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Ken Harrelson

Kenneth Smith Harrelson (Hawk)

Positions: First Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: September 4, 1941 in Woodruff, SC
High School: Benedictine (Savannah, GA)
Signed by the Kansas City Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1959. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 9, 1963
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Indians/RedSox/Senators 1963-1971

Final Game: June 20, 1971
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Ted Williams… #3. Willie Mays… #4. Ty Cobb… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Rogers Hornsby… #7. Stan Musial… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1963 21 KCA AL 79 253 226 16 52 10 1 6 23 1 1 23 58 .230 .299 .363 .662 80 82 10 0 2 2 3 37
1964 22 KCA AL 49 152 139 15 27 5 0 7 12 0 1 13 34 .194 .263 .381 .644 74 53 6 0 0 0 0 73
1965 23 KCA AL 150 556 483 61 115 17 3 23 66 9 7 66 112 .238 .329 .429 .758 115 207 18 1 3 3 3 *3/79
1966 24 TOT AL 134 519 460 49 109 13 1 12 50 13 3 53 112 .237 .317 .348 .665 93 160 11 1 5 0 5 *3/7
1966 24 KCA AL 63 238 210 24 47 5 0 5 22 9 2 27 59 .224 .312 .319 .631 85 67 3 0 1 0 3 3/7
1966 24 WSA AL 71 281 250 25 62 8 1 7 28 4 1 26 53 .248 .321 .372 .693 100 93 8 1 4 0 2 3
1967 25 TOT AL 110 368 333 42 85 15 1 12 54 10 3 29 44 .255 .311 .414 .725 113 138 8 0 1 5 4 39
1967 25 WSA AL 26 89 79 10 16 0 0 3 10 1 0 7 15 .203 .261 .316 .578 73 25 3 0 1 2 1 3
1967 25 KCA AL 61 194 174 23 53 11 0 6 30 8 2 17 17 .305 .361 .471 .832 148 82 3 0 0 3 1 3
1967 25 BOS AL 23 85 80 9 16 4 1 3 14 1 1 5 12 .200 .247 .388 .635 79 31 2 0 0 0 2 9/3
1968 26 BOS AL 150 612 535 79 147 17 4 35 109 2 6 69 90 .275 .356 .518 .874 154 277 18 2 0 6 9 *93 AS,MVP-3
1969 27 TOT AL 159 672 565 89 125 14 4 30 92 17 9 99 102 .221 .336 .419 .756 108 237 19 2 0 6 6 *93/7
1969 27 BOS AL 10 51 46 6 10 1 0 3 8 0 1 4 6 .217 .275 .435 .709 91 20 1 0 0 1 0 3
1969 27 CLE AL 149 621 519 83 115 13 4 27 84 17 8 95 96 .222 .341 .418 .759 109 217 18 2 0 5 6 *93/7
1970 28 CLE AL 17 45 39 3 11 1 0 1 1 0 0 6 4 .282 .378 .385 .762 108 15 1 0 0 0 0 3
1971 29 CLE AL 52 187 161 20 32 2 0 5 14 1 0 24 21 .199 .301 .304 .605 66 49 4 0 1 1 3 3/79
9 Seasons 900 3364 2941 374 703 94 14 131 421 53 30 382 577 .239 .325 .414 .740 109 1218 95 6 12 23 33
162 Game Avg. 162 606 529 67 127 17 3 24 76 10 5 69 104 .239 .325 .414 .740 109 219 17 1 2 4 6
KCA (5 yrs) 402 1393 1232 139 294 48 4 47 153 27 13 146 280 .239 .318 .399 .716 103 491 40 1 6 8 10
BOS (3 yrs) 183 748 661 94 173 22 5 41 131 3 8 78 108 .262 .338 .496 .834 141 328 21 2 0 7 11
CLE (3 yrs) 218 853 719 106 158 16 4 33 99 18 8 125 121 .220 .335 .391 .725 100 281 23 2 1 6 9
WSA (2 yrs) 97 370 329 35 78 8 1 10 38 5 1 33 68 .237 .307 .359 .666 94 118 11 1 5 2 3

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1963 21 KCA AL 253 -6 0 -1 -1 -8 -4 7 -12 -1.3 -5 -0.5 -0.8 $ 37
1964 22 KCA AL 152 -5 -1 -1 -1 2 -2 4 -4 -0.5 -6 -0.6 0.1 $ 73
1965 23 KCA AL 556 6 1 -1 -2 -2 -8 16 10 1.0 12 1.3 -0.3 $8,000 *3/79
1966 24 KCA AL 238 -4 1 0 -1 -0 -4 7 -1 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $ 3/7
1966 24 WSA AL 281 -1 1 0 -1 -1 -5 8 1 0.1 2 0.2 -0.1 $12,000 3
1967 25 WSA AL 89 -2 0 2 -1 -0 -1 2 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ 3
1967 25 KCA AL 194 10 1 1 0 -3 -3 6 12 1.4 15 1.6 -0.2 $12,000 3
1967 25 BOS AL 85 -3 0 1 0 -4 -1 2 -4 -0.4 -1 -0.1 -0.3 $ 9/3
1968 26 BOS AL 612 35 -1 1 -2 -0 -9 17 41 5.0 41 4.9 0.1 $35,000 *93 AS,MVP-3
1969 27 BOS AL 51 -1 0 0 0 1 -1 1 0 0.0 -1 -0.1 0.1 $ 3
1969 27 CLE AL 621 6 2 1 -2 -6 -9 17 9 1.0 15 1.7 -0.7 $50,000 *93/7
1970 28 CLE AL 45 0 0 0 0 0 -1 2 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $75,000 3
1971 29 CLE AL 187 -7 0 2 0 -2 -3 6 -3 -0.4 -2 -0.2 -0.2 $68,000 3/79
9 Seasons 3364 28 4 5 -11 -23 -51 95 50 5.8 70 8.2 -2.4 $260,000
KCA (5 yrs) 1393 1 2 -2 -5 -12 -21 40 5 0.4 15 1.7 -1.3 $20,000
BOS (3 yrs) 748 31 -1 2 -2 -3 -11 20 37 4.6 39 4.7 -0.1 $35,000
CLE (3 yrs) 853 -1 2 3 -2 -7 -13 25 7 0.7 14 1.6 -0.9 $193,000
WSA (2 yrs) 370 -3 1 2 -2 -1 -6 10 1 0.1 2 0.2 -0.1 $12,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1967 25 BOS AL WS STL L 4 14 13 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 .077 .143 .077 .220 1 1 0 0 0 0
1 WS 4 14 13 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 .077 .143 .077 .220 1 1 0 0 0 0

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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 Awards
1963 KCA AL 21 1B 34 31 31 290.2 305 283 16 6 24 .980 -5 -21 9.26 8.79 .990 9.48 9.49
1963 KCA AL 21 LF 28 26 22 241.2 45 43 1 1 0 .978 -2 -12 1.64 1.57 .976 1.90 1.90
1963 KCA AL 21 OF 28 26 22 241.2 45 43 1 1 0 .978 -2 -12 1.64 1.57 .981 2.16 2.16
1964 KCA AL 22 LF 24 21 12 182.0 43 40 2 1 0 .977 1 9 2.08 1.75 .975 1.81 1.80
1964 KCA AL 22 OF 24 21 12 182.0 43 40 2 1 0 .977 1 9 2.08 1.75 .980 2.04 2.03
1964 KCA AL 22 1B 15 9 9 109.1 118 105 13 0 14 1.000 0 5 9.71 7.87 .991 9.43 9.41
1965 KCA AL 23 1B 125 123 96 1051.0 1123 1044 70 9 93 .992 -2 -3 9.54 8.91 .991 9.56 9.53
1965 KCA AL 23 OF 4 3 1 25.0 7 5 1 1 0 .857 -0 -10 2.16 1.50 .979 2.05 2.02
1965 KCA AL 23 LF 3 2 1 17.0 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 0 35 2.12 1.33 .980 1.85 1.87
1965 KCA AL 23 RF 1 1 0 8.0 3 1 1 1 0 .667 -1 -105 2.25 2.00 .977 1.80 1.80
1966 TOT AL 24 1B 128 126 112 1113.0 1226 1126 86 14 95 .989 -1 -1 9.80 9.47 .991 9.59 9.58
1966 KCA AL 24 1B 58 58 47 500.2 541 485 48 8 42 .985 -0 -1 9.58 9.19 .991 9.59 9.58
1966 KCA AL 24 LF 3 2 2 17.1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 28 1.56 1.00 .980 1.82 1.83
1966 KCA AL 24 OF 3 2 2 17.1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 0 28 1.56 1.00 .983 2.08 2.10
1966 WSA AL 24 1B 70 68 65 612.1 685 641 38 6 53 .991 -1 -1 9.98 9.70 .991 9.59 9.58
1967 TOT AL 25 1B 69 62 53 559.2 596 551 41 4 38 .993 -4 -9 9.52 8.58 .991 9.53 9.55
1967 WSA AL 25 1B 23 21 16 190.2 232 215 16 1 17 .996 -0 -3 10.90 10.04 .991 9.53 9.55
1967 KCA AL 25 1B 45 41 37 367.0 361 333 25 3 21 .992 -3 -11 8.78 7.96 .991 9.53 9.55
1967 BOS AL 25 OF 23 22 8 178.0 28 25 1 2 0 .929 -3 -22 1.31 1.13 .980 2.05 2.06
1967 BOS AL 25 RF 23 22 8 178.0 29 26 1 2 0 .931 -3 -22 1.37 1.17 .981 1.82 1.82
1967 BOS AL 25 1B 1 0 0 2.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -180 13.50 3.00 .990 9.45 9.60
1968 BOS AL 26 OF 132 127 114 1138.0 249 241 8 0 1 1.000 0 1 1.97 1.89 .981 2.08 2.07 AS,MVP-3
1968 BOS AL 26 RF 132 127 114 1138.0 246 238 8 0 1 1.000 0 1 1.95 1.86 .977 1.88 1.87 AS,MVP-3
1968 BOS AL 26 1B 19 17 13 137.0 147 135 9 3 9 .980 -1 -9 9.46 7.58 .989 9.59 9.54 AS,MVP-3
1969 TOT AL 27 1B 26 13 13 148.1 161 145 15 1 21 .994 1 6 9.71 6.15 .992 9.62 9.62
1969 BOS AL 27 1B 10 10 10 102.0 117 105 11 1 15 .991 1 9 10.24 11.60 .992 9.63 9.62
1969 CLE AL 27 OF 144 143 117 1237.0 268 257 7 4 2 .985 -6 -6 1.92 1.83 .978 2.13 2.13
1969 CLE AL 27 RF 137 136 111 1176.0 258 248 7 3 2 .988 -6 -6 1.95 1.86 .974 1.91 1.91
1969 CLE AL 27 1B 16 3 3 46.1 44 40 4 0 6 1.000 0 0 8.55 2.75 .992 9.62 9.62
1969 CLE AL 27 LF 7 7 6 61.0 14 13 0 1 0 .929 0 0 1.92 1.86 .978 1.99 1.99
1970 CLE AL 28 1B 13 13 4 86.0 87 80 7 0 15 1.000 0 3 9.10 6.69 .991 9.59 9.56
1971 CLE AL 29 1B 40 39 29 332.2 338 311 23 4 29 .988 -1 -4 9.04 8.35 .992 9.59 9.53
1971 CLE AL 29 OF 7 7 1 43.0 9 9 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -14 1.88 1.29 .982 2.24 2.21
1971 CLE AL 29 LF 5 5 1 31.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -8 2.03 1.40 .981 1.92 1.92
1971 CLE AL 29 RF 2 2 0 12.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -30 1.50 1.00 .980 2.03 2.05
9 Seasons 1B 469 433 360 3827.2 4101 3780 280 41 338 .990 -13 -4 9.55 8.66 .991 9.56 9.55
8 Seasons OF 365 351 277 3062.0 652 623 20 9 3 .986 -10 -4 1.89 1.76 .980 2.10 2.10
5 Seasons RF 295 288 233 2512.0 538 515 17 6 3 .989 -10 -5 1.91 1.80 .976 1.89 1.89
6 Seasons LF 70 63 44 550.0 116 110 3 3 0 .974 -0 -1 1.85 1.61 .976 1.88 1.87
9 Seasons TOT 834 784 637 6889.2 4753 4403 300 50 341 .989 -23 -4 6.14 5.64 .989 6.25 6.29
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1968 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1968 AL (3, 37%)
0.37 Career Shares (534th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1968 AL  5.0 (9th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1968 AL  4.9 (7th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1968 AL  .275 (9th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1968 AL  .356 (9th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1968 AL  .518 (3rd)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1968 AL  .874 (4th)

Games Played s c a p y
1969 AL  159 (7th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1968 AL  79 (8th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1968 AL  277 (3rd)

Home Runs s c a p y
1965 AL  23 (9th)
1968 AL  35 (3rd)
1969 AL  30 (9th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1968 AL  109 (1st)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1969 AL  99 (6th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1965 AL  112 (6th)
1966 AL  112 (6th)
1969 AL  102 (7th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1968 AL  154 (4th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1968 AL  94 (4th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1968 AL  36 (4th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1968 AL  4.0 (4th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1968 AL  56 (7th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1968 AL  218 (8th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1968 AL  .730 (6th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1968 AL  6 (5th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1968 AL  9 (10th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1965 AL  18 (6th)
1968 AL  18 (3rd)
1969 AL  19 (6th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1965 AL  7 (8th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1965 AL  12.9 (10th)
1966 AL  12.5 (8th)
1967 AL  10.9 (9th)
1969 AL  21.7 (3rd)

AB per HR s c a p y
1965 AL  21.0 (6th)
1968 AL  15.3 (3rd)
Career  22.5 (197th)

Outs Made s c a p y
1969 AL  474 (7th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1968 AL  33.27 (8th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1968 AL  5.6 (2nd)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1968 AL  3.6 (6th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1968 AL  3.6 (8th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1965 AL  1,049 (5th)
1966 AL  1,129 (3rd)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1965 AL  125 (4th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1965 AL  1,044 (3rd)
1966 AL  1,126 (3rd)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1966 AL  86 (4th)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1965 AL  9 (2nd)
1966 AL  14 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1966 AL  9.80 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1965 AL  8.91 (4th)
1966 AL  9.47 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1968 AL  1.95 (4th)
1969 AL  1.95 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1968 AL  1.86 (4th)
1969 AL  1.86 (3rd)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1968 AL  1.000 (1st)
1969 AL  .988 (2nd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
1968 AL  1.000 (1st)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 4 (421), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 29 (805), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 14 (998), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 7 (1931), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  5. Pete Incaviglia (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. John Milner (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. John Milner (951)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
196523Kansas City Athletics$8,000P. Golenbock, Fenway, p. 300
196624Washington Senators$12,000Noll/Fort/Hylan database
196725Kansas City Athletics$12,000Noll/Fort/Hylan database
196826Boston Red Sox$35,000Noll/Fort/Hylan database
196927Cleveland Indians$50,000Noll/Fort/Hylan database
197028Cleveland Indians$75,000Noll/Fort/Hylan database
197129Cleveland Indians$68,0003/20/71 TSN3/13/71 TSN: $68,000
Career to date (may be incomplete)$260,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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