Russ Kemmerer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 198 lb

BornNovember 1, 1930 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 27, 1954

Final gameJune 23, 1963

Seasons9 (1954–1963)

Boston Red Sox 1954–1955; Boston Red Sox 1957; Washington Senators 1957–1959; Chicago White Sox 1960; Washington Senators 1960; Chicago White Sox 1961–1962; Houston Colt .45's 1962–1963

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified pitchers

55.4

35.7

3.6

5.4

33.9

SHO

221

26.8

103

16.1

41.1

16.1

48.2

206.0

42.9

ERA

4.50

7.1

WHIP

1.417

5.4

K/9

3.89

16.1

FIP

3.95

FIP-

101.8

26.8

ERA+

86.3

3.6

sWAR

0.4

5.4

of 57 qualified 1959 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

86.0

1.7

sWAR

2.1

70.5

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	19	26	21	1	3	0	0	2	3	11	.143	.250	.143	.393	0.1	5.7	.211	0.9
1955	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.5	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1957	40	57	46	4	3	1	2	6	4	21	.065	.140	.217	.357	-17.2	-4.3	.170	-0.7
1958	40	73	69	3	11	0	0	1	2	28	.159	.183	.159	.343	-17.2	-4.6	.163	-0.2
1959	37	71	60	1	8	1	0	5	6	25	.133	.212	.150	.362	0.3	1.4	.185	0.4
1960	39	46	33	1	0	0	0	1	4	15	.000	.105	.000	.105	-74.2	-68.9	.079	1.4
1961	47	17	15	1	3	1	0	1	2	7	.200	.294	.267	.561	56.9	53.5	.271	0.6
1962	56	14	11	2	4	0	0	0	2	3	.364	.462	.364	.825	143.8	132.8	.396	0.9
1963	17	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	65.9	70.1	.262	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	19	9	5	3	0	2	1	71	32	41	37	4	75.3	3.82	1.487	4.42	3.80	93.9	105.8	0.9
1955	7	2	1	1	0	0	0	18	14	15	13	3	17.3	7.27	1.904	6.75	5.78	135.9	58.5	-0.5
1957	40	26	7	11	0	6	0	219	97	73	82	20	176.3	4.95	1.656	4.19	4.22	109.2	78.1	-0.7
1958	40	30	6	15	0	6	0	234	115	74	111	25	224.3	4.61	1.373	4.45	3.95	104.3	82.0	-0.2
1959	37	28	8	17	0	8	0	221	103	71	89	20	206.0	4.50	1.417	3.89	3.95	101.8	86.3	0.4
1960	39	10	6	5	2	2	1	129	55	55	86	7	138.0	3.59	1.333	5.61	3.06	79.6	106.7	1.4
1961	47	2	3	3	2	0	0	102	47	26	35	10	96.7	4.38	1.324	3.26	3.93	99.9	89.9	0.6
1962	56	2	7	4	3	0	0	102	43	26	40	13	96.0	4.03	1.333	3.75	4.49	119.1	93.8	0.9
1963	17	0	0	0	1	0	0	48	23	8	12	1	36.7	5.65	1.527	2.95	2.85	91.5	55.2	-0.8

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

302

314

265

RBI

113

.1283

OBP

.1972

SLG

.1623

OPS

.3595

Pitching

G (P)

302

109

SHO

1,067

SO (P)

505

BB allowed

389

ERA

4.463

WHIP

1.4372

K/9

4.26

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
1957-07-15	MIN @ ATH Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	4
1957-09-13	ATH @ MIN Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	4
1959-04-28	MIN @ ATH Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1958-06-19	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2
1962-09-09	NYM @ HOU Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-04-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	5	7	0
1957-07-25	CLE @ MIN Gameday	10.0	8	2	2	3	6	0
1957-06-19	ATH @ MIN Gameday	9.0	13	6	6	0	6	2
1959-06-19	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	3	6	0
1960-06-05	ATH @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	6	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.