MLB / Players

Kole Calhoun

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 205 lb

BornOctober 14, 1987 · Buckeye, AZ, USA

MLB debutMay 22, 2012

Final gameSeptember 30, 2023

Seasons12 (2012–2023)

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2012–2019; Arizona Diamondbacks 2020–2021; Texas Rangers 2022; Cleveland Guardians 2023

Percentile snapshot

2020 season — qualified batters

31.7

228

54.9

190

32.4

73.2

18.3

35.9

90.8

RBI

85.9

78.2

40.1

23.9

32.4

.226

OBP

.338

49.3

SLG

.526

OPS

.864

76.1

wRC+

125.5

OPS+

127.5

73.9

wOBA

.366

75.4

sWAR

1.2

of 143 qualified 2020 batters (min 186 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.4

42.5

OPS+

100.4

42.7

sWAR

10.9

87.9

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
2012	21	25	23	2	4	1	0	0	1	2	6	1	0	.174	.240	.217	.457	16.5	31.1	.194	-0.3
2013	58	222	195	29	55	7	2	8	32	21	41	2	2	.282	.347	.462	.808	127.0	126.5	.353	1.2
2014	127	537	493	90	134	31	3	17	58	38	104	5	3	.272	.325	.450	.776	123.1	121.6	.344	2.7
2015	159	686	630	78	161	23	2	26	83	45	164	4	1	.256	.308	.422	.731	103.1	103.2	.317	1.9
2016	157	672	594	91	161	35	5	18	75	67	118	2	3	.271	.348	.438	.786	118.0	115.6	.342	3.1
2017	155	654	569	77	139	23	2	19	71	71	134	5	1	.244	.333	.392	.725	97.3	96.4	.317	1.3
2018	137	551	491	71	102	18	2	19	57	53	133	6	2	.208	.283	.369	.652	76.8	78.2	.284	-0.3
2019	152	631	552	92	128	29	1	33	74	70	162	4	1	.232	.325	.467	.792	104.5	105.8	.331	1.7
2020	54	228	190	35	43	9	0	16	40	28	50	1	1	.226	.338	.526	.864	125.5	127.5	.366	1.2
2021	51	182	166	17	39	8	0	5	17	15	41	1	0	.235	.297	.373	.670	78.7	78.9	.296	-0.1
2022	125	424	388	36	76	14	1	12	49	27	136	3	2	.196	.257	.330	.587	63.2	65.2	.262	-1.2
2023	43	174	157	18	34	7	0	6	25	13	37	0	1	.217	.282	.376	.657	80.6	81.5	.287	-0.2

Career totals

1,239

4,986

4,448

636

1,076

205

179

470th-most career HR

RBI

582

450

1,126

284th-most career SO

.2419

OBP

.3151

SLG

.4168

OPS

.7319

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	BB	TB
2020-09-15	AZ @ LAA Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	0	9
2015-07-18	BOS @ LAA Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	2	1	9
2019-08-23	LAA @ HOU Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	1	0	8
2019-07-23	LAA @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	2	0	8
2019-07-24	LAA @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	2	0	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

1× Gold Glove

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