Billy Shantz
Philadelphia Athletics 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955; New York Yankees 1960
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 51 | 181 | 164 | 13 | 42 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 17 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .326 | .366 | .692 | 85.4 | 86.4 | .326 | 0.7 |
| 1955 | 79 | 232 | 217 | 18 | 56 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .293 | .300 | .592 | 51.7 | 57.3 | .279 | 0.1 |
| 1960 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-05-10 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-05-09 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-06-24 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1955-08-03 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-06-01 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-08-12 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-08-31 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-09-25 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-08-23 | MIN @ ATH 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.