MLB / Players

Eddie Foster

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 6 in · 145 lb

BornFebruary 13, 1887 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1910

Final gameAugust 5, 1923

Seasons13 (1910–1923)

New York Highlanders 1910; Washington Senators 1912–1919; Boston Red Sox 1920–1922; St. Louis Browns 1922–1923

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified batters

120

45.6

485

40.9

412

42.3

32.2

117

39.6

42.3

39.6

RBI

28.9

82.6

52.3

62.4

36.9

.284

33.6

OBP

.371

59.7

SLG

.357

28.2

OPS

.728

36.9

wRC+

92.8

36.9

OPS+

89.0

32.2

wOBA

.349

sWAR

1.3

42.3

of 150 qualified 1921 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

89.7

22.7

OPS+

90.2

23.3

sWAR

16.3

91.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1910	30	92	83	5	11	2	0	0	1	8	13	2	0	.133	.217	.157	.374	14.6	14.2	.200	-0.5
1912	154	678	618	98	176	34	9	2	70	53	48	27	14	.285	.345	.379	.724	106.1	107.5	.350	3.1
1913	106	449	409	56	101	11	5	1	41	36	31	22	0	.247	.309	.306	.615	79.1	80.1	.304	0.6
1914	157	684	616	82	174	16	10	2	50	60	47	31	18	.282	.348	.351	.699	109.2	108.6	.345	3.4
1915	154	676	618	75	170	25	10	0	52	48	30	20	6	.275	.329	.348	.677	100.2	102.8	.334	2.6
1916	158	685	606	75	153	18	9	1	44	68	26	23	16	.252	.332	.317	.649	98.4	97.2	.325	2.5
1917	143	618	554	66	130	16	8	0	43	46	23	11	0	.235	.293	.292	.586	78.1	80.3	.292	0.7
1918	129	575	519	70	147	13	3	0	29	41	20	12	0	.283	.339	.320	.659	101.2	101.4	.329	2.3
1919	120	526	478	57	126	12	5	0	26	33	21	20	0	.264	.314	.310	.623	75.2	76.9	.302	0.4
1920	117	442	386	48	100	17	6	0	41	42	17	10	4	.259	.336	.334	.671	84.0	81.9	.323	0.8
1921	120	485	412	51	117	18	6	0	35	57	15	13	7	.284	.371	.357	.728	92.8	89.0	.349	1.3
1922	85	292	253	40	67	7	0	0	15	29	18	4	2	.265	.345	.292	.638	69.9	66.6	.312	0.0
1923	27	115	100	9	18	2	0	0	4	7	7	0	0	.180	.241	.200	.441	9.6	14.3	.221	-0.8

Career totals

1,500

6,317

5,652

732

1,490

191

382nd-most career 3B

RBI

451

528

316

195

385th-most career SB

.2636

OBP

.3293

SLG

.3257

OPS

.6550

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
1920-09-28	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	0	8
1915-04-22	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	0	4	0	1	2	0	6
1914-06-08	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	0	0	6
1914-09-30	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	1	6
1916-09-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	6	1	4	2	0	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1910-04-14	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-15	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-16	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-20	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-21	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.