Brickyard Kennedy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornOctober 7, 1867 · Bellaire, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 1892

Final gameSeptember 26, 1903

Seasons12 (1892–1903)

Brooklyn Grooms 1892–1895; Brooklyn Bridegrooms 1896–1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899–1901; New York Giants 1902; Pittsburgh Pirates 1903

Percentile snapshot

1900 season — qualified pitchers

91.9

75.7

86.5

43.2

64.9

SHO

51.4

316

21.6

127

10.8

111

2.7

64.9

40.5

292.0

78.4

ERA

3.91

WHIP

1.462

29.7

K/9

2.31

40.5

FIP

3.76

32.4

FIP-

101.7

40.5

ERA+

94.4

27.8

sWAR

3.0

54.1

of 38 qualified 1900 pitchers (min 141 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.8

60.6

sWAR

38.0

97.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1892	26	90	85	12	14	3	2	0	11	4	8	3	.165	.211	.247	.458	45.6	38.2	.224	0.6
1893	46	165	157	25	39	6	2	0	16	8	4	4	.248	.285	.312	.597	63.2	58.4	.287	6.9
1894	48	170	161	22	49	7	3	0	23	3	5	2	.304	.317	.385	.702	70.6	68.4	.323	4.9
1895	41	136	131	19	40	4	1	0	21	4	6	0	.305	.326	.351	.677	77.0	74.4	.320	2.4
1896	42	128	122	12	23	2	0	0	10	2	15	1	.189	.202	.205	.407	16.2	7.2	.195	2.3
1897	45	152	147	10	40	4	3	1	18	3	12	0	.272	.287	.361	.647	69.4	70.1	.302	4.9
1898	40	139	135	15	34	7	2	0	13	3	10	2	.252	.268	.333	.601	68.9	71.7	.287	4.5
1899	40	117	109	14	27	5	3	0	8	7	10	1	.248	.293	.349	.642	75.4	75.5	.307	6.1
1900	43	130	123	10	37	8	2	0	15	5	13	0	.301	.328	.398	.726	96.7	99.9	.342	3.0
1901	14	37	36	3	6	0	0	0	2	1	5	0	.167	.189	.167	.356	6.1	3.7	.174	0.9
1902	6	16	15	2	4	1	0	0	1	1	1	0	.267	.313	.333	.646	98.0	99.3	.318	-0.1
1903	23	62	58	7	21	4	3	0	10	2	6	0	.362	.383	.534	.918	149.8	159.7	.428	1.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1892	26	21	13	8	1	18	0	189	82	95	108	3	191.0	3.86	1.487	5.09	3.06	93.3	85.0	0.6
1893	46	44	25	20	1	40	2	376	158	168	107	15	382.7	3.72	1.422	2.52	4.57	98.0	125.4	6.9
1894	48	41	24	20	2	34	0	445	197	149	107	15	360.7	4.92	1.647	2.67	5.09	95.6	108.4	4.9
1895	40	34	19	12	1	27	2	341	162	95	41	14	288.7	5.05	1.510	1.28	4.99	104.5	94.5	2.4
1896	42	38	17	20	1	28	1	334	150	130	76	12	305.7	4.42	1.518	2.24	4.70	107.8	98.7	2.3
1897	44	40	18	20	1	36	2	370	149	149	81	6	343.3	3.91	1.512	2.12	4.45	103.4	110.1	4.9
1898	40	39	16	22	0	38	0	360	127	123	73	12	339.3	3.37	1.423	1.94	3.93	109.0	107.0	4.5
1899	40	33	22	9	2	27	2	297	86	86	55	11	277.3	2.79	1.381	1.78	4.02	104.5	137.9	6.1
1900	42	35	20	13	0	26	2	316	127	111	75	5	292.0	3.91	1.462	2.31	3.76	101.7	94.4	3.0
1901	14	8	3	5	0	6	0	80	29	24	28	1	85.3	3.06	1.219	2.95	3.31	100.1	108.1	0.9
1902	6	6	1	4	0	4	1	44	17	16	9	0	38.7	3.96	1.552	2.09	3.31	119.5	70.0	-0.1
1903	18	15	9	6	0	10	1	130	48	57	39	0	125.3	3.45	1.492	2.80	3.52	107.2	95.2	1.8

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

414

1,342

1,279

151

334

RBI

148

.2611

OBP

.2857

SLG

.3362

OPS

.6219

Pitching

G (P)

406

354

214th-most career GS

187

155th-most career W

159

127th-most career L

294

47th-most career CG

SHO

478th-most career SHO

3,030

134th-most career IP

SO (P)

799

BB allowed

1,203

52nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.956

WHIP

1.4802

K/9

2.37

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	RBI	TB
1903-07-08	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	1	2	4
1901-06-21	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	3
1903-04-27	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	3
1903-05-12	PIT @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	1	2	3
1902-04-25	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1903-07-17	SF @ PIT Gameday	12.0	10	5	0	2	5
1903-05-03	PIT @ CHC Gameday	11.0	6	2	0	4	5
1901-08-23	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	1	5
1903-07-08	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	6	5
1902-05-12	SF @ STL Gameday	8.0	9	2	2	1	4

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.