Tom Daly

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 7, 1866 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 9, 1884

Final gameSeptember 27, 1903

Seasons17 (1884–1903)

Philadelphia Keystones 1884; Chicago White Stockings 1887–1888; Washington Nationals 1889; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1890; Brooklyn Grooms 1891–1895; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1896; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899–1901; Chicago White Sox 1902–1903; Cincinnati Reds 1903

Percentile snapshot

1903 season — qualified batters

123

37.2

508

38.1

457

36.3

38.1

121

35.4

64.6

RBI

59.3

42.5

26.5

.265

34.5

OBP

.323

34.5

SLG

.365

46.9

OPS

.688

41.6

wRC+

93.9

31.9

OPS+

94.1

wOBA

.329

43.4

sWAR

1.5

41.6

of 114 qualified 1903 batters (min 437 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.6

54.6

OPS+

106.0

54.6

sWAR

30.4

96.6

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
1884	2	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-28.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1887	74	278	256	45	53	10	4	2	17	22	25	29	.207	.270	.301	.571	67.7	58.0	.267	0.2
1888	65	230	219	34	42	2	6	0	29	10	26	10	.192	.230	.256	.486	61.9	54.5	.228	0.2
1889	71	289	250	39	75	13	5	1	40	38	28	18	.300	.394	.404	.798	120.0	122.1	.385	2.0
1890	82	328	292	55	71	9	4	5	43	32	43	20	.243	.326	.353	.679	97.9	97.6	.332	1.4
1891	58	223	200	29	50	11	5	2	27	21	34	7	.250	.327	.385	.712	104.3	107.0	.342	1.0
1892	124	515	446	76	114	15	6	4	51	64	62	34	.256	.355	.343	.698	111.6	111.0	.347	2.7
1893	126	546	470	94	136	21	14	8	70	76	65	32	.289	.388	.445	.833	116.3	120.9	.398	3.0
1894	124	582	496	135	168	22	10	8	82	77	42	51	.339	.433	.472	.904	116.1	117.6	.423	3.2
1895	121	525	460	90	129	17	8	2	68	52	52	28	.280	.357	.365	.722	90.4	86.4	.348	1.2
1896	66	261	223	43	63	13	6	3	29	33	25	19	.283	.387	.435	.822	114.7	116.3	.392	1.5
1898	23	88	73	11	24	3	1	0	11	14	5	6	.329	.443	.397	.840	142.4	140.8	.418	0.8
1899	141	587	498	95	156	24	9	5	88	69	34	43	.313	.409	.428	.837	128.1	129.4	.405	4.3
1900	97	400	343	72	107	17	3	4	55	46	18	27	.312	.403	.414	.817	125.2	125.4	.394	2.7
1901	133	576	520	88	164	38	10	3	90	42	58	31	.315	.371	.444	.815	132.7	136.1	.385	4.5
1902	137	559	489	57	110	22	3	1	54	55	39	19	.225	.303	.288	.592	73.9	68.1	.289	0.2
1903	123	508	457	62	121	25	9	1	57	36	40	11	.265	.323	.365	.688	93.9	94.1	.329	1.5

Career totals

1,567

6,503

5,700

1,025

328th-most career R

1,583

262

103

150th-most career 3B

RBI

811

687

396th-most career BB

596

385

83rd-most career SB

.2777

OBP

.3606

458th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3856

OPS

.7462

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	RBI	TB
1901-06-26	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	3	1	4	9
1901-09-23	LAD @ CIN Gameday	6	5	5	2	0	1	7
1903-09-15	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	0	3	0	2	2	7
1903-09-27	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	7
1901-07-13	LAD @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	3	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	ATL @ 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.