Chris Shelton
Detroit Tigers 2004–2006; Texas Rangers 2008; Seattle Mariners 2009
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 27 | 56 | 46 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .321 | .283 | .604 | 69.6 | 62.4 | .287 | -0.2 |
| 2005 | 107 | 431 | 388 | 61 | 116 | 22 | 3 | 18 | 59 | 34 | 87 | 0 | 0 | .299 | .360 | .510 | .870 | 131.9 | 130.7 | .376 | 2.3 |
| 2006 | 115 | 412 | 373 | 50 | 102 | 16 | 4 | 16 | 47 | 34 | 107 | 1 | 2 | .273 | .340 | .466 | .806 | 107.6 | 106.5 | .352 | 0.9 |
| 2008 | 41 | 117 | 97 | 14 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 33 | 1 | 0 | .216 | .333 | .330 | .663 | 81.8 | 75.6 | .312 | -0.2 |
| 2009 | 9 | 28 | 26 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .286 | .308 | .593 | 59.8 | 59.9 | .270 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-06-29 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2006-06-18 | DET @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 2006-04-03 | DET @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2006-04-06 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 2006-04-08 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
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.