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Johnny Kling played 13 major-league seasons (1900-1913) as a C (1,169), OF (24), 1B (12), SS (1), 3B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 13 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | 25 | CHN | 15 | 51 | 8 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .294 | .713 | 102 |
| 1901 | 26 | CHN | 74 | 256 | 26 | 70 | 0 | 21 | 8 | 9 | 18 | .273 | .621 | 86 |
| 1902 | 27 | CHN | 115 | 436 | 50 | 126 | 0 | 59 | 25 | 29 | 26 | .289 | .680 | 115 |
| 1903 | 28 | CHN | 132 | 491 | 67 | 146 | 3 | 68 | 23 | 22 | 38 | .297 | .758 | 122 |
| 1904 | 29 | CHN | 123 | 452 | 41 | 110 | 2 | 46 | 7 | 16 | 26 | .243 | .567 | 81 |
| 1905 | 30 | CHN | 111 | 380 | 26 | 83 | 1 | 52 | 13 | 28 | 23 | .218 | .551 | 70 |
| 1906 | 31 | CHN | 107 | 343 | 45 | 107 | 2 | 46 | 14 | 23 | 30 | .312 | .777 | 151 |
| 1907 | 32 | CHN | 104 | 334 | 44 | 95 | 1 | 43 | 9 | 27 | 16 | .284 | .728 | 136 |
| 1908 | 33 | CHN | 126 | 424 | 51 | 117 | 4 | 59 | 16 | 21 | 33 | .276 | .697 | 130 |
| 1910 | 35 | CHN | 91 | 297 | 31 | 80 | 2 | 32 | 3 | 37 | 27 | .269 | .714 | 114 |
| 1911 | 36 | CHN|BSN | 102 | 321 | 40 | 68 | 3 | 29 | 1 | 38 | 43 | .212 | .588 | 70 |
| 1912 | 37 | BSN | 81 | 252 | 26 | 80 | 2 | 30 | 3 | 15 | 30 | .317 | .761 | 114 |
| 1913 | 38 | CIN | 80 | 209 | 20 | 57 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 14 | 14 | .273 | .682 | 101 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | C | 15 | 0 | 49 | 15 | 7 | 2 |
| 1901 | C | 69 | 0 | 319 | 75 | 20 | 7 |
| 1901 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1901 | OF | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1902 | C | 113 | 0 | 477 | 160 | 17 | 17 |
| 1902 | SS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 1903 | C | 132 | 0 | 565 | 189 | 24 | 13 |
| 1904 | C | 104 | 103 | 499 | 135 | 17 | 6 |
| 1904 | OF | 10 | 9 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1904 | 1B | 6 | 5 | 51 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1905 | C | 106 | 106 | 538 | 136 | 24 | 12 |
| 1905 | OF | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905 | 1B | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906 | C | 96 | 95 | 520 | 126 | 12 | 7 |
| 1906 | OF | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907 | C | 98 | 98 | 499 | 109 | 8 | 11 |
| 1907 | 1B | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1908 | C | 117 | 114 | 596 | 149 | 16 | 11 |
| 1908 | OF | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| 1908 | 1B | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1910 | C | 86 | 84 | 407 | 118 | 11 | 10 |
| 1911 | C | 96 | 0 | 424 | 140 | 26 | 8 |
| 1911 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912 | C | 74 | 0 | 322 | 108 | 19 | 20 |
| 1913 | C | 63 | 0 | 259 | 94 | 9 | 3 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Johnny Kling won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1908 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1908 (NL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1909 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1909 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1911.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | Most Valuable Player | NL | 28 | 1 / 64 | 0 |
Johnny Kling ranks on 2 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.