MLB / Players

Jason Kipnis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 200 lb

BornApril 3, 1987 · Northbrook, IL, USA

MLB debutJuly 22, 2011

Final gameSeptember 27, 2020

Seasons10 (2011–2020)

Cleveland Indians 2011–2019; Chicago Cubs 2020

Percentile snapshot

2019 season — qualified batters

121

1.5

511

5.2

458

4.5

2.2

112

4.5

18.7

11.9

21.6

RBI

19.4

20.9

82.8

56.7

.245

12.7

OBP

.304

7.5

SLG

.410

12.7

OPS

.715

7.5

wRC+

84.0

8.2

OPS+

85.8

7.5

wOBA

.302

sWAR

0.8

11.2

of 135 qualified 2019 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.1

50.2

OPS+

103.2

48.9

sWAR

21.4

94.2

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
2011	36	150	136	24	37	9	1	7	19	11	34	5	0	.272	.333	.507	.841	131.3	130.5	.364	1.2
2012	152	672	591	86	152	22	4	14	76	67	109	31	7	.257	.335	.379	.714	101.6	99.5	.318	2.7
2013	149	658	564	86	160	36	4	17	84	76	143	30	7	.284	.366	.452	.818	131.0	128.9	.360	5.0
2014	129	555	500	61	120	25	1	6	41	50	100	22	3	.240	.310	.330	.640	82.6	81.6	.294	1.0
2015	141	641	565	86	171	43	7	9	52	57	107	12	8	.303	.372	.451	.823	122.9	120.9	.357	4.1
2016	156	688	610	91	168	41	4	23	82	60	146	15	3	.275	.343	.469	.811	113.9	112.0	.348	3.8
2017	90	373	336	43	78	25	0	12	35	28	71	6	2	.232	.291	.414	.705	81.0	82.7	.302	0.5
2018	147	601	530	65	122	28	1	18	75	60	112	7	1	.230	.315	.389	.704	93.0	91.6	.310	1.8
2019	121	511	458	52	112	23	1	17	65	40	88	7	2	.245	.304	.410	.715	84.0	85.8	.302	0.8
2020	44	135	114	13	27	8	1	3	16	18	41	1	0	.237	.341	.404	.744	104.5	102.2	.330	0.5

Career totals

1,165

4,984

4,404

607

1,147

260

126

RBI

545

467

951

450th-most career SO

136

.2604

OBP

.3334

SLG

.4162

OPS

.7496

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	HR	RBI	TB
2017-05-14	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	4	10
2011-08-10	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	4	5	1	1	3	9
2016-07-08	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	2	9
2018-08-26	CLE @ KC Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	4	8
2015-05-03	TOR @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	2	8

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× 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.