Bobby Kielty

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 225 lb

BornAugust 5, 1976 · Fontana, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 2001

Final gameSeptember 30, 2007

Seasons7 (2001–2007)

Minnesota Twins 2001–2003; Toronto Blue Jays 2003; Oakland Athletics 2004–2006; Boston Red Sox 2007; Oakland Athletics 2007

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified batters

137

20.6

509

2.4

427

0.6

29.1

104

1.2

27.3

9.1

26.1

RBI

18.2

79.4

41.2

57.6

41.8

.244

7.3

OBP

.358

62.4

SLG

.400

21.8

OPS

.758

28.5

wRC+

100.8

35.8

OPS+

98.7

32.7

wOBA

.338

33.9

sWAR

0.9

15.2

of 166 qualified 2003 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.3

77.5

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
2001	37	118	104	8	26	8	0	2	14	8	25	3	0	.250	.297	.385	.681	68.4	77.0	.289	-0.2
2002	112	348	289	49	84	14	3	12	46	52	66	4	1	.291	.405	.484	.890	138.9	136.1	.390	2.4
2003	137	509	427	71	104	26	1	13	57	71	92	8	3	.244	.358	.400	.758	100.8	98.7	.338	0.9
2004	83	278	238	29	51	14	1	7	31	35	47	1	0	.214	.321	.370	.691	84.8	80.8	.314	-0.1
2005	116	433	377	55	99	20	0	10	57	50	67	3	2	.263	.350	.395	.746	101.3	99.0	.333	0.9
2006	81	297	270	35	73	20	1	8	36	22	49	2	0	.270	.329	.441	.770	100.9	99.9	.338	0.7
2007	33	101	87	10	19	3	0	1	12	8	26	0	0	.218	.287	.287	.574	51.9	52.4	.265	-0.4

Career totals

599

2,084

1,792

257

456

105

RBI

253

246

372

.2545

OBP

.3482

SLG

.4085

OPS

.7567

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
2002-07-20	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	1	3	1	9
2004-05-19	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
2003-04-17	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
2006-08-21	ATH @ TOR Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
2001-08-02	MIN @ TOR Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	0	7

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.