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Steve O'Neill
Stephen Francis O'Neill

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 5' 10", Weight 165 lb.

Debut September 18, 1911
Final Game September 14, 1928
Born July 6, 1891 in Minooka, PA
Died January 26, 1962 in Cleveland, OH

Brother of Jack O'Neill, Brother of Jim O'Neill, and Brother of Mike O'Neill

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Batting  Glossary / Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1911 19 CLE AL   9   27    1    4   1  0   0    1   2      4      .148  .281  .185   31    5   1           1    
 1912 20 CLE AL  69  215   17   49   4  0   0   14   2     12      .228  .272  .247   47   53   5           1    
 1913 21 CLE AL  80  234   19   69  13  3   0   29   5     10  24  .295  .329  .376  104   88   7           2     MVP-24
 1914 22 CLE AL  87  269   28   68  12  2   0   20   1  3  15  35  .253  .292  .312   79   84   2           0    
 1915 23 CLE AL 121  386   32   91  14  2   2   34   2  3  26  41  .236  .293  .298   75  115   9           5    
 1916 24 CLE AL 130  378   30   89  23  0   0   29   2     24  33  .235  .288  .296   71  112  11           4    
 1917 25 CLE AL 129  370   21   68  10  2   0   29   2     41  55  .184  .272  .222   47   82  14           4    
 1918 26 CLE AL 114  359   34   87   8  7   1   35   5     48  22  .242  .343  .312   90  112   6           7    
 1919 27 CLE AL 125  398   46  115  35  7   2   47   4     48  21  .289  .373  .427  119  170  10           5    
 1920 28 CLE AL 149  489   63  157  39  5   3   55   3  5  69  39  .321  .408  .440  122  215  15           3    
 1921 29 CLE AL 106  335   39  108  22  1   1   50   0  1  57  22  .322  .424  .403  110  135  11           2    
 1922 30 CLE AL 133  392   33  122  27  4   2   65   2  2  73  25  .311  .423  .416  118  163   9           3     MVP-6
 1923 31 CLE AL 113  330   31   82  12  0   0   50   0  4  64  34  .248  .374  .285   75   94   8           2    
 1924 32 BOS AL 106  307   29   73  15  1   0   38   0  2  63  23  .238  .371  .293   73   90   5           2    
 1925 33 NYY AL  35   91    7   26   5  0   1   13   0  0  10   3  .286  .363  .374   89   34   2           1    
 1927 35 SLB AL  74  191   14   44   7  0   1   22   0  3  20   6  .230  .303  .283   51   54  13           0    
 1928 36 SLB AL  10   24    4    7   1  0   0    6   0  0   8   0  .292  .485  .333  116    8   2           1    
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 17 Seasons    1590 4795  448 1259 248 34  13  537  30 23 592 383  .263  .349  .337   88 1614 130   0   0  43   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        489   46  128  25  3   1   55   3  2  60  39  .263  .349  .337   88  164  13   0   0   4   0
 Career High    149  489   63  157  39  7   3   65   5  5  73  55  .322  .424  .440  122  215  15   0   0   7   0
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
Special Batting  Glossary
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1911 19 CLE AL   33   24    1   1.1    97| .148  .282| .281  .349| .185  .371| .466  .720|  31  .083  -2.4  -0.2     
 1912 20 CLE AL  233  171   14   2.2    94| .228  .276| .272  .345| .247  .363| .519  .708|  47  .254 -15.4  -1.7     
 1913 21 CLE AL  253  172   28   4.4    89| .295  .268| .329  .340| .376  .352| .705  .692| 104  .582   0.2   0.0     
 1914 22 CLE AL  286  206   24   3.1    85| .253  .261| .292  .335| .312  .342| .604  .677|  79  .479  -7.8  -0.9  25%
 1915 23 CLE AL  426  307   32   2.8    85| .236  .257| .293  .336| .298  .338| .591  .674|  75  .408 -12.7  -1.5  40%
 1916 24 CLE AL  417  300   31   2.8    87| .235  .263| .288  .339| .296  .344| .584  .683|  71  .406 -13.7  -1.6     
 1917 25 CLE AL  429  316   22   1.9    85| .184  .263| .272  .335| .222  .340| .494  .675|  47  .254 -23.6  -2.8     
 1918 26 CLE AL  420  278   37   3.6    89| .242  .271| .343  .343| .312  .345| .655  .688|  90  .515  -3.2  -0.4     
 1919 27 CLE AL  461  293   62   5.7   100| .289  .283| .373  .350| .427  .381| .800  .731| 119  .649  11.6   1.2     
 1920 28 CLE AL  576  352   86   6.6   109| .321  .295| .408  .360| .440  .405| .848  .765| 122  .658  19.3   1.9  37%
 1921 29 CLE AL  405  239   56   6.3   116| .322  .302| .424  .368| .403  .424| .827  .792| 110  .596   9.3   0.9   0%
 1922 30 CLE AL  477  281   68   6.5   111| .311  .294| .423  .359| .416  .413| .839  .772| 118  .639  15.8   1.5  50%
 1923 31 CLE AL  404  260   34   3.5   108| .248  .290| .374  .360| .285  .401| .659  .761|  75  .370  -8.3  -0.8   0%
 1924 32 BOS AL  377  241   33   3.6   112| .238  .298| .371  .368| .293  .409| .664  .776|  73  .370  -9.2  -0.9   0%
 1925 33 NYY AL  104   67   12   4.8   114| .286  .297| .363  .367| .374  .416| .737  .783|  89  .469  -1.2  -0.1   0%
 1927 35 SLB AL  224  163   16   2.6   113| .230  .297| .303  .365| .283  .416| .586  .782|  51  .245 -14.1  -1.4   0%
 1928 36 SLB AL   35   19    4   5.6   111| .292  .292| .485  .358| .333  .415| .818  .773| 116  .577   1.5   0.1   0%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 17 Seasons     5560 3689  560   4.1    99| .263  .280| .349  .351| .337  .378| .686  .729|  88  .492 -53.9  -6.7     

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)
Fielding  Glossary / Sort by Position, then Year
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  PB  WP  SB   CS
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+----+---+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1911 19 CLE AL C 9 55 17 1 1 .986 .965 8.00 5.89 1 1912 20 CLE AL C 68 316 108 17 9 .961 .961 6.24 5.85 9 1913 21 CLE AL C 80 353 119 13 9 .973 .967 5.90 5.59 6 1914 22 CLE AL C 82 393 134 24 22 .956 .967 6.43 5.70 13 1B 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.00 10.10 1915 23 CLE AL C 115 556 175 24 17 .968 .965 6.36 5.46 9 1916 24 CLE AL C 128 540 154 21 36 .971 .974 5.42 5.21 17 1917 25 CLE AL C 127 446 145 12 19 .980 .971 4.65 4.98 10 1918 26 CLE AL C 113 409 154 10 10 .983 .970 4.98 4.96 11 1919 27 CLE AL C 123 472 125 14 13 .977 .974 4.85 4.96 5 1920 28 CLE AL C 148 576 128 17 19 .976 .973 4.76 4.58 9 1921 29 CLE AL C 105 393 92 9 8 .982 .971 4.62 4.33 3 1922 30 CLE AL C 130 450 116 15 9 .974 .977 4.35 4.24 17 1923 31 CLE AL C 111 354 68 14 3 .968 .975 3.80 4.20 14 1924 32 BOS AL C 92 342 75 13 2 .970 .972 4.53 4.02 14 1925 33 NYY AL C 31 113 27 8 8 .946 .977 4.52 3.82 2 1927 35 SLB AL C 60 180 57 4 8 .983 .974 3.95 3.91 4 1928 36 SLB AL C 10 19 4 1 0 .958 .975 2.30 4.03 1
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1914 22 CLE AL 1B 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.00 10.10 1911 19 CLE AL C 9 55 17 1 1 .986 .965 8.00 5.89 1 1912 20 CLE AL C 68 316 108 17 9 .961 .961 6.24 5.85 9 1913 21 CLE AL C 80 353 119 13 9 .973 .967 5.90 5.59 6 1914 22 CLE AL C 82 393 134 24 22 .956 .967 6.43 5.70 13 1915 23 CLE AL C 115 556 175 24 17 .968 .965 6.36 5.46 9 1916 24 CLE AL C 128 540 154 21 36 .971 .974 5.42 5.21 17 1917 25 CLE AL C 127 446 145 12 19 .980 .971 4.65 4.98 10 1918 26 CLE AL C 113 409 154 10 10 .983 .970 4.98 4.96 11 1919 27 CLE AL C 123 472 125 14 13 .977 .974 4.85 4.96 5 1920 28 CLE AL C 148 576 128 17 19 .976 .973 4.76 4.58 9 1921 29 CLE AL C 105 393 92 9 8 .982 .971 4.62 4.33 3 1922 30 CLE AL C 130 450 116 15 9 .974 .977 4.35 4.24 17 1923 31 CLE AL C 111 354 68 14 3 .968 .975 3.80 4.20 14 1924 32 BOS AL C 92 342 75 13 2 .970 .972 4.53 4.02 14 1925 33 NYY AL C 31 113 27 8 8 .946 .977 4.52 3.82 2 1927 35 SLB AL C 60 180 57 4 8 .983 .974 3.95 3.91 4 1928 36 SLB AL C 10 19 4 1 0 .958 .975 2.30 4.03 1
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+----+---+ Position Total C 1532 5967 1698 217 193 .972 .971 5.00 4.81 145 1B 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.000 1.00 10.10 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+---+---+----+---+ Overall Total 1533 5968 1698 217 194 .972 .971 5.00 4.82
An Important note about our fielding stats

Postseason Batting Gamelogs / Vs. Pitcher / Event Finder

 Year   Round Tm  Opp WLser  G   AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG   SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
 1920   WS    CLE BRO     W   7  21   1   7  3  0  0   2   4   3  .333  .440  .476   0  0   0   0   0 
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+

WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

MVP (YrLg-Rk-Shr)
1913-AL-24-0.02
1922-AL-6-0.20
Car-691-0.22 shares

On-base %
1920 AL-.408-10
1921 AL-.424-7
1922 AL-.423-6

Doubles
1919 AL-35-4
1920 AL-39-7

Bases on Balls
1920 AL-69-8
1922 AL-73-6

Strikeouts
1917 AL-55-6

Hit By Pitch
1918 AL-7-4

Youngest Player
1911 AL-19-4

         

Gray Ink: Batting - 8 (1481) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 15.9 (936) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
HOF Monitor: Batting - 45.5 (401) (Likely HOFer > 100)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


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Transactions 

August 20, 1911: Purchased by the Cleveland Naps from the Philadelphia Athletics.

January 7, 1924: Traded by the Cleveland Indians with Dan Boone, Joe Connolly, and Bill Wambsganss to the Boston Red Sox for George Burns, Roxy Walters, and Chick Fewster.

December 15, 1924: Selected off waivers by the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
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Name and misspellings: Stephen Francis Steve frank O'Neill o'niell o'neal oneil oneill oniel oneal

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