Bid McPhee

1882–1899 · 18 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1859

Hall of Fame 2000

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1882	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	78	322	311	43	71	8	7	1	31	11	0	0	.228	.255	.309	.563	0.4
1883	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	96	385	367	61	90	10	10	2	42	18	0	0	.245	.281	.343	.624	0.9
1884	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	112	483	450	107	125	8	7	5	64	27	0	0	.278	.327	.360	.687	4.9
1885	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	110	457	431	78	114	12	4	0	46	19	0	0	.265	.306	.311	.617	2.1
1886	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	140	624	560	139	150	23	12	8	70	59	0	40	.268	.343	.395	.738	6.7
1887	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	129	600	540	137	156	20	19	2	87	55	30	95	.289	.360	.407	.767	5.5
1888	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	111	506	458	88	110	12	10	4	51	43	32	54	.240	.312	.336	.648	4.8
1889	Cincinnati Red Stockings	OTH	135	604	540	109	145	25	7	5	57	60	29	63	.269	.346	.369	.715	4.2
1890	Cincinnati Reds	NL	132	616	528	125	135	16	22	3	39	82	26	55	.256	.362	.386	.748	4.9
1891	Cincinnati Reds	NL	138	638	562	107	144	14	16	6	38	74	35	33	.256	.345	.370	.715	4.7
1892	Cincinnati Reds	NL	144	664	573	111	157	19	12	4	60	84	48	44	.274	.373	.370	.743	7.1
1893	Cincinnati Reds	NL	127	589	491	101	138	17	11	3	68	94	20	25	.281	.401	.379	.779	4.1
1894	Cincinnati Reds	NL	128	585	483	113	151	21	10	5	93	91	23	33	.313	.427	.429	.855	4.0
1895	Cincinnati Reds	NL	115	520	432	107	129	24	12	1	75	73	30	30	.299	.409	.417	.826	3.5
1896	Cincinnati Reds	NL	117	502	433	81	132	18	7	1	87	51	18	48	.305	.391	.386	.776	2.9
1897	Cincinnati Reds	NL	81	337	282	45	85	13	7	1	39	35	19	9	.301	.386	.408	.794	2.1
1898	Cincinnati Reds	NL	133	565	486	72	121	26	9	1	60	66	34	21	.249	.341	.346	.687	1.3
1899	Cincinnati Reds	NL	112	432	377	60	105	17	7	1	65	40	33	18	.279	.358	.369	.727	1.5
Subtotal	American & National Leagues · 10 seasons		1227	5448	4647	922	1297	185	113	26	624	690	286	316	.279	.379	.384	.763	36.3
Subtotal	Other leagues · 8 seasons		911	3981	3657	762	961	118	76	27	448	292	91	252	.263	.323	.359	.682	29.4
Career	18 seasons		2138	9429	8304	1684	2258	303	189	53	1072	982	377	568	.272	.355	.373	.728	65.6

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

Not every award existed yet. This database has Most Valuable Player from 1911, Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: OTH (Other leagues), NL (National League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.