Ken Williams
Chicago White Sox 1986–1988; Detroit Tigers 1989–1990; Toronto Blue Jays 1990; Montreal Expos 1991; Toronto Blue Jays 1991
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 15 | 33 | 31 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | .129 | .182 | .226 | .408 | 3.1 | 9.4 | .189 | -0.3 |
| 1987 | 116 | 414 | 391 | 48 | 110 | 18 | 2 | 11 | 50 | 10 | 83 | 21 | 10 | .281 | .314 | .422 | .736 | 91.2 | 91.6 | .323 | 1.1 |
| 1988 | 73 | 243 | 220 | 18 | 35 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 28 | 10 | 64 | 6 | 5 | .159 | .221 | .305 | .525 | 43.0 | 46.2 | .241 | -0.9 |
| 1989 | 94 | 285 | 258 | 29 | 53 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 23 | 18 | 63 | 9 | 4 | .205 | .269 | .302 | .571 | 62.1 | 62.3 | .269 | -0.6 |
| 1990 | 106 | 169 | 155 | 23 | 25 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 10 | 42 | 9 | 4 | .161 | .219 | .226 | .445 | 19.5 | 25.2 | .213 | -1.5 |
| 1991 | 47 | 109 | 99 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 27 | 3 | 1 | .253 | .312 | .394 | .706 | 98.6 | 97.7 | .323 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991-06-07 | WSH @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1987-06-02 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1988-04-04 | LAA @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1987-05-26 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1987-09-17 | SEA @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 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.