Webster McDonald

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornJanuary 1, 1900 · Glasgow, DE, USA

Final gameJune 22, 1940

Seasons16 (1925–1940)

Chicago American Giants 1925; Wilmington Potomacs 1925; Chicago American Giants 1926–1928; Homestead Grays 1928; Chicago American Giants 1929; Homestead Grays 1929; Baltimore Black Sox 1930; Hilldale Club 1930–1931; Washington Pilots 1932; Philadelphia Stars 1933–1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified pitchers

23.4

13.8

74.5

19.1

SHO

106

71.3

70.2

55.3

97.7

22.3

ERA

5.34

8.5

WHIP

1.423

36.2

K/9

3.50

38.3

FIP

5.46

4.3

FIP-

108.0

13.8

ERA+

94.5

21.3

sWAR

0.8

14.9

of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 68 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

123.4

92.6

sWAR

24.5

95.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1925	24	53	48	2	13	1	0	0	2	3	0	.271	.314	.292	.605	66.3	62.5	.286	3.5
1926	21	46	41	5	7	1	0	1	6	2	1	.171	.209	.268	.478	25.2	22.2	.221	2.1
1927	20	55	48	2	9	0	0	0	3	3	0	.188	.235	.188	.423	18.6	15.1	.208	3.0
1928	2	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-5.9	-11.9	.155	0.7
1929	7	23	22	3	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	.273	.273	.318	.591	53.4	49.0	.269	2.8
1930	6	20	20	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	0	.250	.250	.300	.550	29.3	25.5	.246	1.4
1931	4	16	14	4	6	1	1	0	3	0	0	.429	.429	.643	1.071	176.8	190.0	.477	1.8
1932	19	44	39	1	13	1	1	0	5	2	0	.333	.366	.410	.776	110.8	114.1	.368	1.4
1933	11	22	20	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.150	.150	.150	.300	-12.1	-19.8	.140	0.4
1934	19	49	42	5	8	2	0	0	2	4	1	.190	.261	.238	.499	48.8	40.4	.248	3.5
1935	21	57	49	6	7	0	0	1	3	4	0	.143	.208	.204	.412	15.5	4.3	.199	2.3
1936	19	48	44	3	5	1	0	0	1	3	0	.114	.170	.136	.307	-8.5	-20.8	.155	0.5
1937	11	24	22	3	6	0	0	1	3	1	0	.273	.304	.409	.713	81.9	82.0	.319	0.5
1938	20	40	32	3	7	2	0	0	5	4	0	.219	.306	.281	.587	65.4	55.8	.284	0.8
1939	14	22	21	1	5	0	0	1	3	0	0	.238	.238	.381	.619	60.6	62.0	.276	0.1
1940	5	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	11.0	4.4	.187	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	22	11	9	6	0	9	0	116	45	34	66	0	123.0	3.29	1.220	4.83	4.56	89.5	155.0	3.5
1926	21	13	10	3	1	8	0	108	48	23	77	8	116.3	3.71	1.126	5.96	3.94	84.1	126.2	2.1
1927	17	13	9	5	0	10	1	107	33	17	54	3	121.3	2.45	1.022	4.01	3.09	77.5	162.7	3.0
1928	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	7	1	3	8	0	15.0	0.60	.667	4.80	3.06	71.2	721.5	0.7
1929	7	6	6	1	0	5	2	34	5	11	22	0	56.0	0.80	.804	3.54	3.49	74.6	586.2	2.8
1930	6	6	2	3	0	4	1	47	18	8	25	2	46.7	3.47	1.179	4.82	4.80	89.0	155.2	1.4
1931	4	4	4	0	0	4	2	25	4	8	21	0	37.0	0.97	.892	5.11	2.76	75.0	377.8	1.8
1932	16	13	5	5	0	7	1	129	47	18	51	2	103.3	4.09	1.423	4.44	3.54	84.8	102.0	1.4
1933	11	7	4	3	1	5	0	68	27	10	24	4	59.3	4.10	1.315	3.64	3.93	103.1	93.1	0.4
1934	17	13	7	5	1	9	1	105	37	25	37	6	119.7	2.78	1.086	2.78	4.80	106.5	162.1	3.5
1935	21	15	8	4	0	10	0	156	68	40	47	11	142.3	4.30	1.377	2.97	5.24	102.8	118.6	2.3
1936	19	11	5	5	1	3	0	128	65	42	35	8	108.3	5.40	1.569	2.91	5.58	109.2	94.6	0.5
1937	11	11	3	3	0	4	0	72	38	13	24	7	63.3	5.40	1.342	3.41	5.37	107.7	92.4	0.5
1938	19	14	5	6	2	6	0	106	58	33	38	9	97.7	5.34	1.423	3.50	5.46	108.0	94.5	0.8
1939	11	6	1	4	0	4	0	51	27	13	17	1	43.0	5.65	1.488	3.56	4.34	89.5	85.7	0.1
1940	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	18	14	4	7	1	14.0	9.00	1.571	4.50	4.82	92.3	58.0	-0.4

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

223

530

473

102

RBI

.2156

OBP

.2565

SLG

.2727

OPS

.5292

Pitching

G (P)

208

145

488th-most career CG

SHO

1,266

SO (P)

553

BB allowed

302

ERA

3.802

WHIP

1.2469

329th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.93

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	HR	RBI	TB
1938-08-06	TIC @ PHS Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	3	5
1937-05-16	PHS @ NBY Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	2	5
1939-06-04	PHS @ NBY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1935-06-01	BEG @ PHS Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1932-05-21	BBS @ WPI Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-08-04	PHS @ BEG Gameday	12.0	9	4	4	2	9	1
1936-08-26	PHS @ NBY Gameday	18.0	14	3	2	4	8	0
1938-05-15	PHS @ BEG Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	6	8	0
1938-06-02	NE @ PHS Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	7	0
1936-05-10	HOM @ PHS Gameday	7.0	6	3	2	2	7	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.