Alex McCarthy
Pittsburgh Pirates 1910–1914; Chicago Cubs 1915; Pittsburgh Pirates 1915; Chicago Cubs 1916; Pittsburgh Pirates 1916–1917
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .083 | .250 | .333 | -25.4 | -4.5 | .149 | -0.1 |
| 1911 | 50 | 172 | 150 | 18 | 36 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 14 | 24 | 4 | 0 | .240 | .305 | .327 | .632 | 75.2 | 76.4 | .306 | 0.2 |
| 1912 | 111 | 450 | 401 | 53 | 111 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 41 | 30 | 26 | 8 | 0 | .277 | .332 | .334 | .666 | 85.8 | 85.5 | .321 | 0.9 |
| 1913 | 31 | 90 | 74 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .203 | .298 | .270 | .568 | 71.1 | 67.0 | .283 | 0.1 |
| 1914 | 57 | 189 | 173 | 14 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .150 | .192 | .179 | .371 | 8.8 | 13.3 | .185 | -1.3 |
| 1915 | 44 | 140 | 121 | 7 | 29 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 17 | 3 | 5 | .240 | .313 | .306 | .619 | 87.2 | 85.5 | .303 | 0.4 |
| 1916 | 87 | 298 | 253 | 21 | 55 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 26 | 17 | 4 | 0 | .217 | .308 | .261 | .569 | 77.4 | 74.2 | .284 | 0.6 |
| 1917 | 49 | 168 | 151 | 15 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .219 | .276 | .245 | .521 | 55.9 | 58.0 | .257 | -0.2 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-10-06 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 1912-04-20 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1912-05-11 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1911-09-01 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1915-09-25 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-08-15 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-08-15 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-08-16 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-08-17 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910-08-18 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.