Elmer Sutcliffe

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 170 lb

BornApril 15, 1862 · Wheaton, IL, USA

MLB debutOctober 2, 1884

Final gameOctober 6, 1892

Seasons7 (1884–1892)

Chicago White Stockings 1884–1885; St. Louis Maroons 1885; Detroit Wolverines 1888; Cleveland Spiders 1889; Cleveland Infants 1890; Washington Statesmen 1891; Baltimore Orioles 1892

Percentile snapshot

1890 season — qualified batters

8.1

419

3.4

386

6.8

10.8

127

41.9

24.3

41.2

32.4

RBI

41.9

16.2

64.9

6.1

.329

89.9

OBP

.382

70.9

SLG

.422

73.6

OPS

.804

76.4

wRC+

110.0

56.8

OPS+

114.2

62.2

wOBA

.381

71.6

sWAR

2.3

52.7

of 149 qualified 1890 batters (min 406 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.4

80.3

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
1884	4	17	15	4	3	1	0	0	2	2	4	0	.200	.294	.267	.561	88.8	78.0	.269	0.1
1885	27	99	92	7	14	2	1	0	8	7	15	0	.152	.212	.196	.408	51.3	31.9	.200	-0.1
1888	49	196	191	17	49	5	3	0	23	5	14	6	.257	.276	.314	.590	87.4	87.2	.272	0.5
1889	46	175	161	17	40	3	2	1	21	14	6	5	.248	.309	.311	.619	77.4	72.3	.301	0.3
1890	99	419	386	62	127	14	8	2	60	33	16	10	.329	.382	.422	.804	110.0	114.2	.381	2.3
1891	53	220	201	29	71	8	3	2	33	17	17	8	.353	.409	.453	.862	134.3	146.0	.416	1.7
1892	66	291	276	41	77	10	7	1	27	14	15	12	.279	.316	.377	.693	103.6	109.0	.332	0.6

Career totals

344

1,417

1,322

177

381

RBI

174

.2882

OBP

.3359

SLG

.3707

OPS

.7066

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.