MLB / Players

Chuck Workman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 6, 1915 · Leeton, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1938

Final gameSeptember 27, 1946

Seasons6 (1938–1946)

Cleveland Indians 1938; Cleveland Indians 1941; Boston Braves 1943–1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

139

61.3

580

58.6

514

62.2

75.7

141

62.2

99.1

RBI

86.5

63.1

13.5

75.7

35.1

.274

42.3

OBP

.347

53.2

SLG

.459

86.5

OPS

.806

76.6

wRC+

119.9

64.9

OPS+

122.2

68.5

wOBA

.375

73.9

sWAR

3.3

78.4

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.1

70.3

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
1938	2	5	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	103.4	104.0	.370	0.0
1941	9	5	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-23.3	-41.6	.151	-0.1
1943	153	679	615	71	153	17	1	10	67	53	72	12	.249	.311	.328	.640	84.1	86.0	.309	0.1
1944	140	473	418	46	87	18	3	11	53	42	41	1	.208	.287	.344	.631	71.1	73.8	.298	-0.6
1945	139	580	514	77	141	16	2	25	87	51	58	9	.274	.347	.459	.806	119.9	122.2	.375	3.3
1946	83	214	193	16	40	6	1	4	23	14	30	2	.207	.268	.311	.579	54.0	61.8	.277	-0.7

Career totals

526

1,956

1,749

213

423

RBI

230

161

202

.2419

OBP

.3112

SLG

.3682

OPS

.6794

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1945-07-06	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	3	0	8
1945-09-02	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1945-07-31	ATL @ SF Gameday	6	2	2	0	2	2	1	8
1945-06-10	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	4	0	7
1945-05-12	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	CLE @ DET 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.