Al Kaline

1953–1974 · 22 seasons · Bats right, throws right · Born 1934

Hall of Fame 1980
10× Gold Glove

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1953	Detroit Tigers	AL	30	30	28	9	7	0	0	1	2	1	5	1	.250	.300	.357	.657	-0.7
1954	Detroit Tigers	AL	138	535	504	42	139	18	3	4	43	22	45	9	.276	.305	.347	.652	-0.6
1955	Detroit Tigers	AL	152	681	588	121	200	24	8	27	102	82	57	6	.340	.421	.546	.967	6.6
1956	Detroit Tigers	AL	153	693	617	96	194	32	10	27	128	70	55	7	.314	.383	.530	.913	6.5
1957GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	149	636	577	83	170	29	4	23	90	43	38	11	.295	.343	.478	.821	3.6
1958GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	146	607	543	84	170	34	7	16	85	54	47	7	.313	.374	.490	.864	4.9
1959GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	136	595	511	86	167	19	2	27	94	72	42	10	.327	.410	.530	.940	7.6
1960	Detroit Tigers	AL	147	629	551	77	153	29	4	15	68	65	47	19	.278	.354	.426	.781	4.5
1961GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	153	665	586	116	190	41	7	19	82	66	42	14	.324	.393	.515	.909	7.3
1962GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	100	452	398	78	121	16	6	29	94	47	39	4	.304	.376	.593	.969	5.4
1963GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	145	616	551	89	172	24	3	27	101	54	48	6	.312	.375	.514	.889	5.8
1964GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	146	608	525	77	154	31	5	17	68	75	51	4	.293	.383	.469	.851	5.8
1965GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	125	474	399	72	112	18	2	18	72	72	49	6	.281	.388	.471	.859	4.1
1966GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	142	572	479	85	138	29	1	29	88	81	66	5	.288	.392	.534	.927	7.1
1967GG	Detroit Tigers	AL	131	550	458	94	141	28	2	25	78	83	47	8	.308	.411	.541	.952	7.4
1968	Detroit Tigers	AL	102	389	327	49	94	14	1	10	53	55	39	6	.287	.392	.428	.820	3.9
1969	Detroit Tigers	AL	131	518	456	74	124	17	0	21	69	54	61	1	.272	.346	.447	.793	2.4
1970	Detroit Tigers	AL	131	555	467	64	130	24	4	16	71	77	49	2	.278	.377	.450	.826	3.3
1971	Detroit Tigers	AL	133	501	405	69	119	19	2	15	54	82	57	4	.294	.416	.462	.878	4.2
1972	Detroit Tigers	AL	106	314	278	46	87	11	2	10	32	28	33	1	.313	.374	.475	.849	2.4
1973	Detroit Tigers	AL	91	347	310	40	79	13	0	10	45	29	28	4	.255	.320	.394	.713	0.3
1974	Detroit Tigers	AL	147	630	558	71	146	28	2	13	64	65	75	2	.262	.337	.389	.726	2.9
Career	22 seasons		2834	11597	10116	1622	3007	498	75	399	1583	1277	1020	137	.297	.379	.480	.859	94.8

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League).

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