Ed Kirkpatrick

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 8, 1944 · Spokane, WA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1962

Final gameOctober 2, 1977

Seasons16 (1962–1977)

Los Angeles Angels 1962–1964; California Angels 1965–1968; Kansas City Royals 1969–1973; Pittsburgh Pirates 1974–1976; Milwaukee Brewers 1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1977; Texas Rangers 1977

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.8

31.4

OPS+

96.3

34.6

sWAR

9.7

86.6

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	3	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1963	34	85	77	4	15	5	0	2	7	6	19	1	0	.195	.259	.338	.596	69.0	70.7	.271	0.0
1964	75	248	219	20	53	13	3	2	22	23	30	2	2	.242	.315	.356	.671	87.4	93.5	.297	0.1
1965	19	78	73	8	19	5	0	3	8	3	9	1	2	.260	.289	.452	.742	112.4	113.1	.331	0.3
1966	117	377	312	31	60	7	4	9	44	51	67	7	4	.192	.313	.327	.640	86.7	87.0	.293	0.1
1967	3	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.4	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1968	89	193	161	23	37	4	0	1	15	25	32	1	3	.230	.332	.273	.605	92.3	88.0	.294	0.2
1969	120	366	315	40	81	11	4	14	49	43	42	3	5	.257	.348	.451	.799	121.9	121.8	.364	2.0
1970	134	481	424	59	97	17	2	18	62	55	65	4	4	.229	.319	.406	.724	97.1	99.1	.328	2.0
1971	120	423	365	46	80	12	1	9	46	48	60	3	4	.219	.308	.332	.640	79.4	83.3	.296	0.7
1972	113	423	364	43	100	15	1	9	43	51	50	3	5	.275	.365	.396	.761	127.3	124.3	.354	3.9
1973	126	485	429	61	113	24	3	6	45	46	48	3	7	.263	.333	.375	.708	93.5	95.2	.326	0.8
1974	116	331	271	32	67	9	0	6	38	51	30	1	2	.247	.367	.347	.714	103.0	105.0	.333	0.6
1975	89	164	144	15	34	5	0	5	16	18	22	1	0	.236	.319	.375	.694	94.0	94.7	.324	0.1
1976	83	163	146	14	34	9	0	0	16	14	15	1	0	.233	.294	.295	.589	65.4	69.0	.278	-0.4
1977	70	178	153	15	34	7	0	1	13	22	25	3	1	.222	.322	.288	.610	70.2	68.4	.288	-0.4

Career totals

1,311

4,009

3,467

411

824

143

RBI

424

456

518

.2377

OBP

.3268

SLG

.3628

OPS

.6896

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	TB
1969-09-30	LAA @ KC Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	2	6	12
1969-09-28	KC @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	11
1966-06-14	LAA @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	8
1969-09-11	KC @ LAA Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1970-08-09	MIL @ KC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-27	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-20	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-21	LAA @ ATH 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.