MLB / Players

Spec Shea

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 2, 1920 · Naugatuck, CT, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1947

Final gameAugust 27, 1955

Seasons8 (1947–1955)

New York Yankees 1947–1949; New York Yankees 1951; Washington Senators 1952–1955

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified pitchers

51.7

79.3

65.5

SHO

24.1

151

94.8

77.6

32.8

89.7

164.7

12.1

ERA

3.94

51.7

WHIP

1.372

43.1

K/9

2.08

FIP

4.41

25.9

FIP-

113.5

ERA+

98.8

43.1

sWAR

1.5

34.5

of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.0

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
1947	27	69	56	8	11	2	1	0	1	5	9	.196	.262	.268	.530	43.8	49.5	.257	3.1
1948	28	59	47	4	7	0	2	0	4	6	11	.149	.259	.234	.493	33.6	33.5	.250	2.9
1949	20	14	12	1	3	0	0	0	4	2	2	.250	.357	.250	.607	70.1	63.5	.313	-0.1
1951	25	31	28	5	6	0	0	1	5	2	7	.214	.267	.321	.588	57.4	62.6	.276	0.6
1952	22	66	63	6	15	2	0	0	10	2	16	.238	.262	.270	.531	41.5	50.6	.251	3.1
1953	23	68	62	2	11	1	1	0	6	2	9	.177	.203	.226	.429	5.2	17.3	.201	1.5
1954	23	20	20	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	6	.050	.050	.100	.150	-88.6	-58.7	.066	-1.7
1955	27	10	10	1	4	2	0	0	2	0	3	.400	.400	.600	1.000	170.7	167.5	.452	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
1947	27	23	14	5	1	13	3	127	61	89	89	10	178.7	3.07	1.209	4.48	3.72	102.9	117.6	3.1
1948	28	22	9	10	1	8	3	117	59	87	71	10	155.7	3.41	1.310	4.10	4.39	105.0	122.5	2.9
1949	20	3	1	1	1	0	0	48	31	43	22	5	52.3	5.33	1.739	3.78	5.36	129.9	77.3	-0.1
1951	25	11	5	5	0	2	2	112	46	50	38	11	95.7	4.33	1.693	3.57	4.97	127.0	90.5	0.6
1952	22	21	11	7	0	12	2	144	55	92	65	6	169.0	2.93	1.396	3.46	3.73	105.0	121.1	3.1
1953	23	23	12	7	0	11	1	151	72	75	38	11	164.7	3.94	1.372	2.08	4.41	113.5	98.8	1.5
1954	23	11	2	9	0	1	0	97	49	34	22	9	71.3	6.18	1.836	2.78	4.92	137.7	57.7	-1.7
1955	27	4	2	2	2	1	1	53	25	27	16	4	56.3	3.99	1.420	2.56	4.28	108.3	98.8	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

195

337

298

RBI

.1946

OBP

.2453

SLG

.2584

OPS

.5037

Pitching

G (P)

195

118

SHO

944

SO (P)

361

BB allowed

497

ERA

3.796

WHIP

1.4264

K/9

3.44

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1951-05-27	ATH @ NYY Gameday	3	3	2	0	1	3	1	5
1947-05-17	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	0	4
1953-05-20	CLE @ MIN Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	3	0	3
1947-10-04	NYY @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	0	3
1955-08-14	MIN @ BOS Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-06-20	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	3	3	6	9	2
1952-05-16	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	5	9	0
1947-09-18	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	5	8	1
1948-05-09	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	8	0
1948-09-03	MIN @ NYY Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	8	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.