MLB / Players

John Kiley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at5 ft 7 in · 147 lb
BornJuly 1, 1859 · South Dedham, MA, USA
MLB debutMay 1, 1884
Final gameMay 7, 1891
Seasons2 (1884–1891)

Washington Nationals 1884; Boston Beaneaters 1891

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
-0.1
34.7

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
188414605691222003000.214.267.321.58894.390.8.2720.1
18911420000001100.000.500.000.500126.149.8.384-0.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
189111010101365128.06.752.2501.137.28217.749.5-0.2

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

G
15
PA
64
AB
58
R
9
H
12
2B
2
3B
2
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
4
SO
1
SB
0
BA
.2069
OBP
.2813
SLG
.3103
OPS
.5916

Pitching

G (P)
1
GS
1
W
0
L
1
SV
0
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
8
SO (P)
1
BB allowed
5
ERA
6.750
WHIP
2.2500
K/9
1.13

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.