John McDonald
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 18 | 21 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 66.7 | 68.9 | .300 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .444 | .444 | .444 | .889 | 129.4 | 124.5 | .400 | 0.1 |
| 2001 | 17 | 25 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .167 | .136 | .303 | -23.3 | -19.1 | .151 | -0.2 |
| 2002 | 93 | 288 | 264 | 35 | 66 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 50 | 3 | 0 | .250 | .288 | .326 | .614 | 63.1 | 64.1 | .275 | -0.1 |
| 2003 | 82 | 233 | 214 | 21 | 46 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 31 | 3 | 3 | .215 | .258 | .280 | .538 | 42.0 | 43.8 | .244 | -0.6 |
| 2004 | 66 | 100 | 93 | 17 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .237 | .344 | .581 | 49.2 | 52.3 | .254 | -0.2 |
| 2005 | 68 | 184 | 166 | 18 | 46 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 24 | 6 | 1 | .277 | .326 | .325 | .651 | 75.1 | 74.1 | .295 | 0.4 |
| 2006 | 104 | 286 | 260 | 35 | 58 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 16 | 41 | 7 | 2 | .223 | .271 | .308 | .579 | 47.6 | 49.6 | .261 | -0.4 |
| 2007 | 123 | 353 | 327 | 32 | 82 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 11 | 48 | 7 | 2 | .251 | .279 | .333 | .612 | 59.1 | 61.3 | .275 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 84 | 207 | 186 | 21 | 39 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 25 | 3 | 1 | .210 | .255 | .269 | .524 | 39.1 | 41.4 | .241 | -0.6 |
| 2009 | 73 | 156 | 151 | 18 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 2 | .258 | .271 | .384 | .655 | 66.1 | 70.8 | .284 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 63 | 163 | 152 | 27 | 38 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 23 | 6 | 26 | 2 | 1 | .250 | .273 | .454 | .727 | 88.3 | 93.4 | .313 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 84 | 245 | 227 | 21 | 52 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 27 | 2 | 4 | .229 | .269 | .308 | .577 | 52.6 | 56.4 | .260 | -0.3 |
| 2012 | 70 | 212 | 197 | 16 | 49 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 22 | 12 | 33 | 0 | 1 | .249 | .295 | .386 | .681 | 72.0 | 80.3 | .292 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 51 | 77 | 69 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .116 | .197 | .174 | .371 | -0.2 | 4.3 | .182 | -0.5 |
| 2014 | 95 | 91 | 76 | 4 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .171 | .256 | .197 | .453 | 35.0 | 33.5 | .222 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.00 | 6.000 | 27.00 | -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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-08-20 | TOR @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 2009-09-08 | MIN @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002-06-14 | CLE @ COL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 2002-09-05 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 2011-05-11 | BOS @ TOR Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-24 | AZ @ PHI Gameday | 0.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.