Al Cowens
Kansas City Royals 1974–1979; California Angels 1980; Detroit Tigers 1980–1981; Seattle Mariners 1982–1986
Percentile snapshot
1984 season — qualified batters
of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 110 | 296 | 269 | 28 | 65 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 23 | 38 | 5 | 0 | .242 | .303 | .286 | .589 | 68.1 | 67.1 | .284 | -0.5 |
| 1975 | 120 | 367 | 328 | 44 | 91 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 42 | 28 | 36 | 12 | 7 | .277 | .340 | .402 | .742 | 109.7 | 108.1 | .344 | 1.3 |
| 1976 | 152 | 616 | 581 | 71 | 154 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 59 | 26 | 50 | 23 | 16 | .265 | .298 | .341 | .639 | 86.3 | 87.8 | .301 | 0.4 |
| 1977 | 162 | 661 | 606 | 98 | 189 | 32 | 14 | 23 | 112 | 41 | 64 | 16 | 12 | .312 | .361 | .525 | .885 | 139.3 | 139.1 | .388 | 4.8 |
| 1978 | 132 | 534 | 485 | 63 | 133 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 63 | 31 | 54 | 14 | 6 | .274 | .319 | .388 | .707 | 94.1 | 96.9 | .320 | 0.9 |
| 1979 | 136 | 568 | 516 | 69 | 152 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 73 | 40 | 44 | 10 | 8 | .295 | .345 | .409 | .753 | 101.4 | 101.9 | .338 | 1.4 |
| 1980 | 142 | 584 | 522 | 69 | 140 | 20 | 3 | 6 | 59 | 49 | 61 | 6 | 8 | .268 | .331 | .352 | .684 | 88.4 | 87.9 | .315 | 0.5 |
| 1981 | 85 | 284 | 253 | 27 | 66 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 22 | 36 | 3 | 3 | .261 | .319 | .348 | .667 | 88.8 | 90.7 | .308 | 0.6 |
| 1982 | 146 | 611 | 560 | 72 | 151 | 39 | 8 | 20 | 78 | 46 | 81 | 11 | 7 | .270 | .325 | .475 | .800 | 113.6 | 114.1 | .352 | 2.4 |
| 1983 | 110 | 384 | 356 | 39 | 73 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 35 | 23 | 38 | 10 | 2 | .205 | .255 | .329 | .584 | 54.6 | 57.5 | .265 | -1.5 |
| 1984 | 139 | 559 | 524 | 60 | 145 | 34 | 2 | 15 | 78 | 27 | 83 | 9 | 5 | .277 | .312 | .435 | .747 | 104.0 | 105.6 | .331 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 122 | 487 | 452 | 59 | 120 | 32 | 5 | 14 | 69 | 30 | 56 | 0 | 0 | .265 | .310 | .451 | .761 | 102.7 | 104.9 | .333 | 1.2 |
| 1986 | 28 | 87 | 82 | 5 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .183 | .209 | .232 | .441 | 12.5 | 19.7 | .201 | -0.7 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-09-06 | KC @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 1977-06-01 | KC @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1983-08-23 | SEA @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1977-07-21 | KC @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 1982-05-19 | SEA @ BOS Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.