Henry Merchant
Chicago American Giants 1940–1942; Cincinnati Clowns 1943; Cincinnati-Indianapolis Clowns 1944–1947; Indianapolis Clowns 1948
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 9 | 21 | 19 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .250 | .211 | .461 | 46.0 | 39.0 | .233 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 8 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .375 | .308 | .683 | 112.4 | 103.3 | .349 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 6 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .429 | .804 | 142.4 | 146.4 | .386 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 20 | 83 | 69 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .246 | .358 | .333 | .691 | 119.6 | 114.7 | .347 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 20 | 75 | 63 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .238 | .333 | .254 | .587 | 80.2 | 73.3 | .290 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 11 | 46 | 38 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .316 | .395 | .342 | .737 | 119.7 | 117.9 | .369 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 27 | 109 | 94 | 18 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .330 | .287 | .617 | 74.7 | 66.7 | .309 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 26 | 80 | 69 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .174 | .260 | .232 | .492 | 43.0 | 32.3 | .245 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | .000 | 0.00 | 3.73 | 90.3 | — | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 9.3 | 5.79 | 1.714 | 2.89 | 4.87 | 131.1 | 64.2 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 9.00 | 1.500 | 4.50 | 2.55 | 62.8 | 45.1 | -0.1 |
| 1944 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 18.0 | 1.00 | 1.000 | 2.00 | 3.09 | 91.8 | 336.6 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5.3 | 6.75 | 1.688 | 1.69 | 5.93 | 139.8 | 62.8 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | 1.80 | 1.400 | 0.00 | 5.52 | 134.7 | 227.7 | 0.4 |
| 1947 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 18.00 | 5.000 | 0.00 | 7.05 | 143.2 | 27.4 | -0.2 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-07-25 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-05 | CLB @ IC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1947-06-09 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-07-04 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1945-05-06 | IC @ MEM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-08-22 | CLB @ IC Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1941-05-25 | HSL @ CAG Gameday | 5.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| 1944-06-18 | IC @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1945-08-25 | IC @ BBB Gameday | 5.1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1941-06-22 | MEM @ CAG Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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.