Ken Hill (baseball)

Ken Hill

Pitcher

Born: December 14, 1965 (age 51)
Lynn, Massachusetts

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

September 3, 1988, for the St. Louis Cardinals

Last MLB appearance

April 18, 2001, for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays

MLB statistics

Win–Loss record

117–109

Earned run average

4.06

Strikeouts

1,181

Teams

Career highlights and awards

All-Star (1994)
NL wins leader (1994)

Kenneth Wade Hill (born December 14, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. During a 14-year career, he pitched from 1988 to 2001 for seven different teams. He pitched in the 1995 World Series as a member of the Cleveland Indians. He also appeared in the 1994 All-Star Game in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium.

Hill graduated from Lynn Classical High School in 1983 and later attended North Adams State College.

Hill was called up by the injury-plagued St. Louis Cardinals in 1989. He started well, but soon went downhill. He finished that season 7-15, but with a decent 3.80 ERA. He wouldn't see another decent season until 1991, going 11-10 with a 3.57 ERA. In November 1991, he was traded to the Montreal Expos for first baseman Andrés Galarraga. It was as a member of these Expos that Hill found his groove.

In both 1992 and 1994 Hill won 16 games, going 16-9 with a 2.68 ERA in 1991 and 16-5 with a 3.32 ERA in 1994. Notably, the 1994 season was curtailed on August 12 due to the Major League Baseball strike, stranding him on pace for a 23-7 season. He was also an All-Star in 1994, pitching 2 innings in relief and walking one, and finished second in Cy Young voting to Greg Maddux. He then returned to the Cardinals, where he suffered the same fate he endured in his first stint in St. Louis, winning only 6 games, losing 7, and posting a 5.06 ERA. He was then was traded to the Cleveland Indians for minor league prospects David Bell, Rick Heiserman and Pepe McNeal. He did well for the Indians, going 4-1 in the remainder of the regular season and 2-1 in the postseason.

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