John Donaldson
Kansas City Athletics 1966–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1969; Seattle Pilots 1969; Oakland Athletics 1970; Oakland Athletics 1974
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 15 | 34 | 30 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | .133 | .212 | .133 | .345 | 1.4 | 2.9 | .177 | -0.3 |
| 1967 | 105 | 421 | 377 | 27 | 104 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 28 | 37 | 39 | 6 | 3 | .276 | .343 | .345 | .688 | 109.3 | 106.3 | .322 | 2.1 |
| 1968 | 127 | 419 | 363 | 37 | 80 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 45 | 44 | 5 | 5 | .220 | .307 | .273 | .579 | 84.3 | 79.7 | .284 | 0.9 |
| 1969 | 107 | 393 | 351 | 23 | 80 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 38 | 40 | 6 | 1 | .228 | .303 | .276 | .579 | 60.8 | 63.6 | .275 | -0.4 |
| 1970 | 41 | 98 | 89 | 4 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .247 | .316 | .326 | .642 | 74.6 | 81.5 | .290 | 0.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .133 | .267 | -32.9 | -20.0 | .124 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-07-01 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-08-12 | MIL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1967-09-09 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1968-06-15 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1969-07-01 | MIL @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
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.