Red Donahue

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 187 lb

BornJanuary 23, 1873 · Waterbury, CT, USA

MLB debutMay 6, 1893

Final gameSeptember 28, 1906

Seasons13 (1893–1906)

New York Giants 1893; St. Louis Browns 1895–1897; Philadelphia Phillies 1898–1901; St. Louis Browns 1902; Cleveland Naps 1903; St. Louis Browns 1903; Cleveland Naps 1904–1905; Detroit Tigers 1906

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified pitchers

28.4

56.8

44.3

72.7

SHO

52.3

260

19.3

31.8

60.2

36.4

62.5

241.0

55.7

ERA

2.73

WHIP

1.303

18.2

K/9

3.06

23.9

FIP

2.62

54.5

FIP-

94.1

59.1

ERA+

102.2

46.6

sWAR

2.1

43.2

of 89 qualified 1906 pitchers (min 151 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.4

23.6

sWAR

21.3

94.1

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
1893	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-73.7	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1895	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-74.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1896	33	114	107	5	17	2	0	0	9	3	23	1	.159	.189	.178	.367	9.0	-3.1	.180	-1.5
1897	49	163	155	11	33	7	2	1	14	4	36	1	.213	.233	.303	.536	43.3	40.7	.251	-2.6
1898	35	123	112	8	16	0	1	0	10	4	22	1	.143	.172	.161	.333	1.8	-4.6	.167	2.3
1899	35	120	111	12	20	0	0	0	7	2	21	2	.180	.209	.180	.389	14.4	6.9	.193	3.6
1900	32	99	90	9	20	0	0	0	12	3	18	1	.222	.255	.222	.478	38.1	32.3	.235	2.5
1901	34	120	113	11	11	2	0	0	2	4	25	0	.097	.128	.115	.243	-27.9	-30.0	.122	4.7
1902	35	127	118	6	11	1	1	0	3	3	35	0	.093	.123	.119	.242	-26.8	-32.0	.119	4.7
1903	32	108	104	5	16	4	0	0	10	1	40	0	.154	.162	.192	.354	5.1	7.2	.164	3.2
1904	35	111	101	11	17	4	0	0	8	5	28	2	.168	.208	.208	.415	28.6	32.0	.202	3.1
1905	20	56	53	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	14	0	.075	.075	.094	.170	-55.3	-46.3	.080	-0.5
1906	29	89	81	2	10	0	1	0	2	3	25	0	.123	.155	.148	.303	-14.0	-6.8	.151	2.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1893	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	8	5	3	1	1	5.0	9.00	2.200	1.80	8.44	181.2	51.8	-0.2
1895	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	9	6	3	2	2	8.0	6.75	1.500	2.25	7.83	164.1	70.7	-0.1
1896	32	32	7	24	0	28	0	376	172	98	70	6	267.0	5.80	1.775	2.36	4.31	98.8	75.2	-1.5
1897	46	42	10	35	1	38	1	485	237	106	64	16	348.0	6.13	1.698	1.66	4.65	108.2	70.2	-2.6
1898	35	35	16	17	0	33	1	327	112	80	57	7	284.3	3.55	1.431	1.80	3.68	102.1	101.6	2.3
1899	35	31	21	8	0	27	4	292	105	63	51	6	279.0	3.39	1.272	1.65	3.65	94.8	113.6	3.6
1900	32	24	15	10	0	21	2	299	96	50	41	6	240.0	3.60	1.454	1.54	3.55	96.0	102.6	2.5
1901	34	33	20	13	1	33	1	299	85	59	88	2	295.3	2.59	1.212	2.68	3.12	91.9	131.1	4.7
1902	35	34	22	11	0	33	2	322	97	65	63	7	316.3	2.76	1.223	1.79	3.39	97.4	126.1	4.7
1903	32	30	15	16	0	28	4	287	77	34	96	3	267.7	2.59	1.199	3.23	2.65	91.7	111.7	3.2
1904	35	32	19	14	0	30	6	281	74	49	127	2	277.0	2.40	1.191	4.13	2.27	88.2	106.9	3.1
1905	20	18	6	12	0	14	1	132	52	25	45	2	137.7	3.40	1.140	2.94	2.65	100.0	77.8	-0.5
1906	28	28	13	14	0	26	3	260	73	54	82	1	241.0	2.73	1.303	3.06	2.62	94.1	102.2	2.1

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

372

1,235

1,150

175

RBI

289

.1522

OBP

.1786

SLG

.1817

OPS

.3603

Pitching

G (P)

367

340

235th-most career GS

164

215th-most career W

175

84th-most career L

312

35th-most career CG

SHO

175th-most career SHO

2,966

143rd-most career IP

SO (P)

787

BB allowed

689

406th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.614

WHIP

1.3707

K/9

2.39

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	RBI	BB	TB
1904-05-23	CLE @ ATH Gameday	3	0	2	2	2	1	4
1904-07-30	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	0	3	0	3
1903-05-12	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	0	3
1903-09-19	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	0	3
1901-05-22	CHC @ PHI Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1904-04-17	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	1	10
1906-06-29	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	9	3	0	1	8
1904-09-01	CLE @ BOS Gameday	8.0	13	5	5	3	8
1905-08-25	NYY @ CLE Gameday	11.0	6	3	0	3	7
1901-08-10	SF @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	3	1	3	7

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.