Frank Papish
Chicago White Sox 1945–1948; Cleveland Indians 1949; Pittsburgh Pirates 1950
Percentile snapshot
1947 season — qualified pitchers
of 77 qualified 1947 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 19 | 31 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .286 | .269 | .555 | 58.9 | 63.1 | .273 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 31 | 47 | 43 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .205 | .209 | .414 | 1.9 | 17.5 | .196 | 2.5 |
| 1947 | 38 | 65 | 58 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .086 | .102 | .086 | .188 | -69.8 | -46.7 | .092 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 32 | 28 | 27 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .185 | .185 | .259 | .444 | 2.8 | 18.8 | .203 | 0.1 |
| 1949 | 25 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .300 | .125 | .425 | 31.5 | 17.1 | .249 | 1.2 |
| 1950 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 75 | 35 | 40 | 45 | 3 | 84.3 | 3.74 | 1.364 | 4.80 | 3.26 | 99.0 | 88.2 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 31 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 122 | 42 | 63 | 66 | 7 | 138.0 | 2.74 | 1.341 | 4.30 | 3.54 | 104.3 | 124.0 | 2.5 |
| 1947 | 38 | 26 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 185 | 72 | 98 | 79 | 6 | 199.0 | 3.26 | 1.422 | 3.57 | 3.53 | 98.0 | 110.7 | 2.3 |
| 1948 | 32 | 14 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 97 | 53 | 75 | 41 | 7 | 95.3 | 5.00 | 1.804 | 3.87 | 5.30 | 126.1 | 83.9 | 0.1 |
| 1949 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 54 | 22 | 39 | 23 | 2 | 62.0 | 3.19 | 1.500 | 3.34 | 4.06 | 101.0 | 125.8 | 1.2 |
| 1950 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2.3 | 27.00 | 5.143 | 3.86 | 12.31 | 282.9 | 16.1 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-07-21 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-09-17 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-06-11 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1945-09-02 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1946-06-08 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-09-02 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1948-08-05 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| 1945-07-07 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1947-04-27 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 7.1 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1947-07-10 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 6.0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 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.