MLB / Players

Orval Overall

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 214 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1881 · Farmersville, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1905

Final gameJuly 29, 1913

Seasons7 (1905–1913)

Cincinnati Reds 1905; Chicago Cubs 1906; Cincinnati Reds 1906; Chicago Cubs 1907–1910; Chicago Cubs 1913

Percentile snapshot

1909 season — qualified pitchers

77.4

79.8

90.5

38.1

91.7

78.6

SHO

100

204

32.1

61.9

21.4

205

100

285.0

85.7

ERA

1.42

92.9

WHIP

.996

88.1

K/9

6.47

96.4

FIP

1.68

97.6

FIP-

65.7

97.6

ERA+

180.0

95.2

sWAR

7.8

97.6

of 85 qualified 1909 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

122.5

91.8

sWAR

26.2

95.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1905	42	129	117	8	17	3	2	0	10	5	28	2	.145	.194	.205	.399	9.0	13.8	.198	4.5
1906	31	89	84	10	15	3	0	0	4	2	18	1	.179	.198	.214	.412	17.2	27.1	.202	2.0
1907	36	105	94	6	20	4	2	0	9	3	11	0	.213	.237	.298	.535	58.1	67.4	.259	5.9
1908	38	84	70	3	9	1	1	0	9	5	9	1	.129	.197	.171	.369	14.4	17.9	.191	3.5
1909	38	107	96	7	22	6	1	2	11	7	20	0	.229	.282	.375	.657	99.2	104.7	.317	7.8
1910	25	53	41	4	5	1	0	0	1	5	6	0	.122	.234	.146	.380	20.3	13.4	.210	1.8
1913	11	27	24	1	6	2	0	0	2	2	3	0	.250	.308	.333	.641	81.8	82.9	.307	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1905	42	39	18	23	0	32	2	290	101	147	173	4	318.0	2.86	1.374	4.90	3.18	97.6	114.0	4.5
1906	31	24	16	8	1	19	2	193	69	97	127	2	226.3	2.74	1.281	5.05	2.64	98.5	97.4	2.0
1907	36	30	23	7	3	26	8	201	50	69	141	3	268.3	1.68	1.006	4.73	2.00	81.2	147.1	5.9
1908	37	27	15	11	4	16	4	165	48	78	167	3	225.0	1.92	1.080	6.68	1.71	72.8	122.2	3.5
1909	38	32	20	11	3	23	9	204	45	80	205	1	285.0	1.42	.996	6.47	1.68	65.7	180.0	7.8
1910	23	21	12	6	1	11	4	106	43	54	92	2	144.7	2.68	1.106	5.72	2.43	83.2	109.1	1.8
1913	11	9	4	5	0	6	1	73	25	26	30	1	68.0	3.31	1.456	3.97	3.12	97.6	96.7	0.7

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

221

594

526

RBI

.1787

OBP

.2272

SLG

.2510

OPS

.4782

Pitching

G (P)

218

182

108

133

286th-most career CG

SHO

111th-most career SHO

1,535

SO (P)

935

BB allowed

551

ERA

2.233

15th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1613

94th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.48

497th-highest career K/9

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
1909-07-08	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	5
1909-04-26	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	2	5
1909-07-30	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	1	5
1907-05-14	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3	3
1907-08-23	CHC @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1910-09-20	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	0	4	13
1908-09-30	CHC @ CIN Gameday	8.2	10	6	3	12
1906-06-26	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	11
1908-08-23	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	2	0	5	11
1908-08-31	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	0	2	11

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.