What years did Charlie Culberson play?

Charlie Culberson played in Major League Baseball from 2012 to 2023.

Was Charlie Culberson a pitcher?

No. Charlie Culberson was a position player (Third Baseman), though he did pitch in 8 career games.

How many home runs did Charlie Culberson hit?

Charlie Culberson hit 30 career home runs with 301 hits.

What teams did Charlie Culberson play for?

Charlie Culberson played for 5 teams: the San Francisco Giants (2012), the Colorado Rockies (2013–2014), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2016–2017), the Atlanta Braves (2018–2020, 2023), and the Texas Rangers (2021–2022).

What were Charlie Culberson's career stats?

In 590 games, Charlie Culberson had 301 hits, 30 home runs, 145 RBI, 140 runs, and 21 stolen bases, with a .248 batting average.

What was Charlie Culberson's salary?

Charlie Culberson's last recorded salary was $535,000, in 2016. His highest recorded salary was $535,000, in 2016, and his lowest was $500,000, in 2014. The Salary History table lists each season from 2014 to 2016.

What position did Charlie Culberson play?

Charlie Culberson played primarily as a third baseman, the position where he appeared in the most games.

How tall was Charlie Culberson and how much did he weigh?

Charlie Culberson was listed at 6 feet 1 inch and 200 pounds.

How many home runs did Charlie Culberson hit each season?

Charlie Culberson's home runs by season: 0 in 2012, 2 in 2013, 3 in 2014, 1 in 2016, 0 in 2017, 12 in 2018, 5 in 2019, 0 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 2 in 2022, and 0 in 2023. His most in one season was 12, in 2018.

What was Charlie Culberson's career batting average?

Charlie Culberson batted .248 over his career, with 301 hits in 1,212 at bats.

How many RBI did Charlie Culberson have?

Charlie Culberson drove in 145 runs in his career.

What was Charlie Culberson's career ERA?

Charlie Culberson finished with a 1.23 career ERA, going 0-0 with 1 strikeouts.

Is Charlie Culberson in the Hall of Fame?

No. Charlie Culberson has not been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Charlie Culberson

Third Baseman · Career Stats, Bio & Records (2012-2023)

Charlie Culberson was a third baseman who played in Major League Baseball from 2012 to 2023 for 5 teams, including the San Francisco Giants, a span of 12 seasons. In 590 career games, he hit .248 with 301 hits, 30 home runs, and 145 RBI.

AVG (Batting Average):: Hits divided by at bats. .300 is the traditional mark of an excellent hitter.
HR (Home Runs):: Hits on which the batter circled the bases and scored, almost always by clearing the outfield fence.
RBI (Runs Batted In):: Runs that scored as a direct result of a batter's plate appearance.
OPS (On-Base Plus Slugging):: On-base percentage plus slugging percentage, the quickest single summary of offensive value. .900 or better is star-level.

Data updated October 15, 2026

AVG .248

HR 30

RBI 145

H 301

OPS .680

PIV -946

Position: Third Baseman
Bats / Throws: R / R
Height / Weight: 6'1" / 200 lb
Born: 4/10/1989 in Rome, GA, USA
MLB Debut: 2012-05-13
Last Game: 2023-07-16

Full name: Charles Edward Culberson

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Career Batting Statistics

Charlie Culberson — Career Batting Statistics
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	PIV
590	1,212	140	301	61	8	30	145	21	68	337	.248	.294	.386	.680	-946

Career AVG .248 vs. league average .250 across their career seasons — near league average.

Career OBP .294 vs. league average .319 across their career seasons — 7.9% below league average.

Career SLG .386 vs. league average .410 across their career seasons — 5.8% below league average.

Career OPS .680 vs. league average .729 across their career seasons — 6.7% below league average.

Season-by-Season Batting

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Charlie Culberson Stats, Bio & Career Records
Year	Team	Lg	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	AVG	Lg AVG	Lg OBP	Lg SLG	Lg OPS	PIV
2012	SFN	NL	6	22	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	7	.136	—	—	—	—	0.0
2013	COL	NL	47	99	12	29	5	0	2	12	5	4	23	.293	.253 (+16%)	.317 (avg)	.396 (+2%)	.714 (+1%)	-0.8
2014	COL	NL	95	210	17	41	7	2	3	24	2	12	62	.195	.251 (-22%)	.313 (-19%)	.386 (-25%)	.700 (-22%)	-740.0
2016	LAN	NL	34	67	6	20	3	0	1	7	1	1	13	.299	.255 (+17%)	.321 (-4%)	.417 (-7%)	.738 (-6%)	-66.5
2017	LAN	NL	15	13	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	2	4	.154	—	—	—	—	0.0
2018	ATL	NL	113	296	47	80	18	2	12	45	4	21	85	.270	.247 (+9%)	.318 (+2%)	.409 (+14%)	.727 (+9%)	464.9
2019	ATL	NL	108	135	14	35	5	2	5	20	0	6	44	.259	.252 (+3%)	.322 (-9%)	.434 (+1%)	.757 (-4%)	-112.8
2020	ATL	NL	10	7	2	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	.143	—	—	—	—	0.0
2021	TEX	AL	91	247	23	60	15	2	5	22	7	17	64	.243	.243 (avg)	.317 (-7%)	.410 (-7%)	.727 (-7%)	-311.0
2022	TEX	AL	70	115	19	29	6	0	2	12	2	5	31	.252	.242 (+4%)	.311 (-9%)	.394 (-10%)	.706 (-9%)	-180.1
2023	ATL	NL	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	—	—	—	—	0.0
Career · 11 seasons			590	1,212	140	301	61	8	30	145	21	68	337	.248	—	—	—	—	-946

Lg columns show the league average for that season, with the player's figure as a percentage above or below it. Career totals the seasons listed above.

Career Pitching Statistics

Charlie Culberson — Career Pitching Statistics
W	L	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	ER	HR	BB	SO	ERA	Pitcher PIV
0	0	8	0	0	0	0	7.1	7	1	0	3	1	1.23	0.0

Career ERA 1.23 vs. league average 4.24 across their career seasons — 71.1% better than league average.

Season-by-Season Pitching

Pitching Career Arc

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Charlie Culberson — Season-by-Season Pitching
Year	Team	Lg	G	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA	Lg ERA	Pitcher PIV
2018	ATL	NL	1	1.0	2	1	0	0	9.00	—	0.0
2019	ATL	NL	2	2.0	2	0	2	1	0.00	—	0.0
2020	ATL	NL	1	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.00	—	0.0
2021	TEX	AL	2	2.0	2	0	0	0	0.00	—	0.0
2022	TEX	AL	2	2.0	1	0	1	0	0.00	—	0.0
Career · 5 seasons			8	7.1	7	1	3	1	1.23	—	0

Lg columns show the league average for that season, with the player's figure as a percentage above or below it. Career totals the seasons listed above.

Postseason Statistics

Playoff Career Batting

Charlie Culberson — Playoff Career Batting
G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
21	38	5	12	2	1	1	2	1	10	.316

Playoff Batting by Year

Charlie Culberson — Playoff Batting by Year
Year	Round	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	AVG
2020	NLCS	ATL	2	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	.667
2020	NLWC4	ATL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
2018	NLDS2	ATL	4	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	4	.167
2017	NLCS	LAN	5	11	2	5	2	1	0	1	0	2	.455
2017	WS	LAN	5	5	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	1	.600
2016	NLDS2	LAN	4	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000

Game Log & Splits

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Per-game data from Retrosheet (regular season, through 2025).

Batting — Home / Away

Charlie Culberson — Batting — Home / Away
Split	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG
Home	296	569	74	146	13	73	.257
Away	294	643	66	155	17	72	.241

Pitching — Home / Away

Charlie Culberson — Pitching — Home / Away
Split	G	IP	H	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Home	6	5.1	5	1	2	1	1.69
Away	2	2.0	2	0	1	0	0.00

Last 10 Games — Batting

Charlie Culberson — Last 10 Games — Batting
Date	Tm	Opp	Res	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	SO
2023-07-16	ATL	CHW	L	1	0	1	0	0	0
2022-10-05	TEX	NYY	W	4	1	1	1	1	1
2022-09-27	TEX	SEA	W	2	0	0	0	0	1
2022-09-23	TEX	CLE	L	0	0	0	0	0	0
2022-09-02	TEX	BOS	L	0	0	0	0	0	0
2022-09-01	TEX	BOS	L	3	0	0	0	0	0
2022-08-24	TEX	COL	W	1	1	1	1	2	0
2022-08-19	TEX	MIN	L	0	0	0	0	0	0
2022-08-16	TEX	OAK	L	3	0	0	0	0	2
2022-08-13	TEX	SEA	W	2	1	1	0	1	0

Last 8 Games — Pitching

Charlie Culberson — Last 8 Games — Pitching
Date	Tm	Opp	Dec	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
2022-09-02	TEX	BOS	—	1.0	1	0	0	1	0
2022-06-15	TEX	HOU	—	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
2021-09-13	TEX	HOU	—	1.0	1	0	0	0	0
2021-06-11	TEX	LAD	—	1.0	1	0	0	0	0
2020-09-04	ATL	WAS	—	0.1	0	0	0	0	0
2019-07-18	ATL	WAS	—	1.0	1	0	0	0	0
2019-05-02	ATL	SDP	—	1.0	1	0	0	2	1
2018-08-17	ATL	COL	—	1.0	2	1	1	0	0

Fielding Statistics

Career Fielding Totals by Position

Charlie Culberson — Career Fielding Totals by Position
Position	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
1B	25	7	94	11	1	11
2B	67	49	89	122	6	29
3B	151	119	85	237	15	23
OF	124	65	131	9	2	3
P	8	0	0	3	0	0
SS	76	46	73	133	7	29

Season-by-Season Fielding

Charlie Culberson — Season-by-Season Fielding
Year	Team	Pos	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
2012	SFN	2B	6	5	9	11	0	1
2013	COL	2B	4	1	3	3	1	1
2013	COL	OF	27	20	39	2	1	1
2014	COL	1B	4	3	31	3	0	0
2014	COL	2B	20	14	35	44	1	13
2014	COL	3B	32	18	11	56	2	5
2014	COL	SS	23	13	28	47	1	14
2016	LAN	2B	10	9	10	15	1	2
2016	LAN	3B	4	2	2	3	1	0
2016	LAN	OF	2	0	2	0	0	0
2016	LAN	SS	11	8	8	16	0	3
2017	LAN	2B	2	1	2	3	0	0
2017	LAN	3B	1	0	0	0	0	0
2017	LAN	SS	11	1	6	16	1	5
2018	ATL	1B	2	0	4	1	0	1
2018	ATL	2B	9	8	9	19	2	5
2018	ATL	3B	20	17	9	20	1	2
2018	ATL	OF	31	24	36	2	0	0
2018	ATL	P	1	0	0	1	0	0
2018	ATL	SS	20	15	21	26	2	4
2019	ATL	1B	10	1	28	3	1	7
2019	ATL	3B	1	0	0	0	0	0
2019	ATL	OF	45	8	27	2	0	1
2019	ATL	P	2	0	0	0	0	0
2019	ATL	SS	7	6	8	22	1	2
2020	ATL	1B	4	0	8	0	0	2
2020	ATL	2B	1	1	3	0	0	1
2020	ATL	P	1	0	0	0	0	0
2021	TEX	1B	4	3	22	4	0	1
2021	TEX	2B	4	3	8	4	0	1
2021	TEX	3B	68	60	51	121	6	12
2021	TEX	OF	7	5	13	1	0	0
2021	TEX	P	2	0	0	1	0	0
2021	TEX	SS	3	3	2	6	2	1
2022	TEX	1B	1	0	1	0	0	0
2022	TEX	2B	11	7	10	23	1	5
2022	TEX	3B	25	22	12	37	5	4
2022	TEX	OF	12	8	14	2	1	1
2022	TEX	P	2	0	0	1	0	0
2022	TEX	SS	1	0	0	0	0	0

Career Games by Position

Position Diamond

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Charlie Culberson Stats, Bio & Career Records
Position	Games
Pitcher	8
First Base	25
Second Base	67
Third Base	151
Shortstop	76
Left Field	111
Right Field	14
Designated Hitter	15

Salary History

Charlie Culberson's recorded salaries total $1,035,000 over 2 seasons, 2014 to 2016. This total is partial: the salary data covers 1985 to 2016, and Culberson's career ran from 2012 to 2023. His seasons after 2016 are not included, and no salary is recorded for 2012 and 2013.

Charlie Culberson — Salary History
Year	Team	League	Salary
2016	LAN	NL	$535,000
2014	COL	NL	$500,000
Total recorded salary (partial)			$1,035,000

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Charlie Culberson: the record in brief

Charlie Culberson's major league career runs from a debut on May 13, 2012 to a final game on July 16, 2023. The season rows list, in order, the San Francisco Giants (2012), the Colorado Rockies (2013 through 2014), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2016 to 2017), the Atlanta Braves (2018 to 2023), and the Texas Rangers (2021 to 2022). Culberson is listed as a third baseman at 6 feet, 1 inch and 200 pounds. The bio says Culberson both batted and threw right-handed. Culberson was born on April 10, 1989, in Rome, GA, USA. On the record, Charlie Culberson was born Charles Edward Culberson.

Culberson collected 301 hits in 1,212 at bats across 590 games, good for a .248 batting average, adding 30 homers, 145 RBI, and 21 stolen bases. Culberson got on base at a .294 rate and slugged .386 (.680 OPS). The .248 career average is close to the .250 the league hit across the same seasons. In OPS terms, Culberson's .680 stands 6.7% below the league's .729.

Frequently Asked Questions about Charlie Culberson

What years did Charlie Culberson play?: Charlie Culberson played in Major League Baseball from 2012 to 2023.
Was Charlie Culberson a pitcher?: No. Charlie Culberson was a position player (Third Baseman), though he did pitch in 8 career games.
How many home runs did Charlie Culberson hit?: Charlie Culberson hit 30 career home runs with 301 hits.
What teams did Charlie Culberson play for?: Charlie Culberson played for 5 teams: the San Francisco Giants (2012), the Colorado Rockies (2013–2014), the Los Angeles Dodgers (2016–2017), the Atlanta Braves (2018–2020, 2023), and the Texas Rangers (2021–2022).
What were Charlie Culberson's career stats?: In 590 games, Charlie Culberson had 301 hits, 30 home runs, 145 RBI, 140 runs, and 21 stolen bases, with a .248 batting average.
How much did Charlie Culberson earn in his career?: Charlie Culberson's recorded salaries total $1,035,000 over 2 seasons, 2014 to 2016. This total is partial: the salary data covers 1985 to 2016, and Culberson's career ran from 2012 to 2023. His seasons after 2016 are not included, and no salary is recorded for 2012 and 2013.
What was Charlie Culberson's salary?: Charlie Culberson's last recorded salary was $535,000, in 2016. His highest recorded salary was $535,000, in 2016, and his lowest was $500,000, in 2014. The Salary History table lists each season from 2014 to 2016.
What position did Charlie Culberson play?: Charlie Culberson played primarily as a third baseman, the position where he appeared in the most games.
How tall was Charlie Culberson and how much did he weigh?: Charlie Culberson was listed at 6 feet 1 inch and 200 pounds.
How many home runs did Charlie Culberson hit each season?: Charlie Culberson's home runs by season: 0 in 2012, 2 in 2013, 3 in 2014, 1 in 2016, 0 in 2017, 12 in 2018, 5 in 2019, 0 in 2020, 5 in 2021, 2 in 2022, and 0 in 2023. His most in one season was 12, in 2018.
What was Charlie Culberson's career batting average?: Charlie Culberson batted .248 over his career, with 301 hits in 1,212 at bats.
How many RBI did Charlie Culberson have?: Charlie Culberson drove in 145 runs in his career.
What was Charlie Culberson's career ERA?: Charlie Culberson finished with a 1.23 career ERA, going 0-0 with 1 strikeouts.
Is Charlie Culberson in the Hall of Fame?: No. Charlie Culberson has not been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Position	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
1B	25	7	94	11	1	11
2B	67	49	89	122	6	29
3B	151	119	85	237	15	23
OF	124	65	131	9	2	3
P	8	0	0	3	0	0
SS	76	46	73	133	7	29

Position	G	GS	PO	A	E	DP
1B	25	7	94	11	1	11
2B	67	49	89	122	6	29
3B	151	119	85	237	15	23
OF	124	65	131	9	2	3
P	8	0	0	3	0	0
SS	76	46	73	133	7	29