Alex Kellner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 26, 1924 · Tucson, AZ, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1948

Final gameJune 23, 1959

Seasons12 (1948–1959)

Philadelphia Athletics 1948–1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1957; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1959

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified pitchers

11.5

21.2

26.9

76.9

13.5

SHO

67.3

164

82.7

67.3

73.1

15.4

55.8

162.7

15.4

ERA

4.20

17.3

WHIP

1.377

40.4

K/9

4.15

44.2

FIP

4.14

26.9

FIP-

100.9

32.7

ERA+

97.7

30.8

sWAR

1.7

of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.7

14.5

sWAR

13.3

89.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1948	13	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1949	38	103	92	7	20	1	0	0	10	7	15	.217	.273	.228	.501	29.8	34.8	.250	3.5
1950	36	84	80	5	16	1	0	0	3	4	13	.200	.238	.213	.451	9.5	16.7	.218	-0.1
1951	33	82	79	5	18	3	0	0	9	1	13	.228	.238	.266	.503	22.8	34.4	.234	1.4
1952	34	87	82	6	17	2	0	1	10	1	9	.207	.217	.268	.485	12.9	30.4	.224	1.1
1953	25	79	69	4	15	2	0	0	0	3	8	.217	.270	.246	.517	29.5	36.6	.249	2.7
1954	27	63	55	2	10	2	0	0	6	2	8	.182	.207	.218	.425	-2.6	14.8	.200	-1.5
1955	30	62	56	6	12	2	1	0	5	4	7	.214	.267	.286	.552	41.9	46.5	.264	1.7
1956	21	36	30	2	6	0	0	0	2	3	10	.200	.273	.200	.473	24.6	25.4	.238	0.9
1957	28	50	47	7	11	2	0	3	6	2	10	.234	.265	.468	.733	89.9	94.1	.325	1.2
1958	26	44	39	5	11	1	0	0	6	3	8	.282	.333	.308	.641	71.7	68.7	.300	2.4
1959	12	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444	4.6	16.3	.202	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1948	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	21	20	16	14	0	23.0	7.83	1.609	5.48	3.88	90.6	54.7	-0.7
1949	38	27	20	12	1	19	0	243	102	129	94	18	245.0	3.75	1.518	3.45	4.28	104.4	109.5	3.5
1950	36	29	8	20	2	15	0	253	137	112	85	28	225.3	5.47	1.620	3.39	5.09	112.4	82.8	-0.1
1951	33	29	11	14	2	11	1	218	104	93	94	20	209.7	4.46	1.483	4.03	4.31	102.3	94.4	1.4
1952	34	33	12	14	0	14	2	223	112	86	105	21	231.3	4.36	1.336	4.09	3.80	97.3	89.7	1.1
1953	25	25	11	12	0	14	2	210	88	51	81	8	201.7	3.93	1.294	3.61	3.10	73.5	107.3	2.7
1954	27	27	6	17	0	8	1	204	104	88	69	16	173.7	5.39	1.681	3.58	4.41	114.0	71.7	-1.5
1955	30	24	11	8	0	6	3	164	76	60	75	18	162.7	4.20	1.377	4.15	4.14	100.9	97.7	1.7
1956	20	17	7	4	0	5	0	103	44	33	44	15	91.7	4.32	1.484	4.32	4.82	112.8	98.9	0.9
1957	28	21	6	5	0	3	0	141	63	41	72	18	132.7	4.27	1.372	4.88	4.05	103.8	91.3	1.2
1958	25	13	7	5	0	4	0	114	43	28	64	13	115.7	3.35	1.228	4.98	3.65	89.6	121.8	2.4
1959	12	4	2	1	0	0	0	31	13	10	19	9	37.0	3.16	1.108	4.62	5.65	136.1	131.3	0.8

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

323

704

643

138

RBI

106

.2146

OBP

.2515

SLG

.2613

OPS

.5128

Pitching

G (P)

321

250

101

112

424th-most career L

420th-most career CG

SHO

1,849

SO (P)

816

BB allowed

747

312th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.409

WHIP

1.4448

K/9

3.97

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	TB
1952-06-08	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	3	6
1957-09-23	CWS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5
1952-05-15	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4
1953-05-27	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	4
1957-04-18	ATH @ CWS Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1953-07-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	8.0	6	6	3	2	9
1950-04-22	BOS @ ATH Gameday	15.0	12	5	5	8	8
1952-07-10	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	4	8
1957-08-30	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	8
1950-08-05	ATH @ BAL Gameday	8.0	5	4	2	1	8

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

1× 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.