Chick Shorten
Boston Red Sox 1915–1917; Detroit Tigers 1919–1921; St. Louis Browns 1922; Cincinnati Reds 1924
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915 | 6 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .214 | .286 | .500 | 42.5 | 53.4 | .238 | -0.1 |
| 1916 | 53 | 123 | 112 | 14 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .295 | .352 | .330 | .683 | 109.0 | 108.4 | .339 | 0.5 |
| 1917 | 69 | 188 | 168 | 12 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 0 | .179 | .229 | .226 | .455 | 35.5 | 40.9 | .229 | -0.9 |
| 1919 | 95 | 313 | 270 | 37 | 85 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 22 | 13 | 5 | 0 | .315 | .366 | .370 | .737 | 108.1 | 107.1 | .354 | 1.0 |
| 1920 | 116 | 410 | 364 | 35 | 105 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 40 | 28 | 14 | 2 | 4 | .288 | .339 | .354 | .694 | 84.7 | 84.9 | .329 | 0.3 |
| 1921 | 92 | 243 | 217 | 33 | 59 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 20 | 11 | 2 | 3 | .272 | .333 | .350 | .684 | 74.2 | 74.3 | .323 | 0.0 |
| 1922 | 55 | 152 | 131 | 22 | 36 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 1 | .275 | .354 | .489 | .842 | 112.8 | 114.9 | .383 | 0.7 |
| 1924 | 41 | 75 | 69 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .275 | .315 | .319 | .634 | 73.0 | 73.9 | .297 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1922-07-31 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1921-07-26 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1920-09-24 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1920-10-03 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1921-05-16 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1915-04-14 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-15 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-16 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-17 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915-04-19 | BOS @ MIN 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.