Bill Kennedy
Cleveland Indians 1948; St. Louis Browns 1948–1951; Chicago White Sox 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1956–1957
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 32 | 55 | 47 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .277 | .333 | .298 | .631 | 63.9 | 67.7 | .308 | 0.4 |
| 1949 | 48 | 45 | 40 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .209 | .150 | .359 | -19.8 | -7.1 | .186 | 1.0 |
| 1950 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1951 | 19 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -56.4 | -33.9 | .117 | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 47 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .231 | .231 | .462 | 14.9 | 29.6 | .215 | 1.4 |
| 1953 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 174.4 | 164.8 | .463 | 0.4 |
| 1956 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 35.1 | -2.1 | .245 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 32 | 23 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 148 | 83 | 117 | 89 | 10 | 143.3 | 5.21 | 1.849 | 5.59 | 4.97 | 111.3 | 85.6 | 0.4 |
| 1949 | 48 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 172 | 80 | 73 | 69 | 12 | 153.7 | 4.69 | 1.594 | 4.04 | 4.09 | 91.7 | 95.3 | 1.0 |
| 1950 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2.0 | 0.00 | 1.500 | 4.50 | 4.71 | 96.9 | — | 0.1 |
| 1951 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 76 | 36 | 37 | 29 | 4 | 56.0 | 5.79 | 2.018 | 4.66 | 4.51 | 104.2 | 74.7 | -0.5 |
| 1952 | 47 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 22 | 38 | 46 | 4 | 70.7 | 2.80 | 1.302 | 5.86 | 3.45 | 95.4 | 129.2 | 1.4 |
| 1953 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 10 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 24.3 | 3.70 | 1.685 | 5.18 | 4.70 | 112.7 | 112.9 | 0.4 |
| 1956 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 18.00 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 8.73 | 220.3 | 22.0 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 12.7 | 6.39 | 1.658 | 5.68 | 3.70 | 90.5 | 63.9 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-09-20 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-07-18 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1948-10-01 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1948-08-02 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 1948-07-24 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-05-16 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| 1948-08-06 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 7.1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1948-09-03 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| 1952-08-06 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
| 1949-09-10 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 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.