MLB / Players

John Kelly

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornMarch 3, 1859 · Paterson, NJ, USA
MLB debutJune 7, 1879
Final gameOctober 19, 1884
Seasons4 (1879–1884)

Cleveland Blues 1879; Cleveland Blues 1882; Baltimore Orioles 1883; Philadelphia Quakers 1883; Cincinnati Outlaw Reds 1884; Washington Nationals 1884

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
1.0
64

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
18791440100000000.250.250.250.50073.265.0.2260.0
188230105104614200512400.135.143.154.29721.9-4.7.134-0.5
188349208205184692003200.224.236.288.52376.067.1.2380.3
188442162156244561106000.288.315.359.674117.0127.1.3111.2

Career totals

G
122
PA
479
AB
469
R
48
H
106
2B
17
3B
3
HR
1
RBI
5
BB
10
SO
26
SB
0
BA
.2260
OBP
.2422
SLG
.2814
OPS
.5236

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.