Red Kress

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornJanuary 2, 1905 · Columbia, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 24, 1927

Final gameJuly 17, 1946

Seasons14 (1927–1946)

St. Louis Browns 1927–1931; Chicago White Sox 1932; St. Louis Browns 1932; Chicago White Sox 1933–1934; Washington Senators 1934–1936; St. Louis Browns 1938; Detroit Tigers 1939; St. Louis Browns 1939; Detroit Tigers 1940; New York Giants 1946

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

150

87.6

644

78.5

566

79.3

52.9

171

79.3

15.7

51.2

RBI

66.9

77.7

27.3

55.4

20.7

.302

60.3

OBP

.378

68.6

SLG

.408

45.5

OPS

.786

55.4

wRC+

95.4

34.7

OPS+

94.1

31.4

wOBA

.366

56.2

sWAR

2.3

66.1

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.5

OPS+

95.4

32.1

sWAR

15.8

91.5

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
1927	7	27	23	3	7	2	1	1	3	3	3	0	0	.304	.385	.609	.993	143.9	149.0	.441	0.3
1928	150	635	560	78	153	26	10	3	81	48	70	5	4	.273	.332	.371	.703	80.6	81.5	.328	1.3
1929	147	627	557	82	170	38	4	9	107	52	54	5	8	.305	.366	.436	.802	102.2	102.4	.367	2.9
1930	154	679	614	94	192	43	8	16	112	50	56	3	12	.313	.366	.487	.853	109.1	110.8	.381	3.6
1931	150	655	605	87	188	46	8	16	114	46	48	3	16	.311	.360	.493	.853	115.1	117.9	.385	3.4
1932	149	626	567	85	156	42	5	11	66	51	42	7	4	.275	.336	.425	.761	97.8	99.8	.346	1.8
1933	129	511	467	47	116	20	5	10	78	37	40	4	4	.248	.304	.377	.680	78.9	81.1	.314	-0.6
1934	64	207	185	21	43	4	3	4	25	20	22	3	0	.232	.307	.351	.659	71.4	71.8	.310	-0.3
1935	84	279	252	32	75	13	4	2	42	25	16	3	3	.298	.361	.405	.766	100.3	100.3	.356	0.7
1936	109	434	391	51	111	20	6	8	51	39	25	6	0	.284	.349	.427	.776	93.5	94.8	.356	1.3
1938	150	644	566	74	171	33	3	7	79	69	47	5	4	.302	.378	.408	.786	95.4	94.1	.366	2.3
1939	64	228	200	24	50	8	0	1	30	23	18	3	1	.250	.327	.305	.632	60.7	59.1	.303	-0.2
1940	33	110	99	13	22	3	1	1	11	10	12	0	0	.222	.294	.303	.597	47.7	50.1	.280	-0.3
1946	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	129.7	47.0	.381	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	8	5	5	0	5.7	12.71	2.294	7.94	3.97	91.6	34.1	0.7
1946	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	1	1	1	3.7	12.27	1.636	2.45	6.96	200.9	28.2	-0.3

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

1,391

5,664

5,087

691

1,454

298

RBI

799

474

453

.2858

OBP

.3474

SLG

.4197

OPS

.7671

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

12.536

WHIP

2.0357

K/9

5.79

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
1930-09-07	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	4	1	9
1932-09-03	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	2	0	9
1932-09-21	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	4	4	2	1	2	0	9
1934-07-02	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	0	9
1931-08-19	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	3	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-06-27	MIN @ NYY Gameday	1.0	1	0	0	0	3	0
1935-07-01	MIN @ BOS Gameday	2.0	1	3	3	3	2	0
1946-07-17	SF @ PIT Gameday	3.2	5	5	5	1	1	1
1935-07-03	MIN @ BOS Gameday	2.2	6	6	5	2	0	0
1927-04-15	DET @ BAL 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.