Ken Tatum
California Angels 1969–1970; Boston Red Sox 1971–1973; Chicago White Sox 1974
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 45 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .318 | .619 | .937 | 162.0 | 163.0 | .414 | 3.5 |
| 1970 | 62 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .455 | .636 | 63.4 | 73.4 | .274 | 1.6 |
| 1971 | 36 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .417 | .600 | 1.017 | 189.0 | 178.2 | .458 | 0.4 |
| 1972 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 46.6 | 3.4 | .252 | 0.4 |
| 1973 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -129.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 45 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 13 | 39 | 65 | 1 | 86.3 | 1.36 | 1.042 | 6.78 | 2.50 | 71.9 | 256.5 | 3.5 |
| 1970 | 62 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 29 | 26 | 50 | 12 | 88.7 | 2.94 | 1.060 | 5.08 | 4.11 | 114.6 | 121.8 | 1.6 |
| 1971 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 25 | 25 | 21 | 3 | 53.7 | 4.19 | 1.398 | 3.52 | 4.15 | 113.2 | 87.4 | 0.4 |
| 1972 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 3 | 29.3 | 3.07 | 1.602 | 4.60 | 4.32 | 134.2 | 104.8 | 0.4 |
| 1973 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4.0 | 9.00 | 2.250 | 0.00 | 11.33 | 282.9 | 44.5 | -0.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 20.7 | 4.79 | 1.548 | 2.18 | 5.28 | 142.5 | 77.4 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-07-21 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1969-07-04 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1969-08-26 | LAA @ CLE Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1971-08-12 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1969-09-01 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-07-27 | NYY @ LAA Gameday | 6.1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1969-08-08 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1969-09-28 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 2.2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1970-08-04 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 2.2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1969-07-13 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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.