MLB / Players

Ed Kranepool

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornNovember 8, 1944 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1962

Final gameSeptember 30, 1979

Seasons18 (1962–1979)

New York Mets 1962–1979

Percentile snapshot

1967 season — qualified batters

141

26.5

516

469

13.3

126

25.5

19.4

7.1

37.8

RBI

39.8

27.6

80.6

43.9

.269

54.1

OBP

.321

39.8

SLG

.373

35.7

OPS

.694

36.7

wRC+

94.3

24.5

OPS+

99.7

30.6

wOBA

.311

29.6

sWAR

0.0

5.1

of 99 qualified 1967 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.2

30.2

OPS+

96.8

35.3

sWAR

2.2

70.9

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	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.333	.500	16.0	28.2	.216	-0.1
1963	86	294	273	22	57	12	2	2	14	18	50	4	2	.209	.256	.289	.545	52.1	55.3	.254	-1.2
1964	119	461	420	47	108	19	4	10	45	32	50	0	1	.257	.310	.393	.703	96.8	96.4	.317	0.4
1965	153	575	525	44	133	24	4	10	53	39	71	1	4	.253	.303	.371	.675	87.5	90.6	.302	-0.3
1966	146	512	464	51	118	15	2	16	57	41	66	1	1	.254	.316	.399	.715	95.9	98.4	.317	0.2
1967	141	516	469	37	126	17	1	10	54	37	51	0	4	.269	.321	.373	.694	94.3	99.7	.311	0.0
1968	127	405	373	29	86	13	1	3	20	19	39	0	3	.231	.271	.295	.566	64.6	70.5	.264	-1.5
1969	112	396	353	36	84	9	2	11	49	37	32	3	2	.238	.307	.368	.675	84.6	88.6	.308	-0.4
1970	43	52	47	2	8	0	0	0	3	5	2	0	0	.170	.250	.170	.420	19.3	16.0	.215	-0.4
1971	122	467	421	61	118	20	4	14	58	38	33	0	4	.280	.340	.447	.786	124.3	124.2	.357	1.8
1972	122	368	327	28	88	15	1	8	34	34	35	1	0	.269	.336	.394	.731	103.7	110.9	.326	0.3
1973	100	320	284	28	68	12	2	1	35	30	28	1	0	.239	.310	.306	.616	73.5	73.8	.290	-0.6
1974	94	237	217	20	65	11	1	4	24	18	14	1	0	.300	.350	.415	.765	119.1	116.4	.359	1.0
1975	106	357	325	42	105	16	0	4	43	27	21	1	1	.323	.370	.409	.779	120.6	121.9	.360	1.3
1976	123	455	415	47	121	17	1	10	49	35	38	1	0	.292	.344	.410	.754	120.2	120.2	.350	1.7
1977	108	309	281	28	79	17	0	10	40	23	20	1	4	.281	.330	.448	.778	105.9	111.9	.339	0.7
1978	66	93	81	7	17	2	0	3	19	8	12	0	0	.210	.280	.346	.625	68.5	76.9	.281	-0.1
1979	82	174	155	7	36	5	0	2	17	13	18	0	1	.232	.287	.303	.591	59.4	63.9	.271	-0.6

Career totals

1,853

364th-most career G

5,997

5,436

536

1,418

225

118

RBI

614

454

581

.2609

OBP

.3163

SLG

.3766

OPS

.6929

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1967-05-02	SF @ NYM Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	2	0	8
1966-04-23	NYM @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	0	8
1969-06-03	LAD @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	8
1964-08-14	PHI @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	1	8
1965-04-24	NYM @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	1	8

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

1× 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.