Jim Shellenback
Pittsburgh Pirates 1966–1967; Pittsburgh Pirates 1969; Washington Senators 1969–1971; Texas Rangers 1972–1974; Minnesota Twins 1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -18.2 | -4.2 | .155 | 0.4 |
| 1969 | 38 | 28 | 28 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .179 | .179 | .357 | -10.9 | 2.3 | .166 | 0.5 |
| 1970 | 40 | 35 | 30 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .067 | .097 | .100 | .197 | -59.9 | -44.4 | .096 | 0.8 |
| 1971 | 40 | 32 | 30 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .194 | .200 | .394 | 0.4 | 12.5 | .188 | 1.1 |
| 1972 | 22 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | -20.7 | -13.0 | .154 | 0.2 |
| 1973 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3.0 | 9.00 | 2.000 | 0.00 | 14.34 | 398.3 | 40.0 | -0.2 |
| 1967 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 23.3 | 2.70 | 1.500 | 4.24 | 3.94 | 116.2 | 125.7 | 0.4 |
| 1969 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 101 | 44 | 52 | 57 | 9 | 101.3 | 3.91 | 1.510 | 5.06 | 4.01 | 114.5 | 89.6 | 0.5 |
| 1970 | 39 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 107 | 48 | 51 | 57 | 6 | 117.3 | 3.68 | 1.347 | 4.37 | 3.43 | 95.6 | 97.3 | 0.8 |
| 1971 | 40 | 15 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 123 | 47 | 49 | 47 | 10 | 120.0 | 3.53 | 1.433 | 3.53 | 3.96 | 115.1 | 97.5 | 1.1 |
| 1972 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 22 | 16 | 30 | 6 | 57.0 | 3.47 | 1.088 | 4.74 | 3.53 | 118.3 | 86.0 | 0.2 |
| 1973 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1.7 | 0.00 | .000 | 16.20 | -1.02 | -27.2 | — | 0.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 16 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 24.7 | 5.84 | 1.703 | 5.11 | 5.65 | 157.7 | 61.4 | -0.4 |
| 1977 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 5.7 | 7.94 | 2.647 | 4.76 | 6.63 | 164.0 | 50.9 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-07-13 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1971-06-27 | TEX @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1970-05-03 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1971-08-01 | TEX @ MIL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1970-07-25 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-07-26 | TEX @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 |
| 1970-07-05 | TEX @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1970-06-04 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 5.2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1967-09-25 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 11.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1970-07-25 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 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.