Bob Kennedy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 193 lb

BornAugust 18, 1920 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1939

Final gameSeptember 29, 1957

Seasons16 (1939–1957)

Chicago White Sox 1939–1942; Chicago White Sox 1946–1948; Cleveland Indians 1948–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954; Cleveland Indians 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Chicago White Sox 1955–1956; Detroit Tigers 1956; Brooklyn Dodgers 1957; Chicago White Sox 1957

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified batters

146

56.6

609

48.2

540

38.6

157

54.2

55.4

31.3

RBI

19.3

28.9

75.9

39.8

14.5

.291

57.8

OBP

.355

34.9

SLG

.409

36.1

OPS

.764

30.1

wRC+

99.1

28.9

OPS+

100.7

32.5

wOBA

.356

34.9

sWAR

1.3

20.5

of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

77.7

OPS+

81.0

10.7

sWAR

-0.6

12.5

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
1939	3	9	8	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	22.5	28.6	.231	-0.1
1940	154	655	606	74	153	23	3	3	52	42	58	3	7	.252	.301	.315	.616	58.9	60.7	.286	-1.0
1941	76	282	257	16	53	9	3	1	29	17	23	5	3	.206	.255	.276	.532	37.6	42.4	.251	-1.1
1942	113	442	412	37	95	18	5	0	38	22	41	11	7	.231	.270	.299	.568	56.4	62.1	.271	-0.8
1946	113	436	411	43	106	13	5	5	34	24	42	6	8	.258	.300	.350	.651	79.0	84.1	.304	0.1
1947	115	448	428	47	112	19	3	6	48	18	38	3	4	.262	.291	.362	.654	76.5	83.6	.304	-0.4
1948	96	198	186	14	50	11	3	0	19	8	23	0	2	.269	.299	.360	.659	71.2	77.9	.308	-0.5
1949	121	469	424	49	117	23	5	9	57	37	40	5	5	.276	.334	.417	.752	97.8	102.7	.352	0.9
1950	146	609	540	79	157	27	5	9	54	53	31	3	4	.291	.355	.409	.764	99.1	100.7	.356	1.3
1951	108	359	321	30	79	15	4	7	29	34	33	4	2	.246	.320	.383	.703	93.9	96.1	.329	0.4
1952	22	49	40	6	12	3	1	0	12	9	5	1	0	.300	.429	.425	.854	154.0	146.9	.407	0.5
1953	100	181	161	22	38	5	0	3	22	19	11	0	2	.236	.320	.323	.643	78.8	78.3	.307	-0.4
1954	107	359	323	37	81	13	2	6	45	28	43	2	1	.251	.306	.359	.665	79.5	83.9	.309	0.3
1955	109	312	284	38	75	11	2	9	48	26	26	0	3	.264	.326	.412	.738	99.4	98.0	.343	0.9
1956	77	222	190	17	42	5	0	4	22	26	23	2	2	.221	.320	.311	.630	69.0	68.4	.300	-0.2
1957	23	35	33	5	4	1	0	1	4	1	6	0	0	.121	.147	.242	.389	-14.9	-0.1	.173	-0.4

Career totals

1,483

5,065

4,624

514

1,176

196

RBI

514

364

443

.2543

OBP

.3092

SLG

.3553

OPS

.6645

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
1947-09-24	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1940-07-24	BOS @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1955-09-10	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	4	1	7
1951-07-28	CLE @ BOS Gameday	7	2	4	3	0	0	0	0	7
1954-06-02	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	3	0	0	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-18	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-20	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-24	CWS @ CLE 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.