Ken O'Dea
Chicago Cubs 1935–1938; New York Giants 1939–1941; St. Louis Cardinals 1942–1945; Boston Braves 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1946
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 76 | 231 | 202 | 30 | 52 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 38 | 26 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .345 | .431 | .776 | 109.8 | 109.1 | .353 | 1.6 |
| 1936 | 80 | 230 | 189 | 36 | 58 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 38 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .307 | .423 | .423 | .846 | 135.2 | 128.6 | .400 | 2.2 |
| 1937 | 83 | 247 | 219 | 31 | 66 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 24 | 26 | 1 | 0 | .301 | .370 | .434 | .804 | 117.1 | 115.8 | .371 | 1.9 |
| 1938 | 86 | 262 | 247 | 22 | 65 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 12 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .263 | .297 | .356 | .654 | 73.6 | 77.9 | .301 | 0.6 |
| 1939 | 52 | 109 | 97 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .175 | .252 | .278 | .531 | 37.8 | 42.1 | .253 | -0.3 |
| 1940 | 48 | 114 | 96 | 9 | 23 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .348 | .302 | .650 | 85.8 | 80.0 | .317 | 0.4 |
| 1941 | 59 | 98 | 89 | 13 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .278 | .393 | .672 | 81.0 | 86.1 | .311 | 0.2 |
| 1942 | 58 | 211 | 192 | 22 | 45 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 17 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .297 | .359 | .656 | 84.5 | 88.2 | .311 | 0.8 |
| 1943 | 71 | 227 | 203 | 15 | 57 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 19 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .281 | .345 | .399 | .744 | 114.5 | 114.4 | .354 | 1.6 |
| 1944 | 85 | 310 | 265 | 35 | 66 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 37 | 37 | 29 | 1 | 0 | .249 | .343 | .374 | .717 | 105.7 | 103.5 | .341 | 1.8 |
| 1945 | 100 | 362 | 307 | 36 | 78 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 43 | 50 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .359 | .365 | .723 | 105.5 | 102.0 | .350 | 2.2 |
| 1946 | 34 | 109 | 89 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .157 | .286 | .213 | .499 | 43.8 | 41.9 | .261 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-09-21 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1936-06-12 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 1935-06-22 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1942-05-01 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1935-06-12 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-04-16 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-18 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-19 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-20 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-21 | CIN @ CHC 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.