Chick Fraser

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 188 lb

BornAugust 26, 1873 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1896

Final gameMay 3, 1909

Seasons14 (1896–1909)

Louisville Colonels 1896–1897; Cleveland Spiders 1898; Louisville Colonels 1898; Philadelphia Phillies 1899–1900; Philadelphia Athletics 1901; Philadelphia Phillies 1902–1904; Boston Beaneaters 1905; Cincinnati Reds 1906; Chicago Cubs 1907–1909

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified pitchers

19.8

33.3

66.7

74.1

SHO

29.6

141

76.5

45.7

34.6

162.7

19.8

ERA

2.27

50.6

WHIP

1.242

19.8

K/9

3.65

54.3

FIP

2.70

27.2

FIP-

115.0

13.6

ERA+

103.4

43.2

sWAR

1.6

39.5

of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 158 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

92.3

10.6

sWAR

21.4

94.2

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
1896	45	154	146	12	22	3	2	0	6	7	34	1	.151	.195	.199	.393	15.5	3.8	.193	1.1
1897	37	128	115	10	18	1	0	2	11	10	19	2	.157	.230	.217	.448	30.2	18.4	.225	3.2
1898	32	103	94	10	17	1	2	0	5	6	19	3	.181	.230	.234	.464	37.6	32.5	.231	-2.2
1899	40	125	117	19	21	4	1	0	11	6	22	2	.179	.226	.231	.457	31.4	25.2	.225	3.8
1900	29	96	85	8	22	4	1	0	10	5	21	2	.259	.308	.329	.637	77.4	75.8	.307	3.8
1901	43	151	139	17	26	2	3	0	8	6	30	4	.187	.226	.245	.471	34.2	28.1	.225	2.9
1902	29	95	86	15	15	3	1	0	5	9	18	0	.174	.253	.233	.485	54.0	50.0	.249	0.5
1903	32	109	93	12	19	3	1	1	8	14	23	4	.204	.308	.290	.599	78.4	71.9	.301	-0.5
1904	44	123	110	5	17	3	1	0	13	7	33	0	.155	.212	.200	.412	31.6	28.3	.207	0.8
1905	48	164	156	15	35	8	0	0	10	5	31	0	.224	.248	.276	.524	52.2	55.8	.252	2.7
1906	31	88	82	4	14	1	1	0	6	2	22	0	.171	.190	.207	.398	10.3	21.6	.195	2.4
1907	22	51	45	4	3	0	0	0	2	2	10	0	.067	.125	.067	.192	-49.0	-39.9	.109	1.4
1908	26	57	50	3	6	1	0	0	1	2	13	1	.120	.154	.140	.294	-16.8	-6.1	.149	1.6
1909	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.5	-100.0	.000	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1896	43	38	12	27	1	36	0	396	189	166	91	9	349.3	4.87	1.609	2.34	4.78	109.7	89.5	1.1
1897	36	34	15	19	0	32	0	334	132	139	70	11	294.3	4.04	1.607	2.14	4.97	115.6	106.6	3.2
1898	32	32	9	20	0	26	1	279	146	112	77	6	245.0	5.36	1.596	2.83	4.18	116.1	67.2	-2.2
1899	35	33	21	12	0	29	4	278	101	85	68	1	270.7	3.36	1.341	2.26	3.67	95.4	114.6	3.8
1900	29	26	15	9	0	22	1	250	78	93	58	7	223.3	3.14	1.536	2.34	4.11	111.3	117.5	3.8
1901	40	37	22	16	0	35	2	344	140	132	110	6	331.0	3.81	1.438	2.99	3.97	104.7	99.6	2.9
1902	27	26	12	13	0	24	3	238	85	74	97	2	224.0	3.42	1.393	3.90	2.97	107.7	80.9	0.5
1903	31	29	12	17	1	26	1	260	125	97	104	8	250.0	4.50	1.428	3.74	3.67	113.8	71.7	-0.5
1904	42	36	14	24	1	32	2	287	109	100	127	5	302.0	3.25	1.281	3.78	2.81	104.9	82.5	0.8
1905	39	37	14	21	0	35	2	320	122	149	130	8	334.3	3.28	1.403	3.50	3.59	119.6	91.4	2.7
1906	31	28	10	20	0	25	2	221	70	80	58	1	236.0	2.67	1.275	2.21	2.94	107.6	102.4	2.4
1907	22	15	8	5	1	9	2	112	35	46	41	1	138.3	2.28	1.142	2.67	2.58	104.6	108.3	1.4
1908	26	17	11	9	2	11	2	141	41	61	66	4	162.7	2.27	1.242	3.65	2.70	115.0	103.4	1.6
1909	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	1	0	3.0	0.00	2.000	3.00	5.48	214.3	—	0.1

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

459

1,445

1,319

134

235

RBI

295

.1782

OBP

.2296

SLG

.2305

OPS

.4601

Pitching

G (P)

434

388

154th-most career GS

175

179th-most career W

212

33rd-most career L

342

27th-most career CG

SHO

218th-most career SHO

3,364

89th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,098

485th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,338

26th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.673

WHIP

1.4269

K/9

2.94

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
1905-05-01	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	1	0	5
1903-06-16	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	1	5
1901-08-05	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1906-07-07	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	3
1905-08-19	CIN @ ATL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1904-08-06	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	12	4	0	3	10
1902-09-05	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	6	3	1	9
1902-07-26	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	8
1905-07-12	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	15	15	0	5	8
1905-08-23	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	9	6	0	4	8

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.