Ken Harrelson
Kansas City Athletics 1963–1966; Washington Senators 1966; Boston Red Sox 1967; Kansas City Athletics 1967; Washington Senators 1967; Boston Red Sox 1968–1969; Cleveland Indians 1969–1971
Percentile snapshot
1969 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1969 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 79 | 253 | 226 | 16 | 52 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 23 | 58 | 1 | 1 | .230 | .299 | .363 | .662 | 75.6 | 79.2 | .296 | -0.4 |
| 1964 | 49 | 152 | 139 | 15 | 27 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 34 | 0 | 1 | .194 | .263 | .381 | .644 | 71.5 | 73.4 | .290 | -0.3 |
| 1965 | 150 | 556 | 483 | 61 | 115 | 17 | 3 | 23 | 66 | 66 | 112 | 9 | 7 | .238 | .329 | .429 | .758 | 116.0 | 113.4 | .344 | 1.8 |
| 1966 | 134 | 519 | 460 | 49 | 109 | 13 | 1 | 12 | 50 | 53 | 112 | 13 | 3 | .237 | .317 | .348 | .665 | 93.7 | 92.2 | .305 | 0.1 |
| 1967 | 110 | 368 | 333 | 42 | 85 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 54 | 29 | 44 | 10 | 3 | .255 | .311 | .414 | .725 | 110.4 | 113.5 | .327 | 0.9 |
| 1968 | 150 | 612 | 535 | 79 | 147 | 17 | 4 | 35 | 109 | 69 | 90 | 2 | 6 | .275 | .356 | .518 | .874 | 160.5 | 155.3 | .393 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 159 | 672 | 565 | 89 | 125 | 14 | 4 | 30 | 92 | 99 | 102 | 17 | 9 | .221 | .336 | .419 | .756 | 109.7 | 108.1 | .349 | 2.0 |
| 1970 | 17 | 45 | 39 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .282 | .378 | .385 | .762 | 114.9 | 106.7 | .360 | 0.1 |
| 1971 | 52 | 187 | 161 | 20 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 24 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .199 | .301 | .304 | .605 | 63.4 | 66.4 | .287 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-06-14 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 1967-09-01 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1968-08-14 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1965-09-10 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1964-07-14 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.