MLB / Players

Kelly Downs

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 25, 1960 · Ogden, UT, USA

MLB debutJuly 29, 1986

Final gameSeptember 29, 1993

Seasons8 (1986–1993)

San Francisco Giants 1986–1991; Oakland Athletics 1992; San Francisco Giants 1992; Oakland Athletics 1993

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

4.4

12.2

46.7

66.7

SHO

140

93.3

85.6

118

36.7

85.6

168.0

3.3

ERA

3.32

56.7

WHIP

1.113

84.4

K/9

6.32

76.7

FIP

3.05

FIP-

92.0

62.2

ERA+

99.8

37.8

sWAR

1.9

34.4

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.0

82.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	15	30	29	1	5	0	0	0	1	13	1	.172	.200	.172	.372	0.0	6.4	.180	1.8
1987	41	65	56	1	8	1	0	6	1	23	1	.143	.155	.161	.316	-23.4	-13.9	.145	2.4
1988	27	61	54	7	9	2	1	3	3	17	0	.167	.211	.241	.451	28.7	32.5	.214	1.9
1989	18	25	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	9	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-64.4	-47.0	.085	-0.7
1990	13	18	13	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	0	.000	.067	.000	.067	-88.6	-79.5	.050	0.7
1991	45	26	23	3	2	0	0	1	1	5	0	.087	.125	.087	.212	-47.8	-38.3	.108	0.2
1992	37	16	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.0	-100.0	.000	1.6
1993	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	14	14	4	4	0	1	0	78	27	30	64	5	88.3	2.75	1.223	6.52	3.15	88.5	129.5	1.8
1987	41	28	12	9	1	4	3	185	75	67	137	14	186.0	3.63	1.355	6.63	3.52	90.1	107.6	2.4
1988	27	26	13	9	0	6	3	140	62	47	118	11	168.0	3.32	1.113	6.32	3.05	92.0	99.8	1.9
1989	18	15	4	8	0	0	0	82	44	26	49	7	82.7	4.79	1.306	5.33	3.56	104.2	71.3	-0.7
1990	13	9	3	2	0	0	0	56	24	20	31	2	63.0	3.43	1.206	4.43	3.29	89.2	107.4	0.7
1991	45	11	10	4	0	0	0	99	52	53	62	12	111.7	4.19	1.361	5.00	4.58	127.4	85.8	0.2
1992	37	20	6	7	0	0	0	137	54	70	71	8	144.3	3.37	1.434	4.43	4.12	114.6	106.7	1.6
1993	42	12	5	10	0	0	0	135	75	60	66	14	119.7	5.64	1.630	4.96	4.97	120.3	73.3	-0.8

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

238

241

211

RBI

.1232

OBP

.1500

SLG

.1469

OPS

.2969

Pitching

G (P)

237

135

SHO

964

SO (P)

598

BB allowed

373

ERA

3.857

WHIP

1.3334

K/9

5.58

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	RBI	BB	TB
1988-07-20	SF @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	0	1	4
1988-07-09	STL @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2	0	2
1991-07-14	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	0	2
1986-10-03	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
1987-08-20	SF @ NYM Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1988-08-19	PHI @ SF Gameday	7.0	6	2	1	2	9	0
1988-07-25	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	8	0
1987-07-07	SF @ PIT Gameday	8.0	11	4	4	2	8	0
1988-05-27	SF @ PHI Gameday	7.0	6	4	4	2	8	1
1986-10-03	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	1	7	1

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.