John McFarland
New York Black Yankees 1944; New York Black Yankees 1947
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -89.3 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.1 |
| 1947 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -96.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.9 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 16.0 | 11.25 | 2.563 | 5.06 | 6.86 | 159.1 | 38.4 | -1.1 |
| 1947 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 9.0 | 14.00 | 2.444 | 5.00 | 3.46 | 83.6 | 29.6 | -0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-04-30 | HOM @ NBY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-30 | HOM @ NBY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | NBY @ HOM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-07 | NBY @ HOM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-05-09 | NBY @ HOM Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-07-30 | NBY @ HOM Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1947-07-26 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 8.0 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| 1944-08-03 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1944-07-28 | NBY @ NYC Gameday | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1947-07-21 | NBY @ BEG Gameday | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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.