Ben Shields
New York Yankees 1924–1925; Boston Red Sox 1930; Philadelphia Phillies 1931
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1925 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -46.7 | -35.6 | .117 | 0.0 |
| 1930 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -105.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1931 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | 27.00 | 4.000 | 13.50 | 3.13 | 74.5 | 15.5 | -0.5 |
| 1925 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 24.0 | 4.88 | 1.500 | 1.88 | 5.52 | 129.2 | 87.7 | 0.0 |
| 1930 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10.0 | 9.00 | 2.200 | 0.90 | 5.05 | 112.4 | 49.9 | -0.4 |
| 1931 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 5.3 | 15.19 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 9.35 | 219.7 | 28.0 | -0.6 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925-09-24 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1924-04-15 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1924-04-16 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1924-04-17 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1924-04-19 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925-09-24 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 10.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| 1924-04-17 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 2.0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1925-09-28 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 1930-05-18 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 1925-10-03 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 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.