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Bats: L · Throws: R · Born 1874-06-20 · Played 1894–1902 · Career WAR 27.1 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=mercewi01, LAHMAN=mercewi01, MLBAM=118962, RETROSHEET=mercw101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1894	WAS	NL	53	165	29	48	5	2	2	29	9	9	20	.291	.328	.382	.710	0.2
1895	WAS	NL	64	201	26	51	9	1	1	26	7	12	33	.254	.306	.323	.629	-0.5
1896	WAS	NL	49	156	23	38	1	1	1	14	9	9	18	.244	.302	.282	.584	0.1
1897	WAS	NL	50	139	23	44	2	5	0	19	7	6	13	.317	.354	.403	.757	0.9
1898	WAS	NL	80	249	38	80	3	5	2	25	14	18	31	.321	.369	.398	.767	1.3
1899	WAS	NL	108	375	73	112	6	7	1	35	16	32	17	.299	.360	.360	.720	0.1
1900	NY1	NL	76	248	32	73	4	0	0	27	15	26	26	.294	.366	.310	.676	0.9
1901	WS1	AL	51	140	26	42	7	2	0	16	10	23	13	.300	.402	.379	.781	0.8
1902	DET	AL	35	100	8	18	2	0	0	6	1	6	7	.180	.226	.200	.426	-0.4
Total			566	1773	278	506	39	23	7	197	88	141	178	.285	.338	.345	.683	3.4

Pitching

Year	Team	Lg	W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP	WAR
1894	WAS	NL	17	23	50	39	30	0	3	339.1	445	145	9	126	72	3.85	1.683	4.8
1895	WAS	NL	13	23	44	38	32	0	2	313.1	432	154	17	96	85	4.42	1.685	0.7
1896	WAS	NL	25	18	46	45	38	2	0	366.1	456	168	10	117	94	4.13	1.564	3.6
1897	WAS	NL	21	20	47	43	35	3	3	342.0	403	121	5	104	91	3.18	1.482	4.2
1898	WAS	NL	12	18	33	30	24	0	0	233.2	309	125	3	71	52	4.81	1.626	-0.6
1899	WAS	NL	7	14	23	21	21	0	0	186.0	234	95	2	53	28	4.60	1.543	1.4
1900	NY1	NL	13	17	33	29	26	1	0	242.2	303	104	5	58	39	3.86	1.488	3.0
1901	WS1	AL	9	13	24	22	19	1	1	179.2	217	91	8	50	31	4.56	1.486	0.7
1902	DET	AL	15	18	35	33	28	4	1	281.2	282	95	5	80	40	3.04	1.285	5.9
Total			132	164	335	300	253	11	10	2484.2	3081	1098	64	755	532	3.98	1.544	23.7

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1894	WAS	NL	OF	4	32.0	6	1	1	0
1894	WAS	NL	P	50	339.0	15	69	5	1
1895	WAS	NL	2B	1	4.0	1	2	0	0
1895	WAS	NL	3B	3	21.0	4	5	1	0
1895	WAS	NL	OF	6	39.0	7	1	0	0
1895	WAS	NL	P	44	311.0	25	58	12	2
1895	WAS	NL	SS	7	44.0	8	11	12	1
1896	WAS	NL	OF	1	4.0	1	0	0	0
1896	WAS	NL	P	46	366.0	36	89	21	3
1897	WAS	NL	P	47	333.0	24	67	15	4
1898	WAS	NL	2B	1	2.0	0	0	0	0
1898	WAS	NL	3B	5	30.0	6	4	2	0
1898	WAS	NL	OF	19	125.0	33	0	3	0
1898	WAS	NL	P	33	234.0	14	49	10	2
1898	WAS	NL	SS	23	161.0	38	63	14	6
1899	WAS	NL	1B	1	2.0	0	0	1	0
1899	WAS	NL	3B	62	463.0	71	94	30	6
1899	WAS	NL	OF	16	139.0	29	3	6	1
1899	WAS	NL	P	23	186.0	9	59	3	1
1899	WAS	NL	SS	1	2.0	0	0	0	0
1900	NY1	NL	2B	3	24.0	6	10	1	1
1900	NY1	NL	3B	19	159.0	18	51	17	2
1900	NY1	NL	OF	14	130.0	19	3	0	0
1900	NY1	NL	P	33	243.0	14	67	6	3
1900	NY1	NL	SS	7	53.0	18	18	8	5
1901	WS1	AL	1B	7	52.0	60	2	4	7
1901	WS1	AL	3B	1	2.0	1	0	0	0
1901	WS1	AL	OF	16	106.0	14	5	7	2
1901	WS1	AL	P	24	180.0	17	50	4	1
1901	WS1	AL	SS	1	2.0	0	0	0	0
1902	DET	AL	P	35	282.0	13	103	8	2
Total				553	4070.0	507	884	191	50

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