Bob Shaw

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornJune 29, 1933 · Bronx, NY, USA

MLB debutAugust 11, 1957

Final gameSeptember 11, 1967

Seasons11 (1957–1967)

Detroit Tigers 1957; Chicago White Sox 1958; Detroit Tigers 1958; Chicago White Sox 1959–1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Milwaukee Braves 1962–1963; San Francisco Giants 1964–1965; New York Mets 1966; San Francisco Giants 1966; Chicago Cubs 1967; New York Mets 1967

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified pitchers

73.8

37.7

31.1

14.8

24.6

SHO

37.7

216

29.5

16.4

72.1

125

31.1

44.3

199.3

31.1

ERA

4.29

4.9

WHIP

1.329

11.5

K/9

5.64

37.7

FIP

3.63

27.9

FIP-

100.8

31.1

ERA+

83.9

6.6

sWAR

0.5

6.6

of 62 qualified 1966 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.7

55.9

sWAR

20.1

93.6

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1957	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.1	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1958	41	26	22	0	3	0	0	1	4	7	0	.136	.269	.136	.406	23.0	12.5	.220	-0.2
1959	47	88	73	7	9	1	0	2	5	19	0	.123	.179	.137	.316	-14.2	-10.3	.158	4.9
1960	36	72	58	4	8	1	0	2	6	12	0	.138	.215	.155	.371	0.8	3.3	.188	1.3
1961	42	79	73	5	11	0	0	0	3	12	0	.151	.184	.151	.335	-19.8	-11.5	.162	1.9
1962	38	83	73	2	10	0	0	2	8	27	1	.137	.232	.137	.369	8.5	3.9	.193	4.9
1963	48	52	41	1	5	0	0	3	4	15	1	.122	.200	.122	.322	-7.1	-4.1	.168	2.8
1964	61	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	0.5
1965	42	84	79	1	8	0	1	6	1	13	0	.101	.113	.127	.239	-49.0	-32.9	.111	4.7
1966	39	68	56	1	13	0	0	2	4	18	0	.232	.279	.232	.511	43.9	45.4	.243	0.5
1967	32	32	29	0	2	0	0	0	2	10	0	.069	.129	.069	.198	-50.8	-40.8	.108	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1957	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	8	7	4	2	9.7	7.45	1.862	3.72	6.43	168.0	51.4	-0.3
1958	40	5	5	4	1	0	0	99	48	41	35	10	90.7	4.76	1.544	3.47	4.53	121.7	78.7	-0.2
1959	47	26	18	6	3	8	3	217	69	54	89	15	230.7	2.69	1.175	3.47	3.32	88.1	139.9	4.9
1960	36	32	13	13	0	7	1	221	87	62	46	16	192.7	4.06	1.469	2.15	4.02	105.6	93.6	1.3
1961	40	34	12	14	0	9	0	250	102	78	91	24	221.7	4.14	1.480	3.69	4.25	104.3	98.6	1.9
1962	38	29	15	9	2	12	3	223	70	44	124	20	225.0	2.80	1.187	4.96	3.52	92.3	136.2	4.9
1963	48	16	7	11	13	3	3	144	47	55	105	10	159.0	2.66	1.252	5.94	3.11	95.5	122.4	2.8
1964	61	1	7	6	11	0	0	105	39	31	57	5	93.3	3.76	1.457	5.50	3.38	95.0	94.7	0.5
1965	42	33	16	9	2	6	1	213	69	53	148	17	235.0	2.64	1.132	5.67	3.03	84.8	135.2	4.7
1966	39	31	12	14	0	7	2	216	95	49	125	21	199.3	4.29	1.329	5.64	3.63	100.8	83.9	0.5
1967	32	16	3	11	0	3	1	138	62	37	56	9	121.0	4.61	1.446	4.17	3.77	111.6	73.2	-0.8

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

433

599

519

RBI

142

.1329

OBP

.1914

SLG

.1407

OPS

.3321

Pitching

G (P)

430

223

108

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,778

SO (P)

880

BB allowed

511

ERA

3.523

464th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3206

K/9

4.45

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	3B	RBI	TB
1965-09-15	SF @ HOU Gameday	3	0	1	1	1	3
1958-04-24	DET @ ATH Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	2
1959-07-18	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2
1959-09-09	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2
1961-07-29	TEX @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-05-28	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	10	7	6	1	10	2
1962-05-22	CIN @ ATL Gameday	10.2	14	3	3	2	9	1
1965-06-20	PIT @ SF Gameday	10.1	8	3	1	1	9	0
1966-06-21	NYM @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	9	1
1962-06-09	PIT @ ATL Gameday	9.0	11	3	3	1	8	1

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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.