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John Kennedy

John Edward Kennedy

Positions: Third Baseman, Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: May 29, 1941 in Chicago, IL
Signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1961. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 5, 1962 (Age 21)
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Dodgers/Senators/Yankees/Pilots/... 1962-1974

Final Game: June 16, 1974 (Age 33)
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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1961	20	TEX-min	D	115	418	418		106	10	6	3						.254	.254	.328	.581		137							PSC · ALFL
1962	21	TEX-min	B	139	609	523	78	158	23	10	6	72	9		71	99	.302	.390	.419	.808		219		6	6	3	1		RAL · CARL
1962	21	WSA	AL	14	44	42	6	11	0	1	1	2	0	1	2	7	.262	.295	.381	.676	81	16	0	0	0	0	0	/65
1963	22	ANA-TEX-min	AAA,AA	97	383	352	52	102	19	5	8	45	4	2	31	68	.290	.347	.440	.788		155							HAW,YOR · PCL,EL
1963	22	WSA	AL	36	69	62	3	11	1	1	0	4	2	0	6	22	.177	.261	.226	.487	38	14	2	1	0	0	0	5/6
1964	23	WSA	AL	148	521	482	55	111	16	4	7	35	3	3	29	119	.230	.280	.324	.604	68	156	15	5	4	1	2	56/4
1965	24	LAD-min	WRk	25	111	92	19	34	7	6	4	20	2		18	17	.370	.468	.707	1.175		65		0	0	1			DGR · AZIL
1965	24	LAD	NL	104	120	105	12	18	3	0	1	5	1	0	8	33	.171	.243	.229	.472	38	24	3	2	5	0	1	5/6
1966	25	LAD	NL	125	294	274	15	55	9	2	3	24	1	2	10	64	.201	.241	.281	.522	50	77	5	5	4	1	1	564
1967	26	NYY	AL	78	208	179	22	35	4	0	1	17	2	1	17	35	.196	.265	.235	.500	52	42	4	1	8	3	0	65/4

1968	27	NYY-PIT-min	AAA	130	543	471	65	126	21	5	8	57	2	3	57	113	.268	.347	.384	.731		181		4	4	7			SYR,CLB · IL
1969	28	SEP	AL	61	145	128	18	30	3	1	4	14	4	0	14	25	.234	.315	.367	.682	93	47	3	1	2	0	1	65
1970	29	MIL-min	AAA	31	128	118	19	29	7	3	2	17	2	0	9	21	.246	.305	.407	.711		48		1	0	0			POR · PCL
1970	29	TOT	AL	68	200	184	23	47	9	1	6	23	0	1	11	23	.255	.299	.413	.713	91	76	4	1	3	1	1	54/63
1970	29	MIL	AL	25	62	55	8	14	2	0	2	6	0	1	5	9	.255	.317	.400	.717	97	22	2	0	2	0	0	4/53
1970	29	BOS	AL	43	138	129	15	33	7	1	4	17	0	0	6	14	.256	.292	.419	.711	88	54	2	1	1	1	1	5/64
1971	30	BOS	AL	74	296	272	41	75	12	5	5	22	1	1	14	42	.276	.320	.412	.731	100	112	4	4	5	1	0	46/5
1972	31	BOS	AL	71	237	212	22	52	11	1	2	22	0	1	18	40	.245	.311	.335	.646	88	71	3	3	2	2	4	465
1973	32	BOS	AL	67	174	155	17	28	9	1	1	16	0	0	12	45	.181	.246	.271	.517	42	42	3	2	3	2	0	45D
1974	33	BOS-min	AAA	57	175	158	16	34	4	1	4	13	0	0	14	46	.215	.283	.329	.612		52		1	2	0			PAW · IL
1974	33	BOS	AL	10	16	15	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	6	.133	.188	.333	.521	43	5	2	0	0	0	0	/45
12 Yrs				856	2324	2110	237	475	77	17	32	185	14	10	142	461	.225	.281	.323	.604	70	682	48	25	36	11	10
162 Game Avg.				162	440	399	45	90	15	3	6	35	3	2	27	87	.225	.281	.323	.604	70	129	9	5	7	2	2

BOS (5 yrs)				265	861	783	98	190	39	8	13	78	1	2	51	147	.243	.295	.363	.658	82	284	14	10	11	6	5
WSA (3 yrs)				198	634	586	64	133	17	6	8	41	5	4	37	148	.227	.279	.317	.597	66	186	17	6	4	1	2
LAD (2 yrs)				229	414	379	27	73	12	2	4	29	2	2	18	97	.193	.242	.266	.508	47	101	8	7	9	1	2
MIL (2 yrs)				86	207	183	26	44	5	1	6	20	4	1	19	34	.240	.315	.377	.692	94	69	5	1	4	0	1
NYY (1 yr)				78	208	179	22	35	4	0	1	17	2	1	17	35	.196	.265	.235	.500	52	42	4	1	8	3	0

AL (10 yrs)				627	1910	1731	210	402	65	15	28	156	12	8	124	364	.232	.289	.336	.625	75	581	40	18	27	10	8
NL (2 yrs)				229	414	379	27	73	12	2	4	29	2	2	18	97	.193	.242	.266	.508	47	101	8	7	9	1	2

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
1962	21	WSA	AL	14	44	-1	0	0	-0	1	-0	-0.1	1	1	0.1	.497	.500	0.1	0.0	1		/65
1963	22	WSA	AL	36	69	-4	1	0	-1	0	-4	-0.4	2	-2	-0.2	.489	.498	-0.1	-0.1	-0		5/6
1964	23	WSA	AL	148	521	-19	1	-1	2	5	-12	-1.6	14	2	-0.2	.491	.492	-0.2	0.6	0	$7,000	56/4
1965	24	LAD	NL	104	120	-8	1	-0	0	1	-6	-0.6	4	-2	-0.2	.494	.496	-0.3	0.2	-2		5/6
1966	25	LAD	NL	125	294	-18	-0	-0	-5	4	-20	-2.1	10	-10	-1.1	.482	.486	-0.7	0.0	-5		564
1967	26	NYY	AL	78	208	-10	0	0	-3	3	-10	-1.2	6	-4	-0.7	.485	.493	-0.2	-0.1	-1		65/4

1969	28	SEP	AL	61	145	0	1	-0	-6	2	-3	-0.3	4	1	0.1	.495	.498	0.8	-0.4	7	$14,500	65
1970	29	MIL	AL	25	62	-1	0	-0	-4	0	-4	-0.5	2	-2	-0.3	.481	.497	0.2	-0.4	2		4/53
1970	29	BOS	AL	43	138	-2	0	0	5	1	4	0.5	4	9	0.9	.511	.503	0.4	0.6	4	$23,000	5/64
1971	30	BOS	AL	74	296	-0	2	-0	-11	3	-7	-0.8	10	3	0.1	.489	.495	1.4	-0.9	14	$23,000	46/5
1972	31	BOS	AL	71	237	-6	0	0	-10	3	-12	-1.6	8	-4	-0.8	.479	.491	0.5	-0.9	6		465
1973	32	BOS	AL	67	174	-14	-0	0	-1	0	-14	-1.5	6	-9	-0.9	.477	.490	-0.9	0.1	-8		45D
1974	33	BOS	AL	10	16	-1	0	-0	-4	0	-5	-0.6	0	-5	-0.5	.442	.496	-0.1	-0.4	-1		/45
12 Seasons				856	2324	-81	5	-3	-38	24	-93	-10.9	71	-21	-3.7	.488	.495	0.9	-1.8	17	$67,500

BOS (5 yrs)				265	861	-22	1	-0	-21	7	-34	-4.0	28	-7	-1.2	.485	.495	1.3	-1.6	14	$46,000
WSA (3 yrs)				198	634	-23	2	-1	0	6	-16	-2.1	17	1	-0.3	.491	.496	-0.2	0.5	1	$7,000
LAD (2 yrs)				229	414	-25	0	-1	-4	5	-25	-2.8	14	-11	-1.3	.488	.491	-1.0	0.2	-7
MIL (2 yrs)				86	207	-1	1	-1	-10	3	-7	-0.8	6	-1	-0.2	.491	.498	1.0	-0.8	9	$14,500
NYY (1 yr)				78	208	-10	0	0	-3	3	-10	-1.2	6	-4	-0.7	.485	.493	-0.2	-0.1	-1

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	H	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB
1965	24	LAD	NL	WS	MIN	W	4	1	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0
1966	25	LAD	NL	WS	BAL	L	2	5	5	1	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1
2 Yrs (2 Series)							6	6	6	1	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1
2 WS							6	6	6	1	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	1

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards
1962	WSA	AL	21	SS	9	9	4	78.0	39	13	25	1	4	.974	0	6	4.38	4.22	.962	4.83	4.83
1962	WSA	AL	21	3B	2	2	2	16.1	9	2	5	2	0	.778	-1	-66	3.86	3.50	.952	3.09	3.05
1963	WSA	AL	22	3B	26	18	13	160.2	65	16	46	3	4	.954	-1	-7	3.47	2.38	.947	3.02	3.02
1963	WSA	AL	22	SS	2	1	1	9.0	7	3	3	1	1	.857	-0	-40	6.00	3.00	.966	4.80	4.80
1964	WSA	AL	23	3B	106	81	67	758.1	306	97	191	18	14	.941	2	4	3.42	2.72	.955	3.03	3.02
1964	WSA	AL	23	SS	49	43	37	372.0	208	71	130	7	27	.966	0	1	4.86	4.10	.968	4.78	4.77
1964	WSA	AL	23	2B	2	1	0	9.0	4	1	3	0	1	1.000	-0	-67	4.00	2.00	.980	5.20	5.15
1965	LAD	NL	24	3B	95	21	15	341.2	102	35	64	3	5	.971	1	2	2.61	1.04	.951	2.82	2.82
1965	LAD	NL	24	SS	5	2	2	29.0	16	5	10	1	1	.938	-0	-8	4.66	3.00	.964	4.93	4.92
1966	LAD	NL	25	3B	87	52	32	492.0	172	39	127	6	10	.965	2	5	3.04	1.91	.954	3.04	3.04
1966	LAD	NL	25	SS	28	24	17	212.0	96	37	57	2	15	.979	-8	-44	3.99	3.36	.964	4.96	4.96
1966	LAD	NL	25	2B	15	10	4	93.2	52	26	26	0	7	1.000	1	13	5.00	3.47	.978	5.33	5.33
1967	NYY	AL	26	SS	36	29	21	254.0	142	43	87	12	16	.915	-4	-21	4.61	3.61	.963	4.62	4.63
1967	NYY	AL	26	3B	34	24	17	237.1	99	31	64	4	5	.960	2	11	3.60	2.79	.955	3.13	3.14
1967	NYY	AL	26	2B	2	3	3	29.0	10	9	1	0	0	1.000	-0	-21	3.10	5.00	.979	4.97	4.95
1969	SEP	AL	28	SS	33	14	10	153.1	95	42	45	8	11	.916	-5	-37	5.11	2.64	.966	4.96	4.96
1969	SEP	AL	28	3B	23	18	13	163.0	60	21	37	2	2	.967	-1	-8	3.20	2.52	.955	3.16	3.15
1970	TOT	AL	29	3B	38	29	27	261.0	106	34	68	4	6	.962	4	21	3.52	2.68	.949	3.07	3.06
1970	TOT	AL	29	2B	18	16	14	148.1	71	29	37	5	8	.930	-4	-33	4.00	3.67	.979	5.35	5.32
1970	MIL	AL	29	2B	16	14	12	130.1	63	26	32	5	7	.921	-4	-37	4.01	3.63	.979	5.35	5.32
1970	MIL	AL	29	3B	5	1	0	10.2	6	3	3	0	2	1.000	-0	-23	5.06	1.20	.948	3.04	3.06
1970	MIL	AL	29	1B	1	0	0	2.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-120	13.50	3.00	.990	9.45	9.60
1970	BOS	AL	29	3B	33	28	27	250.1	100	31	65	4	4	.960	5	23	3.45	2.91	.949	3.07	3.06
1970	BOS	AL	29	SS	4	2	2	22.0	12	5	7	0	0	1.000	0	11	4.91	3.00	.967	4.95	4.90
1970	BOS	AL	29	2B	2	2	2	18.0	8	3	5	0	1	1.000	-0	-7	4.00	4.00	.979	5.35	5.30
1971	BOS	AL	30	2B	37	31	27	277.1	151	71	76	4	16	.974	-5	-22	4.77	3.97	.980	5.31	5.28
1971	BOS	AL	30	SS	33	27	27	260.1	124	41	74	9	18	.927	-6	-29	3.98	3.48	.965	4.90	4.88
1971	BOS	AL	30	3B	5	5	4	42.0	15	2	13	0	1	1.000	0	6	3.21	3.00	.956	3.04	3.04
1972	BOS	AL	31	2B	32	24	23	210.1	133	62	66	5	21	.962	-3	-19	5.48	4.00	.977	5.17	5.14
1972	BOS	AL	31	SS	27	23	21	220.0	114	44	65	5	13	.956	-4	-20	4.46	4.04	.967	4.99	4.97
1972	BOS	AL	31	3B	11	7	7	86.1	17	4	10	3	0	.824	-3	-43	1.46	1.27	.954	2.98	2.96
1973	BOS	AL	32	2B	31	27	25	251.1	150	75	72	3	25	.980	-1	-3	5.26	4.74	.980	5.44	5.41
1973	BOS	AL	32	3B	24	14	13	156.0	56	17	36	3	5	.946	0	1	3.06	2.21	.950	3.00	2.98
1973	BOS	AL	32	DH	10	0
1974	BOS	AL	33	2B	6	1	1	26.0	18	7	7	4	3	.778	-4	-194	4.85	2.33	.975	5.37	5.35
1974	BOS	AL	33	3B	4	2	0	20.0	5	1	4	0	0	1.000	0	12	2.25	1.25	.954	3.10	3.10
	12 Seasons			3B	455	273	210	2734.2	1012	299	665	48	52	.953	6	3	3.17	2.12	.953	3.02	3.00
	10 Seasons			SS	226	174	142	1609.2	853	304	503	46	106	.946	-26	-20	4.51	3.57	.966	4.85	4.85
	8 Seasons			2B	143	113	97	1045.0	589	280	288	21	81	.964	-17	-20	4.89	3.97	.979	5.31	5.28
	1 Season			1B	1	0	0	2.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-120	13.50	3.00	.990	9.45	9.60
	12 Seasons			TOT	825	560	449	5391.1	2457	886	1456	115	239	.953	-38	-8	3.91	2.84	.964	4.01	3.91
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	Awards

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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame 1980 BBWAA ()	Strikeouts s c a p y 1964 AL 119 (8th)	Errors Committed† s c a p y 1964 AL 25 (3rd)	Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y 1964 AL 18 (4th)
Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y 1966 NL 2 (4th)	Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y 1964 AL 3.42 (1st) 1966 NL 3.04 (5th)	Fielding % as 3B s c a p y 1965 NL .971 (1st) 1966 NL .965 (2nd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 4 (1686), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
JAWS	Third Base (1031st), -3.7 career WAR/0.6 7yr-peak WAR/-1.6 JAWS Average HOF 3B (out of 12) = 64.9 career WAR/41.8 7yr-peak WAR/53.4 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Transactions

Before 1961 Season: Signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent.
December 4, 1964: Traded by the Washington Senators with Claude Osteen and $100,000 to the Los Angeles Dodgers for a player to be named later, Frank Howard, Ken McMullen, Phil Ortega and Pete Richert. The Los Angeles Dodgers sent Dick Nen (December 15, 1964) to the Washington Senators to complete the trade.
April 3, 1967: Traded by the Los Angeles Dodgers to the New York Yankees for Jack Cullen, John Miller and $25,000.
November 13, 1968: Purchased by the Seattle Pilots from the New York Yankees.
June 26, 1970: Purchased by the Boston Red Sox from the Milwaukee Brewers.
October 24, 1974: Released by the Boston Red Sox.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
1964	23	Washington Senators	$7,000	2/27/65 TSN
1965	24	Washington Senators	$12,000	2/27/65 TSN

1969	28	Seattle Pilots	$14,500	Noll/Fort/Hylan database
1970	29	Boston Red Sox	$23,000	Noll/Fort/Hylan database
1971	30	Boston Red Sox	$23,000	Noll/Fort/Hylan database

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$79,500

Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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