Ron Kline

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornMarch 9, 1932 · Callery, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1952

Final gameJune 13, 1970

Seasons17 (1952–1970)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1952; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955–1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1960; Detroit Tigers 1961; Los Angeles Angels 1961; Detroit Tigers 1962; Washington Senators 1963–1966; Minnesota Twins 1967; Pittsburgh Pirates 1968; Boston Red Sox 1969; Pittsburgh Pirates 1969; San Francisco Giants 1969; Atlanta Braves 1970

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified pitchers

28.6

39.3

28.6

19.6

21.4

SHO

186

66.1

44.6

42.9

21.4

32.1

186.0

ERA

4.26

16.1

WHIP

1.376

17.9

K/9

4.40

32.1

FIP

4.41

5.4

FIP-

114.1

3.6

ERA+

90.8

12.5

sWAR

0.9

12.5

of 57 qualified 1959 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.2

39.5

sWAR

18.2

92.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1952	27	19	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.2	-100.0	.000	-0.9
1955	37	40	38	1	5	0	0	0	1	21	0	.132	.154	.132	.285	-33.9	-22.9	.135	0.9
1956	44	89	79	2	10	0	0	3	4	26	1	.127	.167	.127	.293	-28.0	-18.6	.143	3.4
1957	40	70	66	0	4	0	0	0	1	24	0	.061	.075	.061	.135	-80.2	-62.3	.065	0.7
1958	33	88	74	2	2	1	0	1	4	42	0	.027	.089	.041	.129	-77.7	-63.6	.075	2.5
1959	38	65	59	4	8	0	0	6	1	23	0	.136	.150	.136	.286	-34.4	-22.1	.134	0.9
1960	34	36	35	1	5	0	0	1	0	13	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-43.5	-23.7	.131	-1.8
1961	36	57	49	2	6	1	0	2	1	25	0	.122	.157	.143	.300	-33.4	-20.0	.144	1.5
1962	36	17	16	1	2	0	0	0	0	5	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-52.0	-32.9	.114	0.5
1963	62	11	11	0	1	0	1	0	0	7	0	.091	.091	.273	.364	-21.5	-3.1	.153	1.9
1964	61	9	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	34.9	29.2	.235	2.2
1965	74	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.9	-100.0	.000	1.9
1966	63	7	6	1	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	42.1	34.3	.235	2.1
1967	54	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.4	-100.0	.000	0.3
1968	56	18	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	.000	.059	.000	.059	-102.5	-80.9	.044	2.9
1969	43	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.4	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1970	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1952	27	11	0	7	0	0	0	74	48	66	27	3	78.7	5.49	1.780	3.09	4.97	126.3	71.7	-0.9
1955	36	19	6	13	2	2	1	161	63	53	48	13	136.7	4.15	1.566	3.16	4.11	101.9	97.3	0.9
1956	44	39	14	18	2	9	2	263	99	81	125	26	264.0	3.38	1.303	4.26	3.54	95.6	109.8	3.4
1957	40	31	9	16	0	11	2	214	92	61	88	28	205.0	4.04	1.341	3.86	4.34	115.5	93.0	0.7
1958	32	32	13	16	0	11	2	220	93	92	109	25	237.3	3.53	1.315	4.13	4.12	107.4	108.8	2.5
1959	33	29	11	13	0	7	0	186	88	70	91	23	186.0	4.26	1.376	4.40	4.41	114.1	90.8	0.9
1960	34	17	4	9	1	1	0	133	79	43	54	21	117.7	6.04	1.496	4.13	5.15	128.2	66.5	-1.8
1961	36	20	8	9	1	3	1	172	74	61	97	19	161.0	4.14	1.447	5.42	3.99	95.3	100.9	1.5
1962	36	4	3	6	2	0	0	88	37	28	47	9	77.3	4.31	1.500	5.47	3.98	98.0	94.2	0.5
1963	62	1	3	8	17	0	0	85	29	30	49	3	93.7	2.79	1.228	4.71	2.89	78.6	131.8	1.9
1964	61	0	10	7	14	0	0	81	21	21	40	4	81.3	2.32	1.254	4.43	2.96	80.6	158.2	2.2
1965	74	0	7	6	29	0	0	106	29	32	52	7	99.3	2.63	1.389	4.71	3.29	95.2	131.7	1.9
1966	63	0	6	4	23	0	0	79	24	17	46	12	90.3	2.39	1.063	4.58	3.71	108.0	143.6	2.1
1967	54	0	7	1	5	0	0	71	30	15	36	10	71.7	3.77	1.200	4.52	3.90	113.6	91.1	0.3
1968	56	0	12	5	7	0	0	94	21	31	48	3	112.7	1.68	1.109	3.83	2.92	98.8	176.0	2.9
1969	43	0	1	6	4	0	0	77	34	28	29	8	59.0	5.19	1.780	4.42	4.83	132.5	69.4	-0.6
1970	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	5	2	3	4	6.3	7.11	1.737	4.26	11.06	260.2	59.8	-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

743

548

491

RBI

221

.0916

OBP

.1218

SLG

.0998

OPS

.2216

Pitching

G (P)

736

92nd-most career G (P)

203

114

493rd-most career W

144

191st-most career L

108

153rd-most career SV

SHO

2,078

411th-most career IP

SO (P)

989

BB allowed

731

342nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.751

WHIP

1.3686

K/9

4.28

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	3B	RBI	TB
1963-06-02	TEX @ ATH Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	3
1960-08-07	CIN @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
1957-07-13	ATL @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2
1960-06-23	STL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1962-08-08	DET @ TEX Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-04-29	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	9	0
1961-05-21	TEX @ LAA Gameday	6.0	8	4	4	1	9	3
1960-06-08	PHI @ STL Gameday	5.0	7	3	3	3	8	0
1959-07-05	CIN @ PIT Gameday	11.0	5	2	2	2	7	1
1955-06-08	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	4	7	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.