Don Kirkwood
California Angels 1974–1977; Chicago White Sox 1977; Toronto Blue Jays 1978
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1975 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.3 |
| 1976 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.9 |
| 1977 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1978 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 7.3 | 8.59 | 2.455 | 4.91 | 3.93 | 113.8 | 40.3 | -0.4 |
| 1975 | 44 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 29 | 28 | 49 | 6 | 84.0 | 3.11 | 1.345 | 5.25 | 3.32 | 92.7 | 115.2 | 1.3 |
| 1976 | 28 | 26 | 6 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 167 | 81 | 57 | 78 | 12 | 157.7 | 4.62 | 1.421 | 4.45 | 3.72 | 111.1 | 72.4 | -0.9 |
| 1977 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 33 | 19 | 34 | 6 | 57.7 | 5.15 | 1.526 | 5.31 | 3.96 | 98.3 | 78.5 | -0.2 |
| 1978 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 76 | 32 | 25 | 29 | 6 | 68.0 | 4.24 | 1.485 | 3.84 | 3.95 | 101.5 | 91.9 | 0.4 |
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-05-26 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 11.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1976-08-14 | MIL @ LAA Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1976-05-30 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 7.2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1975-06-20 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 4.2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 1976-05-16 | MIN @ LAA Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 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.