Ted Kluszewski

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 225 lb

BornSeptember 10, 1924 · Argo, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1947

Final gameOctober 1, 1961

Seasons15 (1947–1961)

Cincinnati Reds 1947–1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954–1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1958; Chicago White Sox 1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959; Chicago White Sox 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

138

23.2

574

32.9

517

37.8

70.7

156

65.9

3.7

2.4

91.5

RBI

102

90.2

36.6

93.9

12.2

84.1

.302

75.6

OBP

.362

62.2

SLG

.536

91.5

OPS

.898

80.5

wRC+

127.8

73.2

OPS+

132.2

wOBA

.379

69.5

sWAR

2.7

51.2

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.3

79.4

OPS+

122.7

83.1

sWAR

25.0

95.3

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
1947	9	11	10	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	-28.4	-23.1	.152	-0.2
1948	113	397	379	49	104	23	4	12	57	18	32	1	0	.274	.307	.451	.758	99.9	105.0	.340	0.5
1949	136	550	531	63	164	26	2	8	68	19	24	3	0	.309	.333	.411	.743	93.6	96.8	.337	0.2
1950	134	572	538	76	165	37	0	25	111	33	28	3	0	.307	.348	.515	.863	120.9	123.0	.379	2.3
1951	154	644	607	74	157	35	2	13	77	35	33	6	2	.259	.301	.387	.688	78.0	82.4	.311	-1.0
1952	135	549	497	62	159	24	11	16	86	47	28	3	3	.320	.383	.509	.892	146.8	145.2	.402	3.9
1953	149	629	570	97	180	25	0	40	108	55	34	2	0	.316	.380	.570	.950	141.4	141.6	.411	4.2
1954	149	659	573	104	187	28	3	49	141	78	35	0	2	.326	.407	.642	1.049	168.5	165.4	.450	6.5
1955	153	686	612	116	192	25	0	47	113	66	40	1	1	.314	.382	.585	.967	143.3	147.3	.408	4.5
1956	138	574	517	91	156	14	1	35	102	49	31	1	0	.302	.362	.536	.898	127.8	132.2	.379	2.7
1957	69	133	127	12	34	7	0	6	21	5	5	0	0	.268	.301	.465	.765	90.8	97.2	.326	0.1
1958	100	331	301	29	88	13	4	4	37	26	16	0	0	.292	.348	.402	.750	99.6	101.6	.333	0.5
1959	91	239	223	22	62	12	2	4	27	14	24	0	1	.278	.319	.404	.723	92.1	96.6	.319	0.1
1960	81	206	181	20	53	9	0	5	39	22	10	0	1	.293	.364	.425	.789	111.4	115.5	.351	0.6
1961	107	290	263	32	64	12	0	15	39	24	23	0	0	.243	.303	.460	.764	89.0	96.6	.330	0.0

Career totals

1,718

494th-most career G

6,470

5,929

848

1,766

436th-most career H

290

279

203rd-most career HR

RBI

1,028

276th-most career RBI

492

365

.2979

254th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3527

SLG

.4977

135th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8504

196th-highest career OPS

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
1956-07-01	CIN @ STL Gameday	7	4	3	0	0	3	5	0	12
1952-04-20	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	1	7	1	10
1949-09-18	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	4	0	9
1950-08-23	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	3	0	9
1954-09-12	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-18	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-20	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-20	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-21	CIN @ CHC 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.

Honors

4× 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.