Jim O'Rourke

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 1, 1850 · Bridgeport, CT, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 1872

Final gameSeptember 22, 1904

Seasons23 (1872–1904)

Middletown Mansfields 1872; Boston Red Stockings 1873–1875; Boston Red Caps 1876–1878; Providence Grays 1879; Boston Red Caps 1880; Buffalo Bisons 1881–1884; New York Giants 1885–1892; Washington Senators 1893; New York Giants 1904

Percentile snapshot

1893 season — qualified batters

129

76.6

604

80.5

547

84.4

20.8

157

71.4

58.4

6.5

22.1

RBI

77.9

37.7

31.2

22.1

.287

49.4

OBP

.354

37.7

SLG

.356

24.7

OPS

.711

27.3

wRC+

91.4

27.3

OPS+

88.9

27.3

wOBA

.346

sWAR

0.8

19.5

of 78 qualified 1893 batters (min 403 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

124.5

85.4

OPS+

135.1

93.4

sWAR

56.4

99.2

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
1872	23	103	99	25	27	5	0	0	16	4	0	1	0	.273	.301	.323	.624	96.8	92.2	.291	0.3
1873	57	295	280	79	98	21	2	1	49	15	3	9	5	.350	.383	.450	.833	125.9	145.4	.382	1.7
1874	70	335	331	82	104	15	8	5	61	4	5	11	2	.314	.322	.453	.776	125.7	145.2	.351	1.8
1875	75	367	358	97	106	13	7	6	72	9	6	17	5	.296	.313	.422	.735	131.0	151.5	.334	2.7
1876	70	327	312	61	102	17	3	2	43	15	17	0	0	.327	.358	.420	.778	138.2	157.5	.361	2.7
1877	61	285	265	68	96	14	4	0	23	20	9	0	0	.362	.407	.445	.852	150.5	167.4	.394	2.7
1878	60	260	255	44	71	17	7	1	29	5	21	0	0	.278	.292	.412	.704	120.2	129.0	.323	1.6
1879	81	375	362	69	126	19	9	1	46	13	10	0	0	.348	.371	.459	.829	151.6	170.8	.372	3.3
1880	86	384	363	71	100	20	11	6	45	21	8	0	0	.275	.315	.441	.756	139.6	151.5	.340	3.1
1881	83	375	348	71	105	21	7	0	30	27	18	0	0	.302	.352	.402	.754	128.3	135.0	.348	2.8
1882	84	383	370	62	104	15	6	2	37	13	13	0	0	.281	.305	.370	.676	111.2	115.6	.303	2.0
1883	94	451	436	102	143	29	8	1	38	15	13	0	0	.328	.350	.438	.788	126.3	136.2	.349	3.0
1884	108	502	467	119	162	33	7	5	63	35	17	0	0	.347	.392	.480	.872	152.5	173.2	.393	4.8
1885	112	517	477	119	143	21	16	5	42	40	21	0	0	.300	.354	.442	.796	141.5	155.9	.367	4.9
1886	105	479	440	106	136	26	6	1	34	39	21	14	0	.309	.365	.402	.768	125.6	132.8	.357	3.7
1887	103	438	397	73	113	15	13	3	88	36	11	46	0	.285	.352	.411	.762	108.7	110.7	.351	2.2
1888	107	436	409	50	112	16	6	4	50	24	30	25	0	.274	.319	.372	.690	115.4	119.0	.320	2.1
1889	128	543	502	89	161	36	7	3	81	40	34	33	0	.321	.372	.438	.810	118.4	124.8	.382	2.5
1890	111	519	478	112	172	37	5	9	115	33	20	23	0	.360	.410	.515	.925	132.4	145.7	.430	3.4
1891	136	587	555	92	164	28	7	5	95	26	29	19	0	.295	.334	.398	.732	107.1	112.7	.348	2.0
1892	115	483	448	62	136	28	5	0	56	30	30	16	0	.304	.354	.388	.742	117.9	124.1	.358	2.2
1893	129	604	547	75	157	22	5	2	95	49	26	15	0	.287	.354	.356	.711	91.4	88.9	.346	0.8
1904	1	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	49.8	54.0	.239	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1883	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	5	1	1	0	7.0	6.43	1.571	1.29	3.39	108.1	48.8	3.0
1884	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	7	4	1	3	0	12.7	2.84	.632	2.13	2.62	88.0	104.8	4.8

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

1,999

254th-most career G

9,052

160th-most career PA

8,503

107th-most career AB

1,729

25th-most career R

2,639

80th-most career H

468

93rd-most career 2B

149

51st-most career 3B

RBI

1,208

153rd-most career RBI

513

362

229

289th-most career SB

.3104

116th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3522

SLG

.4223

OPS

.7745

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.119

WHIP

.9661

K/9

1.83

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	TB
1904-09-22	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	1
1904-04-14	SF @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0
1904-04-15	SF @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0
1904-04-16	SF @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0
1904-04-18	SF @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1904-04-14	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1904-04-15	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1904-04-16	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1904-04-18	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1904-04-19	SF @ PHI 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

Hall of Fame, 1945 (Old Timers)

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