George Kelly

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 10, 1895 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 18, 1915

Final gameJuly 26, 1932

Seasons16 (1915–1932)

New York Giants 1915–1917; Pittsburgh Pirates 1917; New York Giants 1919–1926; Cincinnati Reds 1927–1929; Chicago Cubs 1930; Cincinnati Reds 1930; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified batters

147

632

73.2

577

83.5

54.9

169

71.3

95.7

71.3

46.3

RBI

103

84.8

37.8

42.1

34.8

.293

34.8

OBP

.332

17.1

SLG

.428

45.1

OPS

.760

32.3

wRC+

89.2

30.5

OPS+

91.6

34.1

wOBA

.342

26.8

sWAR

0.0

13.4

of 165 qualified 1929 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.5

58.5

OPS+

110.5

62.7

sWAR

17.5

92.4

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
1915	17	40	38	2	6	0	0	1	4	1	9	0	1	.158	.179	.237	.416	18.5	28.6	.197	-0.3
1916	49	84	76	4	12	2	1	0	3	6	24	1	0	.158	.220	.211	.430	30.5	35.1	.214	-0.6
1917	19	31	30	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	12	0	0	.067	.097	.133	.230	-48.2	-30.4	.112	-0.3
1919	32	116	107	12	31	6	2	1	14	3	15	1	0	.290	.315	.411	.727	116.9	119.8	.339	0.3
1920	155	651	590	69	157	22	11	11	94	41	92	6	16	.266	.320	.397	.717	106.2	107.4	.336	1.2
1921	149	647	587	95	181	42	9	23	122	40	73	4	12	.308	.356	.528	.884	130.7	132.7	.394	3.4
1922	151	640	592	96	194	33	8	17	107	30	65	12	3	.328	.363	.497	.860	118.1	120.8	.387	2.4
1923	145	617	560	82	172	23	5	16	103	47	64	14	7	.307	.362	.452	.814	115.4	116.5	.373	2.1
1924	144	627	571	91	185	37	9	21	136	38	52	7	2	.324	.371	.531	.902	138.6	139.7	.404	4.1
1925	147	633	586	87	181	29	3	20	99	35	54	5	2	.309	.350	.471	.821	110.1	112.4	.367	2.8
1926	136	552	499	70	151	24	4	13	80	36	52	4	0	.303	.352	.445	.797	113.5	115.0	.366	1.8
1927	61	236	222	27	60	16	4	5	21	11	23	1	0	.270	.308	.446	.754	99.0	103.5	.341	0.4
1928	116	449	402	46	119	33	7	3	58	28	35	2	0	.296	.345	.435	.780	103.1	105.0	.356	0.7
1929	147	632	577	73	169	45	9	5	103	33	61	7	0	.293	.332	.428	.760	89.2	91.6	.342	0.0
1930	90	384	354	40	109	16	2	8	54	14	36	1	0	.308	.336	.432	.768	84.4	86.0	.340	-0.2
1932	64	226	202	23	49	9	1	4	22	22	27	0	0	.243	.317	.356	.673	82.7	81.8	.309	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1917	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	0	1	2	0	5.0	0.00	1.000	3.60	2.18	84.3	—	-0.3

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

1,622

6,565

5,993

819

1,778

422nd-most career H

337

358th-most career 2B

319th-most career 3B

148

RBI

1,020

287th-most career RBI

386

694

.2967

273rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3421

SLG

.4524

458th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7945

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

3.60

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
1923-09-17	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	3	4	0	15
1924-06-14	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	3	8	1	13
1921-07-04	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	5	0	10
1922-08-05	CHC @ SF Gameday	5	3	5	2	1	0	2	0	9
1924-08-25	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	5	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	BB	SO
1917-10-03	SF @ PHI Gameday	5.0	4	1	2
1915-04-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	PHI @ SF Gameday	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

Hall of Fame, 1973 (Veterans)

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