John Donaldson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1891 · Glasgow, MO, USA

Seasons8 (1918–1931)

Indianapolis ABCs 1918; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1918; Detroit Stars 1919; Kansas City Monarchs 1920–1924; Kansas City Monarchs 1931

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified batters

0.9

4.3

5.2

RBI

0.9

3.4

78.4

6.9

38.8

.241

5.2

OBP

.313

12.9

SLG

.293

5.2

OPS

.606

5.2

wRC+

73.2

OPS+

66.8

5.2

wOBA

.290

4.3

sWAR

-0.1

7.8

of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 58 PA)

1920 season — qualified pitchers

15.6

18.3

82.6

47.7

14.7

SHO

26.6

82.6

83.5

84.4

25.7

81.7

84.7

15.6

ERA

2.98

61.5

WHIP

1.146

70.6

K/9

5.21

92.7

FIP

2.67

86.2

FIP-

74.3

98.2

ERA+

120.6

72.5

sWAR

3.1

69.7

of 110 qualified 1920 pitchers (min 79 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.6

86.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1918	23	93	80	11	26	4	3	0	13	9	0	1	.325	.393	.450	.843	135.8	143.8	.411	3.5
1919	32	113	94	9	16	0	2	1	13	7	0	0	.170	.235	.245	.480	42.9	35.1	.235	1.3
1920	68	299	268	35	80	12	2	4	41	16	1	10	.299	.338	.403	.741	115.9	122.0	.357	3.1
1921	99	423	380	63	107	11	5	0	48	23	0	14	.282	.324	.337	.661	87.7	86.8	.316	0.8
1922	24	100	90	14	30	4	3	1	16	7	0	3	.333	.381	.478	.859	124.2	129.7	.393	0.7
1923	8	41	37	7	13	3	0	0	5	3	0	0	.351	.415	.432	.847	120.4	121.2	.396	0.3
1924	2	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.200	.333	.200	.533	66.3	48.2	.284	0.0
1931	18	69	58	10	14	1	1	0	4	5	2	1	.241	.313	.293	.606	73.2	66.8	.290	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1918	15	12	7	6	0	11	3	112	27	32	57	114.3	2.13	1.259	4.49	2.82	82.9	160.1	3.5
1919	11	10	5	5	0	9	2	68	23	30	39	85.0	2.44	1.153	4.13	2.68	81.6	134.8	1.3
1920	12	8	6	3	1	7	1	78	28	19	49	84.7	2.98	1.146	5.21	2.67	74.3	120.6	3.1
1921	8	2	0	2	1	1	0	33	20	10	14	34.7	5.19	1.240	3.63	3.51	88.7	76.2	0.8

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

274

1,145

1,012

149

287

RBI

140

.2836

OBP

.3330

SLG

.3676

OPS

.7006

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

319

SO (P)

159

BB allowed

ERA

2.768

WHIP

1.1987

K/9

4.49

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
1920-06-15	SLS @ KCM Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	3	0	6
1922-06-14	CUB @ KCM Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	2	0	6
1920-06-28	CHG @ KCM Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	4	1	6
1921-05-02	SLS @ KCM Gameday	6	2	3	0	1	0	2	0	5
1921-05-03	SLS @ KCM Gameday	5	3	3	2	0	0	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1920-07-11	KCM @ DTS Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	9
1920-08-09	DAY @ KCM Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	2	7
1920-08-15	KCM @ DTS Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	1	6
1920-08-29	DTS @ KCM Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	3	6
1920-09-21	CUB @ KCM Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	2	6

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.