MLB / Players

Paul O'Neill

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornFebruary 25, 1963 · Columbus, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1985

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons17 (1985–2001)

Cincinnati Reds 1985–1992; New York Yankees 1993–2001

Percentile snapshot

2001 season — qualified batters

137

18.6

563

25.6

510

29.5

136

26.9

60.3

14.1

53.2

RBI

44.9

87.2

80.1

60.3

.267

32.7

OBP

.330

28.8

SLG

.459

OPS

.789

44.2

wRC+

106.3

47.4

OPS+

107.0

wOBA

.342

43.6

sWAR

1.7

34.6

of 157 qualified 2001 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.9

80.1

OPS+

121.6

81.7

sWAR

38.2

97.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1985	5	12	12	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.333	.333	.417	.750	105.7	104.9	.342	0.0
1986	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	40.8	-1.1	.250	0.0
1987	84	178	160	24	41	14	1	7	28	18	29	2	1	.256	.331	.488	.819	112.0	110.8	.362	0.5
1988	145	533	485	58	122	25	3	16	73	38	65	8	6	.252	.306	.414	.720	101.2	102.4	.326	1.0
1989	117	480	428	49	118	24	2	15	74	46	64	20	5	.276	.346	.446	.792	123.5	123.1	.358	2.3
1990	145	564	503	59	136	28	0	16	78	53	103	13	11	.270	.339	.421	.761	102.5	105.3	.339	1.3
1991	152	607	532	71	136	36	0	28	91	73	107	12	7	.256	.346	.481	.827	126.1	128.0	.367	3.1
1992	148	584	496	59	122	19	1	14	66	77	85	6	3	.246	.346	.373	.719	100.4	101.5	.329	1.1
1993	141	547	498	71	155	34	1	20	75	44	69	2	4	.311	.367	.504	.871	135.4	136.0	.387	3.5
1994	103	443	368	68	132	25	1	21	83	72	56	5	4	.359	.460	.603	1.064	173.0	177.5	.456	4.8
1995	127	543	460	82	138	30	4	22	96	71	76	1	2	.300	.387	.526	.913	133.8	137.3	.395	3.4
1996	150	660	546	89	165	35	1	19	91	102	76	0	1	.302	.411	.474	.885	126.8	125.1	.392	3.6
1997	149	637	553	89	179	42	0	21	117	75	92	10	7	.324	.399	.514	.912	139.1	139.5	.397	4.4
1998	152	672	602	95	191	40	2	24	116	57	103	15	1	.317	.372	.510	.882	131.8	133.0	.382	4.2
1999	153	675	597	70	170	39	4	19	110	66	89	11	9	.285	.353	.459	.812	109.1	109.3	.357	2.3
2000	142	628	566	79	160	26	0	18	100	51	90	14	9	.283	.336	.424	.760	93.1	94.4	.334	0.9
2001	137	563	510	77	136	33	1	21	70	48	59	22	3	.267	.330	.459	.789	106.3	107.0	.342	1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1987	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	4	2	1	2.0	13.50	3.000	9.00	13.37	316.9	31.2	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

2,053

224th-most career G

8,329

225th-most career PA

7,318

245th-most career AB

1,041

320th-most career R

2,105

236th-most career H

451

109th-most career 2B

281

201st-most career HR

RBI

1,269

132nd-most career RBI

892

188th-most career BB

1,166

259th-most career SO

141

.2876

470th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3628

416th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4702

293rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8330

271st-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

13.500

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

9.00

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	BB	TB
1995-08-31	LAA @ NYY Gameday	5	4	4	0	3	8	0	13
1991-05-11	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	2	2	6	0	12
1991-09-13	HOU @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	3	1	5	1	10
1990-06-02	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	2	1	10
1994-04-14	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	5	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-06-19	CIN @ ATL Gameday	2.0	2	3	3	4	2	1

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

5× 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.