MLB / Players

Jack Chesbro

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb

BornJune 5, 1874 · North Adams, MA, USA

MLB debutJuly 12, 1899

Final gameOctober 2, 1909

Seasons11 (1899–1909)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1899–1902; New York Highlanders 1903–1908; Boston Red Sox 1909; New York Highlanders 1909

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified pitchers

92.6

66.7

53.1

3.7

SHO

51.9

276

4.9

2.5

40.7

124

77.8

3.7

288.7

76.5

ERA

2.93

19.8

WHIP

1.188

33.3

K/9

3.87

60.5

FIP

2.50

44.4

FIP-

101.0

38.3

ERA+

84.6

17.3

sWAR

0.9

of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.7

71.6

sWAR

37.5

97.6

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
1899	19	63	58	3	9	0	0	0	3	3	8	0	.155	.197	.155	.352	6.9	-3.1	.179	0.8
1900	32	91	85	10	15	4	1	0	9	6	17	1	.176	.231	.247	.478	37.4	31.8	.234	2.1
1901	36	124	116	9	25	5	1	1	8	3	31	0	.216	.242	.302	.543	56.2	57.6	.257	6.0
1902	35	119	112	11	20	3	1	0	8	3	28	1	.179	.200	.223	.423	26.4	30.3	.208	4.7
1903	40	129	124	8	23	4	0	2	9	2	29	0	.185	.198	.266	.465	31.0	35.6	.213	4.4
1904	56	181	174	17	41	9	3	1	17	4	43	1	.236	.253	.339	.592	76.7	82.4	.276	10.4
1905	41	116	112	6	21	6	3	0	10	2	32	2	.188	.202	.295	.496	40.4	49.9	.234	5.8
1906	49	126	125	10	26	2	1	1	4	1	34	0	.208	.214	.264	.478	40.4	48.4	.227	2.2
1907	30	76	76	1	15	2	2	0	4	0	20	0	.197	.197	.276	.474	33.0	44.6	.225	2.5
1908	45	106	102	8	18	2	1	0	6	0	23	0	.176	.184	.216	.400	17.6	27.5	.192	0.9
1909	10	20	19	2	4	0	0	0	4	1	4	0	.211	.250	.211	.461	40.1	43.3	.231	-2.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1899	19	17	6	9	0	15	0	165	68	59	28	3	149.0	4.11	1.503	1.69	4.23	110.0	93.7	0.8
1900	32	26	15	13	1	20	3	220	88	79	56	4	215.7	3.67	1.386	2.34	3.82	103.3	100.6	2.1
1901	36	28	21	10	1	26	6	261	76	52	129	4	287.7	2.38	1.088	4.04	2.91	88.4	138.4	6.0
1902	35	33	28	6	1	31	8	242	69	62	136	1	286.3	2.17	1.062	4.27	2.50	89.8	128.2	4.7
1903	40	36	21	15	0	33	1	300	100	74	147	7	324.7	2.77	1.152	4.07	2.92	94.7	111.2	4.4
1904	55	51	41	12	0	48	6	338	92	88	239	4	454.7	1.82	.937	4.73	2.19	81.3	148.2	10.4
1905	41	38	19	15	0	24	3	262	74	71	156	5	303.3	2.20	1.098	4.63	2.41	83.1	131.8	5.8
1906	49	42	23	17	1	24	4	314	107	75	152	2	325.0	2.96	1.197	4.21	2.41	88.3	91.9	2.2
1907	30	25	10	10	0	17	1	192	58	46	78	0	206.0	2.53	1.155	3.41	2.34	84.8	108.9	2.5
1908	45	31	14	20	1	20	3	276	94	67	124	6	288.7	2.93	1.188	3.87	2.50	101.0	84.6	0.9
1909	10	5	0	5	0	2	0	77	38	17	20	3	55.7	6.14	1.689	3.23	3.35	132.4	41.2	-2.1

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

393

1,151

1,103

217

RBI

269

.1967

OBP

.2159

SLG

.2675

OPS

.4834

Pitching

G (P)

392

332

250th-most career GS

198

123rd-most career W

132

263rd-most career L

260

69th-most career CG

SHO

71st-most career SHO

2,897

156th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,265

351st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

690

402nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.684

79th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1520

78th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.93

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	TB
1904-04-14	BOS @ NYY Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	1	6
1901-05-13	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	0	5
1905-09-28	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	3	5
1901-09-02	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	5
1903-09-11	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	0	4	0	0	0	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1904-08-03	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	0	13
1901-07-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	11	2	2	2	11
1902-05-24	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	2	11
1902-07-12	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	11
1905-08-25	NYY @ CLE Gameday	11.0	9	1	0	0	9

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

Hall of Fame, 1946 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.