Chuck Klein

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 7, 1904 · Indianapolis, IN, USA

MLB debutJuly 30, 1928

Final gameJune 11, 1944

Seasons17 (1928–1944)

Philadelphia Phillies 1928–1933; Chicago Cubs 1934–1936; Philadelphia Phillies 1936–1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1939; Philadelphia Phillies 1940–1942; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943–1944

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

129

36.4

500

26.4

458

30.6

23.1

113

24.8

33.1

6.6

55.4

RBI

47.9

32.2

60.3

70.2

.247

9.9

OBP

.304

7.4

SLG

.356

OPS

.660

8.3

wRC+

74.9

5.8

OPS+

77.5

9.9

wOBA

.307

6.6

sWAR

-0.5

1.7

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 468 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

134.6

93.7

OPS+

133.4

92.8

sWAR

46.4

98.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1928	64	275	253	41	91	14	4	11	34	14	22	0	.360	.396	.577	.973	143.3	142.9	.434	2.1
1929	149	679	616	126	219	45	6	43	145	54	61	5	.356	.407	.657	1.065	144.9	147.0	.461	5.6
1930	156	719	648	158	250	59	8	40	170	54	50	4	.386	.436	.687	1.123	152.4	153.5	.479	6.5
1931	148	656	594	121	200	34	10	31	121	59	49	7	.337	.398	.584	.982	151.0	148.5	.437	5.7
1932	154	711	650	152	226	50	15	38	137	60	49	20	.348	.404	.646	1.050	164.4	160.8	.454	7.3
1933	152	667	606	101	223	44	7	28	120	56	36	15	.368	.422	.602	1.025	180.9	172.3	.461	8.0
1934	115	485	435	78	131	27	2	20	80	47	38	3	.301	.372	.510	.882	137.6	138.4	.394	3.3
1935	119	485	434	71	127	14	4	21	73	41	42	4	.293	.355	.488	.844	125.2	126.5	.377	2.5
1936	146	656	601	102	184	35	7	25	104	49	59	6	.306	.358	.512	.871	120.8	122.0	.392	3.1
1937	115	449	406	74	132	20	2	15	57	39	21	3	.325	.386	.495	.881	129.9	128.6	.400	2.6
1938	129	500	458	53	113	22	2	8	61	38	30	7	.247	.304	.356	.660	74.9	77.5	.307	-0.5
1939	110	361	317	45	90	18	5	12	56	36	21	2	.284	.357	.486	.843	124.6	124.8	.382	1.8
1940	116	400	354	39	77	16	2	7	37	44	30	2	.218	.304	.333	.637	76.7	76.3	.301	-0.3
1941	50	84	73	6	9	0	0	1	3	10	6	0	.123	.229	.164	.393	13.3	12.4	.207	-0.7
1942	14	14	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.071	.071	.071	.143	-84.3	-57.7	.067	-0.3
1943	12	20	20	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	3	1	.100	.100	.100	.200	-67.8	-41.6	.095	-0.3
1944	4	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-36.4	-19.0	.133	-0.1

Career totals

1,753

459th-most career G

7,168

421st-most career PA

6,486

401st-most career AB

1,168

217th-most career R

2,076

256th-most career H

398

204th-most career 2B

345th-most career 3B

300

165th-most career HR

RBI

1,201

159th-most career RBI

601

521

.3201

63rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3788

199th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5430

36th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9218

54th-highest career OPS

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
1936-07-10	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	4	6	0	16
1932-07-20	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	2	1	11
1933-06-29	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	6	0	10
1929-05-11	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
1931-07-01	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	5	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-13	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-18	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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

Hall of Fame, 1980 (Veterans)

1× Most Valuable Player1× Triple Crown2× 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.