Bill Kelso
Los Angeles Angels 1964; California Angels 1966–1967; Cincinnati Reds 1968
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .143 | .000 | .143 | -49.9 | -54.3 | .105 | 0.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 69 | 21 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .105 | .105 | .211 | -56.3 | -36.6 | .097 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 35 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -143.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 21 | 3 | 23.7 | 2.28 | 1.183 | 7.99 | 3.60 | 106.6 | 148.0 | 0.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 11.3 | 2.38 | 1.500 | 8.74 | 3.49 | 104.3 | 140.7 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 69 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 37 | 63 | 91 | 6 | 112.0 | 2.97 | 1.321 | 7.31 | 3.29 | 104.5 | 105.7 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 35 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 24 | 15 | 39 | 6 | 54.0 | 4.00 | 1.315 | 6.50 | 3.55 | 112.5 | 78.8 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-08-20 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1967-09-03 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1964-07-31 | BOS @ LAA Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-08-03 | BAL @ LAA Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1964-08-07 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-05-30 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1967-07-30 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1964-09-18 | LAA @ BAL Gameday | 2.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 1967-07-16 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 6.1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1966-09-22 | LAA @ DET Gameday | 4.1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 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.