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Career Summary
Years G IP W L SV ERA WARP
7 49 51 3 3 0 3.35 0.2
Birth Date6-28-1984
Height6' 1"
Weight185 lbs
Age39 years, 9 months, 22 days
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ThrowsL
WARP Summary

MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
cFIP and DRA are not available on a by-team basis and display as zeroes(0). See TOT line for season totals of these stats.
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YEAR Team Lg G GS IP W L SV H BB SO HR PPF H/9 BB/9 HR/9 K/9 GB% BABIP WHIP FIP ERA cFIP DRA DRA- WARP
2009 ARI MLB 49 0 51.0 3 3 0 45 24 52 5 99 7.9 4.2 0.9 9.2 0% .292 1.35 3.87 3.35 99 4.92 105.5 0.2
CareerMLB49051.03304524525997.94.20.99.232%.2921.353.873.35994.92105.50.2

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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YEAR Team Lg LG G GS IP W L SV H BB SO HR PPF H/9 BB/9 HR/9 K/9 GB% BABIP WHIP FIP ERA cFIP DRA DRA-
2006 MSO Rk PIO 22 0 49.1 2 3 2 41 15 51 3 7.5 2.7 0.5 9.3 0% .277 1.14 3.44 3.12 0 0.00 0.0
2008 SBN A MDW 24 0 35.3 3 1 8 6 5 54 1 96 1.5 1.3 0.3 13.8 0% .093 0.31 1.07 0.51 40 1.76 36.1
2009 ARI MLB NL 49 0 51.0 3 3 0 45 24 52 5 99 7.9 4.2 0.9 9.2 0% .292 1.35 3.87 3.35 99 4.92 105.5
2009 MOB AA SOU 11 0 17.3 1 0 0 10 7 18 2 97 5.2 3.6 1.0 9.4 0% .190 0.98 3.73 2.60 88 2.72 57.3
2010 RNO AAA PCL 5 0 3.0 0 1 0 6 10 2 0 18.0 30.0 0.0 6.0 0% .462 5.33 12.24 30.00 0 0.00 0.0
2011 MOB AA SOU 44 0 60.3 3 2 2 67 21 46 4 10.0 3.1 0.6 6.9 0% .330 1.46 3.82 3.43 98 5.78 118.0
2012 MEM AAA PCL 9 0 10.0 0 0 0 12 6 5 2 10.8 5.4 1.8 4.5 0% .278 1.80 7.96 12.60 126 5.79 120.6
2013 SAN AA TEX 21 0 21.3 0 2 1 19 12 17 2 8.0 5.1 0.8 7.2 0% .258 1.45 4.64 3.80 112 5.13 111.5

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2009 845 0.4982 0.4331 0.7213 0.5867 0.2807 0.7773 0.6050 0.2787
Career8450.49820.43310.72130.58670.28070.77730.60500.2787

Injury History  —  No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On Date Off Transaction Days Games Side Body Part Injury Severity Surgery Date Reaggravation
2010-05-06 2010-09-07 Minors 124 0 Left Elbow Surgery Tommy John Surgery 2010-05-18
2010-04-10 2010-04-22 Minors 12 0 Left Elbow Strain -

Compensation

Year Team Salary

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
0 y 139 d1 year (2013)

Details
  • 1 year (2013). Signed by San Diego as a free agent 7/3/13 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2012). Signed by Cincinnati as a free agent (minor-league contract). Released by Cincinnati 3/30/12. Signed by St. Louis as a free agent 5/15/12 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2011). Re-signed by Arizona 1/5/11 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2010). Re-signed 3/11/10. Sent outright to Triple-A by Arizona 11/6/10.
  • 1 year/$0.4M (2009). Contract purchased 11/20/08. Re-signed 3/3/09.
  • Drafted 2006 (30-897) (Southern Illinois-Edwardsville).

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT W L SV G GS IP H BB SO HR BABIP WHIP ERA DRA VORP WARP
Weighted Mean?????0.0?00?.0000.000.00?0.00.0

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DateQuestionAnswer
2010-01-26 14:00:00 (link to chat)Clay Zavada - hands down best 'stache in the show, right?
(Lincoln from Dallas)		I'm not a mustache guy in general, but his stache could convince me otherwise. (Tommy Bennett)


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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Clay Zavada threw 860 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2009 and 2012, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2012, he relied primarily on his Change (78mph), Sinker (85mph) and Slider (82mph), also mixing in a Fourseam Fastball (86mph).