Kenny Lofton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMay 31, 1967 · East Chicago, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1991

Final gameSeptember 29, 2007

Seasons17 (1991–2007)

Houston Astros 1991; Cleveland Indians 1992–1996; Atlanta Braves 1997; Cleveland Indians 1998–2001; Chicago White Sox 2002; San Francisco Giants 2002; Chicago Cubs 2003; Pittsburgh Pirates 2003; New York Yankees 2004; Philadelphia Phillies 2005; Los Angeles Dodgers 2006; Cleveland Indians 2007; Texas Rangers 2007

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified batters

136

17.4

559

490

19.9

57.8

145

40.4

19.3

83.2

9.3

RBI

2.5

53.4

92.5

81.4

11.8

.296

70.2

OBP

.367

SLG

.414

22.4

OPS

.781

36.6

wRC+

107.4

47.2

OPS+

104.4

40.4

wOBA

.353

49.1

sWAR

2.3

40.4

of 162 qualified 2007 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.3

62.1

OPS+

107.5

57.6

sWAR

45.3

98.5

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
1991	20	79	74	9	15	1	0	0	0	5	19	2	1	.203	.253	.216	.469	36.8	36.9	.228	-0.3
1992	148	651	576	96	164	15	8	5	42	68	54	66	12	.285	.362	.365	.726	110.9	106.3	.342	3.3
1993	148	657	569	116	185	28	8	1	42	81	83	70	14	.325	.408	.408	.815	126.0	120.9	.377	4.6
1994	112	523	459	105	160	32	9	12	57	52	56	60	12	.349	.412	.536	.948	146.1	147.0	.414	4.8
1995	118	529	481	93	149	22	13	7	53	40	49	54	15	.310	.362	.453	.815	110.4	111.6	.360	2.6
1996	154	736	662	132	210	35	4	14	67	61	82	75	17	.317	.372	.446	.817	109.0	107.8	.363	3.5
1997	122	564	493	90	164	20	6	5	48	64	83	27	20	.333	.409	.428	.837	124.4	119.5	.380	3.8
1998	154	698	600	101	169	31	6	12	64	87	80	54	10	.282	.371	.413	.785	106.5	102.7	.353	3.2
1999	120	560	465	110	140	28	6	7	39	79	84	25	6	.301	.405	.432	.838	116.5	111.4	.379	3.1
2000	137	640	543	107	151	23	5	15	73	79	72	30	7	.278	.369	.422	.791	100.1	98.2	.353	2.3
2001	133	576	517	91	135	21	4	14	66	47	69	16	8	.261	.322	.398	.721	87.9	87.5	.319	1.3
2002	139	611	532	98	139	30	9	11	51	72	73	29	11	.261	.350	.414	.763	106.8	102.6	.344	2.8
2003	140	610	547	97	162	32	8	12	46	46	51	30	9	.296	.352	.450	.801	108.6	108.0	.353	2.9
2004	83	313	276	51	76	10	7	3	18	31	27	7	3	.275	.346	.395	.741	96.1	94.6	.330	0.9
2005	110	406	367	67	123	15	5	2	36	32	41	22	3	.335	.392	.420	.811	115.9	110.8	.366	2.3
2006	129	522	469	79	141	15	12	3	41	45	42	32	5	.301	.360	.403	.763	99.7	96.3	.342	1.8
2007	136	559	490	86	145	25	6	7	38	56	51	23	7	.296	.367	.414	.781	107.4	104.4	.353	2.3

Career totals

2,103

193rd-most career G

9,234

140th-most career PA

8,120

142nd-most career AB

1,528

64th-most career R

2,428

122nd-most career H

383

242nd-most career 2B

116

109th-most career 3B

130

RBI

781

945

152nd-most career BB

1,016

379th-most career SO

622

15th-most career SB

.2990

236th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3716

266th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4228

OPS

.7944

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
1995-06-05	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1996-08-02	BAL @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	2	0	9
1993-04-16	TOR @ CLE Gameday	5	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	9
1992-08-03	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	1	3	1	9
1997-04-18	ATL @ COL Gameday	6	4	5	0	0	1	2	0	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.

Honors

4× Gold Glove6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.