Johnny Kling

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 160 lb

BornNovember 13, 1875 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1900

Final gameSeptember 21, 1913

Seasons13 (1900–1913)

Chicago Orphans 1900–1902; Chicago Cubs 1903–1908; Chicago Cubs 1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Chicago Cubs 1911; Boston Braves 1912; Cincinnati Reds 1913

Percentile snapshot

1904 season — qualified batters

123

5.7

483

452

4.5

3.4

110

10.2

44.3

RBI

35.2

5.7

89.8

1.1

.243

19.3

OBP

.271

15.9

SLG

.296

11.4

OPS

.567

13.6

wRC+

75.2

11.4

OPS+

77.2

12.5

wOBA

.273

12.5

sWAR

1.1

of 89 qualified 1904 batters (min 483 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.1

39.8

OPS+

101.9

45.5

sWAR

26.2

95.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1900	15	54	51	8	15	3	1	0	7	2	3	0	.294	.321	.392	.713	93.1	96.2	.335	0.2
1901	74	269	256	26	70	6	3	0	21	9	18	8	.273	.301	.320	.621	80.8	81.4	.296	0.8
1902	115	477	436	50	126	19	3	0	59	29	26	25	.289	.333	.346	.680	108.6	109.8	.334	3.1
1903	132	524	491	67	146	29	13	3	68	22	38	23	.297	.330	.428	.758	113.7	119.7	.357	3.7
1904	123	483	452	41	110	18	0	2	46	16	26	7	.243	.271	.296	.567	75.2	77.2	.273	1.1
1905	111	425	380	26	83	8	6	1	52	28	23	13	.218	.272	.279	.551	65.0	64.8	.270	0.6
1906	107	375	343	45	107	15	8	2	46	23	30	14	.312	.357	.420	.777	139.0	141.6	.377	4.0
1907	104	367	334	44	95	15	8	1	43	27	16	9	.284	.342	.386	.728	127.0	127.8	.356	3.5
1908	126	461	424	51	117	23	5	4	59	21	33	16	.276	.315	.382	.697	119.6	122.3	.335	3.9
1910	91	343	297	31	80	17	2	2	32	37	27	3	.269	.354	.360	.714	113.2	112.2	.352	2.5
1911	102	367	321	40	68	11	3	3	29	38	43	1	.212	.295	.293	.588	58.8	59.2	.291	0.1
1912	81	274	252	26	80	10	3	2	30	15	30	3	.317	.356	.405	.761	100.5	102.7	.359	1.5
1913	80	226	209	20	57	7	6	0	23	14	14	2	.273	.318	.364	.682	92.3	94.4	.323	1.1

Career totals

1,261

4,645

4,246

475

1,154

181

RBI

515

281

327

124

.2718

OBP

.3188

SLG

.3573

OPS

.6761

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	TB
1903-05-12	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	3	8
1906-05-18	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	1	0	8
1902-08-24	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	1	7
1903-07-21	PIT @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	0	2	0	1	7
1907-08-23	CHC @ ATL Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	0	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-19	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC 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.