Austin Kearns

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 240 lb

BornMay 20, 1980 · Lexington, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 2002

Final gameMay 3, 2013

Seasons12 (2002–2013)

Cincinnati Reds 2002–2006; Washington Nationals 2006–2009; Cleveland Indians 2010; New York Yankees 2010; Cleveland Indians 2011; Miami Marlins 2012–2013

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified batters

161

92.5

674

78.9

587

72.7

50.3

156

58.4

59.6

12.4

40.4

RBI

44.7

75.8

106

37.3

21.7

51.6

.266

24.2

OBP

.355

52.2

SLG

.411

19.9

OPS

.765

29.2

wRC+

102.2

31.7

OPS+

99.9

28.6

wOBA

.342

30.4

sWAR

1.6

25.5

of 162 qualified 2007 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.2

50.6

OPS+

100.7

43.1

sWAR

11.0

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2002	107	435	372	66	117	24	3	13	56	54	81	6	3	.315	.407	.500	.907	142.2	136.3	.404	3.2
2003	82	338	292	39	77	11	0	15	58	41	68	5	2	.264	.364	.455	.819	117.6	113.4	.366	1.7
2004	64	246	217	28	50	10	2	9	32	28	71	2	1	.230	.321	.419	.740	93.6	91.0	.330	0.3
2005	112	448	387	62	93	26	1	18	67	48	107	0	0	.240	.333	.452	.785	103.5	102.9	.345	1.1
2006	150	629	537	86	142	33	2	24	86	76	135	9	4	.264	.363	.467	.830	113.0	110.4	.364	2.3
2007	161	674	587	84	156	35	1	16	74	71	106	2	2	.266	.355	.411	.765	102.2	99.9	.342	1.6
2008	86	357	313	40	68	10	0	7	32	35	63	2	2	.217	.311	.316	.627	69.9	66.7	.293	-0.6
2009	80	211	174	20	34	6	2	3	17	32	51	1	1	.195	.336	.305	.641	78.3	71.4	.307	-0.1
2010	120	461	403	55	106	21	1	10	49	46	116	4	1	.263	.351	.395	.746	109.2	106.1	.338	1.5
2011	57	174	150	18	30	5	1	2	7	18	48	0	4	.200	.302	.287	.589	71.1	66.0	.278	-0.3
2012	87	175	147	21	36	6	0	4	16	22	44	2	1	.245	.366	.367	.733	107.6	100.7	.337	0.5
2013	19	31	27	3	5	0	0	0	0	4	8	0	0	.185	.290	.185	.476	38.7	35.8	.240	-0.2

Career totals

1,125

4,179

3,606

522

914

187

121

RBI

494

475

898

.2535

OBP

.3506

SLG

.4132

OPS

.7638

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2003-04-11	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
2004-09-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	5	0	8
2010-04-27	CLE @ LAA Gameday	6	2	3	2	0	1	5	0	8
2002-08-21	CIN @ AZ Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
2005-09-23	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	4	3	2	0	1	1	1	8

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.