Jim McDonald
Boston Red Sox 1950; St. Louis Browns 1951; New York Yankees 1952–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Chicago White Sox 1956–1958
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .600 | .333 | .933 | 169.8 | 134.5 | .491 | 0.5 |
| 1951 | 17 | 31 | 29 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .207 | .233 | .310 | .544 | 31.0 | 42.6 | .250 | 1.1 |
| 1952 | 26 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .316 | .409 | .474 | .883 | 156.7 | 154.5 | .411 | 0.9 |
| 1953 | 29 | 46 | 41 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .098 | .140 | .098 | .237 | -45.7 | -33.3 | .121 | 0.9 |
| 1954 | 16 | 26 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .211 | .375 | .263 | .638 | 96.8 | 82.8 | .329 | 1.2 |
| 1955 | 21 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .357 | .182 | .539 | 73.0 | 53.4 | .297 | -1.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -44.5 | -52.0 | .126 | -0.8 |
| 1957 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 128.5 | 49.9 | .375 | 0.7 |
| 1958 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 19.0 | 3.79 | 1.737 | 2.37 | 4.61 | 93.0 | 130.7 | 0.5 |
| 1951 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 84 | 38 | 46 | 28 | 5 | 84.0 | 4.07 | 1.548 | 3.00 | 4.40 | 101.8 | 106.2 | 1.1 |
| 1952 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 71 | 27 | 40 | 20 | 1 | 69.3 | 3.50 | 1.601 | 2.60 | 3.79 | 111.3 | 97.2 | 0.9 |
| 1953 | 27 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 128 | 55 | 39 | 43 | 4 | 129.7 | 3.82 | 1.288 | 2.98 | 3.23 | 85.2 | 99.3 | 0.9 |
| 1954 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 54 | 25 | 45 | 20 | 3 | 71.0 | 3.17 | 1.394 | 2.54 | 4.31 | 122.2 | 111.2 | 1.2 |
| 1955 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 41 | 30 | 20 | 5 | 51.7 | 7.14 | 2.052 | 3.48 | 4.66 | 124.3 | 52.4 | -1.4 |
| 1956 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 18.7 | 8.68 | 1.929 | 4.82 | 4.11 | 99.8 | 47.5 | -0.8 |
| 1957 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 22.3 | 2.01 | 1.254 | 4.84 | 3.83 | 102.1 | 186.3 | 0.7 |
| 1958 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2.3 | 19.29 | 4.286 | 0.00 | 13.16 | 361.1 | 18.9 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-07-14 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1951-08-03 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-07-18 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-05-10 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1955-07-15 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-08-21 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 1 |
| 1951-09-08 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1954-06-05 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1953-07-04 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1953-07-08 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 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.