James Shields

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornDecember 20, 1981 · Newhall, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 31, 2006

Final gameSeptember 25, 2018

Seasons13 (2006–2018)

Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2006–2007; Tampa Bay Rays 2008–2012; Kansas City Royals 2013–2014; San Diego Padres 2015; Chicago White Sox 2016; San Diego Padres 2016; Chicago White Sox 2017–2018

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified pitchers

78.9

SHO

190

3.5

103

3.5

10.5

154

28.1

1.8

204.7

87.7

ERA

4.53

10.5

WHIP

1.309

17.5

K/9

6.77

12.3

FIP

5.13

3.5

FIP-

121.9

1.8

ERA+

92.8

8.8

sWAR

1.3

12.3

of 58 qualified 2018 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.8

45.3

sWAR

28.6

96.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2006	21	8	8	2	3	0	0	0	3	.375	.375	.375	.750	98.2	97.0	.336	0.9
2007	31	7	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-20.5	-10.7	.151	3.5
2008	34	5	4	2	1	0	1	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	96.8	80.6	.328	3.9
2009	33	5	4	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	-23.8	-39.5	.146	2.6
2010	34	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	191.0	182.4	.452	-0.9
2011	33	8	8	0	0	0	1	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.6	-100.0	.000	5.3
2012	33	5	5	0	1	0	1	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	5.2	13.9	.178	3.2
2013	34	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	82.4	84.7	.298	4.7
2014	34	7	7	1	2	1	1	0	1	.286	.286	.429	.714	96.2	98.6	.313	4.2
2015	36	74	68	7	9	2	2	1	28	.132	.145	.162	.307	-31.8	-14.7	.139	1.7
2016	33	23	21	1	4	0	0	0	12	.190	.190	.190	.381	-7.7	4.3	.169	-1.8
2017	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2018	34	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-18.8	-7.0	.147	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2006	21	21	6	8	1	0	141	67	38	104	18	124.7	4.84	1.436	7.51	4.43	98.2	93.3	0.9
2007	31	31	12	8	1	0	202	92	36	184	28	215.0	3.85	1.107	7.70	3.93	88.6	115.3	3.5
2008	33	33	14	8	3	2	208	85	40	160	24	215.0	3.56	1.153	6.70	3.85	90.6	119.5	3.9
2009	33	33	11	12	0	0	239	101	52	167	29	219.7	4.14	1.325	6.84	4.06	94.2	104.3	2.6
2010	34	33	13	15	0	0	246	117	51	187	34	203.3	5.18	1.461	8.28	4.21	107.1	75.9	-0.9
2011	33	33	16	12	11	4	195	78	65	225	26	249.3	2.82	1.043	8.12	3.45	90.7	135.3	5.3
2012	33	33	15	10	3	2	208	89	58	223	25	227.7	3.52	1.168	8.82	3.42	88.3	110.2	3.2
2013	34	34	13	9	2	0	215	80	68	196	20	228.7	3.15	1.238	7.71	3.50	86.3	128.6	4.7
2014	34	34	14	8	1	1	224	81	44	180	23	227.0	3.21	1.181	7.14	3.62	93.6	120.4	4.2
2015	33	33	13	7	0	0	189	88	81	216	33	202.3	3.91	1.334	9.61	4.48	117.6	97.3	1.7
2016	33	33	6	19	1	0	208	118	82	135	40	181.7	5.85	1.596	6.69	6.00	146.5	70.0	-1.8
2017	21	21	5	7	0	0	116	68	53	103	27	117.0	5.23	1.444	7.92	5.82	135.5	82.1	0.0
2018	34	33	7	16	0	0	190	103	78	154	34	204.7	4.53	1.309	6.77	5.13	121.9	92.8	1.3

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

411

154

142

RBI

.1690

OBP

.1862

SLG

.1901

OPS

.3763

Pitching

G (P)

407

405

136th-most career GS

145

281st-most career W

139

217th-most career L

SHO

2,616

224th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,234

64th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

746

313th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.015

WHIP

1.2718

437th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

7.69

125th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
2014-06-03	KC @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	1	1	3
2006-06-16	TB @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
2016-05-07	NYM @ SD Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	2
2015-05-19	CHC @ SD Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2
2015-09-27	AZ @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2012-10-02	BAL @ TB Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	0	15	1
2011-05-22	TB @ MIA Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	13	0
2011-08-26	TB @ TOR Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	12	1
2007-04-22	CLE @ TB Gameday	8.0	2	2	2	1	12	1
2011-04-30	LAA @ TB Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	1	12	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.