Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Encyclopedia of Players > Z Listing > Ben Zobrist Statistics and History

News: B-R: Hall of Fame Ballot History »post

 

Ben Zobrist

Benjamin Thomas Zobrist (Zorilla)

Positions: Second Baseman, Rightfielder and Shortstop
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
Teams (by GP): Rays/DevilRays 2006-2011
2012 Contract Status: Signed thru 2013, 4 yrs/$18M (10-13) & 14-15 team option (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2012): 4.134, Free Agent: 2014 [*], Agents: Alan Nero [*]
    About biographical information


View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error


All-Star

Player News

Add Your Blog Posts Here · Hide Stories

Fan EloRater

Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 1:35PM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #949. Fred Carroll… #950. Lee Mazzilli… #951. George Wood… #952. BEN ZOBRIST… #953. Jerry Mumphrey… #954. Wilbert Robinson… #955. Vince DiMaggio… 

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
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 6/45
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 46/35 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 *43/5
2011 30 TBR AL 156 674 588 99 158 46 6 20 91 19 6 77 128 .269 .353 .469 .822 132 276 9 2 2 5 1 *49/D MVP-16
6 Seasons 604 2458 2108 317 542 120 19 72 314 67 18 298 423 .257 .348 .435 .782 113 916 33 10 14 28 8
162 Game Avg. 162 659 565 85 145 32 5 19 84 18 5 80 113 .257 .348 .435 .782 113 246 9 3 4 8 2

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
2006 25 TBD AL 198 -14 -2 1 1 -2 2 7 -7 -0.7 -5 -0.5 -0.2 $ 6
2007 26 TBD AL 105 -14 0 2 0 -7 1 4 -14 -1.4 -7 -0.7 -0.7 $383,400 6
2008 27 TBR AL 227 3 0 -1 0 -6 1 8 5 0.5 11 1.1 -0.6 $395,800 6/45
2009 28 TBR AL 599 34 2 -0 2 15 0 21 73 7.0 58 5.6 1.4 $415,900 46/35 AS,MVP-8
2010 29 TBR AL 655 1 5 1 2 3 -4 22 30 3.1 27 2.8 0.3 $438,100 *43/5
2011 30 TBR AL 674 28 2 -1 2 -4 0 23 50 5.1 54 5.6 -0.5 $4,687,300 *49/D MVP-16
6 Seasons 2458 39 6 1 6 -1 1 85 138 13.6 139 13.9 -0.3 $6,320,500

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 Seasons (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

Standard Fielding

More Stats

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 52 243 86 148 9 31 .963 -2 -4 4.50 .970 4.42
2007 TBD AL 26 SS 30 106 37 63 6 17 .943 -7 -5 3.33 .970 4.42
2008 TBR AL 27 SS 35 136 51 78 7 22 .949 -7 -7 3.69 .971 4.35
2008 TBR AL 27 OF 19 30 29 1 0 0 1.000 -0 -1 1.58 .986 2.28
2008 TBR AL 27 2B 8 22 11 11 0 3 1.000 1 2 2.75 .987 4.96
2008 TBR AL 27 3B 1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 0 0 2.00 .960 2.70
2008 TBR AL 27 LF 14 8 6 79.1 22 21 1 0 0 1.000 -0 1 -3 15 2.50 1.57 .984 2.05 2.03
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 RF 2 1 0 7.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 2.19 2.15
2009 TBR AL 28 2B 91 372 143 225 4 44 .989 6 18 4.04 .986 4.70 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 OF 70 117 112 5 0 4 1.000 13 12 1.67 .987 2.30 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 SS 13 27 9 16 2 5 .926 -2 2 1.92 .972 4.31 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 1B 3 8 6 1 1 2 .875 -1 -1 2.33 .994 9.03 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 -2 0.00 2.60 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 RF 59 37 25 329.1 94 89 5 0 4 1.000 12 12 44 44 2.57 1.59 .982 2.13 2.10 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 2 46 51 2.89 2.14 .992 2.74 2.70 AS,MVP-8
2009 TBR AL 28 DH 1 1 AS,MVP-8
2010 TBR AL 29 OF 110 210 204 6 0 3 1.000 4 9 1.91 .986 2.28
2010 TBR AL 29 2B 55 193 74 116 3 27 .984 -1 8 3.45 .984 4.75
2010 TBR AL 29 1B 14 85 77 8 0 6 1.000 0 2 6.07 .994 9.23
2010 TBR AL 29 3B 2 2 1 0 1 0 .500 -0 -1 0.50 .955 2.60
2010 TBR AL 29 RF 103 79 64 749.1 188 182 6 0 3 1.000 4 7 7 11 2.26 1.83 .984 2.10 2.08
2010 TBR AL 29 CF 14 9 3 83.1 22 22 0 0 0 1.000 -1 2 -10 29 2.38 1.57 .990 2.73 2.71
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 17 -2 19 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 -9 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 -9 25 2.05 1.74 .986 2.09 2.07 MVP-16
2011 TBR AL 30 DH 3 3 MVP-16
4 Seasons 2B 285 118 109 1058.1 1122 441 668 13 142 .988 4 45 4 51 4.50 3.89 .985 4.76 4.73
4 Seasons OF 237 33 22 289.2 423 410 13 0 7 1.000 14 26 58 18 2.05 1.78 .986 2.28 2.28
4 Seasons RF 202 150 111 1375.1 348 336 12 0 7 1.000 14 25 13 21 2.28 1.72 .984 2.11 2.08
4 Seasons SS 130 512 183 305 24 75 .953 -17 -14 3.75 .970 4.39
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 93 83 9 1 8 .989 -0 1 5.41 .994 9.19
3 Seasons 3B 4 4 1 2 1 0 .750 -2 -1 0.75 .958 2.62
6 Seasons TOT 673 151 131 1348.0 2154 1118 997 39 232 .982 -1 83 -1 73 3.97 3.14 .982 4.23 3.90
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-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

All-Star Games
2009 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
2009 AL (8, 9%)
2011 AL (16, 2%)
0.11 Career Shares (885th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
2009 AL  7.1 (3rd)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
2009 AL  7.1 (2nd)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
2009 AL  5.8 (3rd)
2011 AL  5.6 (5th)

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)

Doubles s c a p y
2011 AL  46 (3rd)

Triples s c a p y
2009 AL  7 (10th)

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

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
2009 AL  149 (2nd)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
2009 AL  42.07 (4th)

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

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  3.9 (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)

Fielding % as 2B s c a p y
2011 AL  .989 (5th)

Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
Active  14 (24th)
Career  14 (88th)

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

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
2010 AL  1.000 (1st)

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 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 (·)

Gray InkBatting - 10 (1394), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 5 (1535), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 12 (1389), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
Similar Batters 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Compare Stats to Similars
  1. Russ Davis (951)
  2. John Wockenfuss (945)
  3. Alex Gordon (939)
  4. Mike Blowers (938)
  5. Kevin Kouzmanoff (936)
  6. Johnny Vergez (929)
  7. Leo Gomez (928)
  8. Wilson Betemit (927)
  9. Morgan Ensberg (926)
  10. Robert Fick (924)
Similar Batters through 30 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Compare Stats to Similars
  1. Fernando Tatis (956)
  2. Dave Hollins (946)
  3. Russ Davis (942)
  4. Chris Sabo (934)
  5. Ray Jablonski (933)
  6. Scott Brosius (930)
  7. Leo Gomez (928)
  8. Eric Byrnes (927)
  9. Jeff King (927)
  10. Eric Soderholm (926)
Most Similar by Ages 
 View Similar Player Links in Pop-up
 Hold mouse over #'s to see names
  1. Keith Ginter (969)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Don Hoak (965)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Fernando Tatis (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

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
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$4,500,000
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
Career to date (may be incomplete)$6,320,500Does 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.

Other Resources & Links

Error?     Compare     Search SABR's Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball-Almanac.com     CNN/SI     ESPN     Retrosheet     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Ben Zobrist    

Viewed 80,848 times through February 9, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Benjamin Ben benji T. Thomas Zorilla Zobrist

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.