Ed McFarland

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 3, 1873 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutJuly 7, 1893

Final gameJune 26, 1908

Seasons14 (1893–1908)

Cleveland Spiders 1893; St. Louis Browns 1896; Philadelphia Phillies 1897; St. Louis Browns 1897; Philadelphia Phillies 1898–1901; Chicago White Sox 1902–1907; Boston Red Sox 1908

Percentile snapshot

1898 season — qualified batters

121

12.2

484

2.7

429

5.4

121

14.9

66.2

20.3

59.5

RBI

64.9

51.4

60.8

5.4

.282

45.9

OBP

.352

56.8

SLG

.375

56.8

OPS

.727

51.4

wRC+

107.0

OPS+

107.9

51.4

wOBA

.355

51.4

sWAR

3.0

62.2

of 75 qualified 1898 batters (min 465 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.3

OPS+

102.8

47.3

sWAR

18.8

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
1893	8	24	22	5	9	2	1	0	6	1	2	0	.409	.458	.591	1.049	159.0	177.7	.488	0.3
1896	83	316	290	48	70	13	4	3	36	15	17	7	.241	.281	.345	.626	66.5	64.4	.295	0.2
1897	69	275	237	32	64	8	7	2	33	22	12	4	.270	.337	.388	.725	91.4	90.8	.345	0.9
1898	121	484	429	65	121	21	5	3	71	44	23	4	.282	.352	.375	.727	107.0	107.9	.355	3.0
1899	96	371	324	59	108	22	9	2	57	36	9	9	.333	.403	.475	.879	134.5	140.3	.417	3.6
1900	94	387	344	50	105	14	8	0	38	29	18	9	.305	.364	.392	.757	108.0	108.8	.363	2.3
1901	74	316	295	33	84	14	2	1	32	18	24	11	.285	.326	.356	.682	94.4	95.3	.325	1.5
1902	75	274	246	29	56	9	2	1	25	19	15	8	.228	.291	.293	.584	69.8	65.6	.282	0.4
1903	61	222	201	15	42	7	2	1	19	14	12	3	.209	.264	.279	.542	68.9	66.5	.258	0.4
1904	50	183	160	22	44	11	3	0	20	17	9	2	.275	.348	.381	.730	137.3	135.8	.349	1.9
1905	80	281	250	24	70	13	4	0	31	23	21	5	.280	.345	.364	.709	131.1	131.9	.344	2.7
1906	12	29	23	0	4	1	0	0	3	3	1	0	.174	.269	.217	.487	62.4	55.7	.252	0.0
1907	52	152	138	11	39	9	1	0	8	12	6	3	.283	.340	.362	.702	128.9	130.0	.344	1.5
1908	19	50	48	5	10	2	1	0	4	1	5	0	.208	.224	.292	.516	58.1	65.5	.247	0.1

Career totals

894

3,364

3,007

398

826

146

RBI

383

254

174

.2747

OBP

.3349

SLG

.3688

OPS

.7037

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	RBI	BB	TB
1904-06-27	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	5	1	6
1907-07-13	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	1	0	6
1905-05-02	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	1	6
1901-07-27	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	3	0	5
1904-07-18	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	2	0	5

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.