Bill Merritt
Chicago Colts 1891; Louisville Colonels 1892; Boston Beaneaters 1893–1894; Cincinnati Reds 1894; Pittsburgh Pirates 1894; Cincinnati Reds 1895; Pittsburgh Pirates 1895–1897; Boston Beaneaters 1899
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 11 | 44 | 42 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .250 | .238 | .488 | 50.7 | 42.2 | .239 | -0.1 |
| 1892 | 46 | 179 | 168 | 22 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 3 | 0 | .196 | .246 | .262 | .508 | 59.2 | 53.3 | .250 | 0.0 |
| 1893 | 39 | 154 | 141 | 30 | 49 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 26 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 0 | .348 | .403 | .496 | .899 | 127.9 | 138.1 | .423 | 1.3 |
| 1894 | 76 | 289 | 252 | 38 | 74 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 46 | 33 | 10 | 6 | 0 | .294 | .380 | .373 | .753 | 88.0 | 81.3 | .361 | 0.8 |
| 1895 | 89 | 351 | 318 | 41 | 82 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 24 | 21 | 4 | 0 | .258 | .314 | .286 | .600 | 64.6 | 55.3 | .294 | 0.0 |
| 1896 | 77 | 311 | 282 | 26 | 82 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 42 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 0 | .291 | .336 | .344 | .680 | 82.0 | 79.2 | .326 | 0.7 |
| 1897 | 62 | 225 | 209 | 21 | 55 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .263 | .297 | .316 | .613 | 64.9 | 61.6 | .293 | 0.0 |
| 1899 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 49.5 | -5.4 | .259 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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.