MLB / Players

Ken Hottman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb
BornMay 7, 1948 · Stockton, CA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 11, 1971
Final gameSeptember 30, 1971
Seasons1 (1971–1971)

Chicago White Sox 1971

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.2
23.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1971617161200001200.125.176.125.301-27.0-14.0.154-0.2

Career totals

G
6
PA
17
AB
16
R
1
H
2
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
1
SO
2
SB
0
BA
.1250
OBP
.1765
SLG
.1250
OPS
.3015

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1971-09-22CWS @ ATH Gameday401000001
1971-09-30MIL @ CWS Gameday401000001
1971-09-11CWS @ KC Gameday100000000
1971-09-25CWS @ LAA Gameday200000000
1971-09-26CWS @ LAA Gameday210000010

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.