MLB / Players

Kris Medlen

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 7, 1985 · Artesia, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 21, 2009

Final gameMay 4, 2018

Seasons8 (2009–2018)

Atlanta Braves 2009–2013; Kansas City Royals 2015–2016; Arizona Diamondbacks 2018

Percentile snapshot

2013 season — qualified pitchers

33.8

83.8

18.8

SHO

194

32.5

78.8

68.8

157

43.8

56.3

197.0

47.5

ERA

3.11

76.3

WHIP

1.223

48.8

K/9

7.17

37.5

FIP

3.45

FIP-

93.1

48.8

ERA+

119.4

71.3

sWAR

3.7

of 81 qualified 2013 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.5

87.5

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2009	39	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.1	-100.0	.000	0.5
2010	32	33	27	2	5	1	0	2	3	14	0	.185	.290	.222	.513	47.4	42.5	.253	1.6
2011	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
2012	50	39	33	3	4	1	0	2	4	15	0	.121	.216	.152	.368	0.8	3.1	.186	5.3
2013	32	67	55	3	9	2	1	4	4	23	1	.164	.217	.255	.471	22.5	31.2	.216	3.7
2015	15	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
2016	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
2018	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.4	-100.0	.000	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2009	37	4	3	5	0	0	0	65	32	30	72	5	67.7	4.26	1.404	9.58	3.31	79.1	98.3	0.5
2010	31	14	6	2	0	0	0	108	44	21	83	13	107.7	3.68	1.198	6.94	3.80	96.1	107.6	1.6
2011	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	2.3	0.00	.429	7.71	1.28	33.5	—	0.1
2012	50	12	10	1	1	2	1	103	24	23	120	6	138.0	1.57	.913	7.83	2.46	62.6	251.3	5.3
2013	32	31	15	12	0	0	0	194	68	47	157	18	197.0	3.11	1.223	7.17	3.45	93.1	119.4	3.7
2015	15	8	6	2	0	0	0	56	26	18	40	6	58.3	4.01	1.269	6.17	4.10	99.8	102.4	0.7
2016	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	30	21	20	18	2	24.3	7.77	2.055	6.66	5.16	121.6	54.7	-0.7
2018	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	9	7	4	4	0	4.0	15.75	3.250	9.00	4.12	99.5	26.3	-0.5

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

177

154

129

RBI

.1395

OBP

.2113

SLG

.1938

OPS

.4051

Pitching

G (P)

174

SHO

599

SO (P)

496

BB allowed

163

ERA

3.334

WHIP

1.2164

K/9

7.45

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
2013-06-08	ATL @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
2013-07-02	MIA @ ATL Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
2010-06-03	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	1	1	2
2012-09-08	ATL @ NYM Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
2013-08-13	PHI @ ATL Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2012-09-14	WSH @ ATL Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	1	13	1
2012-09-03	COL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	0	12	0
2012-08-28	ATL @ SD Gameday	8.0	5	0	0	0	9	0
2013-09-03	NYM @ ATL Gameday	7.0	7	1	1	0	9	0
2009-05-31	ATL @ AZ Gameday	6.0	4	1	1	1	9	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.