MLB / Players

Byung-Hyun Kim

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 176 lb
BornJanuary 19, 1979 · Gwangju, Gwangju, South Korea
MLB debutMay 29, 1999
Final gameSeptember 28, 2007
Seasons9 (1999–2007)

Arizona Diamondbacks 1999–2003; Boston Red Sox 2003–2004; Colorado Rockies 2005–2006; Arizona Diamondbacks 2007; Colorado Rockies 2007; Florida Marlins 2007

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
9.8
86.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
199925110000000000.000.000.000.000-124.2-100.0.0000.3
200061430000001200.000.250.000.250-6.9-29.2.1850.9
200178660100020200.167.167.167.333-30.3-14.9.1492.7
200272220100000000.500.500.5001.000171.9157.4.4553.1
20035622200410010200.200.200.250.4502.515.1.1983.0
20047000000000000-0.1
20054045380300022600.079.122.079.201-72.5-48.1.1020.9
200627575048100411500.160.176.180.356-26.1-10.9.1620.2
200728423302100121200.061.114.091.205-58.6-45.4.104-1.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19992501210020142031227.34.611.46310.214.5098.199.50.3
2000611661400523546111970.74.461.38714.143.9183.0105.50.9
20017805619005832441131098.02.941.04110.383.6279.5155.02.7
200272083360064192692584.02.041.0719.862.6059.5214.93.1
200356129101600104453310212122.33.311.1207.503.7682.0139.13.0
20047321000171276117.36.231.3853.124.77100.076.6-0.1
20054022512000156807111517148.04.861.5346.994.6599.895.80.9
20062727812000179966112918155.05.571.5487.494.2989.186.40.2
20072822108000131806810720118.36.081.6828.145.70128.672.6-1.2

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

G
394
PA
179
AB
153
R
4
H
19
2B
3
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
10
BB
6
SO
39
SB
0
BA
.1242
OBP
.1563
SLG
.1438
OPS
.3001

Pitching

G (P)
394
GS
87
W
54
L
60
SV
86
209th-most career SV
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
841
SO (P)
806
BB allowed
376
ERA
4.420
WHIP
1.3757
K/9
8.63

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
2006-06-14COL @ WSH Gameday222000002
2003-04-19AZ @ STL Gameday301100102
2006-08-23COL @ MIL Gameday201100102
2007-07-16STL @ MIA Gameday201100002
2001-08-17CHC @ AZ Gameday101000201

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2007-09-12WSH @ MIA Gameday5.27444102
2007-08-01COL @ MIA Gameday5.15226100
2006-07-17COL @ PIT Gameday7.1733290
2006-05-05HOU @ COL Gameday7.0744190
2006-04-30COL @ MIA Gameday6.2511190

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.

Honors

All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.