Ken Griffey

1973–1991 · 19 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1950

More than one Major Leaguer has this name. This page is the Ken Griffey who played 1973–1991. The other one:

Ken Griffey, 1989–2010 22 seasons

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17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1973	Cincinnati Reds	NL	25	92	86	19	33	5	1	3	14	6	10	4	.384	.424	.570	.994	0.9
1974	Cincinnati Reds	NL	88	256	227	24	57	9	5	2	19	27	43	9	.251	.333	.361	.695	0.3
1975	Cincinnati Reds	NL	132	540	463	95	141	15	9	4	46	67	67	16	.305	.391	.402	.793	2.4
1976	Cincinnati Reds	NL	148	628	562	111	189	28	9	6	74	62	65	34	.336	.401	.450	.851	5.5
1977	Cincinnati Reds	NL	154	657	585	117	186	35	8	12	57	69	84	17	.318	.389	.467	.855	4.4
1978	Cincinnati Reds	NL	158	680	614	90	177	33	8	10	63	54	70	23	.288	.344	.417	.761	2.7
1979	Cincinnati Reds	NL	95	420	380	62	120	27	4	8	32	36	39	12	.316	.374	.471	.845	2.2
1980	Cincinnati Reds	NL	146	615	544	89	160	28	10	13	85	62	77	23	.294	.364	.454	.818	3.4
1981	Cincinnati Reds	NL	101	442	396	65	123	21	6	2	34	39	42	12	.311	.370	.409	.780	3.8
1982	New York Yankees	AL	127	527	484	70	134	23	2	12	54	39	58	10	.277	.329	.407	.736	2.2
1983	New York Yankees	AL	118	499	458	60	140	21	3	11	46	34	45	6	.306	.355	.437	.792	2.3
1984	New York Yankees	AL	120	436	399	44	109	20	1	7	56	29	32	2	.273	.321	.381	.702	1.2
1985	New York Yankees	AL	127	487	438	68	120	28	4	10	69	41	51	7	.274	.331	.425	.755	1.8
1986	Atlanta Braves	NL	139	532	490	69	150	22	3	21	58	35	67	14	.306	.350	.492	.842	2.8
1987	Atlanta Braves	NL	122	451	399	65	114	24	1	14	64	46	54	4	.286	.358	.456	.814	0.8
1988	Atlanta Braves	NL	94	264	243	26	62	6	0	4	23	19	31	1	.255	.307	.329	.636	-0.8
1989	Cincinnati Reds	NL	106	266	236	26	62	8	3	8	30	29	42	4	.263	.346	.424	.770	0.5
1990	Seattle Mariners	AL	67	156	140	19	42	4	0	4	26	12	8	2	.300	.353	.414	.767	0.5
1991	Seattle Mariners	AL	30	100	85	10	24	7	0	1	9	13	13	0	.282	.380	.400	.780	0.2
Career	19 seasons		2097	8048	7229	1129	2143	364	77	152	859	719	898	200	.296	.361	.431	.792	37.1

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.

Any shaded cell or chip will explain itself. Point at one, or tab to it and it opens on focus, and it names the league, the season and the statistic in full. On a touchscreen, tap it once to open and once more to close.

Not every award existed yet. This database has 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: NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.