Ed Phelps
Pittsburgh Pirates 1902–1904; Cincinnati Reds 1905–1906; Pittsburgh Pirates 1906–1908; St. Louis Cardinals 1909–1910; Brooklyn Dodgers 1912; Brooklyn Superbas 1913
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 18 | 70 | 61 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | .213 | .284 | .230 | .513 | 62.9 | 58.2 | .264 | 0.0 |
| 1903 | 81 | 304 | 273 | 32 | 77 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 17 | 35 | 2 | 0 | .282 | .338 | .352 | .689 | 96.0 | 95.9 | .335 | 1.5 |
| 1904 | 94 | 334 | 302 | 29 | 73 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 31 | 2 | 0 | .242 | .289 | .278 | .567 | 74.9 | 74.2 | .278 | 1.0 |
| 1905 | 44 | 176 | 156 | 18 | 36 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 0 | .231 | .306 | .301 | .608 | 74.6 | 73.7 | .300 | 0.4 |
| 1906 | 55 | 177 | 158 | 12 | 39 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 0 | .247 | .308 | .323 | .631 | 92.8 | 93.9 | .313 | 1.0 |
| 1907 | 43 | 128 | 113 | 11 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .212 | .282 | .221 | .503 | 58.7 | 57.9 | .260 | 0.2 |
| 1908 | 34 | 68 | 64 | 3 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .269 | .328 | .597 | 85.5 | 90.8 | .288 | 0.3 |
| 1909 | 104 | 364 | 306 | 43 | 76 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 39 | 34 | 7 | 0 | .248 | .350 | .297 | .648 | 109.6 | 103.4 | .330 | 2.4 |
| 1910 | 93 | 319 | 270 | 25 | 71 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 36 | 29 | 9 | 0 | .263 | .356 | .293 | .649 | 95.9 | 90.4 | .330 | 1.6 |
| 1912 | 52 | 133 | 111 | 8 | 32 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .288 | .388 | .378 | .766 | 114.9 | 111.1 | .373 | 1.0 |
| 1913 | 15 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .263 | .222 | .485 | 36.8 | 39.2 | .238 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-05-23 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1906-04-21 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1909-05-30 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1910-05-20 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1903-08-18 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-19 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-20 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-22 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-23 | CIN @ 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.