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Bats: R · Throws: R · Born 1888-12-20 · Played 1907–1926 · Career WAR 19.4 (bWAR) ·

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BBREF=merklfr01, LAHMAN=merklfr01, MLBAM=118971, RETROSHEET=merkf101

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Batting

Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1907	NY1	NL	15	47	0	12	1	0	0	5	0		1	7	.255	.271	.277	.548	-0.3
1908	NY1	NL	38	41	6	11	2	1	1	7	0		4	9	.268	.333	.439	.772	0.3
1909	NY1	NL	79	236	15	45	9	1	0	20	8		16	46	.191	.245	.237	.482	-1.4
1910	NY1	NL	144	506	75	148	35	14	4	70	23		44	59	.292	.353	.441	.794	3.0
1911	NY1	NL	149	541	80	153	24	10	12	84	49		43	60	.283	.342	.431	.773	3.5
1912	NY1	NL	129	479	82	148	22	6	11	84	37		42	70	.309	.374	.449	.823	2.1
1913	NY1	NL	153	563	78	147	30	13	3	69	35		41	60	.261	.315	.377	.692	0.3
1914	NY1	NL	146	512	71	132	25	7	7	63	23		52	80	.258	.327	.375	.702	2.1
1915	NY1	NL	140	505	52	151	25	3	4	62	20	15	36	39	.299	.348	.384	.732	2.6
1916	NY1	NL	112	401	45	95	19	3	7	44	17		33	46	.237	.308	.352	.660	1.1
1916	BRO	NL	23	69	6	16	1	0	0	2	2		7	4	.232	.312	.246	.558
1917	BRO	NL	2	8	1	1	1	0	0	0	0		0	1	.125	.125	.250	.375	1.0
1917	CHN	NL	146	549	65	146	30	9	3	57	13		42	60	.266	.323	.370	.693
1918	CHN	NL	129	482	55	143	25	5	3	65	21		35	36	.297	.349	.388	.737	3.4
1919	CHN	NL	133	498	52	133	20	6	3	62	20		33	35	.267	.315	.349	.664	0.8
1920	CHN	NL	92	330	33	94	20	4	3	38	3	5	24	32	.285	.335	.397	.732	0.9
1925	NYA	AL	7	13	4	5	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	.385	.429	.462	.891	0.1
1926	NYA	AL	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1
Total			1638	5782	720	1580	290	82	61	733	272	20	454	645	.273	.326	.383	.710	19.4

Fielding

Year	Team	Lg	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP
1907	NY1	NL	1B	15	14	112.0	122	7	7	4
1908	NY1	NL	1B	11	1	42.0	60	1	0	2
1908	NY1	NL	2B	1	1	9.0	2	2	0	1
1908	NY1	NL	3B	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0
1908	NY1	NL	OF	5	1	17.0	3	0	0	0
1909	NY1	NL	1B	70	61	561.0	625	27	16	29
1909	NY1	NL	2B	1	1	9.0	1	3	0	0
1910	NY1	NL	1B	144	143	1277.0	1390	84	29	87
1911	NY1	NL	1B	148			1375	117	22	73
1912	NY1	NL	1B	129			1229	72	27	77
1913	NY1	NL	1B	153			1463	76	22	86
1914	NY1	NL	1B	146			1463	88	16	80
1915	NY1	NL	1B	110			1123	53	13	62
1915	NY1	NL	OF	30			68	5	2	1
1916	NY1	NL	1B	112			1183	58	20	61
1916	BRO	NL	1B	15			126	4	1	3
1916	BRO	NL	OF	4			5	1	0	0
1917	BRO	NL	1B	2			23	1	0	1
1917	CHN	NL	1B	140			1415	66	26	84
1917	CHN	NL	OF	6			15	2	0	1
1918	CHN	NL	1B	129			1388	82	15	69
1919	CHN	NL	1B	132			1494	56	23	66
1919	CHN	NL	2B	1			0	0	0	0
1920	CHN	NL	1B	85			906	54	15	52
1920	CHN	NL	OF	1			0	0	0	0
1925	NYA	AL	1B	5			28	1	0	3
1926	NYA	AL	1B	1			6	0	0	0
Total				1597	222	2031.0	15513	860	254	842

Ejections (5)

Date	As	Reason
1916-07-10	Player	Interference non-call
1918-05-22	Player	Call at 1B (Threw hat)
1918-08-11	Player	Called third strike
1919-06-01	klemb901
1919-08-01	Player	Called third strike

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Ejections (5)