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Orator Shafer played 13 major-league seasons (1874-1890) as a OF (854), 1B (7), 2B (7), 3B (6). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 14 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1874 | 23 | HR1|NY2 | 10 | 40 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .225 | .525 | 70 |
| 1875 | 24 | PH2 | 19 | 70 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | .243 | .543 | 90 |
| 1877 | 26 | LS1 | 61 | 260 | 38 | 74 | 3 | 34 | 0 | 9 | 17 | .285 | .701 | 123 |
| 1878 | 27 | IN1 | 63 | 266 | 48 | 90 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 13 | 20 | .338 | .824 | 175 |
| 1879 | 28 | CHN | 73 | 316 | 53 | 96 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 6 | 28 | .304 | .662 | 122 |
| 1880 | 29 | CL2 | 83 | 338 | 62 | 90 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 17 | 36 | .266 | .662 | 126 |
| 1881 | 30 | CL2 | 85 | 343 | 48 | 88 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 23 | 20 | .257 | .641 | 105 |
| 1882 | 31 | CL2 | 84 | 313 | 37 | 67 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 27 | 27 | .214 | .577 | 87 |
| 1883 | 32 | BFN | 95 | 401 | 67 | 117 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 27 | 39 | .292 | .671 | 109 |
| 1884 | 33 | SLU | 106 | 467 | 130 | 168 | 2 | — | 0 | 30 | — | .360 | .899 | 205 |
| 1885 | 34 | PH4 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | — | .222 | .744 | 138 |
| 1885 | 34 | SL5 | 69 | 257 | 30 | 50 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 19 | 31 | .195 | .503 | 67 |
| 1886 | 35 | PH4 | 21 | 82 | 15 | 22 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 8 | — | .268 | .711 | 126 |
| 1890 | 39 | PH4 | 100 | 390 | 55 | 110 | 1 | 58 | 29 | 47 | — | .282 | .720 | 118 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1874 | OF | 10 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1875 | OF | 12 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1875 | 3B | 5 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| 1875 | 1B | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1877 | OF | 60 | 0 | 121 | 21 | 28 | 1 |
| 1877 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1878 | OF | 63 | 0 | 105 | 28 | 25 | 2 |
| 1879 | OF | 72 | 0 | 99 | 50 | 37 | 3 |
| 1879 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1880 | OF | 83 | 0 | 128 | 35 | 18 | 5 |
| 1881 | OF | 85 | 0 | 122 | 24 | 20 | 4 |
| 1882 | OF | 84 | 0 | 111 | 17 | 31 | 2 |
| 1883 | OF | 95 | 0 | 182 | 41 | 36 | 3 |
| 1884 | OF | 100 | 0 | 110 | 24 | 20 | 3 |
| 1884 | 2B | 7 | 0 | 22 | 16 | 6 | 1 |
| 1884 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1885 | OF | 71 | 0 | 107 | 28 | 12 | 0 |
| 1886 | OF | 21 | 0 | 40 | 4 | 10 | 2 |
| 1890 | OF | 98 | 0 | 143 | 17 | 7 | 6 |
| 1890 | 1B | 3 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Orator Shafer ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #18 | right fielders | 1884 | 205 OPS+ |
| #88 | right fielders | 1878 | 175 OPS+ |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.