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Ryan Zimmerman

Ryan Wallace Zimmerman

Position: Third Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 230 lb.

Born: September 28, 1984 in Washington, NC
High School: Kellam (Virginia Beach, VA)
School: University of Virginia
Drafted by the Washington Nationals in the 1st round (4th pick) of the 2005 amateur draft.
Signed June 18, 2005. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 1, 2005
Team: Nationals 2005-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 5 yrs/$45M (09-13) (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 6.032, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: CAA Sports (Brodie Van Wagenen), previously: Casey Close [*]
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All-Star

Standard Batting

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
2005	20	WSN-min	AA,A	67	269	250	45	84	22	1	11	38	1	6	15	37	.336	.377	.564	.941		141	3	2	1	1	3	HRB,SAV · EL,SALL
2005	20	WSN	NL	20	62	58	6	23	10	0	0	6	0	0	3	12	.397	.419	.569	.988	162	33	1	0	0	1	0	5/6
2006	21	WSN	NL	157	682	614	84	176	47	3	20	110	11	8	61	120	.287	.351	.471	.822	114	289	15	2	1	4	7	*5	RoY-2
2007	22	WSN	NL	*162*	722	653	99	174	43	5	24	91	4	1	61	125	.266	.330	.458	.788	107	299	26	3	0	5	3	*5
2008	23	WSN-min	AAA,A+	6	27	25	5	7	3	0	1	3	0	0	2	4	.280	.333	.520	.853		13	0	0	0	0	1	CLB,POT · IL,CARL
2008	23	WSN	NL	106	466	428	51	121	24	1	14	51	1	1	31	71	.283	.333	.442	.774	102	189	12	3	0	4	1	5
2009	24	WSN	NL	157	693	610	110	178	37	3	33	106	2	0	72	119	.292	.364	.525	.888	133	320	22	2	0	9	9	*5	AS,MVP-25,GG,SS
2010	25	WSN	NL	142	603	525	85	161	32	0	25	85	4	1	69	98	.307	.388	.510	.899	142	268	16	4	0	5	6	*5	MVP-16,SS
2011	26	WSN-min	A+,AAA,A	6	23	21	3	8	3	1	0	3	0	0	2	3	.381	.435	.619	1.054		13	0	0	0	0	0	POT,SYR,HGR · CARL,IL,SALL
2011	26	WSN	NL	101	440	395	52	114	21	2	12	49	3	1	41	73	.289	.355	.443	.798	118	175	14	1	0	3	4	5/D
7 Seasons				845	3668	3283	487	947	214	14	128	498	25	12	338	618	.288	.355	.479	.834	120	1573	106	15	1	31	30
162 Game Avg.				162	703	629	93	182	41	3	25	95	5	2	65	118	.288	.355	.479	.834	120	302	20	3	0	6	6

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
2005	20	WSN	NL	62	5	1	0	0	-3	0	2	5	0.5	8	0.8	-0.3	$	5/6
2006	21	WSN	NL	682	9	-1	-1	-1	-2	2	18	24	2.4	26	2.6	-0.2	$327,000	*5	RoY-2
2007	22	WSN	NL	722	3	2	1	-3	7	2	19	31	3.1	24	2.4	0.7	$	*5
2008	23	WSN	NL	466	2	0	2	1	-8	1	12	10	1.0	18	1.8	-0.8	$465,000	5
2009	24	WSN	NL	694	26	2	1	-2	5	2	18	52	5.2	47	4.7	0.5	$3,325,000	*5	AS,MVP-25,GG,SS
2010	25	WSN	NL	603	33	-1	0	-1	2	2	17	52	5.3	50	5.0	0.3	$6,350,000	*5	MVP-16,SS
2011	26	WSN	NL	440	10	1	-0	-2	-1	1	12	22	2.3	22	2.3	0.0	$9,025,000	5/D
7 Seasons				3669	88	4	3	-8	2	10	98	196	19.8	195	19.6	0.2	$19,492,000

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
2005	20	WSN	NL	62	37	14	10.1	104	.489	.397	.262	.419	.332	.569	.418	.988	.750	162	.794	5.7	0.5	1.000	.224	.172
2006	21	WSN	NL	682	466	99	5.7	107	.326	.287	.265	.351	.335	.471	.430	.822	.765	114	.550	14.4	1.3	.770	.288	.184	14.2
2007	22	WSN	NL	722	511	93	4.9	106	.295	.266	.266	.330	.334	.458	.424	.788	.758	107	.483	6.3	0.6	.723	.289	.191	6.9
2008	23	WSN	NL	466	324	61	5.0	107	.308	.283	.266	.333	.338	.442	.424	.774	.762	102	.514	1.0	0.1	.697	.231	.159	1.9
2009	24	WSN	NL	693	463	114	6.6	106	.310	.292	.265	.364	.338	.525	.420	.888	.758	133	.641	29.1	2.8	.872	.354	.233	3.8
2010	25	WSN	NL	603	386	104	7.2	101	.334	.307	.261	.388	.331	.510	.411	.899	.741	142	.696	32.8	3.2	.903	.341	.204	6.9
2011	26	WSN	NL	440	299	60	5.4	98	.326	.289	.259	.355	.326	.443	.403	.798	.730	118	.589	10.4	1.0	.740	.263	.154	4.8
7 Seasons				3668	2486	545	5.9	105	.319	.288	.264	.355	.334	.479	.420	.834	.754	120	.588	99.7	9.6	.790	.298	.191	41.8
162 Game Avg.				703	477	104	5.9	105	.319	.288	.264	.355	.334	.479	.420	.834	.754	120	.588	19	2	.790	.298	.191	8

All-Star Batting

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2009	WSN	NL	24		2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB
2005	20	WSN	NL	62	0.0%	19.4%	4.8%	16.1%	44%	4.00	4.8		9.7	0.68	1.27	76%	34%	0.0%	4%
2006	21	WSN	NL	682	2.9%	17.6%	8.9%	10.3%	40%	1.97	5.1	30.7	5.6	0.72	1.01	70%	24%	8.0%	12%
2007	22	WSN	NL	722	3.3%	17.3%	8.5%	10.0%	41%	2.05	5.2	27.2	7.2	0.80	1.03	71%	20%	9.6%	15%
2008	23	WSN	NL	466	3.0%	15.2%	6.7%	8.4%	32%	2.29	6.0	30.6	8.4	0.88	0.99	74%	17%	8.2%	11%
2009	24	WSN	NL	693	4.8%	17.2%	10.4%	10.5%	41%	1.65	5.1	18.5	5.8	0.65	0.87	67%	22%	12.5%	12%
2010	25	WSN	NL	603	4.2%	16.3%	11.4%	9.5%	35%	1.42	5.4	21.0	6.2	0.67	0.95	68%	21%	10.6%	9%
2011	26	WSN	NL	440	2.7%	16.6%	9.3%	8.0%	31%	1.78	5.4	32.9	8.1	1.03	1.33	71%	18%	8.5%	11%
7 Seasons				3668	3.5%	16.9%	9.2%	9.7%	38%	1.83	5.3	25.6	6.6	0.77	1.01	70%	21%	9.6%	12%
MLB Averages					2.6%	17.6%	8.5%	7.9%	34%	2.07	5.1	33.8	7.8	0.80	1.07	70%	19%	7.6%	12%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
2005	20	WSN	NL	5.7	0.5	62	0.4	1.5	-1.1	1.07	0.5	-0.2	1.4	0.1	0.96	4.6	2.65	4
2006	21	WSN	NL	14.4	1.3	713	4.4	17.4	-12.9	1.12	1.4	2.6	17.6	1.7	0.97	9.8		0
2007	22	WSN	NL	6.3	0.6	738	0.8	13.7	-12.9	1.00	0.5	0.3	-1.5	-0.1	0.90	2.3		0
2008	23	WSN	NL	1.0	0.1	478	-0.8	8.1	-8.9	1.00	0.8	-1.6	-2.7	-0.3	0.92	4.7	1.60	2
2009	24	WSN	NL	29.1	2.8	705	2.9	15.8	-12.9	1.13	3.3	-0.7	26.5	2.5	0.97	35.1	2.91	3
2010	25	WSN	NL	32.8	3.2	614	3.6	12.6	-9.0	.97	3.6	0.1	32.0	3.1	0.93	33.8	1.44	4
2011	26	WSN	NL	10.4	1.0	451	1.1	8.5	-7.4	1.01	0.8	0.3	10.5	1.1	0.95	7.4	3.48	2
7 Seasons				99.7	9.6	3761	12.5	77.5	-65.0	1.05	11.0	1.0	83.8	8.1	0.94	97.6	2.35	15

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	CS3	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
2005	20	WSN	NL	0	0	23%	39	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	71%	3	2	1	3	0	3	1	0	1
2006	21	WSN	NL	4	0	29%	251	11	8	58%	11	5	3	5	2	2	16	48%	32	19	13	14	8	5	12	2	10
2007	22	WSN	NL	7	0	35%	273	4	1	80%	4	1	0	2	1	5	17	44%	36	26	9	15	7	8	20	6	14
2008	23	WSN	NL	6	0	26%	186	1	1	50%	1	1	0	2	1	4	10	43%	24	17	6	6	4	2	12	0	10
2009	24	WSN	NL	6	1	35%	294	2	0	100%	2	0	0	0	0	0	18	46%	29	23	6	14	8	6	27	7	20
2010	25	WSN	NL	5	0	29%	256	4	1	80%	4	1	0	0	0	2	12	33%	31	26	5	14	7	7	24	13	11
2011	26	WSN	NL	4	0	28%	169	3	1	75%	3	1	0	0	0	3	8	49%	23	12	11	6	4	2	14	5	8
7 Seasons				32	1	31%	1468	25	12	68%	25	9	3	9	4	16	81	44%	178	125	51	72	38	33	110	33	74

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
2005	20	WSN	NL	62	24%	23	1	0	4	1	0	2	2.65	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		9	1	11%	8	2	25%	40	6	15%	5	3	60%	5	1	20%	0
2006	21	WSN	NL	682	25%	176	27	11	0	0	0	0		20	0	19	16	4	10	10	0	8	1	13%	124	15	12%	75	30	40%	480	92	19%	53	28	53%	51	33	65%	0
2007	22	WSN	NL	722	23%	174	18	1	0	0	0	0		24	2	10	16	8	11	13	0	1	0	0%	164	26	16%	68	24	35%	422	67	16%	36	19	53%	29	20	69%	0
2008	23	WSN	NL	466	31%	121	21	3	2	0	0	0	1.60	14	0	11	9	5	7	7	0	0	0		111	12	11%	56	17	30%	293	39	13%	31	16	52%	25	14	56%	0
2009	24	WSN	NL	694	23%	178	18	1	3	2	0	1	2.91	33	0	18	28	5	17	16	0	0	0		182	22	12%	85	25	29%	486	77	16%	46	23	50%	36	18	50%	0
2010	25	WSN	NL	603	25%	161	18	0	4	1	1	1	1.44	25	0	10	21	4	9	16	0	0	0		127	16	13%	53	17	32%	376	62	16%	32	14	44%	29	16	55%	0
2011	26	WSN	NL	440	17%	114	19	0	2	2	0	2	3.48	12	1	7	11	1	7	5	0	0	0		81	14	17%	31	11	35%	243	37	15%	18	9	50%	15	11	73%	0
7 Seasons				3669	24%	947	122	16	15	6	1	6	2.35	128	3	78	101	27	61	67	0	9	1	11%	798	106	13%	376	126	34%	2340	380	16%	221	112	51%	190	113	59%	0
MLB Averages					54%																			68%			11%			32%			15%			51%			56%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

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	1stS	30%	30c	30s	20%	20c	20s	31%	31c	31s	L/SO	PAu	Pitu	Stru
2005	20	WSN	NL	62	217	3.50	138	64%	25%	16%	25%	34%	75%	0%	48%	79%	24%	5%	3	0	8%	5	2	8%	5	4	25%	0	0	0
2006	21	WSN	NL	682	2644	3.88	1643	62%	31%	14%	25%	30%	69%	3%	43%	80%	27%	6%	38	1	15%	99	38	10%	65	37	33%	0	0	0
2007	22	WSN	NL	722	2876	3.98	1807	63%	33%	13%	25%	29%	67%	1%	42%	81%	20%	6%	44	1	18%	127	35	11%	78	48	35%	0	0	0
2008	23	WSN	NL	466	1773	3.80	1112	63%	31%	12%	25%	32%	69%	1%	44%	83%	21%	5%	22	0	15%	71	23	9%	41	26	25%	0	0	0
2009	24	WSN	NL	694	2814	4.05	1706	61%	35%	13%	22%	29%	64%	2%	39%	80%	18%	6%	40	0	17%	116	33	11%	77	43	28%	0	0	1
2010	25	WSN	NL	603	2417	4.01	1453	60%	34%	13%	22%	30%	66%	2%	39%	79%	15%	6%	36	2	15%	89	25	11%	67	28	37%	0	0	0
2011	26	WSN	NL	441	1713	3.88	1051	61%	37%	12%	20%	31%	63%	2%	39%	81%	12%	5%	24	0	16%	72	23	7%	32	14	40%	-1	0	0
7 Seasons				3670	14454	3.94	8910	62%	33%	13%	23%	30%	67%	2%	41%	81%	19%	6%	207	4	16%	579	179	10%	365	200	33%	-1	0	1
MLB Averages						3.79		63%	28%	15%	27%	31%	72%	2%	45%	80%	27%	5%			15%			9%			25%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
2005	20	20	62	58	6	23	10	0	0	6	0	0	3	12	.397	.419	.569	.988	162	33	1	0	0	1	0
2006	21	177	744	672	90	199	57	3	20	116	11	8	64	132	.296	.357	.479	.836	118	322	16	2	1	5	7
2007	22	339	1466	1325	189	373	100	8	44	207	15	9	125	257	.282	.343	.469	.812	113	621	42	5	1	10	10
2008	23	445	1932	1753	240	494	124	9	58	258	16	10	156	328	.282	.341	.462	.803	110	810	54	8	1	14	11
2009	24	602	2625	2363	350	672	161	12	91	364	18	10	228	447	.284	.347	.478	.825	116	1130	76	10	1	23	20
2010	25	744	3228	2888	435	833	193	12	116	449	22	11	297	545	.288	.355	.484	.839	121	1398	92	14	1	28	26
2011	26	845	3668	3283	487	947	214	14	128	498	25	12	338	618	.288	.355	.479	.834	120	1573	106	15	1	31	30

Neutralized Batting

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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	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
2005	20	20	63	59	6	24	10	0	0	6	0	3	12	.407	.429	.576	1.005	15	20
2006	21	157	678	612	83	174	46	3	20	108	11	60	120	.284	.348	.467	.815	100	157
2007	22	162	722	653	99	174	43	5	24	91	4	61	125	.266	.330	.458	.788	98	162
2008	23	106	465	427	51	120	24	1	14	51	1	31	71	.281	.331	.440	.771	62	106
2009	24	157	694	611	111	179	37	3	33	107	2	72	119	.293	.365	.525	.890	118	157
2010	25	142	607	528	88	164	33	0	25	88	4	70	98	.311	.392	.515	.907	107	142
2011	26	101	447	400	56	119	22	2	13	53	3	43	73	.298	.365	.460	.825	67	101
7 Seasons		845	3676	3290	494	954	215	14	129	504	25	340	618	.290	.356	.481	.838	567	845
162 Game Avg.		162	705	631	95	183	41	3	25	97	5	65	118	.290	.356	.481	.838	109	845

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1919 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

All-Star Games 2009 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 2009 NL (25, 0%) 2010 NL (16, 4%) 0.04 Career Shares (1177th)	Gold Gloves 2009 NL (3B)	Silver Sluggers 2009 NL (3B) 2010 NL (3B) All multiple winners
WAR Position Players† s c a p y 2010 NL 5.3 (6th)	Offensive WAR† s c a p y 2009 NL 4.8 (10th) 2010 NL 5.0 (8th)	Batting Average s c a p y 2010 NL .307 (8th) Active .288 (35th)	On-Base% s c a p y 2010 NL .388 (7th)
Slugging % s c a p y 2010 NL .510 (10th) Active .479 (48th) Career .479 (188th)	On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y 2010 NL .899 (8th) Active .834 (49th) Career .834 (229th)	Games Played s c a p y 2007 NL 162 (1st)	At Bats s c a p y 2006 NL 614 (10th) 2007 NL 653 (4th) 2009 NL 610 (7th)
Plate Appearances s c a p y 2007 NL 722 (5th) 2009 NL 693 (7th)	Runs Scored s c a p y 2009 NL 110 (4th)	Hits s c a p y 2009 NL 178 (10th)	Total Bases s c a p y 2009 NL 320 (5th)
Doubles s c a p y 2006 NL 47 (6th) 2007 NL 43 (8th)	Home Runs s c a p y 2009 NL 33 (10th)	Runs Batted In s c a p y 2009 NL 106 (6th)	Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y 2010 NL 143 (7th) Active 120 (43rd)
Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y 2010 NL 34 (8th)	Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y 2010 NL 3.3 (8th)	Extra Base Hits s c a p y 2009 NL 73 (8th)	Offensive Win % s c a p y 2010 NL .696 (8th)
Sacrifice Flies s c a p y 2009 NL 9 (4th)	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 2007 NL 26 (3rd) 2009 NL 22 (7th)	Outs Made s c a p y 2007 NL 511 (4th) 2009 NL 463 (5th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2006 NL 4.4 (8th) 2010 NL 3.6 (6th) Active 12.5 (47th)
Youngest s c a p y 2005 NL born 1984-09-28 (2nd) 2006 NL born 1984-09-28 (8th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, 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 (·)

Black Ink	Batting - 1 (733), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 29 (805), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 22 (768), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 17 (917), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Similar Batters

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Similar Batters through 26

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Harlond Clift (945)
Scott Rolen (945)
Eric Chavez (933)
Gus Bell (931)
David Wright (927)
Gary Sheffield (925)
Ken Keltner (923)
Del Ennis (922)
Aramis Ramirez (918)
Jack Clark (918)

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Ken Keltner (953) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ken Keltner (946) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ken Keltner (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ken Keltner (961) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Eric Chavez (945) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Harlond Clift (945) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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