Kurt Suzuki
Oakland Athletics 2007–2012; Washington Nationals 2012; Oakland Athletics 2013; Washington Nationals 2013; Minnesota Twins 2014–2016; Atlanta Braves 2017–2018; Washington Nationals 2019–2020; Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim 2021–2022
Percentile snapshot
2014 season — qualified batters
of 147 qualified 2014 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 68 | 248 | 213 | 27 | 53 | 13 | 0 | 7 | 39 | 24 | 39 | 0 | 0 | .249 | .327 | .408 | .735 | 97.6 | 97.0 | .328 | 1.3 |
| 2008 | 148 | 588 | 530 | 54 | 148 | 25 | 1 | 7 | 42 | 44 | 69 | 2 | 3 | .279 | .346 | .370 | .716 | 97.2 | 94.6 | .326 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 147 | 614 | 570 | 74 | 156 | 37 | 1 | 15 | 88 | 28 | 59 | 8 | 2 | .274 | .313 | .421 | .734 | 91.7 | 93.2 | .321 | 2.5 |
| 2010 | 131 | 544 | 495 | 55 | 120 | 18 | 2 | 13 | 71 | 33 | 49 | 3 | 2 | .242 | .303 | .366 | .669 | 82.2 | 83.8 | .300 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 134 | 515 | 460 | 54 | 109 | 26 | 0 | 14 | 44 | 38 | 64 | 2 | 2 | .237 | .301 | .385 | .686 | 89.5 | 90.0 | .304 | 2.2 |
| 2012 | 118 | 442 | 408 | 36 | 96 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 43 | 20 | 73 | 2 | 0 | .235 | .276 | .328 | .605 | 62.7 | 67.1 | .266 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 94 | 316 | 285 | 25 | 66 | 13 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 22 | 35 | 2 | 0 | .232 | .290 | .337 | .627 | 64.9 | 73.1 | .276 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 131 | 503 | 452 | 37 | 130 | 34 | 0 | 3 | 61 | 34 | 46 | 0 | 1 | .288 | .345 | .383 | .727 | 107.7 | 105.2 | .329 | 3.3 |
| 2015 | 131 | 479 | 433 | 36 | 104 | 17 | 0 | 5 | 50 | 29 | 59 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .296 | .314 | .610 | 64.2 | 67.5 | .270 | 0.7 |
| 2016 | 106 | 373 | 345 | 34 | 89 | 24 | 1 | 8 | 49 | 18 | 48 | 0 | 0 | .258 | .301 | .403 | .704 | 85.8 | 87.3 | .304 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 81 | 309 | 276 | 38 | 78 | 13 | 0 | 19 | 50 | 17 | 39 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .351 | .536 | .887 | 126.2 | 125.5 | .375 | 2.7 |
| 2018 | 105 | 388 | 347 | 45 | 94 | 24 | 0 | 12 | 50 | 22 | 43 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .332 | .444 | .776 | 107.8 | 107.0 | .340 | 2.4 |
| 2019 | 85 | 309 | 280 | 37 | 74 | 11 | 0 | 17 | 63 | 20 | 36 | 0 | 1 | .264 | .324 | .486 | .809 | 103.7 | 104.5 | .340 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 33 | 129 | 111 | 15 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .270 | .349 | .396 | .745 | 103.0 | 101.9 | .329 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 72 | 247 | 219 | 17 | 49 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 44 | 0 | 0 | .224 | .294 | .342 | .636 | 72.6 | 72.4 | .281 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 51 | 159 | 139 | 10 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 29 | 0 | 0 | .180 | .266 | .295 | .561 | 60.5 | 60.2 | .256 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-21 | PHI @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 9 |
| 2008-06-20 | MIA @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 2018-04-11 | ATL @ WSH Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 2013-04-07 | WSH @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2018-04-19 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.