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Kirby Yates played 11 major-league seasons (2014-2025) as a P (472). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 1 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 31 | SDN | 65 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 27 | TBA | 37 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 42 | 15 | 3.75 | 102 |
| 2015 | 28 | TBA | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20.1 | 21 | 7 | 7.97 | 50 |
| 2016 | 29 | NYA | 41 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 41.1 | 50 | 19 | 5.23 | 80 |
| 2017 | 30 | LAA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 18.00 | 24 |
| 2017 | 30 | SDN | 61 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 55.2 | 87 | 19 | 3.72 | 117 |
| 2018 | 31 | SDN | 65 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 63 | 90 | 17 | 2.14 | 188 |
| 2019 | 32 | SDN | 60 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 41 | 60.2 | 101 | 13 | 1.19 | 369 |
| 2020 | 33 | SDN | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4.1 | 8 | 4 | 12.46 | 36 |
| 2022 | 35 | ATL | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5.14 | 79 |
| 2023 | 36 | ATL | 61 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 60.1 | 80 | 37 | 3.28 | 133 |
| 2024 | 37 | TEX | 61 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 33 | 61.2 | 85 | 28 | 1.17 | 344 |
| 2025 | 38 | LAN | 50 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 41.1 | 52 | 17 | 5.23 | 81 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | P | 37 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | P | 20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | P | 41 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2017 | P | 62 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | P | 65 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | P | 60 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | P | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | P | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | P | 61 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 2024 | P | 61 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | P | 50 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Kirby Yates won: TSN All-Star 2019 (NL).
MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year voting history (2 ballot finishes, 0 wins). Full year pages: 2024, 2019.
| Year | Award | Lg | Rank | Points | First-place votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Cy Young Award | NL | 10 | 2 / 210 | 0 |
| 2024 | Cy Young Award | AL | 8 | 2 / 210 | 0 |
Kirby Yates ranks on 4 all-time single-season position leaderboards (1871-2025, league-season-normalized OPS+ / ERA+).
| Rank | Board | Year | Stat |
|---|---|---|---|
| #14 | closers | 2019 | 369 ERA+ |
| #20 | closers | 2024 | 344 ERA+ |
| #23 | relief pitchers | 2019 | 369 ERA+ |
| #32 | relief pitchers | 2024 | 344 ERA+ |
Kirby Yates is a playable Legends Deck card, rated from real Statcast data and refreshed nightly: view the Kirby Yates card.
Current-season Statcast leaderboard finishes: #48 chase rate.
Kirby Yates appears in 8 archived official MLB transactions (3 trades), newest first.
| Date | Type | From | To | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 2026 | Trade | Los Angeles Angels | Pittsburgh Pirates | Pittsburgh Pirates traded RHP Kyle Robinson to Los Angeles Angels for RHP Kirby Yates. |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Signed as free agent | — | Los Angeles Angels | Los Angeles Angels signed free agent RHP Kirby Yates. |
| Jan 30, 2025 | Signed as free agent | — | Los Angeles Dodgers | Los Angeles Dodgers signed free agent RHP Kirby Yates. |
| Dec 6, 2023 | Signed as free agent | — | Texas Rangers | Texas Rangers signed free agent RHP Kirby Yates. |
| Nov 29, 2021 | Signed as free agent | — | Atlanta Braves | Atlanta Braves signed free agent RHP Kirby Yates. |
| Jan 20, 2021 | Signed as free agent | — | Toronto Blue Jays | Toronto Blue Jays signed free agent RHP Kirby Yates. |
| Jun 28, 2016 | Trade | Cleveland Guardians | New York Yankees | Cleveland Indians traded RHP Kirby Yates to New York Yankees for cash. |
| Nov 25, 2015 | Trade | Tampa Bay Rays | Cleveland Guardians | Tampa Bay Rays traded RHP Kirby Yates to Cleveland Indians for cash. |
From MLB’s official StatsAPI transactions feed (2011 to the current season, trades/signings/releases involving major-league clubs). Browse the full archive.
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.