Kiner-Falefa has player in eight big league seasons. His career slash line is .262\/.311\/.349. He\u2019s hit between .261 and .271 five times. His highest batting average was .280 and his lowest .238. He\u2019s never posted an OPS of .700 or more in a full season (when traded, he has done so during parts of seasons).<\/p>\n
He\u2019s stolen double-digit bases in each of the last five seasons.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s never hit more than eight home runs, which he\u2019s done twice.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s had at least one triple ever year except 2022 when he played 142 games \u2014 the second highest total of his career.<\/p>\n
He spent four years with the Texas Rangers and then (parts of) two seasons with the Yankees, Pirates, and Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
In December 2023, Kiner-Falefa signed with the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
At the deadline in 2024, the Jays traded him to the Pirates for a minor league infielder (Charles McAdoo) who plays second and third plus some right field. IKF has played mostly shortstop, third, and second but you get the point.<\/p>\n
On August 31, 2025 the Blue Jays claimed him off waivers and he got 60 plate appearances in the postseason including 18 in the 2025 World Series.<\/p>\n
Over three seasons (6.2 innings), IKF has a 1:2 K:B and an ERA of 2.70.<\/p>\n
He relies on two pitches:<\/p>\n
The key is locating the eephus and fastball in the same area of the box.<\/p>\n Will he become Alex Cora\u2019s default position player pitcher? If Marcelo Mayer and Romy Gonzalez are healthy and effective, that\u2019s one more reason to hang onto a roster spot. Defensive flexibility being the primary one.<\/p>\n Against the Red Sox he\u2019s been just about as average to himself as he can be: .254\/.305\/.387 over 54 games.<\/p>\n At Fenway Park specifically he\u2019s struggled: .228\/.282\/.304. Although a sample of just 23 games, like his history facing Boston, is relatively meaningless.<\/p>\n He won a Gold Glove in 2020 at third base. Some of that infield defense Craig Breslow was talking about!<\/p>\n He was born in Hawaii. The Red Sox singed a guy from Hawaii before\u2026it went well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday was a busy one for the Red Sox: the 40-man roster is full once more (IKF and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,61862,1322,2543],"class_list":["post-558003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-red-sox-commentary","tag-red-sox-analysis","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116024383006791928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-02-04-20_37_10-Isiah-Kiner-Falefa-Stats_-Statcast-Visuals-Advanced-Metrics-_-baseballsavant.jpg\"\/)
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