Bob O'Farrell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 19, 1896 · Waukegan, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1915

Final gameSeptember 23, 1935

Seasons21 (1915–1935)

Chicago Cubs 1915–1925; St. Louis Cardinals 1925–1927; New York Giants 1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1928; New York Giants 1929–1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1933; Chicago Cubs 1934; Cincinnati Reds 1934; St. Louis Cardinals 1935

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified batters

147

78.5

567

68.4

492

65.2

50.6

144

68.4

77.2

74.7

68.4

RBI

71.5

86.1

11.4

3.8

47.5

.293

43.7

OBP

.371

53.2

SLG

.433

58.2

OPS

.804

58.9

wRC+

114.4

61.4

OPS+

113.0

57.6

wOBA

.374

55.1

sWAR

4.1

of 159 qualified 1926 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.2

43.7

OPS+

98.2

37.9

sWAR

27.3

95.9

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1915	2	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	93.3	97.6	.316	0.0
1916	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1917	3	9	8	1	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	.375	.444	.625	1.069	223.9	217.1	.492	0.2
1918	52	125	113	9	32	7	3	1	14	10	15	0	0	.283	.347	.425	.772	134.7	134.2	.368	1.4
1919	49	135	125	11	27	4	2	0	9	7	10	2	0	.216	.258	.280	.538	58.0	62.6	.258	0.2
1920	94	312	270	29	67	11	4	3	19	34	23	1	0	.248	.332	.352	.684	97.3	94.9	.329	1.7
1921	96	281	260	32	65	12	7	4	32	18	14	2	0	.250	.299	.396	.695	78.9	81.9	.316	0.9
1922	128	481	392	68	127	18	8	4	60	79	34	5	3	.324	.439	.441	.880	131.8	125.9	.414	4.5
1923	131	526	452	73	144	25	4	12	84	67	38	10	3	.319	.408	.471	.879	133.8	131.9	.406	5.0
1924	71	221	183	25	44	6	2	3	28	30	13	2	0	.240	.347	.344	.692	91.0	86.5	.330	1.0
1925	111	391	339	39	92	13	3	3	35	48	31	0	1	.271	.365	.354	.719	87.0	82.9	.340	1.4
1926	147	567	492	63	144	30	9	7	68	61	44	1	0	.293	.371	.433	.804	114.4	113.0	.374	4.1
1927	61	203	178	19	47	10	1	0	18	23	22	3	0	.264	.348	.331	.680	85.0	81.5	.327	0.7
1928	91	240	185	29	37	7	0	2	24	47	25	4	0	.200	.362	.270	.632	79.3	67.9	.322	0.8
1929	91	282	248	35	76	14	3	4	42	28	30	3	0	.306	.384	.435	.819	105.9	104.3	.375	1.8
1930	94	288	249	37	75	16	4	4	54	31	21	1	0	.301	.381	.446	.827	103.7	102.1	.371	1.6
1931	85	197	174	11	39	8	3	1	19	21	23	0	0	.224	.311	.322	.633	74.2	72.9	.301	0.7
1932	50	80	67	7	16	3	0	0	8	11	10	0	0	.239	.354	.284	.638	84.9	76.8	.310	0.5
1933	55	179	163	16	39	4	2	2	20	15	25	0	0	.239	.303	.325	.629	75.3	76.3	.297	0.5
1934	66	210	190	13	45	11	3	1	14	14	30	0	0	.237	.289	.342	.631	68.5	70.5	.290	0.4
1935	14	12	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	-40.6	-51.5	.124	-0.1

Career totals

1,492

4,742

4,101

517

1,120

201

RBI

549

547

408

.2731

OBP

.3602

472nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3877

OPS

.7479

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
1923-06-14	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	2	5	0	11
1923-06-08	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	1	4	0	9
1921-09-14	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	1	0	8
1933-08-28	STL @ SF Gameday	3	3	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1926-05-21	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	2	1	0	4	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-18	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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

1× Most Valuable Player

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.