MLB / Players

Ed Delahanty

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 30, 1867 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 22, 1888

Final gameJune 25, 1903

Seasons16 (1888–1903)

Philadelphia Quakers 1888–1889; Cleveland Infants 1890; Philadelphia Phillies 1891–1901; Washington Senators 1902–1903

Percentile snapshot

1902 season — qualified batters

123

539

44.7

473

35.9

103

94.2

178

94.2

92.2

96.1

RBI

95.1

91.3

89.3

35.9

.376

100

OBP

.453

98.1

SLG

.590

100

OPS

1.043

wRC+

177.1

OPS+

184.7

wOBA

.476

98.1

sWAR

6.6

100

of 104 qualified 1902 batters (min 427 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

141.3

96.6

OPS+

150.3

sWAR

66.7

99.6

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
1888	74	303	290	40	66	12	2	1	31	12	26	38	.228	.261	.293	.554	79.2	75.9	.258	0.3
1889	56	261	246	37	72	13	3	0	27	14	17	19	.293	.333	.370	.703	94.4	95.3	.334	0.6
1890	115	549	517	107	153	26	13	3	64	24	30	25	.296	.337	.414	.751	96.6	99.6	.352	1.8
1891	128	584	543	92	132	19	9	5	86	33	50	25	.243	.296	.339	.635	85.3	84.6	.306	0.7
1892	123	517	477	79	146	30	21	6	91	31	32	29	.306	.360	.495	.855	141.8	157.4	.403	4.7
1893	132	652	595	145	219	35	18	19	146	47	20	37	.368	.423	.583	1.007	148.2	166.1	.465	5.7
1894	116	567	494	148	200	39	19	4	133	61	16	22	.405	.477	.585	1.062	143.7	154.5	.484	4.7
1895	116	578	480	149	194	49	10	11	106	86	31	46	.404	.500	.617	1.117	168.3	186.7	.513	6.7
1896	123	574	499	131	198	44	17	13	126	62	22	37	.397	.472	.631	1.103	171.2	189.2	.505	6.7
1897	129	598	530	109	200	40	15	5	96	60	23	26	.377	.444	.538	.981	148.4	158.1	.458	5.1
1898	144	640	548	115	183	36	9	4	92	77	29	58	.334	.426	.454	.880	147.2	151.8	.427	5.3
1899	146	645	581	135	238	55	9	9	137	55	22	30	.410	.464	.582	1.046	173.0	185.7	.489	7.7
1900	131	601	539	82	174	32	10	2	109	41	36	16	.323	.378	.430	.809	119.6	122.8	.384	2.5
1901	139	621	542	106	192	38	16	8	108	65	60	29	.354	.427	.528	.955	167.3	172.8	.446	6.4
1902	123	539	473	103	178	43	14	10	93	62	9	16	.376	.453	.590	1.043	177.1	184.7	.476	6.6
1903	42	171	156	22	52	11	1	1	21	12	16	3	.333	.388	.436	.824	144.5	144.7	.383	1.3

Career totals

1,837

376th-most career G

8,400

216th-most career PA

7,510

217th-most career AB

1,600

49th-most career R

2,597

85th-most career H

522

50th-most career 2B

186

13th-most career 3B

101

RBI

1,466

60th-most career RBI

742

330th-most career BB

439

456

52nd-most career SB

.3458

9th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4113

38th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5052

109th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9165

59th-highest career OPS

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
1902-06-25	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	3	0	9
1902-08-21	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1901-06-27	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	0	6	1	7
1901-05-04	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	4	3	2	1	0	2	0	7
1901-06-21	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	ATL @ PHI 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1945 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.