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Ryan Madson

Ryan Michael Madson (Mad Dog)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 6", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: August 28, 1980 in Long Beach, CA
High School: Valley View (Moreno Co., CA)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 9th round of the 1998 amateur draft.
Signed June 10, 1998. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 27, 2003
Team: Phillies 2003-2011
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent (team option), 3 yrs/$12M (09-11), 1 yr/$8.5M (12) & 13 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 8.027, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Scott Boras [*]
Relatives: Nephew of Steve Barr
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Fine Details · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:13AM

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #791. Gil Meche… #792. Terry Mulholland… #793. Ned Garvin… #794. RYAN MADSON… #795. Rip Collins… #796. Wade Miller… #797. Hank Wyse…

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #791. Gil Meche… #792. Terry Mulholland… #793. Ned Garvin… #794. RYAN MADSON… #795. Rip Collins… #796. Wade Miller… #797. Hank Wyse…

Standard Pitching

More Stats

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
1998	17	PHI-min	Rk	3	3	.500	4.83	12	10	0	0	0	0	54.0	57	38	29	5	20	0	52	2	1	9	237		1.426	9.5	0.8	3.3	8.7	2.60	MTV · APPY
1999	18	PHI-min	A-	5	5	.500	4.72	15	15	0	0	0	0	87.2	80	51	46	5	43	0	75	10	0	10	383		1.403	8.2	0.5	4.4	7.7	1.74	BAT · NYPL
2000	19	PHI-min	A	14	5	.737	2.59	21	21	0	2	1	0	135.2	113	50	39	5	45	0	123	13	1	5	564		1.165	7.5	0.3	3.0	8.2	2.73	KAN · SALL
2001	20	PHI-min	A+	9	9	.500	3.90	22	21	0	1	0	0	117.2	137	68	51	4	49	1	101	5	1	5	530		1.581	10.5	0.3	3.7	7.7	2.06	CLW · FLOR
2002	21	PHI-min	AA	16	4	.800	3.20	26	26	0	2	0	0	171.1	150	68	61	11	53	0	132	12	0	5	699		1.185	7.9	0.6	2.8	6.9	2.49	REA · EL
2003	22	PHI-min	AAA,A+	12	8	.600	3.60	28	28	0	0	0	0	165.0	168	75	66	9	44	2	147	10	0	6	694		1.285	9.2	0.5	2.4	8.0	3.34	SWB,CLW · IL,FLOR
2003	22	PHI	NL	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6		0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2004	23	PHI-min	AA	0	0		4.50	2	1	0	0	0	0	2.0	3	2	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	11		2.500	13.5	4.5	9.0	4.5	0.50	REA · EL
2004	23	PHI	NL	9	3	.750	2.34	52	1	14	0	0	1	77.0	68	23	20	6	19	4	55	5	0	7	312	193	1.130	7.9	0.7	2.2	6.4	2.89
2005	24	PHI	NL	6	5	.545	4.14	78	0	10	0	0	0	87.0	84	44	40	11	25	6	79	6	1	6	365	107	1.253	8.7	1.1	2.6	8.2	3.16
2006	25	PHI	NL	11	9	.550	5.69	50	17	8	0	0	2	134.1	176	92	85	20	50	4	99	10	0	12	620	82	1.682	11.8	1.3	3.3	6.6	1.98
2007	26	PHI-min	AA	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	3	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	11		1.000	9.0	0.0	0.0	12.0		REA · EL
2007	26	PHI	NL	2	2	.500	3.05	38	0	9	0	0	1	56.0	48	19	19	5	23	4	43	2	2	2	237	151	1.268	7.7	0.8	3.7	6.9	1.87
2008	27	PHI	NL	4	2	.667	3.05	76	0	14	0	0	1	82.2	79	29	28	6	23	4	67	1	1	2	340	144	1.234	8.6	0.7	2.5	7.3	2.91
2009	28	PHI	NL	5	5	.500	3.26	79	0	28	0	0	10	77.1	73	29	28	7	22	3	78	3	0	1	320	129	1.228	8.5	0.8	2.6	9.1	3.55
2010	29	PHI-min	A+,AA,AAA	0	1	.000	3.18	5	0	0	0	0	0	5.2	4	2	2	1	2	0	6	1	0	0	24		1.059	6.4	1.6	3.2	9.5	3.00	CLW,REA,LHV · FLOR,EL,IL
2010	29	PHI	NL	6	2	.750	2.55	55	0	21	0	0	5	53.0	42	16	15	4	13	3	64	4	0	2	217	161	1.038	7.1	0.7	2.2	10.9	4.92
2011	30	PHI-min	A+	0	0		0.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	4		0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0		CLW · FLOR
2011	30	PHI	NL	4	2	.667	2.37	62	0	46	0	0	32	60.2	54	16	16	2	16	8	62	1	0	0	246	164	1.154	8.0	0.3	2.4	9.2	3.88
9 Seasons				47	30	.610	3.59	491	18	150	0	0	52	630.0	624	268	251	61	191	36	547	32	4	32	2663	123	1.294	8.9	0.9	2.7	7.8	2.86
162 Game Avg.				6	4	.610	3.59	66	2	20	0	0	7	84	83	36	34	8	26	5	73	4	1	4	356	123	1.294	8.9	0.9	2.7	7.8	2.86

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary
2003	22	PHI	NL	2.0	0	0	1	0	.5	1	0.1	$
2004	23	PHI	NL	77.0	1	23	47	1	1.2	24	2.1	$300,000
2005	24	PHI	NL	87.0	0	44	49	3	1.3	5	-0.1	$350,000
2006	25	PHI	NL	134.1	17	92	90	-2	1.1	-2	-0.6	$400,000
2007	26	PHI	NL	56.0	0	19	35	1	1.2	16	1.3	$1,100,000
2008	27	PHI	NL	82.2	0	29	49	2	1.1	20	1.4	$1,400,000
2009	28	PHI	NL	77.1	0	29	46	0	1.6	17	1.5	$2,333,333
2010	29	PHI	NL	53.0	0	16	26	0	1.6	10	1.4	$4,833,333
2011	30	PHI	NL	60.2	0	16	30	1	1.9	14	2.2	$4,833,333
9 Seasons				630.0	18	268	373	7	1.3	105	9.3	$15,549,999

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
2008	27	PHI	NL	NLDS	W	MIL	0	0		2.25	3	1	0	4.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	16	0.750	6.8	0.0	0.0	4.5
2008	27	PHI	NL	NLCS	W	LAD	1	0	1.000	0.00	4	0	0	5.0	4	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	19	1.000	7.2	0.0	1.8	7.2	4.00
2008	27	PHI	NL	WS	W	TBR	0	0		4.91	4	0	0	3.2	3	2	2	1	0	0	6	0	0	14	0.818	7.4	2.5	0.0	14.7
2009	28	PHI	NL	NLDS	W	COL	1	0	1.000	3.38	3	1	0	2.2	2	1	1	0	1	1	4	0	1	11	1.125	6.8	0.0	3.4	13.5	4.00
2009	28	PHI	NL	NLCS	W	LAD	0	0		5.40	4	0	0	3.1	6	2	2	0	3	0	4	0	0	19	2.700	16.2	0.0	8.1	10.8	1.33
2009	28	PHI	NL	WS	L	NYY	0	0		2.08	5	4	1	4.1	6	1	1	0	2	0	6	1	0	21	1.846	12.5	0.0	4.2	12.5	3.00
2010	29	PHI	NL	NLDS	W	CIN	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	4	1.000	9.0	0.0	0.0	9.0
2010	29	PHI	NL	NLCS	L	SFG	0	1	.000	1.35	5	1	0	6.2	4	1	1	1	3	1	10	0	0	26	1.050	5.4	1.4	4.1	13.5	3.33
2011	30	PHI	NL	NLDS	L	STL	0	0		2.08	4	4	1	4.1	4	1	1	0	0	0	6	0	0	15	0.923	8.3	0.0	0.0	12.5
4 Seasons (9 Series)							2	1	.667	2.31	33	11	2	35.0	33	9	9	2	10	2	43	1	2	145	1.229	8.5	0.5	2.6	11.1	4.30
4 NLDS							1	0	1.000	2.25	11	6	1	12.0	10	3	3	0	1	1	13	0	2	46	0.917	7.5	0.0	0.8	9.8	13.00
3 NLCS							1	1	.500	1.80	13	1	0	15.0	14	3	3	1	7	1	18	0	0	64	1.400	8.4	0.6	4.2	10.8	2.57
2 WS							0	0		3.38	9	4	1	8.0	9	3	3	1	2	0	12	1	0	35	1.375	10.1	1.1	2.3	13.5	6.00

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	Pos
1998	17	PHI-min	Rk	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	MTV · APPY
1999	18	PHI-min	A-	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	BAT · NYPL
2000	19	PHI-min	A	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	KAN · SALL
2001	20	PHI-min	A+	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	CLW · FLOR
2002	21	PHI-min	AA	27	20	16	2	4	2	1	0	4	.250	.294	.375	.669		6	0	1	3	REA · EL
2003	22	PHI-min	AAA,A+	28	16	13	1	6	0	2	2	4	.462	.533	.462	.995		6	0	0	1	SWB,CLW · IL,FLOR
2003	22	PHI	NL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	/1
2004	23	PHI-min	AA	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	REA · EL
2004	23	PHI	NL	52	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	1
2005	24	PHI	NL	78	8	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.143	.000	.143	-59	0	1	0	1	1
2006	25	PHI	NL	50	38	33	3	6	1	2	1	13	.182	.206	.212	.418	6	7	1	0	4	1
2007	26	PHI-min	AA	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	REA · EL
2007	26	PHI	NL	38	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	1
2008	27	PHI	NL	76	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	1
2009	28	PHI	NL	79	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	1
2010	29	PHI-min	AAA,A+,AA	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	LHV,CLW,REA · IL,FLOR,EL
2010	29	PHI	NL	55	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	1
2011	30	PHI-min	A+	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	CLW · FLOR
2011	30	PHI	NL	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	1
9 Seasons				490	57	48	3	6	1	2	2	20	.125	.160	.146	.306	-21	7	2	0	7
162 Game Avg.				162	19	16	1	2	0	1	1	7	.125	.160	.146	.306	-21	2	1	0	2

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
2004	23	PHI	NL	4	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$300,000	1
2005	24	PHI	NL	8	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$350,000	1
2006	25	PHI	NL	38	-5	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$400,000	1
2007	26	PHI	NL	4	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$1,100,000	1
2008	27	PHI	NL	2	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$1,400,000	1

2010	29	PHI	NL	1	-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-0	0.0	-0	0.0	0.0	$4,833,333	1
2011	30	PHI	NL	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0			$4,833,333	1
7 Seasons				57	-9	0	0	0	0	5	1	-3	-0.3	-3	-0.3	0.0	$13,216,666

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	IBB
2008	27	PHI	NL	NLDS	MIL	W	3	0	0	0
2008	27	PHI	NL	NLCS	LAD	W	4	0	0	0
2008	27	PHI	NL	WS	TBR	W	3	0	0	0
2009	28	PHI	NL	NLDS	COL	W	3	0	0	0
2009	28	PHI	NL	NLCS	LAD	W	4	0	0	0
2009	28	PHI	NL	WS	NYY	L	3	0	0	0
2010	29	PHI	NL	NLDS	CIN	W	1	0	0	0
2010	29	PHI	NL	NLCS	SFG	L	5	0	0	0
2011	30	PHI	NL	NLDS	STL	L	4	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0
4 Seasons (9 Series)							30	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0
4 NLDS							11	1	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0
3 NLCS							13	0	0	0
2 WS							6	0	0	0

Standard Fielding

More Stats

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%	PO
2003	PHI	NL	22	P	1			2.0	0	0	0	0	0				0.00	0.00		1.80	1.80
2004	PHI	NL	23	P	52			77.0	11	7	4	0	0	1.000	-1	-3	1.29	0.21	.965	1.84	1.82
2005	PHI	NL	24	P	78			87.0	12	2	10	0	0	1.000	-2	-5	1.24	0.15	.960	1.75	1.73
2006	PHI	NL	25	P	50			134.1	29	9	20	0	1	1.000	0	0	1.94	0.58	.958	1.72	1.71
2007	PHI	NL	26	P	38			56.0	12	2	10	0	0	1.000	3	11	1.93	0.32	.965	1.69	1.67
2008	PHI	NL	27	P	76			82.2	16	4	12	0	0	1.000	-2	-5	1.74	0.21	.959	1.73	1.72
2009	PHI	NL	28	P	79			77.1	15	5	9	1	0	.933	-1	-3	1.63	0.18	.955	1.72	1.70
2010	PHI	NL	29	P	55			53.0	5	2	3	0	0	1.000	1	4	0.85	0.09	.954	1.73	1.72
2011	PHI	NL	30	P	62	0	0	60.2	7	1	5	1	0	.857	-1	-3	0.89	0.10	.954	1.80	1.79	4	1	20%	0
	9 Seasons			P	491	0	0	630.0	107	32	73	2	1	.981	-3	0	1.50	0.21	.959	1.75	1.73	4	1	20%	0
	9 Seasons			TOT	491	0	0	630.0	107	32	73	2	1	.981	-3	-5	1.50	0.21	.959	1.75	1.73	4	1	20%	0

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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 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 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
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.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
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

Games Played s c a p y 2005 NL 78 (4th) 2008 NL 76 (9th) 2009 NL 79 (4th) Active 491 (36th)	Saves s c a p y Active 52 (44th)	Wild Pitches s c a p y 2006 NL 12 (2nd)	Games Finished s c a p y Active 150 (46th)
Def. Games as P s c a p y 2005 NL 78 (4th) 2009 NL 79 (4th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 3 (2106), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 18 (658), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 17 (403), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 2, 1998: Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 9th round of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed June 10, 1998.
October 30, 2011: Granted Free Agency.
January 13, 2012: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Reds.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
2004	23	Philadelphia Phillies	$300,000	4/7/04 AP
2005	24	Philadelphia Phillies	$350,000
2006	25	Philadelphia Phillies	$400,000
2007	26	Philadelphia Phillies	$1,100,000
2008	27	Philadelphia Phillies	$1,400,000
2009	28	Philadelphia Phillies	$2,333,333
2010	29	Philadelphia Phillies	$4,833,333
2011	30	Philadelphia Phillies	$4,833,333

2012	31	Cincinnati Reds	$6,000,000
2013	32	Cincinnati Reds	*$11,000,000	$11M Team Option, $2.5M Buyout

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$15,549,999	Does not include future salaries

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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