MLB / Players

Art Shamsky

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 168 lb
BornOctober 14, 1941 · St. Louis, MO, USA
MLB debutApril 17, 1965
Final gameJuly 18, 1972
Seasons8 (1965–1972)

Cincinnati Reds 1965–1967; New York Mets 1968–1971; Chicago Cubs 1972; Oakland Athletics 1972

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
5.6
80.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19656410696132543210102910.260.330.427.757110.8106.4.3450.4
1966962712344154502147324502.231.321.521.842124.3122.0.3691.3
19677616414762931313153401.197.274.293.56744.555.1.257-0.8
196811638134530821441248215810.238.292.406.698105.6108.5.3170.9
19691003493034291931447363212.300.375.488.863142.9140.3.3922.5
1970122458403481181921149493311.293.371.432.803113.9116.4.3591.5
197168157135132562518211811.185.299.370.67092.091.3.3120.1
19722327231200014500.087.222.087.309-7.3-10.8.181-0.3

Career totals

G
665
PA
1,913
AB
1,686
R
194
H
426
2B
60
3B
15
HR
68
RBI
233
BB
188
SO
254
SB
5
BA
.2527
OBP
.3304
SLG
.4270
OPS
.7574

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1966-08-12PIT @ CIN Gameday3330035012
1969-06-19NYM @ PHI Gameday4340023010
1970-05-23CHC @ NYM Gameday423201218
1970-09-16NYM @ WSH Gameday322002208
1970-05-09SF @ NYM Gameday523101307

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.