MLB / Players

Ken Williams

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornJune 28, 1890 · Grants Pass, OR, USA

MLB debutJuly 14, 1915

Final gameAugust 10, 1929

Seasons14 (1915–1929)

Cincinnati Reds 1915–1916; St. Louis Browns 1918–1927; Boston Red Sox 1928–1929

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

133

68.8

515

62.3

462

62.8

58.8

140

67.8

69.3

18.6

77.9

RBI

76.4

68.3

39.2

40.2

.303

56.3

OBP

.356

46.7

SLG

.413

49.7

OPS

.769

51.3

wRC+

101.6

47.7

OPS+

102.1

49.7

wOBA

.355

47.7

sWAR

1.2

51.3

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

135.8

94.1

OPS+

136.7

94.3

sWAR

37.8

97.6

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
1915	71	243	219	22	53	10	4	0	16	15	20	4	3	.242	.297	.324	.621	83.5	85.5	.299	0.0
1916	10	29	27	1	3	0	0	0	1	2	5	1	0	.111	.172	.111	.284	-21.1	-12.1	.150	-0.4
1918	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	143.5	52.0	.391	0.0
1919	65	266	227	32	68	10	5	6	35	26	25	7	0	.300	.376	.467	.843	132.7	131.8	.396	2.1
1920	141	592	521	90	160	34	13	10	72	41	26	18	8	.307	.362	.480	.842	115.8	118.1	.387	2.7
1921	146	646	547	115	190	31	7	24	117	74	42	20	17	.347	.429	.561	.990	145.0	144.9	.448	5.0
1922	153	678	585	128	194	34	11	39	155	74	31	37	20	.332	.413	.627	1.040	162.1	164.5	.462	7.0
1923	147	646	555	106	198	37	12	29	91	79	32	18	17	.357	.439	.623	1.062	169.9	171.6	.480	7.1
1924	114	479	398	78	129	21	4	18	84	69	17	20	11	.324	.425	.533	.958	144.5	144.9	.443	3.7
1925	102	462	411	83	136	31	5	25	105	37	14	10	5	.331	.390	.613	1.003	139.4	144.5	.447	3.3
1926	108	401	347	55	97	15	7	17	74	39	23	5	4	.280	.354	.510	.864	113.4	116.9	.393	1.5
1927	131	496	423	70	136	23	6	17	74	57	30	9	7	.322	.403	.525	.928	133.3	134.1	.424	3.2
1928	133	515	462	59	140	25	1	8	67	37	15	4	9	.303	.356	.413	.769	101.6	102.1	.355	1.2
1929	74	161	139	21	48	14	2	3	21	15	7	1	5	.345	.409	.540	.949	143.3	144.5	.426	1.4

Career totals

1,397

5,616

4,862

860

1,552

285

309th-most career 3B

196

401st-most career HR

RBI

913

396th-most career RBI

566

287

154

.3192

66th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3933

97th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5304

54th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9237

53rd-highest career OPS

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
1922-04-22	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	6	0	12
1925-06-05	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	4	0	11
1923-08-05	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	1	3	1	10
1924-05-03	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	3	0	9
1927-05-16	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	3	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1915-04-18	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.