MLB / Players

Burt Shotton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 18, 1884 · Brownhelm, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1909

Final gameApril 21, 1923

Seasons14 (1909–1923)

St. Louis Browns 1909; St. Louis Browns 1911–1917; Washington Senators 1918; St. Louis Cardinals 1919–1923

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified batters

126

576

97.4

505

96.6

86.2

132

76.7

62.1

70.7

RBI

31.9

96.6

28.4

91.4

.261

32.8

OBP

.349

59.5

SLG

.321

32.8

OPS

.670

wRC+

108.0

52.6

OPS+

104.7

49.1

wOBA

.339

49.1

sWAR

1.8

59.5

of 117 qualified 1918 batters (min 403 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.4

66.3

OPS+

108.6

59.7

sWAR

26.1

95.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	17	71	61	5	16	0	1	0	0	5	8	3	0	.262	.328	.295	.623	101.2	98.8	.312	0.3
1911	139	630	572	84	146	11	8	0	36	51	82	26	0	.255	.317	.302	.620	75.5	73.8	.305	0.3
1912	154	681	580	87	168	15	8	2	40	86	59	35	26	.290	.390	.353	.743	118.6	114.3	.370	4.2
1913	147	655	549	105	163	23	8	1	28	99	63	43	0	.297	.405	.373	.779	135.7	129.7	.388	5.5
1914	154	655	579	82	156	19	9	0	38	64	66	40	29	.269	.344	.333	.678	107.6	106.3	.337	3.1
1915	156	685	559	93	158	18	11	1	30	118	62	43	32	.283	.409	.360	.769	140.1	133.7	.390	4.9
1916	156	728	614	97	174	23	6	1	36	110	65	41	28	.283	.392	.345	.738	132.6	125.2	.373	4.5
1917	118	469	398	47	89	9	1	1	20	62	47	16	0	.224	.330	.259	.589	87.8	81.2	.306	0.3
1918	126	576	505	68	132	16	7	0	21	67	28	25	0	.261	.349	.321	.670	108.0	104.7	.339	1.8
1919	85	299	270	35	77	13	5	1	20	22	25	16	0	.285	.341	.381	.723	121.0	119.9	.344	1.4
1920	62	203	180	28	41	5	0	1	12	18	14	5	1	.228	.305	.272	.577	71.1	69.0	.284	-0.3
1921	38	56	48	9	12	1	1	1	7	7	4	0	2	.250	.357	.375	.732	99.4	95.1	.345	0.2
1922	34	34	30	5	6	1	0	0	2	4	6	0	1	.200	.294	.233	.527	46.3	40.4	.264	-0.1
1923	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Career totals

1,387

5,742

4,945

746

1,338

154

466th-most career 3B

RBI

290

713

365th-most career BB

529

293

178th-most career SB

.2706

OBP

.3650

376th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3335

OPS

.6985

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1919-05-23	STL @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	3	0	8
1911-10-08	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	4	3	2	0	0	0	7
1916-07-04	BAL @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	0	1	7
1915-06-22	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	6
1918-05-06	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-04-14	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-15	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-16	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-17	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-18	CWS @ BAL 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.