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Ray Chapman

Raymond Johnson Chapman

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: January 15, 1891 in Beaver Dam, KY (All Transactions)
Debut: August 30, 1912
Teams (by GP): Indians/Naps 1912-1920

Final Game: August 16, 1920
Died: August 17, 1920 in New York, NY
Buried: Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 1:05PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #561. Bill Doran… #562. Darin Erstad… #563. Rick Ferrell… #564. RAY CHAPMAN… #565. Terry Steinbach… #566. Tony Cuccinello… #567. Benny Kauff… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1912 21 CLE AL 31 132 109 29 34 6 3 0 19 10 5 10 13 .312 .375 .422 .797 125 46 1 12 6
1913 22 CLE AL 141 601 508 78 131 19 7 3 39 29 46 51 .258 .322 .341 .662 91 173 2 45 *6/O
1914 23 CLE AL 106 442 375 59 103 16 10 2 42 24 9 48 48 .275 .358 .387 .745 120 145 1 18 64
1915 24 CLE AL 154 669 570 101 154 14 17 3 67 36 15 70 82 .270 .353 .370 .723 115 211 3 26 *6
1916 25 CLE AL 109 437 346 50 80 10 5 0 27 21 14 50 46 .231 .330 .289 .619 81 100 1 40 654
1917 26 CLE AL 156 691 563 98 170 28 13 2 36 52 61 65 .302 .370 .409 .779 131 230 0 67 *6
1918 27 CLE AL 128 571 446 84 119 19 8 1 32 35 84 46 .267 .390 .352 .742 115 157 6 35 *6/O
1919 28 CLE AL 115 517 433 75 130 23 10 3 53 18 31 38 .300 .351 .420 .772 111 182 3 50 *6
1920 29 CLE AL 111 530 435 97 132 27 8 3 49 13 9 52 38 .303 .380 .423 .803 109 184 2 41 *6
9 Seasons 1051 4590 3785 671 1053 162 81 17 364 238 52 452 427 .278 .358 .377 .735 111 1428 19 334
162 Game Avg. 162 707 583 103 162 25 12 3 56 37 70 66 .278 .358 .377 .735 111 220 3 51

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1912 21 CLE AL 132 3 2 0 0 -3 2 4 8 0.9 11 1.1 -0.2 $ 6
1913 22 CLE AL 601 -5 3 0 0 0 9 20 27 2.6 27 2.9 -0.3 $ *6/O
1914 23 CLE AL 442 7 5 0 0 -10 5 15 22 2.4 32 3.7 -1.3 $ 64
1915 24 CLE AL 669 5 7 0 0 -7 10 22 37 3.8 44 4.8 -1.0 $ *6
1916 25 CLE AL 437 -5 -1 0 0 -3 5 14 10 0.9 13 1.4 -0.5 $ 654
1917 26 CLE AL 691 18 7 0 0 8 10 22 65 7.0 57 6.6 0.4 $ *6
1918 27 CLE AL 571 9 4 0 0 -12 8 18 27 3.0 39 4.4 -1.4 $ *6/O
1919 28 CLE AL 517 6 3 0 0 -5 7 16 27 2.8 32 3.3 -0.5 $ *6
1920 29 CLE AL 530 8 4 0 0 6 7 15 40 4.0 34 3.4 0.6 $ *6
9 Seasons 4590 46 34 0 0 -26 63 146 263 27.4 289 31.6 -4.2 $

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1912 CLE AL 21 SS 31 157 70 72 15 10 .904 4.58 .921 5.32
1913 CLE AL 22 SS 138 755 299 408 48 59 .936 5.12 .935 5.39
1913 CLE AL 22 OF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00 0-0-1
1914 CLE AL 23 SS 72 381 161 187 33 24 .913 4.83 .937 5.35
1914 CLE AL 23 2B 33 163 62 92 9 1 .945 4.67 .953 4.93
1915 CLE AL 24 SS 154 897 378 469 50 38 .944 5.50 .937 5.15
1916 CLE AL 25 SS 52 307 117 170 20 19 .935 5.52 .938 5.18
1916 CLE AL 25 3B 36 156 53 97 6 13 .962 4.17 .939 3.40
1916 CLE AL 25 2B 16 86 37 43 6 3 .930 5.00 .964 5.06
1917 CLE AL 26 SS 156 947 360 528 59 71 .938 5.69 .931 5.08
1918 CLE AL 27 SS 128 768 321 398 49 46 .936 5.62 .939 5.39
1918 CLE AL 27 OF 1 3 2 0 1 0 .667 2.00 .963 2.30 0-1-0
1919 CLE AL 28 SS 115 638 255 347 36 46 .944 5.23 .942 5.24
1920 CLE AL 29 SS 111 640 243 371 26 45 .959 5.53 .944 5.21
9 Seasons SS 957 5490 2204 2950 336 358 .939 5.39 .937 5.25
2 Seasons 2B 49 249 99 135 15 4 .940 4.78 .957 4.97
1 Season 3B 36 156 53 97 6 13 .962 4.17 .939 3.40
2 Seasons OF 2 3 2 0 1 0 .667 1.00 .963 2.15 0-1-1
9 Seasons TOT 1044 5898 2358 3182 358 375 .939 5.31 .938 5.16 0-1-1
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1938 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1917 AL  7.0 (5th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1915 AL  3.8 (9th)
1917 AL  7.0 (3rd)
1918 AL  3.0 (10th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1915 AL  4.8 (5th)
1917 AL  6.6 (3rd)
1918 AL  4.4 (7th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1917 AL  .302 (10th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1917 AL  .370 (8th)
1918 AL  .390 (8th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1917 AL  .409 (9th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1917 AL  .779 (8th)

Games Played s c a p y
1915 AL  154 (8th)
1917 AL  156 (2nd)
1918 AL  128 (4th)

At Bats s c a p y
1915 AL  570 (6th)
1917 AL  563 (10th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1915 AL  669 (9th)
1917 AL  691 (1st)
1918 AL  571 (5th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1915 AL  101 (5th)
1917 AL  98 (3rd)
1918 AL  84 (1st)
1920 AL  97 (10th)

Hits s c a p y
1917 AL  170 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1915 AL  211 (10th)
1917 AL  230 (8th)

Doubles s c a p y
1917 AL  28 (9th)

Triples s c a p y
1915 AL  17 (3rd)
1917 AL  13 (4th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1915 AL  70 (8th)
1918 AL  84 (1st)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1915 AL  82 (2nd)
1917 AL  65 (4th)
1918 AL  46 (5th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1915 AL  36 (7th)
1917 AL  52 (3rd)
1918 AL  35 (3rd)
Career  238 (245th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1917 AL  131 (10th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1915 AL  75 (8th)
1917 AL  85 (5th)
1918 AL  60 (10th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1917 AL  21 (8th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1917 AL  2.4 (8th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1917 AL  43 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1915 AL  227 (8th)
1917 AL  231 (7th)
1918 AL  209 (3rd)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1914 AL  .665 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1918 AL  6 (5th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1913 AL  45 (1st)
1916 AL  40 (2nd)
1917 AL  67 (1st)
1918 AL  35 (2nd)
1919 AL  50 (1st)
1920 AL  41 (4th)
Career  334 (6th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1913 AL  422 (9th)
1915 AL  457 (10th)
1917 AL  460 (1st)

Assists† s c a p y
1915 AL  469 (5th)
1917 AL  528 (1st)
1918 AL  398 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1913 AL  48 (3rd)
1915 AL  50 (3rd)
1917 AL  59 (2nd)
1918 AL  50 (2nd)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1913 AL  138 (4th)
1915 AL  154 (3rd)
1917 AL  156 (2nd)
1918 AL  128 (1st)
1919 AL  115 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1913 AL  299 (4th)
1915 AL  378 (1st)
1917 AL  360 (1st)
1918 AL  321 (1st)
1919 AL  255 (5th)
1920 AL  243 (5th)
Career  2,204 (85th)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1913 AL  408 (4th)
1915 AL  469 (4th)
1917 AL  528 (1st)
1918 AL  398 (3rd)
1919 AL  347 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1913 AL  48 (3rd)
1915 AL  50 (3rd)
1917 AL  59 (2nd)
1918 AL  49 (2nd)
Career  336 (57th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1915 AL  5.50 (1st)
1917 AL  5.69 (1st)
1918 AL  5.62 (3rd)
1919 AL  5.23 (4th)
1920 AL  5.53 (1st)
Career  5.39 (29th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1913 AL  .936 (5th)
1915 AL  .944 (3rd)
1917 AL  .938 (2nd)
1918 AL  .936 (4th)
1919 AL  .944 (2nd)
1920 AL  .959 (3rd)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 5 (382), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 41 (602), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 20 (819), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 25 (522), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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Transactions

  • June 30, 1911: Purchased by the Cleveland Naps from Davenport (Three-I).
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