MLB / Players

Russ Christopher

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 12, 1917 · Richmond, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1942

Final gameOctober 1, 1948

Seasons7 (1942–1948)

Philadelphia Athletics 1942–1947; Cleveland Indians 1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

63.1

66.7

13.1

71.4

SHO

57.1

213

26.2

22.6

100

85.7

26.2

227.3

77.4

ERA

3.17

58.3

WHIP

1.267

59.5

K/9

3.96

54.8

FIP

3.18

FIP-

94.6

51.2

ERA+

106.2

40.5

sWAR

2.7

60.7

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.4

88.3

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
1942	30	60	56	2	5	0	1	0	3	1	17	.089	.105	.125	.230	-56.3	-36.0	.110	1.1
1943	24	48	45	2	7	1	0	0	2	2	13	.156	.191	.178	.369	-6.8	7.8	.182	1.0
1944	35	84	81	4	18	5	1	1	6	2	18	.222	.241	.346	.587	56.4	66.9	.271	3.7
1945	34	88	76	5	13	1	0	1	4	6	28	.171	.232	.224	.455	23.8	32.3	.227	2.7
1946	30	38	36	2	5	1	1	0	5	1	9	.139	.162	.222	.384	-13.5	6.6	.178	0.0
1947	44	21	16	1	2	0	0	0	2	3	7	.125	.263	.125	.388	13.0	9.0	.219	1.6
1948	45	10	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.250	.000	.250	-1.7	-28.5	.192	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1942	30	18	4	13	1	10	0	154	70	99	58	8	165.0	3.82	1.533	3.16	4.33	116.2	97.6	1.1
1943	24	15	5	8	2	5	0	120	51	58	56	3	133.0	3.45	1.338	3.79	3.18	95.5	96.4	1.0
1944	35	24	14	14	1	13	1	200	71	63	84	6	215.3	2.97	1.221	3.51	3.13	91.7	115.2	3.7
1945	33	27	13	13	2	17	2	213	80	75	100	9	227.3	3.17	1.267	3.96	3.18	94.6	106.2	2.7
1946	30	13	5	7	0	1	0	119	57	44	79	5	119.3	4.30	1.366	5.96	2.85	81.4	81.5	0.0
1947	44	0	10	7	12	0	0	70	26	33	33	4	80.7	2.90	1.277	3.68	3.48	92.2	130.0	1.6
1948	45	0	3	2	17	0	0	55	19	27	14	3	59.0	2.90	1.390	2.14	4.31	105.2	141.2	1.3

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

242

349

316

RBI

.1582

OBP

.2012

SLG

.2215

OPS

.4227

Pitching

G (P)

241

480th-most career SV

SHO

1,000

SO (P)

424

BB allowed

399

ERA

3.367

WHIP

1.3304

K/9

3.82

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
1944-06-18	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	0	3	2	0	0	1	5
1944-09-02	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1945-08-31	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1944-08-05	NYY @ ATH Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	1	3
1946-06-01	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	3	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-07-27	ATH @ NYY Gameday	8.0	4	2	0	3	12	0
1945-07-21	DET @ ATH Gameday	13.0	5	1	1	2	8	0
1946-06-01	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	12	4	4	2	8	0
1946-07-04	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5.2	10	6	6	1	8	1
1944-08-11	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	3	2	7	7	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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.