Claude Passeau

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 198 lb

BornApril 9, 1909 · Waynesboro, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1935

Final gameSeptember 17, 1947

Seasons13 (1935–1947)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1935; Philadelphia Phillies 1936–1938; Chicago Cubs 1939; Philadelphia Phillies 1939; Chicago Cubs 1940–1947

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

71.4

66.7

85.7

45.2

38.1

89.3

SHO

96.4

205

38.1

54.8

82.1

65.5

227.0

76.2

ERA

2.46

89.3

WHIP

1.163

83.3

K/9

3.89

51.2

FIP

2.81

90.5

FIP-

76.2

92.9

ERA+

150.0

86.9

sWAR

5.6

96.4

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.0

78.6

sWAR

41.8

98.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1935	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.9	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1936	50	82	78	8	22	3	0	2	7	2	29	0	.282	.300	.397	.697	70.1	76.5	.316	5.0
1937	50	111	107	13	21	5	0	1	11	3	39	0	.196	.218	.271	.489	15.6	27.1	.225	2.6
1938	45	86	80	4	13	1	0	0	3	2	27	0	.163	.183	.175	.358	-17.5	-3.1	.170	0.5
1939	43	101	97	6	16	2	0	1	7	2	34	0	.165	.182	.216	.398	-8.0	6.4	.184	4.6
1940	46	111	98	12	20	5	1	1	6	9	33	2	.204	.278	.306	.584	60.9	62.5	.276	7.4
1941	34	92	86	6	19	2	0	3	12	2	22	0	.221	.239	.349	.587	56.9	66.4	.269	3.2
1942	35	110	105	7	19	1	0	2	10	0	26	0	.181	.181	.248	.429	9.5	26.5	.198	4.6
1943	35	102	96	5	19	4	2	0	5	0	30	0	.198	.198	.281	.479	20.7	38.0	.221	4.0
1944	34	91	80	6	13	3	0	0	3	4	17	0	.163	.202	.200	.402	5.5	14.3	.194	3.9
1945	34	96	91	10	17	2	0	2	9	2	22	0	.187	.204	.275	.479	24.5	34.5	.223	5.6
1946	21	52	49	7	10	1	0	3	7	0	7	0	.204	.204	.408	.612	57.4	74.2	.274	1.8
1947	19	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.2	-100.0	.000	-1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	4	2	1	0	3.0	12.00	3.000	3.00	4.35	106.5	34.1	-0.2
1936	49	21	11	15	3	8	2	247	84	55	85	7	217.3	3.48	1.390	3.52	3.49	78.0	128.8	5.0
1937	50	34	14	18	2	18	1	348	141	79	135	16	292.3	4.34	1.461	4.16	3.60	85.2	97.4	2.6
1938	44	33	11	18	1	15	0	281	120	93	100	8	239.0	4.52	1.565	3.77	3.60	91.3	87.3	0.5
1939	42	35	15	13	3	17	2	269	100	73	137	9	274.3	3.28	1.247	4.49	3.09	78.6	119.9	4.6
1940	46	31	20	13	5	20	4	259	78	59	124	8	280.7	2.50	1.133	3.98	2.91	77.1	150.8	7.4
1941	34	30	14	14	0	20	3	262	86	52	80	10	231.0	3.35	1.359	3.12	3.12	88.4	105.5	3.2
1942	35	34	19	14	0	24	3	284	83	74	89	13	278.3	2.68	1.286	2.88	3.08	95.6	120.2	4.6
1943	35	31	15	12	1	18	1	245	83	66	93	10	257.0	2.91	1.210	3.26	3.07	91.6	115.3	4.0
1944	34	27	15	9	3	18	2	234	73	50	89	8	227.0	2.89	1.251	3.53	2.88	80.9	123.0	3.9
1945	34	27	17	9	1	19	5	205	62	59	98	4	227.0	2.46	1.163	3.89	2.81	76.2	150.0	5.6
1946	21	21	9	8	0	10	2	118	45	42	47	5	129.3	3.13	1.237	3.27	3.09	93.5	105.7	1.8
1947	19	6	2	6	2	1	1	97	44	24	26	7	63.3	6.25	1.911	3.69	4.37	111.3	62.8	-1.2

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

447

1,050

982

189

RBI

294

.1925

OBP

.2141

SLG

.2739

OPS

.4880

Pitching

G (P)

444

331

257th-most career GS

162

226th-most career W

150

167th-most career L

188

155th-most career CG

SHO

163rd-most career SHO

2,720

197th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,104

478th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

728

344th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.319

324th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3178

K/9

3.65

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	TB
1941-06-11	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	2	6
1946-05-20	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	2	6
1937-05-31	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	3	5
1945-06-24	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	3	5
1936-08-18	PHI @ ATL Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-21	LAD @ PHI Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	6	11	0
1943-05-29	ATL @ CHC Gameday	13.0	8	3	3	2	9	1
1944-07-09	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	4	9	0
1939-06-16	SF @ CHC Gameday	7.0	10	6	6	2	9	0
1938-07-09	LAD @ PHI Gameday	16.0	12	3	2	5	8	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

5× 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.