Ken Boyer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornMay 20, 1931 · Liberty, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1955

Final gameAugust 9, 1969

Seasons15 (1955–1969)

St. Louis Cardinals 1955–1965; New York Mets 1966; Chicago White Sox 1967; New York Mets 1967; Chicago White Sox 1968; Los Angeles Dodgers 1968–1969

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified batters

136

9.6

534

9.6

496

20.2

30.9

132

23.4

80.9

13.8

40.4

RBI

43.6

19.1

62.8

61.7

.266

40.4

OBP

.304

19.1

SLG

.415

47.9

OPS

.719

40.4

wRC+

96.2

31.9

OPS+

98.7

wOBA

.317

37.2

sWAR

1.8

35.1

of 95 qualified 1966 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.1

75.3

OPS+

116.3

73.4

sWAR

48.1

98.7

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
1955	147	574	530	78	140	27	2	18	62	37	67	22	17	.264	.311	.425	.735	89.7	92.2	.323	1.5
1956	150	639	595	91	182	30	2	26	98	38	65	8	3	.306	.347	.494	.841	123.8	122.9	.366	4.3
1957	142	598	544	79	144	18	3	19	62	44	77	12	8	.265	.318	.414	.732	90.9	93.8	.321	1.5
1958	150	631	570	101	175	21	9	23	90	49	53	11	6	.307	.360	.496	.857	121.0	121.0	.373	4.0
1959	149	633	563	86	174	18	5	28	94	67	77	12	6	.309	.384	.508	.892	133.6	129.9	.394	5.1
1960	151	616	552	95	168	26	10	32	97	56	77	8	7	.304	.370	.562	.932	145.2	143.5	.404	5.7
1961	153	663	589	109	194	26	11	24	95	68	91	6	3	.329	.397	.533	.930	138.5	136.2	.406	5.7
1962	160	691	611	92	178	27	5	24	98	75	104	12	7	.291	.369	.470	.838	117.7	116.1	.375	4.1
1963	159	693	617	86	176	28	2	24	111	70	90	1	0	.285	.358	.454	.812	127.6	124.8	.364	5.0
1964	162	704	628	100	185	30	10	24	119	70	85	3	5	.295	.365	.489	.854	132.3	130.6	.378	5.5
1965	144	604	535	71	139	18	2	13	75	57	73	2	7	.260	.328	.374	.702	95.1	93.3	.322	1.9
1966	136	534	496	62	132	28	2	14	61	30	64	4	3	.266	.304	.415	.719	96.2	98.7	.317	1.8
1967	113	384	346	34	86	12	3	7	34	33	47	2	3	.249	.312	.361	.673	99.0	98.3	.311	1.2
1968	93	268	245	20	63	7	2	6	41	17	40	2	2	.257	.302	.376	.678	107.2	110.5	.311	0.9
1969	25	36	34	0	7	2	0	0	4	2	7	0	0	.206	.250	.265	.515	48.3	49.9	.245	-0.1

Career totals

2,034

230th-most career G

8,268

242nd-most career PA

7,455

224th-most career AB

1,104

265th-most career R

2,143

213th-most career H

318

424th-most career 2B

419th-most career 3B

282

196th-most career HR

RBI

1,141

198th-most career RBI

713

365th-most career BB

1,017

377th-most career SO

105

.2875

472nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3486

SLG

.4618

369th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8104

422nd-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1961-09-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	6	1	5	1	1	1	3	11
1956-06-24	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	3	11
1961-08-08	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	3	10
1964-06-16	STL @ HOU Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	3	10
1956-05-13	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	5	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955-05-01	STL @ PIT 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

5× Gold Glove1× Most Valuable Player7× 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.