Archie McKain
Boston Red Sox 1937–1938; Detroit Tigers 1939–1941; St. Louis Browns 1941; St. Louis Browns 1943
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 38 | 53 | 49 | 5 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .265 | .308 | .367 | .675 | 64.1 | 67.8 | .309 | 1.7 |
| 1938 | 37 | 36 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .065 | .147 | .097 | .244 | -43.1 | -38.7 | .132 | 1.2 |
| 1939 | 32 | 49 | 41 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .220 | .347 | .463 | .810 | 99.6 | 100.9 | .369 | 3.3 |
| 1940 | 27 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .333 | .143 | .476 | 39.7 | 24.3 | .267 | 1.5 |
| 1941 | 23 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .071 | .000 | .071 | -98.1 | -80.5 | .054 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 36 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 152 | 71 | 64 | 66 | 7 | 137.0 | 4.66 | 1.577 | 4.34 | 4.23 | 89.9 | 100.8 | 1.7 |
| 1938 | 37 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 119 | 50 | 44 | 27 | 6 | 99.7 | 4.52 | 1.635 | 2.44 | 4.74 | 95.9 | 109.5 | 1.2 |
| 1939 | 32 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 120 | 53 | 54 | 49 | 6 | 129.7 | 3.68 | 1.342 | 3.40 | 4.23 | 87.6 | 131.3 | 3.3 |
| 1940 | 27 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 16 | 25 | 24 | 2 | 51.0 | 2.82 | 1.431 | 4.24 | 3.96 | 84.9 | 165.4 | 1.5 |
| 1941 | 23 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 33 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 53.0 | 5.60 | 1.679 | 2.72 | 4.29 | 97.1 | 79.2 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 16.0 | 3.94 | 1.375 | 3.38 | 2.72 | 81.5 | 84.9 | 0.0 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-08-25 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1937-07-23 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-05-14 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1939-09-15 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1937-07-11 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-09-06 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 1937-08-25 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 7.2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1937-07-11 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1937-09-24 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 8.1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1938-06-24 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 6.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
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.