MLB / Players

Charlie Keller

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 12, 1916 · Middletown, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1939

Final gameSeptember 14, 1952

Seasons13 (1939–1952)

New York Yankees 1939–1943; New York Yankees 1945–1949; Detroit Tigers 1950–1951; New York Yankees 1952

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

150

87.6

655

89.7

538

79.4

93.8

148

75.3

78.4

91.8

97.9

RBI

101

92.8

113

97.9

101

8.2

15.5

.275

42.3

OBP

.405

92.8

SLG

.533

91.8

OPS

.938

91.8

wRC+

164.8

93.8

OPS+

160.7

91.8

wOBA

.429

91.8

sWAR

6.5

97.9

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

155.0

98.7

OPS+

154.7

98.3

sWAR

41.6

98.1

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	111	490	398	87	133	21	6	11	83	81	49	6	3	.334	.447	.500	.947	148.8	147.6	.435	4.1
1940	138	609	500	102	143	18	15	21	93	106	65	8	2	.286	.411	.508	.919	139.5	137.9	.414	4.4
1941	140	610	507	102	151	24	10	33	122	102	65	6	4	.298	.416	.580	.996	163.4	165.9	.445	6.2
1942	152	661	544	106	159	24	9	26	108	114	61	14	2	.292	.417	.513	.930	166.7	166.1	.433	6.8
1943	141	620	512	97	139	15	11	31	86	106	60	7	5	.271	.396	.525	.922	172.5	170.6	.430	6.6
1945	44	194	163	26	49	7	4	10	34	31	21	0	2	.301	.412	.577	.989	184.6	181.4	.457	2.4
1946	150	655	538	98	148	29	10	30	101	113	101	1	4	.275	.405	.533	.938	164.8	160.7	.429	6.5
1947	45	193	151	36	36	6	1	13	36	41	18	0	0	.238	.404	.550	.954	167.4	167.1	.437	2.0
1948	83	289	247	41	66	15	2	6	44	41	25	1	1	.267	.372	.417	.789	113.2	112.4	.375	1.1
1949	60	144	116	17	29	4	1	3	16	25	15	2	0	.250	.392	.379	.771	111.8	106.3	.378	0.5
1950	50	64	51	7	16	1	3	2	16	13	6	0	0	.314	.453	.569	1.022	159.3	158.4	.464	0.7
1951	54	74	62	6	16	2	0	3	21	11	12	0	0	.258	.370	.435	.805	118.1	116.8	.377	0.4
1952	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.0	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,170

4,604

3,790

725

1,085

166

362nd-most career 3B

189

431st-most career HR

RBI

760

784

288th-most career BB

499

.2863

497th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4099

41st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5177

72nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9276

51st-highest career OPS

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1940-06-14	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	4	1	12
1940-07-28	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	4	0	12
1950-09-19	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	5	0	10
1941-08-24	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	2	0	10
1943-08-03	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	5	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-04-20	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-21	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-22	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-23	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1939-04-24	ATH @ NYY 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

5× 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.