MLB / Players

Jerry Kenney

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 170 lb

BornJune 30, 1945 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1967

Final gameApril 19, 1973

Seasons6 (1967–1973)

New York Yankees 1967; New York Yankees 1969–1972; Cleveland Indians 1973

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified batters

130

8.3

509

6.7

447

2.5

7.5

115

6.7

16.7

4.2

RBI

34.2

92.5

90.8

3.3

.257

27.5

OBP

.328

33.3

SLG

.311

6.7

OPS

.639

8.3

wRC+

86.5

14.2

OPS+

84.1

12.5

wOBA

.305

11.7

sWAR

1.1

16.7

of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.5

75.4

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
1967	20	74	58	4	18	2	0	1	5	10	8	2	1	.310	.412	.397	.808	156.2	144.6	.384	0.8
1969	130	509	447	49	115	14	2	2	34	48	36	25	14	.257	.328	.311	.639	86.5	84.1	.305	1.1
1970	140	461	404	46	78	10	7	4	35	52	44	20	6	.193	.284	.282	.566	62.3	61.1	.271	-0.3
1971	120	395	325	50	85	10	3	0	20	56	38	9	8	.262	.368	.311	.679	102.9	95.5	.330	1.7
1972	50	136	119	16	25	2	0	0	7	16	13	3	0	.210	.304	.227	.531	62.6	62.6	.263	0.1
1973	5	19	16	0	4	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	.250	.316	.375	.691	90.1	93.1	.316	0.1

Career totals

465

1,594

1,369

165

325

RBI

103

184

139

.2374

OBP

.3263

SLG

.2995

OPS

.6258

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	TB
1970-06-12	NYY @ KC Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	1	7
1969-04-07	NYY @ TEX Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	1	1	6
1970-05-12	NYY @ MIL Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	0	2	5
1969-05-21	ATH @ NYY Gameday	6	0	3	2	0	0	1	5
1970-04-26	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	1	3	5

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.