MLB / Players

Bill McGee

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 215 lb

BornNovember 16, 1909 · Batchtown, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1935

Final gameSeptember 22, 1942

Seasons8 (1935–1942)

St. Louis Cardinals 1935–1940; New York Giants 1941; St. Louis Cardinals 1941; New York Giants 1942

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

87.2

79.8

86.2

36.2

54.3

SHO

78.7

222

26.6

22.3

6.4

64.9

36.2

218.0

72.3

ERA

3.80

46.8

WHIP

1.459

30.9

K/9

3.22

19.1

FIP

4.16

43.6

FIP-

104.2

23.4

ERA+

105.0

43.6

sWAR

2.5

58.5

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1935	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	75.2	78.2	.305	0.4
1936	7	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	27.7	35.5	.231	-0.5
1937	4	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-4.1	8.0	.185	0.4
1938	47	75	67	4	14	2	2	3	7	.209	.254	.239	.492	26.4	33.1	.235	4.0
1939	43	58	55	2	8	1	2	1	13	.145	.161	.164	.324	-33.5	-14.8	.152	1.8
1940	38	84	73	5	13	3	11	1	17	.178	.189	.219	.408	-4.0	10.3	.188	2.5
1941	26	37	35	0	5	0	3	0	7	.143	.143	.143	.286	-39.1	-20.1	.134	-0.8
1942	31	31	29	1	3	0	2	0	11	.103	.103	.103	.207	-64.6	-39.3	.098	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	3	1	1	2	0	9.0	1.00	.444	2.00	2.91	71.1	409.0	0.4
1936	7	2	1	1	0	0	0	23	14	4	8	3	16.0	7.88	1.688	4.50	5.23	131.1	50.6	-0.5
1937	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	13	4	4	9	1	14.0	2.57	1.214	5.79	3.67	92.1	154.8	0.4
1938	47	25	7	12	5	10	1	216	77	78	104	4	216.0	3.21	1.361	4.33	3.11	78.6	123.4	4.0
1939	43	17	12	5	0	5	4	155	66	59	56	14	156.0	3.81	1.372	3.23	4.39	106.9	107.9	1.8
1940	38	31	16	10	0	11	3	222	92	96	78	13	218.0	3.80	1.459	3.22	4.16	104.2	105.0	2.5
1941	26	17	2	10	0	1	0	134	66	67	43	10	120.0	4.95	1.675	3.23	4.63	124.8	74.9	-0.8
1942	31	8	6	3	1	2	1	95	34	46	40	8	104.0	2.94	1.356	3.46	3.87	116.9	112.6	1.3

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

197

297

271

RBI

.1697

OBP

.1877

SLG

.1919

OPS

.3796

Pitching

G (P)

197

102

SHO

853

SO (P)

340

BB allowed

355

ERA

3.735

WHIP

1.4256

K/9

3.59

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	RBI	TB
1940-09-15	STL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	2	2
1938-05-17	STL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	1	2
1940-08-04	STL @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	1	2
1938-08-27	SF @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	0	2
1938-09-10	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-05-17	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	1	1	0	1	9	0
1938-05-27	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.2	11	2	2	2	8	0
1938-05-09	LAD @ STL Gameday	7.2	13	7	6	3	7	0
1937-05-12	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	6	1
1938-05-03	ATL @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	6	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.