MLB / Players

Whit Merrifield

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 24, 1989 · Florence, SC, USA

MLB debutMay 18, 2016

Final gameSeptember 30, 2024

Seasons9 (2016–2024)

Kansas City Royals 2016–2022; Toronto Blue Jays 2022–2023; Atlanta Braves 2024; Philadelphia Phillies 2024

Percentile snapshot

2023 season — qualified batters

145

43.6

592

41.4

547

49.6

24.8

149

60.9

36.8

11.3

RBI

33.1

18.8

101

74.4

87.2

1.5

.272

69.9

OBP

.318

30.8

SLG

.382

12.8

OPS

.700

12.8

wRC+

93.5

19.5

OPS+

94.9

21.1

wOBA

.305

11.3

sWAR

1.3

of 134 qualified 2023 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.1

41.9

OPS+

100.3

42.4

sWAR

16.1

91.6

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2016	81	332	311	44	88	22	3	2	29	19	72	8	3	.283	.323	.392	.716	91.6	92.2	.311	0.8
2017	145	630	587	80	169	32	6	19	78	29	88	34	8	.288	.324	.460	.784	105.0	105.6	.334	2.7
2018	158	707	632	88	192	43	3	12	60	61	114	45	10	.304	.367	.438	.806	122.1	120.0	.351	4.3
2019	162	735	681	105	206	41	10	16	74	45	126	20	10	.302	.348	.463	.811	110.1	110.7	.341	3.1
2020	60	265	248	38	70	12	0	9	30	12	33	12	3	.282	.325	.440	.764	103.8	104.3	.330	0.9
2021	162	720	664	97	184	42	3	10	74	40	103	40	4	.277	.317	.395	.711	90.2	91.9	.307	1.8
2022	139	550	504	70	126	28	1	11	58	38	85	16	5	.250	.298	.375	.673	87.4	89.0	.297	0.8
2023	145	592	547	66	149	27	0	11	67	36	101	26	10	.272	.318	.382	.700	93.5	94.9	.305	1.3
2024	95	335	293	44	65	9	3	4	15	35	52	17	3	.222	.311	.314	.625	80.3	76.5	.287	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2022	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	1	1.0	18.00	2.000	0.00	19.05	490.2	21.6	0.8

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

1,147

4,866

4,467

632

1,249

256

RBI

485

315

774

218

316th-most career SB

.2796

OBP

.3283

SLG

.4130

OPS

.7413

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

18.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

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	TB
2019-05-07	KC @ HOU Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	5	9
2019-06-18	KC @ SEA Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	6	9
2017-05-29	DET @ KC Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	2	9
2017-08-13	KC @ CWS Gameday	6	1	3	0	1	1	5	8
2022-09-22	TOR @ TB Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2022-08-26	LAA @ TOR Gameday	1.0	2	2	2	0	0	1

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

3× All-Star

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