91.3

86.2

105

0.7

56.5

9.4

.250

28.3

OBP

.338

43.5

SLG

.409

68.8

OPS

.747

59.4

wRC+

116.7

63.8

OPS+

116.4

62.3

wOBA

.356

57.2

sWAR

2.9

73.9

of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.5

64.8

OPS+

113.7

69.8

sWAR

14.3

90.6

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
1937	72	267	242	31	58	13	5	8	37	24	66	6	2	.240	.308	.434	.742	80.2	84.3	.334	0.2
1938	64	229	211	26	50	7	3	7	37	15	52	3	2	.237	.288	.398	.686	60.1	65.9	.310	-0.4
1939	100	374	333	53	100	21	6	10	64	35	62	4	1	.300	.369	.489	.858	111.6	113.6	.387	1.8
1940	105	253	218	32	59	11	5	10	40	34	59	3	3	.271	.372	.505	.876	120.8	121.2	.391	1.4
1941	118	449	392	64	109	23	6	15	59	51	59	5	2	.278	.361	.482	.843	116.1	117.3	.383	1.9
1942	144	614	520	90	143	21	7	27	99	88	88	0	3	.275	.380	.498	.878	143.8	143.7	.408	4.7
1943	151	665	580	83	145	27	7	17	85	73	105	5	7	.250	.338	.409	.747	116.7	116.4	.356	2.9
1944	66	235	201	28	47	10	2	5	23	29	33	3	1	.234	.330	.378	.709	99.5	98.5	.339	0.5
1945	35	131	109	15	26	4	3	1	8	16	17	0	0	.239	.352	.358	.709	107.0	102.7	.348	0.3
1946	80	285	264	40	69	13	0	16	52	20	50	3	1	.261	.316	.492	.808	114.9	118.4	.365	1.1
1947	15	36	32	5	7	1	0	1	5	4	4	0	0	.219	.306	.344	.649	76.3	78.7	.311	0.0

Career totals

950

3,538

3,102

467

813

151

117

RBI

509

389

595

.2621

OBP

.3462

SLG

.4523

459th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7985

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	TB
1941-07-16	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	2	4	13
1939-08-12	BAL @ DET Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	2	4	10
1946-09-04	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	5	9
1942-07-16	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1939-09-07	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	3	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-20	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-23	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-29	DET @ CLE 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.

Honors

1× All-Star

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