Art Shamsky
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 64 | 106 | 96 | 13 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 29 | 1 | 0 | .260 | .330 | .427 | .757 | 110.8 | 106.4 | .345 | 0.4 |
| 1966 | 96 | 271 | 234 | 41 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 47 | 32 | 45 | 0 | 2 | .231 | .321 | .521 | .842 | 124.3 | 122.0 | .369 | 1.3 |
| 1967 | 76 | 164 | 147 | 6 | 29 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 34 | 0 | 1 | .197 | .274 | .293 | .567 | 44.5 | 55.1 | .257 | -0.8 |
| 1968 | 116 | 381 | 345 | 30 | 82 | 14 | 4 | 12 | 48 | 21 | 58 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .292 | .406 | .698 | 105.6 | 108.5 | .317 | 0.9 |
| 1969 | 100 | 349 | 303 | 42 | 91 | 9 | 3 | 14 | 47 | 36 | 32 | 1 | 2 | .300 | .375 | .488 | .863 | 142.9 | 140.3 | .392 | 2.5 |
| 1970 | 122 | 458 | 403 | 48 | 118 | 19 | 2 | 11 | 49 | 49 | 33 | 1 | 1 | .293 | .371 | .432 | .803 | 113.9 | 116.4 | .359 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 68 | 157 | 135 | 13 | 25 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .185 | .299 | .370 | .670 | 92.0 | 91.3 | .312 | 0.1 |
| 1972 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .087 | .222 | .087 | .309 | -7.3 | -10.8 | .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-08-12 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 1969-06-19 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1970-05-23 | CHC @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1970-09-16 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-05-09 | SF @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
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.