MLB / Players

Joe McGinnity

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 206 lb

BornMarch 20, 1871 · Cornwall, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1899

Final gameOctober 5, 1908

Seasons10 (1899–1908)

Baltimore Orioles 1899; Brooklyn Superbas 1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902; New York Giants 1902–1908

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified pitchers

56.8

28.4

33.3

76.5

96.3

13.6

SHO

74.1

192

53.1

67.9

77.8

27.2

186.0

32.1

ERA

2.27

50.6

WHIP

1.231

27.2

K/9

2.66

FIP

2.63

30.9

FIP-

109.0

25.9

ERA+

106.1

45.7

sWAR

2.2

49.4

of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

119.0

88.2

sWAR

51.6

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	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1899	50	157	145	21	28	0	0	10	5	19	4	.193	.230	.193	.423	24.4	16.5	.212	7.5
1900	46	151	145	18	28	4	1	16	1	17	4	.193	.199	.234	.433	21.1	19.3	.204	5.6
1901	48	161	148	12	31	2	1	6	4	20	3	.209	.235	.236	.472	36.9	30.4	.225	4.0
1902	52	167	153	13	33	2	4	11	2	11	2	.216	.226	.281	.507	41.2	40.9	.236	5.3
1903	55	184	165	12	34	1	0	11	4	21	4	.206	.234	.212	.446	29.0	26.6	.220	8.3
1904	51	157	142	10	25	4	2	7	2	14	1	.176	.193	.232	.425	27.2	30.7	.204	9.6
1905	46	128	120	11	28	6	1	11	7	15	4	.233	.276	.300	.576	69.9	71.5	.279	4.3
1906	45	132	115	3	15	1	1	8	3	18	0	.130	.167	.157	.323	-7.2	0.8	.164	4.6
1907	47	118	103	6	18	0	0	3	5	15	3	.175	.227	.175	.402	20.0	25.0	.208	0.3
1908	37	68	61	3	11	1	0	7	1	8	1	.180	.206	.197	.403	17.1	27.0	.199	2.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1899	48	41	28	16	2	38	4	358	109	93	74	3	366.3	2.68	1.231	1.82	3.61	93.9	143.7	7.5
1900	44	37	28	8	0	32	1	350	112	113	93	5	343.0	2.94	1.350	2.44	3.81	103.2	125.7	5.6
1901	48	43	26	20	1	39	1	412	151	96	75	7	382.0	3.56	1.330	1.77	3.68	99.6	103.9	4.0
1902	44	39	21	18	0	35	1	341	111	78	106	4	351.7	2.84	1.191	2.71	3.04	91.8	116.6	5.3
1903	55	48	31	20	2	44	3	391	117	109	171	4	434.0	2.43	1.152	3.55	2.95	89.3	136.0	8.3
1904	51	44	35	8	5	38	9	307	73	86	144	8	408.0	1.61	.963	3.18	2.61	95.3	170.0	9.6
1905	46	38	21	15	3	26	2	289	102	71	125	6	320.3	2.87	1.124	3.51	2.84	95.2	104.2	4.3
1906	45	37	27	12	2	32	3	316	85	71	105	1	339.7	2.25	1.139	2.78	2.37	90.2	116.6	4.6
1907	47	34	18	18	4	23	3	320	109	58	120	6	310.3	3.16	1.218	3.48	2.20	87.8	79.2	0.3
1908	37	20	11	7	5	7	5	192	47	37	55	8	186.0	2.27	1.231	2.66	2.63	109.0	106.1	2.2

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

477

1,423

1,297

109

251

RBI

158

.1935

OBP

.2206

SLG

.2251

OPS

.4457

Pitching

G (P)

465

381

164th-most career GS

246

53rd-most career W

142

205th-most career L

314

33rd-most career CG

SHO

101st-most career SHO

3,441

80th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,068

BB allowed

812

245th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.657

70th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1879

138th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.79

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	RBI	BB	TB
1904-07-16	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	0	5
1908-07-30	STL @ SF Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	2	0	4
1901-09-25	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	0	4
1902-04-23	ATH @ BAL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	1	1	4
1905-05-20	PIT @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	2	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-05-13	CIN @ SF Gameday	12.0	5	0	0	1	9	0
1902-08-01	STL @ SF Gameday	9.0	8	4	1	0	9	0
1903-08-15	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	13	8	0	0	9	1
1903-08-24	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	10	7	0	4	9	0
1903-08-31	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	2	0	1	9	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

Hall of Fame, 1946 (Old Timers)

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