Bob Kelly
Chicago Cubs 1951–1953; Cincinnati Reds 1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958; Cleveland Indians 1958
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 35 | 35 | 31 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .161 | .188 | .161 | .349 | -21.0 | -6.2 | .166 | 0.3 |
| 1952 | 31 | 38 | 37 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .216 | .216 | .216 | .432 | 3.7 | 19.1 | .199 | 1.6 |
| 1953 | 42 | 19 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -62.2 | -42.3 | .100 | -0.2 |
| 1958 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 102.8 | 85.7 | .332 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 35 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 130 | 64 | 55 | 48 | 8 | 123.7 | 4.66 | 1.496 | 3.49 | 3.80 | 94.2 | 86.7 | 0.3 |
| 1952 | 31 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 114 | 50 | 46 | 50 | 7 | 125.3 | 3.59 | 1.277 | 3.59 | 3.52 | 92.6 | 105.8 | 1.6 |
| 1953 | 42 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 50 | 35 | 35 | 9 | 83.3 | 5.40 | 1.596 | 3.78 | 4.48 | 102.6 | 80.8 | -0.2 |
| 1958 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 29.7 | 5.16 | 1.618 | 3.94 | 5.04 | 135.2 | 72.3 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-04-30 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1951-08-18 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-04-17 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-06-25 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1951-05-10 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-09-12 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1951-08-01 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1952-04-17 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 1952-07-27 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1951-09-05 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 11.0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 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.