Orval Grove
Chicago White Sox 1940–1949
Percentile snapshot
1946 season — qualified pitchers
of 78 qualified 1946 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1942 | 12 | 25 | 22 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .227 | .364 | .591 | 54.9 | 67.3 | .268 | -0.5 |
| 1943 | 32 | 85 | 66 | 9 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .308 | .182 | .490 | 52.4 | 44.8 | .263 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 34 | 86 | 77 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .104 | .159 | .143 | .301 | -25.0 | -13.2 | .153 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 33 | 79 | 71 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .099 | .169 | .113 | .282 | -27.6 | -16.8 | .151 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 33 | 73 | 65 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 27 | 0 | 2 | .108 | .171 | .138 | .310 | -24.6 | -11.4 | .158 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 25 | 54 | 48 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .146 | .226 | .188 | .414 | 11.8 | 17.4 | .211 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 32 | 23 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .136 | .095 | .232 | -49.9 | -37.1 | .121 | -1.2 |
| 1949 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 3.00 | 1.333 | 1.50 | 4.59 | 105.8 | 144.6 | 0.1 |
| 1941 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7.0 | 10.29 | 2.000 | 6.43 | 7.19 | 177.7 | 39.3 | -0.4 |
| 1942 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 77 | 38 | 33 | 21 | 1 | 66.3 | 5.16 | 1.658 | 2.85 | 3.65 | 102.9 | 68.8 | -0.5 |
| 1943 | 32 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 18 | 3 | 192 | 66 | 72 | 76 | 9 | 216.3 | 2.75 | 1.220 | 3.16 | 3.24 | 98.7 | 119.6 | 3.8 |
| 1944 | 34 | 33 | 14 | 15 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 237 | 97 | 71 | 105 | 11 | 234.7 | 3.72 | 1.313 | 4.03 | 3.27 | 96.2 | 91.5 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 33 | 30 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 233 | 83 | 68 | 54 | 12 | 217.0 | 3.44 | 1.387 | 2.24 | 3.67 | 111.5 | 95.7 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 33 | 26 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 213 | 69 | 78 | 60 | 10 | 205.3 | 3.02 | 1.417 | 2.63 | 3.68 | 108.3 | 112.3 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 25 | 19 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 158 | 67 | 70 | 33 | 10 | 135.7 | 4.44 | 1.681 | 2.19 | 4.53 | 125.8 | 81.1 | -0.1 |
| 1948 | 32 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 110 | 60 | 42 | 18 | 6 | 87.7 | 6.16 | 1.734 | 1.85 | 4.77 | 113.5 | 68.2 | -1.2 |
| 1949 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.7 | 54.00 | 7.500 | 13.50 | 27.99 | 681.4 | 7.6 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-05-02 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-08-02 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1944-09-10 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1946-09-29 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-06-30 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-07-19 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 8.1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1944-07-23 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1945-05-20 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1944-09-25 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 12.0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1944-08-06 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.