Billy O'Dell

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1933 · Whitmire, SC, USA

MLB debutJune 20, 1954

Final gameSeptember 12, 1967

Seasons13 (1954–1967)

Baltimore Orioles 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1956–1959; San Francisco Giants 1960–1964; Milwaukee Braves 1965; Atlanta Braves 1966; Pittsburgh Pirates 1966–1967

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

43.7

60.6

56.3

53.5

63.4

47.9

SHO

54.9

218

45.1

32.4

116

32.4

71.8

222.3

50.7

ERA

3.16

53.5

WHIP

1.295

26.8

K/9

4.70

19.7

FIP

3.31

56.3

FIP-

102.3

40.8

ERA+

102.5

39.4

sWAR

2.8

52.1

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.4

sWAR

23.6

94.9

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.4	-100.0	.000	0.3
1956	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.1	-100.0	.000	0.3
1957	37	40	34	3	5	0	0	1	1	8	0	0	.147	.171	.147	.318	-20.1	-9.0	.154	2.7
1958	42	82	72	5	8	2	1	1	6	27	2	0	.111	.179	.181	.360	-2.1	2.8	.176	3.6
1959	43	66	60	5	5	0	1	2	4	18	1	1	.083	.141	.133	.274	-28.4	-22.8	.136	3.5
1960	49	70	56	8	6	0	0	0	11	19	1	1	.107	.254	.107	.361	19.2	6.8	.203	2.9
1961	49	45	39	1	4	0	0	2	1	10	0	0	.103	.122	.103	.225	-47.3	-38.2	.107	1.5
1962	49	106	90	7	12	0	0	6	6	29	1	1	.133	.188	.133	.321	-14.2	-11.0	.161	3.7
1963	47	87	78	6	16	3	0	3	4	23	0	2	.205	.244	.244	.487	38.6	42.5	.230	2.8
1964	50	23	22	4	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	.000	.043	.000	.043	-103.1	-86.5	.032	-1.3
1965	62	26	23	1	4	1	0	2	1	11	0	0	.174	.208	.217	.426	14.4	20.4	.200	3.0
1966	63	25	24	2	3	0	0	2	1	8	0	0	.125	.160	.125	.285	-29.7	-20.2	.139	2.4
1967	28	29	26	1	3	0	0	0	2	8	0	0	.115	.179	.115	.294	-19.5	-14.0	.153	-1.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	7	2	1	1	0	1	0	15	5	5	6	0	16.3	2.76	1.224	3.31	2.56	69.9	133.0	0.3
1956	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	6	6	0	8.0	1.13	1.500	6.75	3.26	83.8	345.1	0.3
1957	35	15	4	10	4	2	1	107	42	39	97	12	140.3	2.69	1.040	6.22	3.07	86.4	132.0	2.7
1958	41	25	14	11	8	12	3	201	73	51	137	13	221.3	2.97	1.139	5.57	2.72	76.5	119.6	3.6
1959	38	24	10	12	1	6	2	163	65	67	88	18	199.3	2.93	1.154	3.97	3.78	101.2	127.2	3.5
1960	43	24	8	13	2	6	1	198	72	72	145	16	202.7	3.20	1.332	6.44	3.34	94.2	110.9	2.9
1961	46	14	7	5	2	4	1	132	52	33	110	10	130.3	3.59	1.266	7.60	2.76	71.2	107.9	1.5
1962	43	39	19	14	0	20	2	282	110	66	195	18	280.7	3.53	1.240	6.25	2.94	76.2	109.6	3.7
1963	36	33	14	10	1	10	3	218	78	70	116	14	222.3	3.16	1.295	4.70	3.31	102.3	102.5	2.8
1964	36	8	8	7	2	1	0	82	51	35	54	10	85.0	5.40	1.376	5.72	4.39	123.2	65.9	-1.3
1965	62	1	10	6	18	0	0	87	27	30	78	10	111.3	2.18	1.051	6.31	3.26	92.0	162.5	3.0
1966	61	2	5	5	10	0	0	118	33	41	67	6	112.7	2.64	1.411	5.35	3.43	94.3	137.6	2.4
1967	27	11	5	6	0	1	0	88	56	41	34	10	86.7	5.82	1.488	3.53	4.90	144.3	58.3	-1.8

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

530

603

528

RBI

171

.1250

OBP

.1834

SLG

.1477

OPS

.3311

Pitching

G (P)

479

199

105

100

389th-most career SV

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,817

SO (P)

1,133

454th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

556

ERA

3.294

305th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2400

292nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.61

471st-highest career K/9

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	BB	TB
1959-05-19	CWS @ BAL Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1958-05-24	BAL @ CWS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	1	4
1963-09-26	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	0	3
1963-07-01	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
1963-07-10	SF @ PHI Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1961-07-04	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	1	13	1
1962-06-29	PHI @ SF Gameday	12.0	8	3	3	2	12	0
1960-07-02	SF @ PHI Gameday	10.0	7	2	2	1	11	2
1957-06-09	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	11	0
1962-09-02	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	11	4	2	0	11	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.

Honors

2× 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.