MLB / Players

Chuck Essegian

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb
BornAugust 9, 1931 · Boston, MA, USA
MLB debutApril 15, 1958
Final gameSeptember 28, 1963
Seasons6 (1958–1963)

Philadelphia Phillies 1958; Los Angeles Dodgers 1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1959; Los Angeles Dodgers 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961; Cleveland Indians 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Cleveland Indians 1962; Kansas City Athletics 1963

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
3.3
74.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
195839128114152852516123400.246.317.456.774104.9103.0.3440.4
19594190858218111052400.247.289.400.68972.477.3.303-0.1
19605288798173031182400.215.284.367.65169.973.9.291-0.1
1961651891732650811236113500.289.330.555.885131.1134.7.3831.2
196210639133659921202150426800.274.363.497.860133.0132.2.3812.4
1963101254231235290527194800.225.285.329.61464.966.6.281-0.5

Career totals

G
404
PA
1,140
AB
1,018
R
139
H
260
2B
45
3B
4
HR
47
RBI
150
BB
97
SO
233
SB
0
BA
.2554
OBP
.3230
SLG
.4460
OPS
.7690

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1962-05-20DET @ CLE Gameday523002309
1961-06-11ATH @ CLE Gameday222002508
1961-07-16MIN @ CLE Gameday422002408
1961-06-23DET @ CLE Gameday422002208
1962-05-01LAA @ CLE Gameday523101107

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.