Fred Merkle

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornDecember 20, 1888 · Watertown, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1907

Final gameSeptember 26, 1926

Seasons16 (1907–1926)

New York Giants 1907–1915; Brooklyn Robins 1916; New York Giants 1916; Brooklyn Robins 1917; Chicago Cubs 1917–1920; New York Yankees 1925–1926

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified batters

133

70.2

545

67.7

498

74.2

47.6

133

63.7

64.5

62.1

RBI

83.1

55.6

.267

33.1

OBP

.315

24.2

SLG

.349

41.9

OPS

.665

37.9

wRC+

100.2

41.9

OPS+

101.0

44.4

wOBA

.317

32.3

sWAR

0.6

26.6

of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 434 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.0

61.4

OPS+

111.0

64.3

sWAR

14.8

90.8

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
1907	15	49	47	0	12	1	0	0	5	1	7	0	0	.255	.271	.277	.547	62.4	70.2	.268	-0.2
1908	38	47	41	6	11	2	1	1	7	4	9	0	0	.268	.333	.439	.772	142.0	142.8	.370	0.2
1909	79	257	236	15	45	9	1	0	20	16	46	8	0	.191	.245	.237	.482	46.9	49.7	.242	-1.5
1910	144	572	506	75	148	35	14	4	70	44	59	23	0	.292	.353	.441	.793	128.7	132.6	.379	2.6
1911	149	604	541	80	153	24	10	12	84	43	60	49	0	.283	.342	.431	.773	113.7	117.7	.365	1.8
1912	129	537	479	82	148	22	6	11	84	42	70	37	0	.309	.374	.449	.823	123.0	124.9	.387	2.3
1913	153	617	563	78	147	30	13	3	69	41	60	35	0	.261	.315	.377	.691	96.0	98.1	.326	0.4
1914	146	572	512	71	132	25	7	7	63	52	80	23	0	.258	.327	.375	.702	111.3	112.4	.338	1.4
1915	140	557	505	52	151	25	3	4	62	36	39	20	15	.299	.348	.384	.732	126.4	126.9	.349	2.6
1916	135	527	470	51	111	20	3	7	46	40	50	19	0	.236	.308	.336	.644	101.9	101.2	.311	0.6
1917	148	616	557	66	147	31	9	3	57	42	61	13	0	.264	.320	.368	.688	104.8	104.8	.328	1.0
1918	129	541	482	55	143	25	5	3	65	35	36	21	0	.297	.349	.388	.737	125.0	124.1	.355	2.2
1919	133	545	498	52	133	20	6	3	62	33	35	20	0	.267	.315	.349	.665	100.2	101.0	.317	0.6
1920	92	367	330	33	94	20	4	3	38	24	32	3	5	.285	.335	.397	.732	107.8	108.0	.344	0.8
1925	7	16	13	4	5	1	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	.385	.429	.462	.890	129.8	128.7	.416	0.1
1926	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,638

6,426

5,782

720

1,580

290

264th-most career 3B

RBI

733

454

645

272

204th-most career SB

.2733

OBP

.3309

SLG

.3834

OPS

.7143

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	TB
1912-05-02	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	4	1	2	0	3	9
1911-09-12	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1912-09-06	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	1	8
1919-07-05	CHC @ PIT Gameday	6	2	4	2	1	0	0	8
1910-08-22	SF @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	1	2	0	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-09-02	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-09-03	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-09-03	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-09-04	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-09-04	LAD @ SF 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.