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Brad Ziegler

Brad Gregory Ziegler (twitter: @bradziegler)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: October 10, 1979 in Pratt, KS
High School: Odessa HS (Odessa, MO)
School: Missouri State University (Springfield, MO)
Drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 20th round of the 2003 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 2003. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 31, 2008
Teams (by GP): Athletics/Diamondbacks 2008-2012
2012 Contract Status: 2nd Year Arb Eligible (Super 2), 1 yr/$1.8M (12) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 3.122, Arb Eligible: 2013, Free Agent: 2015 [*],
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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
2003	23	PHI-min	A-	1	0	1.000	1.50	3	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	5	1	1	0	1	0	6	0	0	0	23		1.000	7.5	0.0	1.5	9.0	6.00	BAT · NYPL
2004	24	OAK-min	A+	9	2	.818	3.90	16	15	1	0	0	0	92.1	94	51	40	11	22	0	77	2	1	0	389		1.256	9.2	1.1	2.1	7.5	3.50	MOD · CALL
2005	25	OAK-min	A+,AA	11	8	.579	4.94	28	28	0	0	0	0	162.0	193	100	89	14	24	0	164	9	0	5	701		1.340	10.7	0.8	1.3	9.1	6.83	STK,MDL · CALL,TL
2006	26	OAK-min	AA,AAA	9	7	.563	3.71	27	26	0	1	0	0	162.2	183	77	67	20	42	0	99	8	1	4	693		1.383	10.1	1.1	2.3	5.5	2.36	MDL,SAC · TL,PCL
2007	27	OAK-min	AAA,AA	12	3	.800	2.41	50	0	9	0	0	2	78.1	65	26	21	0	18	0	62	2	1	0	312		1.060	7.5	0.0	2.1	7.1	3.44	SAC,MDL · PCL,TL
2008	28	OAK-min	AAA	2	0	1.000	0.37	19	0	14	0	0	8	24.1	15	2	1	0	4	1	20	0	0	0	91		0.781	5.5	0.0	1.5	7.4	5.00	SAC · PCL
2008	28	OAK	AL	3	0	1.000	1.06	47	0	21	0	0	11	59.2	47	8	7	2	22	3	30	1	0	0	229	390	1.156	7.1	0.3	3.3	4.5	1.36	RoY-8
2009	29	OAK	AL	2	4	.333	3.07	69	0	23	0	0	7	73.1	82	27	25	2	28	4	54	1	0	0	313	143	1.500	10.1	0.2	3.4	6.6	1.93
2010	30	OAK	AL	3	7	.300	3.26	64	0	12	0	0	0	60.2	54	24	22	4	28	9	41	3	1	0	257	126	1.352	8.0	0.6	4.2	6.1	1.46
2011	31	TOT	MLB	3	2	.600	2.16	66	0	16	0	0	1	58.1	53	21	14	0	19	3	44	1	0	1	239	189	1.234	8.2	0.0	2.9	6.8	2.32
2011	31	OAK	AL	3	2	.600	2.39	43	0	12	0	0	1	37.2	38	14	10	0	13	3	29	1	0	1	160	171	1.354	9.1	0.0	3.1	6.9	2.23
2011	31	ARI	NL	0	0		1.74	23	0	4	0	0	0	20.2	15	7	4	0	6	0	15	0	0	0	79	235	1.016	6.5	0.0	2.6	6.5	2.50
2012	32	ARI	NL	3	1	.750	2.14	25	0	6	0	0	0	21.0	17	6	5	0	9	2	13	0	0	0	82	193	1.238	7.3	0.0	3.9	5.6	1.44
5 Yrs				14	14	.500	2.41	271	0	78	0	0	19	273.0	253	86	73	8	106	21	182	6	1	1	1120	174	1.315	8.3	0.3	3.5	6.0	1.72
162 Game Avg.				4	4	.500	2.41	68	0	20	0	0	5	69	63	22	18	2	27	5	46	2	0	0	281	174	1.315	8.3	0.3	3.5	6.0	1.72

OAK (4 yrs)				11	13	.458	2.49	223	0	68	0	0	19	231.1	221	73	64	8	91	19	154	6	1	1	959	169	1.349	8.6	0.3	3.5	6.0	1.69
ARI (2 yrs)				3	1	.750	1.94	48	0	10	0	0	0	41.2	32	13	9	0	15	2	28	0	0	0	161	212	1.128	6.9	0.0	3.2	6.0	1.87

AL (4 yrs)				11	13	.458	2.49	223	0	68	0	0	19	231.1	221	73	64	8	91	19	154	6	1	1	959	169	1.349	8.6	0.3	3.5	6.0	1.69
NL (2 yrs)				3	1	.750	1.94	48	0	10	0	0	0	41.2	32	13	9	0	15	2	28	0	0	0	161	212	1.128	6.9	0.0	3.2	6.0	1.87

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 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
2008	28	OAK	AL	59.2	47	0	8	1.21	4.78	0.26	-0.35	95.2	3.96	17	1.8	1.6	0.4	2.7	25	.538	.511	$	RoY-8
2009	29	OAK	AL	73.1	69	0	27	3.31	4.95	-0.19	-0.36	97.6	4.65	10	1.0	1.0	-0.2	1.6	20	.515	.506	$405,000
2010	30	OAK	AL	60.2	64	0	24	3.56	4.53	0.36	-0.35	99.6	3.82	1	0.1	1.2	-0.1	0.6	9	.502	.501	$410,000
2011	31	OAK	AL	37.2	43	0	14	3.35	4.46	-0.09	-0.34	98.1	4.14	3	0.3	1.1	-0.1	0.6	8	.508	.502	$1,250,000
2011	31	ARI	NL	20.2	23	0	7	3.05	4.02	0.28	-0.30	101.7	3.49	1	0.1	1.0	-0.1	0.2	3	.504	.501	$
2012	32	ARI	NL	21.0	25	0	6	2.57	4.40	0.18	-0.33	108.0	4.19	4	0.4	1.2	-0.0	0.5	6	.516	.502	$
5 Seasons				273.0	271	0	86	2.84	4.64	0.11	-0.35	98.7	4.12	37	3.8	1.2	-0.1	6.2	70	.514	.504	$2,065,000

OAK (4 yrs)				231.1	223	0	73	2.84	4.72	0.09	-0.35	97.6	4.17	32	3.3	1.2	-0.0	5.5	62	.515	.505	$2,065,000
ARI (2 yrs)				41.2	48	0	13	2.81	4.21	0.23	-0.32	104.9	3.85	4	0.5	1.1	-0.1	0.7	9	.510	.502	$

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

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
2011	31	ARI	NL	NLDS	L	MIL	0	0		108.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	4	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	7	18.000	108.0	0.0	54.0	0.0	0.00
1 NLDS							0	0		108.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.1	4	4	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	7	18.000	108.0	0.0	54.0	0.0	0.00

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
2008	28	OAK	AL	47	229	199	8	47	8	2	2	1	0	22	30	.236	.311	.327	.638	.265	65	20	1	4	3	3	6
2009	29	OAK	AL	69	313	280	27	82	14	2	2	3	1	28	54	.293	.356	.379	.734	.352	106	14	1	1	3	4	4
2010	30	OAK	AL	64	257	224	24	54	13	1	4	2	1	28	41	.241	.332	.362	.694	.278	81	8	3	1	1	9	2
2011	31	ARI	NL	23	79	72	7	15	3	0	0	2	1	6	15	.208	.266	.250	.516	.259	18	3	0	0	1	0	1
2011	31	OAK	AL	43	160	144	14	38	5	1	0	4	2	13	29	.264	.327	.313	.640	.328	45	7	1	1	1	3	5
2011	31	TOT	MLB	66	239	216	21	53	8	1	0	6	3	19	44	.245	.307	.292	.598	.305	63	10	1	1	2	3	6
2012	32	ARI	NL	25	82	73	6	17	3	1	0	1	0	9	13	.233	.317	.301	.618	.283	22	7	0	0	0	2	1
5 Yrs				271	1120	992	86	253	46	7	8	13	5	106	182	.255	.328	.340	.668	.302	337	59	6	7	9	21	19
162 Game Avg.				68	281	249	22	63	12	2	2	3	1	27	46	.255	.328	.340	.668	.302	85	15	2	2	2	5	5
MLB Averages																.259	.327	.408	.736	.297

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
2008	28	OAK	AL	21.5	2.2	232	3.5	8.2	-4.8	1.71	1.0	1.0	24.2	2.5	1.71	14.7	26	6	14
2009	29	OAK	AL	11.3	1.1	321	0.7	6.1	-5.4	1.07	0.6	0.0	5.8	0.6	1.06	7.4	17	21	29
2010	30	OAK	AL	5.7	0.6	265	-0.6	5.5	-6.1	1.28	0.3	-0.8	5.0	0.5	1.28	3.6	24	16	24
2011	31	TOT	MLB	9.6	1.0	249	1.1	4.0	-2.8	.92	1.0	0.2	8.1	0.8	0.92	6.8	19	10	35
2011	31	OAK	AL	5.7	0.6	167	0.4	2.8	-2.4	1.03	0.4	-0.1	1.4	0.1	1.03	1.7	13	8	20
2011	31	ARI	NL	3.9	0.4	82	0.8	1.2	-0.5	.71	0.5	0.5	6.7	0.7	0.71	5.1	6	2	15
2012	32	ARI	NL	4.2	0.4	83	-0.2	1.3	-1.5	1.12	0.3	-0.5	6.4	0.7	1.12	4.5	8	5	11
5 Yrs				52.3	5.3	1150	4.4	25.1	-20.7	1.22	3.2	0.4	49.5	5.1	1.22	37.0	94	58	113

Reliever Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GR	GF	Wgr	Lgr	SVOpp	SV	BSv	SV%	SVSit	Hold	IR	IS	IS%	1^stIP	aLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo	Ahd	Tie	Bhd	Runr	Empt	>3o	<3o	IPmult	0DR	Out/GR	Pit/GR
2008	28	OAK	AL	47	47	21	3	0	13	11	2	85%	22	9	22	5	23%	8	1.709	26	6	14	27	9	11	12	35	19	7	19	13	3.8	18
2009	29	OAK	AL	69	69	23	2	4	10	7	3	70%	24	14	31	12	39%	8	1.065	17	21	29	37	8	24	16	53	16	16	19	17	3.2	17
2010	30	OAK	AL	64	64	12	3	7	4	0	4	0%	22	17	31	7	23%	7	1.284	24	16	24	30	13	21	22	42	15	26	20	17	2.8	14
2011	31	TOT	MLB	66	66	16	3	2	2	1	1	50%	12	10	59	22	37%		.923	19	10	35	21	7	38	33	33	10	30	12	20	2.7	14
2011	31	OAK	AL	43	43	12	3	2	2	1	1	50%	8	6	38	18	47%	7	1.029	13	8	20	14	6	23	21	22	6	18	8	14	2.6	14
2011	31	ARI	NL	23	23	4	0	0	0	0	0		4	4	21	4	19%	8	.709	6	2	15	7	1	15	12	11	4	12	4	6	2.7	12
2012	32	ARI	NL	25	25	6	3	1	2	0	2	0%	7	4	21	4	19%	7	1.123	8	5	11	11	4	10	10	15	2	9	3	9	2.5	12
5 Yrs				271	271	78	14	14	31	19	12	61%	87	54	164	50	30%		1.221	94	58	113	126	41	104	93	178	62	88	73	76	3.0	15

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%
2008	28	OAK	AL	229	52%	0.9%	13.1%	9.6%	5.2%	26%	1.79	2.77	74%	15%	3.4%	5%	61	20	33%
2009	29	OAK	AL	313	59%	0.6%	17.3%	9.0%	5.8%	22%	1.59	2.42	73%	19%	2.4%	7%	64	14	22%
2010	30	OAK	AL	257	70%	1.6%	16.0%	10.9%	7.0%	33%	1.22	1.78	70%	19%	5.3%	7%	58	8	14%
2011	31	TOT	MLB	239	68%	0.0%	18.4%	8.0%	3.8%	17%	2.29	3.70	73%	17%	0.0%	6%	68	10	15%
2011	31	OAK	AL	160	66%	0.0%	18.1%	8.1%	3.8%	16%	2.59	5.83	73%	21%	0.0%	3%	43	7	16%
2011	31	ARI	NL	79	72%	0.0%	19.0%	7.6%	3.8%	20%	1.80	2.00	73%	10%	0.0%	10%	25	3	12%
2012	32	ARI	NL	82	67%	0.0%	15.9%	11.0%	4.9%	24%	2.53	5.25	73%	17%	0.0%	12%	20	7	35%
5 Yrs				1120	62%	0.7%	16.3%	9.5%	5.5%	24%	1.70	2.65	72%	18%	2.9%	7%	271	59	22%
MLB Averages					45%	2.6%	18.2%	8.5%	7.7%	33%	0.80	1.08	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
2008	28	OAK	AL	230	834	3.63	514	62%	27%	12%	27%	34%	73%	4%	45%	83%	57%	7%	15	9	23%	54	28	2	10%	7	3	-1	0	0
2009	29	OAK	AL	313	1190	3.80	725	61%	27%	14%	28%	32%	73%	3%	44%	81%	60%	4%	12	6	18%	57	28	5	37%	8	2	0	0	0
2010	30	OAK	AL	258	911	3.53	542	59%	27%	14%	25%	34%	73%	10%	44%	81%	55%	7%	17	4	15%	38	21	2	27%	9	4	-1	0	0
2011	31	TOT	MLB	240	893	3.72	542	61%	26%	14%	28%	32%	74%	2%	45%	81%	57%	3%	8	4	14%	33	16	3	16%	5	1	-1	0	0
2011	31	OAK	AL	161	616	3.83	372	60%	25%	14%	29%	31%	75%	3%	45%	81%	57%	3%	5	1	14%	22	12	3	17%	4	1	-1	0	0
2011	31	ARI	NL	79	277	3.51	170	61%	27%	13%	26%	34%	73%	0%	45%	82%	58%	4%	3	3	14%	11	4	0	13%	1	0	0	0	0
2012	32	ARI	NL	82	304	3.71	198	65%	28%	16%	26%	30%	72%	8%	47%	78%	71%	6%	5	2	29%	24	13	1	23%	2	1	0	0	0
5 Yrs				1123	4132	3.68	2521	61%	27%	14%	27%	33%	73%	5%	45%	81%	59%	5%	57	25	18%	206	106	13	24%	31	11	-3	0	0
MLB Averages						3.81		63%	28%	15%	27%	30%	72%	2%	45%	79%	59%	5%			23%				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
2008	28	OAK	AL	229	47	9	0	2	0	8	0	2	1	1	8	4	0	50%	6	0	0	96	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0
2009	29	OAK	AL	313	82	15	0	2	0	7	1	1	1	1	15	10	1	67%	4	0	0	130	3	1	75%	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0
2010	30	OAK	AL	257	54	3	1	4	0	6	1	3	0	4	17	9	0	53%	2	0	0	103	2	1	67%	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	0
2011	31	TOT	MLB	239	53	5	1	0	0	13	0	0	0	0	32	20	4	63%	6	1	1	113	6	3	67%	4	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	4	0
2011	31	OAK	AL	160	38	2	1	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	25	16	4	64%	5	1	1	74	4	2	67%	3	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	3	0
2011	31	ARI	NL	79	15	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	7	4	0	57%	1	0	0	39	2	1	67%	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
2012	32	ARI	NL	82	17	3	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	10	5	1	50%	1	0	0	30	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5 Yrs				1120	253	35	2	8	0	41	2	6	2	6	82	48	6	59%	19	1	1	472	13	5	72%	9	4	2	1	2	0	3	0	14	0
MLB Averages																		52%							72%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GF	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+
2008	28	3	0	1.000	1.06	47	21	11	59.2	47	8	7	2	22	3	30	1	0	0	229	390	1.156	7.1	0.3	3.3	4.5	1.36	390
2009	29	5	4	.556	2.17	116	44	18	133.0	129	35	32	4	50	7	84	2	0	0	542	197	1.346	8.7	0.3	3.4	5.7	1.68	197
2010	30	8	11	.421	2.51	180	56	18	193.2	183	59	54	8	78	16	125	5	1	0	799	168	1.348	8.5	0.4	3.6	5.8	1.60	168
2011	31	11	13	.458	2.43	246	72	19	252.0	236	80	68	8	97	19	169	6	1	1	1038	173	1.321	8.4	0.3	3.5	6.0	1.74	173
2012	32	14	14	.500	2.41	271	78	19	273.0	253	86	73	8	106	21	182	6	1	1	1120	174	1.315	8.3	0.3	3.5	6.0	1.72	174

Neutralized Pitching

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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
2008	28	5	0	1.000	1.21	52.0	49	8	7	2	23	26	1	1.385	8.5	4.0	4.5	1.13	0.3	47
2009	29	4	3	.571	3.36	67.0	82	28	25	2	28	50	1	1.642	11.0	3.8	6.7	1.79	0.3	69
2010	30	3	3	.500	3.86	56.0	56	27	24	4	29	38	3	1.518	9.0	4.7	6.1	1.31	0.6	64
2011	31	4	2	.667	2.45	55.0	54	17	15	0	19	41	1	1.327	8.8	3.1	6.7	2.16	0.0	66
2012	32	1	1	.500	2.37	19.0	17	6	5	0	9	12	0	1.368	8.1	4.3	5.7	1.33	0.0	25
5 Yrs		17	9	.654	2.75	249.0	258	86	76	8	108	167	6	1.470	9.3		6.0	1.55	0.3	271

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Games Played s c a p y 2012 NL 25 (6th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2008 AL 3.5 (9th)

Games Played s c a p y
2012 NL 25 (6th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2008 AL 3.5 (9th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 1 (2623), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 1 (1952), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

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Akinori Otsuka (982)
Mike Adams (962)
Peter Moylan (961)
Joe Berry (961)
Sergio Romo (961)
Cy Acosta (958)
Jason Motte (955)
Bill Dailey (954)
Gordon Maltzberger (950)
Daniel Bard (950)

Similar Pitchers through 31

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Most Similar by Ages

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Peter Moylan (989) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Peter Moylan (979) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mike Adams (970) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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