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Ken Williams

Kenneth Roy Williams

Position: Leftfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: June 28, 1890 in Grants Pass, OR
High School: Mount Pleasant (San Jose, CA) (All Transactions)
Debut: July 14, 1915
Teams (by GP): Browns/RedSox/Reds 1915-1929

Final Game: August 10, 1929
Died: January 22, 1959 in Grants Pass, OR
Buried: Hillcrest Memorial Park, Grants Pass, OR
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:23AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #289. Evan Longoria… #290. Paul O'Neill… #291. Harry Stovey… #292. KEN WILLIAMS… #293. Chet Lemon… #294. Ben Chapman… #295. Roger Maris… 

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
1915 25 CIN NL 71 243 219 22 53 10 4 0 16 4 3 15 20 .242 .297 .324 .621 86 71 2 7 O
1916 26 CIN NL 10 29 27 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 5 .111 .172 .111 .284 -11 3 0 0 O
1918 28 SLB AL 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 53 0 0 0
1919 29 SLB AL 65 266 227 32 68 10 5 6 35 7 26 25 .300 .376 .467 .843 134 106 2 11 O
1920 30 SLB AL 141 592 521 90 160 34 13 10 72 18 8 41 26 .307 .362 .480 .842 119 250 4 26 *O
1921 31 SLB AL 146 646 547 115 190 31 7 24 117 20 17 74 42 .347 .429 .561 .990 145 307 4 21 *O
1922 32 SLB AL 153 678 585 128 194 34 11 39 155 37 20 74 31 .332 .413 .627 1.040 164 367 7 12 *O
1923 33 SLB AL 147 646 555 106 198 37 12 29 91 18 17 79 32 .357 .439 .623 1.062 171 346 2 10 *O MVP-15
1924 34 SLB AL 114 479 398 78 129 21 4 18 84 20 11 69 17 .324 .425 .533 .958 140 212 1 11 *O MVP-22
1925 35 SLB AL 102 462 411 83 136 31 5 25 105 10 5 37 14 .331 .390 .613 1.003 146 252 3 11 O
1926 36 SLB AL 108 401 347 55 97 15 7 17 74 5 4 39 23 .280 .354 .510 .864 119 177 1 14 O/4
1927 37 SLB AL 131 496 423 70 136 23 6 17 74 9 7 57 30 .322 .403 .525 .928 136 222 1 15 *O
1928 38 BOS AL 133 515 462 59 140 25 1 8 67 4 9 37 15 .303 .356 .413 .769 105 191 1 15 *O
1929 39 BOS AL 74 161 139 21 48 14 2 3 21 1 5 15 7 .345 .409 .540 .949 145 75 0 7 O/3
14 Seasons 1397 5616 4862 860 1552 285 77 196 913 154 106 566 287 .319 .393 .530 .924 137 2579 28 160
162 Game Avg. 162 651 564 100 180 33 9 23 106 18 66 33 .319 .393 .530 .924 137 299 3 19
SLB (10 yrs) 1109 4668 4015 757 1308 236 70 185 808 144 89 497 240 .326 .403 .558 .961 144 2239 25 131
BOS (2 yrs) 207 676 601 80 188 39 3 11 88 5 14 52 22 .313 .369 .443 .811 114 266 1 22
CIN (2 yrs) 81 272 246 23 56 10 4 0 17 5 3 17 25 .228 .283 .301 .584 76 74 2 7
AL (12 yrs) 1316 5344 4616 837 1496 275 73 196 896 149 103 549 262 .324 .399 .543 .942 140 2505 26 153
NL (2 yrs) 81 272 246 23 56 10 4 0 17 5 3 17 25 .228 .283 .301 .584 76 74 2 7

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
1915 25 CIN NL 243 -5 0 0 0 0 -3 7 -1 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $ O
1916 26 CIN NL 29 -3 0 0 0 0 0 1 -2 -0.3 -2 -0.2 -0.1 $ O
1918 28 SLB AL 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $
1919 29 SLB AL 266 9 0 0 0 0 -2 9 16 1.7 16 1.7 0.0 $ O
1920 30 SLB AL 592 8 4 0 0 4 -6 19 29 2.9 25 2.5 0.4 $ *O
1921 31 SLB AL 646 39 -2 0 0 1 -7 20 51 4.9 50 4.8 0.1 $ *O
1922 32 SLB AL 678 50 1 0 0 8 -7 21 73 7.3 65 6.5 0.8 $ *O
1923 33 SLB AL 646 49 -3 0 0 5 -7 20 64 6.4 59 5.9 0.5 $ *O MVP-15
1924 34 SLB AL 479 26 0 0 0 5 -5 15 41 4.1 36 3.5 0.6 $ *O MVP-22
1925 35 SLB AL 462 27 1 0 0 2 -5 14 39 3.7 37 3.6 0.1 $ O
1926 36 SLB AL 401 7 0 0 0 -1 -4 13 15 1.5 16 1.6 -0.1 $ O/4
1927 37 SLB AL 496 26 -2 0 0 0 -5 16 35 3.5 35 3.5 0.0 $ *O
1928 38 BOS AL 515 3 -4 0 0 -1 -6 17 9 0.9 10 1.0 -0.1 $ *O
1929 39 BOS AL 161 9 -2 0 0 -2 -1 5 9 0.9 11 1.1 -0.2 $ O/3
14 Seasons 5616 245 -7 0 0 21 -58 177 378 37.3 357 35.4 1.9 $
SLB (10 yrs) 4668 241 -1 0 0 24 -48 147 363 36.0 339 33.6 2.4 $
BOS (2 yrs) 676 12 -6 0 0 -3 -7 22 18 1.8 21 2.1 -0.3 $
CIN (2 yrs) 272 -8 0 0 0 0 -3 8 -3 -0.5 -3 -0.3 -0.2 $

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G Awards
1915 CIN NL 25 OF 62 135 117 11 7 4 .948 2.06 .959 2.12 54-8-0
1916 CIN NL 26 OF 10 22 19 2 1 1 .955 2.10 .967 2.15 8-1-0
1919 SLB AL 29 OF 63 190 168 10 12 3 .937 2.83 .958 2.26
1919 SLB AL 29 CF 63 61 61 190 168 10 12 3 .937 2.83 .961 2.64
1920 SLB AL 30 OF 138 362 331 17 14 7 .961 2.52 .962 2.25
1920 SLB AL 30 LF 94 94 93 241 224 12 5 7 .979 2.51 .962 2.30
1920 SLB AL 30 CF 44 44 42 121 107 5 9 0 .926 2.55 .966 2.55
1921 SLB AL 31 OF 145 381 331 24 26 5 .932 2.45 .960 2.33
1921 SLB AL 31 LF 145 143 140 381 331 24 26 5 .932 2.45 .958 2.38
1922 SLB AL 32 OF 153 400 372 16 12 4 .970 2.54 .964 2.31
1922 SLB AL 32 LF 137 137 135 364 340 15 9 2 .975 2.59 .969 2.40
1922 SLB AL 32 CF 17 16 16 38 33 2 3 2 .921 2.06 .968 2.70
1923 SLB AL 33 OF 145 368 333 23 12 5 .967 2.46 .965 2.38 MVP-15
1923 SLB AL 33 LF 145 145 144 368 333 23 12 5 .967 2.46 .966 2.35 MVP-15
1924 SLB AL 34 OF 109 279 257 13 9 2 .968 2.48 .970 2.39 MVP-22
1924 SLB AL 34 LF 110 110 105 282 259 13 10 1 .965 2.47 .964 2.34 MVP-22
1925 SLB AL 35 OF 102 265 242 11 12 4 .955 2.48 .965 2.43
1925 SLB AL 35 LF 102 102 99 265 242 11 12 4 .955 2.48 .958 2.33
1926 SLB AL 36 OF 92 212 189 12 11 2 .948 2.18 .966 2.34
1926 SLB AL 36 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.60
1926 SLB AL 36 LF 90 87 87 211 188 12 11 2 .948 2.22 .965 2.30
1926 SLB AL 36 CF 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .970 2.70
1927 SLB AL 37 OF 113 285 260 15 10 4 .965 2.43 .964 2.35
1927 SLB AL 37 LF 110 109 106 276 253 15 8 4 .971 2.44 .967 2.38
1927 SLB AL 37 CF 4 3 3 9 7 0 2 0 .778 1.75 .966 2.70
1928 BOS AL 38 OF 127 272 254 10 8 0 .971 2.08 .973 2.36
1928 BOS AL 38 LF 127 123 114 271 253 10 8 0 .970 2.07 .974 2.30
1929 BOS AL 39 OF 39 81 75 3 3 2 .963 2.00 .966 2.42
1929 BOS AL 39 1B 2 8 8 0 0 1 1.000 4.00 .992 10.20
1929 BOS AL 39 CF 30 26 19 71 67 1 3 0 .958 2.27 .970 2.89
1929 BOS AL 39 LF 11 2 2 10 8 2 0 1 1.000 0.91 .964 2.39
1929 BOS AL 39 RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00
13 Seasons OF 1298 3252 2948 167 137 43 .958 2.40 .964 2.33 1133-168-1
10 Seasons (incomplete) LF 1071 1052 1025 2669 2431 137 101 31 .962 2.40 .965 2.35
6 Seasons (incomplete) CF 159 150 141 430 383 18 29 5 .933 2.52 .965 2.67
1 Season 1B 2 8 8 0 0 1 1.000 4.00 .992 10.20
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.60
1 Season RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.00
14 Seasons TOT 1301 3260 2956 167 137 44 .958 2.40 .964 2.35 1133-168-1
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG G 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
1956 BBWAA ( 0.5%)
1958 BBWAA ( 0.4%)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1923 AL (15, 6%)
1924 AL (22, 2%)
0.08 Career Shares (972nd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1922 AL  7.3 (3rd)
1923 AL  6.4 (6th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1921 AL  4.9 (6th)
1922 AL  7.3 (2nd)
1923 AL  6.4 (5th)
1924 AL  4.1 (9th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1921 AL  4.8 (7th)
1922 AL  6.5 (4th)
1923 AL  5.9 (5th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1922 AL  0.8 (6th)
1924 AL  0.6 (9th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1921 AL  .347 (8th)
1922 AL  .332 (6th)
1923 AL  .357 (5th)
Career  .319 (56th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1921 AL  .429 (5th)
1922 AL  .413 (8th)
1923 AL  .439 (6th)
1924 AL  .425 (7th)
1927 AL  .403 (10th)
Career  .393 (85th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1920 AL  .480 (10th)
1921 AL  .561 (4th)
1922 AL  .627 (2nd)
1923 AL  .623 (3rd)
1924 AL  .533 (3rd)
1925 AL  .613 (1st)
1926 AL  .510 (8th)
1927 AL  .525 (5th)
Career  .530 (50th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1921 AL  .990 (4th)
1922 AL  1.040 (4th)
1923 AL  1.062 (4th)
1924 AL  .958 (3rd)
1925 AL  1.003 (6th)
1927 AL  .928 (6th)
Career  .924 (47th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1922 AL  678 (9th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1921 AL  115 (6th)
1922 AL  128 (3rd)
1923 AL  106 (8th)

Hits s c a p y
1921 AL  190 (9th)
1922 AL  194 (5th)
1923 AL  198 (6th)

Total Bases s c a p y
1921 AL  307 (7th)
1922 AL  367 (1st)
1923 AL  346 (3rd)

Doubles s c a p y
1922 AL  34 (8th)
1923 AL  37 (8th)

Triples s c a p y
1920 AL  13 (9th)
1922 AL  11 (10th)
1923 AL  12 (7th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1921 AL  24 (2nd)
1922 AL  39 (1st)
1923 AL  29 (2nd)
1924 AL  18 (4th)
1925 AL  25 (2nd)
1926 AL  17 (4th)
1927 AL  17 (4th)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1921 AL  117 (6th)
1922 AL  155 (1st)
1923 AL  91 (9th)
1925 AL  105 (6th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1921 AL  74 (7th)
1922 AL  74 (5th)
1923 AL  79 (7th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1920 AL  18 (8th)
1921 AL  20 (7th)
1922 AL  37 (2nd)
1923 AL  18 (5th)
1924 AL  20 (6th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1921 AL  145 (5th)
1922 AL  164 (6th)
1923 AL  171 (4th)
1924 AL  140 (5th)
1925 AL  146 (8th)
1927 AL  136 (7th)
Career  137 (90th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1921 AL  126 (5th)
1922 AL  146 (2nd)
1923 AL  146 (4th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1921 AL  38 (5th)
1922 AL  54 (4th)
1923 AL  58 (4th)
1924 AL  25 (8th)
1925 AL  26 (9th)
1927 AL  23 (10th)
Career  260 (163rd)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1921 AL  3.6 (5th)
1922 AL  5.1 (4th)
1923 AL  5.5 (4th)
1924 AL  2.4 (8th)
1925 AL  2.4 (9th)
1927 AL  2.2 (10th)
Career  24.5 (184th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1920 AL  57 (9th)
1921 AL  62 (8th)
1922 AL  84 (1st)
1923 AL  78 (3rd)
1925 AL  61 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1921 AL  268 (7th)
1922 AL  275 (2nd)
1923 AL  279 (6th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1921 AL  .721 (6th)
1922 AL  .772 (6th)
1923 AL  .805 (4th)
1924 AL  .719 (5th)
1925 AL  .735 (7th)
1927 AL  .694 (8th)
Career  .698 (78th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1922 AL  7 (8th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
Career  160 (146th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1921 AL  17 (2nd)
1922 AL  20 (1st)
1923 AL  17 (4th)
1928 AL  9 (9th)
Career  106 (98th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1920 AL  12.9 (4th)
1921 AL  21.8 (2nd)
1922 AL  38.0 (1st)
1923 AL  22.2 (2nd)
1924 AL  18.9 (1st)
1925 AL  14.3 (3rd)
1927 AL  11.8 (8th)
Career  172.5 (121st)

AB per SO s c a p y
1925 AL  29.4 (9th)
1928 AL  30.8 (6th)
Career  16.9 (202nd)

AB per HR s c a p y
1920 AL  52.1 (10th)
1921 AL  22.8 (2nd)
1922 AL  15.0 (2nd)
1923 AL  19.1 (2nd)
1924 AL  22.1 (3rd)
1925 AL  16.4 (1st)
1926 AL  20.4 (2nd)
1927 AL  24.9 (3rd)

Def. Games as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  1,071 (53rd)

Putouts as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  2,431 (28th)

Assists as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  137 (6th)

Errors Committed as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
Career  101 (5th)

Def. Games as OF s c a p y
1922 AL  153 (3rd)

Putouts as OF s c a p y
1922 AL  372 (3rd)

Assists as OF s c a p y
1921 AL  24 (4th)
1923 AL  23 (4th)
Career  167 (91st)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1920 AL  14 (4th)
1921 AL  26 (1st)
1923 AL  12 (4th)
Career  137 (93rd)

Range Factor/Game as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1920 AL  2.51 (1st)
1921 AL  2.45 (3rd)
1922 AL  2.59 (2nd)
1923 AL  2.46 (2nd)
1924 AL  2.47 (2nd)
1925 AL  2.48 (3rd)
1926 AL  2.22 (3rd)
1927 AL  2.44 (4th)
Career  2.40 (6th)

Fielding % as LF (s.1954) s c a p y
1920 AL  .979 (1st)
1922 AL  .975 (3rd)
1923 AL  .967 (4th)
1924 AL  .965 (5th)
1925 AL  .955 (5th)
1927 AL  .971 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as OF s c a p y
1920 AL  2.52 (5th)

Oldest s c a p y
1928 AL  born 1890-06-28 (9th)
1929 AL  born 1890-06-28 (10th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 11 (216), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 121 (158), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 68 (286), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 39 (177), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  2. Chick Hafey (919) *
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  4. Hack Wilson (902) *
  5. Babe Herman (901)
  6. Matt Holliday (898)
  7. Hal Trosky (890)
  8. Mike Sweeney (888)
  9. Pedro Guerrero (888)
  10. Miguel Cabrera (884)
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  3. Hideki Matsui (927)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. George Selkirk (908)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Rico Carty (891)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Ripper Collins (884)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Hideki Matsui (872)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Tommy Henrich (884)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Babe Herman (889)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Babe Herman (904)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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