Ken Hamlin

Kenneth Lee Hamlin

Positions: Shortstop and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: May 18, 1935 in Detroit, MI
School: Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1957. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 17, 1957
Teams (by GP): Senators/Athletics/Angels/Pirates 1957-1966

Final Game: September 26, 1966
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Standard Fielding

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1957	PIT	NL	22	SS	1	0	0	1.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	0	18.00	2.00	.960	4.50	4.80
1959	PIT	NL	24	SS	3	2	2	16.2	10	4	6	0	2	1.000	0	7	5.40	3.33	.966	5.13	5.07
1960	KCA	AL	25	SS	139	127	110	1129.2	561	195	341	25	61	.955	-16	-17	4.27	3.86	.960	5.11	5.10
1961	LAA	AL	26	SS	39	30	19	257.2	162	63	93	6	25	.963	4	21	5.45	4.00	.956	4.84	4.78
1962	WSA	AL	27	SS	87	74	64	666.2	349	126	210	13	47	.963	4	7	4.54	3.86	.962	4.84	4.83
1962	WSA	AL	27	2B	2	0	0	4.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-90	0.00	0.00		5.18	5.25
1965	WSA	AL	30	2B	77	62	43	540.1	290	145	138	7	31	.976	-10	-22	4.71	3.68	.978	5.07	5.06
1965	WSA	AL	30	SS	47	31	12	256.1	117	40	72	5	14	.957	-2	-7	3.93	2.38	.962	4.74	4.73
1965	WSA	AL	30	3B	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		2.70	3.10
1966	WSA	AL	31	2B	50	40	34	356.0	216	90	118	8	28	.963	5	16	5.26	4.16	.975	5.09	5.09
1966	WSA	AL	31	3B	1	0	0	5.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	0	24	5.40	3.00	.953	3.06	3.00
	6 Seasons			SS	316	264	207	2328.0	1201	430	722	49	149	.959	-9	-5	4.45	3.65	.960	4.96	4.93
	3 Seasons			2B	129	102	77	900.1	506	235	256	15	59	.970	-5	-7	4.91	3.81	.977	5.08	5.07
	2 Seasons			3B	2	0	0	6.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	0	20	4.50	1.50	.953	3.00	3.05
	7 Seasons			TOT	447	366	284	3234.1	1710	666	980	64	208	.963	-14	-5	4.58	3.68	.965	4.99	4.96

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Sabermetric Fielding

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzhm	Rtzrd	Rdp
1957	PIT	NL	22	SS	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959	PIT	NL	24	SS	0	7	0	0	0	0
1960	KCA	AL	25	SS	-16	-17	-13	4	-17	-3
1961	LAA	AL	26	SS	4	21	4	-1	5	0
1962	WSA	AL	27	SS	4	7	2	-1	3	2
1962	WSA	AL	27	2B	-0	-90	-0	0	-0	0
1965	WSA	AL	30	2B	-10	-22	-9	-5	-4	-1
1965	WSA	AL	30	SS	-2	-7	-2	-1	-1	0
1965	WSA	AL	30	3B	0	0	0	0	0
1966	WSA	AL	31	2B	5	16	3	4	-1	2
1966	WSA	AL	31	3B	0	24	0	0	0	0
	6 Seasons			SS	-9	-5	-8	2	-10	-1
	3 Seasons			2B	-5	-7	-6	-1	-5	1
	2 Seasons			3B	0	20	0	0	0	0
	7 Seasons			TOT	-14	-5	-14	0	-15	0

Appearances

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	G	GS	Batting	Defense	2B	3B	SS	PH	PR
1957	PIT	NL	22	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	1	1
1959	PIT	NL	24	3	2	3	2	0	0	2	0	1
1960	KCA	AL	25	140	127	140	139	0	0	139	1	1
1961	LAA	AL	26	42	30	42	39	0	0	39	2	5
1962	WSA	AL	27	98	74	98	89	2	0	87	6	9
1965	WSA	AL	30	117	93	117	106	77	1	47	11	5
1966	WSA	AL	31	66	40	66	50	50	1	0	21	2
	7 Seasons			468	366	468	426	129	2	315	42	24

Appearances table is calculated solely from full RetroSheet play-by-play data available from 1973 on. A combination of RetroSheet (starting with the 1918 season) and non-RetroSheet data is used for other seasons.

Advanced Fielding -- SS*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	643	63	463	163	363	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1957	PIT	NL	22	3	33%	100%	33%	2	100%	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959	PIT	NL	24	79	53%	84%	27%	7	100%	0	4	2	2	0	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
1960	KCA	AL	25	4909	67%	82%	26%	466	89%	1	191	106	71	15	345	245	91	0	6	25	1	18	6	19	61	33	2	19	3	0	58	35	22	3	2	0
1961	LAA	AL	26	1110	66%	75%	26%	118	92%	1	62	27	31	4	91	66	22	0	2	6	0	5	1	5	25	10	3	6	2	0	21	13	8	3	0	3
1962	WSA	AL	27	2797	65%	80%	26%	293	91%	1	123	75	37	12	212	148	59	0	0	13	0	11	2	12	47	24	1	11	0	4	41	26	15	5	2	3
1965	WSA	AL	30	1089	68%	80%	23%	102	88%	0	39	22	13	4	75	56	14	0	2	5	0	4	1	4	14	7	1	2	1	0	12	8	3	2	2	0
	6 Seasons			9987	66%	80%	26%	988	90%	3	421	234	154	35	730	522	186	0	10	49	1	38	10	40	149	74	7	40	6	4	134	82	50	13	6	6
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	28%		91%

Advanced Fielding -- 2B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	643	543	463	43	GB	GBs	GBr	LD	LDs	LDf
1962	WSA	AL	27	18	50%	83%	17%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1965	WSA	AL	30	2368	62%	78%	23%	188	91%	0	150	56	66	28	136	102	31	0	1	7	1	4	2	5	32	7	10	9	2	32	13	19	0	0	0
1966	WSA	AL	31	1461	66%	82%	27%	150	93%	0	91	36	39	16	119	97	20	0	1	8	1	5	2	5	28	12	4	8	4	28	12	16	0	0	0
	3 Seasons			3847	63%	79%	25%	338	92%	0	241	92	105	44	255	199	51	0	2	15	2	9	4	10	60	19	14	17	6	60	25	35	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	28%		93%

Advanced Fielding -- 3B*

											Putouts				Assists					Errors					Double Plays
Year	Tm	Lg	Age	PA	RHB%	BIP%	GBIP%	Fld	F2O%	FC	Tot	Cgt	Frc	Tag	Tot	1B	2B	Hm	Rly	Tot	Cch	Fld	Thr	ROE	Tot	543	53	GB	LD	LDs	LDf	bFld	bF2O%
1965	WSA	AL	30	3	33%	33%	33%	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966	WSA	AL	31	23	65%	83%	39%	3	100%	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2 Seasons			26	62%	77%	38%	3	100%	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	MLB Averages				63%	80%	28%		89%																								62%

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Def. Games as SS s c a p y 1960 AL 139 (3rd)	Errors Committed as SS s c a p y 1960 AL 25 (4th)	Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y 1961 AL 5 (4th) 1962 AL 4 (4th)	Fielding % as SS s c a p y 1960 AL .955 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1960 AL 139 (3rd)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1960 AL 25 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1961 AL 5 (4th)
1962 AL 4 (4th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1960 AL .955 (5th)

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