Ian Kinsler
Ian Michael Kinsler
All-Star Player
Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0" , Weight: 200 lb.

Born: June 22, 1982 in Tucson, AZ
High School: Canyon del Oro (Oro Valley, AZ)
Schools: Arizona State University, University of Missouri
Drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 17th round of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed June 24, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 3, 2006
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Standard Batting

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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 24 TEX AL 120 474 423 65 121 27 1 14 55 11 4 40 64 .286 .347 .454 .801 105 192 12 3 1 7 1 *4 RoY-7
2007 25 TEX AL 130 566 483 96 127 22 2 20 61 23 2 62 83 .263 .355 .441 .796 108 213 14 9 8 4 2 *4
2008 26 TEX AL 121 583 518 102 165 41 4 18 71 26 2 45 67 .319 .375 .517 .892 133 268 12 6 7 7 1 *4 AS,MVP-20
2009 27 TEX AL 144 640 566 101 143 32 4 31 86 31 5 59 77 .253 .327 .488 .814 107 276 9 6 3 6 0 *4 MVP-26
4 Seasons 515 2263 1990 364 556 122 11 83 273 91 13 206 291 .279 .350 .477 .827 113 949 47 24 19 24 4
162 Game Avg. 162 712 626 115 175 38 3 26 86 29 4 65 92 .279 .350 .477 .827 113 299 15 8 6 8 1

Advanced Batting

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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 24 TEX AL 474 326 66 5.4 112 .304 .286 .277 .347 .341 .454 .440 .801 .781 105 .516 3.8 0.4 .761 .279 .168 12.3
2007 25 TEX AL 566 384 80 5.6 108 .279 .263 .272 .355 .340 .441 .425 .796 .765 108 .544 6.3 0.6 .820 .350 .178 21.4
2008 26 TEX AL 583 381 105 7.4 107 .334 .319 .270 .375 .339 .517 .425 .892 .763 133 .674 25.1 2.4 .935 .332 .199 21.3
2009 27 TEX AL 640 446 95 5.7 111 .241 .253 .272 .327 .342 .488 .436 .814 .778 107 .553 4.7 0.4 .840 .385 .235 31.0
4 Seasons 2263 1537 346 6.0 109 .288 .279 .273 .350 .340 .477 .431 .827 .772 113 .578 39.8 3.7 .841 .340 .197 86.8
162 Game Avg. 712 483 109 6.0 109 .288 .279 .273 .350 .340 .477 .431 .827 .772 113 .578 13 1 .841 .340 .197 27

All-Star Batting

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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
2008 TEX AL 26 5 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 .200 .200 .200 .400 1 0 0 0 0 0

Ratio Batting*

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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 24 TEX AL 474 3.0% 13.5% 8.4% 8.9% 35% 1.60 6.6 30.2 7.7 0.57 0.76 74% 20% 7.1% 14%
2007 25 TEX AL 566 3.5% 14.7% 11.0% 7.8% 35% 1.34 5.8 24.2 7.9 0.52 0.77 68% 23% 8.9% 14%
2008 26 TEX AL 583 3.1% 11.5% 7.7% 10.8% 38% 1.49 7.7 28.8 7.3 0.49 0.70 75% 24% 6.7% 11%
2009 27 TEX AL 640 4.8% 12.0% 9.2% 10.5% 47% 1.31 7.4 18.3 6.6 0.44 0.56 73% 18% 11.4% 19%
4 Seasons 2263 3.7% 12.9% 9.1% 9.5% 39% 1.41 6.8 24.0 7.3 0.50 0.68 72% 21% 8.6% 15%
MLB Averages 2.7% 18.0% 8.9% 7.9% 34% 2.02 4.9 32.9 7.8 0.78 1.06 69% 19% 7.8% 13%

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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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 24 TEX AL 3 0 34% 162 11 4 73% 10 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 15 45% 15 8 7 14 7 7 9 4 3
2007 25 TEX AL 4 0 43% 181 23 2 92% 19 2 4 0 0 0 1 0 2 14 52% 31 21 10 8 3 5 27 8 19
2008 26 TEX AL 5 0 42% 217 26 2 93% 18 2 8 0 0 0 4 1 7 23 59% 33 16 17 12 7 5 24 5 19
2009 27 TEX AL 8 0 40% 211 31 5 86% 20 4 11 1 0 0 6 4 3 17 42% 27 18 9 12 6 6 14 7 7
4 Seasons 20 0 40% 771 91 13 88% 67 12 24 1 0 0 11 5 18 69 50% 106 63 43 46 23 23 74 24 48
MLB Averages 31% 72% 39%

Situational Hitting*

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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 24 TEX AL 474 28% 121 14 3 1 0 0 0 0.81 14 0 14 9 5 10 4 0 4 1 25% 85 12 14% 32 12 38% 296 43 15% 23 15 65% 23 9 39% 0
2007 25 TEX AL 566 24% 127 11 2 1 0 0 0 2.38 20 0 9 14 6 12 8 0 12 8 67% 121 14 12% 62 19 31% 353 44 12% 34 14 41% 37 14 38% 0
2008 26 TEX AL 583 26% 165 12 4 0 0 0 0 1.16 18 0 10 13 5 4 14 0 13 7 54% 100 12 12% 42 17 40% 302 54 18% 28 17 61% 30 14 47% 0
2009 27 TEX AL 640 28% 143 9 5 0 0 0 0 31 0 8 18 13 20 11 0 8 3 38% 105 9 9% 56 17 30% 308 59 19% 30 18 60% 19 7 37% 0
4 Seasons 2263 26% 556 46 14 2 0 0 0 1.60 83 0 41 54 29 46 37 0 37 19 51% 411 47 11% 192 65 34% 1259 200 16% 115 64 56% 109 44 40% 0
MLB Averages 55% 72% 11% 32% 14% 51% 43%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

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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 24 TEX AL 474 1849 3.90 1171 63% 32% 9% 28% 31% 68% 1% 43% 87% 18% 5% 26 4 16% 76 28 10% 47 19 14% 0 0 0
2007 25 TEX AL 566 2240 3.96 1370 61% 28% 11% 30% 30% 72% 1% 44% 84% 24% 5% 29 3 16% 89 40 12% 67 24 19% 0 0 0
2008 26 TEX AL 583 2199 3.77 1388 63% 27% 10% 29% 34% 73% 0% 46% 86% 28% 4% 26 5 15% 88 41 10% 57 29 24% 0 0 0
2009 27 TEX AL 640 2455 3.84 1528 62% 26% 9% 32% 33% 74% 0% 46% 87% 27% 4% 28 4 15% 94 54 11% 68 30 21% 0 0 0
4 Seasons 2263 8743 3.86 5457 62% 28% 10% 30% 32% 72% 0% 45% 86% 24% 5% 109 16 15% 347 163 11% 239 102 20% 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.83 62% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 26% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

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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 24 120 474 423 65 121 27 1 14 55 11 4 40 64 .286 .347 .454 .801 105 192 12 3 1 7 1
2007 25 250 1040 906 161 248 49 3 34 116 34 6 102 147 .274 .351 .447 .798 107 405 26 12 9 11 3
2008 26 371 1623 1424 263 413 90 7 52 187 60 8 147 214 .290 .360 .473 .832 116 673 38 18 16 18 4
2009 27 515 2263 1990 364 556 122 11 83 273 91 13 206 291 .279 .350 .477 .827 113 949 47 24 19 24 4

Neutralized Batting

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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 24 120 466 418 61 116 26 1 13 51 11 38 64 .278 .337 .438 .775 62 120
2007 25 130 561 485 91 129 22 2 20 58 23 63 83 .266 .358 .443 .802 76 130
2008 26 121 577 519 99 166 41 4 18 69 26 45 67 .320 .376 .518 .894 101 121
2009 27 144 641 569 98 146 33 4 32 83 32 60 77 .257 .331 .497 .828 92 144
4 Seasons 515 2245 1991 349 557 122 11 83 261 92 206 291 .280 .351 .477 .828 331 515
162 Game Avg. 162 706 626 110 175 38 3 26 82 29 65 92 .280 .351 .477 .828 104 515

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

All-Star Games
2008 *

MVP (yr-lg-rk-shr)
2008-AL-20-0%
2009-AL-26-0%
0.00 Career Shares (1684th)

Batting Average s c a p y
2008 AL--.319--4th

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2008 AL--.892--8th

Runs Scored s c a p y
2008 AL--102--8th
2009 AL--101--10th

Stolen Bases s c a p y
2008 AL--26--10th
2009 AL--31--7th

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2008 AL--133--10th

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2008 AL--.674--8th

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
2007 AL--8--9th

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2007 AL--21.4--7th
2008 AL--21.3--4th
2009 AL--31.0--1st

                           

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 14 (1192), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 14 (959), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 15 (1121), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  1. Aaron Hill (920)
  2. Dan Uggla (918)
  3. Dustin Pedroia (915)
  4. Troy Tulowitzki (908)
  5. Junior Spivey (905)
  6. Brandon Phillips (903)
  7. Ryan Zimmerman (901)
  8. Kurt Abbott (899)
  9. Tadahito Iguchi (898)
  10. Gene Oliver (896)
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  1. Alfonso Soriano (959)
  2. Marcus Giles (954)
  3. Bill Hall (929)
  4. Chase Utley (927)
  5. Brandon Phillips (927)
  6. Jeff Kent (924)
  7. Aaron Hill (920)
  8. Michael Young (917)
  9. Brian Roberts (913)
  10. Adam Kennedy (908)
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  1. Bret Boone (975)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Marcus Giles (982)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Alfonso Soriano (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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