Ken Boswell
New York Mets 1967–1974; Houston Astros 1975–1977
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 11 | 43 | 40 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .233 | .375 | .608 | 63.9 | 72.5 | .268 | 0.0 |
| 1968 | 75 | 306 | 284 | 37 | 74 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 27 | 7 | 2 | .261 | .300 | .342 | .642 | 94.9 | 93.2 | .303 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 102 | 405 | 362 | 48 | 101 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 32 | 36 | 47 | 7 | 3 | .279 | .347 | .381 | .728 | 106.6 | 103.9 | .340 | 1.9 |
| 1970 | 105 | 402 | 351 | 32 | 89 | 13 | 2 | 5 | 44 | 41 | 32 | 5 | 4 | .254 | .331 | .345 | .676 | 81.1 | 83.0 | .309 | 0.6 |
| 1971 | 116 | 436 | 392 | 46 | 107 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 40 | 36 | 31 | 5 | 2 | .273 | .334 | .367 | .701 | 102.0 | 101.3 | .326 | 1.8 |
| 1972 | 100 | 400 | 355 | 35 | 75 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 33 | 32 | 35 | 2 | 2 | .211 | .274 | .318 | .592 | 69.4 | 71.0 | .278 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 76 | 123 | 110 | 12 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .303 | .318 | .621 | 73.4 | 74.7 | .290 | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 96 | 244 | 222 | 19 | 48 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .216 | .277 | .279 | .556 | 57.4 | 58.1 | .269 | -0.4 |
| 1975 | 86 | 212 | 178 | 16 | 43 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 30 | 12 | 0 | 3 | .242 | .349 | .309 | .658 | 88.2 | 90.1 | .310 | 0.5 |
| 1976 | 91 | 137 | 126 | 12 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .262 | .301 | .341 | .643 | 84.2 | 89.8 | .296 | 0.2 |
| 1977 | 72 | 108 | 97 | 7 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .216 | .287 | .247 | .534 | 51.9 | 51.4 | .254 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-05-12 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1971-08-07 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1972-09-02 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-06-19 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1972-09-08 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
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.