MLB / Players

Al Shaw

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 165 lb

BornMarch 1, 1881 · Toledo, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 28, 1907

Final gameOctober 3, 1915

Seasons5 (1907–1915)

St. Louis Cardinals 1907–1909; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1914; Kansas City Packers 1915

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

132

38.2

507

30.9

448

31.5

126

67.9

65.5

90.9

RBI

81.2

59.4

35.2

39.4

52.1

.281

58.8

OBP

.348

55.8

SLG

.415

77.6

OPS

.763

73.3

wRC+

123.2

69.7

OPS+

123.9

69.7

wOBA

.363

72.1

sWAR

2.5

61.2

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1907	9	32	25	2	7	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	.280	.379	.280	.659	116.3	106.6	.341	0.2
1908	107	400	367	40	97	13	4	1	19	25	71	9	.264	.311	.330	.641	104.2	105.6	.313	1.6
1909	114	387	331	45	82	12	7	2	34	55	66	15	.248	.355	.344	.699	123.6	119.5	.351	2.6
1914	112	430	376	81	122	27	7	5	49	44	59	24	.324	.395	.473	.869	146.4	146.3	.408	4.1
1915	132	507	448	67	126	22	10	6	67	46	45	15	.281	.348	.415	.763	123.2	123.9	.363	2.5

Career totals

474

1,756

1,547

235

434

RBI

170

173

241

.2805

OBP

.3533

SLG

.3917

OPS

.7450

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	RBI	BB	TB
1908-09-07	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	0	4	1	0	2	0	5
1908-09-27	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	0	5
1909-06-08	LAD @ STL Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	2	2	5
1909-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	1	2	5
1909-05-12	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-15	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-16	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	STL @ CIN 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.