MLB / Players

Matt Kinney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 5 in · 220 lb
BornDecember 16, 1976 · Bangor, ME, USA
MLB debutAugust 18, 2000
Final gameSeptember 28, 2005
Seasons5 (2000–2005)

Minnesota Twins 2000; Minnesota Twins 2002; Milwaukee Brewers 2003; Kansas City Royals 2004; Milwaukee Brewers 2004; San Francisco Giants 2005

Percentile snapshot

2003 season — qualified pitchers

G
33
53.8
GS
31
28.6
W
10
14.3
L
13
15.4
SV
0
0
CG
1
19.8
SHO
0
0
H
201
40.7
ER
110
5.5
BB
80
12.1
SO
152
70.3
HR
27
22
IP
190.7
35.2
ERA
5.19
8.8
WHIP
1.474
14.3
K/9
7.17
76.9
FIP
4.58
29.7
FIP-
106.7
25.3
ERA+
82.6
7.7
sWAR
-0.4
5.5

of 92 qualified 2003 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.2
22.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
200080000000000000.4
200214220000000100.000.000.000.000-120.1-100.0.0000.5
200333625532100022700.036.070.055.125-85.0-66.7.064-0.4
2004431090200010100.222.222.222.4444.315.4.200-0.6
20055330100000100.333.333.333.66773.776.0.301-0.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
2000882200041242524742.35.101.5595.106.01118.499.50.4
2002141227000783433451366.04.641.6826.145.80129.896.40.5
2003333110130102011108015227190.75.191.4747.174.58106.782.6-0.4
2004436350001045330731178.76.061.7038.354.2696.472.8-0.6
2005512000018863212.06.002.0002.256.41150.970.8-0.1

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

G
103
PA
77
AB
69
R
3
H
5
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
2
SO
30
SB
0
BA
.0725
OBP
.0986
SLG
.0870
OPS
.1856

Pitching

G (P)
103
GS
58
W
19
L
27
SV
0
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
390
SO (P)
297
BB allowed
174
ERA
5.289
WHIP
1.5808
K/9
6.86

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
2004-04-07MIL @ STL Gameday302000102
2003-07-13CIN @ MIL Gameday211100002
2003-08-20PHI @ MIL Gameday311000001
2005-09-23SF @ COL Gameday101000001
2002-06-19MIN @ NYM Gameday200000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
2003-08-20PHI @ MIL Gameday8.0900280
2003-05-14CHC @ MIL Gameday7.2866171
2003-05-09MIL @ CIN Gameday7.0332271
2003-08-25MIL @ CIN Gameday7.0644071
2000-08-27DET @ MIN Gameday6.0543271

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.