Blue Moon Odom
Kansas City Athletics 1964–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1974; Atlanta Braves 1975; Cleveland Indians 1975; Oakland Athletics 1975; Chicago White Sox 1976
Percentile snapshot
1972 season — qualified pitchers
of 85 qualified 1972 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -48.6 | -49.7 | .123 | -1.2 |
| 1965 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1966 | 17 | 35 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .097 | .176 | .097 | .273 | -21.8 | -18.1 | .145 | 1.8 |
| 1967 | 33 | 29 | 28 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | .286 | .310 | .321 | .632 | 88.9 | 89.3 | .295 | -1.2 |
| 1968 | 42 | 89 | 78 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .282 | .282 | .564 | 75.2 | 74.3 | .272 | 4.4 |
| 1969 | 43 | 90 | 79 | 15 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .293 | .506 | .799 | 122.9 | 125.2 | .358 | 5.0 |
| 1970 | 37 | 58 | 54 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .281 | .444 | .725 | 99.0 | 101.3 | .325 | 1.8 |
| 1971 | 37 | 53 | 50 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .192 | .260 | .452 | 19.9 | 29.9 | .211 | -0.1 |
| 1972 | 59 | 72 | 66 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 4 | 2 | .121 | .134 | .227 | .362 | -8.0 | 9.8 | .167 | 2.9 |
| 1973 | 51 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1974 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1975 | 26 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .077 | .154 | .231 | -62.6 | -37.8 | .103 | -2.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 17.0 | 10.06 | 2.353 | 5.29 | 7.05 | 186.2 | 37.6 | -1.2 |
| 1965 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 9.00 | 4.000 | 0.00 | 8.40 | 241.0 | 38.7 | -0.1 |
| 1966 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 70 | 25 | 53 | 47 | 1 | 90.3 | 2.49 | 1.362 | 4.68 | 3.37 | 99.3 | 136.0 | 1.8 |
| 1967 | 29 | 17 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 58 | 68 | 67 | 9 | 103.7 | 5.04 | 1.563 | 5.82 | 4.31 | 135.9 | 63.0 | -1.2 |
| 1968 | 32 | 31 | 16 | 10 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 179 | 63 | 98 | 143 | 9 | 231.3 | 2.45 | 1.197 | 5.56 | 2.85 | 98.4 | 118.3 | 4.4 |
| 1969 | 32 | 32 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 179 | 75 | 112 | 150 | 15 | 231.3 | 2.92 | 1.258 | 5.84 | 3.44 | 99.0 | 119.0 | 5.0 |
| 1970 | 29 | 29 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 128 | 66 | 100 | 88 | 14 | 156.3 | 3.80 | 1.458 | 5.07 | 4.54 | 126.9 | 94.2 | 1.8 |
| 1971 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 147 | 67 | 71 | 69 | 13 | 140.7 | 4.29 | 1.550 | 4.41 | 4.09 | 122.5 | 78.0 | -0.1 |
| 1972 | 31 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 164 | 54 | 87 | 86 | 10 | 194.3 | 2.50 | 1.292 | 3.98 | 3.44 | 119.2 | 115.5 | 2.9 |
| 1973 | 30 | 24 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 153 | 75 | 67 | 83 | 14 | 150.3 | 4.49 | 1.463 | 4.97 | 4.06 | 113.2 | 80.0 | -0.1 |
| 1974 | 34 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 37 | 52 | 52 | 4 | 87.3 | 3.81 | 1.569 | 5.36 | 3.86 | 114.5 | 88.5 | 0.4 |
| 1975 | 25 | 13 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 101 | 62 | 47 | 44 | 7 | 77.3 | 7.22 | 1.914 | 5.12 | 4.50 | 120.8 | 51.7 | -2.5 |
| 1976 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 18 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 28.0 | 5.79 | 1.821 | 5.79 | 4.51 | 126.7 | 61.5 | -0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-05-04 | MIL @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1969-07-15 | ATH @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1972-08-22 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-08-11 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1970-05-24 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-07-29 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 12.1 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 0 |
| 1970-04-20 | KC @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 1 |
| 1972-10-18 | CIN @ ATH Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| 1970-04-16 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 1968-09-06 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.