MLB / Players

Monty Kennedy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornMay 11, 1922 · Amelia, VA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1946

Final gameSeptember 12, 1953

Seasons8 (1946–1953)

New York Giants 1946–1953

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified pitchers

65.6

31.1

21.3

42.6

57.4

SHO

78.7

208

49.2

60.7

100

27.9

62.3

60.7

223.3

63.9

ERA

3.43

62.3

WHIP

1.379

50.8

K/9

3.83

57.4

FIP

3.82

55.7

FIP-

95.0

44.3

ERA+

117.4

60.7

sWAR

3.5

60.7

of 62 qualified 1949 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.9

86.9

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1946	38	68	64	3	15	4	0	8	1	19	.234	.258	.297	.554	44.1	55.9	.262	2.2
1947	34	52	48	6	8	0	0	6	3	9	.167	.216	.167	.382	-6.6	2.0	.189	0.2
1948	26	36	31	4	4	0	0	2	3	8	.129	.206	.129	.335	-13.4	-8.0	.175	1.0
1949	39	92	83	6	12	1	1	8	4	20	.145	.184	.193	.377	-9.4	1.4	.178	3.5
1950	36	39	36	4	2	0	0	1	0	6	.056	.081	.056	.137	-82.9	-63.2	.069	0.0
1951	29	18	15	0	3	1	0	1	0	5	.200	.200	.267	.467	10.0	24.7	.208	2.0
1952	34	23	22	2	2	0	0	0	0	8	.091	.091	.091	.182	-74.7	-49.5	.084	1.4
1953	19	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1946	38	27	9	10	1	10	1	153	71	116	71	14	186.7	3.42	1.441	3.42	4.46	128.9	101.1	2.2
1947	34	24	9	12	0	9	0	158	80	88	60	8	148.3	4.85	1.658	3.64	4.32	104.6	85.1	0.2
1948	25	16	3	9	0	7	1	118	51	57	63	10	114.3	4.01	1.531	4.96	4.18	104.5	99.5	1.0
1949	38	32	12	14	1	14	4	208	85	100	95	13	223.3	3.43	1.379	3.83	3.82	95.0	117.4	3.5
1950	36	17	5	4	2	5	0	120	60	53	41	14	114.3	4.72	1.513	3.23	4.80	116.6	87.1	0.0
1951	29	5	1	2	0	1	0	68	17	31	22	0	68.0	2.25	1.456	2.91	3.10	78.7	175.0	2.0
1952	31	6	3	4	0	2	1	73	28	31	48	6	83.3	3.02	1.248	5.18	3.39	90.7	123.5	1.4
1953	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	18	19	11	2	22.7	7.15	2.162	4.37	5.44	126.5	60.2	-0.5

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

255

330

301

RBI

.1528

OBP

.1879

SLG

.1827

OPS

.3706

Pitching

G (P)

249

127

SHO

961

SO (P)

411

BB allowed

495

ERA

3.840

WHIP

1.4807

K/9

3.85

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	TB
1946-09-12	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	4
1949-07-03	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	1	1	0	1	4	4
1946-08-22	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
1947-06-05	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2
1947-06-15	SF @ CIN Gameday	5	0	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-07-02	SF @ ATL Gameday	8.0	9	4	4	6	11	1
1948-09-01	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	6	9	0
1949-05-25	SF @ CHC Gameday	6.0	6	3	3	3	7	0
1948-08-28	SF @ STL Gameday	11.1	13	5	2	2	6	1
1948-09-05	SF @ LAD Gameday	11.0	6	1	1	5	6	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.