Chuck Kress
Cincinnati Reds 1947; Chicago White Sox 1949; Cincinnati Reds 1949; Chicago White Sox 1950; Brooklyn Dodgers 1954; Detroit Tigers 1954
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 11 | 34 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .303 | .148 | .451 | 34.7 | 23.6 | .249 | -0.2 |
| 1949 | 124 | 442 | 382 | 48 | 104 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 47 | 42 | 49 | 6 | 7 | .272 | .344 | .364 | .708 | 88.1 | 89.5 | .340 | -0.2 |
| 1950 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1954 | 37 | 50 | 49 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .163 | .180 | .204 | .384 | -14.7 | 5.2 | .179 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-07-22 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1949-08-05 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949-10-01 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949-09-16 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949-07-01 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-04-15 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-16 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-17 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-18 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947-04-19 | CIN @ PIT 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.