Darold Knowles

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 9, 1941 · Brunswick, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1965

Final gameApril 18, 1980

Seasons16 (1965–1980)

Baltimore Orioles 1965; Philadelphia Phillies 1966; Washington Senators 1967–1970; Oakland Athletics 1971; Washington Senators 1971; Oakland Athletics 1972–1974; Chicago Cubs 1975–1976; Texas Rangers 1977; Montreal Expos 1978; St. Louis Cardinals 1979–1980

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.4

77.6

sWAR

15.9

91.5

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	5	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.4	-100.0	.000	-1.0
1966	69	16	16	0	4	0	2	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	33.7	40.4	.228	1.7
1967	61	17	16	0	1	0	1	1	6	.063	.118	.063	.180	-56.3	-44.6	.098	1.7
1968	32	5	4	0	1	1	2	0	1	.250	.250	.750	1.000	204.3	197.0	.438	0.9
1969	53	16	13	1	1	0	2	3	8	.077	.250	.077	.327	12.1	-2.7	.200	2.1
1970	71	23	20	0	1	0	1	0	9	.050	.095	.050	.145	-71.5	-57.9	.080	3.2
1971	55	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-65.4	-41.9	.093	0.4
1972	54	14	12	0	3	0	1	1	3	.250	.308	.250	.558	75.2	73.1	.275	2.1
1973	53	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	—	.000	—	—	-121.6	—	.000	1.6
1974	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1975	58	18	15	0	1	0	1	1	8	.067	.125	.067	.192	-62.6	-46.7	.107	-1.4
1976	58	12	7	0	1	0	0	3	0	.143	.400	.143	.543	86.9	53.5	.322	1.6
1977	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
1978	60	7	6	1	1	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-19.6	-5.5	.156	1.7
1979	48	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.5	-100.0	.000	0.3
1980	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	14	15	10	12	2	14.7	9.20	1.636	7.36	5.19	149.4	37.8	-1.0
1966	69	0	6	5	13	0	0	98	34	46	88	4	100.3	3.05	1.435	7.89	3.02	84.2	117.6	1.7
1967	61	1	6	8	14	0	0	91	34	52	85	5	113.3	2.70	1.262	6.75	2.98	94.2	117.0	1.7
1968	32	0	1	1	4	0	0	38	10	12	37	0	41.3	2.18	1.210	8.06	1.38	47.1	134.4	0.9
1969	53	0	9	2	13	0	0	73	21	31	59	8	84.3	2.24	1.233	6.30	3.44	98.3	156.2	2.1
1970	71	0	2	14	27	0	0	100	27	58	71	4	119.3	2.04	1.324	5.35	3.23	90.2	176.0	3.2
1971	55	0	7	4	9	0	0	57	27	22	56	5	68.0	3.57	1.162	7.41	2.77	82.3	94.1	0.4
1972	54	0	5	1	11	0	0	49	10	37	36	1	65.7	1.37	1.310	4.93	3.06	106.0	210.8	2.1
1973	52	5	6	8	9	1	1	87	34	49	46	7	99.0	3.09	1.374	4.18	4.15	115.5	116.2	1.6
1974	45	1	3	3	3	0	0	61	25	35	18	6	53.3	4.22	1.800	3.04	5.44	161.2	80.0	0.0
1975	58	0	6	9	15	0	0	107	57	36	63	3	88.3	5.81	1.619	6.42	2.96	77.4	65.7	-1.4
1976	58	0	5	7	9	0	0	61	23	22	39	6	71.7	2.89	1.158	4.90	3.65	96.2	131.4	1.6
1977	42	0	5	2	4	0	0	50	18	23	14	3	50.3	3.22	1.450	2.50	4.45	109.1	126.7	1.0
1978	60	0	3	3	6	0	0	63	19	30	34	5	72.0	2.38	1.292	4.25	3.83	108.7	148.4	1.7
1979	48	0	2	5	6	0	0	54	22	17	22	5	48.7	4.07	1.459	4.07	4.17	110.4	92.9	0.3
1980	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	1	1.7	10.80	1.800	5.40	9.35	251.7	34.4	-0.1

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

766

146

125

RBI

.1200

OBP

.1838

SLG

.1360

OPS

.3198

Pitching

G (P)

765

70th-most career G (P)

143

100th-most career SV

SHO

1,092

SO (P)

681

BB allowed

480

ERA

3.115

218th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3608

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	H	3B	RBI	TB
1968-06-01	TEX @ CLE Gameday	2	1	1	2	3
1966-06-29	PHI @ NYM Gameday	1	1	0	1	1
1966-07-20	PHI @ HOU Gameday	1	1	0	1	1
1967-07-17	CLE @ TEX Gameday	2	1	0	1	1
1970-06-13	TEX @ CWS Gameday	1	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-08-09	TEX @ MIN Gameday	10.0	3	0	0	2	10	0
1967-05-06	TEX @ LAA Gameday	6.0	2	0	0	3	6	0
1970-06-19	TEX @ BAL Gameday	5.2	2	1	1	3	6	0
1967-06-12	CWS @ TEX Gameday	5.1	3	0	0	3	6	0
1965-09-02	CWS @ BAL Gameday	6.0	6	5	5	1	5	1

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× 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.