Mark Kotsay

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 220 lb

BornDecember 2, 1975 · Whittier, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 11, 1997

Final gameSeptember 29, 2013

Seasons17 (1997–2013)

Florida Marlins 1997–2000; San Diego Padres 2001–2003; Oakland Athletics 2004–2007; Atlanta Braves 2008; Boston Red Sox 2008–2009; Chicago White Sox 2009–2010; Milwaukee Brewers 2011; San Diego Padres 2012–2013

Percentile snapshot

2006 season — qualified batters

129

4.3

558

22.4

502

6.8

138

21.7

41.6

57.1

12.4

RBI

21.7

29.2

89.4

47.2

42.9

.275

32.3

OBP

.332

21.7

SLG

.386

11.8

OPS

.719

12.4

wRC+

89.1

18.6

OPS+

88.3

wOBA

.320

14.9

sWAR

1.3

21.7

of 162 qualified 2006 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.2

32.2

OPS+

95.3

31.8

sWAR

16.6

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
1997	14	57	52	5	10	1	1	0	4	4	7	3	0	.192	.250	.250	.500	32.6	34.2	.235	-0.3
1998	154	623	578	72	161	25	7	11	68	34	61	10	5	.279	.318	.403	.721	90.8	92.0	.321	0.8
1999	148	535	495	57	134	23	9	8	50	29	50	7	6	.271	.306	.402	.708	76.1	81.1	.308	-0.6
2000	152	578	530	87	158	31	5	12	57	42	46	19	9	.298	.347	.443	.791	102.5	102.4	.348	1.4
2001	119	460	406	67	118	29	1	10	58	48	58	13	5	.291	.366	.441	.807	118.9	115.9	.357	2.8
2002	153	646	578	82	169	27	7	17	61	59	89	11	9	.292	.359	.452	.810	123.4	120.5	.364	4.3
2003	128	541	482	64	128	28	4	7	38	56	82	6	3	.266	.343	.384	.726	98.3	96.2	.328	1.9
2004	148	673	606	78	190	37	3	15	63	55	70	8	5	.314	.370	.459	.829	116.3	115.8	.362	3.8
2005	139	629	582	75	163	35	1	15	82	40	51	5	5	.280	.325	.421	.746	96.7	97.5	.326	2.1
2006	129	558	502	57	138	29	3	7	59	44	55	6	3	.275	.332	.386	.719	89.1	88.3	.320	1.3
2007	56	226	206	20	44	14	0	1	20	19	20	1	1	.214	.279	.296	.575	52.9	55.5	.260	-0.5
2008	110	436	402	45	111	25	4	6	49	32	45	2	4	.276	.329	.403	.732	91.7	92.4	.326	1.0
2009	67	206	187	16	52	9	0	4	23	15	21	3	2	.278	.327	.390	.717	80.4	85.3	.312	-0.2
2010	107	359	327	30	78	17	2	8	31	32	36	1	3	.239	.306	.376	.683	82.1	83.8	.305	-0.5
2011	104	255	233	18	63	13	1	3	31	21	27	3	0	.270	.329	.373	.703	89.7	91.0	.316	0.2
2012	82	156	143	9	37	8	0	2	14	11	14	0	2	.259	.314	.357	.671	87.0	88.1	.300	0.1
2013	104	171	155	8	30	2	0	1	12	13	25	0	2	.194	.253	.226	.479	35.5	39.0	.227	-1.0

Career totals

1,914

318th-most career G

7,109

436th-most career PA

6,464

408th-most career AB

790

1,784

418th-most career H

353

310th-most career 2B

127

RBI

720

554

757

.2760

OBP

.3321

SLG

.4044

OPS

.7365

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	TB
2008-08-14	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	1	2	11
2001-05-19	SD @ WSH Gameday	7	3	4	2	0	1	4	9
2004-07-24	TEX @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
2002-09-22	LAD @ SD Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
2001-06-27	SD @ COL Gameday	6	2	4	1	0	1	3	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.