Herm McFarland
Louisville Colonels 1896; Cincinnati Reds 1898; Chicago White Sox 1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; Chicago White Sox 1902; New York Highlanders 1903
Percentile snapshot
1903 season — qualified batters
of 114 qualified 1903 batters (min 421 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896 | 30 | 120 | 110 | 11 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 0 | .191 | .252 | .273 | .525 | 46.4 | 38.2 | .255 | -0.5 |
| 1898 | 19 | 73 | 64 | 10 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .281 | .361 | .391 | .752 | 113.6 | 115.0 | .367 | 0.3 |
| 1901 | 132 | 568 | 473 | 83 | 130 | 21 | 9 | 4 | 59 | 75 | 50 | 33 | 0 | .275 | .384 | .383 | .767 | 118.0 | 115.8 | .370 | 2.6 |
| 1902 | 68 | 312 | 269 | 59 | 83 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 40 | 38 | 21 | 11 | 0 | .309 | .402 | .457 | .859 | 132.6 | 133.3 | .403 | 2.4 |
| 1903 | 103 | 423 | 362 | 41 | 88 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 45 | 46 | 52 | 13 | 0 | .243 | .333 | .378 | .712 | 111.1 | 108.9 | .336 | 1.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-08-04 | BAL @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1902-08-14 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1901-07-06 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1902-09-23 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1902-08-25 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901-04-24 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-25 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-27 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-28 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1901-04-29 | DET @ CWS 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.