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Benny McCoy

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 9, 1915 · Jenison, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1938

Final gameSeptember 28, 1941

Seasons4 (1938–1941)

Detroit Tigers 1938–1939; Philadelphia Athletics 1940–1941

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

141

64.7

620

76.3

517

63.3

76.3

140

31.7

70.5

64.7

RBI

61.2

92.8

25.9

34.5

20.1

.271

42.4

OBP

.384

74.1

SLG

.368

37.4

OPS

.751

49.6

wRC+

104.7

46.8

OPS+

99.2

wOBA

.360

53.2

sWAR

2.6

64.7

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.8

78.9

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
1938	7	16	15	2	3	1	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.200	.250	.267	.517	20.9	26.3	.244	-0.1
1939	55	227	192	38	58	13	6	1	33	29	26	3	1	.302	.394	.448	.842	111.5	109.9	.388	1.2
1940	134	560	490	56	126	26	5	7	62	65	44	2	2	.257	.345	.373	.719	87.9	86.2	.333	1.2
1941	141	620	517	86	140	12	7	8	61	95	50	3	3	.271	.384	.368	.751	104.7	99.2	.360	2.6

Career totals

337

1,423

1,214

182

327

RBI

156

190

122

.2694

OBP

.3687

SLG

.3814

OPS

.7501

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
1940-09-18	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1941-04-30	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7
1940-05-08	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1939-08-15	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	6	0	6
1939-08-06	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	5	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	DET @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	CLE @ 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.