Steve O'Neill

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 6, 1891 · Minooka, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1911

Final gameSeptember 14, 1928

Seasons17 (1911–1928)

Cleveland Naps 1911–1914; Cleveland Indians 1915–1923; Boston Red Sox 1924; New York Yankees 1925; St. Louis Browns 1927–1928

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

149

79.6

576

59.2

489

54.9

157

67.6

94.4

35.9

51.4

RBI

58.5

23.2

13.4

59.2

.321

80.3

OBP

.408

89.4

SLG

.440

76.8

OPS

.848

85.2

wRC+

126.5

71.1

OPS+

123.7

71.1

wOBA

.400

83.8

sWAR

5.0

92.3

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.8

26.2

OPS+

88.4

20.6

sWAR

25.8

95.6

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
1911	9	33	27	1	4	1	0	0	1	4	3	2	0	.148	.281	.185	.466	42.0	30.2	.253	-0.1
1912	69	233	215	17	49	4	0	0	14	12	28	2	3	.228	.272	.247	.518	47.6	47.3	.257	-0.2
1913	80	253	234	19	69	13	3	0	29	10	24	5	0	.295	.329	.376	.705	99.7	103.5	.340	1.6
1914	87	286	269	28	68	12	2	0	20	15	35	1	3	.253	.292	.312	.605	72.2	77.9	.296	0.8
1915	121	426	386	32	91	14	2	2	34	26	41	2	3	.236	.293	.298	.590	70.8	73.8	.294	1.0
1916	130	417	378	30	89	23	0	0	29	24	33	2	0	.235	.288	.296	.584	66.5	71.7	.290	1.0
1917	129	429	370	21	68	10	2	0	29	41	55	2	0	.184	.272	.222	.494	51.6	50.3	.257	0.2
1918	114	420	359	34	87	8	7	1	35	48	22	5	0	.242	.343	.312	.655	95.0	91.2	.334	2.3
1919	125	461	398	46	115	35	7	2	47	48	21	4	0	.289	.373	.427	.800	122.0	120.1	.380	3.9
1920	149	576	489	63	157	39	5	3	55	69	39	3	5	.321	.408	.440	.848	126.5	123.7	.400	5.0
1921	106	405	335	39	108	22	1	1	50	57	22	0	1	.322	.424	.403	.827	117.3	111.2	.395	3.0
1922	133	477	392	33	122	27	4	2	65	73	25	2	2	.311	.423	.416	.839	125.0	118.5	.399	4.2
1923	113	404	330	31	82	12	0	0	50	64	34	0	4	.248	.374	.285	.659	83.5	74.2	.334	1.4
1924	106	377	307	29	73	15	1	0	38	63	23	0	2	.238	.371	.293	.664	80.8	71.9	.337	1.0
1925	35	104	91	7	26	5	0	1	13	10	3	0	0	.286	.363	.374	.736	91.3	89.5	.351	0.5
1927	74	224	191	14	44	7	0	1	22	20	6	0	3	.230	.303	.283	.586	49.5	49.4	.285	-0.2
1928	10	35	24	4	7	1	0	0	6	8	0	0	0	.292	.485	.333	.818	134.4	115.0	.414	0.3

Career totals

1,590

5,560

4,795

448

1,259

248

RBI

537

592

414

.2626

OBP

.3488

SLG

.3366

OPS

.6854

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
1922-07-30	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	1	4	3	0	2	0	7
1920-05-20	CLE @ ATH Gameday	3	2	3	1	1	2	1	7
1922-08-15	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	0	7
1921-08-17	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	0	4	2	0	3	1	6
1922-09-20	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	3	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1911-04-12	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-13	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-14	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-15	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1911-04-16	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	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.