Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Encyclopedia of Players > M Listing > James McDonald Statistics and History

News: B-R: Hall of Fame Ballot History »post

 

James McDonald

James Zell McDonald

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: October 19, 1984 in Long Beach, CA
High School: Polytechnic (Long Beach, CA)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 11th round of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed May 26, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 17, 2008
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Pirates 2008-2011
2012 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$443k (11) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 2.080, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2016 [*],
Relatives: Cousin of Darnell McDonald and Cousin of Donzell McDonald
    About biographical information


View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

Player News

Add Your Blog Posts Here · Hide Stories

Fan EloRater

Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 9:15AM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Greg Maddux… #3. Cy Young… #4. Randy Johnson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Christy Mathewson… 

Standard Pitching

More Stats

Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
2008 23 LAD NL 0 0 0.00 4 0 1 0 0 0 6.0 5 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 24 1.000 7.5 0.0 1.5 3.0 2.00
2009 24 LAD NL 5 5 .500 4.00 45 4 10 0 0 0 63.0 60 34 28 6 34 5 54 5 0 4 280 100 1.492 8.6 0.9 4.9 7.7 1.59
2010 25 TOT NL 4 6 .400 4.02 15 12 0 0 0 0 71.2 70 32 32 4 29 5 68 0 0 5 306 101 1.381 8.8 0.5 3.6 8.5 2.34
2010 25 LAD NL 0 1 .000 8.22 4 1 0 0 0 0 7.2 11 7 7 1 5 1 7 0 0 0 38 49 2.087 12.9 1.2 5.9 8.2 1.40
2010 25 PIT NL 4 5 .444 3.52 11 11 0 0 0 0 64.0 59 25 25 3 24 4 61 0 0 5 268 115 1.297 8.3 0.4 3.4 8.6 2.54
2011 26 PIT NL 9 9 .500 4.21 31 31 0 0 0 0 171.0 176 86 80 24 78 4 142 7 1 5 754 91 1.485 9.3 1.3 4.1 7.5 1.82
4 Seasons 18 20 .474 4.04 95 47 11 0 0 0 311.2 311 152 140 34 142 14 266 12 1 14 1364 97 1.453 9.0 1.0 4.1 7.7 1.87
162 Game Avg. 9 10 .474 4.04 45 23 5 0 0 0 149 149 73 67 16 68 7 127 6 0 7 653 97 1.453 9.0 1.0 4.1 7.7 1.87
LAD (3 yrs) 5 6 .455 4.11 53 5 11 0 0 0 76.2 76 41 35 7 40 6 63 5 0 4 342 99 1.513 8.9 0.8 4.7 7.4 1.58
PIT (2 yrs) 13 14 .481 4.02 42 42 0 0 0 0 235.0 235 111 105 27 102 8 203 7 1 10 1022 97 1.434 9.0 1.0 3.9 7.8 1.99

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg IP GS R Rrep Rdef aLI RAR WAR Salary Awards
2008 23 LAD NL 6.0 0 0 3 0 .4 3 0.2 $
2009 24 LAD NL 63.0 4 34 34 1 1.0 0 -0.3 $400,750
2010 25 LAD NL 7.2 1 7 4 0 1.1 -3 -0.4 $
2010 25 PIT NL 64.0 11 25 41 -4 1.1 16 1.8 $
2011 26 PIT NL 171.0 31 86 102 -1 1.1 16 1.8 $443,000
4 Seasons 311.2 47 152 184 -4 1.1 32 3.1 $843,750
LAD (3 yrs) 76.2 5 41 41 1 1.0 -0 -0.5 $400,750
PIT (2 yrs) 235.0 42 111 144 -5 1.1 33 3.6 $443,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2008 23 LAD NL NLCS L PHI 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.1 3 0 0 0 2 0 7 0 0 0 21 0.938 5.1 0.0 3.4 11.8 3.50
1 NLCS 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 0 0 0 5.1 3 0 0 0 2 0 7 0 0 0 21 0.938 5.1 0.0 3.4 11.8 3.50

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2008 23 LAD NL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
2009 24 LAD NL 45 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
2010 25 TOT NL 15 23 21 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 .048 .091 .095 .186 -49 2 0 0 1 0 0 1
2010 25 LAD NL 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
2010 25 PIT NL 11 22 20 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 .050 .095 .100 .195 -47 2 0 0 1 0 0 1
2011 26 PIT NL 31 63 55 3 5 1 0 0 3 0 0 3 29 .091 .138 .109 .247 -30 6 3 0 5 0 0 1
4 Seasons 95 96 85 5 6 2 0 0 3 0 0 4 47 .071 .112 .094 .206 -42 8 4 0 7 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 164 145 9 10 3 0 0 5 0 0 7 80 .071 .112 .094 .206 -42 14 7 0 12 0 0
LAD (3 yrs) 53 11 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 1 0 1 0 0
PIT (2 yrs) 42 85 75 5 6 2 0 0 3 0 0 4 40 .080 .127 .107 .233 -35 8 3 0 6 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
2009 24 LAD NL 10 -3 0 -0 -0 0 1 0 -2 -0.3 -2 -0.3 0.0 $400,750 1
2010 25 LAD NL 1 -0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.0 -0 0.0 0.0 $ /1
2010 25 PIT NL 22 -4 0 -0 0 0 2 1 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ 1
2011 26 PIT NL 63 -10 -0 -1 -1 0 6 2 -3 -0.4 -3 -0.4 0.0 $443,000 1
3 Seasons 96 -17 0 -1 -1 0 10 2 -7 -0.8 -7 -0.8 0.0 $843,750
PIT (2 yrs) 85 -14 0 -1 -1 0 9 2 -5 -0.5 -5 -0.5 0.0 $443,000
LAD (2 yrs) 11 -3 0 -0 -0 0 1 0 -2 -0.3 -2 -0.3 0.0 $400,750

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2008 23 LAD NL NLCS PHI L 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rdrs Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% PO Awards
2008 LAD NL 23 P 4 6.0 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 3.00 0.50 .960 1.80 1.72
2009 LAD NL 24 P 45 63.0 6 3 3 0 1 1.000 -2 -6 0.86 0.13 .955 1.71 1.70
2010 TOT NL 25 P 15 12 0 71.2 15 6 8 1 1 .933 1 2 1.76 0.93 .954 1.73 1.72 2 3 60% 2
2010 LAD NL 25 P 4 1 0 7.2 2 1 1 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.35 0.50 .955 1.76 1.72 0 0 1
2010 PIT NL 25 P 11 11 0 64.0 13 5 7 1 1 .923 1 3 1.69 1.09 .954 1.73 1.72 2 3 60% 1
2011 PIT NL 26 P 31 31 0 171.0 28 8 19 1 0 .964 -2 -2 1.42 0.87 .955 1.80 1.79 17 8 32% 1
4 Seasons P 95 43 0 311.2 51 18 31 2 2 .961 -3 -1 1.41 0.52 .955 1.77 1.73 19 11 37% 3
4 Seasons TOT 95 43 0 311.2 51 18 31 2 2 .961 -3 -11 1.41 0.52 .955 1.77 1.73 19 11 37% 3
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Home Runs s c a p y
2011 NL  24 (8th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2011 NL  78 (6th)

                           

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Pitchers 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Compare Stats to Similars
  1. Bob Stoddard (981)
  2. Harry Taylor (979)
  3. Vance Page (978)
  4. Al Corwin (977)
  5. Rene Arocha (976)
  6. Ad Liska (975)
  7. Tom Acker (975)
  8. Ken Holcombe (975)
  9. Jake Mooty (973)
  10. Mike Armstrong (973)
Similar Pitchers through 26 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Compare Stats to Similars
  1. Jerry Johnson (981)
  2. Al Fitzmorris (980)
  3. Marino Pieretti (979)
  4. Shawn Hillegas (979)
  5. Darren Dreifort (979)
  6. Mark Portugal (977)
  7. Randy O'Neal (976)
  8. George Susce (976)
  9. Zach Miner (976)
  10. Ad Liska (975)
Most Similar by Ages 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Hold mouse over #'s to see names
  1. Kris Medlen (991)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Jerry Johnson (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
200924Los Angeles Dodgers$400,750
201126Pittsburgh Pirates$443,000
2012 Statusnot updated,
Career to date (may be incomplete)$843,750
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Page    

Viewed 44,275 times through February 9, 2012.
Name and misspellings: James James jim jimmie jimmy Zell macdonald McDonald

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.