MLB / Players

Dave McDonald

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb
BornMay 20, 1943 · New Albany, IN, USA
MLB debutSeptember 15, 1969
Final gameSeptember 26, 1971
Seasons2 (1969–1971)

New York Yankees 1969; Montreal Expos 1971

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
-0.6
12.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1969925230510022501.217.280.261.54156.756.0.263-0.1
197124453934201441400.103.178.231.4094.914.8.194-0.5

Career totals

G
33
PA
70
AB
62
R
3
H
9
2B
3
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
6
BB
6
SO
19
SB
0
BA
.1452
OBP
.2143
SLG
.2419
OPS
.4562

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1971-07-02PHI @ WSH Gameday312001205
1971-09-21PHI @ WSH Gameday212200004
1969-09-19NYY @ BAL Gameday402100103
1969-09-22NYY @ BOS Gameday301000101
1969-09-16DET @ NYY Gameday601000001

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.