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Kent Hrbek

Kent Allen Hrbek

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: May 21, 1960 in Minneapolis, MN
High School: Kennedy (Bloomington, MN)
Drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 17th round of the 1978 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 24, 1981
Team: Twins 1981-1994
Agents: Ron Simon [*]
Final Game: August 10, 1994
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 5:09PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #306. Jim Fregosi… #307. Carney Lansford… #308. Larry Doyle… #309. KENT HRBEK… #310. Toby Harrah… #311. Torii Hunter… #312. Tommy Henrich… 

Standard Batting

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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
1981 21 MIN AL 24 73 67 5 16 5 0 1 7 0 0 5 9 .239 .301 .358 .660 85 24 0 1 0 0 1 3
1982 22 MIN AL 140 591 532 82 160 21 4 23 92 3 1 54 80 .301 .363 .485 .848 129 258 17 0 1 4 12 *3 AS,RoY-2
1983 23 MIN AL 141 582 515 75 153 41 5 16 84 4 6 57 71 .297 .366 .489 .855 130 252 12 3 0 7 5 *3
1984 24 MIN AL 149 635 559 80 174 31 3 27 107 1 1 65 87 .311 .383 .522 .906 144 292 17 4 1 6 15 *3 MVP-2
1985 25 MIN AL 158 666 593 78 165 31 2 21 93 1 1 67 87 .278 .351 .444 .795 112 263 12 2 0 4 12 *3
1986 26 MIN AL 149 634 550 85 147 27 1 29 91 2 2 71 81 .267 .353 .478 .831 122 263 15 6 0 7 9 *3
1987 27 MIN AL 143 566 477 85 136 20 1 34 90 5 2 84 60 .285 .389 .545 .934 142 260 13 0 0 5 12 *3 MVP-16
1988 28 MIN AL 143 586 510 75 159 31 0 25 76 0 3 67 54 .312 .387 .520 .907 149 265 9 0 2 7 7 3
1989 29 MIN AL 109 434 375 59 102 17 0 25 84 3 0 53 35 .272 .360 .517 .878 138 194 6 1 1 4 4 3
1990 30 MIN AL 143 578 492 61 141 26 0 22 79 5 2 69 45 .287 .377 .474 .850 131 233 17 7 2 8 8 *3/5
1991 31 MIN AL 132 534 462 72 131 20 1 20 89 4 4 67 48 .284 .373 .461 .834 126 213 15 0 3 2 4 *3
1992 32 MIN AL 112 470 394 52 96 20 0 15 58 5 2 71 56 .244 .357 .409 .765 112 161 12 0 2 3 9 3
1993 33 MIN AL 123 471 392 60 95 11 1 25 83 4 2 71 57 .242 .357 .467 .824 121 183 12 1 3 4 6 *3
1994 34 MIN AL 81 317 274 34 74 11 0 10 53 0 0 37 28 .270 .353 .420 .773 99 115 8 1 0 5 6 3
14 Seasons 1747 7137 6192 903 1749 312 18 293 1086 37 26 838 798 .282 .367 .481 .848 128 2976 165 26 15 66 110
162 Game Avg. 162 662 574 84 162 29 2 27 101 3 2 78 74 .282 .367 .481 .848 128 276 15 2 1 6 10

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
1981 21 MIN AL 73 -1 0 0 0 0 -2 2 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ 3
1982 22 MIN AL 591 15 1 0 0 5 -9 18 30 3.1 25 2.6 0.5 $40,000 *3 AS,RoY-2
1983 23 MIN AL 582 21 -1 3 1 -5 -9 18 28 2.9 33 3.4 -0.5 $110,000 *3
1984 24 MIN AL 635 32 0 0 -1 12 -10 19 52 5.4 40 4.1 1.3 $375,000 *3 MVP-2
1985 25 MIN AL 666 7 2 0 2 3 -10 20 24 2.5 21 2.1 0.4 $560,000 *3
1986 26 MIN AL 634 16 0 -1 1 -1 -9 19 25 2.5 26 2.6 -0.1 $1,060,000 *3
1987 27 MIN AL 566 32 -1 0 0 1 -9 18 41 4.0 40 4.0 0.0 $1,310,000 *3 MVP-16
1988 28 MIN AL 586 32 -2 1 0 1 -10 18 40 4.2 39 4.0 0.2 $1,410,000 3
1989 29 MIN AL 434 18 0 -1 1 8 -7 14 33 3.4 25 2.6 0.8 $1,560,000 3
1990 30 MIN AL 578 21 -1 -3 -2 -7 -10 20 19 2.0 25 2.6 -0.6 $2,100,000 *3/5
1991 31 MIN AL 534 15 2 -3 -1 -0 -8 19 24 2.4 24 2.4 0.0 $2,600,000 *3
1992 32 MIN AL 470 6 0 -3 -1 2 -7 16 14 1.4 11 1.1 0.3 $3,100,000 3
1993 33 MIN AL 471 10 0 -4 -1 4 -7 16 18 1.8 14 1.4 0.4 $3,100,000 *3
1994 34 MIN AL 317 0 0 -1 0 -7 -5 11 -2 -0.2 5 0.5 -0.7 $3,100,000 3
14 Seasons 7137 224 0 -12 -1 16 -112 228 345 35.3 327 33.3 2.0 $20,425,000

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
1987 27 MIN AL ALCS DET W 5 23 20 4 3 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 .150 .261 .300 .561 6 1 0 0 0 2
1987 27 MIN AL WS STL W 7 29 24 4 5 0 0 1 6 0 0 5 3 .208 .345 .333 .678 8 0 0 0 0 1
1991 31 MIN AL ALCS TOR W 5 22 21 0 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 3 .143 .182 .143 .325 3 1 0 0 0 0
1991 31 MIN AL WS ATL W 7 29 26 2 3 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 6 .115 .207 .269 .476 7 1 1 0 0 1
2 Seasons (4 Series) 24 103 91 10 14 1 0 3 12 0 0 11 12 .154 .252 .264 .516 24 3 1 0 0 4
2 ALCS 10 45 41 4 6 0 0 1 4 0 0 4 3 .146 .222 .220 .442 9 2 0 0 0 2
2 WS 14 58 50 6 8 1 0 2 8 0 0 7 9 .160 .276 .300 .576 15 1 1 0 0 2

Standard Fielding

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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
1981 MIN AL 21 1B 13 128 124 4 0 14 1.000 0 9.85 .993 10.03
1981 MIN AL 21 DH 6 6
1982 MIN AL 22 1B 138 1271 1174 88 9 125 .993 5 9.14 .992 9.81 AS,RoY-2
1982 MIN AL 22 DH 1 1 AS,RoY-2
1983 MIN AL 23 1B 137 1253 1151 89 13 125 .990 -5 9.05 .992 9.82
1983 MIN AL 23 DH 2 2
1984 MIN AL 24 1B 148 1433 1320 99 14 113 .990 12 9.59 .991 9.68 MVP-2
1984 MIN AL 24 DH 1 1 MVP-2
1985 MIN AL 25 1B 156 1461 1339 114 8 114 .995 3 9.31 .991 9.67
1985 MIN AL 25 DH 2 2
1986 MIN AL 26 1B 147 1332 1218 104 10 137 .992 -1 8.99 .991 9.33
1986 MIN AL 26 DH 1 1
1987 MIN AL 27 1B 137 1252 1179 68 5 112 .996 1 9.10 .992 9.48 MVP-16
1988 MIN AL 28 1B 105 902 842 57 3 92 .997 1 8.56 .992 9.49
1988 MIN AL 28 DH 34 34
1989 MIN AL 29 1B 89 787 723 60 4 66 .995 8 8.80 .993 9.69
1989 MIN AL 29 DH 17 17
1990 MIN AL 30 1B 120 1141 1057 81 3 100 .997 -7 9.48 .992 9.53
1990 MIN AL 30 3B 1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 2.00 .945 2.70
1990 MIN AL 30 DH 19 19
1991 MIN AL 31 1B 128 1241 1138 95 8 110 .994 -0 9.63 .992 9.74
1992 MIN AL 32 1B 104 1025 954 68 3 75 .997 2 9.83 .993 9.64
1992 MIN AL 32 DH 7 7
1993 MIN AL 33 1B 115 1026 940 81 5 98 .995 4 8.88 .993 9.48
1993 MIN AL 33 DH 1 1
1994 MIN AL 34 1B 72 609 566 41 2 50 .997 -7 8.43 .992 9.49
1994 MIN AL 34 DH 4 4
14 Seasons 1B 1609 14861 13725 1049 87 1331 .994 16 9.18 .992 9.61
1 Season 3B 1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 2.00 .945 2.70
14 Seasons TOT 1610 14863 13725 1051 87 1331 .994 16 9.18 .992 9.61
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

Hall of Fame
2000 BBWAA ( 1.0%)

All-Star Games
1982 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1991 ML Lou Gehrig Memorial Award

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1984 AL (2, 63%)
1987 AL (16, 3%)
0.66 Career Shares (361st)

Batting Average s c a p y
1984 AL  .311 (7th)
1988 AL  .312 (6th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1984 AL  .383 (7th)
1988 AL  .387 (9th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1984 AL  .522 (5th)
1987 AL  .545 (9th)
1988 AL  .520 (8th)
1990 AL  .474 (10th)
Career  .481 (181st)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1984 AL  .906 (5th)
1987 AL  .934 (8th)
1988 AL  .907 (7th)
1990 AL  .850 (7th)
Career  .848 (177th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1984 AL  292 (10th)

Doubles s c a p y
1983 AL  41 (5th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1987 AL  34 (3rd)
1988 AL  25 (10th)
1989 AL  25 (10th)
Career  293 (138th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1984 AL  107 (7th)
Career  1,086 (205th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1987 AL  84 (7th)
Career  838 (215th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1984 AL  145 (8th)
1988 AL  149 (9th)
Career  128 (190th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1984 AL  110 (8th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1984 AL  35 (7th)
1988 AL  36 (8th)
Career  254 (172nd)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1984 AL  3.5 (7th)
1988 AL  3.6 (8th)
Career  24.9 (177th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1983 AL  62 (9th)
1984 AL  61 (10th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1984 AL  .701 (7th)
1987 AL  .685 (7th)
1988 AL  .725 (5th)
1990 AL  .658 (8th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1990 AL  7 (4th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1990 AL  8 (8th)
Career  66 (163rd)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1982 AL  12 (5th)
1984 AL  15 (3rd)
1985 AL  12 (4th)
1986 AL  9 (10th)
1987 AL  12 (4th)
Career  110 (97th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
Career  165 (200th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1990 AL  10.9 (10th)

AB per HR s c a p y
1987 AL  14.0 (3rd)
1989 AL  15.0 (5th)**
Career  21.1 (148th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1982 AL  34.01 (7th)
1984 AL  45.23 (4th)
Career  286.25 (113th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1982 AL  4.4 (2nd)
1991 AL  3.8 (8th)
Career  31.2 (82nd)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1984 AL  3.3 (8th)
1986 AL  3.1 (8th)
Career  26.5 (115th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1982 AL  3.3 (8th)
1984 AL  4.3 (4th)
Career  27.4 (117th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1984 AL  1,320 (2nd)
1985 AL  1,339 (5th)
1991 AL  1,138 (4th)
Career  13,725 (59th)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1982 AL  138 (5th)
1983 AL  137 (5th)
1984 AL  148 (3rd)
1985 AL  156 (5th)
1986 AL  147 (5th)
Career  1,609 (50th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1983 AL  1,151 (5th)
1984 AL  1,320 (2nd)
1985 AL  1,339 (5th)
1991 AL  1,138 (4th)
Career  13,725 (56th)

Assists as 1B s c a p y
1984 AL  99 (5th)
1985 AL  114 (3rd)
1991 AL  95 (5th)
Career  1,049 (42nd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1982 AL  9 (4th)
1983 AL  13 (2nd)
1984 AL  14 (4th)
1991 AL  8 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1982 AL  5 (5th)
1984 AL  12 (1st)
1985 AL  3 (5th)
1989 AL  8 (3rd)
1992 AL  3 (4th)
Career  16 (54th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1984 AL  9.87 (5th)
1990 AL  10.03 (3rd)
1991 AL  10.25 (3rd)
1992 AL  10.18 (1st)
1993 AL  9.74 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1984 AL  9.59 (3rd)
1990 AL  9.48 (5th)
1991 AL  9.63 (3rd)
1992 AL  9.83 (1st)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1985 AL  .995 (3rd)
1986 AL  .993 (3rd)
1987 AL  .996 (3rd)
1988 AL  .997 (1st)
1990 AL  .997 (1st)
1992 AL  .997 (2nd)
1993 AL  .995 (5th)
1994 AL  .997 (3rd)
Career  .994 (40th)

Salary s c a p y
1990 AL  $2,100,000 (10th)

Youngest s c a p y
1981 AL  born 1960-05-21 (6th)

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order. Requirements to qualify for rate stats.
† 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 (·)

Gray InkBatting - 40 (617), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 18 (860), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 26 (450), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  5. Tim Salmon (912)
  6. Roy Sievers (910)
  7. Joe Adcock (908)
  8. Ryan Klesko (907)
  9. David Justice (903)
  10. Rudy York (900)
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  4. John Olerud (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Will Clark (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Will Clark (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Will Clark (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Will Clark (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Paul Konerko (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Paul Konerko (952)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Paul Konerko (949)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  12. Paul Konerko (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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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
198222Minnesota Twins$40,000Calvin: Baseball's Last Dinosaur, p. 162
198323Minnesota Twins$110,0006/6/83 TSN
198424Minnesota Twins$375,000R. Simon, The Game Behind the Game 192
198525Minnesota Twins$560,0001985 USAT survey; 3/11/85 TSN (length)5/$5.9MM, incl. 300K bonus; 3/11/85 TSN $560,000
198626Minnesota Twins$1,060,0003/11/85 TSN5/$5.9MM, incl. 300K bonus
198727Minnesota Twins$1,310,0003/11/85 TSN5/$5.9MM, incl. 300K bonus
198828Minnesota Twins$1,410,000USA Today, 4/1/88 and 3/11/85 TSN5/$5.9MM, incl. 300K bonus
198929Minnesota Twins$1,560,0003/11/85 TSN5/$5.9MM, incl. 300K bonus
199030Minnesota Twins$2,100,000USA Today
199131Minnesota Twins$2,600,000USA Today survey
199232Minnesota Twins$3,100,0004/2/92 USA Today
199333Minnesota Twins$3,100,000USA Today
199434Minnesota Twins$3,100,0004/5/94 USA Today
Career to date (may be incomplete)$20,425,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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