Ken Berry
Chicago White Sox 1962–1970; California Angels 1971–1973; Milwaukee Brewers 1974; Cleveland Indians 1975
Percentile snapshot
1970 season — qualified batters
of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 80.4 | 82.3 | .304 | 0.0 |
| 1963 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 69.4 | 57.1 | .274 | 0.0 |
| 1964 | 12 | 39 | 32 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | .375 | .459 | .500 | .959 | 184.6 | 173.7 | .436 | 0.5 |
| 1965 | 157 | 518 | 472 | 51 | 103 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 42 | 28 | 96 | 4 | 2 | .218 | .268 | .347 | .615 | 75.8 | 80.3 | .277 | 0.5 |
| 1966 | 147 | 486 | 443 | 50 | 120 | 20 | 2 | 8 | 34 | 28 | 63 | 7 | 10 | .271 | .316 | .379 | .695 | 105.8 | 107.1 | .313 | 1.2 |
| 1967 | 147 | 538 | 485 | 49 | 117 | 14 | 4 | 7 | 41 | 46 | 68 | 9 | 8 | .241 | .310 | .330 | .640 | 95.2 | 94.4 | .300 | 0.8 |
| 1968 | 153 | 541 | 504 | 49 | 127 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 32 | 25 | 64 | 6 | 6 | .252 | .288 | .343 | .631 | 88.7 | 90.3 | .294 | 1.4 |
| 1969 | 130 | 327 | 297 | 25 | 69 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 24 | 50 | 1 | 2 | .232 | .296 | .327 | .623 | 64.7 | 70.0 | .288 | -0.1 |
| 1970 | 141 | 515 | 463 | 45 | 128 | 12 | 2 | 7 | 50 | 43 | 61 | 6 | 4 | .276 | .344 | .356 | .701 | 88.2 | 90.2 | .321 | 1.2 |
| 1971 | 111 | 326 | 298 | 29 | 66 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 18 | 33 | 3 | 2 | .221 | .269 | .309 | .578 | 67.3 | 70.2 | .272 | -0.1 |
| 1972 | 119 | 459 | 409 | 41 | 118 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 39 | 35 | 47 | 5 | 3 | .289 | .347 | .377 | .723 | 125.6 | 121.5 | .342 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 136 | 452 | 415 | 48 | 118 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 26 | 50 | 1 | 6 | .284 | .327 | .342 | .669 | 96.3 | 95.5 | .314 | 1.5 |
| 1974 | 98 | 290 | 267 | 21 | 64 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 18 | 26 | 3 | 1 | .240 | .295 | .300 | .595 | 72.9 | 72.1 | .284 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 25 | 42 | 40 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .238 | .225 | .463 | 27.9 | 31.9 | .223 | -0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-05-15 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-06-07 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1965-09-06 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1966-08-03 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1972-07-07 | BOS @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.