MLB / Players

Bob Shawkey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 168 lb

BornDecember 4, 1890 · Sigel, PA, USA

MLB debutJuly 16, 1913

Final gameSeptember 29, 1927

Seasons15 (1913–1927)

Philadelphia Athletics 1913–1914; New York Yankees 1915; Philadelphia Athletics 1915; New York Yankees 1916–1927

Percentile snapshot

1925 season — qualified pitchers

65.9

49.6

23.7

10.4

40.7

SHO

48.1

209

28.1

186.0

59.3

ERA

4.11

58.5

WHIP

1.484

K/9

3.92

79.3

FIP

4.24

70.4

FIP-

99.1

45.2

ERA+

103.9

45.2

sWAR

1.8

48.9

of 136 qualified 1925 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.2

81.1

sWAR

43.6

98.3

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	18	47	44	3	6	1	0	0	5	1	10	.136	.156	.159	.315	-17.6	-6.8	.155	1.6
1914	38	91	83	6	17	2	0	0	5	4	22	.205	.241	.229	.470	35.2	42.8	.234	2.3
1915	33	65	60	3	11	5	1	0	3	3	21	.183	.222	.300	.522	47.7	54.9	.253	0.2
1916	53	100	93	5	17	1	0	0	4	3	21	.183	.208	.194	.402	7.1	20.0	.200	4.8
1917	32	91	84	3	16	4	0	0	8	3	15	.190	.218	.238	.456	27.9	38.2	.224	3.1
1918	3	6	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.750	.800	.750	1.550	387.0	363.9	.740	0.7
1919	41	101	94	5	22	1	0	0	6	1	15	.234	.242	.245	.487	26.7	37.1	.232	4.1
1920	38	106	100	13	23	1	0	0	10	4	13	.230	.267	.240	.507	31.1	34.3	.246	6.6
1921	38	100	90	13	27	2	1	1	11	2	13	.300	.315	.378	.693	71.6	76.1	.318	3.3
1922	39	125	115	12	21	2	0	1	12	2	18	.183	.203	.226	.429	1.4	11.5	.201	6.4
1923	36	102	99	8	20	1	1	0	10	0	15	.202	.202	.232	.434	2.9	14.5	.202	3.5
1924	38	81	69	12	22	4	1	1	15	7	5	.319	.390	.449	.839	116.8	116.8	.394	2.9
1925	33	68	68	1	10	1	2	0	2	0	4	.147	.147	.221	.368	-18.3	-6.5	.165	1.8
1926	29	40	35	4	9	1	0	0	3	3	6	.257	.316	.286	.602	59.8	60.0	.293	1.5
1927	19	11	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.091	.091	.091	.182	-63.0	-51.7	.085	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
1913	18	15	6	5	0	8	1	92	29	50	52	2	111.3	2.34	1.275	4.20	3.22	112.4	122.0	1.6
1914	38	31	16	8	2	18	5	223	72	75	89	4	237.0	2.73	1.257	3.38	2.78	103.8	98.1	2.3
1915	33	22	10	13	0	12	2	181	76	73	87	5	185.7	3.68	1.368	4.22	3.02	103.1	79.4	0.2
1916	53	27	24	14	8	21	4	204	68	81	122	4	276.7	2.21	1.030	3.97	2.57	89.9	129.4	4.8
1917	32	26	13	15	0	16	2	207	64	72	97	2	236.3	2.44	1.181	3.69	2.42	89.6	110.8	3.1
1918	3	2	1	1	0	1	1	7	2	10	3	0	16.0	1.13	1.063	1.69	3.66	130.4	249.5	0.7
1919	41	27	20	11	5	22	3	218	79	92	122	7	261.3	2.72	1.186	4.20	3.06	95.7	117.5	4.1
1920	38	31	20	13	2	20	5	246	73	85	126	10	267.7	2.45	1.237	4.24	3.41	89.1	155.8	6.6
1921	38	31	18	12	2	18	3	245	111	86	126	15	245.0	4.08	1.351	4.63	4.12	96.2	105.0	3.3
1922	39	34	20	12	1	22	3	286	97	98	130	16	299.7	2.91	1.281	3.90	3.75	92.6	139.1	6.4
1923	36	31	16	11	1	17	1	232	101	102	125	17	258.7	3.51	1.291	4.35	4.02	101.8	112.4	3.5
1924	38	25	16	11	0	10	1	226	95	74	114	11	207.7	4.12	1.445	4.94	3.83	91.3	101.8	2.9
1925	33	20	6	14	0	9	1	209	85	67	81	12	186.0	4.11	1.484	3.92	4.24	99.1	103.9	1.8
1926	29	10	8	7	3	3	1	102	42	37	63	8	104.3	3.62	1.332	5.43	3.83	98.1	107.8	1.5
1927	19	2	2	3	4	0	0	44	14	16	23	1	43.7	2.89	1.374	4.74	3.47	87.6	137.4	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

488

1,134

1,049

225

RBI

181

.2145

OBP

.2413

SLG

.2593

OPS

.5006

Pitching

G (P)

488

475th-most career G (P)

334

244th-most career GS

196

131st-most career W

150

167th-most career L

197

142nd-most career CG

SHO

88th-most career SHO

2,937

151st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,360

303rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,018

110th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.089

204th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2734

441st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.17

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	TB
1924-09-01	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1915-07-13	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	2	0	0	1	5
1917-06-27	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	0	5
1923-07-12	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	3	5
1922-06-26	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-09-27	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	5	15	0
1922-07-18	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	5	10	1
1926-07-05	NYY @ ATH Gameday	8.0	8	2	0	2	10	0
1921-07-20	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	4	9	1
1926-04-27	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	0	9	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.