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Brett Myers

Brett Allen Myers

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 240 lb.

Born: August 17, 1980 in Jacksonville, FL
High School: Englewood (Jacksonville, FL)
Drafted
by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st round (12th pick) of the 1999 amateur draft.
Signed July 9, 1999. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 24, 2002
Teams (by GP): Phillies/Astros 2002-2011
2012 Contract Status: Free Agent (vesting option), 2 yrs/$23M (11-12) & 13 vesting option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 9.068, Free Agent: 2013 [*], Agents: Craig Landis [*]
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 5:15PM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #681. Joel Pineiro… #682. Bill Wegman… #683. Lady Baldwin… #684. BRETT MYERS… #685. Ron Kline… #686. Jack Billingham… #687. Jack Kralick… 

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
2002 21 PHI NL 4 5 .444 4.25 12 12 0 1 0 0 72.0 73 38 34 11 29 1 34 6 1 2 307 92 1.417 9.1 1.4 3.6 4.3 1.17
2003 22 PHI NL 14 9 .609 4.43 32 32 0 1 1 0 193.0 205 99 95 20 76 8 143 9 0 9 848 90 1.456 9.6 0.9 3.5 6.7 1.88
2004 23 PHI NL 11 11 .500 5.52 32 31 1 1 1 0 176.0 196 113 108 31 62 4 116 6 0 5 778 81 1.466 10.0 1.6 3.2 5.9 1.87
2005 24 PHI NL 13 8 .619 3.72 34 34 0 2 0 0 215.1 193 94 89 31 68 2 208 11 4 4 905 118 1.212 8.1 1.3 2.8 8.7 3.06
2006 25 PHI NL 12 7 .632 3.91 31 31 0 1 0 0 198.0 194 93 86 29 63 3 189 3 0 3 833 120 1.298 8.8 1.3 2.9 8.6 3.00
2007 26 PHI NL 5 7 .417 4.33 51 3 37 0 0 21 68.2 61 33 33 9 27 1 83 1 0 5 293 106 1.282 8.0 1.2 3.5 10.9 3.07
2008 27 PHI NL 10 13 .435 4.55 30 30 0 2 1 0 190.0 197 103 96 29 65 6 163 6 0 2 817 97 1.379 9.3 1.4 3.1 7.7 2.51
2009 28 PHI NL 4 3 .571 4.84 18 10 1 0 0 0 70.2 74 38 38 18 23 1 50 4 0 1 304 87 1.373 9.4 2.3 2.9 6.4 2.17
2010 29 HOU NL 14 8 .636 3.14 33 33 0 2 0 0 223.2 212 88 78 20 66 3 180 3 0 2 936 127 1.243 8.5 0.8 2.7 7.2 2.73 CYA-10
2011 30 HOU NL 7 14 .333 4.46 34 33 1 2 0 0 216.0 226 116 107 31 57 5 160 4 0 7 917 85 1.310 9.4 1.3 2.4 6.7 2.81
10 Seasons 94 85 .525 4.24 307 249 40 12 3 21 1623.1 1631 815 764 229 536 34 1326 53 5 40 6938 100 1.335 9.0 1.3 3.0 7.4 2.47
162 Game Avg. 11 10 .525 4.24 38 30 5 1 0 3 199 199 100 93 28 66 4 162 6 1 5 849 100 1.335 9.0 1.3 3.0 7.4 2.47
PHI (8 yrs) 73 63 .537 4.40 240 183 39 8 3 21 1183.2 1193 611 579 178 413 26 986 46 5 31 5085 99 1.357 9.1 1.4 3.1 7.5 2.39
HOU (2 yrs) 21 22 .488 3.79 67 66 1 4 0 0 439.2 438 204 185 51 123 8 340 7 0 9 1853 103 1.276 9.0 1.0 2.5 7.0 2.76

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 Awards
2002 21 PHI NL 72.0 12 38 37 1 .9 -1 -0.1 $
2003 22 PHI NL 193.0 32 99 102 7 1.0 3 0.4 $300,000
2004 23 PHI NL 176.0 31 113 110 2 1.0 -3 -0.3 $362,500
2005 24 PHI NL 215.1 34 94 122 8 .9 28 2.8 $445,000
2006 25 PHI NL 198.0 31 93 134 -2 1.0 41 3.9 $3,300,000
2007 26 PHI NL 68.2 3 33 44 1 1.6 11 0.8 $5,083,333
2008 27 PHI NL 190.0 30 103 111 5 .9 8 0.8 $8,583,333
2009 28 PHI NL 70.2 10 38 43 0 .9 5 0.4 $12,083,333
2010 29 HOU NL 223.2 33 88 131 -6 1.0 43 4.7 $3,100,000 CYA-10
2011 30 HOU NL 216.0 33 116 123 4 .9 7 0.7 $8,000,000
10 Seasons 1623.1 249 815 958 20 1.0 143 14.1 $41,257,499
PHI (8 yrs) 1183.2 183 611 703 22 1.0 92 8.7 $30,157,499
HOU (2 yrs) 439.2 66 204 255 -2 .9 51 5.4 $11,100,000

Postseason Pitching

Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
2007 26 PHI NL NLDS L COL 0 0 0.00 2 0 2 0 0 0 1.1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 6 1.500 13.5 0.0 0.0 20.3
2008 27 PHI NL NLDS W MIL 1 0 1.000 2.57 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.0 2 2 2 0 3 1 4 1 0 0 26 0.714 2.6 0.0 3.9 5.1 1.33
2008 27 PHI NL NLCS W LAD 1 0 1.000 9.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.0 6 5 5 1 4 1 6 0 0 1 26 2.000 10.8 1.8 7.2 10.8 1.50
2008 27 PHI NL WS W TBR 0 1 .000 3.86 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.0 7 4 3 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 29 1.429 9.0 0.0 3.9 2.6 0.67
2009 28 PHI NL NLDS W COL 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 5 3.000 0.0 0.0 27.0 0.0 0.00
2009 28 PHI NL WS L NYY 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 1 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 4 1.000 9.0 9.0 0.0 18.0
3 Seasons (6 Series) 2 1 .667 4.50 7 3 2 0 0 0 22.0 18 12 11 2 12 3 17 2 0 1 96 1.364 7.4 0.8 4.9 7.0 1.42
3 NLDS 1 0 1.000 2.00 4 1 2 0 0 0 9.0 4 2 2 0 5 2 7 2 0 0 37 1.000 4.0 0.0 5.0 7.0 1.40
1 NLCS 1 0 1.000 9.00 1 1 0 0 0 0 5.0 6 5 5 1 4 1 6 0 0 1 26 2.000 10.8 1.8 7.2 10.8 1.50
2 WS 0 1 .000 4.50 2 1 0 0 0 0 8.0 8 5 4 1 3 0 4 0 0 0 33 1.375 9.0 1.1 3.4 4.5 1.33

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
2002 21 PHI NL 12 26 23 0 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 .130 .130 .174 .304 -18 4 2 0 3 0 0 1
2003 22 PHI NL 33 69 62 3 9 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 18 .145 .172 .161 .333 -9 10 1 0 5 0 0 1
2004 23 PHI NL 32 61 51 6 10 4 0 0 1 0 0 2 17 .196 .226 .275 .501 27 14 2 0 8 0 0 1
2005 24 PHI NL 34 80 65 1 10 1 0 0 5 0 0 4 19 .154 .203 .169 .372 -3 11 1 0 11 0 0 1
2006 25 PHI NL 31 74 63 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 24 .032 .090 .032 .121 -67 2 1 0 7 0 0 1
2007 26 PHI NL 51 9 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 .000 .250 .000 .250 -28 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
2008 27 PHI NL 31 71 58 3 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 19 .069 .129 .086 .215 -42 5 1 0 9 0 0 1
2009 28 PHI NL 18 20 18 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 .222 .263 .278 .541 43 5 0 0 1 0 0 1
2010 29 HOU NL 33 76 62 2 11 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 25 .177 .200 .194 .394 9 12 0 0 11 1 0 1 CYA-10
2011 30 HOU NL 32 71 63 3 10 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 22 .159 .209 .175 .384 8 11 2 0 4 0 0 1
10 Seasons 307 557 471 22 63 11 0 0 12 0 0 25 161 .134 .177 .157 .334 -11 74 10 0 60 1 0
162 Game Avg. 162 294 249 12 33 6 0 0 6 0 0 13 85 .134 .177 .157 .334 -11 39 5 0 32 1 0
PHI (8 yrs) 242 410 346 17 42 9 0 0 10 0 0 19 114 .121 .167 .147 .315 -17 51 8 0 45 0 0
HOU (2 yrs) 65 147 125 5 21 2 0 0 2 0 0 6 47 .168 .205 .184 .389 8 23 2 0 15 1 0

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 Awards
2002 21 PHI NL 26 -4 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $ 1
2003 22 PHI NL 69 -11 0 -1 0 0 7 2 -3 -0.3 -3 -0.3 0.0 $300,000 1
2004 23 PHI NL 61 -5 0 -1 0 0 6 2 2 0.1 2 0.2 -0.1 $362,500 1
2005 24 PHI NL 80 -10 0 -1 1 0 8 2 0 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $445,000 1
2006 25 PHI NL 74 -16 0 -1 0 0 9 2 -6 -0.6 -6 -0.6 0.0 $3,300,000 1
2007 26 PHI NL 9 -1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $5,083,333 1
2008 27 PHI NL 71 -12 0 0 0 0 7 2 -3 -0.4 -3 -0.3 -0.1 $8,583,333 1
2009 28 PHI NL 20 -1 0 -0 0 0 2 1 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $12,083,333 1
2010 29 HOU NL 76 -8 -0 0 0 0 8 2 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $3,100,000 1 CYA-10
2011 30 HOU NL 71 -8 -1 -1 -0 0 7 2 -0 0.0 -0 0.0 0.0 $8,000,000 1
10 Seasons 557 -76 -1 -5 1 0 58 16 -6 -1.0 -6 -0.6 -0.4 $41,257,499
PHI (8 yrs) 410 -60 0 -4 1 0 43 12 -8 -1.2 -8 -0.8 -0.4 $30,157,499
HOU (2 yrs) 147 -16 -1 -1 -0 0 15 4 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $11,100,000

Postseason Batting

Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
2007 26 PHI NL NLDS COL L 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008 27 PHI NL NLDS MIL W 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .500 .667 .500 1.167 1 0 0 0 0 0
2008 27 PHI NL NLCS LAD W 1 3 3 2 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 3 0 0 0 0 0
2009 28 PHI NL NLDS COL W 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 28 PHI NL WS NYY L 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Seasons (5 Series) 6 6 5 3 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 .800 .833 .800 1.633 4 0 0 0 0 0
3 NLDS 4 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .500 .667 .500 1.167 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 1 3 3 2 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 2.000 3 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 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 Awards
2002 PHI NL 21 P 12 72.0 17 6 11 0 2 1.000 2.12 1.42 .963 1.82 1.81
2003 PHI NL 22 P 32 193.0 42 12 28 2 1 .952 2 2 1.87 1.25 .957 1.84 1.83
2004 PHI NL 23 P 32 176.0 38 15 23 0 1 1.000 -3 -3 1.94 1.19 .965 1.84 1.82
2005 PHI NL 24 P 34 215.1 50 12 36 2 0 .960 3 3 2.01 1.41 .960 1.75 1.73
2006 PHI NL 25 P 31 198.0 38 13 25 0 1 1.000 0 0 1.73 1.23 .958 1.72 1.71
2007 PHI NL 26 P 51 68.2 16 6 10 0 1 1.000 -1 -3 2.10 0.31 .965 1.68 1.67
2008 PHI NL 27 P 30 190.0 38 16 22 0 3 1.000 0 0 1.80 1.27 .959 1.73 1.72
2009 PHI NL 28 P 18 70.2 16 6 10 0 0 1.000 1 3 2.04 0.89 .955 1.72 1.70
2010 HOU NL 29 P 33 223.2 57 25 30 2 1 .965 0 0 2.21 1.67 .954 1.73 1.72 CYA-10
2011 HOU NL 30 P 34 33 2 216.0 56 33 19 4 2 .929 -3 -3 2.17 1.53 .955 1.80 1.79 15 6 29% 1
10 Seasons P 307 33 2 1623.1 368 144 214 10 12 .973 -1 0 1.98 1.17 .958 1.77 1.74 15 6 29% 1
10 Seasons TOT 307 33 2 1623.1 368 144 214 10 12 .973 -1 0 1.98 1.17 .958 1.77 1.74 15 6 29% 1
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

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
2010 NL (10, 1%)
0.01 Career Shares (283rd)

WAR for Pitcherss c a p y
2010 NL  4.7 (8th)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
Active  4.24 (43rd)

Wins s c a p y
Active  94 (40th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
2010 NL  .636 (9th)
Active  .525 (48th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
Active  1.335 (39th)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
Active  9.043 (41st)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
Active  2.972 (46th)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
2005 NL  8.694 (3rd)
2006 NL  8.591 (4th)
Active  7.352 (27th)
Career  7.352 (69th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
2010 NL  223.7 (5th)
2011 NL  216.0 (9th)
Active  1,623.3 (38th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
2005 NL  208 (3rd)
2006 NL  189 (5th)
Active  1,326 (28th)
Career  1,326 (245th)

Games Started s c a p y
2005 NL  34 (8th)
2010 NL  33 (6th)
2011 NL  33 (4th)
Active  249 (37th)

Complete Games s c a p y
2008 NL  2 (6th)
2010 NL  2 (6th)
2011 NL  2 (9th)
Active  12 (31st)

Shutouts s c a p y
2004 NL  1 (9th)
2008 NL  1 (7th)
Active  3 (48th)

Home Runs s c a p y
2004 NL  31 (6th)
2005 NL  31 (6th)
2006 NL  29 (5th)
2008 NL  29 (6th)
2011 NL  31 (2nd)
Active  229 (15th)
Career  229 (139th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
Active  536 (31st)

Hits s c a p y
2010 NL  212 (8th)
2011 NL  226 (4th)
Active  1,631 (34th)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
Active  2.474 (27th)
Career  2.474 (98th)

Losses s c a p y
2008 NL  13 (9th)
2011 NL  14 (4th)
Active  85 (36th)

Earned Runs s c a p y
2004 NL  108 (4th)
2008 NL  96 (9th)
2011 NL  107 (3rd)
Active  764 (35th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2005 NL  11 (8th)
Active  53 (41st)

Batters Faced s c a p y
2010 NL  936 (3rd)
2011 NL  917 (5th)
Active  6,938 (38th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
2010 NL  11 (7th)
Active  60 (27th)

Putouts as P s c a p y
2010 NL  25 (2nd)
2011 NL  33 (1st)
Active  144 (19th)

Errors Committed as P s c a p y
2011 NL  4 (3rd)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
2008 NL  1.000 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
2002 NL  born 1980-08-17 (8th)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkPitching - 28 (837), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 8 (1075), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 8 (1017), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Transactions

  • June 2, 1999: Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1st round (12th pick) of the 1999 amateur draft. Player signed July 9, 1999.
  • November 6, 2009: Granted Free Agency.
  • January 8, 2010: Signed as a Free Agent with the Houston Astros.
The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
200322Philadelphia Phillies$300,0004/3/03 AP
200423Philadelphia Phillies$362,5004/7/04 AP
200524Philadelphia Phillies$445,000
200625Philadelphia Phillies$3,300,000
200726Philadelphia Phillies$5,083,333
200827Philadelphia Phillies$8,583,333
200928Philadelphia Phillies$12,083,333
201029Houston Astros$3,100,000
201130Houston Astros$8,000,000
201231Houston Astros$11,000,000
201332Houston Astros*$10,000,000$10M Vesting Option, $3M Buyout
Career to date (may be incomplete)$41,257,499Does not include future salaries
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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