Bob Hamelin
Kansas City Royals 1993–1996; Detroit Tigers 1997; Milwaukee Brewers 1998
Percentile snapshot
1994 season — qualified batters
of 157 qualified 1994 batters (min 356 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 16 | 55 | 49 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .224 | .309 | .408 | .717 | 89.8 | 88.2 | .328 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 101 | 374 | 312 | 64 | 88 | 25 | 1 | 24 | 65 | 56 | 62 | 4 | 3 | .282 | .388 | .599 | .987 | 145.0 | 148.0 | .420 | 2.4 |
| 1995 | 72 | 241 | 208 | 20 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 26 | 56 | 0 | 1 | .168 | .278 | .313 | .591 | 55.8 | 54.1 | .275 | -1.2 |
| 1996 | 89 | 299 | 239 | 31 | 61 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 40 | 54 | 58 | 5 | 2 | .255 | .391 | .435 | .826 | 113.9 | 109.8 | .372 | 0.8 |
| 1997 | 110 | 369 | 318 | 47 | 86 | 15 | 0 | 18 | 52 | 48 | 72 | 2 | 1 | .270 | .366 | .487 | .853 | 122.0 | 121.1 | .374 | 1.1 |
| 1998 | 109 | 167 | 146 | 15 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 16 | 30 | 0 | 1 | .219 | .295 | .404 | .699 | 78.4 | 81.7 | .308 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994-08-07 | SEA @ KC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1996-05-01 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1994-07-08 | KC @ TOR Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1997-05-13 | TOR @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1994-06-25 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 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.