Al Shaw
Detroit Tigers 1901; Boston Americans 1907; Chicago White Sox 1908; Boston Doves 1909
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 55 | 191 | 171 | 20 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 23 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 0 | .269 | .321 | .327 | .648 | 82.2 | 79.1 | .310 | 0.4 |
| 1907 | 76 | 221 | 198 | 10 | 38 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 18 | 24 | 4 | 0 | .192 | .269 | .227 | .497 | 62.4 | 58.5 | .255 | 0.5 |
| 1908 | 32 | 52 | 49 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .082 | .118 | .102 | .220 | -30.6 | -27.2 | .114 | -0.3 |
| 1909 | 18 | 47 | 41 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .098 | .213 | .098 | .310 | -1.5 | -6.3 | .181 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-06-18 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1901-09-15 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1901-08-30 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1907-08-10 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1901-09-01 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-25 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-28 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | DET @ CWS 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.