Dick Donovan

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornDecember 7, 1927 · Boston, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1950

Final gameJune 12, 1965

Seasons15 (1950–1965)

Boston Braves 1950–1952; Detroit Tigers 1954; Chicago White Sox 1955–1960; Washington Senators 1961; Cleveland Indians 1962–1965

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

4.2

39.4

29.6

28.2

SHO

54.9

211

8.5

100

4.2

15.5

206.0

ERA

4.24

4.2

WHIP

1.160

57.7

K/9

3.67

5.6

FIP

3.83

19.7

FIP-

105.9

26.8

ERA+

85.3

sWAR

0.3

4.2

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.9

53.3

sWAR

25.5

95.5

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	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1950	10	10	6	1	1	0	0	0	4	4	.167	.500	.167	.667	132.8	89.7	.387	-1.0
1951	8	5	3	1	1	1	0	0	2	1	.333	.600	.667	1.267	251.3	251.4	.555	0.0
1952	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.1	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1954	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.6	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1955	40	89	76	10	17	0	1	5	9	26	.224	.330	.263	.593	68.2	61.7	.298	3.7
1956	44	107	90	10	20	4	3	15	14	30	.222	.330	.367	.697	85.2	85.3	.325	4.3
1957	30	92	83	8	12	1	3	10	8	32	.145	.220	.265	.485	28.0	32.9	.230	4.9
1958	34	94	80	5	9	0	0	1	10	33	.113	.228	.113	.341	2.9	-0.9	.186	4.2
1959	31	69	61	4	8	4	1	5	5	32	.131	.197	.246	.443	19.3	22.8	.208	2.0
1960	33	25	23	3	3	1	0	2	1	13	.130	.200	.174	.374	-1.0	3.4	.185	-0.7
1961	24	63	56	6	10	1	1	7	6	23	.179	.258	.250	.508	37.8	37.9	.244	4.9
1962	34	100	89	8	16	1	4	9	7	32	.180	.255	.326	.581	55.9	57.3	.267	3.9
1963	31	74	69	4	9	1	1	2	2	31	.130	.155	.188	.343	-16.5	-3.8	.158	0.3
1964	31	63	48	7	7	0	1	8	10	27	.146	.305	.208	.513	57.9	46.9	.265	0.1
1965	12	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.4	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1950	10	3	0	2	0	0	0	28	27	34	9	4	29.7	8.19	2.090	2.73	7.24	185.5	47.7	-1.0
1951	8	2	0	0	0	0	0	17	8	11	4	0	13.7	5.27	2.049	2.63	4.21	113.4	70.4	0.0
1952	7	2	0	2	1	0	0	18	8	12	6	1	13.0	5.54	2.308	4.15	5.73	160.9	64.3	-0.2
1954	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	7	5	2	1	6.0	10.50	2.333	3.00	6.38	172.0	35.3	-0.4
1955	29	24	15	9	0	11	5	186	69	48	88	17	187.0	3.32	1.251	4.24	3.49	88.1	119.3	3.7
1956	34	31	12	10	0	14	3	212	95	59	120	22	234.7	3.64	1.155	4.60	3.53	85.7	113.1	4.3
1957	28	28	16	6	0	16	2	203	68	45	88	17	220.7	2.77	1.124	3.59	3.32	88.6	135.3	4.9
1958	34	34	15	14	0	16	4	240	83	53	127	23	248.0	3.01	1.181	4.61	3.35	92.0	121.0	4.2
1959	31	29	9	10	0	5	1	171	73	58	71	15	179.7	3.66	1.275	3.56	3.81	101.2	103.0	2.0
1960	33	8	6	1	3	0	0	87	47	25	30	13	78.7	5.38	1.424	3.43	4.74	124.6	70.8	-0.7
1961	23	22	10	10	0	11	2	138	45	35	62	10	168.7	2.40	1.026	3.31	3.21	80.9	165.5	4.9
1962	34	34	20	10	0	16	5	255	100	47	94	23	250.7	3.59	1.205	3.38	3.54	91.2	108.2	3.9
1963	30	30	11	13	0	7	3	211	97	28	84	27	206.0	4.24	1.160	3.67	3.83	105.9	85.3	0.3
1964	30	23	7	9	1	5	0	181	80	29	83	19	158.3	4.55	1.326	4.72	3.56	98.5	79.4	0.1
1965	12	3	1	3	0	0	0	32	15	6	12	6	22.7	5.96	1.676	4.76	5.58	160.4	58.4	-0.6

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

371

801

694

113

RBI

292

.1628

OBP

.2567

SLG

.2478

OPS

.5045

Pitching

G (P)

345

273

440th-most career GS

122

435th-most career W

101

409th-most career CG

SHO

175th-most career SHO

2,017

445th-most career IP

SO (P)

880

BB allowed

495

ERA

3.667

WHIP

1.2308

258th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.93

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1962-05-18	DET @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1962-08-31	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1955-07-03	CWS @ CLE Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
1957-09-20	CWS @ CLE Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	1	5
1956-06-03	CWS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	2	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-07-24	MIN @ CLE Gameday	8.2	7	5	5	3	9	2
1956-09-14	BAL @ CWS Gameday	11.0	7	2	2	2	8	0
1958-07-12	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	5	8	0
1962-08-26	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	8	0
1962-09-04	CLE @ CWS Gameday	12.2	11	3	2	6	7	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

3× 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.