Denis Menke

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 21, 1940 · Bancroft, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1962

Final gameJuly 10, 1974

Seasons13 (1962–1974)

Milwaukee Braves 1962–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966–1967; Houston Astros 1968–1971; Cincinnati Reds 1972–1973; Houston Astros 1974

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

140

42.3

524

24.3

447

15.3

3.6

104

5.4

28.8

18.9

40.5

RBI

36.9

83.8

.233

14.4

OBP

.322

38.7

SLG

.345

28.8

OPS

.667

31.5

wRC+

98.9

OPS+

95.8

34.2

wOBA

.315

29.7

sWAR

1.8

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.8

53.4

OPS+

103.0

48.4

sWAR

28.3

96.2

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
1962	50	166	146	12	28	3	1	2	16	16	38	0	1	.192	.277	.267	.544	52.7	49.9	.260	-0.4
1963	146	572	518	58	121	16	4	11	50	37	106	6	7	.234	.289	.344	.632	80.6	82.8	.288	1.2
1964	151	588	505	79	143	29	5	20	65	68	77	4	2	.283	.368	.479	.847	136.0	136.6	.373	5.4
1965	71	202	181	16	44	13	1	4	18	18	28	1	3	.243	.313	.392	.706	96.4	97.8	.317	0.8
1966	138	545	454	55	114	20	4	15	60	71	87	0	7	.251	.355	.412	.767	113.6	111.2	.345	3.3
1967	129	491	418	37	95	14	3	7	39	65	62	5	7	.227	.333	.325	.659	96.5	90.7	.314	2.2
1968	150	621	542	56	135	23	6	6	56	64	81	5	8	.249	.334	.347	.681	111.4	106.1	.324	3.4
1969	154	657	553	72	149	25	5	10	90	87	87	2	7	.269	.369	.387	.756	116.7	114.5	.352	4.2
1970	154	665	562	82	171	26	6	13	92	82	80	6	5	.304	.392	.441	.833	129.1	127.7	.379	5.2
1971	146	547	475	57	117	26	3	1	43	59	68	4	5	.246	.328	.320	.648	89.9	87.3	.308	0.4
1972	140	524	447	41	104	19	2	9	50	58	76	0	1	.233	.322	.345	.667	98.9	95.8	.315	1.8
1973	139	322	241	38	46	10	0	3	26	69	53	1	1	.191	.368	.270	.638	96.1	84.9	.318	1.2
1974	30	34	29	2	3	1	0	0	1	4	10	0	0	.103	.206	.138	.344	2.1	-0.3	.185	-0.4

Career totals

1,598

5,934

5,071

605

1,270

225

101

RBI

606

698

385th-most career BB

853

.2504

OBP

.3425

SLG

.3703

OPS

.7128

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
1964-09-07	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	4	3	1	0	2	3	1	10
1966-06-05	STL @ ATL Gameday	6	2	5	0	0	1	5	0	8
1966-05-28	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1964-07-26	ATL @ NYM Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	1	1	1	8
1965-04-18	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-17	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-29	ATL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-10	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-07-01	CHC @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-09-30	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.