Ken Landreaux
California Angels 1977–1978; Minnesota Twins 1979–1980; Los Angeles Dodgers 1981–1987
Percentile snapshot
1985 season — qualified batters
of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 23 | 81 | 76 | 6 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 1 | .250 | .296 | .342 | .638 | 73.9 | 77.3 | .286 | 0.1 |
| 1978 | 93 | 283 | 260 | 37 | 58 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 20 | 7 | 3 | .223 | .284 | .346 | .630 | 75.3 | 80.1 | .286 | -0.2 |
| 1979 | 151 | 623 | 564 | 81 | 172 | 27 | 5 | 15 | 83 | 37 | 57 | 10 | 3 | .305 | .347 | .450 | .798 | 110.2 | 111.2 | .354 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 129 | 536 | 484 | 56 | 136 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 62 | 39 | 42 | 8 | 6 | .281 | .334 | .417 | .751 | 98.8 | 99.5 | .338 | 1.5 |
| 1981 | 99 | 420 | 390 | 48 | 98 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 41 | 25 | 42 | 18 | 4 | .251 | .297 | .367 | .664 | 90.2 | 92.1 | .308 | 1.1 |
| 1982 | 129 | 518 | 461 | 71 | 131 | 23 | 7 | 7 | 50 | 39 | 54 | 31 | 10 | .284 | .341 | .410 | .751 | 115.4 | 113.4 | .347 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 141 | 524 | 481 | 63 | 135 | 25 | 3 | 17 | 66 | 34 | 52 | 30 | 11 | .281 | .328 | .451 | .779 | 114.7 | 116.1 | .351 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 134 | 477 | 438 | 39 | 110 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 47 | 29 | 35 | 10 | 9 | .251 | .295 | .374 | .670 | 87.2 | 89.8 | .307 | 0.9 |
| 1985 | 147 | 527 | 482 | 70 | 129 | 26 | 2 | 12 | 50 | 33 | 37 | 15 | 5 | .268 | .311 | .405 | .716 | 101.5 | 102.8 | .325 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 103 | 310 | 283 | 34 | 74 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 22 | 39 | 10 | 5 | .261 | .313 | .364 | .677 | 90.9 | 92.8 | .309 | 0.7 |
| 1987 | 115 | 204 | 182 | 17 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 23 | 16 | 28 | 5 | 3 | .203 | .269 | .324 | .593 | 56.2 | 59.3 | .267 | -0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-04-12 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1979-08-20 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 1980-07-03 | TEX @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1979-05-08 | TOR @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1983-07-26 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
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.