MLB / Players

Earl Sheely

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 12, 1893 · Bushnell, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1921

Final gameSeptember 27, 1931

Seasons9 (1921–1931)

Chicago White Sox 1921–1927; Pittsburgh Pirates 1929; Boston Braves 1931

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified batters

147

74.1

586

61.2

538

65.5

147

51.7

32.8

12.9

17.2

RBI

43.1

57.8

38.8

.273

22.4

OBP

.319

14.7

SLG

.314

8.6

OPS

.633

8.6

wRC+

73.2

OPS+

74.0

11.2

wOBA

.298

9.5

sWAR

-1.2

2.6

of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.7

54.9

OPS+

104.0

50.6

sWAR

11.4

88.3

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
1921	154	647	563	68	171	25	6	11	95	57	34	4	9	.304	.375	.428	.803	106.3	105.8	.374	1.4
1922	149	620	526	72	167	37	4	6	80	60	27	4	6	.317	.393	.437	.830	118.2	116.2	.387	2.2
1923	156	680	570	74	169	25	3	4	88	79	30	5	5	.296	.387	.372	.759	105.1	101.0	.367	1.3
1924	146	662	535	84	171	34	3	3	103	95	28	7	4	.320	.426	.411	.837	123.3	117.7	.404	2.8
1925	153	699	600	93	189	43	3	9	111	68	23	3	3	.315	.389	.442	.831	115.3	115.1	.388	2.4
1926	145	627	525	77	157	40	2	6	89	75	13	3	1	.299	.394	.417	.811	118.7	116.0	.385	2.3
1927	45	157	129	11	27	3	0	2	16	20	5	1	3	.209	.320	.279	.599	64.6	58.9	.298	-0.5
1929	139	585	485	63	142	22	4	6	88	75	24	6	0	.293	.392	.392	.784	97.9	93.4	.367	0.6
1931	147	586	538	30	147	15	2	1	77	34	21	0	0	.273	.319	.314	.633	73.2	74.0	.298	-1.2

Career totals

1,234

5,263

4,471

572

1,340

244

RBI

747

563

205

.2997

223rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3829

167th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3986

OPS

.7815

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
1921-09-09	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	5	5	0	1	1	5	0	10
1926-05-21	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	3	0	1	3	0	10
1922-08-26	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	2	3	1	9
1929-05-18	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	0	2	0	8
1921-06-10	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1921-04-14	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-15	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-18	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-19	CWS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-21	DET @ CWS 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.