MLB Stats for Kenny Lofton

Kenneth Lofton was a Major League Baseball player with the Houston Astros (1991), Cleveland Indians (1992-1996, 1998-2001, 2007), Atlanta Braves (1997), Chicago White Sox (2002), San Francisco Giants (2002), Pittsburgh Pirates (2003), Chicago Cubs (2003), New York Yankees (2004), Philadelphia Phillies (2005), Los Angeles Dodgers (2006), and Texas Rangers (2007).

Kenny Lofton Rookie Card | 1991 Upper Deck Final Edition Baseball Card (#24F) | Baseball Almanac Collection

Kenny Lofton was a six-time consecutive All-Star (1994 through 1999), a four-time consecutive Gold Glove Award winner (1993 through 1996), and when he hung up his cleats on October 21, 2007, the speedster was ranked fifteenth on the Top 1,000 Stolen Base Career Leaderboard with six-hundred twenty-two. Historian / Author Bill James (The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, Simon and Shuster, 2003) wrote that the five time consecutive stolen base champion (1992 through 1996) was not only the fastest player in the entire decade (The 1990s, Page 313), but also the best bunter of the decade, and an outfielder on the All-Decade Gold Glove Team:

Kenny Loften, a former Wildcat (pictured below), attended the University of Arizona on a basketball scholarship and in 1988, was part of the team which made it to the Final Four! The following season, Lofton was the starting point guard and the Wildcats made it into the Sweet Sixteen. Lofton selected baseball as his career and when he made it to the 1995 World Series, he became only the second ballplayer (Tim Stoddard was the first) to play in a college basketball Final Four and a World Series. Lofton picked well as he would eventually break Rickey Henderson's record of 33 career post-season stolen bases during the 2007 LCS (Lofton finished with 34).

Kenny Lofton | University of Arizona | Sports Illustrated, May 1, 1995, Page 98