Syd O'Brien
Boston Red Sox 1969; Chicago White Sox 1970; California Angels 1971–1972; Milwaukee Brewers 1972
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 100 | 283 | 263 | 47 | 64 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 29 | 15 | 37 | 2 | 3 | .243 | .287 | .422 | .709 | 89.7 | 91.7 | .324 | 0.8 |
| 1970 | 121 | 467 | 441 | 48 | 109 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 44 | 22 | 62 | 3 | 3 | .247 | .285 | .340 | .625 | 64.7 | 68.6 | .287 | -0.2 |
| 1971 | 90 | 271 | 251 | 25 | 50 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 33 | 0 | 2 | .199 | .247 | .299 | .546 | 51.4 | 60.4 | .250 | -0.4 |
| 1972 | 67 | 109 | 97 | 15 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 23 | 0 | 1 | .196 | .255 | .299 | .554 | 64.0 | 67.5 | .264 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-07-20 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1969-09-06 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1969-09-10 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1971-06-23 | LAA @ MIL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-07-31 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
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.