MLB / Players

John McDonald

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 185 lb
BornSeptember 24, 1974 · New London, CT, USA
MLB debutJuly 4, 1999
Final gameSeptember 28, 2014
Seasons16 (1999–2014)

Cleveland Indians 1999–2004; Detroit Tigers 2005; Toronto Blue Jays 2005–2010; Arizona Diamondbacks 2011; Toronto Blue Jays 2011; Arizona Diamondbacks 2012; Boston Red Sox 2013; Cleveland Indians 2013; Philadelphia Phillies 2013; Pittsburgh Pirates 2013; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2014

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
-1.9
1.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19991821212700000301.333.333.333.66766.768.9.3000.0
20009990400000100.444.444.444.889129.4124.5.4000.1
20011725221210001700.091.167.136.303-23.3-19.1.151-0.2
2002932882643566113112105030.250.288.326.61463.164.1.275-0.1
200382233214214691114113133.215.258.280.53842.043.8.244-0.6
200466100931719512741100.204.237.344.58149.252.3.254-0.2
200568184166184661016112461.277.326.325.65175.174.1.2950.4
2006104286260355873323164172.223.271.308.57947.649.6.261-0.4
20071233533273282202131114872.251.279.333.61259.161.3.2750.0
200884207186213980118102531.210.255.269.52439.141.4.241-0.6
20097315615118397041311802.258.271.384.65566.170.8.2840.0
20106316315227389262362621.250.273.454.72788.393.4.3130.5
2011842452272152101222122724.229.269.308.57752.656.4.260-0.3
201270212197164990622123301.249.295.386.68172.080.3.2920.3
201351776988101461600.116.197.174.371-0.24.3.182-0.5
2014959176413200571811.171.256.197.45335.033.5.222-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
20131000000200100.30.006.00027.00-2.98-79.7-0.5

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

G
1,100
PA
2,650
AB
2,434
R
276
H
568
2B
105
3B
14
HR
28
RBI
210
BB
118
SO
379
SB
34
BA
.2334
OBP
.2734
SLG
.3225
OPS
.5959

Pitching

G (P)
1
GS
0
W
0
L
0
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
0
SO (P)
1
BB allowed
0
ERA
.000
WHIP
6.0000
K/9
27.00

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
2010-08-20TOR @ BOS Gameday523101307
2009-09-08MIN @ TOR Gameday413001306
2002-06-14CLE @ COL Gameday503110206
2002-09-05CLE @ CWS Gameday423001106
2011-05-11BOS @ TOR Gameday422101306

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2013-08-24AZ @ PHI Gameday0.1200010

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.