Ken Griffey

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornApril 10, 1950 · Donora, PA, USA

MLB debutAugust 25, 1973

Final gameMay 31, 1991

Seasons19 (1973–1991)

Cincinnati Reds 1973–1981; New York Yankees 1982–1985; Atlanta Braves 1986; New York Yankees 1986; Atlanta Braves 1987–1988; Cincinnati Reds 1988–1990; Seattle Mariners 1990–1991

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

139

532

13.5

490

21.4

36.5

150

57.9

25.4

41.3

66.7

RBI

32.5

14.3

63.5

25.4

.306

88.1

OBP

.350

60.3

SLG

.492

89.7

OPS

.842

81.7

wRC+

126.1

78.6

OPS+

125.9

79.4

wOBA

.373

79.4

sWAR

2.8

55.6

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.7

79.8

OPS+

118.1

76.5

sWAR

38.3

97.7

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
1973	25	92	86	19	33	5	1	3	14	6	10	4	2	.384	.424	.570	.994	187.3	181.2	.452	1.2
1974	88	256	227	24	57	9	5	2	19	27	43	9	4	.251	.333	.361	.695	100.2	97.4	.331	0.5
1975	132	540	463	95	141	15	9	4	46	67	67	16	7	.305	.391	.402	.793	128.5	120.8	.378	3.0
1976	148	628	562	111	189	28	9	6	74	62	65	34	11	.336	.401	.450	.851	148.7	140.9	.401	5.1
1977	154	657	585	117	186	35	8	12	57	69	84	17	8	.318	.389	.467	.855	133.4	127.8	.389	4.2
1978	158	680	614	90	177	33	8	10	63	54	70	23	5	.288	.344	.417	.761	116.8	112.9	.354	2.9
1979	95	420	380	62	120	27	4	8	32	36	39	12	5	.316	.374	.471	.845	132.9	129.6	.383	2.7
1980	146	615	544	89	160	28	10	13	85	62	77	23	1	.294	.364	.454	.818	132.3	128.4	.375	3.7
1981	101	442	396	65	123	21	6	2	34	39	42	12	4	.311	.370	.409	.780	122.8	120.3	.362	2.8
1982	127	527	484	70	134	23	2	12	54	39	58	10	4	.277	.329	.407	.736	104.2	103.5	.331	1.6
1983	118	499	458	60	140	21	3	11	46	34	45	6	1	.306	.355	.437	.792	122.0	121.1	.355	2.2
1984	120	436	399	44	109	20	1	7	56	29	32	2	2	.273	.321	.381	.702	97.5	98.0	.317	0.9
1985	127	487	438	68	120	28	4	10	69	41	51	7	7	.274	.331	.425	.755	106.6	108.5	.333	1.5
1986	139	532	490	69	150	22	3	21	58	35	67	14	9	.306	.350	.492	.842	126.1	125.9	.373	2.8
1987	122	451	399	65	114	24	1	14	64	46	54	4	7	.286	.358	.456	.814	106.3	108.8	.356	1.2
1988	94	264	243	26	62	6	0	4	23	19	31	1	3	.255	.307	.329	.636	76.5	78.6	.294	-0.3
1989	106	266	236	26	62	8	3	8	30	29	42	4	2	.263	.346	.424	.770	120.7	117.3	.354	1.1
1990	67	156	140	19	42	4	0	4	26	12	8	2	1	.300	.353	.414	.767	113.0	112.7	.351	0.6
1991	30	100	85	10	24	7	0	1	9	13	13	0	0	.282	.380	.400	.780	122.8	116.6	.363	0.5

Career totals

2,097

195th-most career G

8,048

286th-most career PA

7,229

264th-most career AB

1,129

242nd-most career R

2,143

213th-most career H

364

280th-most career 2B

309th-most career 3B

152

RBI

859

451st-most career RBI

719

353rd-most career BB

898

200

367th-most career SB

.2964

278th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3587

SLG

.4312

OPS

.7899

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	HR	RBI	TB
1986-07-22	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	3	12
1977-07-28	CIN @ CHC Gameday	8	2	5	2	1	4	10
1980-09-28	CIN @ HOU Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	3	9
1984-09-17	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	3	9
1978-08-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	6	9

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× All-Star Game MVP3× 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.