Ed McFarland

Edward William McFarland

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: August 3, 1874 in Cleveland, OH (All Transactions)
Debut: July 7, 1893
Teams (by GP): Phillies/WhiteSox/Browns/RedSox/Spiders 1893-1908

Final Game: June 26, 1908
Died: November 28, 1959 in Cleveland, OH
Buried: Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
About biographical information

View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

Our primary support comes from users like you. Sponsor this page for $10. Your message will replace this ad.

Standard Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1893	CLV	NL	18	OF	5				4	4	0	0	0	1.000		0.80	.915		2.18	0-5-0
1893	CLV	NL	18	3B	2				5	0	4	1	0	.800		2.00	.892		3.80
1893	CLV	NL	18	C	1				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			4.80		1		0	0
1896	STL	NL	21	C	80				409	276	117	16	6	.961		4.91	.943		4.59		19		182	132	42%	37%
1896	STL	NL	21	OF	2				0	0	0	0	0			0.00			2.15	0-0-2
1897	TOT	NL	22	C	60				278	197	69	12	4	.957		4.43	.948		4.73		19		120	65	35%	37%
1897	STL	NL	22	C	23				115	80	31	4	3	.965		4.83	.948		4.73		7		61	30	33%	37%
1897	STL	NL	22	1B	3				29	21	5	3	0	.897		8.67	.980		10.23
1897	STL	NL	22	OF	3				7	6	0	1	0	.857		2.00	.936		2.10	3-0-0
1897	STL	NL	22	2B	1				9	4	3	2	0	.778		7.00	.936		5.60
1897	PHI	NL	22	C	37				163	117	38	8	1	.951		4.19	.948		4.73		12		59	35	37%	37%
1898	PHI	NL	23	C	121				579	420	136	23	7	.960		4.60	.953		4.82		23		119	107	47%	44%
1899	PHI	NL	24	C	94				444	305	125	14	14	.968		4.57	.952		4.59		32		124	111	47%	44%
1900	PHI	NL	25	C	93				431	278	137	16	9	.963		4.46	.949		4.98		25		171	120	41%	45%
1900	PHI	NL	25	3B	1				2	2	0	0	0	1.000		2.00	.895		3.80
1901	PHI	NL	26	C	74				431	316	102	13	2	.970		5.65	.971		6.20		16		90	81	47%	44%
1902	CHW	AL	27	C	69				365	282	71	12	7	.967		5.12	.957		4.90		13		59	54	48%	44%
1902	CHW	AL	27	1B	1				9	9	0	0	0	1.000		9.00	.980		10.90
1903	CHW	AL	28	C	56				315	240	65	10	7	.968		5.45	.971		6.07		7		54	48	47%	44%
1903	CHW	AL	28	1B	1				4	4	0	0	0	1.000		4.00	.980		10.80
1904	CHW	AL	29	C	49				240	195	39	6	2	.975		4.78	.969		6.15		8		35	25	42%	44%
1905	CHW	AL	30	C	70				443	343	88	12	8	.973		6.16	.971		6.40		6		57	57	50%	45%
1906	CHW	AL	31	C	7				37	32	4	1	0	.973		5.14	.961		5.99		1		5	3	38%	44%
1907	CHW	AL	32	C	43				246	192	47	7	4	.972		5.56	.968		6.11		6		38	33	46%	44%
1908	BOS	AL	33	C	13				89	63	24	2	3	.978		6.69	.969		6.28		0		14	15	52%	45%
	14 Seasons			C	830				4307	3139	1024	144	73	.967		5.02	.959		5.31		176		1068	851	44%	43%
	3 Seasons			OF	10				11	10	0	1	0	.909		1.00	.928		2.15	3-5-2
	3 Seasons			1B	5				42	34	5	3	0	.929		7.80	.980		10.48
	2 Seasons			3B	3				7	2	4	1	0	.857		2.00	.893		3.80
	1 Season			2B	1				9	4	3	2	0	.778		7.00	.936		5.60
	14 Seasons			TOT	849				4376	3189	1036	151	73	.965		4.98	.959		5.30	3-5-2	176		1068	851	44%	43%
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	Batting	C	1B	2B	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF
1893	CLV	NL	18	8	8	1	0	0	2	0	5	0	5
1896	STL	NL	21	83	83	80	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
1897	PHI	NL	22	38	38	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1897	STL	NL	22	31	31	23	3	1	0	3	0	0	3
1898	PHI	NL	23	121	121	121	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1899	PHI	NL	24	96	96	94	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1900	PHI	NL	25	94	94	93	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
1901	PHI	NL	26	74	74	74	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1902	CHW	AL	27	75	75	69	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903	CHW	AL	28	61	61	56	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1904	CHW	AL	29	50	50	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1905	CHW	AL	30	80	80	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1906	CHW	AL	31	12	12	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907	CHW	AL	32	52	52	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908	BOS	AL	33	19	19	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	14 Seasons			894	894	830	5	1	3	3	5	2	10

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as C s c a p y 1896 NL 80 (3rd) 1898 NL 121 (2nd) 1899 NL 94 (3rd) 1900 NL 93 (1st) 1901 NL 74 (5th)	Putouts as C s c a p y 1896 NL 276 (4th) 1898 NL 420 (4th) 1899 NL 305 (4th) 1900 NL 278 (4th) 1902 AL 282 (5th)	Assists as C s c a p y 1896 NL 117 (1st) 1898 NL 136 (2nd) 1899 NL 125 (3rd) 1900 NL 137 (1st) 1901 NL 102 (4th) Career 1,024 (42nd)	Errors Committed as C s c a p y 1898 NL 23 (3rd) Career 144 (84th)
Passed Balls s c a p y 1896 NL 19 (4th) 1897 NL 19 (5th) 1898 NL 23 (3rd) 1899 NL 32 (1st) 1900 NL 25 (3rd) 1901 NL 16 (3rd) 1902 AL 13 (3rd) Career 176 (55th)	Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y 1896 NL 182 (2nd) 1898 NL 119 (4th) 1900 NL 171 (1st) 1901 NL 90 (5th) Career 1,068 (26th)	Caught Stealing as C s c a p y 1896 NL 132 (1st) 1898 NL 107 (1st) 1899 NL 111 (2nd) 1900 NL 120 (1st) 1901 NL 81 (4th) Career 851 (20th)	Caught Stealing %† s c a p y 1905 AL 50.0 (3rd)
Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y 1896 NL 4.91 (2nd) 1901 NL 5.65 (4th) 1902 AL 5.12 (4th)	Fielding % as C s c a p y 1896 NL .961 (3rd) 1899 NL .968 (4th) 1900 NL .963 (1st) 1901 NL .970 (3rd) 1902 AL .967 (2nd)	Youngest s c a p y 1893 NL born 1874-08-03 (1st)

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball Library Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet The Baseball Cube The Baseball Page WhatIfSports: Ed McFarland

Viewed 4,740 times through May 30, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Edward Ed eddie eddy Edward ep William McFarland

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Automatic Player Linking / Statistical Sharing Tool / Basic Player Linking / Data Coverage

See Front Page for time of last update

Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

Play Index Loading Photos from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.

A Sports Reference Site: About Baseball Reference | Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data

Part of the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.