Marty Kavanagh

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 187 lb

BornJune 13, 1891 · Harrison, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1914

Final gameAugust 8, 1918

Seasons5 (1914–1918)

Detroit Tigers 1914–1915; Cleveland Indians 1916; Detroit Tigers 1916; Cleveland Indians 1917–1918; Detroit Tigers 1918; St. Louis Cardinals 1918

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

128

31.3

500

26.4

439

50.3

109

26.4

57.7

38.7

68.1

RBI

28.8

49.7

48.5

37.4

20.9

.248

22.1

OBP

.318

25.2

SLG

.351

42.9

OPS

.669

32.5

wRC+

95.8

31.3

OPS+

97.7

33.7

wOBA

.329

32.5

sWAR

1.6

47.9

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.0

76.9

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
1914	128	500	439	60	109	21	6	4	35	41	42	16	14	.248	.318	.351	.669	95.8	97.7	.329	1.6
1915	113	386	332	55	98	14	13	4	49	42	44	8	8	.295	.378	.452	.829	140.5	142.9	.402	2.9
1916	77	136	122	10	22	6	1	1	15	11	20	0	0	.180	.254	.270	.524	49.0	53.5	.263	-0.4
1917	14	17	14	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	.000	.176	.000	.176	-31.8	-46.0	.137	-0.2
1918	38	153	126	12	28	6	0	1	23	21	14	2	0	.222	.338	.294	.631	97.2	91.0	.325	0.2

Career totals

370

1,192

1,033

138

257

RBI

122

118

122

.2488

OBP

.3305

SLG

.3621

OPS

.6926

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
1915-06-09	DET @ BOS Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	0	3	1	6
1915-06-27	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	2	1	0	1	2	0	6
1915-07-04	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	2	2	1	0	1	2	0	6
1914-05-09	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	0	3	0	5
1918-06-04	STL @ LAD Gameday	6	1	2	0	0	1	4	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1914-04-14	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-16	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-17	BAL @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-19	CLE @ DET 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.