1978
Born May 24, 1978
Blackwell, OK, USA
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b. May 24, 1978 · Florida Marlins 2000–2004, Los Angeles Dodgers 2004–2008, Boston Red Sox 2009, San Francisco Giants 2009, 2012, St. Louis Cardinals 2010, Detroit Tigers 2011, Miami Marlins 2014
He started and won the first game of the 2003 World Series against the Yankees and won the fifth as well, at twenty-five, for a Florida club nobody had picked. Four years later, with the Dodgers, he went 16-4 with a 3.03 earned run average and finished third in the Cy Young voting.
Fourteen seasons gave him 121 wins against 101, a 4.29 earned run average, 1,925 innings and 1,273 strikeouts, with two All-Star selections. He threw very hard and had shoulder trouble from 2008, which is when the rest of it turned into a tour of seven clubs.
Arizona drafted him and traded him to Florida at twenty-one in the deal for Matt Mantei. He came back at thirty-six for a last season with the Marlins. The 2020 ballot gave him one vote of 397.
Honors
| Award | Times | Years |
|---|---|---|
| All-Star selection | 2 | 2006, 2007 |
Batting, season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | FLA | 24 | 45 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 0 | .111 |
| 2001 | FLA | 31 | 62 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 0 | .161 |
| 2002 | FLA | 24 | 48 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 0 | .167 |
| 2003 | FLA | 33 | 68 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 27 | 0 | .132 |
| 2004 | FLA/LAD | 24 | 51 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | .059 |
| 2005 | LAD | 29 | 50 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 0 | .160 |
| 2006 | LAD | 34 | 65 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | .185 |
| 2007 | LAD | 33 | 65 | 7 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 23 | 0 | .246 |
| 2008 | LAD | 19 | 26 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .192 |
| 2009 | BOS/SFG | 30 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .105 |
| 2010 | STL | 9 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .158 |
| 2011 | DET | 31 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .000 |
| 2012 | SFG | 22 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| 2014 | MIA | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .333 |
| Career | — | 351 | 529 | 27 | 83 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 3 | 173 | 0 | .157 |
Pitching, season by season
| Year | Team | W | L | G | GS | SV | IP | H | ER | BB | SO | ERA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | FLA | 8 | 7 | 23 | 22 | 0 | 119.2 | 120 | 64 | 60 | 80 | 4.81 |
| 2001 | FLA | 10 | 10 | 31 | 31 | 0 | 205.0 | 183 | 84 | 54 | 154 | 3.69 |
| 2002 | FLA | 8 | 7 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 129.1 | 148 | 67 | 50 | 93 | 4.66 |
| 2003 | FLA | 14 | 10 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 196.1 | 195 | 90 | 56 | 138 | 4.13 |
| 2004 | FLA/LAD | 9 | 10 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 143.0 | 130 | 50 | 45 | 111 | 3.15 |
| 2005 | LAD | 7 | 9 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 175.1 | 185 | 76 | 41 | 122 | 3.90 |
| 2006 | LAD | 16 | 9 | 34 | 33 | 0 | 189.0 | 206 | 91 | 54 | 148 | 4.33 |
| 2007 | LAD | 16 | 4 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 208.0 | 199 | 70 | 73 | 135 | 3.03 |
| 2008 | LAD | 6 | 9 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 94.2 | 112 | 66 | 42 | 51 | 6.27 |
| 2009 | BOS/SFG | 11 | 9 | 30 | 30 | 0 | 173.1 | 191 | 94 | 51 | 109 | 4.88 |
| 2010 | STL | 3 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 55.2 | 63 | 20 | 9 | 35 | 3.23 |
| 2011 | DET | 11 | 11 | 31 | 31 | 0 | 181.2 | 222 | 107 | 62 | 74 | 5.30 |
| 2012 | SFG | 0 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 28.0 | 42 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 6.11 |
| 2014 | MIA | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 26.0 | 34 | 19 | 13 | 13 | 6.58 |
| Career | — | 121 | 101 | 349 | 319 | 0 | 1925.0 | 2030 | 917 | 619 | 1273 | 4.29 |
On this day & linked events
2000
Major-league debut: Brad Penny
Brad Penny made a major-league debut on April 7, 2000.
2014
Final major-league game: Brad Penny
Brad Penny played a final major-league game on September 26, 2014.