Ken Phelps
Kansas City Royals 1980–1981; Montreal Expos 1982; Seattle Mariners 1983–1987; New York Yankees 1988; Seattle Mariners 1988; New York Yankees 1989; Oakland Athletics 1989; Cleveland Indians 1990; Oakland Athletics 1990
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -124.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1981 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .174 | .227 | .401 | 7.0 | 15.8 | .188 | -0.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .333 | .250 | .583 | 72.9 | 65.2 | .291 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 50 | 144 | 127 | 10 | 30 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 13 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .301 | .449 | .750 | 99.0 | 100.7 | .331 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 101 | 360 | 290 | 52 | 70 | 9 | 0 | 24 | 51 | 61 | 73 | 3 | 3 | .241 | .378 | .521 | .898 | 147.6 | 147.4 | .395 | 2.2 |
| 1985 | 61 | 140 | 116 | 18 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 24 | 24 | 33 | 2 | 0 | .207 | .343 | .466 | .808 | 119.0 | 118.4 | .357 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 125 | 441 | 344 | 69 | 85 | 16 | 4 | 24 | 64 | 88 | 96 | 2 | 3 | .247 | .406 | .526 | .932 | 152.3 | 150.8 | .409 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 120 | 424 | 332 | 68 | 86 | 13 | 1 | 27 | 68 | 80 | 75 | 1 | 1 | .259 | .410 | .548 | .959 | 147.1 | 146.3 | .413 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 117 | 371 | 297 | 54 | 78 | 13 | 0 | 24 | 54 | 70 | 61 | 1 | 0 | .263 | .402 | .549 | .950 | 162.6 | 161.2 | .419 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 97 | 228 | 194 | 26 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 29 | 31 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .342 | .371 | .713 | 104.7 | 101.9 | .332 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 56 | 143 | 120 | 10 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .150 | .280 | .192 | .471 | 37.6 | 37.7 | .234 | -1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-05-16 | NYY @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 1987-04-12 | MIN @ SEA Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1987-04-28 | DET @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 1986-09-23 | TEX @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1984-07-16 | MIL @ SEA Gameday | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 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.