Kid Elberfeld

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 158 lb

BornApril 13, 1875 · Pomeroy, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 30, 1898

Final gameSeptember 24, 1914

Seasons14 (1898–1914)

Philadelphia Phillies 1898; Cincinnati Reds 1899; Detroit Tigers 1901–1903; New York Highlanders 1903–1909; Washington Senators 1910–1911; Brooklyn Robins 1914

Percentile snapshot

1911 season — qualified batters

127

26.9

507

23.1

404

19.4

29.6

110

21.3

47.2

RBI

36.1

76.9

80.6

55.6

.272

35.2

OBP

.405

84.3

SLG

.339

OPS

.744

43.5

wRC+

118.4

OPS+

109.8

49.1

wOBA

.376

66.7

sWAR

3.1

73.1

of 109 qualified 1911 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.4

60.4

OPS+

105.9

53.9

sWAR

29.6

96.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1898	14	52	38	1	9	4	0	0	7	5	5	0	.237	.420	.342	.762	128.0	118.6	.393	0.4
1899	41	166	138	23	36	4	2	0	22	15	6	5	.261	.378	.319	.697	99.7	91.7	.352	0.7
1901	121	508	432	76	133	21	11	3	76	57	18	23	.308	.397	.428	.825	125.9	127.7	.391	3.9
1902	130	562	488	70	127	17	6	1	64	55	10	19	.260	.348	.326	.674	90.8	85.9	.328	1.9
1903	125	534	481	78	145	23	8	0	64	33	17	22	.301	.365	.383	.747	123.3	122.1	.351	4.1
1904	122	511	445	55	117	13	5	2	46	37	20	18	.263	.337	.328	.665	110.2	106.5	.323	3.1
1905	111	449	390	48	102	18	2	0	53	23	16	18	.262	.329	.318	.647	97.7	96.3	.318	2.0
1906	99	393	346	59	106	11	5	2	31	30	19	19	.306	.378	.384	.763	139.8	137.2	.371	3.8
1907	120	505	447	61	121	17	6	0	51	36	7	22	.271	.343	.336	.678	109.9	107.5	.337	3.0
1908	19	69	56	11	11	3	0	0	5	6	3	1	.196	.328	.250	.578	96.0	84.9	.303	0.3
1909	106	431	379	47	90	9	5	0	26	28	17	23	.237	.314	.288	.601	90.0	87.5	.302	1.4
1910	127	515	455	53	114	9	2	2	42	35	18	19	.251	.322	.292	.614	97.0	94.8	.308	1.8
1911	127	507	404	58	110	19	4	0	47	65	6	24	.272	.405	.339	.744	118.4	109.8	.376	3.1
1914	30	70	62	7	14	1	0	0	1	2	4	0	.226	.304	.242	.546	64.3	61.5	.277	0.0

Career totals

1,292

5,272

4,561

647

1,235

169

RBI

535

427

166

213

330th-most career SB

.2708

OBP

.3546

SLG

.3390

OPS

.6936

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
1910-04-20	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	7	0	7
1901-07-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1902-08-03	BOS @ DET Gameday	6	1	4	2	0	0	4	0	6
1903-05-12	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	4	1	6
1903-07-29	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	0	2	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-25	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	BAL @ DET 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.