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Ben Zobrist

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: Olivet Nazarene University (Bourbonnais, IL), Dallas Baptist University (Dallas, TX)
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 2006-2012
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 [*]
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All-Time Rank (among Batters): #607. John Titus… #608. Todd Zeile… #609. George Bell… #610. BEN ZOBRIST… #611. Red Rolfe… #612. Harry Steinfeldt… #613. Ron Hunt…

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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
2004	23	HOU-min	A-	68	310	257	50	87	14	3	4	45	15	4	43	31	.339	.438	.463	.901		119	5	4	4	2	0		TRC · NYPL
2005	24	HOU-min	A,A+	110	490	388	70	122	29	3	5	45	18	6	84	52	.314	.437	.443	.880		172	5	6	5	7	3		LEX,SAL · SALL,CARL
2006	25	HOU-TBD-min	AA,AAA	101	463	384	69	124	28	7	3	36	13	6	65	55	.323	.428	.456	.883		175	7	6	7	1	1		CPC,DHM · TL,IL
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-min	AAA	61	276	222	42	62	14	2	7	22	8	3	43	38	.279	.403	.455	.858		101	4	5	3	3	0		DHM · IL
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	TBD-min	AAA,A+	24	103	85	16	30	4	0	4	15	4	1	15	18	.353	.441	.541	.982		46	0	0	1	2	0		DHM,VRO · IL,FLOR
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	132	276	9	2	2	5	1	*49/D	MVP-16
2012	31	TBR	AL	49	211	172	25	35	9	3	6	19	5	4	35	35	.203	.341	.395	.737	110	68	3	2	0	2	4	*94
7 Yrs				653	2669	2280	342	577	129	22	78	333	72	22	333	458	.253	.347	.432	.779	113	984	36	12	14	30	12
162 Game Avg.				162	662	566	85	143	32	5	19	83	18	5	83	114	.253	.347	.432	.779	113	244	9	3	3	7	3

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 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	2	-14	-1.3	7	-7	-0.7	.473	.491	-0.5	0.1	-5	$	6
2007	26	TBD	AL	31	105	-12	1	0	-5	1	-15	-1.5	4	-12	-1.2	.451	.491	-0.7	-0.3	-7	$383,400	6
2008	27	TBR	AL	62	227	5	0	0	-7	1	0	0.1	8	8	0.8	.500	.500	1.5	-0.5	15	$395,800	67/48D95
2009	28	TBR	AL	152	599	37	1	2	25	-1	64	6.5	20	84	8.3	.542	.539	5.8	2.5	60	$415,900	496/7835D	AS,MVP-8
2010	29	TBR	AL	151	655	1	5	1	16	-4	19	2.2	22	41	4.2	.513	.512	2.5	1.4	25	$438,100	*9438/57
2011	30	TBR	AL	156	674	26	3	2	29	0	60	6.4	23	82	8.5	.540	.539	5.5	3.2	54	$4,687,300	*49/D	MVP-16
2012	31	TBR	AL	49	211	2	-2	0	4	-2	4	0.3	7	11	1.0	.508	.502	0.7	0.2	7	$	*94
7 Seasons				653	2669	46	7	7	60	-2	117	12.8	90	208	20.9	.518	.511	14.8	6.6	148	$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 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	-5	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	-27	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	15	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	59	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	39	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	-92	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	88	67	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	79	64	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	46	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	-120	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	39	36	30	311.1	73	71	1	1	0	.986	4	7	15	27	2.08	1.85	.988	2.15	2.14
2012	TBR	AL	31	RF	39	36	30	311.1	73	71	1	1	0	.986	4	7	15	27	2.08	1.85	.989	1.96	1.96
2012	TBR	AL	31	2B	18	12	10	118.0	47	20	24	3	5	.936	-4	-3	-44	-31	3.36	2.44	.982	4.58	4.57
	5 Seasons			2B	303	261	220	2303.0	1169	461	692	16	147	.986	0	44	0	22	4.51	3.81	.985	4.76	4.72
	5 Seasons			OF	276	213	156	1963.0	496	481	14	1	7	.998	18	31	11	18	2.27	1.79	.987	2.28	2.26
	5 Seasons			RF	241	186	141	1686.2	421	407	13	1	7	.998	19	30	13	21	2.24	1.74	.985	2.08	2.06
	4 Seasons			SS	130	115	104	1020.2	512	183	305	24	75	.953	-17	-13	-20	-15	4.30	3.75	.970	4.45	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	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
	7 Seasons			TOT	730	602	485	5399.0	2274	1209	1022	43	237	.981	-1	91	-0	20	3.72	3.06	.982	3.87	3.83
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.

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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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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 1948 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 8.3 (2nd) 2011 AL 8.5 (1st)	WAR Position Players† s c a p y 2009 AL 8.3 (1st) 2011 AL 8.5 (1st)
Offensive WAR† s c a p y 2009 AL 5.8 (3rd) 2011 AL 5.5 (6th)	Defensive WAR† s c a p y 2009 AL 2.5 (4th) 2011 AL 3.2 (2nd) Active 6.6 (43rd)	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) 2012 AL 3 (1st)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 2009 AL 91 (6th) 2010 AL 92 (4th) 2012 AL 35 (2nd)
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)	Intentional Bases on Balls s c a p y 2012 AL 4 (5th)
Caught Stealing s c a p y 2012 AL 4 (1st)	SB % s c a p y 2010 AL 88.89 (3rd) Active 76.60 (40th) Career 76.60 (107th)	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 43.00 (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 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)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2012 AL 1 (1st)	Fielding % as 2B s c a p y 2011 AL .989 (5th)	Total Zone Runs as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 2009 AL 12 (5th) Active 19 (16th) Career 19 (68th)
Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y 2010 AL 2.26 (3rd) 2012 AL 2.08 (5th)	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 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 (·)

Black Ink	Batting - 1 (743), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 13 (1262), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 6 (1387), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 12 (1389), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

June 7, 2004: Drafted by the Houston Astros in the 6th round of the 2004 amateur draft. Player signed June 16, 2004.
July 12, 2006: Traded by the Houston Astros with Mitch Talbot to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for Aubrey Huff and cash.

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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
2007	26	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	$383,400
2008	27	Tampa Bay Rays	$395,800
2009	28	Tampa Bay Rays	$415,900
2010	29	Tampa Bay Rays	$438,100
2011	30	Tampa Bay Rays	$4,687,300

2012	31	Tampa Bay Rays	$4,500,000
2013	32	Tampa Bay Rays	$5,500,000
2014	33	Tampa Bay Rays	*$7,000,000	$7M Team Option, $2.5M Buyout
2015	34	Tampa Bay Rays	*$7,500,000	$7.5M Team Option, $500k Buyout
		Earliest Free Agent: 2014
Career to date (may be incomplete)			$6,320,500	Does 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.

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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.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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