MLB / Players

Claude Ritchey

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 167 lb

BornOctober 5, 1873 · Emlenton, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1897

Final gameJune 24, 1909

Seasons13 (1897–1909)

Cincinnati Reds 1897; Louisville Colonels 1898–1899; Pittsburgh Pirates 1900–1906; Boston Doves 1907–1909

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

121

500

31.7

421

26.9

34.6

115

39.4

28.8

31.7

56.7

RBI

44.2

76.9

31.7

.273

66.3

OBP

.361

SLG

.325

48.1

OPS

.687

61.5

wRC+

123.9

72.1

OPS+

117.9

65.4

wOBA

.343

67.3

sWAR

3.4

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 483 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.2

50.5

OPS+

102.7

47.2

sWAR

30.3

96.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1897	101	397	337	58	95	12	4	0	41	42	16	11	.282	.370	.341	.711	93.6	88.2	.350	1.1
1898	151	637	551	65	140	10	4	5	51	46	29	19	.254	.322	.314	.636	84.8	82.0	.315	1.4
1899	148	620	540	66	162	16	7	4	73	49	19	21	.300	.369	.378	.747	105.3	104.7	.362	2.7
1900	123	528	476	62	139	17	8	1	67	29	8	18	.292	.339	.368	.707	94.7	95.0	.338	1.5
1901	140	611	540	66	160	20	4	1	74	47	29	15	.296	.358	.354	.712	109.0	107.5	.344	2.9
1902	115	483	405	54	112	13	1	2	55	53	15	10	.277	.370	.328	.698	120.3	115.2	.353	3.0
1903	138	576	506	66	145	28	10	0	59	55	29	15	.287	.360	.381	.741	110.4	110.6	.360	2.9
1904	156	623	544	79	143	22	12	0	51	59	36	12	.263	.338	.347	.686	111.8	110.6	.336	3.4
1905	153	596	533	54	136	29	6	0	52	51	29	12	.255	.324	.332	.656	96.6	95.6	.321	2.1
1906	152	586	484	46	130	21	5	1	62	68	25	6	.269	.369	.339	.708	123.8	118.4	.357	4.0
1907	144	572	499	45	127	17	4	2	51	50	32	8	.255	.329	.317	.645	101.1	99.5	.323	2.4
1908	121	500	421	44	115	10	3	2	36	50	13	7	.273	.361	.325	.687	123.9	117.9	.343	3.4
1909	30	97	87	4	15	1	0	0	3	8	10	1	.172	.242	.184	.426	26.8	28.4	.222	-0.5

Career totals

1,672

6,826

5,923

709

1,619

216

419th-most career 3B

RBI

675

607

290

155

.2733

OBP

.3481

SLG

.3419

OPS

.6900

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	HR	RBI	TB
1907-06-22	ATL @ SF Gameday	6	1	5	2	0	0	1	7
1903-05-21	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	0	7
1903-09-23	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	0	0	7
1901-05-16	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	6
1907-09-12	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	STL @ PIT 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.