Ken Hamlin
Pittsburgh Pirates 1957; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961; Washington Senators 1962; Washington Senators 1965–1966
Percentile snapshot
1960 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 480 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1959 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .300 | .125 | .425 | 36.6 | 20.4 | .239 | 0.0 |
| 1960 | 140 | 483 | 428 | 51 | 96 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 44 | 48 | 1 | 1 | .224 | .297 | .271 | .568 | 53.1 | 53.3 | .272 | -0.5 |
| 1961 | 42 | 105 | 91 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .209 | .298 | .275 | .573 | 45.8 | 51.0 | .265 | -0.2 |
| 1962 | 98 | 318 | 292 | 29 | 74 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 22 | 22 | 7 | 7 | .253 | .303 | .325 | .628 | 69.5 | 70.3 | .289 | 0.3 |
| 1965 | 117 | 405 | 362 | 45 | 99 | 21 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 33 | 45 | 8 | 2 | .273 | .333 | .370 | .703 | 102.7 | 100.3 | .325 | 1.9 |
| 1966 | 66 | 180 | 158 | 13 | 34 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .215 | .267 | .291 | .558 | 56.1 | 60.9 | .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-07-19 | TEX @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1962-07-27 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
| 1965-07-02 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1965-08-05 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1965-09-11 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-05-08 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-06-01 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-06-14 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-06-25 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-06-26 | PIT @ CHC 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.