Tex McDonald

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornJanuary 31, 1891 · Farmersville, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1912

Final gameAugust 14, 1915

Seasons4 (1912–1915)

Cincinnati Reds 1912; Boston Braves 1913; Cincinnati Reds 1913; Buffalo Buffeds 1914; Pittsburgh Rebels 1914; Buffalo Blues 1915

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

136

43.6

521

32.5

473

41.1

47.2

145

69.3

91.4

90.2

RBI

69.9

34.4

.307

78.5

OBP

.357

61.3

SLG

.461

88.3

OPS

.818

82.8

wRC+

129.1

79.8

OPS+

131.4

81.6

wOBA

.381

78.5

sWAR

3.3

74.2

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.9

82.7

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
1912	61	157	140	16	36	3	4	1	15	13	24	5	.257	.329	.357	.686	91.3	91.2	.330	0.6
1913	73	178	155	25	55	4	4	0	20	15	18	4	.355	.415	.432	.847	142.2	139.3	.402	1.5
1914	136	521	473	59	145	29	13	6	61	33	49	20	.307	.357	.461	.818	129.1	131.4	.381	3.3
1915	87	281	251	31	68	9	6	6	39	27	34	5	.271	.346	.426	.773	125.8	126.5	.367	1.5

Career totals

357

1,137

1,019

131

304

RBI

135

125

.2983

OBP

.3593

SLG

.4338

OPS

.7931

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1913-07-07	ATL @ PHI Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	3	0	4
1913-06-28	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	2	0	4
1913-06-11	ATL @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	1	4
1912-06-12	CIN @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	3	4
1912-06-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-16	PIT @ CIN 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.