Ian Kennedy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 210 lb

BornDecember 19, 1984 · Huntington Beach, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 1, 2007

Final gameSeptember 15, 2023

Seasons17 (2007–2023)

New York Yankees 2007–2009; Arizona Diamondbacks 2010–2013; San Diego Padres 2013–2015; Kansas City Royals 2016–2020; Philadelphia Phillies 2021; Texas Rangers 2021; Arizona Diamondbacks 2022; Texas Rangers 2023

Percentile snapshot

2016 season — qualified pitchers

69.9

32.9

SHO

173

56.2

47.9

24.7

184

4.1

195.7

68.5

ERA

3.68

60.3

WHIP

1.221

54.8

K/9

8.46

65.8

FIP

4.63

15.1

FIP-

109.0

19.2

ERA+

115.4

sWAR

3.2

of 74 qualified 2016 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.8

28.8

sWAR

17.5

92.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2007	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2008	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.3
2009	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2010	33	67	54	7	11	1	0	0	2	7	24	.204	.290	.222	.513	38.5	37.9	.250	3.2
2011	34	75	61	3	8	3	0	0	4	4	24	.131	.197	.180	.377	-7.0	2.8	.183	5.2
2012	33	73	51	4	4	0	1	0	6	11	29	.078	.238	.118	.356	3.8	-0.5	.196	2.4
2013	32	64	53	1	7	3	0	0	1	5	28	.132	.207	.189	.396	3.4	11.3	.192	-0.7
2014	33	63	52	3	6	1	0	1	5	5	24	.115	.193	.192	.385	6.2	11.8	.186	1.8
2015	30	48	42	3	4	3	0	0	0	0	23	.095	.095	.167	.262	-50.7	-29.0	.112	0.6
2016	33	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.2	-100.0	.000	3.2
2017	30	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	148.8	130.1	.398	0.0
2018	22	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	184.4	176.3	.440	0.7
2019	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
2020	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6
2021	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
2022	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2023	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2007	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	13	4	9	15	1	19.0	1.89	1.158	7.11	3.84	85.1	238.0	0.7
2008	10	9	0	4	0	0	0	50	36	26	27	5	39.7	8.17	1.916	6.13	5.48	125.1	53.6	-1.3
2009	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1.0	0.00	2.000	9.00	10.14	223.1	—	0.1
2010	32	32	9	10	0	0	0	163	82	70	168	26	194.0	3.80	1.201	7.79	4.35	103.1	111.1	3.2
2011	33	33	21	4	0	1	1	186	71	55	198	19	222.0	2.88	1.086	8.03	3.19	79.8	138.7	5.2
2012	33	33	15	12	0	1	0	216	93	55	187	28	208.3	4.02	1.301	8.08	4.08	99.6	102.0	2.4
2013	31	31	7	10	0	0	0	180	99	73	163	27	181.3	4.91	1.395	8.09	4.56	121.7	76.5	-0.7
2014	33	33	13	13	0	0	0	189	81	70	207	16	201.0	3.63	1.289	9.27	3.18	91.5	95.9	1.8
2015	30	30	9	15	0	0	0	166	80	52	174	31	168.3	4.28	1.295	9.30	4.54	119.2	89.1	0.6
2016	33	33	11	11	0	0	0	173	80	66	184	33	195.7	3.68	1.221	8.46	4.63	109.0	115.4	3.2
2017	30	30	5	13	0	0	0	143	92	61	131	34	154.0	5.38	1.325	7.66	5.60	126.2	82.5	0.0
2018	22	22	3	9	0	0	0	125	62	40	105	20	119.7	4.66	1.379	7.90	4.64	108.2	92.0	0.7
2019	63	0	3	2	30	0	0	64	24	17	73	6	63.3	3.41	1.279	10.37	3.03	64.4	138.1	1.5
2020	15	1	0	2	0	0	0	20	14	5	15	7	14.0	9.00	1.786	9.64	8.81	192.0	51.0	-0.6
2021	55	0	3	1	26	0	0	45	20	17	62	12	56.3	3.20	1.101	9.91	4.76	111.9	133.7	1.3
2022	57	0	4	7	10	0	0	57	30	22	44	11	50.3	5.36	1.570	7.87	5.64	139.8	75.2	-0.3
2023	16	0	0	1	0	0	0	16	13	7	21	4	16.3	7.16	1.408	11.57	5.52	125.7	61.2	-0.3

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

500

399

321

RBI

154

.1308

OBP

.2129

SLG

.1807

OPS

.3936

Pitching

G (P)

497

451st-most career G (P)

290

387th-most career GS

104

114

401st-most career L

275th-most career SV

SHO

1,904

SO (P)

1,775

133rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

647

470th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.164

WHIP

1.2881

499th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

8.39

71st-highest career K/9

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
2014-05-08	MIA @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4
2010-09-12	AZ @ COL Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
2011-09-24	SF @ AZ Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	2	1	3
2011-08-23	AZ @ WSH Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
2012-07-23	COL @ AZ Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	3	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2011-09-19	PIT @ AZ Gameday	8.0	1	0	0	1	12	0
2010-08-26	AZ @ SD Gameday	7.0	1	0	0	2	12	0
2014-05-08	MIA @ SD Gameday	7.0	4	1	1	2	12	0
2015-09-02	TEX @ SD Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	2	12	1
2012-06-05	COL @ AZ Gameday	6.0	5	0	0	1	12	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.