Ray Sheppard
Indianapolis ABCs 1924; Birmingham Black Barons 1924; Cleveland Browns 1924; Detroit Stars 1925–1926; Birmingham Black Barons 1928–1929; Detroit Wolves 1932; Monroe Monarchs 1932
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 28 | 97 | 84 | 6 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .284 | .214 | .498 | 50.7 | 36.9 | .255 | -0.2 |
| 1925 | 51 | 202 | 179 | 42 | 60 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 35 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | .335 | .374 | .475 | .849 | 121.5 | 126.4 | .383 | 1.3 |
| 1926 | 31 | 116 | 108 | 12 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .231 | .245 | .370 | .616 | 54.5 | 56.7 | .275 | -0.2 |
| 1928 | 57 | 218 | 198 | 26 | 55 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 25 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 | .278 | .309 | .434 | .744 | 97.6 | 100.9 | .336 | 0.8 |
| 1929 | 31 | 128 | 115 | 14 | 38 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .330 | .358 | .461 | .819 | 109.0 | 112.1 | .369 | 0.7 |
| 1932 | 19 | 61 | 53 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .264 | .339 | .302 | .641 | 90.6 | 88.3 | .318 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2.3 | 27.00 | 4.714 | 0.00 | 9.87 | 264.7 | 13.8 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-07-09 | MON @ MEM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1932-07-10 | MON @ MEM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1932-05-30 | DTW @ WPI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-06-02 | DTW @ HIL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-06-12 | MNT @ MON Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-07-11 | MON @ MEM Gameday | 2.1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-22 | MON @ LRG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-23 | MON @ LRG Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-04-30 | MON @ MEM Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1932-05-01 | MON @ MEM 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.