MLB / Players

Ray Chapman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 15, 1891 · Beaver Dam, KY, USA

MLB debutAugust 30, 1912

Final gameAugust 16, 1920

Seasons9 (1912–1920)

Cleveland Naps 1912–1914; Cleveland Indians 1915–1920

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

111

35.2

530

44.4

435

37.3

90.8

132

46.5

73.2

51.4

RBI

49.3

78.9

23.9

44.4

.303

64.8

OBP

.380

76.8

SLG

.423

66.9

OPS

.803

73.2

wRC+

113.0

59.2

OPS+

111.8

57.7

wOBA

.378

69.7

sWAR

3.0

76.1

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.2

68.1

OPS+

111.9

66.2

sWAR

27.3

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
1912	31	132	109	29	34	6	3	0	19	10	13	10	5	.312	.375	.422	.797	123.7	125.8	.383	0.9
1913	141	601	508	78	131	19	7	3	39	46	51	29	0	.258	.322	.341	.662	89.9	91.3	.325	2.0
1914	106	442	375	59	103	16	10	2	42	48	48	24	9	.275	.358	.387	.745	121.0	119.3	.366	3.0
1915	154	669	570	101	154	14	17	3	67	70	82	36	15	.270	.353	.370	.723	112.8	112.9	.358	4.1
1916	109	437	346	50	80	10	5	0	27	50	46	21	14	.231	.330	.289	.619	85.1	81.9	.316	1.0
1917	156	691	563	98	170	28	13	2	36	61	65	52	0	.302	.370	.409	.779	137.3	136.8	.380	5.9
1918	128	571	446	84	119	19	8	1	32	84	46	30	0	.267	.390	.352	.742	125.6	116.5	.377	4.3
1919	115	517	433	75	130	23	10	3	53	31	38	18	0	.300	.351	.420	.772	111.1	112.2	.364	2.9
1920	111	530	435	97	132	27	8	3	49	52	38	13	9	.303	.380	.423	.803	113.0	111.8	.378	3.0

Career totals

1,051

4,590

3,785

671

1,053

162

275th-most career 3B

RBI

364

452

427

233

278th-most career SB

.2782

OBP

.3581

SLG

.3773

OPS

.7354

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
1920-05-29	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
1915-05-22	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	0	7
1920-07-23	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	0	0	7
1915-04-16	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	1	6
1919-08-07	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	BAL @ CLE 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.