MLB / Players

Hosken Powell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornMay 14, 1955 · Selma, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 5, 1978

Final gameJuly 1, 1983

Seasons6 (1978–1983)

Minnesota Twins 1978–1981; Toronto Blue Jays 1982–1983

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

137

16.9

523

6.5

485

14.5

12.9

127

11.3

5.6

55.6

24.2

RBI

2.4

20.2

79.8

59.7

67.7

.262

19.4

OBP

.312

15.3

SLG

.355

16.1

OPS

.666

13.7

wRC+

77.1

8.9

OPS+

77.7

8.9

wOBA

.306

13.7

sWAR

-0.3

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.9

6.8

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
1978	121	437	381	55	94	20	2	3	31	45	31	11	5	.247	.323	.333	.657	86.3	84.3	.309	0.2
1979	104	380	338	49	99	17	3	2	36	33	25	5	1	.293	.360	.379	.739	101.3	97.6	.341	0.8
1980	137	523	485	58	127	17	5	6	35	32	46	14	3	.262	.312	.355	.666	77.1	77.7	.306	-0.3
1981	80	284	264	30	63	11	3	2	25	17	31	7	4	.239	.286	.326	.612	72.2	73.4	.287	-0.4
1982	112	280	265	43	73	13	4	3	26	12	23	4	4	.275	.304	.389	.692	78.3	82.9	.306	-0.4
1983	40	89	83	6	14	0	0	1	7	5	8	2	0	.169	.213	.205	.418	7.4	13.8	.198	-0.9

Career totals

594

1,993

1,816

241

470

RBI

160

144

164

.2588

OBP

.3141

SLG

.3486

OPS

.6627

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
1980-04-19	MIN @ SEA Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	1	0	8
1980-08-03	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1979-05-18	MIN @ KC Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1979-06-19	MIN @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1980-04-22	LAA @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	1	6

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.