Danny MacFayden

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJune 10, 1905 · North Truro, MA, USA

MLB debutAugust 25, 1926

Final gameSeptember 13, 1943

Seasons17 (1926–1943)

Boston Red Sox 1926–1932; New York Yankees 1932–1934; Boston Braves 1935; Cincinnati Reds 1935; Boston Bees 1936–1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1940; Washington Senators 1941; Boston Braves 1943

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified pitchers

51.6

75.3

36.6

11.8

68.8

46.2

SHO

221

22.6

37.6

44.1

25.8

32.3

191.7

65.6

ERA

3.90

48.4

WHIP

1.461

32.3

K/9

2.16

2.2

FIP

4.06

53.8

FIP-

110.2

16.1

ERA+

94.6

sWAR

1.3

34.4

of 94 qualified 1939 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.3

39.7

sWAR

24.0

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1926	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	70.3	75.0	.313	0.0
1927	37	57	46	3	13	1	1	1	6	5	14	1	1	.283	.365	.413	.778	102.7	101.9	.365	1.7
1928	35	71	63	5	9	2	1	0	4	7	32	0	0	.143	.229	.206	.435	15.0	15.3	.216	0.3
1929	32	80	74	6	13	2	0	0	2	2	21	0	0	.176	.197	.203	.400	-2.6	4.2	.187	3.2
1930	36	107	92	11	13	4	1	0	8	7	32	0	0	.141	.202	.207	.409	7.7	5.6	.195	3.1
1931	35	90	81	4	10	2	0	0	1	3	28	0	0	.123	.155	.148	.303	-21.0	-18.4	.146	2.3
1932	29	80	74	7	8	4	0	0	5	2	29	0	0	.108	.132	.162	.294	-31.0	-24.0	.136	1.6
1933	25	36	34	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	15	0	0	.029	.057	.029	.087	-79.2	-75.7	.048	-1.3
1934	22	40	39	2	4	1	1	0	4	0	14	0	0	.103	.103	.179	.282	-35.6	-25.7	.124	0.4
1935	35	63	62	2	9	3	0	0	3	0	19	0	0	.145	.145	.194	.339	-16.0	-7.1	.151	-0.9
1936	37	97	83	7	8	1	0	0	0	6	33	0	0	.096	.157	.108	.266	-27.6	-25.3	.138	4.9
1937	32	95	83	7	13	0	0	0	6	4	30	0	0	.157	.195	.157	.352	-1.6	1.2	.173	4.0
1938	29	80	77	2	9	1	0	0	1	1	19	0	0	.117	.128	.130	.258	-36.3	-25.2	.121	2.9
1939	33	74	67	6	12	1	0	0	6	2	19	0	0	.179	.203	.194	.397	1.2	10.4	.188	1.3
1940	35	30	28	2	5	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.179	.207	.179	.385	-2.2	7.3	.185	1.2
1941	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1943	10	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	32.6	45.5	.237	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1926	3	1	0	1	0	1	0	10	7	7	1	0	13.0	4.85	1.308	0.69	4.38	109.9	82.3	0.0
1927	34	16	5	8	2	6	1	176	76	59	42	9	160.3	4.27	1.466	2.36	4.48	108.7	96.6	1.7
1928	33	28	9	15	0	9	0	215	103	78	61	12	195.0	4.75	1.503	2.82	4.51	112.4	84.5	0.3
1929	32	26	10	18	0	14	4	225	89	81	61	8	221.0	3.62	1.385	2.48	4.10	98.6	114.8	3.2
1930	36	33	11	14	2	18	1	293	126	93	76	9	269.3	4.21	1.433	2.54	4.42	98.4	106.7	3.1
1931	35	32	16	12	0	17	2	263	103	79	74	4	230.7	4.02	1.483	2.89	3.96	94.2	104.5	2.3
1932	29	26	8	15	1	15	0	228	97	70	62	14	199.0	4.39	1.497	2.80	4.52	102.0	101.0	1.6
1933	25	6	3	2	0	2	0	120	59	37	28	8	90.3	5.88	1.738	2.79	4.86	121.2	68.2	-1.3
1934	22	11	4	3	0	4	0	110	48	31	41	5	96.0	4.50	1.469	3.84	4.01	96.1	92.7	0.4
1935	35	24	6	15	0	8	1	239	105	47	59	9	187.7	5.04	1.524	2.83	3.85	101.2	75.5	-0.9
1936	37	31	17	13	0	21	2	268	85	66	86	5	266.7	2.87	1.253	2.90	3.44	90.4	132.6	4.9
1937	32	32	14	14	0	16	2	250	80	60	70	5	246.0	2.93	1.260	2.56	3.40	95.3	122.0	4.0
1938	29	29	14	9	0	19	5	208	72	64	58	6	219.7	2.95	1.238	2.38	3.51	102.3	116.2	2.9
1939	33	28	8	14	2	8	0	221	83	59	46	11	191.7	3.90	1.461	2.16	4.06	110.2	94.6	1.3
1940	35	8	5	4	2	0	0	112	36	27	24	5	91.3	3.55	1.522	2.36	3.95	102.9	108.3	1.2
1941	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	8	5	3	1	7.0	10.29	2.429	3.86	5.90	142.5	40.3	-0.4
1943	10	1	2	1	0	0	0	31	14	9	5	1	21.3	5.91	1.875	2.11	4.02	120.8	56.3	-0.5

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

470

1,007

910

129

RBI

309

.1418

OBP

.1796

SLG

.1780

OPS

.3576

Pitching

G (P)

465

332

250th-most career GS

132

360th-most career W

159

127th-most career L

158

204th-most career CG

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

2,706

201st-most career IP

SO (P)

797

BB allowed

872

182nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.961

WHIP

1.4239

K/9

2.65

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	HR	RBI	TB
1935-07-31	LAD @ ATL Gameday	2	1	2	2	0	0	4
1927-05-22	BOS @ BAL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1932-05-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	3
1927-07-28	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1932-09-04	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	3	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1937-04-19	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	2	8
1936-04-24	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	4	7
1930-05-16	NYY @ BOS Gameday	8.0	7	3	3	4	7
1937-05-16	LAD @ ATL Gameday	11.0	11	2	2	2	6
1932-08-07	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	4	4	1	2	6

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.