MLB / Players

Buddy Kerr

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 6, 1922 · Astoria, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1943

Final gameSeptember 30, 1951

Seasons9 (1943–1951)

New York Giants 1943–1949; Boston Braves 1950–1951

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified batters

155

85.5

571

26.5

507

31.3

1.2

115

8.4

42.2

51.8

2.4

RBI

7.2

21.7

42.2

44.6

.227

OBP

.296

2.4

SLG

.310

2.4

OPS

.606

1.2

wRC+

63.2

3.6

OPS+

64.4

2.4

wOBA

.282

1.2

sWAR

0.0

8.4

of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

73.4

4.9

OPS+

75.2

5.5

sWAR

5.6

80.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1943	27	110	98	14	28	3	0	2	12	8	5	1	.286	.352	.378	.729	109.6	108.3	.350	0.6
1944	150	598	548	68	146	31	4	9	63	37	32	14	.266	.316	.387	.703	93.3	95.9	.327	2.2
1945	149	605	546	53	136	20	3	4	40	41	34	5	.249	.304	.319	.623	68.4	70.8	.299	0.4
1946	145	571	497	50	124	20	3	6	40	53	31	7	.249	.324	.338	.662	85.6	86.7	.320	1.6
1947	138	596	547	73	157	23	5	7	49	36	49	2	.287	.331	.386	.717	85.7	88.3	.330	1.6
1948	144	555	496	41	119	16	4	0	46	56	36	9	.240	.317	.288	.605	64.5	64.0	.292	0.1
1949	90	250	220	16	46	4	0	0	19	21	23	0	.209	.284	.227	.511	38.6	39.1	.251	-0.6
1950	155	571	507	45	115	24	6	2	46	50	50	0	.227	.296	.310	.606	63.2	64.4	.282	0.0
1951	69	200	172	18	32	4	0	1	18	22	20	0	.186	.282	.227	.509	45.0	43.1	.251	-0.4

Career totals

1,067

4,056

3,631

378

903

145

RBI

333

324

280

.2487

OBP

.3123

SLG

.3280

OPS

.6403

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
1950-08-27	ATL @ PIT Gameday	6	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1944-09-10	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1946-08-18	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	2	1	8
1947-06-09	PIT @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	2	1	7
1947-09-01	ATL @ SF Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-22	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-28	ATL @ SF 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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.