Joe Kelly
St. Louis Cardinals 2012–2013; Boston Red Sox 2014; St. Louis Cardinals 2014; Boston Red Sox 2015–2018; Los Angeles Dodgers 2019–2021; Chicago White Sox 2022–2023; Los Angeles Dodgers 2023–2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 29 | 35 | 33 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .152 | .152 | .212 | .364 | -16.2 | -1.0 | .159 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 40 | 40 | 33 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .152 | .171 | .182 | .353 | -18.3 | -1.2 | .161 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .313 | .607 | 70.1 | 70.5 | .278 | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 25 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -6.1 | 8.2 | .177 | 0.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 55 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -117.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 48 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.6 |
| 2023 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 24 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 42 | 36 | 75 | 10 | 107.0 | 3.53 | 1.383 | 6.31 | 4.04 | 105.2 | 108.8 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 37 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 37 | 44 | 79 | 10 | 124.0 | 2.69 | 1.355 | 5.73 | 3.98 | 107.1 | 138.4 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 45 | 42 | 66 | 8 | 96.3 | 4.20 | 1.349 | 6.17 | 4.38 | 114.7 | 90.6 | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 25 | 25 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 145 | 72 | 49 | 110 | 15 | 134.3 | 4.82 | 1.444 | 7.37 | 4.15 | 97.8 | 87.9 | 0.4 |
| 2016 | 20 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 23 | 24 | 48 | 5 | 40.0 | 5.18 | 1.700 | 10.80 | 4.28 | 97.0 | 85.3 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 54 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 18 | 27 | 52 | 3 | 58.0 | 2.79 | 1.190 | 8.07 | 3.47 | 76.6 | 162.0 | 1.7 |
| 2018 | 73 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 32 | 32 | 68 | 4 | 65.7 | 4.39 | 1.355 | 9.32 | 3.61 | 83.0 | 99.2 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 55 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 26 | 22 | 62 | 6 | 51.3 | 4.56 | 1.383 | 10.87 | 3.74 | 88.2 | 92.9 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 10.0 | 1.80 | 1.500 | 8.10 | 3.52 | 80.6 | 242.6 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 48 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 14 | 15 | 50 | 3 | 44.0 | 2.86 | .977 | 10.23 | 3.04 | 72.6 | 146.1 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 43 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 25 | 23 | 53 | 2 | 37.0 | 6.08 | 1.595 | 12.89 | 3.00 | 75.9 | 64.9 | -0.6 |
| 2023 | 42 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 18 | 18 | 60 | 3 | 39.3 | 4.12 | 1.195 | 13.73 | 2.72 | 62.5 | 105.5 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 17 | 16 | 35 | 4 | 32.0 | 4.78 | 1.469 | 9.84 | 4.65 | 112.3 | 86.5 | 0.1 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-08-01 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012-09-03 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2012-09-09 | MIL @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2013-09-29 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014-04-05 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-04-27 | TOR @ BOS Gameday | 6.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 2015-04-11 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 7.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 2016-05-27 | BOS @ TOR Gameday | 4.2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| 2015-05-20 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 2016-05-21 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 6.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 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.