SPORTS  :  Baseball  |  Football  |  Basketball  |  Hockey  |  Olympics  HOF History / Support B-R: T-Shirts & Hats or Page Sponsorships
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Ken Phelps

Ken Phelps
Kenneth Allen Phelps

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 1", Weight 209 lb.
School Arizona State University

Debut September 20, 1980
  vs. OAK 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB
Final Game September 8, 1990
Born August 6, 1954 in Seattle, WA

Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 15th round of the 1976 amateur draft. (All Transactions)

 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

The Baseball Crank sponsor(s) this page.

 You can sponsor a page.
Page Expires: 2009-03-08 Alert Me!
        The man who inspired the Ken Phelps All-Star Team - he was given less than half the chances he deserved.

Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons /
Gamelogs: / Splits: / HR Log / PI Finders:Game / Streak / Event / PI vs. Pitcher
/ Neutralize Stats 
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP 
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 1980 25 KCR AL   3    4    0    0   0  0   0    0   0  0   0   2  .000  .000  .000 -100    0   0   0   0   0   0
 1981 26 KCR AL  21   22    1    3   0  1   0    1   0  0   1  13  .136  .174  .227   16    5   0   0   0   0   0
 1982 27 MON NL  10    8    0    2   0  0   0    0   0  0   0   3  .250  .333  .250   65    2   0   0   0   1   0
 1983 28 SEA AL  50  127   10   30   4  1   7   16   0  0  13  25  .236  .301  .449  100   57   1   3   0   0   0
 1984 29 SEA AL 101  290   52   70   9  0  24   51   3  3  61  73  .241  .378  .521  149  151   0   4   5   5   1
 1985 30 SEA AL  61  116   18   24   3  0   9   24   2  0  24  33  .207  .343  .466  120   54   0   0   2   0   1
 1986 31 SEA AL 125  344   69   85  16  4  24   64   2  3  88  96  .247  .406  .526  152  181   0   3   6   6   4
 1987 32 SEA AL 120  332   68   86  13  1  27   68   1  1  80  75  .259  .410  .548  147  182   0   4   5   8   7
 1988 33 TOT AL 117  297   54   78  13  0  24   54   1  0  70  61  .263  .402  .549  162  163   0   3   5   1   6
         SEA AL  72  190   37   54   8  0  14   32   1  0  51  35  .284  .434  .547  170  104   0   2   2   1   3
         NYY AL  45  107   17   24   5  0  10   22   0  0  19  26  .224  .339  .551  147   59   0   1   3   0   3
 1989 34 TOT AL  97  194   26   47   4  0   7   29   0  0  31  47  .242  .342  .371  103   72   0   3   2   0   2
         NYY AL  86  185   26   46   3  0   7   29   0  0  27  47  .249  .340  .378  104   70   0   3   2   0   2
         OAK AL  11    9    0    1   1  0   0    0   0  0   4   0  .111  .385  .222   78    2   0   0   0   0   0
 1990 35 TOT AL  56  120   10   18   2  0   1    6   1  0  22  21  .150  .280  .192   36   23   0   1   3   0   4
         OAK AL  32   59    6   11   2  0   1    6   0  0  12  10  .186  .319  .271   70   16   0   1   1   0   1
         CLE AL  24   61    4    7   0  0   0    0   1  0  10  11  .115  .239  .115    3    7   0   0   2   0   3
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 11 Seasons     761 1854  308  443  64  7 123  313  10  7 390 449  .239  .374  .480  132  890   1  21  28  21  25
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 162 Game Avg        395   66   94  14  1  26   67   2  1  83  96  .239  .374  .480  132  189   0   4   6   4   5
 Career High    125  344   69   86  16  4  27   68   3  3  88  96  .263  .410  .549  162  182   1   4   6   8   7
+--------------+---+----+----+----+---+--+---+----+---+--+---+---+-----+-----+-----+----+----+---+---+---+---+---+
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  G   AB    R    H   2B 3B  HR  RBI  SB CS  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG *OPS+  TB   SH  SF IBB HBP GDP
Special Batting  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  PA  Outs  RC  RC/G   AIR    BA *lgBA   OBP *lgOBP  SLG *lgSLG  OPS *lgOPS*OPS+  OWP *BtRns BtWin SB% 
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 1980 25 KCR AL    4    4    0   0.0    99| .000  .269| .000  .332| .000  .399| .000  .730|-100  .000  -1.1  -0.1   0%
 1981 26 KCR AL   23   19    1   1.4    88| .136  .255| .174  .319| .227  .371| .401  .690|  16  .126  -2.6  -0.3   0%
 1982 27 MON NL    9    6    1   4.5    96| .250  .268| .333  .331| .250  .389| .583  .721|  65  .529  -0.4   0.0   0%
 1983 28 SEA AL  144  101   19   5.0   101| .236  .270| .301  .333| .449  .408| .750  .740| 100  .547  -0.3   0.0   0%
 1984 29 SEA AL  360  228   63   7.4    95| .241  .261| .378  .324| .521  .394| .899  .718| 149  .712  21.5   2.1  50%
 1985 30 SEA AL  140   93   20   5.8    99| .207  .261| .343  .327| .466  .406| .809  .733| 120  .602   3.3   0.3 100%
 1986 31 SEA AL  441  269   81   8.0   100| .247  .262| .406  .330| .526  .408| .932  .737| 152  .730  29.4   2.8  40%
 1987 32 SEA AL  424  258   81   8.4   110| .259  .271| .410  .340| .548  .435| .958  .775| 147  .722  26.3   2.5  50%
 1988 33 TOT AL  371  228   70   8.2    96| .263  .262| .402  .327| .549  .394| .951  .722| 162  .758  27.7   2.8 100%
         SEA AL  244  141   50   9.5    98| .284  .264| .434  .329| .547  .397| .981  .727| 170  .803  21.0   2.1 100%
         NYY AL  127   87   20   6.2    94| .224  .258| .339  .323| .551  .389| .890  .712| 147  .648   6.6   0.7   0%
 1989 34 TOT AL  228  152   27   4.7    92| .242  .259| .342  .324| .371  .382| .713  .706| 103  .541   1.6   0.1   0%
         NYY AL  215  144   26   4.8    92| .249  .260| .340  .324| .378  .382| .718  .706| 104  .549   1.5   0.1   0%
         OAK AL   13    8    1   3.3    91| .111  .257| .385  .322| .222  .379| .607  .700|  78  .383   0.1   0.0   0%
 1990 35 TOT AL  143  107    8   2.0    93| .150  .257| .280  .325| .192  .384| .472  .709|  36  .192  -9.7  -1.0 100%
         OAK AL   72   50    6   3.2    91| .186  .255| .319  .322| .271  .381| .590  .703|  70  .362  -1.8  -0.2   0%
         CLE AL   71   57    2   0.9    95| .115  .259| .239  .327| .115  .388| .354  .715|   3  .056  -8.0  -0.8 100%
+--------------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+-----+-----+-----+----+
 11 Seasons     2287 1465  371   6.8    99| .239  .263| .374  .329| .480  .403| .854  .733| 132  .671  95.6   9.2  58%

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)

Pitch Data Summary (Show or Hide)

Fielding  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons / Sort by Position, then Year 
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn  
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+

 1980 25 KCR AL  1B    2     14    0    0    2 1.000  .993  7.00  8.40 15.75 10.01    1    8.0
 1981 26 KCR AL  DH    4
                 1B    2      4    1    0    0 1.000 1.000  2.50  8.55 15.00 10.20    0    3.0
 1983 28 SEA AL  1B   22    164   16    0   11 1.000  .992  8.18  8.24  9.26  9.90   20  175.0
                 DH   19
 1984 29 SEA AL  DH   84
                 1B    9     72    4    1    7  .987  .991  8.44  8.24  8.66  9.75    9   79.0
 1985 30 SEA AL  DH   25
                 1B    8     31    2    0    5 1.000  .991  4.12  8.68  7.24  9.77    4   41.0
 1986 31 SEA AL  1B   55    487   34    9   58  .983  .991  9.47  8.62 10.09  9.42   53  464.7
                 DH   52
 1987 32 SEA AL  DH  114
                 1B    1      8    0    0    0 1.000  .988  8.00  8.50 10.29  9.64    1    7.0
 1988 33 TOT AL  DH   92
         TOT AL  1B    4     18    2    1    2  .952  .990  5.00  8.40  7.50  9.60    3   24.0
         SEA AL  DH   68
                 1B    3     18    2    1    2  .952  .990  6.67  8.40  7.83  9.59    3   23.0
         NYY AL  DH   24
                 1B    1      0    0    0    0              0.00  8.40  0.00  9.90    0    1.0
 1989 34 TOT AL  DH   56
         TOT AL  1B    9     47    1    1    4  .980  .994  5.33  8.36  9.19  9.79    5   47.0
         NYY AL  DH   55
                 1B    8     47    1    1    4  .980  .994  6.00  8.35 11.37  9.78    4   38.0
                 RF    1      2    0    0    0 1.000 1.000  2.00  1.90  2.00  2.30    1    9.0
         OAK AL  1B    1      0    0    0    0              0.00  8.40  0.00  9.80    1    9.0
                 DH    1
 1990 35 TOT AL  DH   21
         TOT AL  1B   19    111   10    1    7  .992  .992  6.37  8.36  9.31  9.63   14  117.0
         OAK AL  DH   15
                 1B    5     24    3    1    3  .964  .993  5.40  8.36 12.15  9.63    3   20.0
         CLE AL  1B   14     87    7    0    4 1.000  .992  6.71  8.36  8.72  9.63   11   97.0
                 DH    6

+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+

 1980 25 KCR AL  1B    2     14    0    0    2 1.000  .993  7.00  8.40 15.75 10.01    1    8.0
 1981 26 KCR AL  1B    2      4    1    0    0 1.000 1.000  2.50  8.55 15.00 10.20    0    3.0
 1983 28 SEA AL  1B   22    164   16    0   11 1.000  .992  8.18  8.24  9.26  9.90   20  175.0
 1984 29 SEA AL  1B    9     72    4    1    7  .987  .991  8.44  8.24  8.66  9.75    9   79.0
 1985 30 SEA AL  1B    8     31    2    0    5 1.000  .991  4.12  8.68  7.24  9.77    4   41.0
 1986 31 SEA AL  1B   55    487   34    9   58  .983  .991  9.47  8.62 10.09  9.42   53  464.7
 1987 32 SEA AL  1B    1      8    0    0    0 1.000  .988  8.00  8.50 10.29  9.64    1    7.0
 1988 33 TOT AL  1B    4     18    2    1    2  .952  .990  5.00  8.40  7.50  9.60    3   24.0
         SEA AL  1B    3     18    2    1    2  .952  .990  6.67  8.40  7.83  9.59    3   23.0
         NYY AL  1B    1      0    0    0    0              0.00  8.40  0.00  9.90    0    1.0
 1989 34 TOT AL  1B    9     47    1    1    4  .980  .994  5.33  8.36  9.19  9.79    5   47.0
         NYY AL  1B    8     47    1    1    4  .980  .994  6.00  8.35 11.37  9.78    4   38.0
         OAK AL  1B    1      0    0    0    0              0.00  8.40  0.00  9.80    1    9.0
 1990 35 TOT AL  1B   19    111   10    1    7  .992  .992  6.37  8.36  9.31  9.63   14  117.0
         OAK AL  1B    5     24    3    1    3  .964  .993  5.40  8.36 12.15  9.63    3   20.0
         CLE AL  1B   14     87    7    0    4 1.000  .992  6.71  8.36  8.72  9.63   11   97.0

 1981 26 KCR AL  DH    4
 1983 28 SEA AL  DH   19
 1984 29 SEA AL  DH   84
 1985 30 SEA AL  DH   25
 1986 31 SEA AL  DH   52
 1987 32 SEA AL  DH  114
 1988 33 TOT AL  DH   92
         SEA AL  DH   68
         NYY AL  DH   24
 1989 34 TOT AL  DH   56
         NYY AL  DH   55
         OAK AL  DH    1
 1990 35 TOT AL  DH   21
         OAK AL  DH   15
         CLE AL  DH    6

 1989 34 NYY AL  RF    1      2    0    0    0 1.000 1.000  2.00  1.90  2.00  2.30    1    9.0

+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
 Position Total  DH  467   Games not counted in Overall Total below            
                 1B* 131    956   70   13   96  .987  .991  7.83  8.47  9.56  9.61  110  965.7
                 RF*   1      2    0    0    0 1.000 1.000  2.00  1.90  2.00  2.30    1    9.0
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
 Overall Total       131    956   70   13   96  .987  .991  7.83  8.47  9.56  9.60  110    966
An Important note about our fielding stats

Postseason Batting Gamelogs / Vs. Pitcher / Event Finder

 Year   Round Tm  Opp WLser  G   AB  R   H  2B 3B HR RBI  BB  SO   BA   OBP   SLG   SB CS  SH  SF HBP
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
 1989   ALCS  OAK TOR     W   1   1   0   1  1  0  0   0   0   0 1.000 1.000 2.000   0  0   0   0   0 
        WS    OAK SFG     W   1   1   0   0  0  0  0   0   0   0  .000  .000  .000   0  0   0   0   0 
+------+-----+---+---+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+
  2 Postseason Series   2-0   2   2   0   1  1  0  0   0   0   0  .500  .500 1.000   0  0   0   0   0 
+--------------------+-----+---+---+---+---+--+--+--+---+---+---+-----+-----+-----+---+--+---+---+---+

WLser shows whether the player's team Won or Lost the series.
Appearances on Leaderboards and Awards   Glossary

Awards are Year-League-Award, Stats are Year-Value-Rank, (Pos) for All-Star indicates starter & * indicates they played.

Bases on Balls
1986 AL-88-8

Adjusted Batting Runs
1986 AL-29-6

Batting Wins
1986 AL-2.8-6

Hit By Pitch
1987 AL-8-8

At Bats per Home Run
1984 AL-**12.1-9
1986 AL-**14.3-6
1987 AL-**12.3-7
1988 AL-**12.4-5
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.

Gray Ink: Batting - 2 (2067) (Average HOFer ≈ 144)
HOF Standards: Batting - 16.0 (894) (Average HOFer ≈ 50)
Overall Rank in parentheses.

Act.- Denotes rank among active players, Car. - Denotes career rank
Click on the Car, Act or Year to see the career, active, or league leaderboard.


Similar Batters  View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Bob Robertson (918)
  2. Russell Branyan (911)
  3. Brian Daubach (905)
  4. Fred Whitfield (904)
  5. Erubiel Durazo (904)
  6. Steve Bilko (903)
  7. George Crowe (900)
  8. Luke Easter (899)
  9. Nick Swisher (899)
  10. Mike Epstein (892)
Most Similar by Age 

Click on C to compare their stats
Mouse over numbers to view names
  1. Dave Hostetler (946)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Sam Horn (960)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Steve Bilko (913)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Steve Bilko (908)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Dale Long (893)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Dale Long (882)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

June 6, 1972: Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 8th round of the 1972 amateur draft, but did not sign.

January 9, 1974: Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 1st round (11th pick) of the 1974 amateur draft, but did not sign.

June 5, 1974: Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st round (19th pick) of the 1974 amateur draft (Secondary Phase), but did not sign.

June 8, 1976: Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 15th round of the 1976 amateur draft.

January 14, 1982: Traded by the Kansas City Royals to the Montreal Expos for Grant Jackson.

March 31, 1983: Purchased by the Seattle Mariners from the Montreal Expos.

July 21, 1988: Traded by the Seattle Mariners to the New York Yankees for a player to be named later, Jay Buhner, and Rich Balabon (minors). The New York Yankees sent Troy Evers (minors) (October 12, 1988) to the Seattle Mariners to complete the trade.

August 30, 1989: Traded by the New York Yankees to the Oakland Athletics for Scott Holcomb (minors).

November 13, 1989: Granted Free Agency.

December 8, 1989: Signed as a Free Agent with the Oakland Athletics.

June 17, 1990: Purchased by the Cleveland Indians from the Oakland Athletics.

November 5, 1990: Granted Free Agency.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Salaries Leaders
1985Seattle Mariners$180,000
1986Seattle Mariners$235,000
1987Seattle Mariners$300,000
1988Seattle Mariners$670,000
1989New York Yankees$655,000
1990Oakland Athletics$825,000
Career (may be incomplete)$2,865,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, member of SABR.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Uniforms 
View Ken Phelps's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Ken Phelps    

Viewed 52845 times through January 7, 2009.
Name and misspellings: Kenneth alan allan Allen Ken kenny keny king Phelps

Pages Updated through October 30,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Ken Phelps
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through October 30, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.