Eric McNair

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 160 lb

BornApril 12, 1909 · Meridian, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1929

Final gameSeptember 19, 1942

Seasons14 (1929–1942)

Philadelphia Athletics 1929–1935; Boston Red Sox 1936–1938; Chicago White Sox 1939–1940; Detroit Tigers 1941–1942; Philadelphia Athletics 1942

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified batters

129

36.8

528

34.5

479

39.1

26.4

155

56.3

20.7

36.8

39.1

RBI

63.2

33.3

36.8

90.8

6.9

.324

79.3

OBP

.375

50.6

SLG

.426

OPS

.800

44.8

wRC+

104.7

36.8

OPS+

104.9

39.1

wOBA

.368

41.4

sWAR

2.2

43.7

of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.9

8.3

OPS+

80.8

10.5

sWAR

5.9

81.2

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
1929	4	8	8	2	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	.625	1.125	190.8	187.4	.508	0.1
1930	78	250	237	27	63	12	2	0	34	9	19	5	2	.266	.296	.333	.629	57.2	58.6	.287	-0.4
1931	79	299	280	41	76	10	1	5	33	11	19	1	4	.271	.306	.368	.674	71.1	74.0	.310	0.0
1932	135	591	554	87	158	47	3	18	95	28	29	8	4	.285	.323	.478	.801	99.2	103.6	.357	2.4
1933	89	330	310	57	81	15	4	7	48	15	32	2	1	.261	.302	.403	.705	80.5	84.5	.322	0.5
1934	151	643	599	80	168	20	4	17	82	35	42	7	8	.280	.321	.412	.734	86.4	90.0	.336	1.7
1935	137	573	526	55	142	22	2	4	57	35	33	3	7	.270	.319	.342	.661	68.1	70.1	.310	0.1
1936	128	536	494	68	141	36	2	4	74	27	34	3	3	.285	.329	.391	.720	71.6	74.0	.331	0.2
1937	126	493	455	60	133	29	4	12	76	30	33	10	7	.292	.340	.453	.793	93.1	96.3	.357	1.4
1938	46	100	96	9	15	1	1	0	7	3	6	0	1	.156	.182	.188	.369	-18.2	-8.7	.174	-1.1
1939	129	528	479	62	155	18	5	7	82	38	41	17	9	.324	.375	.426	.800	104.7	104.9	.368	2.2
1940	66	269	251	26	57	13	1	7	31	12	26	1	7	.227	.265	.371	.636	58.0	63.7	.284	-0.4
1941	23	64	59	5	11	1	0	0	3	4	4	0	0	.186	.250	.203	.453	10.3	16.7	.224	-0.5
1942	60	185	171	13	36	4	0	1	8	14	10	1	1	.211	.270	.251	.522	40.2	45.0	.256	-0.5

Career totals

1,251

4,869

4,519

592

1,240

229

RBI

633

261

328

.2744

OBP

.3176

SLG

.3923

OPS

.7099

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
1932-09-02	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1932-05-05	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	5	0	8
1936-04-30	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	2	1	8
1932-09-22	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	1	0	8
1934-09-17	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	6	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-04-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-21	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-23	MIN @ ATH 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.