Merv Shea
Detroit Tigers 1927–1929; Boston Red Sox 1933; St. Louis Browns 1933; Chicago White Sox 1934–1937; Brooklyn Dodgers 1938; Detroit Tigers 1939; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1944
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 34 | 94 | 85 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .176 | .239 | .318 | .557 | 36.4 | 41.9 | .260 | -0.2 |
| 1928 | 39 | 97 | 85 | 8 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 2 | .235 | .316 | .329 | .645 | 67.8 | 67.4 | .306 | 0.2 |
| 1929 | 50 | 182 | 162 | 23 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 19 | 18 | 2 | 1 | .290 | .365 | .383 | .747 | 93.0 | 91.1 | .350 | 0.8 |
| 1933 | 110 | 385 | 335 | 27 | 81 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 47 | 33 | 2 | 0 | .242 | .335 | .299 | .634 | 68.4 | 64.9 | .309 | 0.5 |
| 1934 | 62 | 202 | 176 | 8 | 28 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 24 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .159 | .260 | .176 | .436 | 15.8 | 12.4 | .227 | -1.0 |
| 1935 | 46 | 154 | 122 | 8 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 30 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .382 | .246 | .627 | 76.5 | 63.3 | .326 | 0.4 |
| 1936 | 14 | 31 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .300 | .125 | .425 | 24.2 | 7.6 | .245 | -0.1 |
| 1937 | 25 | 86 | 71 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .211 | .349 | .225 | .574 | 59.4 | 48.5 | .297 | 0.0 |
| 1938 | 48 | 148 | 120 | 14 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 28 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .183 | .338 | .225 | .563 | 67.0 | 55.8 | .292 | 0.3 |
| 1939 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1944 | 7 | 19 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .421 | .467 | .888 | 157.3 | 151.0 | .418 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-08-27 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1933-06-21 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1928-05-30 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1938-07-08 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1927-10-02 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-04-15 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-17 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-18 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-19 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-20 | BAL @ DET 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.