Ken Harvey
Kansas City Royals 2001; Kansas City Royals 2003–2005
Percentile snapshot
2003 season — qualified batters
of 166 qualified 2003 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .333 | .583 | 39.7 | 47.1 | .254 | -0.1 |
| 2003 | 135 | 524 | 485 | 50 | 129 | 30 | 0 | 13 | 64 | 29 | 94 | 2 | 3 | .266 | .313 | .408 | .721 | 86.9 | 88.7 | .315 | -0.2 |
| 2004 | 120 | 494 | 456 | 47 | 131 | 20 | 1 | 13 | 55 | 28 | 89 | 1 | 1 | .287 | .338 | .421 | .759 | 97.2 | 96.9 | .334 | 0.4 |
| 2005 | 12 | 48 | 45 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .271 | .356 | .626 | 63.9 | 65.2 | .277 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-09-01 | KC @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2003-06-17 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 2003-06-20 | KC @ STL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2004-05-27 | DET @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2003-04-26 | KC @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
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.