Ben Zobrist
Benjamin T. Zobrist
All-Star Player
Bats: Both , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3" , Weight: 200 lb.

Born: May 26, 1981 in Eureka, IL
High School: Eureka (Eureka, IL)
Schools: Dallas Baptist University, Olivet Nazarene University
Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 6th round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 16, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 1, 2006
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Standard Batting

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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
2006 25 TBD AL 52 198 183 10 41 6 2 2 18 2 3 10 26 .224 .260 .311 .572 48 57 2 0 2 3 1 6
2007 26 TBD AL 31 105 97 8 15 2 0 1 9 2 0 3 21 .155 .184 .206 .391 4 20 1 1 2 2 0 6
2008 27 TBR AL 62 227 198 32 50 10 2 12 30 3 0 25 37 .253 .339 .505 .844 120 100 4 2 0 2 1 67/4895
2009 28 TBR AL 152 599 501 91 149 28 7 27 91 17 6 91 104 .297 .405 .543 .948 146 272 7 2 1 4 4 496/7835D AS
4 Seasons 297 1129 979 141 255 46 11 42 148 24 9 129 188 .260 .346 .459 .805 109 449 14 5 5 11 6
162 Game Avg. 162 616 534 77 139 25 6 23 81 13 5 70 103 .260 .346 .459 .805 109 245 8 3 3 6 3

Advanced Batting

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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
2006 25 TBD AL 198 152 15 2.6 110 .247 .224 .274 .260 .339 .311 .436 .572 .775 48 .223 -14.5 -1.4 .449 .137 .087 2.0
2007 26 TBD AL 105 87 4 1.2 105 .182 .155 .269 .184 .336 .206 .420 .391 .756 4 .070 -13.6 -1.3 .313 .103 .052 1.3
2008 27 TBR AL 227 154 35 6.1 106 .252 .253 .269 .339 .337 .505 .423 .844 .760 120 .592 5.3 0.5 .855 .394 .253 4.8
2009 28 TBR AL 599 370 117 8.4 109 .326 .297 .268 .405 .338 .543 .431 .948 .769 146 .718 36.4 3.4 1.030 .449 .246 20.9
4 Seasons 1129 763 171 6.0 108 .280 .260 .270 .346 .338 .459 .429 .805 .767 109 .575 13.5 1.2 .801 .345 .198 30.5
162 Game Avg. 616 416 93 6.0 108 .280 .260 .270 .346 .338 .459 .429 .805 .767 109 .575 7 1 .801 .345 .198 17

Postseason Batting

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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
2008 27 TBR AL ALCS BOS W 3 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 0 0 0 0 0
2008 27 TBR AL WS PHI L 4 8 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .143 .250 .143 .393 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season (2 Series) 7 13 11 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 .091 .231 .091 .322 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 ALCS 3 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .200 .000 .200 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 4 8 7 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .143 .250 .143 .393 1 0 0 0 0 0

All-Star Batting

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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 TBR AL 28 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Ratio Batting*

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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
2006 25 TBD AL 198 1.0% 13.1% 5.1% 5.1% 24% 2.60 7.0 91.5 10.2 0.97 1.20 80% 17% 2.9% 14%
2007 26 TBD AL 105 1.0% 20.0% 2.9% 2.9% 20% 7.00 4.6 97.0 10.8 0.79 0.85 73% 16% 2.9% 17%
2008 27 TBR AL 227 5.3% 16.3% 11.0% 10.6% 48% 1.48 5.4 16.5 6.6 0.77 1.02 67% 18% 14.5% 10%
2009 28 TBR AL 599 4.5% 17.4% 15.2% 10.4% 42% 1.14 4.8 18.6 5.5 0.70 0.92 62% 24% 12.7% 9%
4 Seasons 1129 3.7% 16.7% 11.4% 8.8% 39% 1.46 5.2 23.3 6.6 0.77 0.99 67% 21% 10.5% 11%
MLB Averages 2.7% 18.0% 8.9% 7.9% 34% 2.02 4.9 32.9 7.8 0.78 1.06 69% 19% 7.8% 13%

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year Age Tm Lg ROE XI RS% SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS OOB BT XBT% 1stS 1stS2 1stS3 1stD 1stD3 1stDH 2ndS 2ndS3 2ndSH
2006 25 TBD AL 4 0 16% 72 2 3 40% 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 28% 13 9 4 1 1 0 4 3 1
2007 26 TBD AL 3 0 39% 32 2 0 100% 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 33% 4 2 2 4 3 0 1 0 1
2008 27 TBR AL 2 0 31% 74 3 0 100% 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 44% 6 3 3 5 3 1 7 3 4
2009 28 TBR AL 4 0 30% 243 17 6 74% 16 4 1 2 0 0 4 1 3 21 47% 22 14 8 9 5 4 18 6 11
4 Seasons 13 0 29% 421 24 9 73% 21 7 3 2 0 0 4 1 11 32 42% 45 28 17 19 12 5 30 12 17
MLB Averages 31% 72% 39%

Situational Hitting*

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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
2006 25 TBD AL 198 100% 41 6 2 2 0 0 0 1.57 2 0 2 2 0 2 0 0 4 2 50% 30 2 7% 21 12 57% 111 16 14% 7 6 86% 15 7 47% 0
2007 26 TBD AL 105 100% 15 2 1 1 0 0 0 0.05 1 0 5 1 0 0 1 0 4 2 50% 18 1 6% 17 6 35% 63 8 13% 8 5 63% 9 4 44% 0
2008 27 TBR AL 227 100% 50 4 0 8 0 0 0 0.74 12 2 7 9 3 4 8 0 0 0 49 4 8% 26 5 19% 146 18 12% 17 8 47% 13 7 54% 0
2009 28 TBR AL 599 100% 149 17 1 13 4 3 4 1.58 27 2 17 18 9 18 9 0 1 1 100% 122 7 6% 53 17 32% 409 65 16% 32 17 53% 34 15 44% 0
4 Seasons 1129 100% 255 29 4 24 4 3 4 1.24 42 4 31 30 12 24 18 0 9 5 56% 219 14 6% 117 40 34% 729 107 15% 64 36 56% 71 33 46% 0
MLB Averages 55% 72% 11% 32% 14% 51% 43%

Pitch Summary -- Batting*

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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
2006 25 TBD AL 198 728 3.68 466 64% 31% 12% 23% 35% 69% 2% 44% 83% 21% 4% 7 0 14% 27 7 9% 18 13 35% 0 0 0
2007 26 TBD AL 105 383 3.65 264 69% 32% 11% 27% 30% 68% 0% 47% 84% 28% 6% 6 1 12% 13 4 8% 8 6 48% 0 0 0
2008 27 TBR AL 227 856 3.77 508 59% 32% 11% 25% 32% 68% 1% 40% 84% 26% 9% 20 0 21% 48 15 11% 26 14 27% 0 0 0
2009 28 TBR AL 599 2427 4.05 1380 57% 34% 12% 25% 29% 66% 1% 38% 81% 27% 8% 46 0 22% 131 34 13% 77 29 40% 0 0 0
4 Seasons 1129 4394 3.89 2618 60% 33% 12% 25% 31% 67% 1% 40% 82% 26% 7% 79 1 19% 219 60 11% 129 62 38% 0 0 0
MLB Averages 3.83 62% 28% 15% 27% 30% 72% 2% 45% 80% 26% 5% 15% 9% 25%

Cumulative Batting

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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
2006 25 52 198 183 10 41 6 2 2 18 2 3 10 26 .224 .260 .311 .572 48 57 2 0 2 3 1
2007 26 83 303 280 18 56 8 2 3 27 4 3 13 47 .200 .234 .275 .509 33 77 3 1 4 5 1
2008 27 145 530 478 50 106 18 4 15 57 7 3 38 84 .222 .279 .370 .650 69 177 7 3 4 7 2
2009 28 297 1129 979 141 255 46 11 42 148 24 9 129 188 .260 .346 .459 .805 109 449 14 5 5 11 6

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
2006 25 52 194 181 10 39 6 2 2 17 2 10 26 .215 .253 .304 .556 14 52
2007 26 31 104 98 8 16 2 0 1 9 2 3 21 .163 .192 .214 .407 4 31
2008 27 62 227 198 31 50 10 2 12 29 3 25 37 .253 .339 .505 .844 34 62
2009 28 152 603 504 89 152 29 7 28 89 17 93 104 .302 .410 .554 .963 114 152
4 Seasons 297 1128 981 138 257 47 11 43 144 24 131 188 .262 .348 .464 .812 166 297
162 Game Avg. 162 615 535 75 140 26 6 23 79 13 71 103 .262 .348 .464 .812 91 297

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

All-Star Games
2009 *

On-Base% s c a p y
2009 AL--.405--4th

Slugging % s c a p y
2009 AL--.543--7th

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
2009 AL--.948--4th

Triples s c a p y
2009 AL--7--10th

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2009 AL--91--6th

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2009 AL--146--4th

Runs Created s c a p y
2009 AL--117--8th

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2009 AL--36--5th

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2009 AL--3.4--5th

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2009 AL--.718--3rd

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2009 AL--20.9--7th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 6 (1660), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 3 (1722), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 11 (1499), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  2. Gene Green (964)
  3. Chris Iannetta (950)
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  5. Miguel Montero (949)
  6. Wilson Betemit (946)
  7. Geronimo Pena (945)
  8. Bill Serena (945)
  9. Kelly Shoppach (945)
  10. Ben Petrick (942)
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  1. Keith Ginter (969)
  2. Bill Schroeder (961)
  3. Bill Serena (961)
  4. Don Pavletich (960)
  5. Cliff Johnson (960)
  6. Matt LeCroy (956)
  7. Stan Lopata (954)
  8. Morgan Ensberg (953)
  9. Gene Oliver (953)
  10. Junior Spivey (946)
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