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Red Kress played 14 major-league seasons (1927-1946) as a SS (835), 3B (170), 1B (162), OF (124), 2B (59). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 14 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 22 | SLA | 7 | 23 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | .304 | .993 | 162 |
| 1928 | 23 | SLA | 150 | 560 | 78 | 153 | 3 | 81 | 5 | 48 | 70 | .273 | .703 | 90 |
| 1929 | 24 | SLA | 147 | 557 | 82 | 170 | 9 | 107 | 5 | 52 | 54 | .305 | .802 | 112 |
| 1930 | 25 | SLA | 154 | 614 | 94 | 192 | 16 | 112 | 3 | 50 | 56 | .313 | .853 | 120 |
| 1931 | 26 | SLA | 150 | 605 | 87 | 188 | 16 | 114 | 3 | 46 | 48 | .311 | .853 | 129 |
| 1932 | 27 | SLA|CHA | 149 | 567 | 85 | 156 | 11 | 66 | 7 | 51 | 42 | .275 | .761 | 102 |
| 1933 | 28 | CHA | 129 | 467 | 47 | 116 | 10 | 78 | 4 | 37 | 40 | .248 | .680 | 85 |
| 1934 | 29 | CHA|WS1 | 64 | 185 | 21 | 43 | 4 | 25 | 3 | 20 | 22 | .232 | .659 | 76 |
| 1935 | 30 | WS1 | 84 | 252 | 32 | 75 | 2 | 42 | 3 | 25 | 16 | .298 | .766 | 104 |
| 1936 | 31 | WS1 | 109 | 391 | 51 | 111 | 8 | 51 | 6 | 39 | 25 | .284 | .776 | 98 |
| 1938 | 33 | SLA | 150 | 566 | 74 | 171 | 7 | 79 | 5 | 69 | 47 | .302 | .786 | 104 |
| 1939 | 34 | SLA|DET | 64 | 200 | 24 | 50 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 23 | 18 | .250 | .632 | 68 |
| 1940 | 35 | DET | 33 | 99 | 13 | 22 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 12 | .222 | .597 | 60 |
| 1946 | 41 | NY1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .500 | 52 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 30 | WS1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.2 | 5 | 5 | 12.71 | 35 |
| 1946 | 41 | NY1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 1 | 1 | 12.27 | 28 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | SS | 7 | 0 | 12 | 25 | 1 | 4 |
| 1928 | SS | 150 | 0 | 318 | 400 | 55 | 99 |
| 1929 | SS | 146 | 0 | 312 | 441 | 43 | 94 |
| 1930 | SS | 123 | 0 | 271 | 349 | 41 | 83 |
| 1930 | 3B | 31 | 0 | 35 | 57 | 10 | 4 |
| 1931 | 3B | 84 | 0 | 92 | 141 | 16 | 12 |
| 1931 | OF | 40 | 0 | 82 | 8 | 5 | 1 |
| 1931 | SS | 38 | 0 | 37 | 47 | 6 | 7 |
| 1931 | 1B | 10 | 0 | 94 | 10 | 4 | 8 |
| 1932 | OF | 64 | 0 | 139 | 12 | 7 | 2 |
| 1932 | SS | 53 | 0 | 125 | 155 | 19 | 35 |
| 1932 | 3B | 33 | 0 | 40 | 61 | 11 | 9 |
| 1932 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1933 | 1B | 111 | 0 | 1169 | 60 | 28 | 83 |
| 1933 | OF | 8 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1934 | 1B | 30 | 0 | 291 | 11 | 2 | 16 |
| 1934 | OF | 10 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934 | 2B | 9 | 0 | 23 | 17 | 0 | 4 |
| 1934 | 3B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934 | SS | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 1935 | SS | 53 | 0 | 118 | 204 | 12 | 53 |
| 1935 | 1B | 5 | 0 | 35 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1935 | P | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935 | OF | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1935 | 2B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936 | SS | 64 | 0 | 143 | 212 | 28 | 52 |
| 1936 | 2B | 33 | 0 | 86 | 100 | 1 | 21 |
| 1936 | 1B | 5 | 0 | 37 | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 1938 | SS | 150 | 0 | 321 | 388 | 26 | 100 |
| 1939 | SS | 38 | 0 | 75 | 98 | 9 | 25 |
| 1939 | 2B | 16 | 0 | 29 | 47 | 6 | 13 |
| 1939 | 3B | 4 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1 |
| 1940 | 3B | 17 | 0 | 20 | 41 | 5 | 1 |
| 1940 | SS | 12 | 0 | 25 | 33 | 3 | 5 |
| 1946 | P | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
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.
Red Kress won: Baseball Magazine All-Star 1929 (AL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (1 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 1931.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Most Valuable Player | AL | 19 | 3 / 80 | 0 |
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.