Willie McGee

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 2, 1958 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 10, 1982

Final gameOctober 3, 1999

Seasons18 (1982–1999)

St. Louis Cardinals 1982–1989; Oakland Athletics 1990; St. Louis Cardinals 1990; San Francisco Giants 1991–1994; Boston Red Sox 1995; St. Louis Cardinals 1996–1999

Percentile snapshot

1993 season — qualified batters

130

6.7

519

7.4

475

12.1

8.7

143

38.9

51.7

8.7

12.8

RBI

10.7

22.1

67.1

23.5

.301

78.5

OBP

.353

55.7

SLG

.389

25.5

OPS

.742

36.2

wRC+

102.6

43.6

OPS+

102.8

43.6

wOBA

.335

36.9

sWAR

1.2

20.8

of 150 qualified 1993 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.3

42.2

OPS+

101.2

44.1

sWAR

27.0

95.9

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
1982	123	439	422	43	125	12	8	4	56	12	58	24	12	.296	.318	.391	.709	97.1	97.6	.325	1.5
1983	147	631	601	75	172	22	8	5	75	26	98	39	8	.286	.314	.374	.689	90.4	91.0	.317	1.6
1984	145	604	571	82	166	19	11	6	50	29	80	43	10	.291	.325	.394	.719	104.6	104.4	.331	2.7
1985	152	652	612	114	216	26	18	10	82	34	86	56	16	.353	.384	.503	.887	153.0	149.2	.402	6.7
1986	124	539	497	65	127	22	7	7	48	37	82	19	16	.256	.306	.370	.676	85.0	88.1	.307	1.0
1987	153	652	620	76	177	37	11	11	105	24	90	16	4	.285	.312	.434	.746	92.2	94.9	.328	1.8
1988	137	600	562	73	164	24	6	3	50	32	84	41	6	.292	.329	.372	.701	101.9	101.7	.323	2.4
1989	58	211	199	23	47	10	2	3	17	10	34	8	6	.236	.275	.352	.627	75.3	76.4	.290	0.2
1990	154	665	614	99	199	35	7	3	77	48	104	31	9	.324	.373	.419	.791	122.7	119.6	.362	4.3
1991	131	543	497	67	155	30	3	4	43	34	74	17	9	.312	.357	.408	.765	120.2	118.2	.351	3.0
1992	138	510	474	56	141	20	2	1	36	29	88	13	4	.297	.339	.354	.693	102.8	101.7	.323	1.4
1993	130	519	475	53	143	28	1	4	46	38	67	10	9	.301	.353	.389	.742	102.6	102.8	.335	1.2
1994	45	176	156	19	44	3	0	5	23	15	24	3	0	.282	.337	.397	.735	93.4	95.6	.325	0.2
1995	67	217	200	32	57	11	3	2	15	9	41	5	2	.285	.311	.400	.711	79.4	81.9	.316	0.0
1996	123	331	309	52	95	15	2	5	41	18	60	5	2	.307	.348	.417	.766	103.6	103.0	.343	0.8
1997	122	323	300	29	90	19	4	3	38	22	59	8	2	.300	.347	.420	.767	101.3	101.2	.343	0.8
1998	120	286	269	27	68	10	1	3	34	14	49	7	2	.253	.287	.331	.618	54.4	62.8	.270	-1.2
1999	132	290	271	25	68	7	0	0	20	17	60	7	4	.251	.293	.277	.570	41.0	45.6	.259	-1.6

Career totals

2,201

148th-most career G

8,188

262nd-most career PA

7,649

195th-most career AB

1,010

341st-most career R

2,254

171st-most career H

350

315th-most career 2B

194th-most career 3B

RBI

856

453rd-most career RBI

448

1,238

203rd-most career SO

352

110th-most career SB

.2947

316th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3330

SLG

.3960

OPS

.7290

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
1984-06-23	STL @ CHC Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	1	6	0	10
1985-07-30	STL @ CHC Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	1	2	0	9
1986-09-14	WSH @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1987-09-09	STL @ WSH Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	1	2	0	8
1982-10-15	STL @ MIL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8

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× Gold Glove1× Most Valuable Player1× Silver Slugger4× 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.