Lefty O'Doul

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 4, 1897 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1919

Final gameSeptember 30, 1934

Seasons11 (1919–1934)

New York Yankees 1919–1920; New York Yankees 1922; Boston Red Sox 1923; New York Giants 1928; Philadelphia Phillies 1929–1930; Brooklyn Robins 1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932–1933; New York Giants 1933–1934

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

148

79.5

657

84.9

595

87.3

120

94.6

219

98.8

74.1

74.7

92.8

RBI

84.3

75.3

45.2

84.3

27.7

.368

97.6

OBP

.423

SLG

.555

OPS

.978

95.2

wRC+

164.4

94.6

OPS+

162.0

wOBA

.433

92.2

sWAR

6.7

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

142.6

97.2

OPS+

140.8

95.8

sWAR

27.9

96.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1919	19	17	16	2	4	0	0	0	1	1	2	1	.250	.294	.250	.544	51.0	53.8	.268	0.0
1920	13	13	12	2	2	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	.167	.231	.250	.481	23.2	26.8	.233	-0.1
1922	8	9	9	0	3	1	0	0	4	0	2	0	.333	.333	.444	.778	95.8	100.6	.352	0.3
1923	36	39	35	2	5	0	0	0	4	2	3	0	.143	.189	.143	.332	-19.6	-12.4	.169	-0.5
1928	114	390	354	67	113	19	4	8	46	30	8	9	.319	.372	.463	.836	117.5	117.9	.382	1.7
1929	154	731	638	152	254	35	6	32	122	76	19	2	.398	.465	.622	1.087	156.5	154.4	.481	6.9
1930	140	606	528	122	202	37	7	22	97	63	21	3	.383	.453	.604	1.057	142.0	140.8	.461	4.7
1931	134	564	512	85	172	32	11	7	75	48	16	5	.336	.396	.482	.879	138.5	136.5	.400	3.9
1932	148	657	595	120	219	32	8	21	90	50	20	11	.368	.423	.555	.978	164.4	162.0	.433	6.7
1933	121	436	388	45	110	14	2	14	56	44	23	3	.284	.361	.438	.799	132.8	130.6	.370	2.7
1934	83	197	177	27	56	4	3	9	46	18	7	2	.316	.383	.525	.908	145.0	146.0	.405	1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1919	3	0	0	0	7	2	4	2	0	5.0	3.60	2.200	3.60	4.13	129.2	88.8	0.0
1920	2	0	0	0	4	2	2	2	0	3.7	4.91	1.636	4.91	4.26	111.5	77.9	-0.1
1922	6	0	0	0	24	6	12	5	0	16.0	3.38	2.250	2.81	4.57	112.8	120.0	0.3
1923	23	1	1	1	69	32	31	10	2	53.0	5.43	1.887	1.70	5.00	124.0	74.2	-0.5

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

970

3,659

3,264

624

1,140

175

113

RBI

542

333

122

.3493

7th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4133

35th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5319

51st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9452

31st-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.867

WHIP

1.9700

K/9

2.20

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	TB
1930-06-21	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	2	3	12
1932-09-08	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	4	10
1930-06-27	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	2	2	0	1	10
1932-08-10	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1933-05-11	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	1	5	0	0	1	5	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-05-23	BAL @ NYY Gameday	2.0	4	5	0	4	3	0
1923-07-15	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4.0	5	2	0	1	2	0
1923-04-21	BOS @ NYY Gameday	3.1	5	5	5	4	2	1
1919-08-23	NYY @ CWS Gameday	3.0	4	2	1	1	2	0
1923-04-24	BOS @ ATH Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	1	2	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

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.