MLB / Players

Ken Chase

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornOctober 6, 1913 · Oneonta, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1936

Final gameOctober 1, 1943

Seasons8 (1936–1943)

Washington Senators 1936–1941; Boston Red Sox 1942–1943; New York Giants 1943

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

43.1

55.9

15.7

4.9

14.7

SHO

24.5

176

45.1

13.7

104

6.9

80.4

30.4

156.7

38.2

ERA

4.60

10.8

WHIP

1.787

2.9

K/9

5.46

86.3

FIP

3.85

30.4

FIP-

112.6

9.8

ERA+

74.5

2.9

sWAR

-0.8

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.8

28.9

sWAR

9.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1936	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	419.4	406.1	.926	-0.1
1937	14	30	29	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	10	.034	.034	.034	.069	-98.8	-82.2	.032	0.7
1938	32	56	48	2	10	0	0	0	5	4	13	.208	.269	.208	.478	26.9	24.6	.236	0.0
1939	32	90	89	6	15	3	0	0	7	1	21	.169	.178	.202	.380	-11.2	-2.7	.175	3.9
1940	35	101	92	8	15	2	1	1	9	4	22	.163	.198	.239	.437	10.1	16.1	.201	5.1
1941	33	78	74	3	11	1	0	0	3	2	15	.149	.182	.162	.344	-18.7	-8.4	.167	-0.3
1942	13	36	33	5	6	2	1	0	2	0	7	.182	.182	.303	.485	16.6	33.4	.220	0.8
1943	30	57	53	3	10	1	0	0	0	1	9	.189	.204	.208	.411	1.5	17.9	.197	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1936	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	4	1	0	2.3	11.57	2.571	3.86	7.77	161.3	41.7	-0.1
1937	14	9	4	3	0	4	0	74	35	60	43	4	76.3	4.13	1.755	5.07	5.04	113.5	107.6	0.7
1938	32	21	9	10	1	7	0	151	93	113	64	4	150.0	5.58	1.760	3.84	4.95	109.2	81.3	0.0
1939	32	31	10	19	0	15	1	215	98	114	118	10	232.0	3.80	1.418	4.58	4.17	90.8	120.7	3.9
1940	35	34	15	17	0	20	1	260	94	143	129	14	261.7	3.23	1.540	4.44	4.33	104.8	127.8	5.1
1941	33	30	6	18	0	8	1	228	116	115	98	11	205.7	5.08	1.668	4.29	4.22	102.0	81.6	-0.3
1942	13	10	5	1	0	4	0	82	34	41	34	5	80.3	3.81	1.531	3.81	4.04	107.9	98.4	0.8
1943	28	25	4	16	0	4	1	176	80	104	95	7	156.7	4.60	1.787	5.46	3.85	112.6	74.5	-0.8

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

190

449

419

RBI

.1647

OBP

.1898

SLG

.2029

OPS

.3927

Pitching

G (P)

188

160

SHO

1,165

SO (P)

582

BB allowed

694

398th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.272

WHIP

1.6155

K/9

4.50

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
1940-07-31	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1938-06-15	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
1939-09-07	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3	3
1939-06-25	DET @ MIN Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	1	3
1940-04-27	NYY @ MIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-08-23	CWS @ MIN Gameday	13.0	11	2	1	4	11	0
1943-09-06	PHI @ SF Gameday	11.0	10	3	3	4	10	1
1943-08-12	STL @ SF Gameday	8.0	8	4	2	2	10	0
1940-04-27	NYY @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	10	9	0
1938-05-21	MIN @ CLE Gameday	12.0	9	4	4	4	7	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.