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Gil McDougald

Gilbert James McDougald

Positions: Second Baseman, Third Baseman and Shortstop
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: May 19, 1928 in San Francisco, CA
School: University of San Francisco
Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1951
Team: Yankees 1951-1960

Final Game: October 2, 1960
Died: November 28, 2010 in Monmouth County, NJ
Buried: St. Catherine Cemetery, Sea Girt, NJ
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 8, 2012, 5:17PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #475. Monte Irvin… #476. Bob Meusel… #477. Lu Blue… #478. GIL MCDOUGALD… #479. Paul Blair… #480. Mark Belanger… #481. George Hendrick… 

Standard Batting

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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
1951 23 NYY AL 131 473 402 72 123 23 4 14 63 14 5 56 54 .306 .396 .488 .884 141 196 12 4 11 54 MVP-9,RoY-1
1952 24 NYY AL 152 632 555 65 146 16 5 11 78 6 5 57 73 .263 .336 .369 .705 100 205 14 4 16 *54 AS
1953 25 NYY AL 141 614 541 82 154 27 7 10 83 3 4 60 65 .285 .361 .416 .777 112 225 9 5 8 *54
1954 26 NYY AL 126 473 394 66 102 22 2 12 48 3 4 62 64 .259 .364 .416 .780 117 164 5 5 9 3 45
1955 27 NYY AL 141 615 533 79 152 10 8 13 53 6 4 65 77 .285 .361 .407 .768 108 217 6 2 8 7 2 *45 MVP-12
1956 28 NYY AL 120 518 438 79 136 13 3 13 56 3 8 68 59 .311 .405 .443 .848 127 194 5 3 7 2 1 64/5 AS,MVP-7
1957 29 NYY AL 141 624 539 87 156 25 9 13 62 2 5 59 71 .289 .362 .442 .804 120 238 12 4 19 3 1 *64/5 AS,MVP-5
1958 30 NYY AL 138 578 503 69 126 19 1 14 65 6 2 59 75 .250 .329 .376 .705 98 189 15 3 7 6 1 *46 AS,MVP-20
1959 31 NYY AL 127 481 434 44 109 16 8 4 34 0 3 35 40 .251 .309 .353 .661 85 153 11 3 5 4 3 465 AS
1960 32 NYY AL 119 387 337 54 87 16 4 8 34 2 4 38 45 .258 .337 .401 .737 105 135 4 3 7 2 0 54
10 Seasons 1336 5395 4676 697 1291 187 51 112 576 45 44 559 623 .276 .356 .410 .766 111 1916 93 36 97 27 8
162 Game Avg. 162 654 567 85 157 23 6 14 70 5 5 68 76 .276 .356 .410 .766 111 232 11 4 12

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
1951 23 NYY AL 473 27 2 0 0 2 2 13 46 4.7 44 4.5 0.2 $ 54 MVP-9,RoY-1
1952 24 NYY AL 632 2 0 0 0 13 2 18 35 3.5 22 2.3 1.2 $ *54 AS
1953 25 NYY AL 614 12 1 0 0 0 1 16 40 4.1 30 3.1 1.0 $ *54
1954 26 NYY AL 474 14 0 -1 0 9 4 13 39 4.1 30 3.2 0.9 $ 45
1955 27 NYY AL 615 4 2 1 2 15 6 16 46 4.7 31 3.2 1.5 $ *45 MVP-12
1956 28 NYY AL 518 27 -2 3 0 7 7 14 56 5.6 49 5.0 0.6 $22,000 64/5 AS,MVP-7
1957 29 NYY AL 625 18 1 -1 -1 14 8 16 56 5.8 41 4.3 1.5 $29,000 *64/5 AS,MVP-5
1958 30 NYY AL 578 1 2 0 0 5 5 16 29 2.9 24 2.5 0.4 $34,000 *46 AS,MVP-20
1959 31 NYY AL 481 -12 -1 3 0 11 5 14 20 1.9 9 0.9 1.0 $35,000 465 AS
1960 32 NYY AL 387 1 1 -1 1 12 2 11 27 2.7 15 1.5 1.2 $35,000 54
10 Seasons 5397 94 6 4 2 88 42 147 394 40.0 295 30.5 9.5 $155,000

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
1951 23 NYY AL WS NYG W 6 25 23 2 6 1 0 1 7 0 1 2 2 .261 .320 .435 .755 10 0 0 0 0 0
1952 24 NYY AL WS BRO W 7 30 25 5 5 0 0 1 3 1 0 5 2 .200 .333 .320 .653 8 1 0 0 0 0
1953 25 NYY AL WS BRO W 6 26 24 2 4 0 1 2 4 0 0 1 3 .167 .231 .500 .731 12 1 1 0 0 0
1955 27 NYY AL WS BRO L 7 29 27 2 7 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 6 .259 .310 .370 .681 10 0 0 0 0 0
1956 28 NYY AL WS BRO W 7 26 21 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 6 .143 .240 .143 .383 3 0 0 1 1 0
1957 29 NYY AL WS MLN L 7 29 24 3 6 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 3 .250 .321 .250 .571 6 0 0 1 1 0
1958 30 NYY AL WS MLN W 7 30 28 5 9 2 0 2 4 0 0 2 4 .321 .367 .607 .974 17 0 0 0 0 1
1960 32 NYY AL WS PIT L 6 20 18 4 5 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 .278 .350 .333 .683 6 0 0 0 0 0
8 Seasons (8 Series) 53 215 190 23 45 4 1 7 24 2 1 20 29 .237 .310 .379 .689 72 2 1 2 2 1
8 WS 53 215 190 23 45 4 1 7 24 2 1 20 29 .237 .310 .379 .689 72 2 1 2 2 1

Standard Fielding

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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
1951 NYY AL 23 3B 82 175 54 112 9 20 .949 2.02 .950 3.15 MVP-9,RoY-1
1951 NYY AL 23 2B 55 262 120 137 5 26 .981 4.67 .978 5.69 MVP-9,RoY-1
1952 NYY AL 24 3B 117 410 124 273 13 38 .968 3.39 .953 3.29 AS
1952 NYY AL 24 2B 38 213 109 99 5 31 .977 5.47 .978 5.57 AS
1953 NYY AL 25 3B 136 468 147 299 22 36 .953 3.28 .957 3.36
1953 NYY AL 25 2B 26 57 23 33 1 9 .982 2.15 .979 5.57
1954 NYY AL 26 2B 92 462 224 233 5 84 .989 9 4.97 .976 5.33
1954 NYY AL 26 3B 35 72 16 53 3 4 .958 0 1.97 .959 3.46
1955 NYY AL 27 2B 126 711 352 348 11 119 .985 12 5.56 .976 5.32 MVP-12
1955 NYY AL 27 3B 17 51 15 34 2 4 .961 3 2.88 .950 3.14 MVP-12
1956 NYY AL 28 SS 92 464 177 273 14 77 .970 1 4.89 .960 4.94 AS,MVP-7
1956 NYY AL 28 2B 31 136 57 77 2 28 .985 6 4.32 .973 5.40 AS,MVP-7
1956 NYY AL 28 3B 5 19 5 13 1 4 .947 -0 3.60 .949 3.20 AS,MVP-7
1957 NYY AL 29 SS 121 654 247 391 16 104 .976 12 5.27 .963 5.13 AS,MVP-5
1957 NYY AL 29 2B 21 108 59 48 1 18 .991 1 5.10 .980 5.41 AS,MVP-5
1957 NYY AL 29 3B 7 19 7 12 0 1 1.000 2 2.71 .951 3.24 AS,MVP-5
1958 NYY AL 30 2B 115 576 265 298 13 97 .977 3 4.90 .978 5.21 AS,MVP-20
1958 NYY AL 30 SS 19 96 34 59 3 14 .969 2 4.89 .964 4.91 AS,MVP-20
1959 NYY AL 31 2B 53 268 119 146 3 40 .989 6 5.00 .976 5.25 AS
1959 NYY AL 31 SS 52 203 58 140 5 25 .975 2 3.81 .959 4.84 AS
1959 NYY AL 31 3B 25 74 13 59 2 5 .973 3 2.88 .952 3.19 AS
1960 NYY AL 32 3B 84 219 70 137 12 15 .945 3 2.46 .952 3.14
1960 NYY AL 32 2B 42 157 57 99 1 16 .994 9 3.71 .979 5.45
10 Seasons 2B 599 2950 1385 1518 47 468 .984 46 4.85 .977 5.37
9 Seasons 3B 508 1507 451 992 64 127 .958 11 2.84 .954 3.26
4 Seasons SS 284 1417 516 863 38 220 .973 16 4.86 .962 5.00
10 Seasons TOT 1391 5874 2352 3373 149 815 .975 73 4.12 .967 4.53
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.
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

Hall of Fame
1966 BBWAA ( 1.7%)
1967 BBWAA ( 1.4%)
1968 BBWAA ( 1.4%)
1969 BBWAA ( 0.9%)
1970 BBWAA ( 0.3%)
1971 BBWAA ( 1.1%)
1972 BBWAA ( 1.0%)
1973 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1974 BBWAA ( 0.8%)

All-Star Games
1952 *
1956
1957 *
1958 *
1959-1 *
1959-2

Awards (yr lg award)
1951 AL Rookie of the Year
1958 ML Lou Gehrig Memorial Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1951 AL (9, 19%)
1955 AL (12, 10%)
1956 AL (7, 16%)
1957 AL (5, 49%)
1958 AL (20, 1%)
0.95 Career Shares (256th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1955 AL  4.7 (9th)
1957 AL  5.8 (6th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1951 AL  4.7 (6th)
1955 AL  4.7 (5th)
1956 AL  5.6 (7th)
1957 AL  5.8 (4th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1951 AL  4.5 (7th)
1956 AL  5.0 (6th)
1957 AL  4.3 (7th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1952 AL  1.2 (3rd)
1953 AL  1.0 (5th)
1954 AL  0.9 (7th)
1955 AL  1.5 (2nd)
1957 AL  1.5 (2nd)
1960 AL  1.2 (10th)
Career  9.5 (82nd)

Batting Average s c a p y
1951 AL  .306 (7th)
1956 AL  .311 (9th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1951 AL  .396 (9th)
1956 AL  .405 (7th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1951 AL  .488 (8th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1951 AL  .884 (6th)

Games Played s c a p y
1952 AL  152 (4th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1957 AL  87 (7th)

Triples s c a p y
1953 AL  7 (10th)
1955 AL  8 (4th)
1957 AL  9 (1st)
1959 AL  8 (2nd)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1952 AL  73 (10th)
1953 AL  65 (8th)
1955 AL  77 (5th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1951 AL  14 (4th)

Singles s c a p y
1955 AL  121 (8th)
1957 AL  109 (9th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1951 AL  24 (9th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1951 AL  2.4 (9th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1953 AL  5 (10th)
1954 AL  5 (7th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1951 AL  11 (7th)
1952 AL  16 (4th)
1954 AL  9 (10th)
1957 AL  19 (1st)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1955 AL  7 (5th)
1958 AL  6 (8th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1956 AL  8 (2nd)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1951 AL  14.0 (2nd)
1958 AL  8.4 (10th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1956 AL  3.0 (10th)

Assists† s c a p y
1955 AL  382 (5th)
1957 AL  451 (2nd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1953 AL  23 (4th)

Total Zone Runs† s c a p y
1955 AL  15 (3rd)
1957 AL  14 (5th)
Career  73 (90th)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
1955 AL  126 (5th)
1958 AL  115 (4th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
1955 AL  352 (2nd)
1958 AL  265 (5th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
1955 AL  348 (3rd)
1958 AL  298 (5th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
1958 AL  13 (2nd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1952 AL  117 (4th)
1953 AL  136 (3rd)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1952 AL  124 (4th)
1953 AL  147 (3rd)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1952 AL  273 (2nd)
1953 AL  299 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1953 AL  22 (1st)
1960 AL  12 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1957 AL  121 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1957 AL  247 (2nd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1957 AL  391 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1954 AL  9 (2nd)
1955 AL  12 (1st)
1956 AL  6 (3rd)
1958 AL  3 (4th)
1959 AL  6 (4th)
1960 AL  9 (4th)
Career  46 (26th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
1954 AL  5.60 (3rd)
1955 AL  5.90 (1st)
1958 AL  5.09 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
1954 AL  4.97 (5th)
1955 AL  5.56 (2nd)
1958 AL  4.90 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1954 AL  .989 (1st)
1955 AL  .985 (1st)
Career  .984 (40th)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1955 AL  3 (4th)
1959 AL  3 (5th)
Career  11 (97th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1952 AL  3.53 (2nd)
1953 AL  3.61 (1st)
1960 AL  3.44 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1952 AL  3.39 (1st)
1953 AL  3.28 (4th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1952 AL  .968 (2nd)
Career  .958 (77th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1957 AL  12 (2nd)
1958 AL  2 (5th)
1959 AL  2 (5th)
Career  16 (80th)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1956 AL  5.27 (3rd)
1957 AL  5.46 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1956 AL  4.89 (2nd)
1957 AL  5.27 (2nd)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1956 AL  .970 (1st)
1957 AL  .976 (2nd)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 1 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 21 (988), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 54 (366), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 21 (677), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  5. Placido Polanco (933)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Placido Polanco (925)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Bobby Grich (935)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Bobby Grich (932)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
195628New York Yankees$22,0002/13/57 TSN
195729New York Yankees$29,0002/13/57 TSN
195830New York Yankees$34,0002/12/58 TSN2/22/59 AP: $32,000
195931New York Yankees$35,0001/27/60 TSN2/22/59 AP: $32,000
196032New York Yankees$35,0001/27/60 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$155,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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