John O'Donoghue

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 203 lb

BornOctober 7, 1939 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1963

Final gameJune 22, 1971

Seasons9 (1963–1971)

Kansas City Athletics 1963–1965; Cleveland Indians 1966–1967; Baltimore Orioles 1968; Seattle Pilots 1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970; Montreal Expos 1970–1971

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

18.1

34.7

12.5

4.2

11.1

SHO

19.4

183

62.5

58.3

41.7

1.4

79.2

177.7

15.3

ERA

3.95

18.1

WHIP

1.402

8.3

K/9

4.15

8.3

FIP

3.70

23.6

FIP-

106.3

16.7

ERA+

88.2

13.9

sWAR

1.0

18.1

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.5

72.3

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.7	-100.0	.000	0.2
1964	40	62	55	4	13	0	1	5	0	18	0	.236	.236	.291	.527	32.6	43.1	.236	-0.5
1965	39	62	55	7	12	1	1	1	1	12	0	.218	.232	.291	.523	40.4	47.6	.238	1.0
1966	32	33	33	2	5	1	0	1	0	9	0	.152	.152	.182	.333	-19.3	-4.2	.150	0.4
1967	33	44	40	3	4	0	1	4	3	16	1	.100	.163	.175	.338	-8.4	0.0	.166	1.3
1968	16	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.7	-100.0	.000	-0.8
1969	55	16	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	5	0	.077	.077	.154	.231	-59.2	-36.7	.102	1.2
1970	34	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	-53.8	-58.2	.107	-0.2
1971	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1963	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	1	2	1	0	6.0	1.50	1.333	1.50	3.13	80.9	257.8	0.2
1964	39	32	10	14	0	2	1	202	95	65	79	24	173.7	4.92	1.537	4.09	4.52	119.4	76.9	-0.5
1965	34	30	9	18	0	4	1	183	78	66	82	15	177.7	3.95	1.402	4.15	3.70	106.3	88.2	1.0
1966	32	13	6	8	0	2	0	109	46	23	49	13	108.0	3.83	1.222	4.08	3.79	110.7	89.3	0.4
1967	33	17	8	9	2	5	2	120	47	33	81	10	130.7	3.24	1.171	5.58	2.98	92.0	100.0	1.3
1968	16	0	0	0	2	0	0	34	15	7	11	2	22.0	6.14	1.864	4.50	3.36	114.0	48.0	-0.8
1969	55	0	2	2	6	0	0	58	23	37	48	5	70.0	2.96	1.357	6.17	3.63	100.1	122.7	1.2
1970	34	3	4	3	0	0	0	49	26	20	19	6	45.7	5.12	1.511	3.74	4.96	126.4	76.5	-0.2
1971	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	9	7	7	3	17.3	4.67	1.500	3.63	5.20	148.5	74.9	-0.1

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

263

228

206

RBI

.1699

OBP

.1896

SLG

.2282

OPS

.4178

Pitching

G (P)

257

SHO

751

SO (P)

377

BB allowed

260

ERA

4.075

WHIP

1.3848

K/9

4.52

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	HR	RBI	TB
1967-06-01	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	4	4
1964-06-09	ATH @ TEX Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	4
1965-07-25	ATH @ TEX Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1965-06-22	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1964-05-03	MIN @ ATH Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-08-19	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	2	11	0
1966-05-22	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	3	7	0
1967-09-10	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	7	0
1967-07-14	CLE @ NYY Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	1	6	1
1964-07-12	CWS @ ATH Gameday	7.1	8	3	3	4	6	2

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.