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Kid Elberfeld
Norman Arthur Elberfeld (The Tabasco Kid)

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 5' 7", Weight 158 lb.

Debut May 30, 1898
Final Game September 24, 1914
Born April 13, 1875 in Pomeroy, OH
Died January 13, 1944 in Chattanooga, TN

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Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1898 23 PHI NL  14   38    1    9   4  0   0    7   0      5      .237  .420  .342  122   13   2           7    
 1899 24 CIN NL  41  138   23   36   4  2   0   22   5     15      .261  .378  .319   90   44   2          11    
 1901 26 DET AL 121  432   76  133  21 11   3   76  23     57      .308  .397  .428  124  185  12           7    
 1902 27 DET AL 130  488   70  127  17  6   1   64  19     55      .260  .348  .326   84  159   8          11    
 1903 28 TOT AL 125  481   78  145  23  8   0   64  22     33      .301  .365  .383  121  184   5          15    
         DET AL  35  132   29   45   5  3   0   19   6     11      .341  .412  .424  156   56   1           5    
         NYY AL  90  349   49  100  18  5   0   45  16     22      .287  .346  .367  109  128   4          10    
 1904 29 NYY AL 122  445   55  117  13  5   2   46  18     37      .263  .337  .328  106  146  16          13    
 1905 30 NYY AL 111  390   48  102  18  2   0   53  18     23      .262  .329  .318   96  124  20          16    
 1906 31 NYY AL  99  346   59  106  11  5   2   31  19     30      .306  .378  .384  129  133   7          10    
 1907 32 NYY AL 120  447   61  121  17  6   0   51  22     36      .271  .343  .336  109  150   9          13    
 1908 33 NYY AL  19   56   11   11   3  0   0    5   1      6      .196  .328  .250   88   14   2           5    
 1909 34 NYY AL 106  379   47   90   9  5   0   26  23     28      .237  .314  .288   89  109  10          14    
 1910 35 WSH AL 127  455   53  114   9  2   2   42  19     35      .251  .322  .292   97  133  12          13    
 1911 36 WSH AL 127  404   58  110  19  4   0   47  24     65      .272  .405  .339  110  137  13          25    
 1914 39 BRO NL  30   62    7   14   1  0   0    1   0      2   4  .226  .304  .242   62   15   1           5    
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 14 Seasons    1292 4561  647 1235 169 56  10  535 213  0 427   4  .271  .355  .339  105 1546 119   0   0 165   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        572   81  155  21  7   1   67  27  0  54   1  .271  .355  .339  105  194  15   0   0  21   0
 Career High    130  488   78  145  23 11   3   76  24  0  65   4  .308  .405  .428  129  185  20   0   0  25   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
Special Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1898 23 PHI NL   52   31    4   3.4    88| .237  .273| .420  .337| .342  .350| .762  .687| 122  .426   2.4   0.2     
 1899 24 CIN NL  166  104   15   3.7   101| .261  .292| .378  .355| .319  .381| .697  .736|  90  .434  -0.5  -0.1     
 1901 26 DET AL  508  311   72   6.0   101| .308  .290| .397  .347| .428  .390| .825  .737| 124  .649  16.8   1.7     
 1902 27 DET AL  562  369   53   3.8   102| .260  .290| .348  .348| .326  .391| .674  .739|  84  .448  -9.2  -0.9     
 1903 28 TOT AL  534  341   64   5.0    85| .301  .267| .365  .316| .383  .361| .748  .677| 121  .646  14.5   1.5     
         DET AL  149   88   22   6.6    79| .341  .258| .412  .307| .424  .350| .836  .657| 156  .755   9.6   1.0     
         NYY AL  385  253   42   4.4    87| .287  .270| .346  .320| .367  .365| .713  .685| 109  .593   4.9   0.5     
 1904 29 NYY AL  511  344   47   3.6    77| .263  .257| .337  .309| .328  .337| .665  .647| 106  .562   5.0   0.6     
 1905 30 NYY AL  449  308   38   3.3    80| .262  .260| .329  .321| .318  .339| .647  .659|  96  .524  -0.3   0.0     
 1906 31 NYY AL  393  247   48   5.2    82| .306  .267| .378  .324| .384  .342| .762  .666| 129  .703  13.5   1.6     
 1907 32 NYY AL  505  335   49   3.9    77| .271  .263| .343  .319| .336  .329| .679  .648| 109  .602   6.5   0.8     
 1908 33 NYY AL   69   47    4   2.3    69| .196  .247| .328  .304| .250  .314| .578  .618|  88  .388   0.1   0.0     
 1909 34 NYY AL  431  299   32   2.9    74| .237  .254| .314  .314| .288  .322| .602  .636|  89  .469  -3.9  -0.5     
 1910 35 WSH AL  515  353   40   3.0    71| .251  .244| .322  .310| .292  .316| .614  .625|  97  .478  -0.5  -0.1     
 1911 36 WSH AL  507  307   51   4.4    94| .272  .279| .405  .345| .339  .366| .744  .711| 110  .533  12.3   1.3     
 1914 39 BRO NL   70   49    4   2.2    86| .226  .261| .304  .329| .242  .349| .546  .679|  62  .297  -2.8  -0.3     
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 14 Seasons     5272 3445  521   4.0    85| .271  .268| .355  .327| .339  .350| .694  .677| 105  .555  53.8   5.8     

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1898 23 PHI NL 3B 14 13 18 8 1 .795 .901 2.21 3.42 1899 24 CIN NL SS 24 48 67 16 6 .878 .910 4.79 5.53 3B 18 26 41 9 3 .882 .903 3.72 3.52 1901 26 DET AL SS 121 332 411 76 62 .907 .898 6.14 5.27 1902 27 DET AL SS 130 326 459 67 63 .921 .928 6.04 5.68 1903 28 TOT AL SS 124 295 410 62 51 .919 .913 5.69 5.21 DET AL SS 34 73 119 14 11 .932 .913 5.65 5.21 3B 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 .909 1.00 3.10 NYY AL SS 90 222 291 48 40 .914 .913 5.70 5.21 1904 29 NYY AL SS 122 237 432 48 44 .933 .934 5.48 5.23 1905 30 NYY AL SS 108 244 317 57 35 .908 .931 5.19 5.20 1906 31 NYY AL SS 98 200 317 42 18 .925 .934 5.28 5.41 1907 32 NYY AL SS 118 295 400 52 31 .930 .935 5.89 5.44 1908 33 NYY AL SS 17 36 51 8 2 .916 .927 5.12 5.42 1909 34 NYY AL SS 61 134 178 19 24 .943 .925 5.11 5.15 3B 44 62 91 7 6 .956 .931 3.48 3.33 1910 35 WSH AL 3B 113 139 223 22 15 .943 .931 3.20 3.38 2B 10 21 17 3 1 .927 .945 3.80 4.91 SS 3 6 5 4 1 .733 .924 3.67 5.20 1911 36 WSH AL 2B 68 146 186 15 23 .957 .949 4.88 4.94 3B 52 87 116 16 11 .927 .929 3.90 3.26 1914 39 BRO NL SS 18 31 33 7 6 .901 .925 3.56 5.08 2B 1 2 2 0 0 1.000 .952 4.00 4.90
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1910 35 WSH AL 2B 10 21 17 3 1 .927 .945 3.80 4.91 1911 36 WSH AL 2B 68 146 186 15 23 .957 .949 4.88 4.94 1914 39 BRO NL 2B 1 2 2 0 0 1.000 .952 4.00 4.90 1898 23 PHI NL 3B 14 13 18 8 1 .795 .901 2.21 3.42 1899 24 CIN NL 3B 18 26 41 9 3 .882 .903 3.72 3.52 1903 28 DET AL 3B 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 .909 1.00 3.10 1909 34 NYY AL 3B 44 62 91 7 6 .956 .931 3.48 3.33 1910 35 WSH AL 3B 113 139 223 22 15 .943 .931 3.20 3.38 1911 36 WSH AL 3B 52 87 116 16 11 .927 .929 3.90 3.26 1899 24 CIN NL SS 24 48 67 16 6 .878 .910 4.79 5.53 1901 26 DET AL SS 121 332 411 76 62 .907 .898 6.14 5.27 1902 27 DET AL SS 130 326 459 67 63 .921 .928 6.04 5.68 1903 28 TOT AL SS 124 295 410 62 51 .919 .913 5.69 5.21 DET AL SS 34 73 119 14 11 .932 .913 5.65 5.21 NYY AL SS 90 222 291 48 40 .914 .913 5.70 5.21 1904 29 NYY AL SS 122 237 432 48 44 .933 .934 5.48 5.23 1905 30 NYY AL SS 108 244 317 57 35 .908 .931 5.19 5.20 1906 31 NYY AL SS 98 200 317 42 18 .925 .934 5.28 5.41 1907 32 NYY AL SS 118 295 400 52 31 .930 .935 5.89 5.44 1908 33 NYY AL SS 17 36 51 8 2 .916 .927 5.12 5.42 1909 34 NYY AL SS 61 134 178 19 24 .943 .925 5.11 5.15 1910 35 WSH AL SS 3 6 5 4 1 .733 .924 3.67 5.20 1914 39 BRO NL SS 18 31 33 7 6 .901 .925 3.56 5.08
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Position Total SS 944 2184 3080 458 343 .920 .924 5.58 5.34 3B 242 328 489 62 36 .929 .927 3.38 3.36 2B 79 169 205 18 24 .954 .949 4.73 4.94 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Overall Total 1265 2681 3774 538 403 .923 .925 5.10 4.93
An Important note about our fielding stats

Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

Batting Average
1903 AL-.301-10
1906 AL-.306-9

On-base %
1901 AL-.397-6
1903 AL-.365-10
1906 AL-.378-3
1911 AL-.405-10

OPS
1901 AL-.825-9
1906 AL-.763-6

Bases on Balls
1901 AL-57-7
1902 AL-55-10
1911 AL-65-7

Offensive Win%
1901 AL-.649-10
1906 AL-.703-6

Hit By Pitch
1902 AL-11-2
1903 AL-15-1
1904 AL-13-3
1905 AL-16-2
1906 AL-10-3
1907 AL-13-3
1909 AL-14-4
1910 AL-13-5
1911 AL-25-1
Car-165-13

Oldest Player
1911 AL-36-9
1914 NL-39-3

         

Gray Ink: Batting - 14 (1189) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 16.9 (839) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 5.0 (1451) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
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Transactions 

September 8, 1897: Purchased by the Philadelphia Phillies from the Richmond (Atlantic).

July 12, 1898: Sent from the Philadelphia Phillies to the Detroit (Western) in an unknown transaction. (Date given is approximate. Exact date is uncertain.)

August, 1899: Sent to the Cincinnati Reds by the Detroit (Western) as part of a conditional deal.

January 13, 1900: Returned by the Cincinnati Reds to the Detroit (American) as part of a conditional deal.

June 10, 1903: Traded by the Detroit Tigers to the New York Highlanders for Herman Long and Ernie Courtney.

December 14, 1909: Purchased by the Washington Senators from the New York Highlanders for $5,000.

February 14, 1914: Signed as a Free Agent with the Brooklyn Robins.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
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