MLB / Players

Urban Shocker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 22, 1890 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1916

Final gameMay 30, 1928

Seasons13 (1916–1928)

New York Yankees 1916–1917; St. Louis Browns 1918–1924; New York Yankees 1925–1928

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified pitchers

49.6

69.8

86.8

73.6

61.2

SHO

65.9

207

40.3

68.2

71.3

11.6

36.4

200.0

62.8

ERA

2.84

87.6

WHIP

1.240

79.1

K/9

1.58

1.6

FIP

3.86

62.8

FIP-

97.4

ERA+

139.8

84.5

sWAR

4.7

of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

123.6

92.8

sWAR

51.5

98.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1916	12	29	21	2	4	0	0	0	1	5	7	0	0	.190	.370	.190	.561	88.6	67.8	.316	1.2
1917	26	52	45	0	8	0	0	0	6	1	17	0	0	.178	.213	.178	.391	9.5	18.3	.198	1.5
1918	14	37	34	1	11	3	0	0	3	3	9	0	0	.324	.378	.412	.790	140.7	140.1	.387	2.5
1919	30	72	58	2	8	0	0	0	4	12	13	0	0	.138	.286	.138	.424	28.0	18.6	.240	3.7
1920	38	98	80	8	18	3	0	0	10	11	21	0	1	.225	.333	.263	.596	62.7	56.7	.301	5.9
1921	47	130	104	18	27	4	1	0	9	18	26	0	2	.260	.374	.317	.691	80.2	73.6	.340	7.0
1922	48	135	115	14	22	3	1	1	6	14	34	1	0	.191	.279	.261	.540	39.1	39.6	.265	8.0
1923	43	108	80	9	16	1	0	0	6	16	21	0	0	.200	.333	.213	.546	51.7	42.6	.289	5.2
1924	40	99	67	11	16	2	0	0	7	22	14	0	0	.239	.433	.269	.702	102.6	82.8	.373	3.2
1925	41	94	64	12	11	5	1	0	4	20	17	0	0	.172	.369	.281	.650	82.9	68.9	.337	4.4
1926	41	108	76	6	13	1	0	0	4	10	20	0	0	.171	.284	.184	.468	31.6	25.7	.247	4.1
1927	31	84	54	6	13	1	0	0	10	7	12	0	0	.241	.359	.259	.619	76.1	66.0	.315	4.7
1928	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1916	12	9	4	3	0	4	1	67	24	32	43	2	82.3	2.62	1.202	4.70	2.98	104.1	109.1	1.2
1917	26	13	8	5	1	7	0	124	42	46	68	4	145.0	2.61	1.172	4.22	2.51	93.0	103.6	1.5
1918	14	9	6	5	2	7	0	69	19	40	33	0	94.7	1.81	1.151	3.14	2.76	101.4	150.8	2.5
1919	30	25	13	11	0	14	5	193	63	55	86	6	211.0	2.69	1.175	3.67	2.92	87.8	123.9	3.7
1920	38	28	20	10	5	22	5	224	74	70	107	10	245.7	2.71	1.197	3.92	3.46	88.4	144.4	5.9
1921	47	38	27	12	4	30	4	345	129	86	132	21	326.7	3.55	1.319	3.64	4.09	91.0	126.3	7.0
1922	48	38	24	17	3	29	2	365	115	57	149	22	348.0	2.97	1.213	3.85	3.44	83.2	138.9	8.0
1923	43	35	20	12	5	24	3	292	105	49	109	12	277.3	3.41	1.230	3.54	3.24	78.1	121.8	5.2
1924	40	33	16	13	1	17	4	270	115	52	88	11	246.3	4.20	1.307	3.22	3.66	85.8	101.5	3.2
1925	41	30	12	12	2	15	2	278	99	58	74	17	244.3	3.65	1.375	2.73	4.15	97.2	117.2	4.4
1926	41	32	19	11	2	18	0	272	97	71	59	13	258.3	3.38	1.328	2.06	3.97	101.5	115.6	4.1
1927	31	27	18	6	0	13	2	207	63	41	35	8	200.0	2.84	1.240	1.58	3.86	97.4	139.8	4.7
1928	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	2.0	0.00	1.500	0.00	3.03	78.2	—	0.1

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

412

1,046

798

167

RBI

139

211

.2093

OBP

.3344

SLG

.2494

OPS

.5838

Pitching

G (P)

412

317

307th-most career GS

187

155th-most career W

117

364th-most career L

200

135th-most career CG

SHO

135th-most career SHO

2,682

207th-most career IP

SO (P)

983

BB allowed

657

459th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.172

244th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2552

357th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.30

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	RBI	BB	TB
1921-09-13	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	3	0	5
1924-08-21	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	2	1	4
1918-05-15	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	0	3	1	0	1	0	4
1920-07-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	1	4
1925-05-08	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1920-07-13	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	0	14
1917-09-11	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	2	10
1921-08-21	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	4	2	7	9
1922-05-30	DET @ BAL Gameday	14.1	11	1	1	1	8
1922-04-20	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	4	2	3	8

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.