MLB / Players

Benny Meyer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1885 · Hematite, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1913

Final gameSeptember 22, 1925

Seasons4 (1913–1925)

Brooklyn Superbas 1913; Baltimore Terrapins 1914–1915; Buffalo Blues 1915; Philadelphia Phillies 1925

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

128

30.9

540

41.8

453

34.5

45.5

106

28.5

21.2

39.4

15.8

RBI

32.1

91.5

25.5

39.4

52.1

.234

14.5

OBP

.348

55.8

SLG

.289

10.3

OPS

.637

20.6

wRC+

95.2

32.1

OPS+

87.5

18.2

wOBA

.322

30.9

sWAR

0.9

29.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.4

77.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	38	102	87	12	17	0	1	1	10	10	14	8	.195	.278	.253	.531	53.7	52.0	.264	-0.3
1914	143	593	500	76	152	18	10	5	40	71	53	23	.304	.395	.410	.805	132.3	128.9	.386	3.7
1915	128	540	453	57	106	10	6	1	34	77	50	15	.234	.348	.289	.637	95.2	87.5	.322	0.9
1925	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	657.9	607.9	1.286	0.1

Career totals

310

1,236

1,041

146

276

RBI

158

117

.2651

OBP

.3651

SLG

.3458

OPS

.7109

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1913-07-27	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	1	0	4
1913-06-09	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1913-07-27	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
1913-07-14	CHC @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2	1	2
1913-04-10	LAD @ PHI Gameday	6	2	2	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-09	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-10	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-18	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-19	PHI @ LAD 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.