MLB / Players

Ken Keltner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 31, 1916 · Milwaukee, WI, USA

MLB debutOctober 2, 1937

Final gameMay 25, 1950

Seasons13 (1937–1950)

Cleveland Indians 1937–1944; Cleveland Indians 1946–1949; Boston Red Sox 1950

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

153

91.4

656

82.8

558

75.3

166

75.3

58.1

26.9

93.5

RBI

119

91.4

89.2

26.9

17.2

36.6

.297

64.5

OBP

.395

82.8

SLG

.522

87.1

OPS

.917

89.2

wRC+

145.6

83.9

OPS+

148.5

88.2

wOBA

.422

91.4

sWAR

6.0

94.6

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.5

62.4

OPS+

113.8

69.9

sWAR

31.0

96.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1937	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.8	-100.0	.000	0.0
1938	149	619	576	86	159	31	9	26	113	33	75	4	3	.276	.319	.497	.815	98.2	104.3	.361	2.1
1939	154	648	587	84	191	35	11	13	97	51	41	6	6	.325	.379	.489	.868	123.8	126.4	.392	4.3
1940	149	608	543	67	138	24	10	15	77	51	56	10	5	.254	.322	.418	.740	93.3	95.3	.334	1.7
1941	149	644	581	83	156	31	13	23	84	51	56	2	2	.269	.330	.485	.815	114.5	119.3	.366	3.5
1942	152	663	624	72	179	34	4	6	78	20	36	4	3	.287	.312	.383	.695	95.3	100.6	.325	2.0
1943	110	469	427	47	111	31	3	4	39	36	20	2	2	.260	.317	.375	.692	104.6	107.5	.330	2.0
1944	149	632	573	74	169	41	9	13	91	53	29	4	3	.295	.355	.466	.821	136.1	137.5	.382	5.1
1946	116	435	398	47	96	17	1	13	45	30	38	0	3	.241	.294	.387	.681	89.4	94.6	.315	1.1
1947	151	613	541	49	139	29	3	11	76	59	45	5	4	.257	.331	.383	.714	102.6	104.2	.338	2.5
1948	153	656	558	91	166	24	4	31	119	89	52	2	1	.297	.395	.522	.917	145.6	148.5	.422	6.0
1949	80	292	246	35	57	9	2	8	30	38	26	0	1	.232	.335	.382	.717	92.1	93.6	.344	0.8
1950	13	32	28	2	9	2	0	0	2	3	6	0	0	.321	.387	.393	.780	93.4	92.3	.368	0.1

Career totals

1,526

6,312

5,683

737

1,570

308

455th-most career 2B

405th-most career 3B

163

RBI

852

460th-most career RBI

514

480

.2763

OBP

.3377

SLG

.4408

OPS

.7785

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1939-05-25	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	3	1	12
1946-04-17	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	4	0	10
1947-07-04	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	1	0	9
1938-05-03	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	6	0	9
1948-04-25	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-04-20	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-23	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-24	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-25	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1937-04-28	CWS @ CLE 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.

Honors

7× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.