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Monty Kennedy

Montia Calvin Kennedy

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: May 11, 1922 in Amelia, VA
High School: Ameila HS (Amelia, VA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1946
Team: Giants 1946-1953

Final Game: September 12, 1953
Died: March 1, 1997 in Midlothian, VA
Buried: Dale Memorial Park, Richmond, VA
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Standard Pitching

Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
1946 24 NYG NL 9 10 .474 3.42 38 27 4 10 1 1 186.2 153 80 71 14 116 71 4 1 5 814 101 1.441 7.4 0.7 5.6 3.4 0.61
1947 25 NYG NL 9 12 .429 4.85 34 24 4 9 0 0 148.1 158 90 80 8 88 60 4 0 7 680 84 1.658 9.6 0.5 5.3 3.6 0.68
1948 26 NYG NL 3 9 .250 4.01 25 16 3 7 1 0 114.1 118 64 51 10 57 63 3 0 3 510 99 1.531 9.3 0.8 4.5 5.0 1.11
1949 27 NYG NL 12 14 .462 3.43 38 32 1 14 4 1 223.1 208 105 85 13 100 95 3 1 2 969 117 1.379 8.4 0.5 4.0 3.8 0.95
1950 28 NYG NL 5 4 .556 4.72 36 17 10 5 0 2 114.1 120 65 60 14 53 41 3 1 3 513 87 1.513 9.4 1.1 4.2 3.2 0.77
1951 29 NYG NL 1 2 .333 2.25 29 5 12 1 0 0 68.0 68 25 17 0 31 22 0 0 1 286 175 1.456 9.0 0.0 4.1 2.9 0.71
1952 30 NYG NL 3 4 .429 3.02 31 6 9 2 1 0 83.1 73 37 28 6 31 48 2 0 0 355 123 1.248 7.9 0.6 3.3 5.2 1.55
1953 31 NYG NL 0 0 7.15 18 0 10 0 0 0 22.2 30 18 18 2 19 11 1 0 2 113 62 2.162 11.9 0.8 7.5 4.4 0.58
8 Yrs 42 55 .433 3.84 249 127 53 48 7 4 961.0 928 484 410 67 495 411 20 3 23 4240 102 1.481 8.7 0.6 4.6 3.8 0.83
162 Game Avg. 8 10 .433 3.84 45 23 10 9 1 1 174 168 88 74 12 90 74 4 1 4 767 102 1.481 8.7 0.6 4.6 3.8 0.83

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg IP G GS R RA9 RA9opp RA9def RA9role PPFp RA9avg RAA WAA gmLI WAAadj WAR RAR waaWL% 162WL% Salary Awards
1946 24 NYG NL 186.2 38 27 80 3.86 4.01 0.01 0.00 101.2 4.05 4 0.4 1.0 -0.1 2.1 23 .512 .503 $
1947 25 NYG NL 148.1 34 24 90 5.46 4.47 0.00 0.00 100.0 4.47 -17 -1.7 1.0 -0.1 -0.3 1 .451 .490 $
1948 26 NYG NL 114.1 25 16 64 5.04 4.61 -0.02 0.00 101.3 4.69 -5 -0.5 .7 -0.1 0.6 9 .481 .497 $
1949 27 NYG NL 223.1 38 32 105 4.23 4.69 0.13 0.00 98.8 4.51 6 0.7 1.8 -0.1 2.7 33 .518 .504 $
1950 28 NYG NL 115.1 36 17 65 5.07 4.55 0.47 0.00 99.6 4.06 -12 -1.2 1.0 -0.1 -0.2 0 .467 .493 $
1951 29 NYG NL 68.0 29 5 25 3.31 4.04 0.21 0.00 100.9 3.86 4 0.4 1.0 -0.1 1.0 12 .515 .503 $
1952 30 NYG NL 83.1 31 6 37 4.00 4.20 0.11 0.00 98.4 4.03 0 0.0 .7 -0.1 0.7 9 .501 .500 $
1953 31 NYG NL 22.2 18 0 18 7.15 5.12 -0.03 0.00 99.9 5.14 -5 -0.5 .2 0.1 -0.1 -2 .474 .497 $
8 Seasons 962.0 249 127 484 4.53 4.42 0.11 0.00 100.0 4.31 -24 -2.2 .8 -0.5 6.5 84 .491 .498 $

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
1951 29 NYG NL WS L NYY 0 0 6.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 3.0 3 2 2 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 13 1.333 9.0 3.0 3.0 12.0 4.00
1 WS 0 0 6.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 3.0 3 2 2 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 13 1.333 9.0 3.0 3.0 12.0 4.00

Batting Against -- Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE
1948 26 NYG NL 25 263 449 64 118 8 3 10 5 3 57 63 .263 .350 .361 .711 .287 162 5 3 3 0 4
1949 27 NYG NL 38 649 860 105 208 23 8 13 2 3 100 95 .242 .323 .333 .656 .259 286 18 3 6 0 14
1950 28 NYG NL 36 387 449 65 120 8 2 14 2 2 53 41 .267 .349 .388 .736 .269 174 6 3 9 0 8
1951 29 NYG NL 29 222 255 25 68 9 5 0 2 1 31 22 .267 .346 .341 .687 .292 87 9 0 3 0 1
1952 30 NYG NL 31 291 310 37 73 8 1 6 0 2 31 48 .235 .309 .326 .635 .262 101 6 2 4 0 3
1953 31 NYG NL 18 113 89 18 30 6 0 2 0 1 19 11 .337 .459 .472 .931 .368 42 2 1 4 0 0
6 Yrs 177 1925 2412 314 617 62 19 45 11 12 291 280 .256 .339 .353 .692 .274 852 46 12 29 0 30
162 Game Avg. 48 517 648 84 166 17 5 12 3 3 78 75 .256 .339 .353 .692 .274 229 12 3 8 0 8
MLB Averages .261 .337 .363 .699 .277

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg PtchR PitchW Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI LevHi LevMd LevLo
1948 26 NYG NL -3.2 -0.3 274 1.4 5.2 -3.8 1.08 0.8 0.5 12.2 1.3 1.08 8.6 0 2 4
1949 27 NYG NL 10.7 1.1 659 0.2 11.8 -11.6 1.06 1.0 -0.8 11.2 1.1 1.05 11.7 1 0 1
1950 28 NYG NL -6.4 -0.6 407 -0.1 6.6 -6.8 .95 -0.4 0.3 -8.1 -0.8 0.96 -5.1 2 3 10
1951 29 NYG NL 10.3 1.1 227 -1.8 3.8 -5.6 1.10 -0.1 -1.5 -0.9 -0.1 1.10 1.0 5 5 10
1952 30 NYG NL 4.0 0.4 297 0.4 3.8 -3.4 .69 1.0 -0.4 7.0 0.7 0.69 10.0 5 2 13
1953 31 NYG NL -5.8 -0.6 116 0.0 0.2 -0.2 .12 -0.6 0.6 -1.6 -0.1 0.12 -5.4 0 1 16
8 Yrs -0.6 0.1 1980 0.1 31.5 -31.5 .93 1.8 -1.7 19.9 2.1 0.94 21.0 13 13 54

Starting Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GS Wgs Lgs ND Wchp Ltuf Wtm Ltm tmW-L% Wlst Lsv CG SHO QS QS% GmScA Best Wrst BQR BQS sDR lDR RS/GS RS/IP IP/GS Pit/GS <80 80-99 100-119 ≥120 Max
1946 24 NYG NL 38 27 9 10 8 1 4 11 16 .407 0 0 10 1 14 52% 52.6 82 23 14 9 4.1 6.3
1947 25 NYG NL 34 24 8 11 5 1 2 10 14 .417 0 0 9 0 9 38% 44.0 75 12 9 9 5.6 5.5
1948 26 NYG NL 25 16 3 9 4 1 5 4 12 .250 2 0 7 1 9 56% 51.6 78 28 8 6 9 6 3.1 3.3 6.7
1949 27 NYG NL 38 32 12 14 6 1 5 15 17 .469 2 1 14 4 18 56% 52.5 85 22 13 8 16 8 5.0 6.3 6.8
1950 28 NYG NL 36 17 3 4 10 0 2 11 6 .647 4 3 5 0 6 35% 47.2 72 30 21 8 9 7 4.5 4.2 5.2
1951 29 NYG NL 29 5 1 1 3 0 1 2 3 .400 0 0 1 0 3 60% 52.0 74 35 13 4 4 1 3.5 4.1 7.1
1952 30 NYG NL 31 6 1 3 2 0 1 3 3 .500 1 1 2 1 2 33% 45.7 80 24 14 7 2 2 5.0 4.5 5.0
7 Yrs 231 127 37 52 38 4 20 56 71 .441 9 5 48 7 61 48% 50 85 12 69 33 63 42 4.5 5.1 6.1
MLB Averages .500 50% 50 115 -11 4.5 4.6 6.7

Reliever Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GR GF Wgr Lgr SVOpp SV BSv SV% SVSit Hold IR IS IS% 1stIP aLI LevHi LevMd LevLo Ahd Tie Bhd Runr Empt >3o <3o IPmult 0DR Out/GR Pit/GR
1946 24 NYG NL 38 11 4 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 3 3 4.5
1947 25 NYG NL 34 10 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 5.1
1948 26 NYG NL 25 9 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 0% 1.084 0 2 4 1 0 5 2 4 3 5 4 3 2.4
1949 27 NYG NL 38 6 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 2 50% 1.056 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 2 2 0 2 2.8
1950 28 NYG NL 36 19 10 2 0 1 2 0 200% 1 0 17 6 35% .946 2 3 10 1 0 14 9 6 7 7 5 4 4.4
1951 29 NYG NL 29 24 12 0 1 2 0 2 0% 2 0 18 11 61% 8 1.098 5 5 10 2 2 17 8 13 8 8 11 1 4.1
1952 30 NYG NL 31 25 9 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 16 4 25% 7 .688 5 2 13 1 2 19 9 13 16 4 13 5 6.4
1953 31 NYG NL 18 18 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0% 8 .118 0 1 16 0 0 18 3 15 6 5 6 1 3.8
8 Yrs 249 122 53 5 3 3 4 2 133% 5 0 67 23 34% .932 13 13 54 6 4 74 33 51 54 37 39 20 4.5

Ratio Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB DPopp DPs DP%
1946 24 NYG NL 814 1.7% 8.7% 14.3% 2.6% 14% 73%
1947 25 NYG NL 682 1.2% 8.8% 12.9% 3.4% 15% 75%
1948 26 NYG NL 512 19% 3.8% 24.0% 21.7% 8.0% 18% 0.87 143% 51 5 10%
1949 27 NYG NL 969 22% 2.0% 14.6% 15.4% 6.8% 21% 0.80 116% 149 18 12%
1950 28 NYG NL 513 31% 3.6% 10.6% 13.7% 6.2% 20% 0.88 102% 83 6 7%
1951 29 NYG NL 288 37% 0.0% 9.9% 14.0% 6.3% 21% 0.86 105% 63 9 14%
1952 30 NYG NL 348 43% 2.1% 16.5% 10.7% 5.2% 21% 0.85 88% 49 6 12%
1953 31 NYG NL 113 31% 1.8% 9.7% 16.8% 7.1% 27% 0.65 67% 32 2 6%
8 Yrs 4239 29% 2.0% 12.0% 14.5% 5.0% 18% 0.83 93% 427 46 11%
MLB Averages 49% 2.1% 11.8% 11.5% 5.8% 21% 0.95 91% 11%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

Hits Home Runs Advances Baserunning
Year Age Tm Lg PA H Inf Bnt All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd <2,3B Scr SO % ROE WP PB SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS BT PAu
1946 24 NYG NL 153 14 5
1947 25 NYG NL 158 8 7
1948 26 NYG NL 263 118 10 0 5 4 0 3 1 12 5 2 42% 4 3 1 106 5 3 63% 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 249
1949 27 NYG NL 649 208 13 0 13 7 3 7 3 29 18 4 62% 14 2 0 257 2 3 40% 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 320
1950 28 NYG NL 387 120 14 0 11 4 6 5 5 21 9 1 43% 8 3 0 162 2 2 50% 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 126
1951 29 NYG NL 222 68 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 16 13 2 81% 1 1 0 105 2 1 67% 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 66
1952 30 NYG NL 291 73 6 0 6 2 3 3 2 4 1 1 25% 3 0 2 106 0 2 0% 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 57
1953 31 NYG NL 113 30 2 0 6 1 1 1 1 10 4 1 40% 0 2 0 56 0 1 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
8 Yrs 1925 928 67 0 46 18 13 19 12 92 50 11 54% 30 23 3 792 11 12 48% 7 10 2 2 2 0 2 0 16 818
MLB Averages 53% 55%

Cumulative Pitching

Year Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB ERA+
1946 24 9 10 .474 3.42 38 27 4 10 1 1 186.2 153 80 71 14 116 71 4 1 5 814 101 1.441 7.4 0.7 5.6 3.4 0.61 101
1947 25 18 22 .450 4.06 72 51 8 19 1 1 335.0 311 170 151 22 204 131 8 1 12 1494 92 1.537 8.4 0.6 5.5 3.5 0.64 92
1948 26 21 31 .404 4.05 97 67 11 26 2 1 449.1 429 234 202 32 261 194 11 1 15 2004 94 1.536 8.6 0.6 5.2 3.9 0.74 94
1949 27 33 45 .423 3.84 135 99 12 40 6 2 672.2 637 339 287 45 361 289 14 2 17 2973 101 1.484 8.5 0.6 4.8 3.9 0.80 101
1950 28 38 49 .437 3.97 171 116 22 45 6 4 787.0 757 404 347 59 414 330 17 3 20 3486 98 1.488 8.7 0.7 4.7 3.8 0.80 98
1951 29 39 51 .433 3.83 200 121 34 46 6 4 855.0 825 429 364 59 445 352 17 3 21 3772 102 1.485 8.7 0.6 4.7 3.7 0.79 102
1952 30 42 55 .433 3.76 231 127 43 48 7 4 938.1 898 466 392 65 476 400 19 3 21 4127 103 1.464 8.6 0.6 4.6 3.8 0.84 103
1953 31 42 55 .433 3.84 249 127 53 48 7 4 961.0 928 484 410 67 495 411 20 3 23 4240 102 1.481 8.7 0.6 4.6 3.8 0.83 102

Neutralized Pitching

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age W L W-L% ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WHIP H/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB HR/9 Gact
1946 24 10 10 .500 4.01 184.0 168 91 82 15 127 70 4 1.603 8.2 6.2 3.4 0.55 0.7 38
1947 25 7 9 .438 4.80 152.0 162 90 81 8 90 61 4 1.658 9.6 5.3 3.6 0.68 0.5 34
1948 26 6 6 .500 4.11 116.0 123 59 53 10 59 64 3 1.569 9.5 4.6 5.0 1.08 0.8 25
1949 27 14 11 .560 3.38 229.0 214 96 86 13 103 97 3 1.384 8.4 4.0 3.8 0.94 0.5 38
1950 28 6 7 .462 4.54 119.0 123 67 60 14 54 43 3 1.487 9.3 4.1 3.3 0.80 1.1 36
1951 29 5 2 .714 2.35 65.0 70 19 17 0 32 21 0 1.569 9.7 4.4 2.9 0.66 0.0 29
1952 30 5 4 .556 3.24 86.0 78 34 31 6 33 50 2 1.291 8.2 3.5 5.2 1.52 0.6 31
1953 31 0 2 .000 7.36 22.0 30 20 18 2 19 11 1 2.227 12.3 7.8 4.5 0.58 0.8 18
8 Yrs 53 51 .510 3.96 973.0 968 476 428 68 517 417 20 1.526 9.0 3.9 0.81 0.6 249

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1946 NL  7.377 (1st)
1949 NL  8.382 (4th)

Games Started s c a p y
1946 NL  27 (9th)
1949 NL  32 (6th)

Complete Games s c a p y
1949 NL  14 (10th)

Shutouts s c a p y
1949 NL  4 (5th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1946 NL  14 (4th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1946 NL  116 (1st)
1947 NL  88 (6th)
1949 NL  100 (3rd)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
1949 NL  0.524 (6th)

Losses s c a p y
1947 NL  12 (8th)
1949 NL  14 (8th)

Earned Runs s c a p y
1946 NL  71 (7th)

Wild Pitches s c a p y
1946 NL  5 (3rd)
1947 NL  7 (2nd)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1946 NL  4 (8th)
1947 NL  4 (6th)

Batters Faced s c a p y
1949 NL  969 (8th)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
1948 NL  12.20 (9th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1948 NL  1.4 (8th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
1948 NL  1.3 (9th)

             

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 2 (744), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 9 (1547), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 2 (1697), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 4 (1539), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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