MLB / Players

Harmon Killebrew

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornJune 29, 1936 · Payette, ID, USA

MLB debutJune 23, 1954

Final gameSeptember 26, 1975

Seasons22 (1954–1975)

Washington Senators 1954–1960; Minnesota Twins 1961–1974; Kansas City Royals 1975

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

139

39.6

532

28.8

433

6.3

27.9

100

3.6

18.9

89.2

RBI

70.3

95.5

25.2

83.8

.231

13.5

OBP

.367

80.2

SLG

.450

76.6

OPS

.817

79.3

wRC+

142.8

81.1

OPS+

137.9

80.2

wOBA

.377

81.1

sWAR

3.2

59.5

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

145.0

97.6

OPS+

143.8

96.8

sWAR

74.9

99.7

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
1954	9	15	13	1	4	1	0	0	3	2	3	0	0	.308	.400	.385	.785	127.9	121.1	.375	0.1
1955	38	89	80	12	16	1	0	4	7	9	31	0	0	.200	.281	.363	.643	71.2	73.0	.302	0.0
1956	44	110	99	10	22	2	0	5	13	10	39	0	0	.222	.291	.394	.685	76.5	79.7	.314	0.1
1957	9	33	31	4	9	2	0	2	5	2	8	0	0	.290	.333	.548	.882	137.0	135.2	.391	0.3
1958	13	33	31	2	6	0	0	0	2	0	12	0	0	.194	.212	.194	.406	1.1	12.7	.189	-0.3
1959	153	647	546	98	132	20	2	42	105	90	116	3	2	.242	.354	.516	.870	136.7	135.9	.387	5.4
1960	124	517	442	84	122	19	1	31	80	71	106	1	0	.276	.375	.534	.909	141.7	140.0	.403	3.9
1961	150	656	541	94	156	20	7	46	122	107	109	1	2	.288	.405	.606	1.012	162.2	162.4	.438	6.3
1962	155	666	552	85	134	21	1	48	126	106	142	1	2	.243	.366	.545	.912	139.1	138.8	.397	4.6
1963	142	596	515	88	133	18	0	45	96	72	105	0	0	.258	.349	.555	.904	148.8	147.7	.392	4.8
1964	158	682	577	95	156	11	1	49	111	93	135	0	0	.270	.377	.548	.924	157.7	154.0	.405	6.3
1965	113	479	401	78	108	16	1	25	75	72	69	0	0	.269	.384	.501	.885	148.2	146.7	.392	3.8
1966	162	677	569	89	160	27	1	39	110	103	98	0	2	.281	.391	.538	.929	161.3	159.4	.405	7.0
1967	163	689	547	105	147	24	1	44	113	131	111	1	0	.269	.408	.558	.965	179.0	175.1	.428	7.2
1968	100	371	295	40	62	7	2	17	40	70	70	0	0	.210	.361	.420	.782	137.6	132.8	.360	2.1
1969	162	709	555	106	153	20	2	49	140	145	84	8	2	.276	.427	.584	1.011	180.1	180.3	.447	8.6
1970	157	665	527	96	143	20	1	41	113	128	84	0	3	.271	.411	.546	.957	159.2	161.6	.419	6.9
1971	147	624	500	61	127	19	1	28	119	114	96	3	2	.254	.386	.464	.850	141.5	139.2	.386	4.5
1972	139	532	433	53	100	13	2	26	74	94	91	0	1	.231	.367	.450	.817	142.8	137.9	.377	3.2
1973	69	290	248	29	60	9	1	5	32	41	59	0	0	.242	.352	.347	.698	100.5	95.1	.333	0.4
1974	122	382	333	28	74	7	0	13	54	45	61	0	0	.222	.312	.360	.672	88.6	90.9	.311	-0.2
1975	106	369	312	25	62	13	0	14	44	54	70	1	2	.199	.317	.375	.692	95.1	94.1	.323	-0.1

Career totals

2,435

78th-most career G

9,831

96th-most career PA

8,147

137th-most career AB

1,283

138th-most career R

2,086

250th-most career H

290

573

12th-most career HR

RBI

1,584

42nd-most career RBI

1,559

15th-most career BB

1,699

44th-most career SO

.2560

OBP

.3756

229th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5085

98th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8841

97th-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1963-09-21	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
1960-08-02	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	1	10
1969-07-11	MIL @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	4	0	10
1969-07-05	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	6	1	9
1959-05-09	MIN @ NYY Gameday	3	3	3	0	2	4	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-08-23	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-08-27	MIN @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-08-28	MIN @ 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1984 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player11× 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.