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Craig Kimbrel

Craig M. Kimbrel

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

Born: May 28, 1988 in Huntsville, AL
High School: Lee HS (Huntsville, AL)
School: Wallace State Community College (Hanceville) (Hanceville, AL)
Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 3rd round of the 2008 amateur draft.
Signed June 6, 2008. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 7, 2010
Team: Braves 2010-2012
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible, 1 yr/$590k (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 1.066, Arb Eligible: 2014, Free Agent: 2017 [*],
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Jul 7, 2012, 9:00AM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Cy Young… #3. Lefty Grove… #4. Pete Alexander… #5. Greg Maddux… #6. Christy Mathewson… #7. Warren Spahn… 

Standard Pitching

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Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
2010 22 ATL NL 4 0 1.000 0.44 21 0 7 0 0 1 20.2 9 2 1 0 16 1 40 0 0 4 88 914 1.210 3.9 0.0 7.0 17.4 2.50
2011 23 ATL NL 4 3 .571 2.10 79 0 64 0 0 46 77.0 48 19 18 3 32 1 127 1 0 4 306 184 1.039 5.6 0.4 3.7 14.8 3.97 AS,CYA-9,MVP-23,RoY-1
2012 24 ATL NL 0 1 .000 1.45 31 0 29 0 0 23 31.0 13 5 5 1 10 0 52 0 0 2 116 280 0.742 3.8 0.3 2.9 15.1 5.20 AS
3 Yrs 8 4 .667 1.68 131 0 100 0 0 70 128.2 70 26 24 4 58 2 219 1 0 10 510 235 0.995 4.9 0.3 4.1 15.3 3.78
162 Game Avg. 4 2 .667 1.68 68 0 52 0 0 36 67 36 13 12 2 30 1 114 1 0 5 265 235 0.995 4.9 0.3 4.1 15.3 3.78

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg IP G GS R RA9 RA9opp RA9def RA9role PPFp RA9avg RAA WAA gmLI WAAadj WAR RAR waaWL% 162WL% Salary Awards
2010 22 ATL NL 20.2 21 0 2 0.87 4.50 0.04 -0.34 96.6 3.99 7 0.8 .6 -0.2 0.7 9 .537 .505 $
2011 23 ATL NL 77.0 79 0 19 2.22 4.14 0.05 -0.31 98.5 3.73 12 1.4 1.8 0.3 2.3 20 .518 .509 $419,000 AS,CYA-9,MVP-23,RoY-1
2012 24 ATL NL 31.0 31 0 5 1.45 4.29 0.26 -0.33 102.6 3.80 8 0.9 1.8 0.3 1.4 11 .528 .505 $ AS
3 Seasons 128.2 131 0 26 1.82 4.24 0.10 -0.32 99.2 3.79 28 3.0 1.6 0.4 4.4 40 .523 .506 $419,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2010 22 ATL NL NLDS L SFG 0 1 .000 2.08 4 0 2 0 0 0 4.1 1 2 1 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 13 0.462 2.1 0.0 2.1 14.5 7.00
1 NLDS 0 1 .000 2.08 4 0 2 0 0 0 4.1 1 2 1 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 13 0.462 2.1 0.0 2.1 14.5 7.00

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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
2010 22 ATL NL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
2011 23 ATL NL 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS,CYA-9,MVP-23,RoY-1
2012 24 ATL NL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS
3 Yrs 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 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
2010 22 ATL NL 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $ 1
2011 23 ATL NL 79 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $419,000 1 AS,CYA-9,MVP-23,RoY-1
2012 24 ATL NL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $ 1 AS
3 Seasons 131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.1 0 $419,000

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
2010 22 ATL NL NLDS SFG L 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLDS 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rdrs Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
2010 ATL NL 22 P 21 0 0 20.2 1 0 0 1 0 .000 0 0 0.00 0.00 .950 1.74 1.72 3 0 0% 29% 0
2011 ATL NL 23 P 79 0 0 77.0 11 4 7 0 0 1.000 1 3 1.29 0.14 .955 1.80 1.79 1 3 75% 28% 1 AS,CYA-9,MVP-23,RoY-1
2012 ATL NL 24 P 31 0 0 31.0 3 0 3 0 0 1.000 0 0 0.87 0.10 .957 1.80 1.79 3 0 0% 27% 0 AS
3 Seasons P 131 0 0 128.2 15 4 10 1 0 .933 1 1 0.98 0.11 .955 1.79 1.78 7 3 30% 28% 1
3 Seasons TOT 131 0 0 128.2 15 4 10 1 0 .933 1 9 0.98 0.11 .955 1.79 1.78 7 3 30% 28% 1
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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1948 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 1948 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
2011 *
2012

Awards (yr lg award)
2011 NL Rookie of the Year

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 NL (23, 0%)
0.00 Career Shares (1712th)

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
2011 NL (9, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (283rd)

Games Played s c a p y
2011 NL  79 (2nd)

Saves s c a p y
2011 NL  46 (1st)
2012 NL  23 (1st)
Active  70 (34th)
Career  70 (199th)

Games Finished s c a p y
2011 NL  64 (1st)
2012 NL  29 (5th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2012 NL  2.1 (2nd)

Def. Games as P s c a p y
2011 NL  79 (2nd)

                                         

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, 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 InkPitching - 6 (375), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 7 (1686), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 18 (661), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Transactions

  • June 5, 2008: Drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 3rd round of the 2008 amateur draft. Player signed June 6, 2008.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
201123Atlanta Braves$419,000
201224Atlanta Braves$590,000
2013 StatusPre-Arb Eligible, Earliest Arb Eligible: 2014, Earliest Free Agent: 2017
Career to date (may be incomplete)$419,000Does not include future salaries
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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Name and misspellings: Craig Craig M. Kimbrel

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