Danny Shay
Cleveland Blues 1901; St. Louis Cardinals 1904–1905; New York Giants 1907
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 19 | 80 | 75 | 4 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .266 | .307 | .572 | 63.3 | 59.4 | .270 | 0.0 |
| 1904 | 99 | 389 | 340 | 45 | 87 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 39 | 22 | 36 | 0 | .256 | .338 | .303 | .641 | 104.5 | 100.3 | .319 | 2.1 |
| 1905 | 78 | 324 | 281 | 30 | 67 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 35 | 26 | 11 | 0 | .238 | .331 | .288 | .620 | 92.4 | 86.8 | .312 | 1.1 |
| 1907 | 35 | 93 | 79 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | .190 | .304 | .266 | .570 | 82.5 | 77.3 | .296 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905-09-29 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1901-05-11 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1904-06-20 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1904-08-18 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1904-08-22 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-24 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-25 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-28 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | BAL @ CLE 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.