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Ben Zobrist    \ZO-brist\

Benjamin Thomas Zobrist (Zorilla) (twitter: @TheZobrists)

Positions: Second Baseman, Rightfielder and Shortstop
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: May 26, 1981 in Eureka, IL
High School: Eureka HS (Eureka, IL)
Schools: Dallas Baptist University (Dallas, TX), Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, IL)
Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 6th round of the 2004 amateur draft.
Signed June 16, 2004. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 1, 2006 (Age 25)
Teams (by GP): Rays/DevilRays 2006-2013
2013 Contract Status: 3rd-Year Arb Eligible (team option), 4 yrs/$18M (10-13) & 14-15 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 5.134, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Alan Nero [*]
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All-Time Rank (among batters): #626. Chick Stahl… #627. Bill Russell… #628. Chris Speier… #629. BEN ZOBRIST… #630. Justin Upton… #631. Gus Bell… #632. Wally Moon… 

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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 67/48D95
2009 28 TBR AL 152 599 501 91 149 28 7 27 91 17 6 91 104 .297 .405 .543 .948 149 272 7 2 1 4 4 496/7835D AS,MVP-8
2010 29 TBR AL 151 655 541 77 129 28 2 10 75 24 3 92 107 .238 .346 .353 .699 96 191 10 3 7 12 1 *9438/57
2011 30 TBR AL 156 674 588 99 158 46 6 20 91 19 6 77 128 .269 .353 .469 .822 131 276 9 2 2 5 1 *49/D MVP-16
2012 31 TBR AL 157 668 560 88 151 39 7 20 74 14 9 97 103 .270 .377 .471 .848 137 264 13 3 2 6 7 946/D MVP-18
2013 32 TBR AL 36 157 134 20 34 8 1 3 24 3 0 18 20 .254 .350 .396 .746 109 53 2 3 0 2 0 94/6
8 Yrs 797 3283 2802 425 727 167 27 95 412 84 27 413 546 .259 .354 .440 .794 117 1233 48 16 16 36 15
162 Game Avg. 162 667 570 86 148 34 5 19 84 17 5 84 111 .259 .354 .440 .794 117 251 10 3 3 7 3

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg G PA Rbat Rbaser Rdp Rfield Rpos RAA WAA Rrep RAR WAR waaWL% 162WL% oWAR dWAR oRAR Salary Pos Awards
2006 25 TBD AL 52 198 -13 -2 1 -2 3 -14 -1.3 7 -6 -0.6 .474 .492 -0.4 0.1 -4 6
2007 26 TBD AL 31 105 -12 1 0 -5 1 -15 -1.5 4 -11 -1.1 .452 .491 -0.6 -0.3 -6 $383,400 6
2008 27 TBR AL 62 227 5 0 0 -7 1 0 0.1 9 9 0.9 .501 .500 1.6 -0.5 16 $395,800 67/48D95
2009 28 TBR AL 152 599 37 1 2 25 -0 65 6.5 22 87 8.6 .542 .539 6.1 2.5 62 $415,900 496/7835D AS,MVP-8
2010 29 TBR AL 151 655 -0 5 1 16 -4 19 2.2 24 43 4.5 .513 .512 2.8 1.4 27 $438,100 *9438/57
2011 30 TBR AL 156 674 26 3 2 29 1 60 6.4 25 85 8.8 .541 .539 5.7 3.2 56 $4,687,300 *49/D MVP-16
2012 31 TBR AL 157 668 32 -3 1 4 0 33 3.5 25 58 5.9 .522 .521 5.6 0.4 54 $4,500,000 946/D MVP-18
2013 32 TBR AL 36 157 2 1 1 -3 -0 1 0.2 5 6 0.7 .502 .500 1.0 -0.3 9 $5,500,000 94/6
8 Seasons 797 3283 76 6 8 57 3 150 16.0 121 271 27.7 .519 .512 21.7 6.5 214 $16,320,500

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
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
2010 29 TBR AL ALDS TEX L 5 22 20 2 6 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 6 .300 .364 .550 .914 11 0 0 0 0 0
2011 30 TBR AL ALDS TEX L 4 18 17 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .235 .278 .235 .513 4 0 1 0 0 0
3 Yrs (4 Series) 16 53 48 4 11 2 0 1 2 0 0 4 10 .229 .302 .333 .635 16 0 1 0 0 0
2 ALDS 9 40 37 4 10 2 0 1 2 0 0 2 10 .270 .325 .405 .730 15 0 1 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

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
2006 TBD AL 25 SS 52 50 50 440.2 243 86 148 9 31 .963 -2 -2 -5 -6 4.78 4.50 .970 4.49 4.42
2007 TBD AL 26 SS 30 26 23 224.2 106 37 63 6 17 .943 -7 -5 -38 -28 4.01 3.33 .970 4.47 4.42
2008 TBR AL 27 SS 35 33 28 293.1 136 51 78 7 22 .949 -7 -8 -29 -33 3.96 3.69 .971 4.39 4.35
2008 TBR AL 27 OF 19 12 8 113.1 30 29 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -1 -4 -10 2.38 1.58 .986 2.31 2.28
2008 TBR AL 27 LF 14 8 6 79.1 22 21 1 0 0 1.000 -0 1 -3 17 2.50 1.57 .984 2.05 2.03
2008 TBR AL 27 2B 8 4 4 41.0 22 11 11 0 3 1.000 1 2 26 56 4.83 2.75 .987 5.00 4.96
2008 TBR AL 27 CF 5 3 2 27.0 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -2 -9 -89 2.67 1.60 .989 2.70 2.68
2008 TBR AL 27 DH 2 0
2008 TBR AL 27 RF 2 1 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.19 2.15
2008 TBR AL 27 3B 1 0 0 4.2 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 51 0 3.86 2.00 .960 2.70 2.70
2009 TBR AL 28 2B 91 81 68 714.2 372 143 225 4 44 .989 6 16 10 27 4.63 4.04 .986 4.76 4.70 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 OF 70 44 29 414.0 117 112 5 0 4 1.000 13 8 38 23 2.54 1.67 .987 2.33 2.30 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 RF 59 37 25 329.1 94 89 5 0 4 1.000 12 9 44 33 2.57 1.59 .982 2.13 2.10 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 SS 13 6 3 62.0 27 9 16 2 5 .926 -2 2 -29 37 3.63 1.92 .972 4.35 4.31 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 LF 9 2 0 38.0 8 8 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -2 -32 -63 1.89 0.89 .988 2.13 2.09 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 CF 7 5 4 46.2 15 15 0 0 0 1.000 2 1 46 26 2.89 2.14 .992 2.74 2.70 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 1B 3 2 0 13.0 8 6 1 1 2 .875 -1 -1 -65 -83 4.85 2.33 .994 9.14 9.03 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 3B 1 1 0 5.2 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0 -339 0 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.60 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-8
2010 TBR AL 29 OF 110 89 68 834.2 210 204 6 0 3 1.000 4 11 5 15 2.26 1.91 .986 2.30 2.28
2010 TBR AL 29 RF 103 80 65 749.1 188 182 6 0 3 1.000 4 8 7 13 2.26 1.83 .984 2.10 2.08
2010 TBR AL 29 2B 55 45 29 371.0 193 74 116 3 27 .984 -1 6 -3 19 4.61 3.45 .984 4.80 4.75
2010 TBR AL 29 1B 14 9 4 79.0 85 77 8 0 6 1.000 0 0 8 0 9.68 6.07 .994 9.32 9.23
2010 TBR AL 29 CF 14 9 3 83.1 22 22 0 0 0 1.000 -1 3 -10 43 2.38 1.57 .990 2.73 2.71
2010 TBR AL 29 3B 2 1 1 10.0 2 1 0 1 0 .500 -0 -1 -48 -108 0.90 0.50 .955 2.61 2.60
2010 TBR AL 29 LF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.25 2.00
2011 TBR AL 30 2B 131 118 109 1058.1 535 213 316 6 68 .989 -2 23 -2 26 4.50 4.04 .984 4.76 4.73 MVP-16
2011 TBR AL 30 OF 38 33 22 289.2 66 65 1 0 0 1.000 -2 6 -8 24 2.05 1.74 .986 2.28 2.26 MVP-16
2011 TBR AL 30 RF 38 33 22 289.2 66 65 1 0 0 1.000 -2 6 -8 25 2.05 1.74 .986 2.09 2.07 MVP-16
2011 TBR AL 30 DH 3 3 MVP-16
2012 TBR AL 31 OF 71 59 53 541.1 121 113 6 2 1 .983 -1 9 -1 19 1.98 1.68 .986 2.17 2.16 MVP-18
2012 TBR AL 31 RF 71 59 53 541.1 121 113 6 2 1 .983 -1 9 -1 20 1.98 1.68 .984 1.99 1.98 MVP-18
2012 TBR AL 31 2B 58 46 34 408.1 186 73 107 6 27 .968 -7 -5 -19 -15 3.97 3.10 .983 4.63 4.60 MVP-18
2012 TBR AL 31 SS 47 47 33 392.0 189 46 139 4 27 .979 3 0 8 0 4.25 3.94 .977 4.43 4.40 MVP-18
2012 TBR AL 31 DH 4 4 MVP-18
2013 TBR AL 32 OF 22 18 14 155.1 34 33 1 0 1 1.000 -2 -1 -18 -7 1.97 1.55 .989 2.23 2.21
2013 TBR AL 32 RF 22 18 14 155.1 34 33 1 0 1 1.000 -2 -1 -18 -8 1.97 1.55 .985 2.11 2.10
2013 TBR AL 32 2B 17 14 8 114.1 58 23 33 2 6 .966 -3 -2 -27 -22 4.41 3.29 .985 4.67 4.64
2013 TBR AL 32 SS 6 4 4 44.0 23 6 16 1 3 .957 -1 0 -14 0 4.50 3.67 .971 4.05 4.03
6 Seasons 2B 360 308 252 2707.2 1366 537 808 21 175 .985 -5 40 -2 17 4.47 3.74 .984 4.75 4.71
6 Seasons OF 330 255 194 2348.1 578 556 20 2 9 .997 12 32 6 16 2.21 1.75 .986 2.27 2.25
6 Seasons RF 295 228 179 2072.0 503 482 19 2 9 .996 12 31 7 17 2.18 1.70 .984 2.08 2.06
6 Seasons SS 183 166 141 1456.2 724 235 460 29 105 .960 -15 -13 -12 -10 4.29 3.80 .972 4.43 4.38
3 Seasons CF 26 17 9 157.0 45 45 0 0 0 1.000 1 2 7 15 2.58 1.73 .990 2.73 2.70
3 Seasons LF 24 10 6 119.1 30 29 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -1 -12 -10 2.26 1.25 .985 2.08 2.05
2 Seasons 1B 17 11 4 92.0 93 83 9 1 8 .989 -0 -1 -3 -13 9.00 5.41 .994 9.29 9.19
3 Seasons 3B 4 2 1 20.1 4 1 2 1 0 .750 -2 -1 -106 -59 1.33 0.75 .958 2.66 2.62
8 Seasons TOT 894 742 592 6625.0 2765 1412 1299 54 297 .980 -10 57 -2 10 3.68 3.03 .982 3.86 3.81
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rdrs Rtot/yr Rdrs/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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

All-Star Games
2009 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 AL (8, 9%)
2011 AL (16, 2%)
2012 AL (18, 2%)
0.13 Career Shares (859th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2009 AL  8.6 (2nd)
2011 AL  8.8 (1st)
2012 AL  5.9 (9th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2009 AL  8.6 (1st)
2011 AL  8.8 (1st)
2012 AL  5.9 (6th)
Active  27.7 (41st)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2009 AL  6.1 (3rd)
2011 AL  5.7 (6th)
2012 AL  5.6 (6th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
2009 AL  2.6 (4th)
2011 AL  3.3 (2nd)
Active  6.5 (41st)

On-Base% s c a p y
2009 AL  .405 (4th)
2012 AL  .377 (9th)
Active  .354 (42nd)

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

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

Doubles s c a p y
2011 AL  46 (3rd)
2012 AL  39 (8th)

Triples s c a p y
2009 AL  7 (10th)
2012 AL  7 (6th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
2009 AL  91 (6th)
2010 AL  92 (4th)
2012 AL  97 (2nd)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2009 AL  149 (2nd)
Active  117 (45th)

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

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
2009 AL  39 (3rd)
2012 AL  34 (9th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
2009 AL  3.6 (3rd)
2012 AL  3.3 (9th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
2011 AL  72 (6th)
2012 AL  66 (10th)

Times On Base s c a p y
2012 AL  251 (10th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
2009 AL  .718 (3rd)
Active  .585 (49th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
2013 AL  3 (9th)

Sacrifice Flies s c a p y
2010 AL  12 (1st)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
2012 AL  9 (4th)

SB % s c a p y
2010 AL  88.89 (3rd)
Active  75.68 (50th)
Career  75.68 (142nd)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
2009 AL  20.9 (7th)
2011 AL  19.5 (9th)
Active  89.2 (50th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2009 AL  43.04 (4th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2009 AL  4.1 (2nd)
2013 AL  1.2 (7th)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
2009 AL  3.5 (5th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
2009 AL  4.0 (3rd)

Def. Games as 2B s c a p y
2011 AL  131 (5th)

Putouts as 2B s c a p y
2011 AL  213 (5th)

Double Plays Turned as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2009 AL  4 (1st)
2010 AL  3 (2nd)
2013 AL  1 (2nd)
Active  9 (11th)

Double Plays Turned as OF s c a p y
2009 AL  4 (2nd)
2010 AL  3 (5th)
2013 AL  1 (3rd)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2011 AL  .989 (3rd)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2009 AL  12 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
2010 AL  2.26 (3rd)

Fielding % as OF s c a p y
2010 AL  1.000 (1st)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1945-1973, 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 InkBatting - 15 (1199), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 6 (1402), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 13 (1271), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Second Base (61st), 27.4 career WAR/28.5 7yr-peak WAR/28.0 JAWS
Average HOF 2B (out of 19) = 69.5 career WAR/44.5 7yr-peak WAR/57.0 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

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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 Notes/Other Sources
200726Tampa Bay Devil Rays$383,400
200827Tampa Bay Rays$395,800
200928Tampa Bay Rays$415,900
201029Tampa Bay Rays$438,100
201130Tampa Bay Rays$4,687,300
201231Tampa Bay Rays$4,500,000contracts
201332Tampa Bay Rays$5,500,000
201433Tampa Bay Rays*$7,000,000$7M Team Option, $2.5M Buyout
201534Tampa Bay Rays*$7,500,000$7.5M Team Option, $500k Buyout
Earliest Free Agent: 2014
Career to date (may be incomplete)$16,320,500Does not include future salaries
Primary salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Additional 1915-1969 salaries researched via Baseball Hall of Fame contract archives by Dr. Michael Haupert of UW-LaCrosse.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Salaries converted to alternate years using Consumer Price Index (CPI) data courtesty of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Board.

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