MLB / Players

Spud Chandler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 181 lb

BornSeptember 12, 1907 · Commerce, GA, USA

MLB debutMay 6, 1937

Final gameSeptember 26, 1947

Seasons11 (1937–1947)

New York Yankees 1937–1947

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified pitchers

68.8

89.6

92.2

59.7

70.1

89.6

SHO

94.8

200

28.6

57.1

14.3

138

92.2

50.6

257.3

89.6

ERA

2.10

96.1

WHIP

1.127

90.9

K/9

4.83

70.1

FIP

2.79

90.9

FIP-

79.8

94.8

ERA+

166.6

94.8

sWAR

6.9

93.5

of 78 qualified 1946 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

134.7

sWAR

33.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	12	36	30	2	4	0	0	0	6	1	7	1	.133	.161	.133	.295	-34.7	-24.9	.143	2.1
1938	23	73	69	10	14	1	0	3	4	1	23	0	.203	.214	.348	.562	32.2	41.1	.248	2.9
1939	11	6	5	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	.400	.500	.600	1.100	184.9	186.9	.495	0.6
1940	27	69	60	5	9	1	0	2	7	4	31	0	.150	.215	.267	.482	19.8	24.8	.224	1.3
1941	28	64	60	4	11	0	0	0	4	1	18	0	.183	.197	.183	.380	-7.0	2.9	.179	3.0
1942	24	85	71	6	15	2	0	0	5	8	14	0	.211	.291	.239	.531	54.5	53.2	.266	5.0
1943	30	104	97	9	25	5	0	2	7	1	22	0	.258	.287	.371	.658	86.2	93.3	.309	8.3
1944	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.0	-100.0	.000	0.0
1945	4	12	12	1	4	0	0	0	4	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	84.9	90.7	.317	-0.1
1946	34	101	94	9	14	5	2	0	3	2	27	0	.149	.167	.245	.411	-6.0	14.0	.189	6.9
1947	17	53	49	5	12	3	0	2	4	1	10	0	.245	.260	.429	.689	81.0	91.9	.311	3.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1937	12	10	7	4	0	6	2	79	26	20	31	8	82.3	2.84	1.202	3.39	4.40	95.5	162.1	2.1
1938	23	23	14	5	0	14	2	183	77	47	36	7	172.0	4.03	1.337	1.88	4.08	88.3	114.7	2.9
1939	11	0	3	0	0	0	0	26	6	9	4	0	19.0	2.84	1.842	1.89	4.14	94.0	154.9	0.6
1940	27	24	8	7	0	6	1	184	88	60	56	12	172.0	4.60	1.419	2.93	4.33	99.8	94.2	1.3
1941	28	20	10	4	4	11	4	146	58	60	60	5	163.7	3.19	1.259	3.30	3.53	88.2	125.4	3.0
1942	24	24	16	5	0	17	3	176	53	74	74	13	200.7	2.38	1.246	3.32	3.82	108.9	147.6	5.0
1943	30	30	20	4	0	20	5	197	46	54	134	5	253.0	1.64	.992	4.77	2.23	68.7	198.7	8.3
1944	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	1	1	1	6.0	4.50	1.167	1.50	5.38	153.8	77.8	0.0
1945	4	4	2	1	0	2	1	30	16	7	12	2	31.0	4.65	1.194	3.48	3.18	91.7	74.7	-0.1
1946	34	32	20	8	2	20	6	200	60	90	138	7	257.3	2.10	1.127	4.83	2.79	79.8	166.6	6.9
1947	17	16	9	5	0	13	2	100	35	41	68	4	128.0	2.46	1.102	4.78	2.73	75.5	146.8	3.4

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

211

605

548

110

RBI

154

.2007

OBP

.2343

SLG

.2901

OPS

.5244

Pitching

G (P)

211

184

109

367th-most career CG

SHO

163rd-most career SHO

1,485

SO (P)

614

BB allowed

463

ERA

2.836

120th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2054

177th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.72

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	HR	RBI	TB
1940-07-26	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	6	9
1943-08-08	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	1	6
1947-05-12	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	1	6
1943-05-09	ATH @ NYY Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	3	5
1938-06-20	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1947-06-21	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	6	4	4	4	11
1941-09-09	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	4	9
1946-05-08	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	1	9
1946-06-09	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	6	9
1946-07-02	BOS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	9	9

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× Most Valuable Player4× 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.