Mickey McDermott
Boston Red Sox 1948–1953; Washington Senators 1954–1955; New York Yankees 1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957; Detroit Tigers 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1961; St. Louis Cardinals 1961
Percentile snapshot
1955 season — qualified pitchers
of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .375 | .375 | .500 | .875 | 124.3 | 127.8 | .401 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | 36 | 33 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .278 | .303 | .581 | 41.5 | 49.4 | .281 | 1.3 |
| 1950 | 39 | 53 | 44 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .364 | .472 | .477 | .949 | 141.6 | 134.0 | .446 | 1.6 |
| 1951 | 43 | 71 | 66 | 8 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .273 | .314 | .364 | .678 | 70.1 | 75.4 | .316 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 36 | 69 | 62 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .273 | .323 | .595 | 51.9 | 60.4 | .279 | 2.2 |
| 1953 | 45 | 95 | 93 | 9 | 28 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .301 | .316 | .419 | .735 | 87.1 | 92.8 | .333 | 5.5 |
| 1954 | 54 | 104 | 95 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .255 | .232 | .486 | 31.1 | 37.4 | .237 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 70 | 104 | 95 | 10 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | .263 | .311 | .337 | .648 | 73.5 | 75.1 | .305 | 1.9 |
| 1956 | 46 | 61 | 52 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .317 | .269 | .586 | 66.5 | 60.7 | .290 | 0.8 |
| 1957 | 58 | 58 | 49 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .362 | .510 | .872 | 129.2 | 133.0 | .382 | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 76.4 | 79.4 | .305 | -0.1 |
| 1961 | 29 | 20 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .150 | .211 | .361 | -19.4 | -4.9 | .166 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 35 | 17 | 2 | 23.3 | 6.17 | 2.186 | 6.56 | 7.03 | 158.7 | 71.8 | -0.1 |
| 1949 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 63 | 36 | 52 | 50 | 5 | 80.0 | 4.05 | 1.438 | 5.63 | 4.12 | 92.7 | 109.7 | 1.3 |
| 1950 | 38 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 119 | 75 | 124 | 96 | 8 | 130.0 | 5.19 | 1.869 | 6.65 | 4.94 | 99.8 | 95.4 | 1.6 |
| 1951 | 34 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 141 | 64 | 92 | 127 | 10 | 172.0 | 3.35 | 1.355 | 6.65 | 3.55 | 79.2 | 133.9 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 30 | 21 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 139 | 67 | 92 | 117 | 14 | 162.0 | 3.72 | 1.426 | 6.50 | 3.80 | 97.6 | 104.7 | 2.2 |
| 1953 | 32 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 169 | 69 | 109 | 92 | 9 | 206.3 | 3.01 | 1.347 | 4.01 | 3.86 | 92.4 | 138.7 | 5.5 |
| 1954 | 30 | 26 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 172 | 75 | 110 | 95 | 8 | 196.3 | 3.44 | 1.436 | 4.35 | 3.67 | 102.8 | 103.8 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 31 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 140 | 65 | 100 | 78 | 9 | 156.0 | 3.75 | 1.538 | 4.50 | 4.28 | 108.3 | 105.3 | 1.9 |
| 1956 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 41 | 47 | 38 | 10 | 87.0 | 4.24 | 1.517 | 3.93 | 4.75 | 120.0 | 93.3 | 0.8 |
| 1957 | 29 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 42 | 50 | 29 | 9 | 69.0 | 5.48 | 1.710 | 3.78 | 5.43 | 139.1 | 71.3 | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | 9.00 | 4.000 | 0.00 | 5.44 | 136.1 | 44.4 | -0.1 |
| 1961 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 20 | 25 | 18 | 3 | 32.7 | 5.51 | 2.082 | 4.96 | 5.03 | 117.3 | 78.0 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-08-03 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1953-05-25 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1953-09-10 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1955-09-09 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-06-09 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-07-28 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 16.0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| 1952-05-16 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 9.1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 1 |
| 1953-05-16 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 1951-07-13 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 17.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| 1949-06-28 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
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.