Paul Gillespie
Chicago Cubs 1942; Chicago Cubs 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .625 | .919 | 161.1 | 169.1 | .410 | 0.2 |
| 1944 | 9 | 29 | 26 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .345 | .423 | .768 | 116.8 | 116.9 | .358 | 0.2 |
| 1945 | 75 | 183 | 163 | 12 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .288 | .366 | .380 | .746 | 112.6 | 110.8 | .358 | 1.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-08-15 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 1944-09-21 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1942-09-11 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1945-09-18 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1942-09-13 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-04-14 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-15 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-17 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-19 | CIN @ CHC 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.