MLB / Players

Ken Holloway

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 8, 1897 · Thomas County, GA, USA

MLB debutAugust 27, 1922

Final gameSeptember 19, 1930

Seasons9 (1922–1930)

Detroit Tigers 1922–1928; Cleveland Indians 1929–1930; New York Yankees 1930

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified pitchers

69.8

54.3

53.5

26.4

97.7

40.3

SHO

33.3

210

38.8

36.4

41.1

13.2

22.5

183.3

51.2

ERA

4.07

42.6

WHIP

1.478

33.3

K/9

1.77

6.2

FIP

4.44

FIP-

105.1

20.9

ERA+

103.7

45.7

sWAR

1.6

34.9

of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.6

20.7

sWAR

7.4

83.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1922	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1923	42	69	65	4	8	1	0	3	1	11	0	.123	.136	.138	.275	-40.1	-27.1	.132	0.3
1924	49	62	58	2	11	1	1	5	2	10	0	.190	.217	.241	.458	9.7	18.1	.218	1.9
1925	38	53	48	3	11	0	1	2	1	3	1	.229	.245	.271	.516	24.7	31.1	.241	1.1
1926	36	48	46	1	11	1	0	1	1	8	0	.239	.255	.261	.516	25.0	33.8	.244	-0.2
1927	36	69	62	2	8	0	0	2	1	13	0	.129	.143	.129	.272	-41.6	-29.8	.131	1.6
1928	30	38	33	2	4	2	0	1	0	7	0	.121	.121	.182	.303	-38.8	-22.4	.135	0.7
1929	25	42	41	1	7	2	0	1	1	3	0	.171	.190	.220	.410	-7.0	3.3	.189	2.7
1930	28	27	25	1	3	0	0	1	0	4	0	.120	.120	.120	.240	-45.1	-37.7	.110	-0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1922	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	9.00	0.95	23.9	—	0.1
1923	42	24	11	10	1	7	1	232	96	75	55	12	194.0	4.45	1.582	2.55	4.46	113.4	88.3	0.3
1924	49	14	14	6	3	5	0	209	82	61	46	6	181.3	4.07	1.489	2.28	4.16	98.5	103.6	1.9
1925	38	14	13	4	2	6	0	170	81	67	29	8	157.7	4.62	1.503	1.66	4.71	108.1	94.2	1.1
1926	36	12	4	6	2	3	0	192	79	42	43	2	139.0	5.12	1.683	2.78	3.57	87.4	79.9	-0.2
1927	36	23	11	12	6	11	1	210	83	61	36	10	183.3	4.07	1.478	1.77	4.44	105.1	103.7	1.6
1928	30	11	4	8	2	5	0	137	58	32	32	2	120.3	4.34	1.404	2.39	3.64	87.7	95.6	0.7
1929	25	11	6	5	0	6	2	118	40	37	32	2	119.0	3.03	1.303	2.42	3.68	83.7	145.3	2.7
1930	28	2	1	1	2	0	0	101	48	22	19	8	64.3	6.72	1.912	2.66	5.50	118.2	69.0	-0.9

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

285

408

378

RBI

.1667

OBP

.1818

SLG

.1958

OPS

.3776

Pitching

G (P)

285

111

SHO

1,160

SO (P)

293

BB allowed

397

ERA

4.399

WHIP

1.5233

K/9

2.27

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	RBI	TB
1929-05-25	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	4
1924-05-05	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3
1926-07-22	DET @ MIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
1928-07-17	DET @ ATH Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3
1924-07-29	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-06-09	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	15	6	5	5	6	1
1923-09-18	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	1	6	1
1926-06-19	ATH @ DET Gameday	8.0	8	3	3	2	6	0
1928-09-04	DET @ CWS Gameday	8.1	7	3	2	2	5	0
1926-06-13	BOS @ DET Gameday	6.1	7	3	3	1	5	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.