MLB / Players

Cy Perkins

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 158 lb

BornFebruary 27, 1896 · Gloucester, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1915

Final gameSeptember 30, 1934

Seasons17 (1915–1934)

Philadelphia Athletics 1915; Philadelphia Athletics 1917–1930; New York Yankees 1931; Detroit Tigers 1934

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified batters

143

73.2

579

68.2

500

64.8

45.8

135

58.1

91.1

49.7

34.6

RBI

66.5

89.4

25.7

3.4

41.9

.270

OBP

.356

49.7

SLG

.370

OPS

.726

37.4

wRC+

91.0

30.7

OPS+

89.4

31.3

wOBA

.349

43.6

sWAR

2.4

71.5

of 180 qualified 1923 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

73.1

4.7

OPS+

74.5

sWAR

8.6

85.2

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	7	24	20	2	4	1	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	.200	.304	.250	.554	70.7	65.8	.289	0.1
1917	6	21	18	1	3	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	.167	.250	.167	.417	26.1	25.9	.223	-0.1
1918	68	230	218	9	41	4	1	1	14	8	15	1	0	.188	.217	.229	.446	18.6	32.3	.221	-0.9
1919	101	336	305	22	77	12	7	2	29	27	22	2	0	.252	.313	.357	.671	82.9	85.4	.321	1.3
1920	148	535	492	40	128	24	6	5	52	28	35	5	6	.260	.303	.364	.667	69.7	73.5	.311	0.9
1921	141	581	538	58	155	31	4	12	73	32	32	5	9	.288	.329	.428	.757	86.0	89.5	.346	2.0
1922	148	560	505	58	135	20	6	6	69	40	30	1	7	.267	.322	.366	.689	73.6	75.9	.322	1.1
1923	143	579	500	53	135	34	5	2	65	65	30	1	3	.270	.356	.370	.726	91.0	89.4	.349	2.4
1924	128	432	392	31	95	19	4	0	32	31	20	3	4	.242	.304	.311	.616	56.1	57.9	.297	0.0
1925	65	177	140	21	43	10	0	1	18	26	6	0	0	.307	.426	.400	.826	113.5	106.8	.399	1.3
1926	63	181	148	14	43	6	0	0	19	18	7	0	2	.291	.371	.331	.702	85.9	82.3	.342	0.7
1927	59	154	137	11	35	7	2	1	15	12	8	0	2	.255	.315	.358	.673	71.1	72.8	.316	0.4
1928	19	31	29	1	5	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	.172	.200	.172	.372	-8.4	-1.4	.180	-0.2
1929	38	84	76	4	16	4	0	0	9	5	4	0	0	.211	.259	.263	.522	31.7	34.6	.247	-0.1
1930	20	40	38	1	6	2	0	0	4	2	3	0	0	.158	.200	.211	.411	2.4	3.9	.193	-0.2
1931	16	49	47	3	12	1	0	0	7	1	4	0	0	.255	.286	.277	.562	52.0	52.4	.265	0.0
1934	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-115.7	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,171

4,015

3,604

329

933

175

RBI

409

301

221

.2589

OBP

.3186

SLG

.3518

OPS

.6704

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	BB	TB
1921-09-06	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1923-06-01	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	2	0	7
1921-05-29	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1921-05-08	ATH @ NYY Gameday	6	0	4	0	1	0	3	1	6
1922-04-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-19	NYY @ ATH 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.