MLB / Players

Chet Ross

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornApril 1, 1917 · Buffalo, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1939

Final gameAugust 4, 1944

Seasons6 (1939–1944)

Boston Bees 1939–1940; Boston Braves 1941–1944

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

149

82.7

632

79.1

569

80.6

71.2

160

75.5

47.5

96.4

80.6

RBI

82.7

74.1

127

45.3

42.4

.281

OBP

.352

SLG

.460

64.7

OPS

.812

58.3

wRC+

126.0

76.3

OPS+

126.6

77.7

wOBA

.369

54.7

sWAR

3.3

73.4

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.2

70.8

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
1939	11	33	31	4	10	1	1	0	0	2	10	0	.323	.364	.419	.783	115.6	116.3	.361	0.1
1940	149	632	569	84	160	23	14	17	89	59	127	4	.281	.352	.460	.812	126.0	126.6	.369	3.3
1941	29	59	50	1	6	1	0	0	4	9	17	0	.120	.254	.140	.394	21.9	14.4	.217	-0.4
1942	76	237	220	20	43	7	2	5	19	16	37	0	.195	.250	.314	.564	57.2	64.5	.268	-0.7
1943	94	313	285	27	62	12	2	7	32	26	67	1	.218	.285	.347	.633	79.2	83.4	.302	-0.1
1944	54	168	154	20	35	9	2	5	26	12	23	1	.227	.287	.409	.697	86.2	90.9	.320	0.1

Career totals

413

1,442

1,309

156

316

RBI

170

124

281

.2414

OBP

.3095

SLG

.3919

OPS

.7014

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
1940-08-23	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
1940-06-10	ATL @ STL Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	1	6
1940-06-20	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1940-07-31	STL @ ATL Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	0	2	6
1940-09-18	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-20	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	ATL @ SF 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.