Austin Kearns

Austin Ryan Kearns MLB 2002-2012 | 1998-2012

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Patience
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Power
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Status Miami Marlins (DL-15 Strained right hamstring) Positions RF-805, OF-408, LF-140, CF-68, DH-3, 3B-2 Born May 20, 1980 (32) Place Lexington,Kentucky Ht/Wt 6-3 / 220 Bats/Throws: Right / Right High School Lafayette (Lexington,KY) College None listed
Drafted Cincinnati Reds: 1998-1-7 (June-Reg)MLB Debut: April 17,2002 box

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Batting Statistics

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Year	Team	Lg	Level	Unif	Org	Age	Pos	Rk	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	GS	GS%	TB	PA	outs	RC	RC/G	babip	SA	ISO	bb/k	HR%	XBH%	BB%	SO%	G/F	P/PA	Pit	Str	Bal	Swg	Record	TR	Year	Team
1998	Billings	Pio	Rk		cin	18	of	-	30	108	17	34	9	0	1	14	1	1	23	22	1	0	0	2	4	.315	.433	.426	859	-	-	46	134	81	22	7.3	.379	.324	.111	1.05	0.7	29.4	17.2	16.4	--	--	--	--	--	--	40-34	2	1998	Billings
1999	Rockford	Midw	A	-	cin	19	of	49	124	426	72	110	36	5	13	48	21	8	50	120	9	3	0	3	9	.258	.346	.458	804	-	-	195	488	336	71	5.7	.328	.347	.200	0.42	2.7	49.1	10.2	24.6	--	--	--	--	--	--	76-63	2	1999	Rockford
2000	Dayton	Midw	A		cin	20	of	1	136	484	110	148	37	2	27	104	18	5	90	93	7	5	0	9	14	.306	.415	.558	973	-	-	270	590	364	121	9	.324	.465	.252	0.97	4.6	44.6	15.3	15.8	--	--	--	--	--	--	70-67		2000	Dayton
2001	GCL Reds	GCL	Rk		cin	21	of	89	6	17	2	3	2	0	0	4	0	0	2	7	0	0	0	3	0	.176	.227	.294	521	-	-	5	22	17	1	1.9	.231	.235	.118	0.29	0.0	66.7	9.1	31.8	--	--	--	--	--	--	36-22	2	2001	GCL Reds
	Chattanooga	Sou	AA		cin	21	of	-	59	205	30	55	11	2	6	36	7	5	26	43	6	0	2	2	4	.268	.364	.429	793	-	-	88	241	163	34	5.6	.310	.298	.161	0.60	2.5	34.5	10.8	17.8	--	--	--	--	--	--	72-67	2		Chattanooga
2002	Chattanooga	Sou	AA		cin	22	of	-	12	41	10	11	2	0	5	13	1	0	9	9	3	0	0	0	0	.268	.434	.683	1117	-	-	28	53	30	13	12	.222	.659	.415	1.00	9.4	63.6	17.0	17.0	--	--	--	--	--	--	60-80	5	2002	Chattanooga
	Louisville	IL	AAA	-	cin	22	of	-	1	4	3	3	2	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.750	.800	1.250	2050	-	-	5	5	1	3	90.1	.750	.750	.500	--	0.0	66.7	20.0	0.0	--	--	--	--	--	--	79-65	2		Louisville
	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	28	cin	22	rf	-	107	372	66	117	24	3	13	56	6	3	54	81	6	3	0	3	11	.315	.407	.500	907	99	93	186	435	272	78	7.8	.370	.339	.185	0.67	3.0	34.2	12.4	18.6	1.13	4.1	1795	57.8	42.2	8.8	78-84	3		Cincinnati
2003	Chattanooga	Sou	AA	-	cin	23	of	-	3	5	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	.200	.500	.200	700	-	-	1	8	4	1	6.2	.333	.400	.000	1.00	0.0	0.0	25.0	25.0	--	--	--	--	--	--	66-74	3	2003	Chattanooga
	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	28	cin	23	rf-cf	-	82	292	39	77	11	0	15	58	5	2	41	68	5	1	0	0	7	.264	.364	.455	819	77	94	133	338	224	50	6	.297	.342	.192	0.60	4.4	33.8	12.1	20.1	1.07	4.0	1350	58.5	41.5	11.6	69-93	5		Cincinnati
2004	Louisville	IL	AAA	55	cin	24	of	-	25	83	19	28	7	1	2	15	3	1	19	16	2	1	0	0	3	.337	.471	.518	989	-	-	43	104	59	22	10	.400	.434	.181	1.19	1.9	35.7	18.3	15.4	--	--	--	--	--	--	67-77	2	2004	Louisville
	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	28	cin	24	rf	-	64	217	28	50	10	2	9	32	2	1	28	71	1	0	0	0	8	.230	.321	.419	740	59	92	91	246	176	27	4.1	.299	.323	.189	0.39	3.7	42.0	11.4	28.9	0.87	4.1	1007	61.0	39.0	12.0	76-86	4		Cincinnati
2005	Louisville	IL	AAA		cin	25	of	-	28	111	24	38	15	1	7	21	0	0	11	30	1	2	0	0	9	.342	.407	.685	1091	-	-	76	123	82	28	9.3	.419	.441	.342	0.37	5.7	60.5	8.9	24.4	--	--	--	--	--	--	66-78	4	2005	Louisville
	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	28	cin	25	rf	-	112	387	62	93	26	1	18	67	0	0	48	107	8	2	0	5	8	.240	.333	.452	785	103	92	175	448	307	61	5.3	.281	.336	.212	0.45	4.0	48.4	10.7	23.9	0.92	4.0	1774	59.9	40.1	10.7	73-89	5		Cincinnati
2006	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	28	cin	26	rf	66	87	325	53	89	21	1	16	50	7	1	35	85	5	2	0	3	14	.274	.351	.492	843	84	97	160	368	254	55	5.9	.322	.345	.218	0.41	4.3	42.7	9.5	23.1	0.80	4.1	1507	58.7	41.3	12.3	80-82	3	2006	Cincinnati
	Washington	NL	MLB	28	wan	26	rf	66	63	212	33	53	12	1	8	36	2	3	41	50	5	2	1	2	4	.250	.381	.429	810	59	94	91	261	169	38	6	.288	.368	.179	0.82	3.1	39.6	15.7	19.2	0.70	4.1	1061	56.6	43.4	9.8	71-91	5		Washington
2007	Washington	NL	MLB	25	wan	27	rf	44	161	587	84	156	35	1	16	74	2	2	71	106	12	5	0	4	13	.266	.355	.411	765	157	98	241	674	450	92	5.5	.299	.266	.145	0.67	2.4	33.3	10.5	15.7	0.83	3.9	2600	59.3	40.7	7.0	73-89	4	2007	Washington
2008	Hagerstown	SAL	A	-	wan	28		-	2	3	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.667	.333	1000	-	-	1	6	2	1	17.2	.500	1.000	.000	3.00	0.0	0.0	50.0	16.7	--	--	--	--	--	--	61-78	6	2008	Hagerstown
	Columbus	IL	AAA	-	wan	28	of	-	5	14	2	6	1	1	1	6	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	.429	.526	.857	1383	-	-	12	19	9	7	19.9	.417	.643	.429	1.50	5.3	50.0	15.8	10.5	--	--	--	--	--	--	69-73	3		Columbus
	Washington	NL	MLB	25	wan	28	rf	-	86	313	40	68	10	0	7	32	2	2	35	63	8	0	0	1	11	.217	.311	.316	627	83	97	99	357	259	29	3	.250	.211	.099	0.56	2.0	25.0	9.8	17.6	0.87	3.9	1407	59.7	40.3	6.8	59-102	5		Washington
2009	Washington	NL	MLB	25	wan	29	rf	-	80	174	20	34	6	2	3	17	1	1	32	51	5	1	0	0	12	.195	.336	.305	641	41	51	53	211	153	15	2.6	.258	.293	.109	0.63	1.4	32.4	15.2	24.2	0.86	4.0	838	57.3	42.7	12.3	59-103	5	2009	Washington
2010	Cleveland	AL	MLB	26	cle	30	lf-rf	67	84	301	42	82	18	1	8	42	4	1	34	78	5	2	0	2	12	.272	.354	.419	772	79	94	126	342	234	43	5	.341	.269	.146	0.44	2.3	32.9	9.9	22.8	0.77	4.0	1372	61.1	38.9	10.3	69-93	4	2010	Cleveland
	NY Yankees	AL	MLB	26	nyy	30	lf-rf	67	36	102	13	24	3	0	2	7	0	0	12	38	5	0	0	0	4	.235	.345	.324	668	29	81	33	119	82	9	3	.355	.206	.088	0.32	1.7	20.8	10.1	31.9	0.78	4.1	493	60.0	40.0	11.2	95-67	2		NY Yankees
2011	Cleveland	AL	MLB	26	cle	31	lf-rf	-	57	150	18	30	5	1	2	7	0	4	18	48	4	0	2	0	2	.200	.302	.287	589	44	77	43	174	128	10	2.1	.280	.180	.087	0.38	1.1	26.7	10.3	27.6	1.12	3.9	674	59.9	40.1	11.9	80-82	2	2011	Cleveland
2012	Miami	NL	MLB		mia	32	5/29/2012		15	48	8	18	4	0	3	9	1	0	4	11	2	0	0	0	1	.375	.444	.646	1090	-	-	31	54	31	14	11.8	.441	.375	.271	0.36	5.6	38.9	7.4	20.4	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	2012	Miami
MLB Totals (11 years)									1034	3480	506	891	185	13	120	487	32	20	453	857	71	18	3	20	107	.256	.352	.420	772	914	88	1462	4027	2739	520	5.1	.306	.298	.164	0.53	3.0	35.7	11.2	21.3	--	--	--	--	--	--	.454	--	--	--
Minor League Totals (9 years)									431	1501	293	438	122	12	62	265	51	20	239	345	31	11	2	20	43	.292	.395	.513	908	--	--	770	1793	1148	324	7.6	.338	.401	.221	0.69	3.5	44.7	13.3	19.2	--	--	--	--	--	--	.495	--	--	--
AAA Totals (4 years)									59	212	48	75	25	3	10	44	3	1	34	48	4	3	0	1	12	.354	.450	.642	1092	--	--	136	251	151	60	10.7	.419	.458	.288	0.71	4.0	50.7	13.5	19.1	--	--	--	--	--	--	.490	--	--	--
AA Totals (3 years)									74	251	42	67	13	2	11	50	8	5	37	54	10	0	2	2	4	.267	.380	.466	846	--	--	117	302	197	48	6.6	.298	.359	.199	0.69	3.6	38.8	12.3	17.9	--	--	--	--	--	--	.473	--	--	--
A Totals (3 years)									262	913	184	259	73	7	40	153	39	13	143	214	16	8	0	12	23	.284	.386	.510	896	--	--	466	1084	702	193	7.4	.326	.412	.227	0.67	3.7	46.3	13.2	19.7	--	--	--	--	--	--	.499	--	--	--
Rookie Totals (2 years)									36	125	19	37	11	0	1	18	1	1	25	29	1	0	0	5	4	.296	.404	.408	812	--	--	51	156	98	23	6.4	.360	.312	.112	0.86	0.6	32.4	16.0	18.6	--	--	--	--	--	--	.576	--	--	--

Fielding Statistics

Data Products

Year	Team	Lg	Level	Org	Age	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	P %	C %	1B %	2B %	3B %	SS %	LF %	CF %	RF %	OF %	PO	A	E
1998	Billings	Pio	Rk	cin	18	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	29	0	--	--	--	--	1.000	--	--	--	--	.905	32	8	4
1999	Rockford	Midw	A	cin	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	121	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.939	185	14	13
2000	Dayton	Midw	A	cin	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	133	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.955	231	23	12
2001	GCL Reds	GCL	Rk	cin	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	4	0	0
2001	Chattanooga	Sou	AA	cin	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	55	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.979	92	2	2
2002	Chattanooga	Sou	AA	cin	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	15	2	0
2002	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	cin	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	6	95	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	1.000	.981	--	223	8	4
2002	Louisville	IL	AAA	cin	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	1	0	0
2003	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	cin	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	40	51	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.991	.990	--	199	5	2
2003	Chattanooga	Sou	AA	cin	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	2	1	0
2004	Louisville	IL	AAA	cin	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.949	55	1	3
2004	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	cin	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	60	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.975	--	118	1	3
2005	Louisville	IL	AAA	cin	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	26	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	50	2	0
2005	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	cin	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	107	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	.988	--	238	8	3
2006	Cincinnati	NL	MLB	cin	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	85	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.991	--	207	5	2
2006	Washington	NL	MLB	wan	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	59	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	.966	--	147	3	5
2007	Washington	NL	MLB	wan	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	158	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	.995	--	380	9	2
2008	Washington	NL	MLB	wan	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	85	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.979	--	187	3	4
2008	Columbus	IL	AAA	wan	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	6	0	0
2009	Washington	NL	MLB	wan	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	54	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	1.000	--	84	5	0
2010	Cleveland	AL	MLB	cle	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	69	5	14	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	.971	1.000	1.000	--	173	1	4
2010	NY Yankees	AL	MLB	nyy	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	22	0	18	0	1	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	--	1.000	--	55	1	0
2011	Cleveland	AL	MLB	cle	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	36	0	19	0	2	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	--	.973	--	105	1	1
MLB Totals						0	0	0	0	0	0	140	68	805	0	3	--	--	--	--	--	--	.985	.993	.986	--	2116	50	30
Minor League Totals						0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	408	0	--	--	--	--	1.000	--	--	--	--	.955	673	53	34

Transactions

Drafted: Selected by Cincinnati Reds in 1st round (7th overall) of 1998 Amateur Draft (June-Reg Phase)

1998-07-30 - signed 2006-07-13 - Traded by Reds with Felipe Lopez and Ryan Wagner to Nationals for Gary Majewski, Bill Bray, Royce Clayton, Brendan Harris and Daryl Thompson 2007-02-01 - Signed by Nationals (3-years) to avoid arbitration 2010-01-12 - Signed by Indians 2010-07-31 - Traded by Indians to Yankees 2010-11-07 - Granted free agency 2010-12-20 - Signed by Indians 2011-08-17 - Released by Indians 2012-01-25 - Signed by Marlins

Awards

1998 - 1st team High School All-American OF; 2000 - Baseball America 2nd team Minor League All-Star OF; Cincinnati Reds Minor League Player of the Year; Low A All-Star OF; Midwest League All-Star OF; Midwest League Top Prospect; 2002 - NL Rookie of the Year (Voting Rank: #3); Winter League All-Star OF;

Contracts

2005-2005 - Signed by CIN to 1-year contract worth $0.93m (1/18/2005)
2006-2006 - Signed by CIN to 1-year contract worth $1.85m (1/17/2006)
2007-2009 - Signed by WAN to 3-year contract worth $17.5m (2/2/2007) -- Club option for 2010 ($10m), Avoided arbitration
2010-2010 - Signed by CLE to 1-year contract worth $0.75m (1/5/2010) -- Minor league contract
2011-2011 - Signed by CLE to 1-year contract worth $1.3m (1/6/2011)

Disabled List

2002-08-27 - Disabled (strained left hamstring); 2002-10-02 - Activated; 2003-11-05 - Activated; 2004-05-19 - Activated; 2004-06-08 - Disabled (sore right thumb); 2004-07-11 - Transferred; 2004-08-24 - Activated; 2008-05-22 - Disabled (Broken left forearm); 2008-07-03 - Activated; 2009-08-05 - Disabled (Right thumb contusion); 2009-10-13 - Activated;

Salaries

$200,000

$350,000

$400,000

$930,000

$1,850,000

$3,500,000

$5,000,000

$8,000,000

$750,000

$1,300,000

$1,300,000

$600,000

Salary data is available for Major Leaguers since 1985. Players not on opening day roster, for the most part, are assumed to have earned the minimum salary for that year. MLB rank in parentheses.

Feats

2000 - 100 RBIs Midw --- 104
2000 - 100 Runs Scored Midw --- 110
2003 - 4 walks in game MLB--- 4
2005 - 6 RBIs in Game MLB--- 6
2008 - 5 Runs Scored in Game MLB--- 5
2010 - 3 HBP in game MLB--- 3

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Other Batting Statistics

Year	Team	League	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	GDP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2001	Grand Canyon Rafters	Az Fall	33	116	27	43	10	1	4	31	1	0	19	23	2	0	0	2	6	.371	.460	.578	1038
2010	Cleveland Indians	MLB-ST	21	50	14	15	6	0	2	9	1	0	9	17	0	0	0	1	0	.300	.400	.540	940
2011	Cleveland Indians	MLB-ST	15	44	5	13	4	0	1	9	0	0	6	9	1	0	0	0	1	.295	.392	.455	847
2012	Miami Marlins	MLB-ST	17	46	3	17	2	0	3	9	0	0	2	11	2	0	0	1	1	.370	.412	.609	1021

Leaderboard History (Top Tens)

Hover over year/rank to see Stat value and Team/League.

Stat Category	Freq	MLB	Minor	College
BAVG	1x		2000-6
SLG	1x		2000-2
OBP	1x		2000-3
OPS	1x		2000-1
G	2x	2007-6	2000-1
AB	1x		2000-8
R	1x		2000-1
H	1x		2000-3
TB	1x		2000-1
DBL	2x		1999-4 2000-3
HR	1x		2000-1
RBI	1x		2000-2
BB	1x		2000-5
SO	1x	2006-7
IBB	1x		2000-6
HBP	1x	2010-10
SF	1x		2000-3
GDP	1x		2000-9
BBSO	1x		2000-7

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