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Fred Merkle played 16 major-league seasons (1907-1926) as a 1B (1,547), OF (46), 2B (3), 3B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 16 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 19 | NY1 | 15 | 47 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 7 | .255 | .547 | 78 |
| 1908 | 20 | NY1 | 38 | 41 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 9 | .268 | .772 | 155 |
| 1909 | 21 | NY1 | 79 | 236 | 15 | 45 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 16 | 46 | .191 | .482 | 55 |
| 1910 | 22 | NY1 | 144 | 506 | 75 | 148 | 4 | 70 | 23 | 44 | 59 | .292 | .793 | 138 |
| 1911 | 23 | NY1 | 149 | 541 | 80 | 153 | 12 | 84 | 49 | 43 | 60 | .283 | .773 | 123 |
| 1912 | 24 | NY1 | 129 | 479 | 82 | 148 | 11 | 84 | 37 | 42 | 70 | .309 | .823 | 132 |
| 1913 | 25 | NY1 | 153 | 563 | 78 | 147 | 3 | 69 | 35 | 41 | 60 | .261 | .691 | 103 |
| 1914 | 26 | NY1 | 146 | 512 | 71 | 132 | 7 | 63 | 23 | 52 | 80 | .258 | .702 | 116 |
| 1915 | 27 | NY1 | 140 | 505 | 52 | 151 | 4 | 62 | 20 | 36 | 39 | .299 | .732 | 129 |
| 1916 | 28 | NY1|BRO | 135 | 470 | 51 | 111 | 7 | 46 | 19 | 40 | 50 | .236 | .644 | 104 |
| 1917 | 29 | BRO|CHN | 148 | 557 | 66 | 147 | 3 | 57 | 13 | 42 | 61 | .264 | .688 | 117 |
| 1918 | 30 | CHN | 129 | 482 | 55 | 143 | 3 | 65 | 21 | 35 | 36 | .297 | .737 | 131 |
| 1919 | 31 | CHN | 133 | 498 | 52 | 133 | 3 | 62 | 20 | 33 | 35 | .267 | .665 | 105 |
| 1920 | 32 | CHN | 92 | 330 | 33 | 94 | 3 | 38 | 3 | 24 | 32 | .285 | .732 | 115 |
| 1925 | 37 | NYA | 7 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | .385 | .890 | 132 |
| 1926 | 38 | NYA | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 1B | 15 | 14 | 122 | 7 | 7 | 4 |
| 1908 | 1B | 11 | 1 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1908 | OF | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1908 | 2B | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1908 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1909 | 1B | 70 | 61 | 625 | 27 | 16 | 29 |
| 1909 | 2B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910 | 1B | 144 | 143 | 1390 | 84 | 29 | 87 |
| 1911 | 1B | 148 | 0 | 1375 | 117 | 22 | 73 |
| 1912 | 1B | 129 | 0 | 1229 | 72 | 27 | 77 |
| 1913 | 1B | 153 | 0 | 1463 | 76 | 22 | 86 |
| 1914 | 1B | 146 | 0 | 1463 | 88 | 16 | 80 |
| 1915 | 1B | 110 | 0 | 1123 | 53 | 13 | 62 |
| 1915 | OF | 30 | 0 | 68 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| 1916 | 1B | 127 | 0 | 1309 | 62 | 21 | 64 |
| 1916 | OF | 4 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917 | 1B | 142 | 0 | 1438 | 67 | 26 | 85 |
| 1917 | OF | 6 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1918 | 1B | 129 | 0 | 1388 | 82 | 15 | 69 |
| 1919 | 1B | 132 | 0 | 1494 | 56 | 23 | 66 |
| 1919 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920 | 1B | 85 | 0 | 906 | 54 | 15 | 52 |
| 1920 | OF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1925 | 1B | 5 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1926 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1912, 1911.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 8 | 19 / 64 | 0 |
| 1912 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 19 | 4 / 64 | 0 |
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.