MLB / Players

Darby O'Brien

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 186 lb

BornSeptember 1, 1863 · Peoria, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1887

Final gameOctober 15, 1892

Seasons6 (1887–1892)

New York Metropolitans 1887; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1888–1890; Brooklyn Grooms 1891–1892

Percentile snapshot

1892 season — qualified batters

122

11.6

522

15.9

490

20.3

119

21.7

15.9

RBI

26.1

5.8

14.5

89.9

.243

30.4

OBP

.289

18.8

SLG

.298

18.8

OPS

.587

14.5

wRC+

79.5

17.4

OPS+

77.3

14.5

wOBA

.287

17.4

sWAR

-0.2

5.8

of 70 qualified 1892 batters (min 489 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.3

62.2

OPS+

114.5

sWAR

11.6

88.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1887	127	566	522	97	157	30	13	5	73	40	42	49	.301	.355	.437	.792	112.0	118.8	.371	2.3
1888	136	569	532	105	149	27	6	2	65	30	61	55	.280	.327	.365	.692	114.6	121.1	.331	2.4
1889	136	644	567	146	170	30	11	5	80	61	76	91	.300	.384	.418	.802	121.4	127.8	.385	3.4
1890	85	386	350	78	110	28	6	2	63	32	43	38	.314	.378	.446	.824	129.6	139.6	.393	2.6
1891	103	441	395	79	100	18	6	5	57	39	53	31	.253	.331	.367	.698	102.0	103.0	.338	1.1
1892	122	522	490	72	119	14	5	1	56	29	52	57	.243	.289	.298	.587	79.5	77.3	.287	-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
1887	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.0	0.00	2.000	0.00	6.45	150.3	—	2.3

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

709

3,128

2,856

577

805

147

RBI

394

231

327

321

146th-most career SB

.2819

OBP

.3443

SLG

.3873

OPS

.7316

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

2.0000

K/9

0.00

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.