Cliff Chambers
Chicago Cubs 1948; Pittsburgh Pirates 1949–1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951–1953
Percentile snapshot
1951 season — qualified pitchers
of 53 qualified 1951 pitchers (min 155 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 29 | 33 | 30 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .167 | .300 | -35.6 | -18.1 | .136 | 0.2 |
| 1949 | 34 | 66 | 55 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .300 | .309 | .609 | 58.8 | 61.3 | .286 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 37 | 96 | 90 | 10 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .289 | .319 | .389 | .708 | 76.3 | 80.6 | .318 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 31 | 76 | 70 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .257 | .271 | .528 | 33.7 | 39.5 | .246 | 1.3 |
| 1952 | 26 | 36 | 32 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .281 | .343 | .375 | .718 | 99.5 | 99.3 | .333 | 0.9 |
| 1953 | 32 | 17 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .118 | .118 | .176 | .294 | -42.8 | -24.7 | .128 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 29 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 100 | 51 | 48 | 51 | 4 | 103.7 | 4.43 | 1.428 | 4.43 | 3.56 | 92.6 | 86.8 | 0.2 |
| 1949 | 34 | 21 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 186 | 78 | 58 | 93 | 15 | 177.3 | 3.96 | 1.376 | 4.72 | 3.65 | 87.7 | 105.1 | 2.5 |
| 1950 | 37 | 33 | 12 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 262 | 119 | 92 | 93 | 18 | 249.3 | 4.30 | 1.420 | 3.36 | 3.83 | 88.0 | 101.3 | 3.4 |
| 1951 | 31 | 26 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 184 | 92 | 87 | 64 | 18 | 189.0 | 4.38 | 1.434 | 3.05 | 4.39 | 109.0 | 91.8 | 1.3 |
| 1952 | 26 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 110 | 45 | 33 | 47 | 8 | 98.3 | 4.12 | 1.454 | 4.30 | 3.59 | 96.5 | 90.2 | 0.9 |
| 1953 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 43 | 43 | 26 | 7 | 79.7 | 4.86 | 1.569 | 2.94 | 4.76 | 110.9 | 88.4 | 0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-09-22 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950-07-04 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1950-07-23 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1950-06-08 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1951-05-28 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-08-19 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1951-05-01 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1951-09-15 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1948-05-31 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1950-09-16 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 12.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 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.