Art Shires
Chicago White Sox 1928–1930; Washington Senators 1930; Boston Braves 1932
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 33 | 137 | 123 | 20 | 42 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | .341 | .409 | .431 | .840 | 125.0 | 122.2 | .392 | 0.6 |
| 1929 | 100 | 392 | 353 | 41 | 110 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 41 | 32 | 20 | 4 | 5 | .312 | .370 | .433 | .804 | 106.9 | 106.9 | .369 | 0.9 |
| 1930 | 75 | 232 | 212 | 25 | 64 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 37 | 11 | 11 | 3 | 3 | .302 | .336 | .387 | .723 | 83.7 | 84.3 | .329 | -0.1 |
| 1932 | 82 | 328 | 298 | 32 | 71 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .238 | .299 | .339 | .638 | 75.0 | 75.2 | .292 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-09-02 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1928-08-20 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1929-08-09 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-06-12 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1928-09-23 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928-04-11 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1928-04-12 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1928-04-13 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1928-04-15 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1928-04-16 | BAL @ 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.