MLB / Players

Chet Nichols

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb
BornJuly 2, 1897 · Woonsocket, RI, USA
MLB debutJuly 30, 1926
Final gameMay 29, 1932
Seasons6 (1926–1932)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1926–1927; New York Giants 1928; Philadelphia Phillies 1930–1932

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-2.0
1.5

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19263330100000000.333.333.333.66773.277.1.310-0.3
19278990110010400.111.111.222.333-33.0-14.7.146-0.3
19283000000000000-0.6
19302621203600021200.300.333.300.63345.947.5.294-0.1
19313220000000000.000.000.000.000-137.4-100.0.000-0.3
193211440000000100.000.000.000.000-135.6-100.0.000-0.4

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
192630000001375207.78.222.3482.354.34110.048.0-0.3
192780030003418179127.75.861.8432.934.76115.770.3-0.3
192830000001173102.723.635.2503.386.52165.016.7-0.6
19301651201076451615859.76.791.5422.265.70104.180.6-0.1
193130010001061105.79.531.9411.593.1574.044.6-0.3
1932110021002315145219.36.981.9142.335.91135.162.6-0.4

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

G
54
PA
39
AB
38
R
3
H
8
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
3
BB
1
SO
7
SB
0
BA
.2105
OBP
.2308
SLG
.2368
OPS
.4676

Pitching

G (P)
44
GS
5
W
1
L
8
SV
1
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
123
SO (P)
33
BB allowed
56
ERA
7.190
WHIP
1.8179
K/9
2.42

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1927-05-30CHC @ PIT Gameday401100102
1930-06-17PIT @ PHI Gameday401000101
1930-06-22PHI @ STL Gameday201000111
1926-07-30PIT @ PHI Gameday101000001
1930-06-01PHI @ LAD Gameday201000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1930-06-28PHI @ PIT Gameday7.01066040
1930-06-01PHI @ LAD Gameday4.1433042
1927-05-30CHC @ PIT Gameday9.11044730
1930-06-17PIT @ PHI Gameday10.01044421
1932-05-21PHI @ ATL Gameday7.2511320

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.