MLB / Players

John McGraw

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 155 lb

BornApril 7, 1873 · Truxton, NY, USA

MLB debutAugust 26, 1891

Final gameJune 18, 1907

Seasons17 (1891–1907)

Baltimore Orioles 1891–1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901–1902; New York Giants 1902–1907

Percentile snapshot

1900 season — qualified batters

9.8

447

9.8

334

9.8

62.7

115

19.6

13.7

19.6

41.2

RBI

13.7

96.1

82.4

64.7

.344

88.2

OBP

.505

100

SLG

.416

70.6

OPS

.921

92.2

wRC+

159.7

90.2

OPS+

155.3

90.2

wOBA

.457

94.1

sWAR

5.0

92.2

of 52 qualified 1900 batters (min 437 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

138.6

95.5

OPS+

137.7

94.8

sWAR

43.2

98.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1891	33	131	115	17	31	3	5	0	14	12	17	4	.270	.359	.383	.741	108.8	111.7	.364	0.6
1892	79	324	286	41	77	13	2	1	26	32	21	15	.269	.355	.339	.694	110.0	109.8	.344	1.5
1893	127	597	480	123	154	9	10	5	64	101	11	38	.321	.454	.413	.866	130.3	130.7	.428	4.6
1894	124	630	512	156	174	18	14	1	92	91	12	78	.340	.451	.436	.887	116.4	114.4	.424	3.4
1895	96	459	388	110	143	13	6	2	48	60	9	61	.369	.459	.448	.908	131.6	134.4	.435	3.5
1896	23	90	77	20	25	2	2	0	14	11	4	13	.325	.422	.403	.825	119.2	117.9	.401	0.5
1897	106	507	391	90	127	15	3	0	48	99	15	44	.325	.471	.379	.849	132.0	125.5	.425	3.8
1898	143	652	515	143	176	8	10	0	53	112	13	43	.342	.475	.396	.871	153.2	149.8	.438	6.8
1899	117	539	399	140	156	13	3	1	33	124	21	73	.391	.547	.446	.994	175.3	173.5	.493	7.3
1900	99	447	334	84	115	10	4	2	33	85	9	29	.344	.505	.416	.921	159.7	155.3	.457	5.0
1901	73	308	232	71	81	14	9	0	28	61	6	24	.349	.508	.487	.995	170.7	175.5	.474	4.0
1902	55	223	170	27	43	3	2	1	8	43	17	12	.253	.420	.312	.732	129.6	114.0	.378	1.8
1903	12	15	11	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	.273	.467	.273	.739	131.5	111.2	.397	0.1
1904	5	15	12	0	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.333	.467	.333	.800	158.8	147.5	.408	0.2
1905	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1906	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	58.0	4.3	.259	0.0
1907	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Career totals

1,100

4,940

3,924

1,024

330th-most career R

1,309

121

398th-most career 3B

RBI

462

836

238th-most career BB

155

436

58th-most career SB

.3336

32nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4657

3rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4100

OPS

.8757

116th-highest career OPS

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
1901-06-17	BAL @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	2	2	7
1901-06-06	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	0	4	1	0	0	1	1	5
1901-06-18	BAL @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	0	2	1	5
1901-07-08	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	1	1	5
1902-05-17	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-05-01	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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, 1937 (Veterans)

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