Ken Hill

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornDecember 14, 1965 · Lynn, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1988

Final gameApril 18, 2001

Seasons14 (1988–2001)

St. Louis Cardinals 1988–1991; Montreal Expos 1992–1994; Cleveland Indians 1995; St. Louis Cardinals 1995; Texas Rangers 1996; Anaheim Angels 1997; Texas Rangers 1997; Anaheim Angels 1998–2000; Chicago White Sox 2000; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2001

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified pitchers

23.2

31.7

15.9

14.6

SHO

194

59.8

26.8

1.2

106

13.4

190.0

30.5

ERA

4.55

23.2

WHIP

1.521

8.5

K/9

5.02

15.9

FIP

4.88

17.1

FIP-

104.5

29.3

ERA+

102.8

34.1

sWAR

2.2

35.4

of 83 qualified 1997 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.0

57.5

sWAR

24.3

95.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1988	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.4	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1989	33	69	59	4	9	1	0	0	3	2	21	.153	.180	.169	.350	-10.3	-0.3	.168	1.4
1990	17	26	19	0	4	0	0	0	1	1	5	.211	.286	.211	.496	43.1	39.5	.247	-0.7
1991	30	61	50	2	5	0	0	0	3	4	12	.100	.167	.100	.267	-27.9	-23.0	.141	1.9
1992	33	80	62	10	11	3	1	1	4	8	13	.177	.271	.306	.578	66.4	64.7	.277	4.9
1993	29	70	52	4	6	2	0	0	3	4	15	.115	.179	.154	.332	-14.6	-10.3	.165	3.6
1994	24	67	48	1	7	0	0	0	2	3	17	.146	.196	.146	.342	-13.8	-8.3	.168	3.0
1995	30	39	31	1	6	0	0	0	3	2	10	.194	.235	.194	.429	11.2	15.4	.204	1.4
1996	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6.4
1997	31	3	2	0	1	1	0	0	2	0	1	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	293.6	280.7	.636	2.2
1998	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	0.7
1999	26	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.0	-100.0	.000	1.3
2000	18	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	68.2	69.7	.300	-1.0
2001	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1988	4	1	0	1	0	0	16	8	6	6	0	14.0	5.14	1.571	3.86	3.14	90.7	67.3	-0.2
1989	33	33	7	15	2	1	186	83	99	112	9	196.7	3.80	1.449	5.13	3.70	103.2	94.5	1.4
1990	17	14	5	6	1	0	79	48	33	58	7	78.7	5.49	1.424	6.64	3.79	99.8	69.1	-0.7
1991	30	30	11	10	0	0	147	72	67	121	15	181.3	3.57	1.180	6.01	3.74	101.1	103.5	1.9
1992	33	33	16	9	3	3	187	65	75	150	13	218.0	2.68	1.202	6.19	3.25	93.4	129.6	4.9
1993	28	28	9	7	2	0	163	66	74	90	7	183.7	3.23	1.290	4.41	3.80	92.5	127.0	3.6
1994	23	23	16	5	2	1	145	57	44	85	12	154.7	3.32	1.222	4.95	3.95	94.1	126.5	3.0
1995	30	29	10	8	1	0	202	95	77	98	21	185.0	4.62	1.508	4.77	4.78	110.1	94.9	1.4
1996	35	35	16	10	7	3	250	101	95	170	19	250.7	3.63	1.376	6.10	4.09	78.8	143.0	6.4
1997	31	31	9	12	1	0	194	96	95	106	19	190.0	4.55	1.521	5.02	4.88	104.5	102.8	2.2
1998	19	19	9	6	0	0	123	57	47	57	6	103.0	4.98	1.650	4.98	4.33	93.0	93.4	0.7
1999	26	22	4	11	0	0	129	68	76	76	14	128.3	4.77	1.597	5.33	5.31	110.0	101.2	1.3
2000	18	17	5	8	0	0	107	65	59	50	16	81.7	7.16	2.033	5.51	6.79	136.7	69.3	-1.0
2001	5	0	0	1	0	0	10	10	5	2	4	7.3	12.27	2.045	2.45	12.10	273.4	36.1	-0.6

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

334

426

333

RBI

.1502

OBP

.2089

SLG

.1862

OPS

.3951

Pitching

G (P)

332

315

311th-most career GS

117

466th-most career W

109

450th-most career L

SHO

1,973

465th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,181

403rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

852

202nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.064

WHIP

1.4141

K/9

5.39

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	TB
1992-06-24	PHI @ WSH Gameday	3	3	2	0	0	1	1	5
1992-07-10	WSH @ SF Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	0	2	4
1989-06-26	PHI @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	1	3
1993-04-24	SF @ WSH Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	3
1992-06-30	WSH @ PHI Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1992-07-10	WSH @ SF Gameday	7.2	7	2	2	1	10	1
1997-09-09	LAA @ TOR Gameday	7.2	3	2	1	3	10	0
1989-05-04	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	9	0
1996-04-17	ATH @ TEX Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	9	0
1996-07-12	TEX @ ATH Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	2	9	1

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

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.