Robert Keys
Memphis Red Sox 1941; Birmingham Black Barons 1942; Memphis Red Sox 1942–1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; Memphis Red Sox 1944–1945
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .286 | .167 | .452 | 53.1 | 35.3 | .246 | -0.2 |
| 1942 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -13.8 | -47.9 | .126 | -1.1 |
| 1943 | 9 | 25 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .208 | .292 | .500 | 42.6 | 46.3 | .234 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .333 | .556 | 65.2 | 71.6 | .260 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -11.9 | -48.8 | .126 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 17.0 | 5.82 | 1.471 | 3.71 | 3.82 | 102.8 | 63.7 | -0.2 |
| 1942 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 17.0 | 10.59 | 2.118 | 1.59 | 7.84 | 193.3 | 38.3 | -1.1 |
| 1943 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 67 | 30 | 20 | 29 | 1 | 58.3 | 4.63 | 1.491 | 4.47 | 4.03 | 99.2 | 89.7 | 0.1 |
| 1944 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 5 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 30.0 | 1.50 | 1.300 | 2.70 | 3.90 | 115.9 | 224.4 | 1.0 |
| 1945 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 12.7 | 4.26 | 2.053 | 0.71 | 8.37 | 197.3 | 99.5 | 0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-06-11 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1943-07-19 | MEM @ IC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1943-05-27 | HSL @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1944-06-11 | MEM @ NE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1941-07-12 | MEM @ PHS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-05-27 | HSL @ PHS Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1943-06-03 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 3.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1941-07-25 | KCM @ MEM Gameday | 8.0 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1944-06-11 | MEM @ NE Gameday | 13.0 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1943-06-11 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 10.2 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 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.