Matt Kilroy

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornJune 21, 1866 · Philadelphia, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1886

Final gameAugust 17, 1898

Seasons10 (1886–1898)

Baltimore Orioles 1886–1889; Boston Reds 1890; Cincinnati Kelly's Killers 1891; Washington Senators 1892; Louisville Colonels 1893–1894; Chicago Orphans 1898

Percentile snapshot

1890 season — qualified pitchers

36.6

18.3

42.7

74.4

14.6

SHO

268

59.8

103

58.5

70.7

12.2

4.9

217.7

34.1

ERA

4.26

25.6

WHIP

1.631

15.9

K/9

1.98

12.2

FIP

4.74

1.2

FIP-

112.2

13.4

ERA+

99.3

35.4

sWAR

2.1

32.9

of 83 qualified 1890 pitchers (min 133 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.6

71.5

sWAR

32.2

96.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1886	68	241	218	33	38	3	1	0	11	21	0	20	.174	.253	.197	.450	62.2	42.3	.231	5.5
1887	72	271	239	46	59	5	6	0	25	31	19	12	.247	.336	.318	.654	89.5	81.7	.321	12.8
1888	43	157	145	13	26	5	2	0	19	11	16	10	.179	.242	.241	.483	67.5	54.9	.239	0.0
1889	65	233	208	32	57	3	6	1	26	23	26	13	.274	.352	.361	.713	102.9	102.7	.346	10.1
1890	31	105	93	11	20	1	1	0	8	12	9	11	.215	.305	.247	.552	63.4	48.0	.280	2.1
1891	8	24	20	2	3	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	.150	.292	.150	.442	53.0	26.6	.251	0.7
1892	4	11	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.273	.200	.473	56.3	43.2	.244	0.5
1893	5	17	16	4	7	3	0	0	3	1	3	0	.438	.471	.625	1.096	168.4	189.8	.508	-0.7
1894	8	19	17	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	6	1	.118	.211	.118	.328	6.1	-19.2	.180	0.6
1898	26	111	96	20	22	4	1	0	10	13	7	0	.229	.321	.292	.613	81.6	75.5	.310	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1886	68	68	29	34	0	66	5	476	218	182	513	10	583.0	3.37	1.129	7.92	2.62	76.0	102.3	5.5
1887	69	69	46	19	0	66	6	585	201	157	217	9	589.3	3.07	1.259	3.31	3.81	88.8	139.8	12.8
1888	40	40	17	21	0	35	2	347	144	79	135	5	321.0	4.04	1.327	3.79	3.02	98.7	75.7	0.0
1889	59	56	29	25	0	55	5	476	152	142	217	8	480.7	2.85	1.286	4.06	3.39	88.1	135.1	10.1
1890	30	27	9	15	1	18	0	268	103	87	48	14	217.7	4.26	1.631	1.98	4.74	112.2	99.3	2.1
1891	7	6	1	4	0	4	0	51	15	19	6	1	45.3	2.98	1.544	1.19	4.46	120.4	124.5	0.7
1892	4	3	1	1	0	2	0	20	7	15	1	0	26.3	2.39	1.329	0.34	4.30	130.8	137.3	0.5
1893	5	5	3	2	0	5	1	57	35	23	4	2	35.0	9.00	2.286	1.03	6.07	130.3	51.8	-0.7
1894	8	7	0	5	0	3	0	46	16	20	11	2	37.0	3.89	1.784	2.68	5.71	107.1	136.9	0.6
1898	13	11	6	7	0	10	0	119	48	30	18	2	100.3	4.31	1.485	1.61	3.89	108.1	83.7	0.6

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

330

1,189

1,062

163

236

RBI

103

118

.2222

OBP

.3041

SLG

.2797

OPS

.5838

Pitching

G (P)

303

292

381st-most career GS

141

308th-most career W

133

257th-most career L

264

64th-most career CG

SHO

274th-most career SHO

2,436

273rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,170

416th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

754

305th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.470

425th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3134

K/9

4.32

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.