Orator Shafer
Hartford Dark Blues 1874; New York Mutuals 1874; Philadelphia Whites 1875; Louisville Grays 1877; Indianapolis Blues 1878; Chicago White Stockings 1879; Cleveland Blues 1880–1882; Buffalo Bisons 1883; St. Louis Maroons 1884; Philadelphia Athletics 1885; St. Louis Maroons 1885; Philadelphia Athletics 1886; Philadelphia Athletics 1890
Percentile snapshot
1890 season — qualified batters
of 149 qualified 1890 batters (min 409 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1874 | 10 | 40 | 40 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .225 | .300 | .525 | 80.2 | 66.4 | .238 | 0.0 |
| 1875 | 19 | 70 | 70 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | .243 | .243 | .300 | .543 | 91.5 | 86.4 | .246 | 0.1 |
| 1877 | 61 | 269 | 260 | 38 | 74 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 34 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .285 | .309 | .392 | .701 | 113.6 | 118.6 | .322 | 1.1 |
| 1878 | 63 | 279 | 266 | 48 | 90 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 30 | 13 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .338 | .369 | .455 | .824 | 150.2 | 169.2 | .381 | 2.4 |
| 1879 | 73 | 322 | 316 | 53 | 96 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 6 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .304 | .317 | .345 | .662 | 112.5 | 117.5 | .299 | 1.3 |
| 1880 | 83 | 355 | 338 | 62 | 90 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 17 | 36 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .301 | .361 | .662 | 117.4 | 122.0 | .301 | 1.6 |
| 1881 | 85 | 366 | 343 | 48 | 88 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 34 | 23 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .303 | .338 | .641 | 101.2 | 100.0 | .298 | 0.9 |
| 1882 | 84 | 340 | 313 | 37 | 67 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 28 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .276 | .300 | .577 | 91.5 | 85.1 | .266 | 0.4 |
| 1883 | 95 | 428 | 401 | 67 | 117 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 27 | 39 | 0 | 0 | .292 | .336 | .334 | .671 | 104.1 | 103.5 | .305 | 1.3 |
| 1884 | 106 | 497 | 467 | 130 | 168 | 40 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .360 | .398 | .501 | .899 | 163.6 | 202.1 | .410 | 5.5 |
| 1885 | 71 | 286 | 266 | 31 | 52 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 19 | 20 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .195 | .252 | .259 | .511 | 75.3 | 65.2 | .244 | -0.2 |
| 1886 | 21 | 90 | 82 | 15 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .268 | .333 | .378 | .711 | 116.0 | 123.4 | .342 | 0.5 |
| 1890 | 100 | 442 | 390 | 55 | 110 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 58 | 47 | 0 | 29 | 0 | .282 | .367 | .354 | .720 | 110.3 | 111.8 | .359 | 1.6 |
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.