Joe Kelly
Pittsburgh Pirates 1914; Chicago Cubs 1916; Boston Braves 1917–1919
Percentile snapshot
1917 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1917 batters (min 486 PA) · 1 stat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 141 | 570 | 508 | 47 | 113 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 48 | 39 | 59 | 21 | 0 | .222 | .283 | .301 | .584 | 76.4 | 77.9 | .285 | 0.6 |
| 1916 | 54 | 179 | 169 | 18 | 43 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 9 | 16 | 10 | 0 | .254 | .296 | .343 | .639 | 92.3 | 95.0 | .304 | 0.4 |
| 1917 | 116 | 489 | 445 | 41 | 99 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 36 | 26 | 45 | 21 | 0 | .222 | .268 | .299 | .567 | 75.4 | 78.7 | .273 | -0.2 |
| 1918 | 47 | 166 | 155 | 20 | 36 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 0 | .232 | .265 | .297 | .562 | 68.5 | 73.6 | .271 | -0.2 |
| 1919 | 18 | 66 | 64 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .141 | .154 | .156 | .310 | -20.0 | -5.7 | .149 | -0.8 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-06-06 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1916-09-03 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1917-06-26 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1917-07-12 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1917-09-10 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-04-14 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-18 | PIT @ CIN 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.