Matt Kemp

Matthew Ryan Kemp (The Bison)

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: September 23, 1984 in Midwest City, OK
High School: Midwest City (Midwest City, OK)
Drafted
by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 6th round of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed June 5, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 28, 2006
Team: Dodgers 2006-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2019, 2 yrs/$10.95M (10-11), 8 yrs/$160M (12-19) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 5.049, Free Agent: 2020 [*], Agents: Dave Stewart [*]
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Standard Batting

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2006 21 LAD NL 52 166 154 30 39 7 1 7 23 6 0 9 53 .253 .289 .448 .737 85 69 1 0 0 3 1
2007 22 LAD NL 98 311 292 47 100 12 5 10 42 10 5 16 66 .342 .373 .521 .894 127 152 6 0 0 3 0
2008 23 LAD NL 155 657 606 93 176 38 5 18 76 35 11 46 153 .290 .340 .459 .799 110 278 11 1 1 3 6 *
2009 24 LAD NL 159 667 606 97 180 25 7 26 101 34 8 52 139 .297 .352 .490 .842 124 297 14 3 0 6 6 * MVP-10,GG,SS
2010 25 LAD NL 162 668 602 82 150 25 6 28 89 19 15 53 170 .249 .310 .450 .760 106 271 14 4 0 9 4 *
2011 26 LAD NL 161 689 602 115 195 33 4 39 126 40 11 74 159 .324 .399 .586 .986 171 353 16 6 0 7 24 *8/D AS,MVP-2,GG,SS
6 Seasons 787 3158 2862 464 840 140 28 128 457 144 50 250 740 .294 .350 .496 .846 125 1420 62 14 1 31 41
162 Game Avg. 162 650 589 96 173 29 6 26 94 30 10 51 152 .294 .350 .496 .846 125 292 13 3 0 6 8

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
2006 21 LAD NL 166 -4 1 0 0 -8 0 5 -6 -0.6 2 0.2 -0.8 $
2007 22 LAD NL 311 11 1 1 0 -6 -3 9 13 1.3 19 1.9 -0.6 $383,000
2008 23 LAD NL 657 3 2 2 2 4 -1 18 30 3.0 26 2.7 0.3 $406,000 *
2009 24 LAD NL 667 23 2 5 0 5 2 18 56 5.7 51 5.2 0.5 $467,000 * MVP-10,GG,SS
2010 25 LAD NL 668 4 -2 2 -1 -2 2 18 22 2.3 24 2.5 -0.2 $4,000,000 *
2011 26 LAD NL 689 60 6 2 -2 9 2 19 97 10.0 87 9.0 1.0 $7,100,000 *8/D AS,MVP-2,GG,SS
6 Seasons 3158 97 10 12 0 3 3 88 212 21.7 209 21.5 0.2 $12,356,000

Advanced Batting

Year Age Tm Lg PA Outs RC RC/G AIR BAbip BA lgBA OBP lgOBP SLG lgSLG OPS lgOPS OPS+ OWn% BtRuns BtWins TotA SecA ISO PwrSpd
2006 21 LAD NL 166 119 21 4.7 114 .330 .253 .273 .289 .344 .448 .444 .737 .788 85 .466 -4.1 -0.4 .724 .292 .195 6.5
2007 22 LAD NL 311 206 55 7.2 112 .411 .342 .274 .373 .343 .521 .438 .894 .781 127 .653 10.8 1.0 .852 .250 .178 10.0
2008 23 LAD NL 657 456 95 5.6 106 .361 .290 .265 .340 .336 .459 .423 .799 .759 110 .560 7.3 0.7 .772 .284 .168 23.8
2009 24 LAD NL 667 454 106 6.2 103 .345 .297 .261 .352 .333 .490 .415 .842 .748 124 .618 19.3 1.8 .844 .322 .193 29.5
2010 25 LAD NL 668 490 80 4.4 99 .295 .249 .257 .310 .327 .450 .405 .760 .732 106 .478 3.5 0.4 .690 .296 .201 22.6
2011 26 LAD NL 689 441 141 8.6 96 .380 .324 .256 .399 .323 .586 .398 .986 .720 171 .771 59.6 5.9 1.065 .434 .262 39.5
6 Seasons 3158 2166 498 6.2 103 .352 .294 .262 .350 .332 .496 .415 .846 .747 125 .618 96.4 9.4 .833 .323 .203 135.5
162 Game Avg. 650 446 103 6.2 103 .352 .294 .262 .350 .332 .496 .415 .846 .747 125 .618 20 2 .833 .323 .203 28

Postseason Batting

Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2008 23 LAD NL NLDS CHC W 3 13 13 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 .154 .154 .308 .462 4 1 0 0 0 0
2008 23 LAD NL NLCS PHI L 5 19 15 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 .333 .474 .400 .874 6 1 0 0 0 0
2009 24 LAD NL NLDS STL W 3 14 14 2 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 8 .143 .143 .357 .500 5 0 0 0 0 0
2009 24 LAD NL NLCS PHI L 5 21 20 2 5 0 0 1 2 0 1 1 8 .250 .286 .400 .686 8 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (4 Series) 16 67 62 5 14 3 0 2 5 0 2 5 25 .226 .284 .371 .655 23 2 0 0 0 0
2 NLDS 6 27 27 2 4 2 0 1 3 0 0 0 13 .148 .148 .333 .481 9 1 0 0 0 0
2 NLCS 10 40 35 3 10 1 0 1 2 0 2 5 12 .286 .375 .400 .775 14 1 0 0 0 0

All-Star Batting

Year Tm Lg Age GS PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2011 LAD NL 26 as CF 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .500 .667 .500 1.167 1 0 0 0 0 0

Ratio Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% SO/BB AB/SO AB/HR AB/RBI GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB
2006 21 LAD NL 166 4.2% 31.9% 5.4% 9.0% 39% 5.89 2.9 22.0 6.7 0.75 1.17 58% 22% 12.5% 5%
2007 22 LAD NL 311 3.2% 21.2% 5.1% 8.7% 27% 4.13 4.4 29.2 7.0 0.83 0.84 70% 18% 8.5% 6%
2008 23 LAD NL 657 2.7% 23.3% 7.0% 9.3% 35% 3.33 4.0 33.7 8.0 0.85 1.01 67% 20% 7.5% 3%
2009 24 LAD NL 667 3.9% 20.8% 7.8% 8.7% 32% 2.67 4.4 23.3 6.0 0.71 0.91 67% 22% 10.0% 6%
2010 25 LAD NL 668 4.2% 25.5% 7.9% 8.8% 39% 3.21 3.5 21.5 6.8 0.71 1.08 62% 20% 11.2% 3%
2011 26 LAD NL 689 5.7% 23.1% 10.7% 11.0% 39% 2.15 3.8 15.4 4.8 0.62 0.87 60% 21% 14.7% 5%
6 Seasons 3158 4.1% 23.4% 7.9% 9.4% 35% 2.96 3.9 22.4 6.3 0.73 0.96 64% 21% 10.8% 5%
MLB Averages 2.6% 17.8% 8.5% 7.8% 34% 2.08 5.0 33.9 7.8 0.79 1.07 69% 19% 7.6% 13%

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg BtRuns BtWins Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI PHlev AB
2006 21 LAD NL -4.1 -0.4 176 -0.1 2.7 -2.7 .87 0.2 -0.3 -0.5 -0.0 0.98 0.2 1.79 8
2007 22 LAD NL 10.8 1.0 327 0.8 6.7 -5.9 1.03 1.7 -1.0 11.8 1.1 0.95 16.8 1.26 9
2008 23 LAD NL 7.3 0.7 714 0.5 12.9 -12.4 1.06 1.6 -1.0 17.6 1.7 0.99 18.4 1.34 6
2009 24 LAD NL 19.3 1.8 724 2.5 14.7 -12.2 1.07 2.6 -0.3 31.8 3.1 0.99 30.0 3.11 3
2010 25 LAD NL 4.0 0.4 716 -0.6 12.4 -13.0 1.03 0.2 -0.8 -2.7 -0.3 0.97 2.6 1.39 6
2011 26 LAD NL 59.6 5.9 751 6.2 17.4 -11.2 1.05 6.5 -0.6 66.2 6.6 1.07 65.5 0.01 1
6 Seasons 96.9 9.4 3408 9.3 66.8 -57.5 1.04 12.8 -3.8 124.4 12.2 1.00 133.5 1.56 33

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year Age Tm Lg ROE XI RS% SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS OOB BT XBT% 1stS 1stS2 1stS3 1stD 1stD3 1stDH 2ndS 2ndS3 2ndSH
2006 21 LAD NL 3 0 56% 45 6 0 100% 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 60% 6 4 2 3 0 3 6 1 4
2007 22 LAD NL 3 0 35% 107 10 5 67% 10 5 0 0 0 0 2 1 4 3 50% 15 8 7 8 3 4 9 4 5
2008 23 LAD NL 7 0 37% 216 35 11 76% 30 10 5 1 0 0 5 3 11 17 53% 28 17 10 6 2 4 24 4 17
2009 24 LAD NL 12 0 34% 246 34 8 81% 30 7 4 1 0 0 6 3 7 16 52% 34 21 12 10 3 6 18 4 14
2010 25 LAD NL 8 0 30% 188 19 15 56% 17 15 2 0 0 0 6 2 8 19 46% 33 20 12 6 1 5 20 8 10
2011 26 LAD NL 8 0 32% 230 40 11 78% 35 6 5 5 0 0 5 2 10 16 62% 38 21 17 8 3 4 25 2 23
6 Seasons 41 0 34% 1032 144 50 74% 128 43 16 7 0 0 24 11 42 76 54% 154 91 60 41 12 26 102 23 73

Situational Hitting*

Hits Pinch Hitting Home Runs SH GIDP PrdOut BaseRunners Advances
Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% H Inf Bnt AB H HR RBI PHlev All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd IP Att Suc % Opp DP % Opp Suc % BR BRS BRS% <2,3B Scr % 0,2B Adv % PAu
2006 21 LAD NL 166 30% 39 3 0 8 1 1 1 1.79 7 0 7 7 0 4 3 0 1 0 0% 37 1 3% 20 7 35% 120 18 15% 14 8 57% 9 4 44% 0
2007 22 LAD NL 311 36% 100 21 0 9 1 0 0 1.26 10 0 10 7 3 9 1 0 0 0 75 6 8% 36 10 28% 204 35 17% 28 14 50% 19 8 42% 0
2008 23 LAD NL 657 28% 176 21 0 6 2 0 0 1.34 18 1 18 12 6 14 4 0 1 1 100% 134 11 8% 59 16 27% 408 63 15% 25 12 48% 33 19 58% 0
2009 24 LAD NL 667 23% 180 25 3 3 1 0 0 3.11 26 3 19 18 8 13 13 0 1 0 0% 143 14 10% 71 17 24% 453 78 17% 40 21 53% 27 14 52% 0
2010 25 LAD NL 668 25% 150 9 0 6 1 0 1 1.39 28 1 15 22 6 15 13 0 0 0 123 14 11% 75 21 28% 441 65 15% 40 21 53% 38 14 37% 0
2011 26 LAD NL 689 24% 195 18 0 1 1 1 1 0.01 39 1 10 28 11 19 20 0 0 0 157 16 10% 52 18 35% 471 89 19% 43 23 53% 34 25 74% 0
6 Seasons 3158 26% 840 97 3 33 7 2 3 1.56 128 6 79 94 34 74 54 0 3 1 33% 669 62 9% 313 89 28% 2097 348 17% 190 99 52% 160 84 53% 0
MLB Averages 54% 68% 11% 32% 15% 51% 56%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Pit Pit/PA Str Str% L/Str S/Str F/Str I/Str AS/Str I/Bll AS/Pit Con 1stS 30% 30c 30s 20% 20c 20s 31% 31c 31s L/SO PAu Pitu Stru
2006 21 LAD NL 166 652 3.93 426 65% 22% 28% 26% 24% 78% 2% 51% 64% 28% 5% 9 1 17% 28 14 11% 18 11 15% 0 0 0
2007 22 LAD NL 311 1086 3.49 701 65% 23% 21% 24% 33% 77% 0% 50% 73% 35% 3% 8 2 13% 41 26 6% 18 13 26% 0 0 0
2008 23 LAD NL 657 2437 3.71 1584 65% 21% 21% 29% 29% 79% 3% 51% 74% 36% 4% 29 5 12% 77 43 5% 35 23 22% 0 0 0
2009 24 LAD NL 667 2633 3.95 1669 63% 25% 18% 28% 28% 75% 2% 47% 76% 24% 5% 32 11 15% 99 52 9% 57 35 27% 0 0 0
2010 25 LAD NL 668 2644 3.96 1667 63% 28% 22% 24% 26% 72% 2% 45% 70% 20% 5% 34 7 17% 115 56 9% 57 34 20% 0 0 0
2011 26 LAD NL 691 2704 3.91 1681 62% 23% 22% 28% 27% 77% 8% 48% 71% 30% 7% 47 7 13% 88 28 7% 48 26 18% -2 0 0
6 Seasons 3160 12156 3.85 7728 64% 24% 21% 27% 28% 76% 3% 48% 72% 28% 5% 159 33 14% 448 219 7% 233 142 21% -2 0 0
MLB Averages 3.80 63% 28% 15% 27% 31% 72% 2% 45% 80% 27% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2006 21 52 166 154 30 39 7 1 7 23 6 0 9 53 .253 .289 .448 .737 85 69 1 0 0 3 1
2007 22 150 477 446 77 139 19 6 17 65 16 5 25 119 .312 .344 .496 .839 113 221 7 0 0 6 1
2008 23 305 1134 1052 170 315 57 11 35 141 51 16 71 272 .299 .342 .474 .816 111 499 18 1 1 9 7
2009 24 464 1801 1658 267 495 82 18 61 242 85 24 123 411 .299 .346 .480 .826 116 796 32 4 1 15 13
2010 25 626 2469 2260 349 645 107 24 89 331 104 39 176 581 .285 .336 .472 .808 113 1067 46 8 1 24 17
2011 26 787 3158 2862 464 840 140 28 128 457 144 50 250 740 .294 .350 .496 .846 125 1420 62 14 1 31 41

Neutralized Batting

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G)
How this works
Year Age G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS RC Gact
2006 21 52 164 152 28 37 7 1 7 22 6 9 53 .243 .280 .441 .721 19 52
2007 22 98 305 287 44 95 11 5 10 39 10 15 66 .331 .361 .509 .869 53 98
2008 23 155 655 605 92 175 38 5 18 75 35 46 153 .289 .339 .458 .797 94 155
2009 24 159 672 610 101 184 26 7 27 105 35 53 139 .302 .357 .500 .857 109 159
2010 25 162 675 607 87 155 26 6 29 94 20 55 170 .255 .317 .461 .778 89 162
2011 26 161 706 614 127 207 35 4 41 139 42 79 159 .337 .414 .607 1.021 155 161
6 Seasons 787 3177 2875 479 853 143 28 132 474 148 257 740 .297 .354 .504 .857 519 787
162 Game Avg. 162 654 592 99 176 29 6 27 98 30 53 152 .297 .354 .504 .857 107 787

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1919 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 NL (10, 11%)
2011 NL (2, 74%)
0.85 Career Shares (292nd)

Gold Gloves
2009 NL (OF)
2011 NL (CF)
All multiple winners

Silver Sluggers
2009 NL (OF)
2011 NL (OF)
All multiple winners

Wins Above Replacements c a p y
2011 NL  10.0 (1st)

WAR Position Playerss c a p y
2009 NL  5.8 (9th)
2011 NL  10.0 (1st)

Offensive WARs c a p y
2009 NL  5.2 (9th)
2011 NL  9.0 (1st)

Batting Average s c a p y
2011 NL  .324 (3rd)
Active  .294 (26th)

On-Base% s c a p y
2011 NL  .399 (4th)

Slugging % s c a p y
2011 NL  .586 (2nd)
Active  .496 (29th)
Career  .496 (117th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2011 NL  .986 (2nd)
Active  .846 (36th)
Career  .846 (184th)

Games Played s c a p y
2009 NL  159 (7th)
2010 NL  162 (1st)
2011 NL  161 (2nd)

At Bats s c a p y
2009 NL  606 (9th)
2010 NL  602 (8th)
2011 NL  602 (6th)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2011 NL  689 (5th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2011 NL  115 (1st)

Hits s c a p y
2009 NL  180 (9th)
2011 NL  195 (2nd)

Total Bases s c a p y
2011 NL  353 (1st)

Home Runs s c a p y
2011 NL  39 (1st)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
2011 NL  126 (1st)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2011 NL  74 (8th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2008 NL  153 (6th)
2010 NL  170 (5th)
2011 NL  159 (7th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
2008 NL  35 (7th)
2009 NL  34 (3rd)
2011 NL  40 (2nd)
Active  144 (38th)

Singles s c a p y
2009 NL  122 (9th)
2011 NL  119 (8th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2011 NL  171 (1st)
Active  125 (28th)
Career  125 (239th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2011 NL  141 (1st)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2011 NL  60 (1st)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2011 NL  5.9 (1st)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2011 NL  76 (2nd)

Times On Base s c a p y
2011 NL  275 (3rd)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2011 NL  .771 (2nd)
Active  .618 (36th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2010 NL  9 (3rd)
2011 NL  7 (9th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2011 NL  24 (2nd)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2008 NL  11 (5th)
2010 NL  15 (2nd)
2011 NL  11 (2nd)
Active  50 (37th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2008 NL  23.8 (6th)
2009 NL  29.5 (2nd)
2010 NL  22.6 (7th)
2011 NL  39.5 (1st)
Active  135.5 (33rd)
Career  135.5 (228th)

AB per HR s c a p y
2011 NL  15.4 (3rd)
Active  22.4 (43rd)
Career  22.4 (190th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2010 NL  490 (1st)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)s c a p y
2011 NL  66.22 (1st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
2011 NL  6.2 (4th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)s c a p y
2011 NL  6.5 (2nd)
Active  12.8 (47th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)s c a p y
2011 NL  6.6 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
2006 NL  born 1984-09-23 (9th)

                           

Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 12 (197), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 38 (647), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 32 (578), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 19 (782), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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