MLB / Players

Chris Short

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 205 lb

BornSeptember 19, 1937 · Milford, DE, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1959

Final gameSeptember 18, 1973

Seasons15 (1959–1973)

Philadelphia Phillies 1959–1972; Milwaukee Brewers 1973

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified pitchers

8.5

13.4

7.3

25.6

82.9

13.4

SHO

30.5

182

76.8

74.4

13.4

30.5

173.0

9.8

ERA

3.85

18.3

WHIP

1.416

12.2

K/9

4.94

FIP

4.24

6.1

FIP-

123.3

4.9

ERA+

89.4

17.1

sWAR

0.7

13.4

of 83 qualified 1971 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.1

49.8

sWAR

24.4

95.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1959	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.5	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1960	42	25	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.5	-100.0	.000	0.5
1961	40	45	37	1	6	0	0	2	1	10	1	.162	.184	.162	.346	-13.5	-6.4	.163	-1.6
1962	48	41	36	2	8	2	0	2	0	3	0	.222	.216	.278	.494	24.1	33.4	.219	2.2
1963	38	70	66	3	7	0	1	0	0	14	0	.106	.106	.136	.242	-49.0	-29.9	.109	2.4
1964	44	75	65	4	7	0	1	4	1	18	0	.108	.119	.138	.258	-40.4	-26.8	.118	5.5
1965	47	108	99	2	13	0	0	1	0	29	0	.131	.140	.131	.271	-35.2	-22.1	.127	5.0
1966	42	108	106	6	22	1	0	4	1	31	0	.208	.215	.217	.432	12.7	21.2	.198	3.0
1967	29	73	66	0	6	1	0	5	2	20	0	.091	.130	.106	.236	-44.0	-31.6	.119	4.3
1968	43	91	79	7	12	1	0	4	2	18	0	.152	.181	.165	.345	-9.5	4.2	.168	2.9
1969	2	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.8	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1970	36	70	61	0	3	0	0	2	1	20	0	.049	.063	.049	.113	-85.2	-69.2	.056	0.9
1971	31	60	48	4	4	0	0	0	6	18	0	.083	.185	.083	.269	-23.0	-20.9	.153	0.7
1972	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1973	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1959	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	19	13	10	8	3	14.3	8.16	2.023	5.02	6.53	162.1	49.4	-0.6
1960	42	10	6	9	3	2	0	101	47	52	54	8	107.3	3.94	1.425	4.53	4.15	109.4	96.2	0.5
1961	39	16	6	12	1	1	0	157	84	71	80	12	127.3	5.94	1.791	5.65	4.38	109.4	67.4	-1.6
1962	47	12	11	9	3	4	0	149	54	56	91	13	142.0	3.42	1.444	5.77	3.98	103.3	112.6	2.2
1963	38	27	9	12	0	6	3	185	65	69	160	12	198.0	2.95	1.283	7.27	2.76	85.3	109.5	2.4
1964	42	31	17	9	2	12	4	174	54	51	181	10	220.7	2.20	1.020	7.38	2.45	70.3	158.0	5.5
1965	47	40	18	11	2	15	5	260	93	89	237	18	297.3	2.82	1.174	7.17	2.78	79.9	123.5	5.0
1966	42	39	20	10	0	19	4	257	107	68	177	28	272.0	3.54	1.195	5.86	3.56	99.2	101.3	3.0
1967	29	26	9	11	1	8	2	163	53	74	142	9	199.3	2.39	1.189	6.41	2.99	88.0	142.2	4.3
1968	42	36	19	13	1	9	2	236	88	81	202	25	269.7	2.94	1.176	6.74	3.25	108.2	102.3	2.9
1969	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	11	8	4	5	2	10.0	7.20	1.500	4.50	5.76	162.4	49.2	-0.4
1970	36	34	9	16	1	7	2	211	95	66	133	13	199.0	4.30	1.392	6.02	3.45	85.2	94.2	0.9
1971	31	26	7	14	1	5	2	182	74	63	95	22	173.0	3.85	1.416	4.94	4.24	123.3	89.4	0.7
1972	19	0	1	1	1	0	0	24	10	8	20	3	23.0	3.91	1.391	7.83	3.53	99.2	90.8	0.1
1973	42	7	3	5	2	0	0	86	41	44	44	5	72.0	5.13	1.806	5.50	4.18	110.8	73.6	-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

506

775

697

RBI

198

.1263

OBP

.1462

SLG

.1392

OPS

.2854

Pitching

G (P)

501

441st-most career G (P)

308

330th-most career GS

135

339th-most career W

132

263rd-most career L

495th-most career CG

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,325

304th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,629

185th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

806

249th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.430

386th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2994

K/9

6.31

319th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
1962-09-09	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	5
1964-09-10	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	4
1966-05-17	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	3
1963-04-28	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	3
1968-06-18	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-10-02	PHI @ NYM Gameday	15.0	9	0	0	3	18	0
1963-09-13	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	3	14	1
1965-06-13	HOU @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	13	0
1966-06-30	PHI @ NYM Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	13	0
1964-09-10	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	12	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

2× 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.