Steve Kemp
Detroit Tigers 1977–1981; Chicago White Sox 1982; New York Yankees 1983–1984; Pittsburgh Pirates 1985–1986; Texas Rangers 1988
Percentile snapshot
1982 season — qualified batters
of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 151 | 636 | 552 | 75 | 142 | 29 | 4 | 18 | 88 | 71 | 93 | 3 | 3 | .257 | .343 | .422 | .765 | 106.6 | 103.7 | .347 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 159 | 686 | 582 | 75 | 161 | 18 | 4 | 15 | 79 | 97 | 87 | 2 | 3 | .277 | .379 | .399 | .778 | 124.5 | 117.8 | .364 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 134 | 570 | 490 | 88 | 156 | 26 | 3 | 26 | 105 | 68 | 70 | 5 | 6 | .318 | .398 | .543 | .941 | 150.7 | 149.3 | .415 | 4.8 |
| 1980 | 135 | 591 | 508 | 88 | 149 | 23 | 3 | 21 | 101 | 69 | 64 | 5 | 1 | .293 | .376 | .474 | .851 | 133.4 | 131.2 | .383 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 105 | 447 | 372 | 52 | 103 | 18 | 4 | 9 | 49 | 70 | 48 | 9 | 3 | .277 | .389 | .419 | .809 | 137.1 | 131.3 | .376 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 160 | 679 | 580 | 91 | 166 | 23 | 1 | 19 | 98 | 89 | 83 | 7 | 7 | .286 | .381 | .428 | .808 | 125.6 | 123.0 | .364 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 109 | 419 | 373 | 53 | 90 | 17 | 3 | 12 | 49 | 41 | 37 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .318 | .399 | .718 | 100.5 | 100.3 | .323 | 0.9 |
| 1984 | 94 | 361 | 313 | 37 | 91 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 41 | 40 | 54 | 4 | 1 | .291 | .369 | .403 | .771 | 123.0 | 118.5 | .354 | 1.7 |
| 1985 | 92 | 266 | 236 | 19 | 59 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 25 | 54 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .317 | .347 | .664 | 88.1 | 86.9 | .310 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | 20 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .188 | .350 | .375 | .725 | 108.6 | 98.3 | .348 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 16 | 39 | 36 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .222 | .256 | .222 | .479 | 30.1 | 34.4 | .226 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-08-26 | SEA @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1980-04-19 | KC @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 1977-08-19 | DET @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 1979-05-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 1982-08-20 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.