MLB / Players

Jim O'Toole

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornJanuary 10, 1937 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 26, 1958

Final gameJuly 22, 1967

Seasons10 (1958–1967)

Cincinnati Redlegs 1958–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1966; Chicago White Sox 1967

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified pitchers

4.5

38.8

68.7

89.6

44.8

SHO

61.2

194

61.2

80.6

74.6

145

55.2

220.0

53.7

ERA

2.66

85.1

WHIP

1.114

76.1

K/9

5.93

53.7

FIP

2.60

92.5

FIP-

71.7

ERA+

136.5

88.1

sWAR

4.7

79.1

of 68 qualified 1964 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.1

61.7

sWAR

18.5

92.9

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	3B	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1958	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.9	-100.0	.000	0.3
1959	29	44	37	4	5	0	0	3	4	11	0	.135	.220	.135	.355	-5.7	-3.7	.183	-0.3
1960	34	75	66	3	7	0	0	2	2	30	0	.106	.132	.106	.238	-48.5	-34.0	.116	1.6
1961	39	101	93	7	16	1	0	6	3	29	0	.172	.206	.183	.389	-0.8	4.4	.184	5.1
1962	36	95	91	3	10	0	0	4	1	36	0	.110	.120	.110	.229	-53.0	-38.2	.108	3.5
1963	33	81	74	4	11	0	0	2	1	29	1	.149	.160	.149	.309	-26.4	-10.8	.144	3.5
1964	30	83	70	2	7	0	1	2	6	27	0	.100	.171	.129	.300	-20.4	-14.9	.153	4.7
1965	29	51	45	1	4	0	0	0	2	14	0	.089	.146	.089	.235	-45.3	-33.7	.123	-2.3
1966	25	49	47	1	6	1	0	1	1	19	0	.128	.146	.149	.295	-37.6	-20.4	.137	1.8
1967	15	14	13	0	1	0	0	1	0	5	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-73.8	-53.2	.071	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
1958	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	1	5	4	0	7.0	1.29	1.286	5.14	3.51	84.4	323.3	0.3
1959	28	19	5	8	0	3	1	144	74	73	68	14	129.3	5.15	1.678	4.73	4.76	117.5	78.7	-0.3
1960	34	31	12	12	1	7	2	198	83	66	124	14	196.3	3.80	1.345	5.68	3.38	88.5	100.5	1.6
1961	39	35	19	9	2	11	3	229	87	93	178	16	252.7	3.10	1.274	6.34	3.22	79.4	130.8	5.1
1962	36	34	16	13	0	11	3	222	98	87	170	20	251.7	3.50	1.228	6.08	3.50	87.3	114.4	3.5
1963	33	32	17	14	0	12	5	208	75	57	146	13	234.3	2.88	1.131	5.61	2.74	82.3	115.7	3.5
1964	30	30	17	7	0	9	3	194	65	51	145	8	220.0	2.66	1.114	5.93	2.60	71.7	136.5	4.7
1965	29	22	3	10	1	2	0	154	84	47	71	14	127.7	5.92	1.574	5.01	4.12	110.3	63.1	-2.3
1966	25	24	5	7	0	2	0	139	56	49	96	16	142.0	3.55	1.324	6.08	3.88	100.3	109.1	1.8
1967	15	10	4	3	0	1	1	53	17	18	37	4	54.3	2.82	1.307	6.13	3.06	99.5	109.4	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

271

595

538

RBI

202

.1245

OBP

.1589

SLG

.1320

OPS

.2909

Pitching

G (P)

270

238

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

1,615

SO (P)

1,039

BB allowed

546

ERA

3.566

498th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2945

K/9

5.79

418th-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
1964-05-17	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	1	1	0	3
1960-06-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	0	1	2
1962-04-18	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	2	0	1	2
1961-04-11	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	0	0	2
1961-07-02	CIN @ ATL Gameday	2	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1962-08-13	ATL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	2	1	0	12
1967-05-13	LAA @ CWS Gameday	10.0	2	0	0	1	11
1959-08-27	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	10
1962-07-03	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	5	10
1964-08-18	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	10

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.