Jack McDowell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1966 · Van Nuys, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1987

Final gameAugust 8, 1999

Seasons12 (1987–1999)

Chicago White Sox 1987–1988; Chicago White Sox 1990–1994; New York Yankees 1995; Cleveland Indians 1996–1997; Anaheim Angels 1998–1999

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified pitchers

8.6

18.5

44.4

67.9

80.2

SHO

46.9

214

51.9

109

24.7

53.1

141

50.6

48.1

192.0

30.9

ERA

5.11

19.8

WHIP

1.464

24.7

K/9

6.61

61.7

FIP

4.38

51.9

FIP-

88.9

71.6

ERA+

96.4

29.6

sWAR

1.5

24.7

of 82 qualified 1996 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.4

sWAR

27.9

96.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1987	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1988	26	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1990	33	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1991	35	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.4
1992	34	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.7
1993	34	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.9
1994	25	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.6
1995	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.8
1996	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1997	8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1998	14	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1999	4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1987	4	4	3	0	0	0	16	6	6	15	1	28.0	1.93	.786	4.82	3.12	68.6	236.0	1.1
1988	26	26	5	10	1	0	147	70	68	84	12	158.7	3.97	1.355	4.76	4.16	104.9	99.9	1.6
1990	33	33	14	9	4	0	189	87	77	165	20	205.0	3.82	1.298	7.24	3.70	95.9	100.9	2.1
1991	35	35	17	10	15	3	212	96	82	191	19	253.7	3.41	1.159	6.78	3.39	83.8	118.9	4.4
1992	34	34	20	10	13	1	247	92	75	178	21	260.7	3.18	1.235	6.15	3.42	88.0	122.1	4.7
1993	34	34	22	10	10	4	261	96	69	158	20	256.7	3.37	1.286	5.54	3.62	86.1	125.1	4.9
1994	25	25	10	9	6	2	186	75	42	127	12	181.0	3.73	1.260	6.31	3.43	73.1	126.0	3.6
1995	30	30	15	10	8	2	211	95	78	157	25	217.7	3.93	1.328	6.49	4.33	93.2	118.4	3.8
1996	30	30	13	9	5	1	214	109	67	141	22	192.0	5.11	1.464	6.61	4.38	88.9	96.4	1.5
1997	8	6	3	3	0	0	44	23	18	38	6	40.7	5.09	1.525	8.41	4.60	98.6	91.6	0.2
1998	14	14	5	3	0	0	96	43	19	45	11	76.0	5.09	1.513	5.33	4.71	101.2	91.4	0.4
1999	4	4	0	4	0	0	31	17	5	12	4	19.0	8.05	1.895	5.68	5.78	119.9	59.9	-0.4

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

277

RBI

Pitching

G (P)

277

275

435th-most career GS

127

394th-most career W

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,889

SO (P)

1,311

320th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

606

ERA

3.854

WHIP

1.3023

K/9

6.25

325th-highest career K/9

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

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1995-06-08	ATH @ NYY Gameday	7.0	8	6	6	4	11	3
1994-07-05	CWS @ DET Gameday	6.0	6	4	2	2	11	0
1991-04-08	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	10	0
1991-04-13	CWS @ DET Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	2	10	1
1993-08-22	CWS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	1	10	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× Cy Young Award3× 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.