MLB / Players

Shanty Hogan

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 240 lb

BornMarch 21, 1906 · Somerville, MA, USA

MLB debutJune 23, 1925

Final gameJune 13, 1937

Seasons13 (1925–1937)

Boston Braves 1925–1927; New York Giants 1928–1932; Boston Braves 1933–1935; Washington Senators 1936–1937

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

140

66.9

529

58.4

502

61.4

41.6

144

61.4

28.3

74.7

RBI

75.3

49.4

43.4

27.7

.287

45.8

OBP

.323

22.9

SLG

.378

39.2

OPS

.702

31.3

wRC+

89.6

30.7

OPS+

90.8

33.1

wOBA

.317

27.1

sWAR

2.2

70.5

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.0

43.4

OPS+

100.8

43.3

sWAR

19.1

93.2

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
1925	9	22	21	2	6	1	1	0	3	1	3	0	0	.286	.318	.429	.747	92.0	95.2	.334	0.0
1926	4	14	14	1	4	1	1	0	5	0	0	0	0	.286	.286	.500	.786	107.2	115.3	.348	0.1
1927	71	246	229	24	66	17	1	3	32	9	23	2	0	.288	.324	.410	.734	97.5	100.4	.337	1.3
1928	131	470	411	48	137	25	2	10	71	42	25	0	0	.333	.406	.477	.883	132.7	130.6	.405	4.5
1929	102	353	317	19	95	13	0	5	45	25	22	1	0	.300	.362	.388	.750	89.0	87.6	.347	1.3
1930	122	424	389	60	132	26	2	13	75	21	24	2	0	.339	.378	.517	.894	115.1	116.8	.391	2.9
1931	123	430	396	42	119	17	1	12	65	29	29	1	0	.301	.354	.439	.794	115.0	115.3	.362	3.2
1932	140	529	502	36	144	18	2	8	77	26	22	0	0	.287	.323	.378	.702	89.6	90.8	.317	2.2
1933	96	347	328	15	83	7	0	3	30	13	9	0	0	.253	.288	.302	.590	72.9	75.9	.277	0.9
1934	92	302	279	20	73	5	2	4	34	16	13	0	0	.262	.316	.337	.653	81.0	80.8	.303	1.0
1935	59	188	163	9	49	8	0	2	25	21	8	0	0	.301	.394	.387	.780	122.0	117.4	.366	1.6
1936	19	76	65	8	21	4	0	1	7	11	2	0	1	.323	.421	.431	.852	118.7	115.4	.400	0.6
1937	21	73	66	4	10	4	0	0	5	6	8	0	1	.152	.222	.212	.434	10.3	12.2	.211	-0.4

Career totals

989

3,474

3,180

288

939

146

RBI

474

220

188

.2953

298th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3482

SLG

.4063

OPS

.7545

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	TB
1927-06-21	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	10
1931-06-04	SF @ STL Gameday	3	1	3	2	0	1	2	8
1930-05-17	ATL @ SF Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	1	1	8
1929-09-24	ATL @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	8
1931-07-12	PHI @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1925-04-14	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-16	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-18	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1925-04-22	ATL @ SF 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.