Craig Kimbrel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 215 lb

BornMay 28, 1988 · Huntsville, AL, USA

MLB debutMay 7, 2010

Seasons16 (2010–2025)

Atlanta Braves 2010–2014; San Diego Padres 2015; Boston Red Sox 2016–2018; Chicago Cubs 2019–2020; Chicago White Sox 2021; Chicago Cubs 2021; Los Angeles Dodgers 2022; Philadelphia Phillies 2023; Baltimore Orioles 2024; Atlanta Braves 2025; Houston Astros 2025

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

22.5

94.5

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2010	21	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
2011	79	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
2012	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
2013	68	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
2014	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
2015	61	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.0	-100.0	.000	1.4
2016	57	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
2017	67	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
2018	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
2019	23	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2020	18	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
2021	63	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.4	-100.0	.000	1.9
2022	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2023	71	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
2024	57	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2025	14	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2010	21	4	0	1	9	1	16	40	0	20.7	0.44	1.210	17.42	1.56	39.4	909.1	1.1
2011	79	4	3	46	48	18	32	127	3	77.0	2.10	1.039	14.84	1.49	38.9	181.7	2.4
2012	63	3	1	42	27	7	14	116	3	62.7	1.01	.654	16.66	0.82	20.9	391.2	2.8
2013	68	4	3	50	39	9	20	98	4	67.0	1.21	.881	13.16	1.90	51.3	306.7	2.7
2014	63	0	3	47	30	11	26	95	2	61.7	1.61	.908	13.86	1.81	50.3	223.6	2.1
2015	61	4	2	39	40	17	22	87	6	59.3	2.58	1.045	13.20	2.71	71.1	147.8	1.4
2016	57	2	6	31	28	20	30	83	4	53.0	3.40	1.094	14.09	2.88	65.3	130.0	1.2
2017	67	5	0	35	33	11	14	126	6	69.0	1.43	.681	16.43	1.40	31.0	315.4	3.1
2018	63	5	1	42	31	19	31	96	7	62.3	2.74	.995	13.86	3.16	72.8	158.5	1.7
2019	23	0	4	13	21	15	12	30	9	20.7	6.53	1.597	13.06	7.96	183.9	66.3	-0.3
2020	18	0	1	2	10	9	12	28	2	15.3	5.28	1.435	16.43	4.00	90.7	83.4	0.0
2021	63	4	5	24	31	15	23	100	6	59.7	2.26	.905	15.08	2.42	55.7	187.7	1.9
2022	63	6	7	22	51	25	28	72	4	60.0	3.75	1.317	10.80	3.29	83.0	105.7	0.7
2023	71	8	6	23	44	25	28	94	10	69.0	3.26	1.043	12.26	3.81	86.2	135.5	1.6
2024	57	7	5	23	40	31	31	73	7	52.3	5.33	1.357	12.55	4.11	102.1	75.4	-0.3
2025	14	0	1	0	10	3	7	17	2	12.0	2.25	1.417	12.75	4.15	102.7	179.6	0.4
2026	46	1	5	1	40	23	22	40	4	46.0	4.50	1.348	7.83	—	—	—	—

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.

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

Batting

851

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

851

43rd-most career G (P)

440

5th-most career SV

SHO

822

SO (P)

1,282

336th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

346

ERA

2.585

WHIP

1.0199

K/9

14.04

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. 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
2010-05-07	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2010-05-08	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2010-05-15	AZ @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2010-05-20	CIN @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2010-06-05	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2017-04-20	BOS @ TOR Gameday	2.0	1	1	1	0	5	1
2017-05-11	BOS @ MIL Gameday	1.2	1	0	0	0	5	0
2017-06-06	BOS @ NYY Gameday	1.1	0	0	0	1	5	0
2010-10-08	ATL @ SF Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	0	4	0
2011-04-21	ATL @ LAD Gameday	2.0	1	1	1	1	4	0

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

1× Rookie of the Year9× 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.