Ken Oberkfell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornMay 4, 1956 · Highland, IL, USA

MLB debutAugust 22, 1977

Final gameOctober 4, 1992

Seasons16 (1977–1992)

St. Louis Cardinals 1977–1983; Atlanta Braves 1984; St. Louis Cardinals 1984; Atlanta Braves 1985–1988; Pittsburgh Pirates 1988–1989; San Francisco Giants 1989; Houston Astros 1990–1991; California Angels 1992

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified batters

140

16.3

529

11.6

476

11.6

129

26.4

22.5

51.9

6.2

RBI

10.9

26.4

96.1

42.6

.271

52.7

OBP

.321

34.9

SLG

.353

18.6

OPS

.674

20.9

wRC+

87.3

18.6

OPS+

89.5

19.4

wOBA

.309

21.7

sWAR

1.2

19.4

of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.6

38.8

OPS+

96.8

35.5

sWAR

19.7

93.4

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	9	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.111	.111	.111	.222	-55.8	-39.4	.102	-0.1
1978	24	54	50	7	6	1	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	.120	.170	.140	.310	-32.0	-16.6	.156	-0.7
1979	135	435	369	53	111	19	5	1	35	57	35	4	1	.301	.396	.388	.784	118.6	114.5	.363	2.7
1980	116	486	422	58	128	27	6	3	46	51	23	4	4	.303	.377	.417	.794	122.5	119.3	.366	3.1
1981	102	420	376	43	110	12	6	2	45	37	28	13	5	.293	.353	.372	.725	105.1	104.3	.338	1.8
1982	137	516	470	55	136	22	5	2	34	40	31	11	9	.289	.345	.370	.715	101.6	100.4	.332	2.1
1983	151	557	488	62	143	26	5	3	38	61	27	12	6	.293	.371	.385	.756	115.5	110.9	.354	3.2
1984	100	362	324	38	87	19	2	1	21	31	27	2	5	.269	.331	.349	.680	91.1	90.7	.318	1.0
1985	134	472	412	30	112	19	4	3	35	51	38	1	2	.272	.359	.359	.718	100.3	96.8	.336	1.8
1986	151	596	503	62	136	24	3	5	48	83	40	7	4	.270	.373	.360	.733	104.2	98.2	.346	2.6
1987	135	566	508	59	142	29	2	3	48	48	29	3	3	.280	.342	.362	.704	83.4	82.6	.322	0.9
1988	140	529	476	49	129	22	4	3	42	37	34	4	5	.271	.321	.353	.674	87.3	89.5	.309	1.2
1989	97	173	156	19	42	6	1	2	17	10	10	0	1	.269	.316	.359	.675	97.3	96.2	.314	0.5
1990	77	168	150	10	31	6	1	1	12	15	17	1	1	.207	.281	.280	.561	58.0	57.4	.266	-0.3
1991	53	84	70	7	16	4	0	0	14	14	8	0	0	.229	.357	.286	.643	85.3	88.0	.298	0.0
1992	41	101	91	6	24	1	0	0	10	8	5	0	1	.264	.317	.275	.592	62.6	67.9	.274	-0.1

Career totals

1,602

5,528

4,874

558

1,354

237

RBI

446

546

356

.2778

OBP

.3506

SLG

.3623

OPS

.7129

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
1980-07-12	STL @ NYM Gameday	6	3	3	0	1	1	2	8
1983-05-01	SF @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	0	1	7
1985-08-03	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	1	7
1981-09-29	WSH @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	0	3	6
1980-08-27	HOU @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	0	1	6

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.