Gifford McDonald
Philadelphia Giants 1910; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1911; New York Lincoln Giants 1917; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1918; New York Lincoln Giants 1918; Detroit Stars 1920; Atlantic City Bacharach Giants 1921
Percentile snapshot
1917 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1917 pitchers (min 34 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -63.4 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1911 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 38.3 | 35.1 | .238 | -0.1 |
| 1917 | 7 | 24 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .273 | .286 | .558 | 54.1 | 51.8 | .278 | 0.3 |
| 1918 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -100.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1920 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .273 | .111 | .384 | 41.0 | 15.6 | .229 | 0.0 |
| 1921 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -77.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6.7 | 5.40 | 1.650 | 6.75 | 5.00 | 129.3 | 71.6 | -0.1 |
| 1917 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 45 | 18 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 37.7 | 4.30 | 1.593 | 5.73 | 3.30 | 84.9 | 90.5 | 0.3 |
| 1918 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 13.3 | 4.73 | 1.650 | 8.78 | 2.12 | 64.5 | 69.6 | -0.2 |
| 1920 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 16 | 23 | 13 | 2 | 33.3 | 4.32 | 1.650 | 3.51 | 5.54 | 154.5 | 83.1 | 0.0 |
| 1921 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 12.00 | 2.333 | 0.00 | 6.47 | 157.7 | 34.2 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-08-27 | DTS @ SLS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1920-05-15 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-16 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-17 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920-05-18 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920-07-22 | CUB @ DTS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 |
| 1920-08-15 | KCM @ DTS Gameday | 4.1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 1920-08-27 | DTS @ SLS Gameday | 6.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 1920-08-22 | DAY @ DTS Gameday | 3.1 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| 1920-09-04 | CAG @ DTS Gameday | 1.1 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 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.