MLB / Players

Chubby Dean

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 181 lb

BornAugust 24, 1915 · Mount Airy, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1936

Final gameSeptember 5, 1943

Seasons8 (1936–1943)

Philadelphia Athletics 1936–1940; Cleveland Indians 1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1941; Cleveland Indians 1942–1943

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

56.5

41.7

28.7

59.3

SHO

170

41.7

25.9

38.9

28.7

39.8

172.7

57.4

ERA

3.81

34.3

WHIP

1.367

31.5

K/9

2.40

FIP

3.69

38.9

FIP-

106.9

26.9

ERA+

90.8

30.6

sWAR

1.1

35.2

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.9

6.6

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
1936	111	375	342	41	98	21	3	1	48	24	24	3	2	.287	.337	.374	.711	74.6	75.2	.330	-0.6
1937	104	358	309	36	81	14	4	2	31	42	10	2	1	.262	.350	.353	.703	79.5	77.3	.332	-0.2
1938	16	21	20	3	6	2	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	.300	.333	.400	.733	80.1	82.9	.335	0.5
1939	80	88	77	12	27	4	0	0	19	8	4	0	0	.351	.412	.403	.814	111.6	108.4	.382	1.2
1940	67	108	90	6	26	2	0	0	6	16	9	0	0	.289	.396	.311	.707	94.3	85.9	.343	-1.9
1941	44	71	62	2	13	3	0	0	11	7	5	0	0	.210	.290	.258	.548	47.9	47.1	.268	-0.4
1942	70	112	101	4	27	1	0	0	7	11	7	0	0	.267	.339	.277	.617	82.5	79.5	.306	1.1
1943	41	53	46	2	9	0	0	0	5	6	2	0	0	.196	.288	.196	.484	49.2	46.5	.252	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	4	6	4	0	9.0	4.00	1.444	4.00	4.24	91.3	116.0	-0.2
1938	6	1	2	1	0	0	0	22	9	15	3	3	23.0	3.52	1.609	1.17	6.51	135.8	136.1	0.5
1939	54	1	5	8	7	0	0	132	68	80	39	8	116.7	5.25	1.817	3.01	5.42	116.6	88.6	1.2
1940	30	19	6	13	1	8	1	220	117	63	38	21	159.3	6.61	1.776	2.15	5.35	121.9	66.4	-1.9
1941	26	15	3	8	0	4	0	147	78	59	36	12	129.0	5.44	1.597	2.51	4.78	117.6	74.6	-0.4
1942	27	22	8	11	1	8	0	170	73	66	46	7	172.7	3.81	1.367	2.40	3.69	106.9	90.8	1.1
1943	17	9	5	5	0	3	0	83	38	34	29	1	76.0	4.50	1.539	3.43	3.14	100.3	69.5	-0.7

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

533

1,186

1,047

106

287

RBI

128

115

.2741

OBP

.3471

SLG

.3410

OPS

.6881

Pitching

G (P)

162

SHO

686

SO (P)

195

BB allowed

323

ERA

5.080

WHIP

1.6101

K/9

2.56

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
1937-05-22	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	2	2	7
1937-05-18	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1937-07-16	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	1	0	5
1936-08-09	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1936-08-30	DET @ ATH Gameday	6	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-05-13	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	6	2
1943-06-12	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5.2	5	1	1	4	6	1
1941-04-15	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	3	4	0
1942-07-23	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	4	0
1943-05-23	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	2	4	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.