Steve Evans

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 17, 1885 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1908

Final gameOctober 3, 1915

Seasons8 (1908–1915)

New York Giants 1908; St. Louis Cardinals 1909–1913; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1914; Baltimore Terrapins 1915; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1915

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

151

74.5

638

556

78.8

95.2

171

93.3

96.4

65.5

74.5

RBI

81.2

80.6

39.4

52.1

.308

82.4

OBP

.392

89.1

SLG

.426

79.4

OPS

.818

86.1

wRC+

143.1

89.1

OPS+

140.4

88.5

wOBA

.393

86.7

sWAR

4.7

92.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.9

87.9

OPS+

125.4

86.2

sWAR

21.1

94.1

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
1908	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	222.7	215.0	.480	0.0
1909	143	590	498	67	129	17	6	2	56	66	54	14	.259	.362	.329	.691	122.0	116.9	.349	2.8
1910	151	627	506	73	122	21	8	2	73	78	63	10	.241	.376	.326	.702	113.9	105.9	.357	2.3
1911	154	625	547	74	161	24	13	5	71	46	52	13	.294	.369	.413	.782	118.6	119.5	.374	2.8
1912	135	559	491	59	139	23	9	6	72	36	51	11	.283	.353	.403	.756	105.7	106.6	.360	1.6
1913	97	272	245	18	61	15	6	1	31	20	28	5	.249	.321	.371	.692	96.9	97.5	.329	0.4
1914	145	580	514	93	179	41	15	12	96	50	49	18	.348	.416	.556	.973	173.4	175.2	.449	6.5
1915	151	638	556	94	171	34	10	4	67	63	56	15	.308	.392	.426	.818	143.1	140.4	.393	4.7

Career totals

978

3,893

3,359

478

963

175

437th-most career 3B

RBI

466

359

353

.2867

490th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3742

244th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4073

OPS

.7815

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	BB	TB
1911-06-23	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	0	8
1911-04-25	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	8
1911-07-12	STL @ ATL Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	1	0	7
1910-08-30	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	4	4	2	0	0	0	6
1911-09-04	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-04-14	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-16	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-17	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-18	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-20	SF @ LAD 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.