Henry Kessler
HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 144 lb
BornJuly 27, 1851 · Brooklyn, NY, USA
MLB debutAugust 4, 1873
Final gameJune 16, 1877
Seasons5 (1873–1877)
Brooklyn Atlantics 1873–1875; Cincinnati Reds 1876–1877
Percentile snapshot
1876 season — qualified batters
of 62 qualified 1876 batters (min 201 PA) · 2 stats not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1873 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 53.8 | 18.6 | .184 | 0.0 |
| 1874 | 14 | 56 | 56 | 8 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .304 | .304 | .321 | .625 | 99.6 | 100.0 | .286 | 0.2 |
| 1875 | 25 | 106 | 105 | 17 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | .248 | .255 | .267 | .521 | 88.2 | 80.3 | .239 | 0.3 |
| 1876 | 59 | 255 | 248 | 26 | 64 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .278 | .278 | .557 | 91.2 | 85.4 | .261 | 0.7 |
| 1877 | 6 | 22 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | 27.2 | -9.2 | .151 | -0.1 |
Career totals
G
105
PA
444
AB
434
R
51
H
110
2B
8
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
23
BB
10
SO
15
SB
0
BA
.2535
OBP
.2703
SLG
.2719
OPS
.5422
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.