MLB / Players

Max Carey

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 11, 1890 · Terre Haute, IN, USA

MLB debutOctober 3, 1910

Final gameSeptember 29, 1929

Seasons20 (1910–1929)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1910–1925; Brooklyn Robins 1926; Pittsburgh Pirates 1926; Brooklyn Robins 1927–1929

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

144

79.3

623

82.8

538

79.3

63.9

143

65.1

78.1

83.4

11.8

RBI

51.5

89.9

39.1

99.4

32.5

.266

20.1

OBP

.345

SLG

.364

OPS

.709

25.4

wRC+

92.8

31.4

OPS+

90.9

30.2

wOBA

.336

26.6

sWAR

1.0

31.4

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.8

63.3

OPS+

108.8

60.1

sWAR

48.9

98.8

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
1910	2	8	6	2	3	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	0	.500	.625	.833	1.458	307.4	320.1	.658	0.2
1911	129	503	427	77	110	15	10	5	43	44	75	27	0	.258	.337	.375	.712	97.9	98.6	.343	1.4
1912	150	690	587	114	177	23	8	5	66	61	79	45	0	.302	.372	.394	.766	113.6	113.0	.367	2.6
1913	154	692	620	99	172	23	10	5	49	55	67	61	0	.277	.339	.371	.710	107.7	108.0	.338	2.2
1914	156	664	593	76	144	25	17	1	31	59	56	38	0	.243	.313	.347	.661	100.3	101.1	.320	1.4
1915	140	630	564	76	143	26	5	3	27	57	58	36	17	.254	.326	.333	.660	103.3	101.8	.321	1.6
1916	154	679	599	90	158	23	11	7	42	59	58	63	19	.264	.337	.374	.711	118.4	115.7	.340	4.0
1917	155	668	588	82	174	21	12	1	51	58	38	46	0	.296	.369	.378	.746	130.5	125.7	.360	5.0
1918	126	549	468	70	128	14	6	3	48	62	25	58	0	.274	.363	.348	.712	120.4	114.7	.351	3.5
1919	66	275	244	41	75	10	2	0	9	25	24	18	0	.307	.376	.365	.741	126.8	121.5	.358	2.0
1920	130	567	485	74	140	18	4	1	35	59	31	52	10	.289	.369	.348	.718	111.4	106.2	.347	2.9
1921	140	625	521	85	161	34	4	7	56	70	30	37	12	.309	.395	.430	.825	121.5	117.5	.383	3.9
1922	155	732	629	140	207	28	12	10	70	80	26	51	2	.329	.408	.459	.868	125.9	123.9	.401	5.0
1923	153	699	610	120	188	32	19	6	63	73	28	51	8	.308	.388	.452	.841	122.3	120.9	.389	4.5
1924	149	683	599	113	178	30	9	8	55	58	17	49	13	.297	.366	.417	.783	111.9	110.3	.362	3.5
1925	133	620	542	109	186	39	13	5	44	66	19	46	11	.343	.418	.491	.909	129.5	126.7	.413	4.6
1926	113	483	424	64	98	17	6	0	35	38	19	10	0	.231	.294	.300	.594	57.4	58.5	.284	-0.8
1927	144	623	538	70	143	30	10	1	54	64	18	32	0	.266	.345	.364	.709	92.8	90.9	.336	1.0
1928	108	353	296	41	73	11	0	2	19	47	24	18	0	.247	.354	.304	.658	80.7	75.0	.322	0.2
1929	19	27	23	2	7	0	0	0	1	3	2	0	0	.304	.407	.304	.712	91.4	81.7	.349	0.1

Career totals

2,476

67th-most career G

10,770

44th-most career PA

9,363

54th-most career AB

1,545

59th-most career R

2,665

73rd-most career H

419

163rd-most career 2B

159

42nd-most career 3B

RBI

800

1,040

111th-most career BB

695

738

9th-most career SB

.2846

OBP

.3609

452nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3858

OPS

.7467

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
1925-06-20	LAD @ PIT Gameday	6	2	4	1	1	1	4	0	10
1913-08-19	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1922-07-29	PIT @ SF Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	2	2	9
1922-07-06	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	0	9
1914-09-03	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	5	5	1	1	0	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1910-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-21	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1910-04-22	STL @ PIT 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1961 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.