Steve Shields
Atlanta Braves 1985–1986; Kansas City Royals 1986; Seattle Mariners 1987; New York Yankees 1988; Minnesota Twins 1989
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 23 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .158 | .111 | .269 | -37.9 | -25.2 | .137 | -0.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1987 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 39 | 32 | 29 | 9 | 68.0 | 5.16 | 1.735 | 3.84 | 4.94 | 130.1 | 73.6 | -0.5 |
| 1986 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 5 | 21.3 | 5.06 | 1.266 | 3.38 | 6.61 | 164.1 | 80.1 | -0.1 |
| 1987 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 22 | 12 | 22 | 7 | 30.0 | 6.60 | 1.833 | 6.60 | 5.64 | 120.6 | 70.8 | -0.3 |
| 1988 | 39 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 40 | 30 | 55 | 8 | 82.3 | 4.37 | 1.530 | 6.01 | 3.91 | 99.0 | 90.4 | 0.4 |
| 1989 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 17.3 | 7.79 | 1.962 | 6.23 | 4.75 | 115.8 | 52.7 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-06-09 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-09-17 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-06-01 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985-06-05 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1985-06-13 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-06-13 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 8.0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 1985-06-09 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 6.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 1988-06-24 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 3.2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1988-08-12 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 2.2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| 1987-08-10 | ATH @ SEA Gameday | 2.1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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.