Ken Griffey

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 21, 1969 · Donora, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 3, 1989

Final gameMay 31, 2010

Seasons22 (1989–2010)

Seattle Mariners 1989–1999; Cincinnati Reds 2000–2007; Chicago White Sox 2008; Cincinnati Reds 2008; Seattle Mariners 2009–2010

Percentile snapshot

2008 season — qualified batters

143

28.6

575

25.9

490

19.7

122

10.9

40.1

8.8

44.2

RBI

39.5

81.6

63.3

65.3

.249

13.6

OBP

.353

53.7

SLG

.424

OPS

.778

36.7

wRC+

99.9

31.3

OPS+

102.0

wOBA

.341

33.3

sWAR

1.3

18.4

of 148 qualified 2008 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.0

OPS+

135.3

93.5

sWAR

80.9

99.8

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
1989	127	506	455	61	120	23	0	16	61	44	83	16	7	.264	.329	.420	.748	104.6	107.4	.337	2.3
1990	155	666	597	91	179	28	7	22	80	63	81	16	11	.300	.366	.481	.847	133.8	134.9	.378	5.2
1991	154	633	548	76	179	42	1	22	100	71	82	18	6	.327	.399	.527	.926	149.6	154.6	.402	6.0
1992	142	617	565	83	174	39	4	27	103	44	67	10	5	.308	.361	.535	.896	144.6	148.3	.394	5.5
1993	156	691	582	113	180	38	3	45	109	96	91	17	9	.309	.408	.617	1.025	164.8	171.4	.437	7.6
1994	111	493	433	94	140	24	4	40	90	56	73	11	3	.323	.402	.674	1.076	162.3	170.7	.446	5.3
1995	72	314	260	52	67	7	0	17	42	52	53	4	2	.258	.379	.481	.860	121.2	122.3	.378	1.9
1996	140	638	545	125	165	26	2	49	140	78	104	16	1	.303	.392	.628	1.020	147.7	153.5	.427	5.9
1997	157	704	608	125	185	34	3	56	147	76	121	15	4	.304	.382	.646	1.028	155.2	163.9	.424	7.1
1998	161	720	633	120	180	33	3	56	146	76	121	20	5	.284	.365	.611	.977	144.2	148.0	.409	6.5
1999	160	706	606	123	173	26	3	48	134	91	108	24	7	.285	.384	.576	.960	138.6	143.4	.406	5.8
2000	145	631	520	100	141	22	3	40	118	94	117	6	4	.271	.387	.556	.942	128.8	133.3	.398	4.5
2001	111	417	364	57	104	20	2	22	65	44	72	2	0	.286	.365	.533	.898	124.3	124.7	.382	2.8
2002	70	232	197	17	52	8	0	8	23	28	39	1	2	.264	.358	.426	.784	101.6	104.7	.344	0.9
2003	53	201	166	34	41	12	1	13	26	27	44	1	0	.247	.370	.566	.936	137.6	141.0	.396	1.6
2004	83	348	300	49	76	18	0	20	60	44	67	1	0	.253	.351	.513	.864	121.8	121.3	.372	2.2
2005	128	555	491	85	148	30	0	35	92	54	93	0	1	.301	.369	.576	.946	144.1	142.6	.405	5.1
2006	109	472	428	62	108	19	0	27	72	39	78	0	0	.252	.316	.486	.802	94.4	97.6	.341	1.3
2007	144	623	528	78	146	24	1	30	93	85	99	6	1	.277	.372	.496	.869	116.5	118.4	.373	2.6
2008	143	575	490	67	122	30	1	18	71	78	89	0	1	.249	.353	.424	.778	99.9	102.0	.341	1.3
2009	117	454	387	44	83	19	0	19	57	63	80	0	0	.214	.324	.411	.735	97.2	96.0	.326	0.3
2010	33	108	98	6	18	2	0	0	7	9	17	0	0	.184	.250	.204	.454	28.7	29.4	.219	-0.9

Career totals

2,671

36th-most career G

11,304

33rd-most career PA

9,801

37th-most career AB

1,662

34th-most career R

2,781

53rd-most career H

524

49th-most career 2B

630

7th-most career HR

RBI

1,836

17th-most career RBI

1,312

47th-most career BB

1,779

30th-most career SO

184

423rd-most career SB

.2837

OBP

.3695

292nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5378

41st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9073

66th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1996-05-24	NYY @ SEA Gameday	4	5	4	0	3	6	1	13
1997-04-25	SEA @ TOR Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	3	0	12
2000-07-08	CLE @ CIN Gameday	6	2	4	1	2	8	0	11
1998-09-07	BAL @ SEA Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	6	0	11
1997-09-01	SD @ SEA Gameday	4	4	4	1	2	4	1	11

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

Hall of Fame, 2016 (BBWAA)

10× Gold Glove7× Silver Slugger1× All-Star Game MVP1× Most Valuable Player13× 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.