Ian Kinsler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornJune 22, 1982 · Tucson, AZ, USA

MLB debutApril 3, 2006

Final gameAugust 12, 2019

Seasons14 (2006–2019)

Texas Rangers 2006–2013; Detroit Tigers 2014–2017; Boston Red Sox 2018; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2018; San Diego Padres 2019

Percentile snapshot

2018 season — qualified batters

128

4.3

534

15.8

487

19.4

28.1

117

9.4

33.1

23.7

RBI

9.4

25.9

96.4

80.6

10.8

.240

15.8

OBP

.301

14.4

SLG

.380

11.5

OPS

.681

10.8

wRC+

86.2

13.7

OPS+

86.2

10.1

wOBA

.299

10.8

sWAR

1.2

16.5

of 140 qualified 2018 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.8

57.1

OPS+

106.3

55.2

sWAR

39.6

97.9

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
2006	120	474	423	65	121	27	1	14	55	40	64	11	4	.286	.347	.454	.801	104.2	103.9	.349	2.1
2007	130	566	483	96	127	22	2	20	61	62	83	23	2	.263	.355	.441	.796	108.6	106.4	.355	2.7
2008	121	583	518	102	165	41	4	18	71	45	67	26	2	.319	.375	.517	.892	133.5	131.9	.390	4.6
2009	144	640	566	101	143	32	4	31	86	59	77	31	5	.253	.327	.488	.814	106.6	106.8	.352	3.0
2010	103	460	391	73	112	20	1	9	45	56	57	15	5	.286	.382	.412	.794	115.8	110.6	.360	2.7
2011	155	723	620	121	158	34	4	32	77	89	71	30	4	.255	.355	.477	.832	121.9	118.0	.366	4.5
2012	157	731	655	105	168	42	5	19	72	60	90	21	9	.256	.326	.423	.749	99.6	98.0	.329	2.7
2013	136	614	545	85	151	31	2	13	72	51	59	15	11	.277	.344	.413	.757	108.8	106.2	.337	2.9
2014	161	726	684	100	188	40	4	17	92	29	79	15	4	.275	.307	.420	.727	103.1	104.0	.321	3.1
2015	154	675	624	94	185	35	7	11	73	43	80	10	6	.296	.342	.428	.770	114.0	112.3	.336	3.8
2016	153	679	618	117	178	29	4	28	83	45	115	14	6	.288	.348	.484	.831	123.7	121.3	.357	4.7
2017	139	613	551	90	130	25	3	22	52	55	86	14	5	.236	.313	.412	.725	91.9	91.2	.314	1.7
2018	128	534	487	66	117	26	0	14	48	40	64	16	7	.240	.301	.380	.681	86.2	86.2	.299	1.2
2019	87	281	258	28	56	12	0	9	22	19	54	2	4	.217	.278	.368	.646	68.1	68.6	.280	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2019	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1.0	0.00	3.000	0.00	12.17	283.5	—	0.0

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

1,888

339th-most career G

8,299

234th-most career PA

7,423

228th-most career AB

1,243

158th-most career R

1,999

299th-most career H

416

166th-most career 2B

257

239th-most career HR

RBI

909

399th-most career RBI

693

389th-most career BB

1,046

353rd-most career SO

243

258th-most career SB

.2693

OBP

.3368

SLG

.4403

OPS

.7771

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

3.0000

K/9

0.00

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
2009-04-15	BAL @ TEX Gameday	6	5	6	2	1	1	4	0	13
2015-08-18	DET @ CHC Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	1	2	0	9
2006-05-25	ATH @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
2009-06-16	HOU @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
2011-08-20	TEX @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2019-08-12	TB @ SD Gameday	1.0	1	0	0	2	0	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

2× Gold Glove4× 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.