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Ken Keltner

Kenneth Frederick Keltner (Butch)

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: October 31, 1916 in Milwaukee, WI
High School: Boy's Technical HS (Milwaukee, WI) (All Transactions)
Debut: October 2, 1937
Teams (by GP): Indians/RedSox 1937-1950

Final Game: May 25, 1950
Died: December 12, 1991 in New Berlin, WI
Buried: Wisconsin Memorial Park, Brookfield, WI
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All-Star

Standard Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1937 CLE AL 20 3B 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 3.20
1938 CLE AL 21 3B 149 149 147 431 141 271 19 19 .956 2.77 .941 3.14 MVP-14
1939 CLE AL 22 3B 154 154 148 497 187 297 13 40 .974 3.14 .943 3.15 MVP-12
1940 CLE AL 23 3B 148 148 145 469 170 277 22 27 .953 3.02 .937 3.21 AS
1941 CLE AL 24 3B 149 147 145 543 181 346 16 36 .971 3.54 .947 3.28 AS
1942 CLE AL 25 3B 151 151 146 549 166 353 30 38 .945 3.44 .939 3.16 AS,MVP-14
1943 CLE AL 26 3B 107 106 102 352 113 228 11 24 .969 3.19 .951 3.17 AS,MVP-31
1944 CLE AL 27 3B 149 148 143 555 168 369 18 37 .968 3.60 .954 3.34 AS
1946 CLE AL 29 3B 112 108 104 318 112 195 11 18 .965 2.74 .948 3.06 AS
1947 CLE AL 30 3B 150 150 142 434 156 266 12 29 .972 2.81 .959 3.01
1948 CLE AL 31 3B 153 153 146 449 123 312 14 27 .969 2.84 .958 3.04 AS,MVP-14
1949 CLE AL 32 3B 69 67 62 200 51 145 4 11 .980 2.84 .960 3.15
1950 BOS AL 33 3B 8 7 7 64.0 19 8 10 1 0 .947 2.53 2.25 .960 3.25 3.20
1950 BOS AL 33 1B 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 4.50 1.00 .990 9.45 9.40
13 Seasons 3B 1500 1488 1437 64.0 4817 1576 3070 171 306 .965 2.53 3.10 .948 3.25 3.16
1 Season 1B 1 0 0 2.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 4.50 1.00 .990 9.45 9.40
13 Seasons TOT 1501 1488 1437 66.0 4818 1577 3070 171 306 .965 2.59 3.10 .948 3.44 3.16
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year Tm Lg Age Pos Rtot Rtot/yr Rtz Rtzhm Rtzrd Rdp Rof Rctch Rdrs Rdrs/yr Rpm Rdp Rbnt Rof Rhr RerC RsbC RsbP
1937 CLE AL 20 3B
1938 CLE AL 21 3B
1939 CLE AL 22 3B
1940 CLE AL 23 3B
1941 CLE AL 24 3B
1942 CLE AL 25 3B
1943 CLE AL 26 3B
1944 CLE AL 27 3B
1946 CLE AL 29 3B
1947 CLE AL 30 3B
1948 CLE AL 31 3B
1949 CLE AL 32 3B
1950 BOS AL 33 3B
1950 BOS AL 33 1B
13 Seasons 3B
1 Season 1B
13 Seasons TOT

Appearances

Year Tm Lg Age G GS Batting Defense P C 1B 2B 3B SS LF CF RF OF DH PH PR
1937 CLE AL 20 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1938 CLE AL 21 149 149 149 149 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1939 CLE AL 22 154 154 154 154 0 0 0 0 154 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1940 CLE AL 23 149 148 149 148 0 0 0 0 148 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1941 CLE AL 24 149 147 149 149 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1942 CLE AL 25 152 151 152 152 0 0 0 0 152 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1943 CLE AL 26 110 106 110 107 0 0 0 0 107 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1944 CLE AL 27 149 148 149 149 0 0 0 0 149 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1946 CLE AL 29 116 108 116 112 0 0 0 0 112 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
1947 CLE AL 30 151 150 151 150 0 0 0 0 150 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1948 CLE AL 31 153 153 153 153 0 0 0 0 153 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1949 CLE AL 32 80 67 80 69 0 0 0 0 69 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0
1950 BOS AL 33 13 7 13 9 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1
13 Seasons 1526 1488 1526 1502 0 0 1 0 1501 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 1
Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 543 53 GB LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1948 CLE AL 31 5750 57% 81% 28% 419 94% 1 121 84 18 19 312 237 56 7 7 14 0 14 0 11 28 15 3 23 3 3 0 12 100%
1949 CLE AL 32 2532 54% 82% 28% 204 87% 0 51 38 7 6 142 118 16 2 7 4 0 4 0 4 11 8 0 8 3 1 0 13 100%
1950 BOS AL 33 284 64% 81% 24% 20 85% 1 8 7 1 0 10 7 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons 8566 56% 81% 28% 643 91% 2 180 129 26 25 464 362 74 9 14 19 0 19 0 16 40 24 3 32 6 4 0 25 100%
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 89% 72%

Advanced Fielding -- 1B*

Putouts Assists Errors Double Plays
Year Tm Lg Age PA RHB% BIP% GBIP% Fld F2O% FC Tot Cgt Frc Tag 3U Tot 1B 2B Hm Rly Tot Cch Fld Thr ROE Tot 363 361 36 GB GBs LD LDs LDf bFld bF2O%
1950 BOS AL 33 8 50% 100% 13% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season 8 50% 100% 13% 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLB Averages 62% 82% 26% 93% 88%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1958 BBWAA ( 0.4%)
1960 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

All-Star Games
1940 *
1941 *
1942 (3B)
1943 (3B)
1944 (3B)
1946 (3B)
1948 (3B)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1938 AL (14, 5%)
1939 AL (12, 8%)
1942 AL (14, 4%)
1943 AL (31, 1%)
1948 AL (14, 5%)
0.23 Career Shares (693rd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1938 AL  149 (3rd)
1939 AL  154 (1st)
1940 AL  148 (2nd)
1941 AL  149 (2nd)
1942 AL  151 (1st)
1944 AL  149 (1st)
1946 AL  112 (2nd)
1947 AL  150 (2nd)
1948 AL  153 (1st)
Career  1,500 (39th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1938 AL  141 (5th)
1939 AL  187 (1st)
1940 AL  170 (2nd)
1941 AL  181 (2nd)
1942 AL  166 (2nd)
1944 AL  168 (2nd)
1946 AL  112 (2nd)
1947 AL  156 (4th)
1948 AL  123 (5th)
Career  1,576 (31st)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1939 AL  297 (4th)
1940 AL  277 (4th)
1941 AL  346 (1st)
1942 AL  353 (1st)
1943 AL  228 (5th)
1944 AL  369 (1st)
1946 AL  195 (2nd)
1947 AL  266 (2nd)
1948 AL  312 (1st)
Career  3,070 (39th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1938 AL  19 (5th)
1942 AL  30 (2nd)
1944 AL  18 (5th)
1946 AL  11 (5th)
1947 AL  12 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1939 AL  3.14 (5th)
1941 AL  3.54 (2nd)
1942 AL  3.44 (1st)
1943 AL  3.19 (4th)
1944 AL  3.60 (1st)
1946 AL  2.74 (4th)
1948 AL  2.84 (5th)
Career  3.10 (65th)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1938 AL  .956 (3rd)
1939 AL  .974 (1st)
1940 AL  .953 (2nd)
1941 AL  .971 (1st)
1942 AL  .945 (2nd)
1943 AL  .969 (2nd)
1944 AL  .968 (2nd)
1946 AL  .965 (4th)
1947 AL  .972 (3rd)
1948 AL  .969 (3rd)
Career  .965 (29th)

Youngest s c a p y
1937 AL  born 1916-10-31 (6th)
1938 AL  born 1916-10-31 (8th)

                           

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