Brad Meyers

Bradley Steven Meyers

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 6", Weight 205 lb.
• School Loyola Marymount University
• High School Servite High School

• Born September 13, 1985 in Santa Ana, CA USA

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Biographical Information

Brad Meyers pitched in the minor leagues from 2007 to 2014, almost entirely in the Washington Nationals organization. He was drafted in the 5th round of the 2007 amateur draft out of Loyola Marymount University, three years after having been a 14th-round selection by the New York Mets in the 2004 amateur draft coming out of high school.

He started well in the Nationals' system, reaching AA by 2009 when he went 11-3, 1.72 in 24 games (23 starts) between the Potomac Nationals of the Carolina League and the Harrisburg Senators of the Eastern League. However, an injury limited him to 6 starts for Harrisburg in 2010. He pitched well, going 1-0, 1.47, but that set him back significantly and forced in 2011 he had to make a mid-season rehabilitation outing with the Auburn Doubledays of the New York-Penn League. Still it was another good year as he finished at 9-7, 3.18 in 25 games (24 starts) between Auburn, Harrisburg and the AAA Syracuse Chiefs with an excellent K/W ratio of 116/15 in 138 2/3 innings.

The Nationals had a very good team at the major league level at the time and did not add Brad to their 40-man roster following the 2011 season, leaving him exposed in the Rule V Draft. He was taken by the New York Yankees, a team that is rarely active in the annual exercise; in fact, he would be the last player taken by the Yankees until they nabbed Cade Winquest in the 2025 Rule V Draft a decade and a half later. He did not make the Yankees out of spring training in 2012 and was sent on a rehabilitation assignment to the Tampa Yankees of the Florida State League. He made one appearance for the team on April 9th and it was a complete disaster as he gave up 8 runs in 1 2/3 innings before missing the rest of the season with an injury. Following the season, the Yankees decided to return him to his original organization, the Nationals, as they would still have to keep him on the major league team whenever he was ready to pitch again the following season, an impossibility for a player coming off a major surgical procedure.

Indeed, he pitched just twice in 2013, at the lowest rung of the Nationals' system with the GCL Nationals, logging just 5 innings. He was finally recovered in 2014 but only made 6 starts with Harrisburg, going 1-4, 7.13, before he was released on June 8th. He continued to pitch in the Independent Leagues that season, with 7 games for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League, but the results were hardly better, as he went 2-2, 5.64. At 28 he had reached the end of the road and called it a career.

Related Sites

• Loyola Marymount University bio