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Ian Kinsler    \KENS-luhr\

Ian Michael Kinsler

Position: Second Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: June 22, 1982 in Tucson, AZ
High School: Canyon del Oro HS (Oro Valley, AZ)
Schools: Central Arizona College (Coolidge, AZ), University of Missouri Columbia (Columbia, MO), Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)
Drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 17th round of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed June 24, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 3, 2006 (Age 23)
Team: Rangers 2006-2013
2013 Contract Status: Signed thru 2017, 10 yrs/$96.5M (08-17) & 18 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 7.000, Free Agent: 2018 [*], Agents: Jay Franklin, previously: Jeff Frye [*]
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Fine Details  · Last updated May 15, 2013 3:17PM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #541. Edgardo Alfonzo… #542. Mike Sweeney… #543. Yadier Molina… #544. IAN KINSLER… #545. Tim McCarver… #546. Kevin Seitzer… #547. Robby Thompson… 

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 .892 134 268 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
2010 28 TEX AL 103 460 391 73 112 20 1 9 45 15 5 56 57 .286 .382 .412 .794 110 161 11 7 2 4 2 4 AS
2011 29 TEX AL 155 723 620 121 158 34 4 32 77 30 4 89 71 .255 .355 .477 .832 118 296 17 8 4 2 2 *4D MVP-11
2012 30 TEX AL 157 731 655 105 168 42 5 19 72 21 9 60 90 .256 .326 .423 .749 96 277 14 10 1 5 0 *4D/5 AS
2013 31 TEX AL 37 170 155 21 48 11 0 7 20 3 2 11 16 .310 .367 .516 .883 130 80 3 3 1 0 0 *4
8 Yrs 967 4347 3811 684 1042 229 21 150 487 160 33 422 525 .273 .351 .463 .814 112 1763 92 52 27 35 8
162 Game Avg. 162 728 638 115 175 38 4 25 82 27 6 71 88 .273 .351 .463 .814 112 295 15 9 5 6 1

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2006 24 TEX AL 120 474 2 1 -1 -3 3 1 0.2 18 19 1.9 .501 .501 2.2 0.0 22 $327,000 *4 RoY-7
2007 25 TEX AL 130 566 7 7 -0 4 3 21 2.1 21 42 4.1 .516 .513 3.7 0.8 38 $390,708 *4
2008 26 TEX AL 121 583 25 9 -1 -9 3 26 2.8 19 45 4.6 .521 .516 5.4 -0.5 54 $700,000 *4 AS,MVP-20
2009 27 TEX AL 144 640 7 4 1 22 3 37 3.8 23 60 6.0 .526 .523 3.8 2.6 38 $3,200,000 *4 MVP-26
2010 28 TEX AL 103 460 11 4 -1 7 2 24 2.6 16 40 4.2 .524 .515 3.4 1.0 33 $4,200,000 4 AS
2011 29 TEX AL 155 723 17 8 -2 18 2 44 4.7 25 68 7.0 .530 .528 5.1 2.2 50 $6,200,000 *4D MVP-11
2012 30 TEX AL 157 731 -6 1 -1 1 2 -3 -0.3 25 22 2.1 .498 .498 2.1 0.3 21 $7,000,000 *4D/5 AS
2013 31 TEX AL 37 170 7 1 -0 5 1 14 1.6 6 20 2.1 .540 .509 1.5 0.7 15 $13,000,000 *4
8 Seasons 967 4347 70 35 -6 45 21 164 17.4 152 316 31.9 .517 .513 27.2 7.1 271 $35,017,708

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
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
2010 28 TEX AL ALDS TBR W 5 20 18 5 8 0 0 3 6 0 0 2 2 .444 .500 .944 1.444 17 0 0 0 0 0
2010 28 TEX AL ALCS NYY W 6 25 20 1 5 1 1 0 3 2 1 3 3 .250 .333 .400 .733 8 0 0 1 1 0
2010 28 TEX AL WS SFG L 5 19 16 1 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 2 .188 .316 .250 .566 4 1 0 0 0 0
2011 29 TEX AL ALDS TBR W 4 19 16 2 4 2 0 1 3 1 0 3 3 .250 .368 .563 .931 9 0 0 0 0 0
2011 29 TEX AL ALCS DET W 6 29 24 6 7 2 0 0 6 1 1 4 2 .292 .414 .375 .789 9 1 1 0 0 0
2011 29 TEX AL WS STL L 7 32 25 2 9 1 0 0 2 1 3 7 4 .360 .500 .400 .900 10 0 0 0 0 1
2012 30 TEX AL ALWC BAL L 1 4 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .667 .750 .667 1.417 2 1 0 0 0 0
3 Yrs (7 Series) 34 148 122 18 38 7 1 4 20 6 5 23 16 .311 .422 .484 .905 59 3 1 1 1 1
1 ALWC 1 4 3 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .667 .750 .667 1.417 2 1 0 0 0 0
2 ALDS 9 39 34 7 12 2 0 4 9 1 0 5 5 .353 .436 .765 1.201 26 0 0 0 0 0
2 ALCS 12 54 44 7 12 3 1 0 9 3 2 7 5 .273 .377 .386 .764 17 1 1 1 1 0
2 WS 12 51 41 3 12 2 0 0 2 2 3 10 6 .293 .431 .341 .773 14 1 0 0 0 1

Standard Fielding

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2006 TEX AL 24 2B 119 117 116 1032.0 658 247 393 18 94 .973 -4 -3 -5 -4 5.58 5.38 .986 4.92 4.85 RoY-7
2007 TEX AL 25 2B 130 129 128 1136.2 736 283 436 17 98 .977 1 4 1 4 5.69 5.53 .985 4.98 4.92
2008 TEX AL 26 2B 121 120 116 1064.0 700 292 390 18 123 .974 2 -9 2 -10 5.77 5.64 .987 5.01 4.96 AS,MVP-20
2009 TEX AL 27 2B 144 143 138 1258.0 711 249 451 11 100 .985 17 22 16 21 5.01 4.86 .986 4.76 4.70 MVP-26
2010 TEX AL 28 2B 103 102 95 905.1 475 190 278 7 64 .985 6 7 7 9 4.65 4.54 .984 4.80 4.75 AS
2011 TEX AL 29 2B 144 144 137 1269.0 677 268 398 11 103 .984 10 18 9 17 4.72 4.63 .984 4.76 4.73 MVP-11
2011 TEX AL 29 DH 11 10 MVP-11
2012 TEX AL 30 2B 144 144 138 1265.0 607 203 386 18 81 .970 -4 1 -4 1 4.19 4.09 .983 4.63 4.60 AS
2012 TEX AL 30 DH 13 13 AS
2012 TEX AL 30 3B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 600 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.60 AS
2013 TEX AL 31 2B 37 37 35 322.1 184 65 112 7 23 .962 -0 5 -1 18 4.94 4.78 .985 4.67 4.64
8 Seasons 2B 942 936 903 8252.1 4748 1797 2844 107 686 .977 27 44 4 6 5.06 4.93 .985 4.82 4.78
1 Season 3B 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 600 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.60
8 Seasons TOT 943 936 903 8254.1 4748 1797 2844 107 686 .977 28 44 4 6 5.06 4.92 .985 4.82 4.77
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
2008 *
2010 *
2012 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2008 AL (20, 0%)
2009 AL (26, 0%)
2011 AL (11, 6%)
0.06 Career Shares (1072nd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2013 AL  2.1 (8th)
Active  31.9 (49th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2009 AL  6.0 (9th)
2011 AL  7.0 (8th)
2013 AL  2.1 (4th)
Active  31.9 (30th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2008 AL  5.4 (6th)
Active  27.2 (39th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
2009 AL  2.6 (3rd)
2011 AL  2.2 (7th)
2013 AL  0.7 (10th)
Active  7.1 (36th)

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

On-Base% s c a p y
Active  .351 (50th)

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

At Bats s c a p y
2011 AL  620 (10th)
2012 AL  655 (3rd)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
2011 AL  723 (3rd)
2012 AL  731 (2nd)

Runs Scored s c a p y
2008 AL  102 (8th)
2009 AL  101 (10th)
2011 AL  121 (2nd)
2012 AL  105 (3rd)
Active  684 (43rd)

Hits s c a p y
2013 AL  48 (9th)

Total Bases s c a p y
2013 AL  80 (8th)

Doubles s c a p y
2012 AL  42 (6th)
2013 AL  11 (10th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2011 AL  32 (5th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2011 AL  89 (5th)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
2008 AL  26 (10th)
2009 AL  31 (7th)
2011 AL  30 (9th)
Active  160 (24th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2008 AL  134 (10th)

Runs Created s c a p y
2013 AL  29 (10th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2011 AL  70 (9th)
2012 AL  66 (10th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2011 AL  255 (8th)

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

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2012 AL  10 (8th)
2013 AL  3 (9th)
Active  52 (48th)

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

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2012 AL  9 (4th)

SB % s c a p y
2007 AL  92.00 (2nd)
2008 AL  92.86 (2nd)
2009 AL  86.11 (4th)
2011 AL  88.24 (2nd)
Active  82.90 (7th)
Career  82.90 (18th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2007 AL  21.4 (7th)
2008 AL  21.3 (4th)
2009 AL  31.0 (1st)
2011 AL  31.0 (3rd)
2012 AL  20.0 (5th)
Active  154.8 (18th)
Career  154.8 (164th)

AB per SO s c a p y
2011 AL  8.7 (8th)
2013 AL  9.7 (5th)
Active  7.3 (29th)

Outs Made s c a p y
2011 AL  489 (4th)
2012 AL  516 (2nd)

Assists† s c a p y
2009 AL  451 (2nd)
2013 AL  112 (2nd)
Active  2,844 (23rd)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
2008 AL  18 (3rd)
2012 AL  18 (4th)
2013 AL  7 (1st)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
2011 AL  144 (4th)
2012 AL  144 (4th)
2013 AL  37 (4th)
Active  942 (8th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
2007 AL  283 (4th)
2008 AL  292 (3rd)
2009 AL  249 (5th)
2011 AL  268 (4th)
2013 AL  65 (2nd)
Active  1,797 (8th)

Assists as 2B s c a p y
2006 AL  393 (2nd)
2007 AL  436 (5th)
2009 AL  451 (2nd)
2011 AL  398 (4th)
2013 AL  112 (2nd)
Active  2,844 (8th)

Errors Committed as 2B s c a p y
2006 AL  18 (1st)
2007 AL  17 (1st)
2008 AL  18 (1st)
2009 AL  11 (4th)
2011 AL  11 (2nd)
2012 AL  18 (1st)
2013 AL  7 (1st)
Active  107 (2nd)

Double Plays Turned as 2B s c a p y
2006 AL  94 (5th)
2008 AL  123 (1st)
2009 AL  100 (4th)
2011 AL  103 (1st)
2013 AL  23 (4th)
Active  686 (8th)
Career  686 (88th)

Total Zone Runs as 2B s c a p y
2009 AL  17 (1st)
2010 AL  6 (4th)
2011 AL  10 (3rd)
Active  27 (9th)
Career  27 (49th)

Range Factor/9Inn as 2B† s c a p y
2006 AL  5.58 (1st)
2007 AL  5.69 (1st)
2008 AL  5.77 (1st)
2009 AL  5.01 (3rd)
2013 AL  4.94 (4th)
Active  5.06 (3rd)
Career  5.06 (66th)

Range Factor/Game as 2B s c a p y
2006 AL  5.38 (1st)
2007 AL  5.53 (1st)
2008 AL  5.64 (1st)
2009 AL  4.86 (2nd)
2011 AL  4.63 (4th)
2013 AL  4.78 (3rd)
Active  4.93 (1st)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2009 AL  .985 (4th)
Active  .977 (15th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 37 (676), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 36 (532), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 15 (1098), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Second Base (51st), 30.4 career WAR/29.8 7yr-peak WAR/30.1 JAWS
Average HOF 2B (out of 19) = 69.5 career WAR/44.5 7yr-peak WAR/57.0 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Aaron Hill (925)
  2. John Valentin (922)
  3. Brandon Phillips (911)
  4. Rickie Weeks (909)
  5. Dustin Pedroia (899)
  6. Corey Koskie (896)
  7. Dan Uggla (890)
  8. Grady Sizemore (889)
  9. Hank Blalock (884)
  10. Chris Sabo (883)
Similar Batters through 30 
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  1. Brandon Phillips (932)
  2. Joe Gordon (930) *
  3. Aaron Hill (925)
  4. Jeff Kent (916)
  5. Chase Utley (902)
  6. Bobby Grich (899)
  7. Dan Uggla (897)
  8. Jose Vidro (890)
  9. Gil McDougald (887)
  10. Ray Lankford (885)
* - Signifies Hall of Famer
Most Similar by Ages 
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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
  4. Marcus Giles (953)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Joe Gordon (932) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Brandon Phillips (932)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

 Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes/Other Sources
200624Texas Rangers$327,000
200725Texas Rangers$390,708
200826Texas Rangers$700,000
200927Texas Rangers$3,200,000
201028Texas Rangers$4,200,000
201129Texas Rangers$6,200,000
201230Texas Rangers$7,000,000contracts
201331Texas Rangers$13,000,000
201432Texas Rangers$16,000,000
201533Texas Rangers$16,000,000
201634Texas Rangers$14,000,000
201735Texas Rangers$11,000,000
201836Texas Rangers*$12,000,000$12M Team Option, $5M Buyout
Earliest Free Agent: 2018
Career to date (may be incomplete)$35,017,708Does not include future salaries
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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