MLB / Players

Ralph Kiner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 27, 1922 · Santa Rita, NM, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1946

Final gameSeptember 25, 1955

Seasons10 (1946–1955)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1946–1952; Chicago Cubs 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953; Chicago Cubs 1954; Cleveland Indians 1955

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified batters

147

60.5

643

64.2

557

61.7

64.2

159

61.7

92.6

40.7

76.5

RBI

59.3

75.3

3.7

19.8

93.8

.285

53.1

OBP

.371

70.4

SLG

.487

80.2

OPS

.858

80.2

wRC+

122.5

70.4

OPS+

120.1

71.6

wOBA

.381

71.6

sWAR

3.1

60.5

of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

149.3

98.3

OPS+

147.3

97.4

sWAR

51.9

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
1946	144	579	502	63	124	17	3	23	81	74	109	3	0	.247	.345	.430	.775	116.6	115.7	.366	2.9
1947	152	666	565	118	177	23	4	51	127	98	81	1	0	.313	.417	.639	1.055	171.1	171.9	.463	7.4
1948	156	670	555	104	147	19	5	40	123	112	61	1	0	.265	.391	.533	.924	145.7	144.6	.416	5.3
1949	152	667	549	116	170	19	5	54	127	117	61	6	0	.310	.432	.658	1.089	183.4	183.9	.474	8.4
1950	150	672	547	112	149	21	6	47	118	122	79	2	0	.272	.408	.590	.998	153.8	152.6	.435	6.0
1951	151	670	531	124	164	31	6	42	109	137	57	2	1	.309	.452	.627	1.079	183.6	179.6	.473	8.2
1952	149	633	516	90	126	17	2	37	87	110	77	3	0	.244	.384	.500	.884	140.8	136.8	.401	4.5
1953	158	666	562	100	157	20	3	35	116	100	88	2	1	.279	.391	.512	.903	132.2	130.1	.399	4.1
1954	147	643	557	88	159	36	5	22	73	76	90	2	0	.285	.371	.487	.858	122.5	120.1	.381	3.1
1955	113	390	321	56	78	13	0	18	54	65	46	0	0	.243	.367	.452	.818	122.2	119.7	.380	1.9

Career totals

1,472

6,256

5,205

971

395th-most career R

1,451

216

369

84th-most career HR

RBI

1,015

293rd-most career RBI

1,011

121st-most career BB

749

.2788

OBP

.3980

75th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5479

31st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9459

30th-highest career OPS

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
1950-06-25	PIT @ LAD Gameday	6	4	5	1	1	2	8	0	14
1951-07-18	PIT @ LAD Gameday	6	3	3	0	0	3	7	0	12
1947-09-11	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	6	1	12
1947-08-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	3	4	3	0	0	3	5	2	12
1948-07-05	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	3	5	1	12

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-18	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-20	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-21	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1975 (BBWAA)

6× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.