Merle Adkins
Boston Americans 1902; New York Highlanders 1903
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .222 | .444 | 23.1 | 23.6 | .208 | 0.1 |
| 1903 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -108.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 30 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 20.0 | 4.05 | 1.850 | 1.35 | 4.86 | 136.6 | 87.8 | 0.1 |
| 1903 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 7.71 | 2.143 | 0.00 | 5.35 | 173.5 | 39.9 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-06-24 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1902-06-26 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1902-04-19 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-23 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902-04-24 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-06-26 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1902-07-08 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 7.0 | 16 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 1902-06-24 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 3.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1903-09-29 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 4.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1903-09-26 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3.0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 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.