Joe Kelley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornDecember 9, 1871 · Cambridge, MA, USA

MLB debutJuly 27, 1891

Final gameOctober 3, 1908

Seasons17 (1891–1908)

Boston Beaneaters 1891; Baltimore Orioles 1892; Pittsburgh Pirates 1892; Baltimore Orioles 1893–1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899–1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; Cincinnati Reds 1902–1906; Boston Doves 1908

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified batters

129

28.4

540

34.7

465

30.5

106

17.9

55.8

86.3

33.7

RBI

61.1

56.8

74.7

15.8

.228

8.4

OBP

.300

22.1

SLG

.323

36.8

OPS

.623

29.5

wRC+

89.2

21.1

OPS+

90.3

22.1

wOBA

.310

32.6

sWAR

0.4

10.5

of 96 qualified 1906 batters (min 480 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

131.7

91.8

OPS+

134.1

93.1

sWAR

50.6

98.9

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
1891	12	47	45	7	11	1	1	0	3	2	7	0	.244	.277	.311	.588	72.9	70.9	.282	-0.1
1892	66	260	238	29	56	7	7	0	32	21	28	10	.235	.300	.324	.624	89.2	87.9	.305	0.6
1893	125	583	502	120	153	27	16	9	76	77	44	33	.305	.401	.476	.877	124.8	132.6	.416	3.8
1894	129	638	507	165	199	48	20	6	111	107	36	46	.393	.502	.602	1.104	152.2	164.9	.503	5.8
1895	131	617	518	148	189	26	19	10	134	77	29	54	.365	.456	.546	1.003	145.9	157.6	.466	5.1
1896	131	627	519	148	189	31	19	8	100	91	19	87	.364	.469	.543	1.013	155.7	166.4	.474	6.1
1897	131	591	505	113	183	31	9	5	118	70	19	44	.362	.447	.489	.936	141.1	146.7	.443	4.5
1898	124	530	464	71	149	18	15	2	110	56	24	24	.321	.398	.438	.835	134.5	138.8	.404	4.0
1899	143	626	538	108	175	21	14	6	93	70	23	31	.325	.410	.450	.860	132.0	135.4	.412	4.0
1900	121	513	454	90	145	23	17	6	91	53	18	26	.319	.398	.485	.882	136.8	142.8	.415	3.6
1901	120	539	492	77	151	22	12	4	65	40	26	18	.307	.363	.425	.787	125.6	128.2	.373	2.6
1902	100	435	378	74	119	26	9	2	46	49	33	15	.315	.395	.447	.842	136.5	137.8	.401	3.5
1903	105	445	383	85	121	22	4	3	45	51	24	18	.316	.402	.418	.820	123.8	123.9	.397	2.6
1904	123	519	449	75	126	21	13	0	63	49	25	15	.281	.359	.385	.744	122.1	121.5	.361	2.1
1905	90	366	321	43	89	7	6	1	37	27	23	8	.277	.346	.346	.692	98.9	97.8	.339	0.7
1906	129	540	465	43	106	19	11	1	53	44	27	9	.228	.300	.323	.623	89.2	90.3	.310	0.4
1908	73	263	228	25	59	8	2	2	17	27	25	5	.259	.342	.338	.680	119.5	115.7	.337	1.2

Career totals

1,853

364th-most career G

8,139

273rd-most career PA

7,006

312th-most career AB

1,421

88th-most career R

2,220

184th-most career H

358

295th-most career 2B

194

9th-most career 3B

RBI

1,194

162nd-most career RBI

911

178th-most career BB

430

443

56th-most career SB

.3169

75th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4017

62nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4512

472nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8529

187th-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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1901-09-23	LAD @ CIN Gameday	7	4	3	0	0	2	5	0	9
1905-08-10	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1901-09-17	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	1	6
1902-07-09	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	0	2	1	6
1902-08-13	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	1	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	ATL @ LAD 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

Hall of Fame, 1971 (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.