Junior Kennedy
Cincinnati Reds 1974; Cincinnati Reds 1978–1981; Chicago Cubs 1982–1983
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 22 | 25 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .360 | .158 | .518 | 63.7 | 51.2 | .277 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 89 | 190 | 157 | 22 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 31 | 28 | 4 | 1 | .255 | .381 | .293 | .674 | 103.1 | 91.8 | .334 | 0.9 |
| 1979 | 83 | 250 | 220 | 29 | 60 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 28 | 31 | 4 | 3 | .273 | .355 | .318 | .673 | 93.2 | 85.6 | .325 | 0.8 |
| 1980 | 104 | 385 | 337 | 31 | 88 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 34 | 36 | 34 | 3 | 1 | .261 | .325 | .335 | .661 | 83.8 | 85.9 | .305 | 0.7 |
| 1981 | 27 | 47 | 44 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .255 | .273 | .528 | 39.7 | 49.4 | .245 | -0.1 |
| 1982 | 105 | 271 | 242 | 22 | 53 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 21 | 34 | 1 | 4 | .219 | .278 | .264 | .543 | 49.8 | 51.0 | .260 | -0.5 |
| 1983 | 17 | 24 | 22 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .167 | .136 | .303 | -30.3 | -16.5 | .148 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-07-22 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1980-05-20 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1979-05-10 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1980-05-02 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1980-04-09 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
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.