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Ken Keltner played 13 major-league seasons (1937-1950) as a 3B (1,500), 1B (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+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 21 | CLE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1938 | 22 | CLE | 149 | 576 | 86 | 159 | 26 | 113 | 4 | 33 | 75 | .276 | .815 | 109 |
| 1939 | 23 | CLE | 154 | 587 | 84 | 191 | 13 | 97 | 6 | 51 | 41 | .325 | .868 | 128 |
| 1940 | 24 | CLE | 149 | 543 | 67 | 138 | 15 | 77 | 10 | 51 | 56 | .254 | .740 | 97 |
| 1941 | 25 | CLE | 149 | 581 | 83 | 156 | 23 | 84 | 2 | 51 | 56 | .269 | .815 | 121 |
| 1942 | 26 | CLE | 152 | 624 | 72 | 179 | 6 | 78 | 4 | 20 | 36 | .287 | .695 | 102 |
| 1943 | 27 | CLE | 110 | 427 | 47 | 111 | 4 | 39 | 2 | 36 | 20 | .260 | .692 | 109 |
| 1944 | 28 | CLE | 149 | 573 | 74 | 169 | 13 | 91 | 4 | 53 | 29 | .295 | .821 | 141 |
| 1946 | 30 | CLE | 116 | 398 | 47 | 96 | 13 | 45 | 0 | 30 | 38 | .241 | .681 | 96 |
| 1947 | 31 | CLE | 151 | 541 | 49 | 139 | 11 | 76 | 5 | 59 | 45 | .257 | .714 | 104 |
| 1948 | 32 | CLE | 153 | 558 | 91 | 166 | 31 | 119 | 2 | 89 | 52 | .297 | .917 | 150 |
| 1949 | 33 | CLE | 80 | 246 | 35 | 57 | 8 | 30 | 0 | 38 | 26 | .232 | .717 | 96 |
| 1950 | 34 | BOS | 13 | 28 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | .321 | .780 | 106 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938 | 3B | 149 | 0 | 141 | 271 | 19 | 19 |
| 1939 | 3B | 154 | 0 | 187 | 297 | 13 | 40 |
| 1940 | 3B | 148 | 0 | 170 | 277 | 22 | 27 |
| 1941 | 3B | 149 | 0 | 181 | 346 | 16 | 36 |
| 1942 | 3B | 151 | 0 | 166 | 353 | 30 | 38 |
| 1943 | 3B | 107 | 0 | 113 | 228 | 11 | 24 |
| 1944 | 3B | 149 | 0 | 168 | 369 | 18 | 37 |
| 1946 | 3B | 112 | 0 | 112 | 195 | 11 | 18 |
| 1947 | 3B | 150 | 0 | 156 | 266 | 12 | 29 |
| 1948 | 3B | 153 | 0 | 123 | 312 | 14 | 27 |
| 1949 | 3B | 69 | 0 | 51 | 145 | 4 | 11 |
| 1950 | 3B | 8 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| 1950 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.
Ken Keltner won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1942 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1942 (ML), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1944 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (5 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1948, 1943, 1942, 1939, 1938.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 14 | 16 / 336 | 0 |
| 1939 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 12 | 26 / 336 | 0 |
| 1942 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 15 | 15 / 336 | 0 |
| 1943 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 32 | 2 / 336 | 0 |
| 1948 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 14 | 18 / 336 | 0 |
Ken Keltner ranks on 1 all-time single-season position leaderboard (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #134 | third basemen | 1948 | 150 OPS+ |
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.