Kosuke Fukudome
Chicago Cubs 2008–2011; Cleveland Indians 2011; Chicago White Sox 2012
Percentile snapshot
2011 season — qualified batters
of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 150 | 590 | 501 | 79 | 129 | 25 | 3 | 10 | 58 | 81 | 104 | 12 | 4 | .257 | .359 | .379 | .738 | 91.2 | 90.1 | .333 | 0.6 |
| 2009 | 146 | 603 | 499 | 79 | 129 | 38 | 5 | 11 | 54 | 93 | 112 | 6 | 10 | .259 | .375 | .421 | .796 | 110.9 | 105.5 | .362 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 130 | 429 | 358 | 45 | 94 | 20 | 2 | 13 | 44 | 64 | 67 | 7 | 8 | .263 | .371 | .439 | .809 | 120.2 | 114.8 | .366 | 1.9 |
| 2011 | 146 | 603 | 530 | 59 | 139 | 27 | 3 | 8 | 35 | 61 | 110 | 4 | 6 | .262 | .342 | .370 | .712 | 99.1 | 96.5 | .324 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 24 | 51 | 41 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .171 | .294 | .195 | .489 | 42.6 | 37.3 | .242 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-04-08 | CHC @ HOU Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2011-06-16 | MIL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2008-03-31 | MIL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2010-04-25 | CHC @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 2009-04-26 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.