Jason McDonald

Jason Adam McDonald

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: March 20, 1972 in Modesto, CA
High School: Elk Grove HS (Elk Grove, CA)
School: University of Houston (Houston, TX)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 4th round of the 1993 amateur draft.
Signed July 27, 1993. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 5, 1997
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Rangers 1997-2000

Final Game: June 9, 2000
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1997	OAK	AL	25	OF	74	52	42	507.0	154	146	2	6	1	.961	-8	-20	2.63	2.00	.982	2.32	2.30
1997	OAK	AL	25	CF	66	45	38	435.2	139	133	2	4	1	.971	-6	-17	2.79	2.05	.988	2.71	2.68
1997	OAK	AL	25	LF	18	7	4	71.1	16	15	0	1	0	.938	-2	-34	1.89	0.83	.979	2.07	2.05
1998	OAK	AL	26	OF	60	44	32	420.0	135	122	7	6	1	.956	7	20	2.76	2.15	.985	2.31	2.29
1998	OAK	AL	26	CF	33	29	22	247.2	92	83	5	4	1	.957	7	34	3.20	2.67	.987	2.69	2.66
1998	OAK	AL	26	RF	25	8	8	102.1	29	25	2	2	0	.931	-2	-18	2.37	1.08	.983	2.13	2.11
1998	OAK	AL	26	LF	11	7	2	70.0	15	15	0	0	0	1.000	2	26	1.93	1.36	.985	2.10	2.08
1998	OAK	AL	26	DH	1	0
1999	OAK	AL	27	OF	89	43	35	476.0	153	149	3	1	1	.993	4	9	2.87	1.71	.984	2.30	2.27
1999	OAK	AL	27	CF	53	36	28	345.1	117	115	2	0	1	1.000	3	11	3.05	2.21	.985	2.72	2.68
1999	OAK	AL	27	LF	31	1	1	69.2	18	17	0	1	0	.944	0	2	2.20	0.55	.985	2.08	2.05
1999	OAK	AL	27	RF	13	6	6	61.0	18	17	1	0	0	1.000	0	4	2.66	1.38	.982	2.11	2.08
1999	OAK	AL	27	DH	5	0
1999	OAK	AL	27	2B	1	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	9.00	1.00	.980	5.40	5.00
2000	TEX	AL	28	OF	32	27	17	248.1	82	75	6	1	2	.988	6	30	2.94	2.53	.985	2.36	2.33
2000	TEX	AL	28	RF	26	21	13	186.1	62	55	6	1	2	.984	6	41	2.95	2.35	.983	2.17	2.14
2000	TEX	AL	28	LF	11	3	3	39.0	12	12	0	0	0	1.000	0	3	2.77	1.09	.985	2.17	2.14
2000	TEX	AL	28	CF	3	3	1	23.0	8	8	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-10	3.13	2.67	.986	2.74	2.73
2000	TEX	AL	28	DH	1	0
	4 Seasons			OF	255	166	126	1651.1	524	492	18	14	5	.973	9	6	2.78	2.00	.984	2.32	2.29
	4 Seasons			CF	155	113	89	1051.2	356	339	9	8	3	.978	4	4	2.98	2.25	.987	2.71	2.68
	4 Seasons			LF	71	18	10	250.0	61	59	0	2	0	.967	-0	-1	2.12	0.83	.983	2.10	2.07
	3 Seasons			RF	64	35	27	349.2	109	97	9	3	2	.972	5	18	2.73	1.66	.983	2.15	2.12
	1 Season			2B	1	0	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	9.00	1.00	.980	5.40	5.00
	4 Seasons			TOT	256	166	126	1652.1	525	493	18	14	5	.973	9	6	2.78	2.00	.984	2.32	2.30
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp	Rof
1997	OAK	AL	25	CF	-6	-17	-3	-6	2		-3
1997	OAK	AL	25	LF	-2	-34	-2	-1	-1		0
1998	OAK	AL	26	CF	7	34	5	4	1		2
1998	OAK	AL	26	RF	-2	-18	-2	-0	-2		1
1998	OAK	AL	26	LF	2	26	2	1	1		0
1999	OAK	AL	27	CF	3	11	4	-0	4		-1
1999	OAK	AL	27	LF	0	2	0	-1	1		0
1999	OAK	AL	27	RF	0	4	0	-0	0		0
1999	OAK	AL	27	2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
2000	TEX	AL	28	RF	6	41	2	1	1		4
2000	TEX	AL	28	LF	0	3	0	0	-0		0
2000	TEX	AL	28	CF	-0	-10	-0	-0	0		0
	4 Seasons			CF	4	4	6	-2	8		-2
	4 Seasons			LF	-0	-1	-0	-1	0		0
	3 Seasons			RF	5	18	0	1	-1		5
	1 Season			2B	0	0	0	0	0	0
	4 Seasons			TOT	9	6	6	-2	7	0	3

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	PH	PR
1997	OAK	AL	25	78	52	78	74	0	18	66	0	84	0	10	6
1998	OAK	AL	26	70	44	70	60	0	11	33	25	69	1	11	4
1999	OAK	AL	27	100	43	100	90	1	31	53	13	97	5	12	14
2000	TEX	AL	28	38	27	38	32	0	11	3	26	40	1	2	6
	4 Seasons			286	166	286	256	1	71	155	64	290	7	35	30

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- CF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1997	OAK	AL	25	4	0	2	2	0	2	0	0	2	0	46	25	0	23	5	0	6	1	0	13	0	0	22	11	1	110	42	38.2%	67	1	0.9%	1	2007	53%	77%	38%	280	48%
1998	OAK	AL	26	4	0	3	1	0	5	0	3	0	2	22	14	0	12	1	1	11	2	2	9	1	0	17	11	1	71	29	40.8%	37	4	5.6%	1	1080	56%	80%	40%	159	55%
1999	OAK	AL	27	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	25	12	0	15	3	0	6	1	0	6	0	1	12	8	0	64	24	37.5%	38	1	1.6%	1	1516	49%	80%	43%	233	50%
2000	TEX	AL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	2	1	50.0%	1	0	0.0%	0	100	48%	70%	42%	10	80%
	4 Seasons			8	0	5	3	0	9	0	4	2	3	93	51	0	50	9	1	23	4	2	29	1	1	52	31	2	247	96	38.9%	143	6	2.4%	3	4703	52%	78%	40%	682	51%
	MLB Averages																														43.0%			2.1%			58%	77%	39%		52%

Advanced Fielding -- LF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1997	OAK	AL	25	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	2	2	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	8	6	75.0%	2	0	0.0%	0	333	58%	77%	38%	32	47%
1998	OAK	AL	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	4	50.0%	4	0	0.0%	0	285	60%	82%	42%	29	52%
1999	OAK	AL	27	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	2	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	10	7	70.0%	3	0	0.0%	0	304	53%	79%	42%	32	53%
2000	TEX	AL	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	10	5	50.0%	5	0	0.0%	0	173	59%	80%	42%	25	48%
	4 Seasons			2	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	15	14	0	9	2	0	5	2	0	4	1	0	3	3	0	36	22	61.1%	14	0	0.0%	0	1095	57%	79%	41%	118	50%
	MLB Averages																														62.1%			2.6%			58%	77%	39%		48%

Advanced Fielding -- RF*

				Errors					Assists					Single w/ Runner on 1st			Single w/ Runner on 2nd			Double w/ Runner on 1st			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 3rd			Flyout, <2out, Runner on 2nd			Baserunning Totals
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	1B	2B	3B	Hm	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Kill	Opp	Held	Held%	Adv	Kill	Kill%	Aother	PA	RHB%	BIP%	FBIP%	Fld	F2O%
1998	OAK	AL	26	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	1	1	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	3	50.0%	1	1	16.7%	1	464	53%	77%	44%	45	60%
1999	OAK	AL	27	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	16.7%	4	1	16.7%	0	255	47%	76%	42%	26	69%
2000	TEX	AL	28	1	0	0	1	0	6	1	2	1	2	16	10	1	14	6	1	5	3	0	3	1	1	2	1	0	40	21	52.5%	16	3	7.5%	3	838	61%	80%	44%	109	54%
	3 Seasons			3	0	1	2	0	9	1	2	3	2	21	12	3	17	7	1	8	4	0	3	1	1	3	1	0	52	25	48.1%	21	5	9.6%	4	1557	56%	78%	43%	180	58%
	MLB Averages																														44.4%			2.4%			58%	77%	39%		51%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	643	543	463	43	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1999	OAK	AL	27	4	50%	50%	25%	1	100%	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	1 Season			4	50%	50%	25%	1	100%	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				58%	77%	31%		92%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Errors Committed as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1997 AL 4 (5th)	Errors Committed as OF s c a p y 1998 AL 6 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as CF (s.1954) s c a p y 1998 AL 7 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2000 AL 6 (3rd)
Range Factor/9Inn as OF† s c a p y 1999 AL 2.87 (4th)

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