MLB / Players

Milt Shoffner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 184 lb

BornNovember 13, 1905 · Sherman, TX, USA

MLB debutJuly 20, 1929

Final gameSeptember 22, 1940

Seasons7 (1929–1940)

Cleveland Indians 1929–1931; Boston Bees 1937–1939; Cincinnati Reds 1939–1940

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified pitchers

61.3

34.4

23.7

46.2

52.7

32.3

SHO

176

54.8

62.4

54.8

37.6

64.5

170.0

49.5

ERA

3.18

81.7

WHIP

1.347

59.1

K/9

3.02

25.8

FIP

3.66

78.5

FIP-

98.2

49.5

ERA+

117.2

62.4

sWAR

2.6

66.7

of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.8

68.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1929	11	15	15	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1930	24	37	33	5	7	3	1	1	2	2	14	.212	.257	.455	.712	67.1	73.2	.309	-1.7
1931	12	14	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	6	.077	.143	.077	.220	-46.4	-42.4	.120	-0.8
1937	6	20	16	3	2	1	0	1	4	1	6	.125	.176	.375	.551	44.4	53.0	.243	1.0
1938	27	62	57	2	12	2	1	0	4	5	17	.211	.274	.281	.555	59.9	60.8	.264	1.5
1939	35	63	55	5	8	0	0	0	4	5	27	.145	.217	.145	.362	-1.1	1.7	.186	2.6
1940	20	17	16	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	-47.5	-30.3	.115	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1929	11	3	2	3	0	1	0	46	25	22	15	4	44.7	5.04	1.522	3.02	5.19	118.0	87.3	-0.1
1930	24	10	3	4	0	1	0	129	75	50	17	8	84.7	7.97	2.114	1.81	6.08	126.3	60.4	-1.7
1931	12	4	2	3	0	1	0	55	33	26	12	4	41.0	7.24	1.976	2.63	5.98	129.4	63.8	-0.8
1937	6	5	3	1	1	3	1	38	12	9	13	1	42.7	2.53	1.102	2.74	3.35	93.9	141.0	1.0
1938	26	15	8	7	1	9	1	147	55	36	49	7	139.7	3.54	1.310	3.16	3.50	102.2	96.7	1.5
1939	35	14	6	8	1	7	0	176	60	53	57	7	170.0	3.18	1.347	3.02	3.66	98.2	117.2	2.6
1940	20	0	1	0	0	0	0	56	34	18	17	3	54.3	5.63	1.362	2.82	3.83	101.3	67.2	-0.7

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

135

228

205

RBI

.1561

OBP

.2100

SLG

.2341

OPS

.4441

Pitching

G (P)

134

SHO

577

SO (P)

180

BB allowed

214

ERA

4.586

WHIP

1.4922

K/9

2.81

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
1930-07-16	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	5
1938-05-12	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	1	0	0	0	5
1937-09-26	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	4
1930-09-28	BAL @ CLE Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4
1939-07-15	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-06-02	CIN @ ATL Gameday	11.0	10	4	4	3	7	1
1938-09-25	SF @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	3	1	1	7	0
1939-06-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	8.0	6	0	0	2	7	0
1937-09-08	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	5	0
1937-09-26	ATL @ PHI Gameday	8.0	10	3	3	1	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.