Joe Kelly
Chicago Cubs 1926; Chicago Cubs 1928
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 65 | 189 | 176 | 16 | 59 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 32 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .335 | .361 | .455 | .815 | 116.5 | 118.3 | .373 | 0.8 |
| 1928 | 32 | 57 | 52 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .255 | .288 | .543 | 37.9 | 43.4 | .254 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928-04-19 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1926-06-11 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1926-06-28 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1926-09-04 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1926-09-07 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-04-13 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-14 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-16 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-17 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1926-04-18 | CHC @ STL 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.