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Denis Menke

Denis John Menke

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: July 21, 1940 in Bancroft, IA
High School: St. John's (Bancroft, IA)
Signed by the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1958. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1962
Teams (by GP): Braves/Astros/Reds 1962-1974

Final Game: July 10, 1974
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:14AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #749. Glenn Davis… #750. Tom Herr… #751. Eric Karros… #752. DENIS MENKE… #753. Rich Aurilia… #754. Charlie Hickman… #755. Henry Larkin… 

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
1962 21 MLN NL 50 166 146 12 28 3 1 2 16 0 1 16 38 .192 .277 .267 .544 49 39 3 2 0 2 0 45/63
1963 22 MLN NL 146 572 518 58 121 16 4 11 50 6 7 37 106 .234 .289 .344 .632 83 178 8 6 4 7 4 654/3
1964 23 MLN NL 151 588 505 79 143 29 5 20 65 4 2 68 77 .283 .368 .479 .847 136 242 11 4 4 7 13 *64/5
1965 24 MLN NL 71 202 181 16 44 13 1 4 18 1 3 18 28 .243 .313 .392 .706 97 71 3 1 1 1 3 6/35
1966 25 ATL NL 138 545 454 55 114 20 4 15 60 0 7 71 87 .251 .355 .412 .767 110 187 9 6 7 7 8 65/3
1967 26 ATL NL 129 491 418 37 95 14 3 7 39 5 7 65 62 .227 .333 .325 .659 91 136 7 3 2 3 5 *6/5
1968 27 HOU NL 150 621 542 56 135 23 6 6 56 5 8 64 81 .249 .334 .347 .681 108 188 6 6 7 2 6 *46/35
1969 28 HOU NL 154 657 553 72 149 25 5 10 90 2 7 87 87 .269 .369 .387 .756 114 214 13 4 7 6 12 *64/35 AS,MVP-15
1970 29 HOU NL 154 665 562 82 171 26 6 13 92 6 5 82 80 .304 .392 .441 .833 127 248 8 5 7 9 10 *64/35 AS
1971 30 HOU NL 146 547 475 57 117 26 3 1 43 4 5 59 68 .246 .328 .320 .648 86 152 14 2 5 6 4 356/4
1972 31 CIN NL 140 524 447 41 104 19 2 9 50 0 1 58 76 .233 .322 .345 .667 95 154 8 5 6 8 2 *53
1973 32 CIN NL 139 322 241 38 46 10 0 3 26 1 1 69 53 .191 .368 .270 .638 84 65 8 2 4 6 6 *5/643
1974 33 HOU NL 30 34 29 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 10 .103 .206 .138 .344 -0 4 1 0 0 1 0 3/546
13 Seasons 1598 5934 5071 605 1270 225 40 101 606 34 54 698 853 .250 .343 .370 .713 103 1878 99 46 54 65 73
162 Game Avg. 162 602 514 61 129 23 4 10 61 3 5 71 86 .250 .343 .370 .713 103 190 10 5 5 7 7
ATL (6 yrs) 685 2564 2222 257 545 95 18 59 248 16 27 275 398 .245 .331 .384 .715 101 853 41 22 18 27 33
HOU (5 yrs) 634 2524 2161 269 575 101 20 30 282 17 25 296 326 .266 .355 .373 .728 109 806 42 17 26 24 32
CIN (2 yrs) 279 846 688 79 150 29 2 12 76 1 2 127 129 .218 .340 .318 .658 92 219 16 7 10 14 8

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
1962 21 MLN NL 166 -10 0 0 0 1 1 6 -3 -0.4 -3 -0.3 -0.1 $ 45/63
1963 22 MLN NL 572 -7 1 2 0 10 7 20 34 3.3 23 2.5 0.8 $ 654/3
1964 23 MLN NL 589 27 4 0 0 4 9 20 63 6.7 60 6.5 0.2 $ *64/5
1965 24 MLN NL 202 -2 0 1 0 3 2 7 11 1.1 8 0.9 0.2 $ 6/35
1966 25 ATL NL 545 10 -4 0 -1 -10 7 19 21 2.1 31 3.4 -1.3 $ 65/3
1967 26 ATL NL 491 -5 -2 0 0 1 8 17 19 1.8 18 1.9 -0.1 $ *6/5
1968 27 HOU NL 621 10 -2 0 1 -9 5 21 26 2.9 35 4.3 -1.4 $ *46/35
1969 28 HOU NL 658 15 0 3 -1 -17 8 22 30 3.2 47 5.1 -1.9 $ *64/35 AS,MVP-15
1970 29 HOU NL 665 28 0 4 0 -18 9 19 43 4.4 60 6.1 -1.7 $ *64/35 AS
1971 30 HOU NL 547 -6 2 2 -2 -6 -5 16 1 0.1 7 0.7 -0.6 $ 356/4
1972 31 CIN NL 524 2 -1 1 0 4 3 16 25 2.5 21 2.3 0.2 $ *53
1973 32 CIN NL 322 -1 1 2 0 5 2 9 18 1.9 13 1.4 0.5 $ *5/643
1974 33 HOU NL 34 -4 0 1 0 2 0 1 0 0.0 -2 -0.2 0.2 $ 3/546
13 Seasons 5936 57 -1 16 -3 -31 56 193 288 29.6 318 34.6 -5.0 $
ATL (6 yrs) 2565 13 -1 3 -1 8 34 89 145 14.6 137 14.9 -0.3 $
HOU (5 yrs) 2525 43 0 10 -2 -47 17 79 100 10.6 147 16.0 -5.4 $
CIN (2 yrs) 846 1 0 3 0 9 5 25 43 4.4 34 3.7 0.7 $

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
1972 31 CIN NL NLCS PIT W 5 20 16 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 .250 .400 .313 .713 5 1 0 0 0 0
1972 31 CIN NL WS OAK L 7 28 24 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 6 .083 .154 .208 .362 5 2 0 2 0 0
1973 32 CIN NL NLCS NYM L 3 10 9 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 2 .222 .300 .556 .856 5 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (3 Series) 15 58 49 3 8 1 0 2 3 0 0 7 11 .163 .268 .306 .574 15 3 0 2 0 0
2 NLCS 8 30 25 2 6 1 0 1 1 0 0 5 5 .240 .367 .400 .767 10 1 0 0 0 0
1 WS 7 28 24 1 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 6 .083 .154 .208 .362 5 2 0 2 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
1962 MLN NL 21 2B 20 98 49 47 2 10 .980 1 4.80 .974 5.25
1962 MLN NL 21 3B 15 48 9 37 2 4 .958 0 3.07 .949 2.92
1962 MLN NL 21 SS 9 45 16 25 4 6 .911 -1 4.56 .963 5.01
1962 MLN NL 21 1B 2 11 11 0 0 3 1.000 5.50 .990 9.70
1962 MLN NL 21 OF 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 2.00 .975 2.00
1962 MLN NL 21 LF 1 1 0 7.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -34 2.57 2.00 .970 1.80 1.80
1963 MLN NL 22 SS 82 379 120 250 9 45 .976 11 4.51 .961 4.82
1963 MLN NL 22 3B 51 166 58 96 12 9 .928 2 3.02 .941 2.92
1963 MLN NL 22 2B 22 105 51 51 3 12 .971 -2 4.64 .974 5.19
1963 MLN NL 22 1B 1 4 3 1 0 1 1.000 -0 4.00 .990 9.80
1963 MLN NL 22 OF 1 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 2.00 .975 2.00
1963 MLN NL 22 LF 1 1 0 7.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.57 2.00 .970 1.80 1.80
1964 MLN NL 23 SS 141 700 253 422 25 76 .964 5 4.79 .963 5.00
1964 MLN NL 23 2B 15 62 29 31 2 8 .968 -0 4.00 .973 5.19
1964 MLN NL 23 3B 6 3 1 2 0 0 1.000 -1 0.50 .940 2.92
1965 MLN NL 24 SS 54 212 65 140 7 22 .967 4 3.80 .964 4.93
1965 MLN NL 24 1B 8 43 42 1 0 4 1.000 0 5.38 .990 10.02
1965 MLN NL 24 3B 4 10 3 5 2 1 .800 -0 2.00 .951 2.82
1966 ATL NL 25 SS 106 468 165 282 21 50 .955 -9 4.22 .964 4.96
1966 ATL NL 25 3B 39 99 38 58 3 4 .970 -1 2.46 .954 3.04
1966 ATL NL 25 1B 7 26 25 1 0 2 1.000 -0 3.71 .989 9.89
1967 ATL NL 26 SS 124 549 181 349 19 65 .965 1 4.27 .963 4.99
1967 ATL NL 26 3B 3 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 -0 1.00 .950 2.97
1968 HOU NL 27 2B 119 564 269 285 10 47 .982 -6 4.66 .977 5.22
1968 HOU NL 27 SS 35 142 45 92 5 21 .965 -3 3.91 .962 5.00
1968 HOU NL 27 1B 5 30 29 1 0 2 1.000 1 6.00 .992 10.12
1968 HOU NL 27 3B 4 9 3 6 0 1 1.000 -1 2.25 .954 2.95
1969 HOU NL 28 SS 131 541 161 356 24 63 .956 -15 3.95 .963 4.90 AS,MVP-15
1969 HOU NL 28 2B 23 91 42 47 2 9 .978 -4 3.87 .974 5.15 AS,MVP-15
1969 HOU NL 28 1B 9 62 52 9 1 3 .984 2 6.78 .992 9.76 AS,MVP-15
1969 HOU NL 28 3B 1 4 2 2 0 0 1.000 0 4.00 .945 2.90 AS,MVP-15
1970 HOU NL 29 SS 133 614 192 394 28 66 .954 -18 4.41 .965 5.04 AS
1970 HOU NL 29 2B 21 114 51 62 1 14 .991 2 5.38 .979 5.30 AS
1970 HOU NL 29 1B 5 14 14 0 0 0 1.000 0 2.80 .992 9.64 AS
1970 HOU NL 29 3B 5 6 1 4 1 1 .833 -1 1.00 .945 2.90 AS
1970 HOU NL 29 OF 3 4 4 0 0 0 1.000 -0 1.33 .975 2.07 AS
1970 HOU NL 29 RF 2 1 1 12.2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -19 1.42 1.00 .975 1.99 2.00 AS
1970 HOU NL 29 LF 1 1 1 9.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 13 2.00 2.00 .970 1.80 1.80 AS
1971 HOU NL 30 1B 101 907 845 59 3 77 .997 -1 8.95 .992 9.87
1971 HOU NL 30 3B 32 69 24 41 4 4 .942 -5 2.03 .949 2.80
1971 HOU NL 30 SS 17 58 16 40 2 5 .966 1 3.29 .968 5.13
1971 HOU NL 30 2B 5 19 7 11 1 2 .947 -1 3.60 .978 5.46
1972 CIN NL 31 3B 130 359 85 258 16 20 .955 4 2.64 .945 2.88
1972 CIN NL 31 1B 11 42 40 2 0 5 1.000 0 3.82 .992 9.76
1973 CIN NL 32 3B 123 266 68 189 9 19 .966 6 2.09 .946 2.88
1973 CIN NL 32 SS 7 7 4 3 0 0 1.000 -1 1.00 .961 4.93
1973 CIN NL 32 2B 5 12 7 5 0 1 1.000 0 2.40 .980 5.52
1973 CIN NL 32 1B 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 1.00 .990 9.80
1974 HOU NL 33 1B 12 19 18 1 0 4 1.000 -0 1.58 .991 9.93
1974 HOU NL 33 3B 7 18 2 16 0 1 1.000 1 2.57 .948 3.04
1974 HOU NL 33 2B 3 5 1 4 0 0 1.000 0 1.67 .972 5.47
1974 HOU NL 33 SS 2 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 1 1.00 .960 4.95
12 Seasons SS 841 3717 1218 2355 144 419 .961 -25 4.25 .963 4.96
13 Seasons 3B 420 1060 296 715 49 64 .954 3 2.41 .946 2.90
9 Seasons 2B 233 1070 506 543 21 103 .980 -11 4.50 .976 5.23
11 Seasons 1B 162 1159 1080 75 4 101 .997 2 7.13 .992 9.87
3 Seasons OF 5 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 -0 1.60 .975 2.04
3 Seasons LF 3 3 1 23.0 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -5 2.35 2.00 .970 1.80 1.80
1 Season RF 2 1 1 12.2 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -19 1.42 1.00 .975 1.99 2.00
13 Seasons TOT 1661 7014 3108 3688 218 687 .969 -31 4.09 .967 4.95
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
1980 BBWAA ()

All-Star Games
1969 *
1970 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1969 NL (15, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1362nd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1964 NL  6.7 (10th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1964 NL  6.7 (8th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1964 NL  6.5 (5th)
1970 NL  6.1 (6th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1963 NL  0.8 (10th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1964 NL  .368 (9th)

Triples s c a p y
1968 NL  6 (8th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1964 NL  68 (6th)
1966 NL  71 (5th)
1967 NL  65 (10th)
1968 NL  64 (8th)
1969 NL  87 (7th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1963 NL  106 (9th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1964 NL  .689 (10th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1966 NL  6 (7th)
1968 NL  6 (7th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
1963 NL  7 (4th)
1964 NL  7 (2nd)
1966 NL  7 (5th)
1970 NL  9 (2nd)
1972 NL  8 (5th)
Career  65 (167th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
1964 NL  13 (5th)
Career  73 (211th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1968 NL  8 (10th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1970 NL  5.4 (5th)

Assists† s c a p y
1964 NL  455 (3rd)
1970 NL  460 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1969 NL  27 (5th)
1970 NL  30 (2nd)

Def. Games as 3B s c a p y
1972 NL  130 (4th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1972 NL  258 (5th)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1964 NL  141 (4th)
1969 NL  131 (5th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1964 NL  253 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1964 NL  422 (4th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1964 NL  25 (5th)
1966 NL  21 (5th)
1967 NL  19 (4th)
1969 NL  24 (5th)
1970 NL  28 (1st)

Total Zone Runs as 1B s c a p y
1969 NL  2 (5th)

Fielding % as 1B s c a p y
1971 NL  .997 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
1962 NL  1 (5th)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
1968 NL  .982 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as 3B s c a p y
1972 NL  4 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as 3B† s c a p y
1973 NL  3.15 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1973 NL  .966 (2nd)

Total Zone Runs as SS s c a p y
1963 NL  11 (1st)
1964 NL  5 (2nd)

Range Factor/9Inn as SS† s c a p y
1963 NL  5.09 (2nd)
1964 NL  5.38 (3rd)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1963 NL  4.51 (5th)
1964 NL  4.79 (5th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1963 NL  .976 (2nd)
1964 NL  .964 (5th)


† 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 - 11 (1335), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 10 (1152), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 18 (886), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  8. Toby Harrah (959)  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
196625Los Angeles Dodgers$30,0001/15/66 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$30,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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