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Dallas Braden

Dallas Lee Braden (twitter: @DALLASBRADEN209)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 13, 1983 in Phoenix, AZ
High School: Stagg HS (Stockton, CA)
School: Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 24th round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 23, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 24, 2007 (Age 23)
Team: Athletics 2007-2011
Agents: MVP Sports Group [*]
Final Game: April 16, 2011 (Age 27)
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Standard Pitching

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
2007 23 OAK AL 1 8 .111 6.72 20 14 1 0 0 0 72.1 91 59 54 9 26 1 55 2 1 6 332 63 1.618 11.3 1.1 3.2 6.8 2.12
2008 24 OAK AL 5 4 .556 4.14 19 10 7 0 0 0 71.2 77 36 33 8 25 2 41 2 1 0 301 99 1.423 9.7 1.0 3.1 5.1 1.64
2009 25 OAK AL 8 9 .471 3.89 22 22 0 0 0 0 136.2 144 63 59 9 42 2 81 2 0 1 589 113 1.361 9.5 0.6 2.8 5.3 1.93
2010 26 OAK AL 11 14 .440 3.50 30 30 0 5 2 0 192.2 180 83 75 17 43 0 113 5 1 2 781 117 1.157 8.4 0.8 2.0 5.3 2.63
2011 27 OAK AL 1 1 .500 3.00 3 3 0 0 0 0 18.0 18 7 6 2 5 0 15 0 0 0 73 136 1.278 9.0 1.0 2.5 7.5 3.00
5 Yrs 26 36 .419 4.16 94 79 8 5 2 0 491.1 510 248 227 45 141 5 305 11 3 9 2076 101 1.325 9.3 0.8 2.6 5.6 2.16
162 Game Avg. 10 14 .419 4.16 37 31 3 2 1 0 193 200 97 89 18 55 2 120 4 1 4 816 101 1.325 9.3 0.8 2.6 5.6 2.16

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.2): 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
2007 23 OAK AL 72.1 20 14 59 7.34 5.03 0.13 0.13 92.8 4.67 -22 -2.0 .9 -0.0 -1.3 -13 .400 .488
2008 24 OAK AL 71.2 19 10 36 4.52 4.88 0.28 0.07 96.8 4.52 -1 -0.1 .3 -0.1 0.5 8 .493 .499
2009 25 OAK AL 136.2 22 22 63 4.15 4.98 -0.20 0.19 97.9 5.26 16 1.6 -0.1 2.9 32 .574 .510 $410,000
2010 26 OAK AL 192.2 30 30 83 3.88 4.48 0.38 0.16 100.2 4.27 7 0.7 -0.1 2.6 28 .525 .505 $420,000
2011 27 OAK AL 18.0 3 3 7 3.50 4.45 -0.09 0.16 104.6 4.92 3 0.3 -0.0 0.5 5 .605 .502 $3,350,000
5 Seasons 491.1 94 79 248 4.54 4.76 0.15 0.15 98.1 4.66 2 0.6 .5 -0.3 5.3 59 .506 .501 $4,180,000

Batting Against -- Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE
2007 23 OAK AL 20 332 300 59 91 15 5 9 2 1 26 55 .303 .363 .477 .839 .347 143 4 2 4 0 1 4
2008 24 OAK AL 19 301 271 36 77 12 1 8 1 2 25 41 .284 .347 .424 .771 .308 115 7 2 1 2 2 3
2009 25 OAK AL 22 589 537 63 144 40 1 9 0 2 42 81 .268 .321 .397 .718 .299 213 10 2 4 4 2 5
2010 26 OAK AL 30 781 723 83 180 39 0 17 1 2 43 113 .249 .294 .373 .668 .273 270 17 5 6 4 0 4
2011 27 OAK AL 3 73 68 7 18 5 1 2 0 3 5 15 .265 .315 .456 .771 .314 31 1 0 0 0 0 0
5 Yrs 94 2076 1899 248 510 111 8 45 4 10 141 305 .269 .321 .407 .728 .298 772 39 11 15 10 5 16
162 Game Avg. 37 816 746 97 200 44 3 18 2 4 55 120 .269 .321 .407 .728 .298 303 15 4 6 4 2 6
MLB Averages .261 .330 .412 .741 .299

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg PtchR PitchW Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI LevHi LevMd LevLo
2007 23 OAK AL -21.3 -1.9 344 -1.4 5.5 -6.9 1.03 -1.0 -0.3 -19.3 -1.8 1.03 -12.5 1 3 2
2008 24 OAK AL -0.4 -0.0 315 0.4 4.7 -4.3 .82 0.1 0.4 1.1 0.1 0.82 1.5 1 0 7
2009 25 OAK AL 8.1 0.8 594 0.6 9.9 -9.3 .93 0.8 -0.1 8.3 0.8 0.93 7.6 0 0 0
2010 26 OAK AL 12.1 1.2 796 0.6 13.0 -12.4 .92 2.0 -1.3 15.7 1.6 0.92 22.3 0 0 0
2011 27 OAK AL 2.0 0.2 75 0.1 1.5 -1.4 .93 0.1 -0.0 1.8 0.2 0.93 1.6 0 0 0
5 Yrs 0.5 0.3 2124 0.3 34.6 -34.3 .93 2.0 -1.6 7.7 0.9 0.93 20.4 2 3 9

Starting Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GS Wgs Lgs ND Wchp Ltuf Wtm Ltm tmW-L% Wlst Lsv CG SHO QS QS% GmScA Best Wrst BQR BQS sDR lDR RS/GS RS/IP IP/GS Pit/GS <80 80-99 100-119 ≥120 Max
2007 23 OAK AL 20 14 1 8 5 0 1 5 9 .357 2 2 0 0 2 14% 39.3 67 9 7 4 1 8 3.7 3.9 4.6 85 4 8 2 0 107
2008 24 OAK AL 19 10 4 4 2 2 0 6 4 .600 0 2 0 0 4 40% 48.6 60 21 4 1 1 5 4.1 2.6 5.7 89 2 5 3 0 102
2009 25 OAK AL 22 22 8 9 5 3 5 9 13 .409 2 4 0 0 15 68% 50.4 70 17 10 2 0 7 3.9 3.5 6.2 97 0 13 9 0 111
2010 26 OAK AL 30 30 11 14 5 1 5 13 17 .433 2 2 5 2 17 57% 53.7 93 20 15 8 0 12 3.3 3.2 6.4 95 4 17 8 1 120
2011 27 OAK AL 3 3 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 .667 0 1 0 0 1 33% 54.7 63 39 2 1 0 1 3.7 3.0 6.0 84 1 2 0 0 95
5 Yrs 94 79 25 36 18 7 11 35 44 .443 6 11 5 2 39 49% 50 93 9 38 16 2 33 3.6 3.3 5.9 93 11 45 22 1 120
MLB Averages .500 50% 50 100 -12 4.6 4.6 5.9 96

Reliever Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GR GF Wgr Lgr SVOpp SV BSv SV% SVSit Hold IR IS IS% 1stIP aLI LevHi LevMd LevLo Ahd Tie Bhd Runr Empt >3o <3o IPmult 0DR Out/GR Pit/GR
2007 23 OAK AL 20 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 1 25% 6 1.027 1 3 2 3 1 2 2 4 3 2 3 1 4.2 21
2008 24 OAK AL 19 9 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 33% 8 .817 1 0 7 3 0 6 2 7 5 0 5 1 5.0 29
2 Yrs 39 15 8 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 2 29% .927 2 3 9 6 1 8 4 11 8 2 8 2 4.7 26

Ratio Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB DPopp DPs DP%
2007 23 OAK AL 332 19% 2.7% 16.6% 7.8% 8.7% 32% 0.62 0.78 71% 19% 7.4% 19% 69 4 6%
2008 24 OAK AL 301 26% 2.7% 13.6% 8.3% 7.0% 27% 0.65 0.79 74% 18% 6.7% 14% 60 7 12%
2009 25 OAK AL 589 25% 1.5% 13.8% 7.1% 8.5% 35% 0.59 0.72 77% 19% 3.8% 16% 101 10 10%
2010 26 OAK AL 781 25% 2.2% 14.5% 5.5% 7.2% 31% 0.70 0.95 76% 19% 5.8% 18% 145 17 12%
2011 27 OAK AL 73 16% 2.7% 20.6% 6.9% 11.0% 44% 0.61 0.71 70% 30% 7.7% 21% 9 1 11%
5 Yrs 2076 24% 2.2% 14.7% 6.8% 7.9% 32% 0.64 0.82 75% 19% 5.6% 17% 384 39 10%
MLB Averages 46% 2.6% 17.9% 8.6% 7.8% 33% 0.79 1.07 69% 19% 7.5% 13% 11%

Pitch Summary -- Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Pit Pit/PA Str Str% L/Str S/Str F/Str I/Str AS/Str I/Bll AS/Pit Con 1st% 30% 30c 30s 02% 02c 02s 02h L/SO 3pK 4pW PAu Pitu Stru
2007 23 OAK AL 333 1314 3.95 838 64% 27% 14% 29% 30% 73% 1% 46% 80% 61% 5% 16 10 21% 70 42 5 33% 9 5 -1 0 0
2008 24 OAK AL 306 1142 3.73 716 63% 29% 12% 26% 33% 71% 2% 44% 83% 57% 7% 21 11 29% 89 57 6 44% 11 8 -5 0 0
2009 25 OAK AL 589 2142 3.64 1400 65% 28% 13% 26% 33% 72% 1% 47% 83% 62% 4% 22 14 24% 140 81 11 33% 14 6 0 0 0
2010 26 OAK AL 782 2847 3.64 1881 66% 29% 12% 26% 33% 71% 0% 47% 83% 62% 3% 24 18 28% 222 135 26 24% 18 6 -1 0 0
2011 27 OAK AL 74 251 3.39 170 68% 30% 14% 25% 31% 70% 0% 47% 81% 70% 1% 1 1 32% 24 14 2 40% 1 0 -1 0 0
5 Yrs 2084 7696 3.69 5005 65% 28% 13% 26% 32% 72% 1% 47% 82% 62% 4% 84 54 26% 545 329 50 31% 53 25 -8 0 0
MLB Averages 3.80 63% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 59% 5% 22% 25%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

Hits Home Runs Advances Baserunning
Year Age Tm Lg PA H Inf Bnt All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd <2,3B Scr SO % ROE WP PB SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS BT PAu
2007 23 OAK AL 332 91 11 2 9 0 4 8 1 3 6 20 13 5 65% 4 6 0 134 2 1 67% 1 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 13 0
2008 24 OAK AL 301 77 13 2 8 0 5 4 4 5 3 14 8 1 57% 3 0 0 118 1 2 33% 1 2 0 0 0 0 7 0 3 0
2009 25 OAK AL 589 144 19 3 9 0 8 7 2 5 4 25 13 2 52% 5 1 0 229 0 2 0% 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 0
2010 26 OAK AL 781 180 22 5 17 0 12 13 4 8 9 27 15 6 56% 4 2 0 260 1 2 33% 1 1 0 1 0 0 8 0 8 0
2011 27 OAK AL 73 18 5 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 6 1 2 17% 0 0 0 16 0 3 0% 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Yrs 2076 510 70 12 45 0 29 33 12 21 24 92 50 16 54% 16 9 0 757 4 10 29% 3 9 1 1 0 0 18 1 31 0
MLB Averages 53% 73%

Cumulative Pitching

Year Age 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 ERA+
2007 23 1 8 .111 6.72 20 14 1 0 0 0 72.1 91 59 54 9 26 1 55 2 1 6 332 63 1.618 11.3 1.1 3.2 6.8 2.12 63
2008 24 6 12 .333 5.44 39 24 8 0 0 0 144.0 168 95 87 17 51 3 96 4 2 6 633 77 1.521 10.5 1.1 3.2 6.0 1.88 77
2009 25 14 21 .400 4.68 61 46 8 0 0 0 280.2 312 158 146 26 93 5 177 6 2 7 1222 92 1.443 10.0 0.8 3.0 5.7 1.90 92
2010 26 25 35 .417 4.20 91 76 8 5 2 0 473.1 492 241 221 43 136 5 290 11 3 9 2003 100 1.327 9.4 0.8 2.6 5.5 2.13 100
2011 27 26 36 .419 4.16 94 79 8 5 2 0 491.1 510 248 227 45 141 5 305 11 3 9 2076 101 1.325 9.3 0.8 2.6 5.6 2.16 101

Neutralized Pitching

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
Year Age W L W-L% ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WHIP H/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB HR/9 Gact
2007 23 2 5 .286 6.97 71.0 92 61 55 9 26 54 2 1.662 11.7 3.3 6.8 2.08 1.1 20
2008 24 3 4 .429 4.85 65.0 79 39 35 8 26 37 2 1.615 10.9 3.6 5.1 1.42 1.1 19
2009 25 7 7 .500 3.96 134.0 144 66 59 9 42 79 2 1.388 9.7 2.8 5.3 1.88 0.6 22
2010 26 10 10 .500 3.96 182.0 186 89 80 18 44 107 5 1.264 9.2 2.2 5.3 2.43 0.9 30
2011 27 1 0 1.000 3.94 16.0 19 8 7 2 5 14 0 1.500 10.7 2.8 7.9 2.80 1.1 3
5 Yrs 23 26 .469 4.54 468.0 520 263 236 46 143 291 11 1.417 10.0 5.6 2.04 0.9 94

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1916 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
2010 AL  1.157 (6th)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
2010 AL  2.009 (5th)

Complete Games s c a p y
2010 AL  5 (4th)

Shutouts s c a p y
2010 AL  2 (1st)

Losses s c a p y
2010 AL  14 (5th)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 1 (873), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 5 (1909), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 1 (1982), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
JAWS Starting Pitcher (1187th), 5.2 career WAR/5.2 7yr-peak WAR/5.2 JAWS
Average HOF P (out of 57) = 72.6 career WAR/50.0 7yr-peak WAR/61.3 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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