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Kurt Suzuki

Kurt Kiyoshi Suzuki (twitter: @kurtsuzuki)

Position: Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: October 4, 1983 in Wailuku, HI
High School: Baldwin HS (Wailuku, HI)
School: California State University Fullerton (Fullerton, CA)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 2nd round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed July 16, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 12, 2007 (Age 23)
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Nationals 2007-2013
2013 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible (team option), 3 yrs/$15.65M (11-13) & 14 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 5.113, Free Agent: 2014 [*],
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Fine Details  · Last updated May 16, 2013 5:17AM
All-Time Rank (among batters): #1556. Charlie Gelbert… #1557. Dick Siebert… #1558. Johnny Groth… #1559. KURT SUZUKI… #1560. Travis Lee… #1561. Tommy McCraw… #1562. Carmelo Martinez… 

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
2007 23 OAK AL 68 248 213 27 53 13 0 7 39 0 0 24 39 .249 .327 .408 .735 98 87 4 3 3 5 0 2/D
2008 24 OAK AL 148 588 530 54 148 25 1 7 42 2 3 44 69 .279 .346 .370 .716 96 196 20 11 2 1 2 *2/D
2009 25 OAK AL 147 614 570 74 156 37 1 15 88 8 2 28 59 .274 .313 .421 .734 93 240 14 8 1 7 0 *2D
2010 26 OAK AL 131 544 495 55 120 18 2 13 71 3 2 33 49 .242 .303 .366 .669 83 181 22 12 0 4 3 *2/D
2011 27 OAK AL 134 515 460 54 109 26 0 14 44 2 2 38 64 .237 .301 .385 .686 89 177 14 7 3 7 1 *2/D
2012 28 TOT MLB 118 442 408 36 96 20 0 6 43 2 0 20 73 .235 .276 .328 .605 67 134 5 5 4 5 3 *2
2012 28 OAK AL 75 278 262 19 57 15 0 1 18 1 0 9 53 .218 .250 .286 .536 49 75 3 3 2 2 0 2
2012 28 WSN NL 43 164 146 17 39 5 0 5 25 1 0 11 20 .267 .321 .404 .725 97 59 2 2 2 3 3 2
2013 29 WSN NL 26 91 79 6 19 5 1 2 9 1 0 9 11 .241 .322 .405 .727 100 32 0 1 1 1 3 *2
7 Yrs 772 3042 2755 306 701 144 5 64 336 18 9 196 364 .254 .312 .380 .692 88 1047 79 47 14 30 12
162 Game Avg. 162 638 578 64 147 30 1 13 71 4 2 41 76 .254 .312 .380 .692 88 220 17 10 3 6 3
OAK (6 yrs) 703 2787 2530 283 643 134 4 57 302 16 9 176 333 .254 .311 .378 .689 87 956 77 44 11 26 6
WSN (2 yrs) 69 255 225 23 58 10 1 7 34 2 0 20 31 .258 .321 .404 .726 98 91 2 3 3 4 6
AL (6 yrs) 703 2787 2530 283 643 134 4 57 302 16 9 176 333 .254 .311 .378 .689 87 956 77 44 11 26 6
NL (2 yrs) 69 255 225 23 58 10 1 7 34 2 0 20 31 .258 .321 .404 .726 98 91 2 3 3 4 6

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
2007 23 OAK AL 68 248 0 -1 -1 -7 4 -5 -0.4 9 4 0.4 .493 .497 1.1 -0.3 11 2/D
2008 24 OAK AL 148 588 -0 -1 -3 10 9 14 1.7 22 36 3.8 .510 .509 2.7 2.0 26 $395,000 *2/D
2009 25 OAK AL 147 614 -5 2 -1 6 8 11 1.2 23 34 3.4 .507 .507 2.8 1.4 28 $410,000 *2D
2010 26 OAK AL 131 544 -12 -2 -1 8 7 0 0.2 20 20 2.1 .500 .500 1.2 1.7 12 $420,000 *2/D
2011 27 OAK AL 134 515 -7 -2 -2 -1 8 -3 -0.3 19 16 1.6 .498 .498 1.7 0.7 17 $3,437,500 *2/D
2012 28 OAK AL 75 278 -19 -1 -0 3 5 -12 -1.3 10 -2 -0.3 .483 .492 -0.6 0.8 -5 2
2012 28 WSN NL 43 164 -2 -0 -0 -1 3 -0 -0.0 5 5 0.4 .499 .500 0.5 0.2 6 $5,000,000 2
2013 29 WSN NL 26 91 -1 0 0 0 2 1 0.1 3 4 0.4 .506 .501 0.4 0.1 4 $6,450,000 *2
7 Seasons 772 3042 -45 -5 -7 18 45 6 1.1 113 118 11.9 .501 .500 9.9 6.6 100 $16,112,500
OAK (6 yrs) 703 2787 -42 -5 -7 19 40 5 1.0 104 109 11.0 .501 .500 9.0 6.3 90 $4,662,500
WSN (2 yrs) 69 255 -3 0 0 -1 4 1 0.1 8 9 0.9 .502 .500 1.0 0.3 10 $11,450,000

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
2012 28 WSN NL NLDS STL L 5 19 17 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 4 .235 .316 .235 .551 4 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLDS 5 19 17 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 4 .235 .316 .235 .551 4 0 0 0 0 0

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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 PB WP SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2007 OAK AL 23 C 66 61 54 539.0 465 431 32 2 0 .996 -7 -15 7.73 7.02 .991 7.28 7.20 7 21 29 7 19% 27% 0
2007 OAK AL 23 DH 2 2
2008 OAK AL 24 C 141 136 130 1215.0 986 927 53 6 4 .994 11 10 11 10 7.26 6.95 .991 7.26 7.19 5 23 55 32 37% 27% 0
2008 OAK AL 24 DH 1 1
2009 OAK AL 25 C 135 132 126 1173.1 996 923 68 5 7 .995 1 6 1 6 7.60 7.34 .992 7.48 7.39 3 35 81 27 25% 26% 0
2009 OAK AL 25 DH 10 8
2010 OAK AL 26 C 123 121 114 1058.1 868 825 35 8 5 .991 0 8 0 9 7.31 6.99 .990 7.44 7.37 7 34 66 19 22% 26% 0
2010 OAK AL 26 DH 7 7
2011 OAK AL 27 C 129 127 124 1132.1 976 914 55 7 7 .993 0 -1 0 -1 7.70 7.51 .992 7.61 7.57 5 41 98 38 28% 28% 1
2011 OAK AL 27 DH 4 3
2012 TOT MLB 28 C 117 113 106 1014.0 881 815 61 5 7 .994 2 2 2 2 7.78 7.49 .993 8.12 8.05 6 34 65 28 30% 26% 2
2012 OAK AL 28 C 75 72 68 649.2 530 491 37 2 4 .996 7 3 13 6 7.31 7.04 .993 7.99 7.94 4 17 37 23 38% 25% 2
2012 WSN NL 28 C 42 41 38 364.1 351 324 24 3 3 .991 -5 -1 -16 -3 8.60 8.29 .992 8.36 8.26 2 17 28 5 15% 27% 0
2013 WSN NL 29 C 26 25 25 220.0 191 179 9 3 2 .984 1 0 6 0 7.69 7.23 .992 8.11 8.05 0 3 15 2 12% 28% 0
7 Seasons C 737 715 679 6352.0 5363 5014 313 36 32 .993 15 19 3 3 7.55 7.23 .992 7.56 7.49 33 191 409 153 27% 27% 3
7 Seasons TOT 737 715 679 6352.0 5363 5014 313 36 32 .993 15 19 3 3 7.55 7.23 .992 7.56 7.49 33 191 409 153 27% 27% 3
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

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
2008 AL  2.0 (5th)
Active  6.7 (39th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2008 AL  11 (7th)
2010 AL  12 (5th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2009 AL  7 (9th)

Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y
2013 NL  3 (6th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
2008 AL  20 (10th)
2010 AL  22 (5th)

AB per SO s c a p y
2009 AL  9.7 (7th)
2010 AL  10.1 (4th)
Active  7.6 (26th)

Def. Games as C s c a p y
2008 AL  141 (1st)
2009 AL  135 (1st)
2010 AL  123 (3rd)
2011 AL  129 (3rd)
Active  737 (13th)

Putouts as C s c a p y
2008 AL  927 (1st)
2009 AL  923 (1st)
2010 AL  825 (2nd)
2011 AL  914 (2nd)
Active  5,014 (12th)

Assists as C s c a p y
2008 AL  53 (5th)
2009 AL  68 (2nd)
Active  313 (16th)

Errors Committed as C s c a p y
2010 AL  8 (3rd)
2011 AL  7 (4th)
2013 NL  3 (2nd)
Active  36 (16th)

Double Plays Turned as C s c a p y
2009 AL  7 (3rd)
2010 AL  5 (4th)
2011 AL  7 (4th)
2013 NL  2 (2nd)
Active  32 (20th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
2010 AL  7 (3rd)
Active  33 (21st)

Stolen Bases Allowed as C s c a p y
2009 AL  81 (3rd)
2010 AL  66 (5th)
2011 AL  98 (1st)
2013 NL  15 (5th)
Active  409 (9th)

Caught Stealing as C s c a p y
2008 AL  32 (2nd)
2009 AL  27 (4th)
2011 AL  38 (3rd)
2012 AL  23 (5th)
Active  153 (13th)

Caught Stealing %† s c a p y
2008 AL  36.8 (5th)
2012 AL  38.3 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as C s c a p y
2008 AL  11 (2nd)
2012 AL  7 (2nd)
Active  15 (13th)
Career  15 (76th)

Range Factor/9Inn as C† s c a p y
2007 AL  7.73 (4th)
Active  7.55 (12th)
Career  7.55 (24th)

Range Factor/Game as C s c a p y
2007 AL  7.02 (3rd)
2009 AL  7.34 (3rd)
2010 AL  6.99 (5th)
2011 AL  7.51 (4th)
Active  7.23 (6th)
Career  7.23 (8th)

Fielding % as C s c a p y
2009 AL  .995 (4th)
Active  .993 (9th)
Career  .993 (22nd)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 1 (2248), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 3 (2563), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Catcher (140th), 11.8 career WAR/12.1 7yr-peak WAR/11.9 JAWS
Average HOF C (out of 13) = 52.4 career WAR/33.7 7yr-peak WAR/43.0 JAWS

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Yorvit Torrealba (973)
  2. Ray Fosse (963)
  3. Scott Servais (959)
  4. Tom Pagnozzi (948)
  5. John Stearns (948)
  6. Ray Mueller (943)
  7. Pat Borders (941)
  8. Dave Valle (941)
  9. Toby Hall (940)
  10. Hal Smith (940)
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  1. Ramon Hernandez (944)
  2. Milt May (942)
  3. Ray Fosse (942)
  4. Randy Hundley (938)
  5. Rich Gedman (938)
  6. Johnny Edwards (937)
  7. Russell Martin (935)
  8. Michael Barrett (932)
  9. Sammy White (930)
  10. Yadier Molina (930)
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  1. Russ Nixon (978)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Matt Wieters (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Ray Fosse (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Ray Fosse (967)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Ramon Hernandez (944)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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
200824Oakland Athletics$395,000
200925Oakland Athletics$410,000
201026Oakland Athletics$420,000
201127Oakland Athletics$3,437,500
201228Washington Nationals$5,000,000contracts
201329Washington Nationals$6,450,000
201430Washington Nationals*$8,500,000$8.5M Team Option, $650k Buyout
Earliest Free Agent: 2014
Career to date (may be incomplete)$16,112,500Does 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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