Blix Donnelly

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 166 lb

BornJanuary 21, 1914 · Olivia, MN, USA

MLB debutMay 6, 1944

Final gameMay 3, 1951

Seasons8 (1944–1951)

St. Louis Cardinals 1944–1945; Philadelphia Phillies 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947–1950; Boston Braves 1951

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

54.8

48.8

33.3

35.7

71.4

38.1

SHO

85.7

157

64.3

51.2

11.9

61.9

21.4

166.3

41.7

ERA

3.52

32.1

WHIP

1.467

17.9

K/9

4.11

58.3

FIP

4.18

15.5

FIP-

110.8

11.9

ERA+

107.3

45.2

sWAR

1.9

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1944	27	21	16	0	1	0	0	0	3	2	.063	.211	.063	.273	-11.9	-19.8	.168	2.0
1945	31	62	54	3	7	1	0	4	2	5	.130	.161	.148	.309	-23.7	-13.5	.152	1.9
1946	25	28	25	5	7	1	0	2	3	7	.280	.357	.320	.677	96.3	86.4	.332	1.5
1947	38	40	32	0	2	0	0	0	3	7	.063	.143	.063	.205	-49.6	-43.0	.117	2.3
1948	26	49	45	2	10	1	1	1	3	10	.222	.271	.289	.560	48.0	52.8	.263	1.8
1949	23	24	23	2	4	0	0	1	0	3	.174	.174	.174	.348	-21.8	-6.2	.160	-0.2
1950	14	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-6.3	7.0	.182	0.1
1951	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.1	-100.0	.000	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1944	27	4	2	1	2	2	1	61	18	34	45	2	76.3	2.12	1.245	5.31	3.11	87.6	167.0	2.0
1945	31	23	8	10	2	9	4	157	65	87	76	10	166.3	3.52	1.467	4.11	4.18	110.8	107.3	1.9
1946	25	8	4	6	1	2	0	81	31	34	49	8	90.0	3.10	1.278	4.90	3.62	106.4	109.7	1.5
1947	38	10	4	6	5	5	1	113	40	46	31	6	120.7	2.98	1.318	2.31	3.92	98.7	133.1	2.3
1948	26	19	5	7	2	8	1	125	54	49	46	13	131.7	3.69	1.322	3.14	4.27	109.7	105.4	1.8
1949	23	10	2	1	0	1	0	84	44	40	36	7	78.3	5.06	1.583	4.14	4.34	108.0	79.5	-0.2
1950	14	1	2	4	0	0	0	30	10	10	10	5	21.0	4.29	1.905	4.29	6.03	149.6	94.0	0.1
1951	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	6	6	3	1	7.3	7.36	1.909	3.68	6.20	167.0	50.4	-0.2

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

190

230

201

RBI

.1592

OBP

.2140

SLG

.1841

OPS

.3981

Pitching

G (P)

190

SHO

692

SO (P)

296

BB allowed

306

ERA

3.487

WHIP

1.3952

K/9

3.85

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	RBI	BB	TB
1949-07-18	PIT @ PHI Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	0	3
1946-09-15	PIT @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	0	3
1948-05-17	SF @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	3
1945-05-16	STL @ ATL Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
1945-06-27	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-08-11	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	3	7	2
1944-10-05	BAL @ STL Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	1	7	0
1945-05-21	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	4	6	0
1945-06-08	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	2	0	3	6	0
1945-07-06	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	4	6	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.