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Ray Knight

Charles Ray Knight

Positions: Third Baseman and First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: December 28, 1952 in Albany, GA
High School: Dougherty (Albany, GA)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 10th round of the 1970 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 1974
Teams (by GP): Reds/Astros/Mets/Orioles/Tigers 1974-1988
Agents: George Kalafatis [*]
Final Game: October 2, 1988
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 1:17PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1077. Steve Henderson… #1078. Derek Bell… #1079. Jeff King… #1080. RAY KNIGHT… #1081. Jim Russell… #1082. Chief Wilson… #1083. Jake Stahl… 

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
1974 21 CIN NL 14 12 11 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 2 .182 .250 .273 .523 47 3 1 0 0 0 0 5
1977 24 CIN NL 80 103 92 8 24 5 1 1 13 1 1 9 16 .261 .324 .370 .693 85 34 0 0 1 1 1 54/6
1978 25 CIN NL 83 68 65 7 13 3 0 1 4 0 0 3 13 .200 .235 .292 .528 47 19 4 0 0 0 0 5/436
1979 26 CIN NL 150 604 551 64 175 37 4 10 79 4 4 38 57 .318 .360 .454 .814 120 250 20 3 4 8 4 *5 MVP-5
1980 27 CIN NL 162 667 618 71 163 39 7 14 78 1 2 36 62 .264 .307 .417 .724 100 258 24 4 5 4 9 *5 AS
1981 28 CIN NL 106 429 386 43 100 23 1 6 34 2 4 33 51 .259 .322 .370 .692 95 143 18 4 3 3 3 *5
1982 29 HOU NL 158 676 609 72 179 36 6 6 70 2 5 48 58 .294 .344 .402 .746 116 245 16 5 1 13 9 35 AS,MVP-25
1983 30 HOU NL 145 567 507 43 154 36 4 9 70 0 3 42 62 .304 .355 .444 .798 128 225 17 4 3 11 9 *3
1984 31 TOT NL 115 398 371 28 88 14 0 3 35 0 3 21 43 .237 .279 .299 .578 68 111 5 2 0 4 2 53
1984 31 HOU NL 88 297 278 15 62 10 0 2 29 0 3 14 30 .223 .259 .281 .540 58 78 4 1 0 4 1 53
1984 31 NYM NL 27 101 93 13 26 4 0 1 6 0 0 7 13 .280 .337 .355 .691 96 33 1 1 0 0 1 5/3
1985 32 NYM NL 90 290 271 22 59 12 0 6 36 1 1 13 32 .218 .252 .328 .580 62 89 17 1 0 5 1 5/43
1986 33 NYM NL 137 541 486 51 145 24 2 11 76 2 1 40 63 .298 .351 .424 .775 115 206 19 4 3 8 2 *5/3 MVP-14
1987 34 BAL AL 150 609 563 46 144 24 0 14 65 0 0 39 90 .256 .310 .373 .683 83 210 16 6 0 1 3 *5/3
1988 35 DET AL 105 327 299 34 65 12 2 3 33 1 1 20 30 .217 .271 .301 .572 63 90 12 3 2 3 0 35/
13 Seasons 1495 5291 4829 490 1311 266 27 84 595 14 25 343 579 .271 .321 .390 .711 98 1883 169 36 22 61 43
162 Game Avg. 162 573 523 53 142 29 3 9 64 2 3 37 63 .271 .321 .390 .711 98 204 18 4 2 7 5
CIN (6 yrs) 595 1883 1723 194 477 108 13 32 210 8 11 120 201 .277 .325 .410 .735 102 707 67 11 13 16 17
NYM (3 yrs) 254 932 850 86 230 40 2 18 118 3 2 60 108 .271 .319 .386 .705 97 328 37 6 3 13 4
HOU (3 yrs) 391 1540 1394 130 395 82 10 17 169 2 11 104 150 .283 .331 .393 .724 109 548 37 10 4 28 19
DET (1 yr) 105 327 299 34 65 12 2 3 33 1 1 20 30 .217 .271 .301 .572 63 90 12 3 2 3 0
BAL (1 yr) 150 609 563 46 144 24 0 14 65 0 0 39 90 .256 .310 .373 .683 83 210 16 6 0 1 3
NL (11 yrs) 1240 4355 3967 410 1102 230 25 67 497 13 24 284 459 .278 .326 .399 .725 103 1583 141 27 20 57 40
AL (2 yrs) 255 936 862 80 209 36 2 17 98 1 1 59 120 .242 .297 .348 .645 76 300 28 9 2 4 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
1974 21 CIN NL 12 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ 5
1977 24 CIN NL 103 -2 -1 1 1 -2 0 3 0 0.0 2 0.2 -0.2 $ 54/6
1978 25 CIN NL 68 -5 0 1 -1 -1 0 2 -4 -0.5 -3 -0.3 -0.2 $ 5/436
1979 26 CIN NL 604 15 0 -1 -3 -5 4 18 28 2.9 33 3.5 -0.6 $ *5 MVP-5
1980 27 CIN NL 667 -1 -3 2 -3 2 1 21 19 1.8 17 1.8 0.0 $175,000 *5 AS
1981 28 CIN NL 429 -4 -1 0 -2 1 1 14 9 0.8 8 0.9 -0.1 $ *5
1982 29 HOU NL 676 13 1 1 -2 -1 -6 20 26 2.8 27 2.9 -0.1 $ 35 AS,MVP-25
1983 30 HOU NL 567 17 -3 -3 -1 7 -9 18 26 2.7 19 2.0 0.7 $ *3
1984 31 HOU NL 297 -15 -2 -1 1 -5 -1 9 -14 -1.6 -9 -1.0 -0.6 $ 53
1984 31 NYM NL 101 -1 0 1 0 -0 0 3 3 0.3 3 0.3 0.0 $480,000 5/3
1985 32 NYM NL 290 -14 0 3 -3 -1 0 9 -6 -0.8 -5 -0.5 -0.3 $560,000 5/43
1986 33 NYM NL 541 14 -1 1 -2 -5 1 17 25 2.6 30 3.2 -0.6 $645,000 *5/3 MVP-14
1987 34 BAL AL 609 -14 -4 1 -2 2 -1 19 1 0.2 -1 -0.1 0.3 $600,000 *5/3
1988 35 DET AL 327 -15 0 0 -2 1 -6 10 -12 -1.3 -13 -1.3 0.0 $525,000 35/
13 Seasons 5291 -13 -14 6 -19 -7 -16 163 100 9.8 107 11.5 -1.7 $2,985,000
CIN (6 yrs) 1883 2 -5 3 -8 -5 6 58 51 4.9 56 6.0 -1.1 $175,000
NYM (3 yrs) 932 -1 -1 5 -5 -6 1 29 22 2.1 28 3.0 -0.9 $1,685,000
HOU (3 yrs) 1540 15 -4 -3 -2 1 -16 47 38 3.9 37 3.9 -0.0 $
DET (1 yr) 327 -15 0 0 -2 1 -6 10 -12 -1.3 -13 -1.3 0.0 $525,000
BAL (1 yr) 609 -14 -4 1 -2 2 -1 19 1 0.2 -1 -0.1 0.3 $600,000

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
1979 26 CIN NL NLCS PIT L 3 14 14 0 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 .286 .286 .357 .643 5 1 0 0 0 0
1986 33 NYM NL NLCS HOU W 6 26 24 1 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 5 .167 .192 .167 .359 4 0 0 0 1 1
1986 33 NYM NL WS BOS W 6 25 23 4 9 1 0 1 5 0 0 2 2 .391 .440 .565 1.005 13 2 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (3 Series) 15 65 61 5 17 2 0 1 7 1 0 3 9 .279 .308 .361 .668 22 3 0 0 1 1
2 NLCS 9 40 38 1 8 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 7 .211 .225 .237 .462 9 1 0 0 1 1
1 WS 6 25 23 4 9 1 0 1 5 0 0 2 2 .391 .440 .565 1.005 13 2 0 0 0 0

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
1974 CIN NL 21 3B 14 10 2 8 0 0 1.000 0 0.71 .948 3.04
1977 CIN NL 24 3B 37 34 11 21 2 2 .941 -0 0.86 .956 2.98
1977 CIN NL 24 2B 17 53 28 23 2 5 .962 -2 3.00 .977 5.24
1977 CIN NL 24 OF 5 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 1 1.20 .978 2.26
1977 CIN NL 24 SS 3 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 0 0.67 .965 5.03
1977 CIN NL 24 LF 5 2 2 22.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 1 38 2.86 1.40 .971 1.92 1.92
1978 CIN NL 25 3B 60 53 8 38 7 1 .868 -1 0.77 .952 2.97
1978 CIN NL 25 2B 4 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 0 0.75 .977 5.25
1978 CIN NL 25 OF 3 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 -0 1.00 .980 2.30
1978 CIN NL 25 1B 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 2.00 .990 9.90
1978 CIN NL 25 SS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 4.80
1978 CIN NL 25 LF 2 0 0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -240 4.50 0.50 .980 1.80 1.95
1978 CIN NL 25 RF 1 1 0 8.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 45 2.25 2.00 .975 2.14 2.10
1979 CIN NL 26 3B 149 397 120 262 15 26 .962 -5 2.56 .951 2.88 MVP-5
1980 CIN NL 27 3B 162 424 120 291 13 19 .969 2 2.54 .948 2.88 AS
1981 CIN NL 28 3B 105 256 69 176 11 18 .957 1 2.33 .948 2.85
1982 HOU NL 29 1B 96 1010 945 55 10 76 .990 -2 10.42 .992 10.26 AS,MVP-25
1982 HOU NL 29 3B 67 195 57 131 7 18 .964 1 2.81 .951 2.78 AS,MVP-25
1983 HOU NL 30 1B 143 1367 1285 73 9 131 .993 7 9.50 .992 9.92
1984 TOT NL 31 3B 81 75 65 662.0 182 51 122 9 10 .951 -3 -6 2.35 2.14 .943 33.45 2.78
1984 TOT NL 31 1B 27 21 21 202.0 215 205 10 0 17 1.000 -2 -14 9.58 7.96 .992 65.11 9.83
1984 HOU NL 31 3B 54 48 43 433.0 130 37 86 7 6 .946 -3 -9 2.56 2.28 .943 33.45 2.78
1984 HOU NL 31 1B 24 21 21 196.0 208 199 9 0 16 1.000 -2 -13 9.55 8.67 .992 65.11 9.83
1984 NYM NL 31 3B 27 27 22 229.0 52 14 36 2 4 .962 0 1 1.97 1.85 .943 33.45 2.78
1984 NYM NL 31 1B 3 0 0 6.0 7 6 1 0 1 1.000 -0 -40 10.50 2.33 .991 65.10 9.83
1985 NYM NL 32 3B 73 168 52 109 7 5 .958 -1 2.21 .948 2.88
1985 NYM NL 32 2B 2 5 2 3 0 0 1.000 -0 2.50 .982 5.45
1985 NYM NL 32 1B 1 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 0 3.00 .993 10.00
1986 NYM NL 33 3B 132 308 88 204 16 17 .948 -4 2.21 .946 2.72 MVP-14
1986 NYM NL 33 1B 1 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 -0 6.00 .992 10.00 MVP-14
1987 BAL AL 34 3B 130 410 110 282 18 28 .956 2 3.02 .952 2.74
1987 BAL AL 34 1B 6 62 59 2 1 7 .984 -0 10.17 .992 9.48
1987 BAL AL 34 DH 13 13
1988 DET AL 35 1B 64 469 432 33 4 40 .991 -0 7.27 .992 9.49
1988 DET AL 35 3B 11 15 6 9 0 0 1.000 1 1.36 .954 2.69
1988 DET AL 35 OF 2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 2.45
1988 DET AL 35 DH 20 20
1988 DET AL 35 LF 2 0 0 3.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -40 0.00 0.00 2.40 2.25
12 Seasons 3B 1021 75 65 662.0 2452 694 1653 105 144 .957 -8 -15 2.35 2.30 .949 33.45 2.83
8 Seasons 1B 339 21 21 202.0 3134 2936 174 24 271 .992 3 15 9.58 9.17 .992 65.11 9.92
3 Seasons 2B 23 61 31 28 2 5 .967 -2 2.57 .977 5.26
3 Seasons OF 10 9 8 1 0 0 1.000 0 0.90 .979 2.31
3 Seasons LF 9 2 2 27.0 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 0 9 2.67 0.89 .972 1.97 2.00
2 Seasons SS 4 2 0 2 0 1 1.000 0 0.50 .965 4.97
1 Season RF 1 1 0 8.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 45 2.25 2.00 .975 2.14 2.10
13 Seasons TOT 1397 96 86 864.0 5658 3669 1858 131 421 .977 -7 -9 4.04 3.96 .973 40.85 4.60
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
1994 BBWAA ( 0.2%)

All-Star Games
1980 *
1982 *

Awards (yr lg award)
1983 ML Hutch Award
1986 NL Babe Ruth Award
1986 ML WS MVP

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1979 NL (5, 24%)
1982 NL (25, 0%)
1986 NL (14, 3%)
0.27 Career Shares (641st)

Batting Average s c a p y
1979 NL  .318 (3rd)
1983 NL  .304 (5th)
1986 NL  .298 (8th)

Games Played s c a p y
1980 NL  162 (2nd)
1981 NL  106 (8th)

At Bats s c a p y
1980 NL  618 (6th)

Hits s c a p y
1982 NL  179 (8th)

Doubles s c a p y
1979 NL  37 (7th)
1980 NL  39 (4th)
1981 NL  23 (7th)
1982 NL  36 (4th)
1983 NL  36 (5th)

Singles s c a p y
1982 NL  131 (8th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1980 NL  60 (5th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1980 NL  4 (10th)
1981 NL  4 (5th)
1982 NL  5 (8th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1979 NL  8 (4th)
1982 NL  13 (2nd)
1983 NL  11 (2nd)
1986 NL  8 (8th)
Career  61 (208th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1979 NL  20 (4th)
1980 NL  24 (1st)
1981 NL  18 (1st)
1982 NL  16 (7th)
1983 NL  17 (6th)
1986 NL  19 (5th)
Career  169 (183rd)

Outs Made s c a p y
1980 NL  490 (5th)
1981 NL  314 (9th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1986 NL  4.1 (6th)

Putouts† s c a p y
1983 NL  1,285 (3rd)

Def. Games as 1B s c a p y
1983 NL  143 (5th)

Putouts as 1B s c a p y
1983 NL  1,285 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 1B s c a p y
1983 NL  9 (5th)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1980 NL  162 (1st)
1981 NL  105 (1st)
1986 NL  132 (4th)
Career  1,021 (99th)

Putouts as 3B s c a p y
1979 NL  120 (4th)
1980 NL  120 (2nd)
1986 NL  88 (5th)
1987 AL  110 (5th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1980 NL  291 (5th)
1987 AL  282 (4th)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1987 AL  18 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1983 NL  7 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 1B† s c a p y
1982 NL  10.85 (2nd)
1983 NL  10.33 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as 1B s c a p y
1982 NL  10.42 (4th)
1983 NL  9.50 (4th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1983 NL  .993 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1987 AL  3.14 (1st)
Career  2.35 (46th)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1987 AL  3.02 (1st)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1979 NL  .962 (4th)
1980 NL  .969 (3rd)
1981 NL  .957 (3rd)
1984 NL  .951 (5th)
Career  .957 (80th)

             

† 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 - 28 (832), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 20 (802), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 10 (1663), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  8. Johnny Groth (949)  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
198027Cincinnati Reds$175,0001981 TSN GuidePlayer win; team offered $112.5K
198431New York Mets$480,0001/4/85 TSN
198532New York Mets$560,0001985 USA Today survey
198633New York Mets$645,0001986 USA Today survey
198734Baltimore Orioles$600,0001987 USA Today survey
198835Detroit Tigers$525,000USA Today, 4/1/88
Career to date (may be incomplete)$2,985,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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