Ken Sanders
Kansas City Athletics 1964; Boston Red Sox 1966; Kansas City Athletics 1966; Oakland Athletics 1968; Milwaukee Brewers 1970–1972; Cleveland Indians 1973; Minnesota Twins 1973; California Angels 1974; Cleveland Indians 1974; New York Mets 1975; Kansas City Royals 1976; New York Mets 1976
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 1966 | 62 | 20 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .393 | 16.3 | 10.7 | .206 | 0.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1970 | 50 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .375 | .231 | .606 | 86.5 | 70.9 | .314 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 83 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .067 | .000 | .067 | -98.3 | -79.5 | .050 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 62 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .393 | 22.2 | 20.3 | .212 | 0.8 |
| 1973 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
| 1974 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
| 1975 | 30 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -126.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 27.0 | 3.67 | 1.481 | 6.00 | 4.09 | 108.0 | 103.3 | 0.3 |
| 1966 | 62 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 47 | 76 | 74 | 9 | 112.7 | 3.75 | 1.518 | 5.91 | 4.26 | 121.3 | 94.7 | 0.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 10.7 | 3.38 | 1.500 | 5.06 | 4.57 | 157.5 | 85.9 | 0.0 |
| 1970 | 50 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 18 | 25 | 64 | 1 | 92.3 | 1.75 | .964 | 6.24 | 2.13 | 56.7 | 213.5 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 83 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 29 | 34 | 80 | 9 | 136.3 | 1.91 | 1.064 | 5.28 | 2.88 | 84.0 | 179.1 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 62 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 32 | 31 | 51 | 10 | 92.3 | 3.12 | 1.289 | 4.97 | 3.65 | 120.4 | 97.1 | 0.8 |
| 1973 | 42 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 35 | 30 | 33 | 6 | 71.7 | 4.40 | 1.409 | 4.14 | 4.09 | 104.3 | 89.1 | 0.3 |
| 1974 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 20.7 | 6.53 | 1.887 | 3.48 | 6.10 | 170.1 | 54.3 | -0.5 |
| 1975 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 43.0 | 2.30 | 1.047 | 1.67 | 3.83 | 110.3 | 150.6 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 4 | 50.0 | 2.70 | 1.140 | 3.24 | 3.93 | 118.0 | 123.2 | 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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-06-28 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1972-09-06 | MIL @ CLE Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1966-07-09 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-08-25 | MIL @ CLE Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-09-11 | MIL @ LAA Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-04-13 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1971-04-18 | KC @ MIL Gameday | 5.2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1972-09-14 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 4.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1970-09-20 | KC @ MIL Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1966-05-21 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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.