MLB / Players

Ryan Klesko

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 220 lb

BornJune 12, 1971 · Westminster, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1992

Final gameSeptember 25, 2007

Seasons16 (1992–2007)

Atlanta Braves 1992–1999; San Diego Padres 2000–2006; San Francisco Giants 2007

Percentile snapshot

2005 season — qualified batters

137

16.2

520

7.4

443

2.7

10.8

110

4.1

11.5

46.6

RBI

18.9

81.8

64.2

33.8

.248

4.1

OBP

.358

62.2

SLG

.418

27.7

OPS

.775

40.5

wRC+

114.4

60.1

OPS+

110.1

52.7

wOBA

.350

54.1

sWAR

2.0

36.5

of 149 qualified 2005 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.8

88.8

OPS+

128.3

88.9

sWAR

33.2

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
1992	13	15	14	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	.000	.067	.000	.067	-103.2	-79.9	.050	-0.4
1993	22	20	17	3	6	1	0	2	5	3	4	0	0	.353	.450	.765	1.215	213.5	220.7	.507	0.3
1994	92	276	245	42	68	13	3	17	47	26	48	1	0	.278	.344	.563	.907	129.5	132.1	.386	1.5
1995	107	381	329	48	102	25	2	23	70	47	72	5	4	.310	.396	.608	1.004	156.1	159.5	.427	3.3
1996	153	602	528	90	149	21	4	34	93	68	129	6	3	.282	.364	.530	.894	129.3	131.2	.387	3.4
1997	143	522	467	67	122	23	6	24	84	48	130	4	4	.261	.334	.490	.824	110.7	112.2	.360	1.6
1998	129	490	427	69	117	29	1	18	70	56	66	5	3	.274	.359	.473	.832	119.0	119.1	.366	2.1
1999	133	466	404	55	120	28	2	21	80	53	69	5	2	.297	.376	.532	.908	124.8	128.3	.388	2.1
2000	145	590	494	88	140	33	2	26	92	91	81	23	7	.283	.393	.516	.909	134.3	135.4	.395	3.3
2001	146	638	538	105	154	34	6	30	113	88	89	23	4	.286	.384	.539	.923	143.3	144.6	.394	4.4
2002	146	625	540	90	162	39	1	29	95	76	86	6	2	.300	.388	.537	.925	149.5	150.4	.402	4.7
2003	121	474	397	47	100	18	0	21	67	65	83	2	5	.252	.354	.456	.810	116.2	117.1	.355	1.6
2004	127	480	402	58	117	32	2	9	66	73	67	3	2	.291	.399	.448	.847	130.8	127.5	.377	2.7
2005	137	520	443	61	110	19	1	18	58	75	80	3	4	.248	.358	.418	.775	114.4	110.1	.350	2.0
2006	6	6	4	0	3	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	.750	.833	1.000	1.833	378.2	387.8	.754	0.2
2007	116	411	362	51	94	27	3	6	44	46	68	5	1	.260	.344	.401	.744	94.4	91.9	.335	0.2

Career totals

1,736

474th-most career G

6,516

5,611

874

1,564

343

336th-most career 2B

278

206th-most career HR

RBI

987

320th-most career RBI

817

254th-most career BB

1,077

333rd-most career SO

.2787

OBP

.3701

282nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5003

117th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8704

126th-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
2001-08-29	SD @ STL Gameday	6	4	5	2	0	2	5	0	13
2001-05-21	SD @ HOU Gameday	3	3	3	0	1	2	6	1	11
1995-06-06	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	6	0	10
1999-07-16	ATL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
2002-09-08	SD @ COL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	3	1	10

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

1× 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.