Ken Holcombe
New York Yankees 1945; Cincinnati Reds 1948; Chicago White Sox 1950–1952; St. Louis Browns 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953
Percentile snapshot
1951 season — qualified pitchers
of 53 qualified 1951 pitchers (min 155 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .133 | .267 | -50.4 | -23.7 | .127 | 1.6 |
| 1948 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1950 | 24 | 34 | 32 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .156 | .188 | .344 | -26.5 | -11.0 | .157 | 0.7 |
| 1951 | 28 | 57 | 44 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .298 | .273 | .571 | 55.0 | 57.5 | .275 | 2.0 |
| 1952 | 19 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .077 | .077 | .154 | -86.2 | -58.0 | .072 | -0.6 |
| 1953 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -136.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 11 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 55.3 | 1.79 | 1.265 | 3.25 | 3.65 | 105.2 | 193.9 | 1.6 |
| 1948 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.3 | 7.71 | 1.286 | 7.71 | 0.85 | 22.0 | 50.2 | -0.1 |
| 1950 | 24 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 122 | 49 | 45 | 37 | 10 | 96.0 | 4.59 | 1.740 | 3.47 | 4.70 | 105.7 | 96.8 | 0.7 |
| 1951 | 28 | 23 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 142 | 67 | 68 | 39 | 9 | 159.3 | 3.78 | 1.318 | 2.20 | 4.12 | 103.2 | 105.5 | 2.0 |
| 1952 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 33 | 27 | 19 | 4 | 56.0 | 5.30 | 1.518 | 3.05 | 4.17 | 113.0 | 69.8 | -0.6 |
| 1953 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6.0 | 6.00 | 2.000 | 1.50 | 3.73 | 89.4 | 69.6 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-09-28 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1951-05-26 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1950-07-08 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1951-07-01 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1950-06-06 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-06-11 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1951-05-06 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| 1950-07-30 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
| 1951-09-16 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1952-04-30 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 7.2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 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.