MLB / Players

Benny Kauff

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 157 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1890 · Pomeroy, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1912

Final gameJuly 2, 1920

Seasons8 (1912–1920)

New York Highlanders 1912; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1915; New York Giants 1916–1920

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified batters

135

544

65.3

491

69.4

79.8

136

66.9

83.9

58.9

RBI

87.1

69.4

9.7

82.3

.277

43.5

OBP

.334

48.4

SLG

.422

75.8

OPS

.756

65.3

wRC+

128.6

78.2

OPS+

128.7

wOBA

.355

63.7

sWAR

4.0

87.9

of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 434 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

154.8

98.7

OPS+

151.7

98.2

sWAR

36.5

97.5

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
1912	5	14	11	4	3	0	0	0	2	3	0	1	0	.273	.429	.273	.701	112.7	96.5	.371	0.1
1914	154	667	571	120	211	44	13	8	95	72	55	75	0	.370	.447	.534	.981	179.1	178.2	.458	8.4
1915	136	581	483	92	165	23	11	12	83	85	50	55	0	.342	.446	.509	.955	183.9	180.4	.452	8.3
1916	154	632	552	71	146	22	15	9	74	68	65	40	26	.264	.348	.408	.756	139.1	136.5	.360	5.5
1917	153	644	559	89	172	22	4	5	68	59	54	30	0	.308	.379	.388	.767	144.4	140.5	.369	5.8
1918	67	294	270	41	85	19	4	2	39	16	30	9	0	.315	.355	.437	.792	144.1	145.0	.376	2.7
1919	135	544	491	73	136	27	7	10	67	39	45	21	0	.277	.334	.422	.756	128.6	128.7	.355	4.0
1920	55	188	157	31	43	12	3	3	26	25	14	3	7	.274	.380	.446	.826	143.4	139.5	.389	1.7

Career totals

859

3,564

3,094

521

961

169

RBI

454

367

313

234

274th-most career SB

.3106

115th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3887

124th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4496

486th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8383

249th-highest career OPS

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
1919-06-10	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	0	1	1	8
1916-06-26	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	0	6	0	8
1917-10-11	CWS @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1919-06-15	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	3	5	2	0	0	0	0	7
1917-07-14	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	5	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-16	MIN @ NYY 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.