Roberto Kelly

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 1, 1964 · Panama City, Panamá, Panama

MLB debutJuly 29, 1987

Final gameApril 18, 2000

Seasons14 (1987–2000)

New York Yankees 1987–1992; Cincinnati Reds 1993; Atlanta Braves 1994; Cincinnati Reds 1994; Los Angeles Dodgers 1995; Montreal Expos 1995; Minnesota Twins 1996–1997; Seattle Mariners 1997; Texas Rangers 1998–1999; New York Yankees 2000

Percentile snapshot

1995 season — qualified batters

136

539

504

60.1

8.7

140

45.7

36.2

25.4

17.4

RBI

31.9

2.2

50.7

72.5

10.1

.278

40.6

OBP

.312

9.4

SLG

.373

14.5

OPS

.685

9.4

wRC+

81.8

10.9

OPS+

85.8

16.7

wOBA

.303

5.1

sWAR

0.3

of 139 qualified 1995 batters (min 446 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.7

OPS+

105.6

53.2

sWAR

20.6

93.8

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
1987	23	59	52	12	14	3	0	1	7	5	15	9	3	.269	.328	.385	.712	90.6	89.8	.317	0.1
1988	38	84	77	9	19	4	1	1	7	3	15	5	2	.247	.272	.364	.635	73.9	77.3	.286	0.0
1989	137	496	441	65	133	18	3	9	48	41	89	35	12	.302	.369	.417	.786	125.8	122.4	.363	3.5
1990	162	686	641	85	183	32	4	15	61	33	148	42	17	.285	.323	.418	.741	105.2	105.2	.337	3.0
1991	126	543	486	68	130	22	2	20	69	45	77	32	9	.267	.333	.444	.777	113.0	112.9	.349	2.6
1992	152	632	580	81	158	31	2	10	66	41	96	28	5	.272	.322	.384	.706	97.2	98.5	.323	1.9
1993	78	342	320	44	102	17	3	9	35	17	43	21	5	.319	.354	.475	.829	122.3	120.7	.369	2.2
1994	110	475	434	73	127	23	3	9	45	35	71	19	11	.293	.347	.422	.769	102.6	100.6	.345	1.9
1995	136	539	504	58	140	23	2	7	57	22	79	19	10	.278	.312	.373	.685	81.8	85.8	.303	0.3
1996	98	357	322	41	104	17	4	6	47	23	53	10	2	.323	.375	.457	.832	109.3	107.6	.369	1.4
1997	105	398	368	58	107	26	2	12	59	22	67	9	5	.291	.333	.470	.803	106.6	106.7	.352	1.1
1998	75	270	257	48	83	7	3	16	46	8	46	0	2	.323	.349	.560	.910	129.2	128.8	.390	1.7
1999	87	318	290	41	87	17	1	8	37	21	57	6	1	.300	.355	.448	.804	101.6	100.5	.356	0.9
2000	10	27	25	4	3	1	0	1	1	1	6	0	0	.120	.185	.280	.465	14.1	17.7	.208	-0.2

Career totals

1,337

5,226

4,797

687

1,390

241

124

RBI

585

317

862

235

270th-most career SB

.2898

412th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3374

SLG

.4301

OPS

.7675

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
1999-09-15	TEX @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	10
1998-08-16	TEX @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	9
1998-06-13	LAA @ TEX Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	2	9
1991-06-23	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	5	0	1	3	8
1989-04-04	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	2	8

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

2× 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.