Mike Donlin

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornMay 30, 1878 · Peoria, IL, USA

MLB debutJuly 19, 1899

Final gameOctober 1, 1914

Seasons12 (1899–1914)

St. Louis Perfectos 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900; Baltimore Orioles 1901; Cincinnati Reds 1902–1904; New York Giants 1904–1906; New York Giants 1908; Boston Rustlers 1911; New York Giants 1911; Pittsburgh Pirates 1912; New York Giants 1914

Percentile snapshot

1908 season — qualified batters

155

92.3

654

93.3

593

97.1

82.7

198

88.5

87.5

94.2

RBI

106

98.1

34.6

52.9

82.7

.334

95.2

OBP

.364

SLG

.452

93.3

OPS

.816

93.3

wRC+

156.3

93.3

OPS+

156.5

92.3

wOBA

.389

93.3

sWAR

5.6

94.2

of 105 qualified 1908 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

141.1

96.6

OPS+

146.0

97.2

sWAR

33.6

97.1

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
1899	66	287	266	49	86	9	6	6	27	17	33	20	.323	.366	.470	.836	121.6	128.3	.393	1.3
1900	78	297	276	40	90	8	6	10	48	14	34	14	.326	.361	.507	.868	129.4	138.2	.402	1.9
1901	121	539	476	107	162	23	13	5	67	53	31	33	.340	.409	.475	.883	137.4	143.2	.412	3.7
1902	34	153	143	30	41	5	4	0	9	9	14	9	.287	.333	.378	.711	112.2	114.5	.347	0.6
1903	126	563	496	110	174	25	18	7	67	56	40	26	.351	.420	.516	.936	149.5	155.0	.442	4.8
1904	102	407	368	59	121	18	10	3	52	28	30	22	.329	.383	.457	.839	149.2	152.1	.400	3.4
1905	150	676	606	124	216	31	16	7	80	56	41	33	.356	.413	.495	.908	166.3	170.1	.430	8.2
1906	37	137	121	15	38	5	1	1	14	11	10	9	.314	.371	.397	.768	139.2	139.4	.376	1.2
1908	155	654	593	71	198	26	13	6	106	23	39	30	.334	.364	.452	.816	156.3	156.5	.389	5.6
1911	68	260	234	36	74	16	1	3	35	22	18	9	.316	.375	.432	.807	113.9	115.4	.383	1.4
1912	77	275	244	27	77	9	8	2	35	20	16	8	.316	.370	.443	.812	122.8	125.5	.382	1.4
1914	35	34	31	1	5	1	1	1	3	3	5	0	.161	.235	.355	.590	72.2	77.8	.280	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1899	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	15	13	14	6	1	15.3	7.63	1.891	3.52	5.94	154.3	50.4	1.3
1902	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	2.53	87.4	—	0.6

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

1,049

4,282

3,854

669

1,282

176

173rd-most career 3B

RBI

543

312

311

213

330th-most career SB

.3326

35th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3856

148th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4683

303rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8539

181st-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

7.163

WHIP

1.8367

K/9

3.31

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
1901-06-24	DET @ BAL Gameday	6	5	6	2	2	0	3	0	12
1903-09-22	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	3	3	0	3	0	0	1	9
1903-08-15	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1912-06-15	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	0	4	1	1	0	4	0	7
1901-08-03	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H
1902-10-04	CIN @ PIT Gameday	1.0	1
1901-04-26	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0
1901-04-27	BOS @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0
1901-04-29	BAL @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0
1901-04-30	BAL @ MIN Gameday	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.