MLB / Players

Gil McDougald

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornMay 19, 1928 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1951

Final gameOctober 2, 1960

Seasons10 (1951–1960)

New York Yankees 1951–1960

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified batters

127

8.7

481

434

1.4

109

4.3

7.2

88.4

11.6

RBI

5.8

14.5

81.2

46.4

.251

OBP

.309

7.2

SLG

.353

11.6

OPS

.661

8.7

wRC+

84.1

OPS+

85.6

14.5

wOBA

.302

8.7

sWAR

1.1

of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.9

71.4

OPS+

113.5

69.3

sWAR

30.7

96.7

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
1951	131	473	402	72	123	23	4	14	63	56	54	14	5	.306	.396	.488	.884	143.6	144.2	.408	4.3
1952	152	632	555	65	146	16	5	11	78	57	73	6	5	.263	.336	.369	.705	102.9	103.7	.334	2.5
1953	141	614	541	82	154	27	7	10	83	60	65	3	4	.285	.361	.416	.777	115.4	115.0	.361	3.4
1954	126	473	394	66	102	22	2	12	48	62	64	3	4	.259	.364	.416	.780	122.6	120.1	.366	3.1
1955	141	615	533	79	152	10	8	13	53	65	77	6	4	.285	.361	.407	.768	111.7	110.5	.359	3.2
1956	120	518	438	79	136	13	3	13	56	68	59	3	8	.311	.405	.443	.848	134.7	130.3	.395	4.4
1957	141	624	539	87	156	25	9	13	62	59	71	2	5	.289	.362	.442	.804	126.2	122.9	.368	4.7
1958	138	578	503	69	126	19	1	14	65	59	75	6	2	.250	.329	.376	.705	100.5	98.9	.324	2.3
1959	127	481	434	44	109	16	8	4	34	35	40	0	3	.251	.309	.353	.661	84.1	85.6	.302	1.1
1960	119	387	337	54	87	16	4	8	34	38	45	2	4	.258	.337	.401	.737	107.3	105.2	.339	1.8

Career totals

1,336

5,395

4,676

697

1,291

187

112

RBI

576

559

623

.2761

OBP

.3560

SLG

.4098

OPS

.7658

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1953-07-25	NYY @ DET Gameday	7	3	4	1	1	2	0	9
1957-06-05	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
1952-09-04	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	5	0	8
1958-07-28	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1960-09-10	NYY @ DET Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-06-06	NYY @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-06-19	CWS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-15	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-15	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-16	NYY @ DET 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.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.