Barney McCosky
Detroit Tigers 1939–1942; Detroit Tigers 1946; Philadelphia Athletics 1946–1948; Philadelphia Athletics 1950; Cincinnati Reds 1951; Cleveland Indians 1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1951; Cleveland Indians 1952–1953
Percentile snapshot
1948 season — qualified batters
of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 147 | 692 | 611 | 120 | 190 | 33 | 14 | 4 | 58 | 70 | 45 | 20 | 4 | .311 | .384 | .430 | .814 | 104.1 | 103.2 | .376 | 2.8 |
| 1940 | 143 | 660 | 589 | 123 | 200 | 39 | 19 | 4 | 57 | 67 | 41 | 13 | 9 | .340 | .408 | .491 | .899 | 126.6 | 124.5 | .405 | 4.6 |
| 1941 | 127 | 565 | 494 | 80 | 160 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 55 | 61 | 33 | 8 | 3 | .324 | .401 | .425 | .827 | 114.0 | 110.8 | .386 | 2.9 |
| 1942 | 154 | 680 | 600 | 75 | 176 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 50 | 68 | 37 | 11 | 5 | .293 | .365 | .412 | .777 | 113.0 | 112.1 | .368 | 2.5 |
| 1946 | 117 | 471 | 399 | 44 | 127 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 60 | 22 | 2 | 2 | .318 | .407 | .409 | .816 | 134.3 | 127.3 | .388 | 3.6 |
| 1947 | 137 | 616 | 546 | 77 | 179 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 52 | 57 | 29 | 1 | 4 | .328 | .395 | .399 | .795 | 123.1 | 119.3 | .379 | 3.2 |
| 1948 | 135 | 605 | 515 | 95 | 168 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 46 | 68 | 22 | 1 | 3 | .326 | .405 | .386 | .791 | 115.2 | 111.4 | .382 | 2.3 |
| 1950 | 66 | 207 | 179 | 19 | 43 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 22 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .323 | .307 | .631 | 63.4 | 62.9 | .305 | -0.5 |
| 1951 | 68 | 154 | 138 | 14 | 37 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .268 | .340 | .377 | .717 | 94.9 | 93.9 | .335 | 0.3 |
| 1952 | 54 | 88 | 80 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .213 | .284 | .325 | .609 | 71.8 | 75.5 | .289 | -0.1 |
| 1953 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .227 | .333 | .561 | 43.5 | 53.3 | .255 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-21 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1940-04-28 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1940-05-30 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1951-05-30 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1947-08-02 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-04-14 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-15 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-17 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-19 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-20 | BAL @ DET 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.