MLB / Players

Bill Merritt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 7 in · 160 lb
BornJuly 30, 1870 · Lowell, MA, USA
MLB debutAugust 8, 1891
Final gameOctober 14, 1899
Seasons8 (1891–1899)

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
2.8
73.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
18911144424910042200.214.250.238.48850.742.2.239-0.1
189246179168223342113111530.196.246.262.50859.253.3.2500.0
189339154141304963326131330.348.403.496.899127.9138.1.4231.3
189476289252387483246331060.294.380.373.75388.081.3.3610.8
189589351318418271039242140.258.314.286.60064.655.3.2940.0
189677311282268282142181030.291.336.344.68082.079.2.3260.7
18976222520921556112691120.263.297.316.61364.961.6.2930.0
18991320000000000.000.333.000.33349.5-5.4.2590.0

Career totals

G
401
PA
1,556
AB
1,414
R
182
H
384
2B
40
3B
12
HR
8
RBI
196
BB
110
SO
82
SB
21
BA
.2716
OBP
.3272
SLG
.3338
OPS
.6610

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.