MLB / Players

Mark Christman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 21, 1913 · Maplewood, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1938

Final gameSeptember 23, 1949

Seasons9 (1938–1949)

Detroit Tigers 1938–1939; St. Louis Browns 1939; St. Louis Browns 1943–1946; Washington Senators 1947–1949

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

128

45.4

486

35.1

458

43.3

23.7

118

40.2

51.5

15.5

13.4

RBI

38.1

22.7

51.5

24.7

.258

27.8

OBP

.295

4.1

SLG

.321

15.5

OPS

.616

8.2

wRC+

61.0

3.1

OPS+

68.1

6.2

wOBA

.290

5.2

sWAR

-0.3

5.2

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

67.3

2.4

OPS+

72.2

3.5

sWAR

0.5

58.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1938	95	347	318	35	79	6	4	1	44	27	21	5	2	.248	.307	.302	.609	47.8	49.4	.289	-1.0
1939	85	264	238	27	52	8	3	0	20	20	12	2	1	.218	.279	.277	.556	38.4	40.0	.265	-0.9
1943	98	364	336	31	91	11	5	2	35	19	19	0	3	.271	.318	.351	.669	91.0	94.2	.320	0.8
1944	148	607	547	56	148	25	1	6	83	47	37	5	2	.271	.332	.353	.684	91.5	92.1	.328	1.6
1945	78	311	289	32	80	7	4	4	34	19	19	1	0	.277	.328	.370	.698	97.0	99.2	.334	1.1
1946	128	486	458	40	118	22	2	1	41	22	29	0	2	.258	.295	.321	.616	61.0	68.1	.290	-0.3
1947	110	412	374	27	83	15	2	1	33	32	16	4	4	.222	.287	.281	.568	54.9	59.0	.276	-0.3
1948	120	440	409	38	106	17	2	1	40	25	19	0	3	.259	.303	.318	.621	61.8	66.3	.297	-0.1
1949	49	122	112	8	24	2	0	3	18	8	7	0	0	.214	.273	.313	.585	47.5	55.0	.280	-0.4

Career totals

911

3,353

3,081

294

781

113

RBI

348

219

179

.2535

OBP

.3064

SLG

.3236

OPS

.6300

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
1945-08-05	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	0	2	0	1	8
1948-06-29	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	4	8
1949-05-04	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	3	7
1944-05-19	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	1	1	6
1944-06-01	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.