MLB / Players

Frank McGowan

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 8, 1901 · Branford, CT, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1922

Final gameMay 13, 1937

Seasons5 (1922–1937)

Philadelphia Athletics 1922–1923; St. Louis Browns 1928–1929; Boston Bees 1937

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

125

524

51.8

441

48.8

38.4

112

43.9

57.9

19.5

RBI

36.6

26.8

26.2

.254

11.6

OBP

.346

SLG

.354

18.9

OPS

.700

18.9

wRC+

80.1

20.7

OPS+

77.7

20.7

wOBA

.331

21.3

sWAR

0.1

17.7

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.5

59.1

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
1922	99	358	300	36	69	10	5	1	20	40	46	6	5	.230	.323	.307	.629	63.3	61.7	.305	-0.6
1923	95	330	287	41	73	9	1	1	19	36	25	4	3	.254	.340	.303	.643	71.0	68.3	.316	-0.4
1928	47	200	168	35	61	13	4	2	18	16	15	2	1	.363	.425	.524	.949	145.4	144.0	.432	1.6
1929	125	524	441	62	112	26	6	2	51	61	34	5	2	.254	.346	.354	.700	80.1	77.7	.331	0.1
1937	9	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.083	.154	.083	.237	-30.1	-30.9	.129	-0.2

Career totals

375

1,425

1,208

174

316

RBI

108

154

122

.2616

OBP

.3475

SLG

.3510

OPS

.6985

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	TB
1928-09-03	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	8
1929-05-12	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	1	2	8
1929-04-21	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	3	0	0	3	6
1928-09-24	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	6
1928-08-24	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-12	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-13	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-14	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-16	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-17	ATH @ MIN 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.