Chico Salmon
Cleveland Indians 1964–1968; Baltimore Orioles 1969–1972
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 86 | 302 | 283 | 43 | 87 | 17 | 2 | 4 | 25 | 13 | 37 | 10 | 6 | .307 | .340 | .424 | .764 | 114.0 | 112.1 | .343 | 1.2 |
| 1965 | 79 | 133 | 120 | 20 | 29 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 4 | .242 | .281 | .383 | .665 | 85.4 | 87.0 | .301 | -0.1 |
| 1966 | 126 | 452 | 422 | 46 | 108 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 40 | 21 | 41 | 10 | 1 | .256 | .289 | .346 | .635 | 80.0 | 82.7 | .287 | 0.6 |
| 1967 | 90 | 224 | 203 | 19 | 46 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 17 | 29 | 10 | 4 | .227 | .288 | .330 | .618 | 81.9 | 82.7 | .288 | 0.0 |
| 1968 | 103 | 297 | 276 | 24 | 59 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 30 | 7 | 7 | .214 | .253 | .283 | .536 | 59.2 | 63.7 | .253 | -0.4 |
| 1969 | 52 | 104 | 91 | 18 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .297 | .375 | .451 | .826 | 134.3 | 132.2 | .379 | 0.7 |
| 1970 | 63 | 184 | 172 | 19 | 43 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 8 | 30 | 2 | 2 | .250 | .287 | .395 | .683 | 86.1 | 88.0 | .311 | 0.5 |
| 1971 | 42 | 90 | 84 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .205 | .262 | .466 | 23.4 | 33.9 | .216 | -0.6 |
| 1972 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .125 | .188 | -77.6 | -45.2 | .085 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-08-16 | BAL @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 10 |
| 1967-06-27 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1965-07-14 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1966-06-23 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1966-06-15 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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.