Willie Keeler

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 4 in · 140 lb

BornMarch 3, 1872 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 30, 1892

Final gameSeptember 5, 1910

Seasons19 (1892–1910)

New York Giants 1892; Brooklyn Grooms 1893; New York Giants 1893; Baltimore Orioles 1894–1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899–1902; New York Highlanders 1903–1909; New York Giants 1910

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified batters

152

85.3

672

96.8

592

93.7

95.8

180

95.8

11.6

15.8

62.1

RBI

25.3

46.3

87.4

52.6

.304

84.2

OBP

.353

73.7

SLG

.338

48.4

OPS

.691

57.9

wRC+

116.4

58.9

OPS+

115.1

56.8

wOBA

.337

54.7

sWAR

2.7

63.2

of 96 qualified 1906 batters (min 480 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.1

86.8

OPS+

127.4

sWAR

50.7

98.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1892	14	57	53	7	17	3	0	0	6	3	3	5	.321	.368	.377	.746	119.7	125.2	.362	0.4
1893	27	114	104	19	33	3	2	2	16	9	5	5	.317	.377	.442	.820	111.9	118.7	.389	0.5
1894	129	664	590	165	219	27	22	5	94	40	6	32	.371	.427	.517	.944	120.9	126.5	.434	3.4
1895	131	637	565	162	213	24	15	4	78	37	12	47	.377	.429	.494	.922	129.8	137.2	.432	3.9
1896	126	601	544	153	210	22	13	4	82	37	9	67	.386	.432	.496	.928	136.7	144.2	.436	4.3
1897	129	618	564	145	239	27	19	0	74	35	5	64	.424	.464	.539	1.003	154.3	164.0	.469	5.7
1898	129	604	561	126	216	7	2	1	44	31	4	28	.385	.420	.410	.830	134.1	137.6	.404	4.0
1899	141	633	570	140	216	12	13	1	61	37	2	45	.379	.425	.451	.876	135.8	140.1	.419	4.4
1900	136	619	563	106	204	13	12	4	68	30	4	41	.362	.402	.449	.851	130.1	134.6	.403	3.7
1901	136	645	595	123	202	18	12	2	43	21	5	23	.339	.369	.420	.789	125.6	128.9	.373	3.5
1902	133	612	559	86	186	20	5	0	38	21	13	19	.333	.365	.386	.751	128.9	131.4	.366	3.4
1903	132	584	512	95	160	14	7	0	32	32	12	24	.313	.368	.367	.735	118.5	116.7	.347	2.6
1904	143	612	543	78	186	14	8	2	40	35	12	21	.343	.390	.409	.799	150.4	147.4	.379	4.8
1905	149	650	560	81	169	14	4	4	38	43	13	19	.302	.357	.363	.719	119.0	118.3	.349	2.8
1906	152	672	592	96	180	8	3	2	33	40	5	23	.304	.353	.338	.691	116.4	115.1	.337	2.7
1907	107	467	423	50	99	5	2	0	17	15	9	7	.234	.265	.255	.521	55.1	59.3	.257	-1.5
1908	91	380	323	38	85	3	1	1	14	31	10	14	.263	.337	.288	.625	103.9	99.6	.314	0.9
1909	99	427	360	44	95	7	5	1	32	24	6	10	.264	.327	.319	.647	102.9	101.7	.321	1.0
1910	19	14	10	5	3	0	0	0	0	3	1	1	.300	.462	.300	.762	143.0	124.4	.401	0.1

Career totals

2,123

186th-most career G

9,610

116th-most career PA

8,591

103rd-most career AB

1,719

27th-most career R

2,932

39th-most career H

241

145

59th-most career 3B

RBI

810

524

136

495

40th-most career SB

.3413

19th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3878

131st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4146

OPS

.8024

480th-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
1901-06-21	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5	5	5	1	0	1	2	0	9
1901-05-24	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	4	4	0	2	0	2	0	8
1905-08-07	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	4	3	0	1	1	2	2	8
1904-08-24	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1901-09-06	CIN @ LAD Gameday	6	2	5	0	1	0	5	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	ATL @ LAD 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

Hall of Fame, 1939 (BBWAA)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.