MLB / Players

Mark McGwire

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 215 lb

BornOctober 1, 1963 · Pomona, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 22, 1986

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons16 (1986–2001)

Oakland Athletics 1986–1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1997–2001

Percentile snapshot

1999 season — qualified batters

153

661

62.4

521

39.5

118

145

31.8

10.8

15.3

100

RBI

147

98.7

133

99.4

141

4.5

92.4

.278

33.8

OBP

.424

SLG

.697

99.4

OPS

1.120

99.4

wRC+

169.2

99.4

OPS+

177.1

100

wOBA

.460

98.7

sWAR

6.6

96.2

of 158 qualified 1999 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

158.6

99.2

OPS+

162.2

99.2

sWAR

64.4

99.5

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	18	58	53	10	10	1	0	3	9	4	18	0	1	.189	.259	.377	.636	75.6	76.2	.285	0.1
1987	151	641	557	97	161	28	4	49	118	71	131	1	1	.289	.370	.618	.987	157.6	163.9	.413	5.5
1988	155	635	550	87	143	22	1	32	99	76	117	0	0	.260	.352	.478	.830	136.5	135.9	.371	3.7
1989	143	587	490	74	113	17	0	33	95	83	94	1	1	.231	.339	.467	.806	129.5	131.3	.362	2.9
1990	156	650	523	87	123	16	0	39	108	110	116	2	1	.235	.370	.489	.859	144.1	145.0	.384	4.3
1991	154	585	483	62	97	22	0	22	75	93	116	2	1	.201	.330	.383	.714	106.7	103.1	.331	1.2
1992	139	571	467	87	125	22	0	42	104	90	105	0	1	.268	.385	.585	.970	169.3	175.4	.423	5.4
1993	27	107	84	16	28	6	0	9	24	21	19	0	1	.333	.467	.726	1.193	211.4	224.3	.500	1.5
1994	47	172	135	26	34	3	0	9	25	37	40	0	0	.252	.413	.474	.887	138.0	136.2	.396	1.0
1995	104	422	317	75	87	13	0	39	90	88	77	1	1	.274	.441	.685	1.125	185.1	193.8	.472	5.0
1996	130	548	423	104	132	21	0	52	113	116	112	0	0	.312	.467	.730	1.198	190.4	199.0	.494	6.7
1997	156	657	540	86	148	27	0	58	123	101	159	3	0	.274	.393	.646	1.039	161.3	167.6	.433	5.8
1998	155	681	509	130	152	21	0	70	147	162	155	1	0	.299	.470	.752	1.222	207.6	216.5	.500	9.8
1999	153	661	521	118	145	21	1	65	147	133	141	0	0	.278	.424	.697	1.120	169.2	177.1	.460	6.6
2000	89	321	236	60	72	8	0	32	73	76	78	1	0	.305	.483	.746	1.229	196.2	204.9	.502	4.2
2001	97	364	299	48	56	4	0	29	64	56	118	0	0	.187	.316	.492	.808	104.3	106.2	.344	0.7

Career totals

1,874

351st-most career G

7,660

344th-most career PA

6,187

463rd-most career AB

1,167

218th-most career R

1,626

252

583

11th-most career HR

RBI

1,414

74th-most career RBI

1,317

45th-most career BB

1,596

58th-most career SO

.2628

OBP

.3941

92nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5882

11th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9823

14th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1987-06-27	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	5	4	3	5	0	13
2000-05-18	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	3	7	1	12
1998-05-19	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	3	6	0	12
1998-04-14	AZ @ STL Gameday	3	4	3	3	5	2	12
1995-06-11	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	3	3	1	12

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

3× Silver Slugger1× Rookie of the Year1× Gold Glove12× All-Star

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