Joe McClain
Washington Senators 1961–1962
Percentile snapshot
1961 season — qualified pitchers
of 67 qualified 1961 pitchers (min 161 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 33 | 72 | 68 | 4 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .214 | .265 | .479 | 18.7 | 28.5 | .215 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -38.2 | -22.3 | .130 | -1.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 33 | 29 | 8 | 18 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 221 | 91 | 48 | 76 | 22 | 212.0 | 3.86 | 1.269 | 3.23 | 3.87 | 97.4 | 102.9 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 24.0 | 9.38 | 1.833 | 2.25 | 7.97 | 202.1 | 42.1 | -1.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-09-01 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1961-04-14 | CLE @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1961-05-20 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1961-05-14 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1961-04-21 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-08-06 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 8.1 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 1961-07-18 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| 1961-05-26 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1961-07-07 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1961-05-03 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 7.2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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.