Harvey Kuenn

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 187 lb

BornDecember 4, 1930 · West Allis, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1952

Final gameOctober 2, 1966

Seasons15 (1952–1966)

Detroit Tigers 1952–1959; Cleveland Indians 1960; San Francisco Giants 1961–1964; Chicago Cubs 1965; San Francisco Giants 1965; Chicago Cubs 1966; Philadelphia Phillies 1966

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

130

548

17.5

487

18.4

148

39.8

41.7

21.4

RBI

41.7

49.5

92.2

29.1

28.2

.304

84.5

OBP

.365

76.7

SLG

.433

52.4

OPS

.799

56.3

wRC+

117.7

OPS+

116.3

64.1

wOBA

.361

63.1

sWAR

2.5

48.5

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 511 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.2

59.9

OPS+

108.3

58.8

sWAR

34.3

97.2

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
1952	19	85	80	2	26	2	2	0	8	2	1	2	1	.325	.349	.400	.749	103.0	105.5	.348	0.4
1953	155	731	679	94	209	33	7	2	48	50	31	6	5	.308	.356	.386	.742	98.8	99.2	.346	3.1
1954	155	696	656	81	201	28	6	5	48	29	13	9	9	.306	.335	.390	.725	96.2	99.2	.335	2.8
1955	145	666	620	101	190	38	5	8	62	40	27	8	3	.306	.347	.423	.769	107.5	109.2	.354	3.6
1956	146	657	591	96	196	32	7	12	88	55	34	9	5	.332	.387	.470	.857	127.4	127.1	.390	5.1
1957	151	679	624	74	173	30	6	9	44	47	28	5	8	.277	.327	.388	.715	93.3	94.1	.327	2.4
1958	139	619	561	73	179	39	3	8	54	51	34	5	10	.319	.373	.442	.815	118.6	117.7	.366	3.7
1959	139	617	561	99	198	42	7	9	71	48	37	7	2	.353	.402	.501	.903	145.7	141.8	.406	5.0
1960	126	537	474	65	146	24	0	9	54	55	25	3	0	.308	.379	.416	.795	119.7	118.1	.363	2.5
1961	131	529	471	60	125	22	4	5	46	47	34	5	4	.265	.329	.361	.690	88.9	87.2	.314	0.6
1962	130	548	487	73	148	23	5	10	68	49	37	3	6	.304	.365	.433	.799	117.7	116.3	.361	2.5
1963	120	469	417	61	121	13	2	6	31	44	38	2	1	.290	.358	.374	.732	117.4	113.4	.338	2.3
1964	111	390	351	42	92	16	2	4	22	35	32	0	1	.262	.329	.353	.682	93.4	92.2	.313	0.3
1965	77	216	179	15	40	5	0	0	12	32	16	4	1	.223	.341	.251	.593	76.8	68.3	.293	-0.2
1966	89	179	162	15	48	9	0	0	15	10	17	0	0	.296	.333	.352	.685	92.2	91.8	.311	0.1

Career totals

1,833

379th-most career G

7,618

350th-most career PA

6,913

326th-most career AB

951

415th-most career R

2,092

244th-most career H

356

300th-most career 2B

RBI

671

594

404

.3026

191st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3566

SLG

.4081

OPS

.7647

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
1964-06-20	SF @ STL Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	1	2	9
1956-06-28	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1959-09-20	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	1	8
1959-08-23	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	0	0	7
1955-04-17	ATH @ DET Gameday	6	1	4	3	0	0	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-05-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-19	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-20	ATH @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-22	ATH @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-22	ATH @ DET 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

1× Rookie of the Year8× 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.