MLB / Players

Sam Chapman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornApril 11, 1916 · Tiburon, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 16, 1938

Final gameSeptember 22, 1951

Seasons11 (1938–1951)

Philadelphia Athletics 1938–1941; Philadelphia Athletics 1945–1950; Cleveland Indians 1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1951

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified batters

144

51.8

627

60.2

553

60.2

61.4

139

27.7

19.3

51.8

68.7

RBI

71.1

56.6

7.2

39.8

19.3

.251

13.3

OBP

.338

20.5

SLG

.434

OPS

.772

32.5

wRC+

94.6

22.9

OPS+

97.4

28.9

wOBA

.355

32.5

sWAR

1.8

30.1

of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.3

48.1

OPS+

105.4

52.9

sWAR

21.0

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	114	466	406	60	105	17	7	17	63	55	94	3	4	.259	.353	.461	.813	100.5	102.2	.370	1.1
1939	140	554	498	74	134	24	6	15	64	51	62	11	4	.269	.338	.432	.770	93.1	94.9	.351	1.3
1940	134	562	508	88	140	26	3	23	75	46	96	2	6	.276	.337	.474	.811	105.1	107.7	.361	2.4
1941	143	602	552	97	178	29	9	25	106	47	49	6	9	.322	.378	.543	.921	138.4	140.7	.413	5.1
1945	9	32	30	3	6	2	0	0	1	2	4	0	0	.200	.250	.267	.517	41.5	49.9	.252	-0.1
1946	146	601	545	77	142	22	5	20	67	54	66	1	3	.261	.327	.429	.757	108.2	110.1	.349	2.2
1947	149	624	551	84	139	18	5	14	83	65	70	3	4	.252	.331	.379	.710	94.3	95.5	.337	1.8
1948	123	506	445	58	115	18	6	13	70	55	50	6	1	.258	.341	.413	.755	98.3	100.5	.355	1.7
1949	154	674	589	89	164	24	4	24	108	80	68	3	4	.278	.367	.455	.822	117.0	119.3	.386	3.9
1950	144	627	553	93	139	20	6	23	95	68	79	3	3	.251	.338	.434	.772	94.6	97.4	.355	1.8
1951	112	352	311	31	67	10	1	6	41	39	44	3	0	.215	.303	.312	.615	70.4	70.4	.296	-0.2

Career totals

1,368

5,600

4,988

754

1,329

210

180

467th-most career HR

RBI

773

562

682

.2664

OBP

.3425

SLG

.4377

OPS

.7802

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
1946-08-15	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	3	4	13
1939-05-05	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	10
1940-07-14	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	4	10
1949-05-15	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	3	3	1	0	2	4	10
1940-06-26	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	1	5	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-19	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-24	BOS @ ATH 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.

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.