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50 Grant Balfour, RP

Oakland Athletics

Fantasy Stats
Own%	Start%
74%	63%

Key Stats
IP	W-L	SV	ERA	Ks	BB
18.1	0-0	9	1.47	20	8

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Grant Balfour goes 1-2-3 for save

by Jeff Lippman | CBSSports.com

Athletics closer Grant Balfour recorded a 1-2-3 inning for a save Tuesday at Texas. Balfour held down the ninth in a 1-0 victory.

Balfour earned his ninth save of the season as he struck out one in a perfect frame to protect Dan Straily's gem. He needed just 12 pitches, throwing seven for strikes.

Balfour has earned saves in three straight and six of seven. He's 9 for 9 in save chances on the year with a solid 1.47 ERA. He's also struck out 20 over 18 1/3.

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Grant Balfour stays perfect in save opportunities

by R.J. White | CBSSports.com

Athletics closer Grant Balfour stayed perfect in save opportunites with his eighth Saturday against the Royals. He walked one in a scoreless inning and dropped his ERA to 1.56 in 17 1/3 innings.

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Grant Balfour picks up save No. 7

by Igor Mello | CBSSports.com

Athletics closer Grant Balfour entered Friday's contest against the Royals in the ninth inning with a one-run lead.

Balfour needed just 16 pitches as he struck out one and retired the side in order to secure a 2-1 victory. He has a 1.65 ERA and has converted all seven of his save opportunities.

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Grant Balfour picks up sixth save

by Adam Moore | CBSSports.com

Athletics closer Grant Balfour notched his sixth save Saturday against the Mariners. Balfour came on with a 4-3 lead in the ninth inning and was able to keep Seattle off the scoreboard.

He did issue a walk and single in the inning but recorded a pair of strikeouts before getting Kyle Seager to ground out to second base to end the game.

Balfour has now converted on each of his last 24 save chances dating back to last year.

CBSSports.com Player Ranking
Position	Current	Last Week	Rating
Relievers	11	57	96.07
Complete Rankings

Situational Stats
5/24/2013 vs Houston
Situation	IP	W	L	ERA	SV	BB	SO
vs Houston	4.0	0	0	2.25	3	0	4
vs LHB	7.1	0	0	1.23	0	4	8
vs RHB	11.0	0	0	1.64	0	4	12

Last 7 Games
	OPP	W	L	SV	IP	H	ER	BB	Ks
5/3	@NYY	0	0	1	0.1	0	0	0	1
5/5	@NYY	0	0	1	1.0	1	0	1	2
5/11	@SEA	0	0	1	1.0	1	0	1	2
5/14	TEX	0	0	0	1.0	1	0	0	3
5/17	KC	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	1
5/18	KC	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	1	0
5/21	@TEX	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	1
Complete Game Log

Two Week Schedule

MAY /JUNE
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
19 KC W4-3	20 @Tex W9-2	21 @Tex W1-0	22 @Tex L1-3	23	24 @Hou 8:10 pm	25 @Hou 7:15 pm
26 @Hou 2:10 pm	27 SF 4:05 pm	28 SF 10:05 pm	29 @SF 10:15 pm	30 @SF 3:45 pm	31 CHW 10:05 pm	1 CHW 4:05 pm
Complete Schedule

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Fantasy Points by Week

10		3		21		2		23		9		23		10
1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13		14		15		16		17		18		19		20		21		22		23		24		25		26

Fantasy Points by Week. (

Actual

AccuScore Projections) Note: Points are rounded down.

Pitching Stats
Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	SVO	INN	H	R	ER	HR	HBP	BB	SO
2001	MIN	0	0	13.50	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	3	4	4	2	0	3	2
2003	MIN	1	0	4.15	17	1	0	0	0	1	26.0	23	12	12	4	0	14	30
2004	MIN	4	1	4.35	36	0	0	0	0	1	39.1	35	19	19	4	2	21	42
2005	MIN	0	0	---	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007	MIL-TB	1	2	7.66	25	0	0	0	0	0	24.2	30	21	21	2	1	20	30
2008	TB	6	2	1.54	51	0	0	0	4	5	58.1	28	10	10	3	0	24	82
2009	TB	5	4	4.81	73	0	0	0	4	9	67.1	59	38	36	6	2	33	69
2010	TB	2	1	2.28	57	0	0	0	0	1	55.1	43	16	14	3	0	17	56
2011	OAK	5	2	2.47	62	0	0	0	2	7	62.0	44	17	17	8	0	20	59
2012	OAK	3	2	2.53	75	0	0	0	24	26	74.2	41	21	21	4	1	28	72
2013	OAK	0	0	1.47	18	0	0	0	9	9	18.1	13	3	3	2	0	8	20
Total		27	14	3.30	416	1	0	0	43	59	428.2	319	161	157	38	6	188	462

Batting Stats
Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	AVG
2001	MIN	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2003	MIN	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2004	MIN	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2007	MIL-TB	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2008	TB	51	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
2009	TB	73	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2010	TB	57	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2011	OAK	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2012	OAK	75	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
2013	OAK	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
Total		416	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000

Fielding Stats
Year	Team	Posn	G	GS	TC	PO	A	E	DP	FLD%
2001	MIN	P	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000
2003	MIN	P	17	1	4	0	4	0	0	1.000
2004	MIN	P	36	0	7	3	4	0	0	1.000
2007	MIL-TB	P	25	0	6	1	5	0	0	1.000
2008	TB	P	51	0	5	0	5	0	0	1.000
2009	TB	P	73	0	4	1	3	0	1	1.000
2010	TB	P	57	0	4	2	2	0	0	1.000
2011	OAK	P	62	0	6	2	4	0	1	1.000
2012	OAK	P	75	0	13	6	7	0	0	1.000
2013	OAK	P	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	---
Total			416	1	50	15	35	0	2	1.000

More Pitching Stats
Year	Team	IBB	GO	AO	GO/AO	SB	CS	PK	BK	WP	AVG	PA	MB9	SLG	RPF
2001	MIN	0	3	3	1.00	0	0	0	0	0	.333	14	20.3	1.000	0
2003	MIN	2	21	27	0.81	2	1	0	0	0	.235	115	12.8	.408	1
2004	MIN	1	27	45	0.64	2	2	0	0	3	.238	172	13.3	.340	1
2005	MIN	0	0	0	---	0	0	0	0	0	---	0	---	---	0
2007	MIL-TB	0	20	20	1.10	3	1	2	0	0	.316	121	18.6	.484	0
2008	TB	1	28	62	0.45	2	1	0	0	2	.143	224	8.0	.230	1
2009	TB	0	49	77	0.73	6	1	0	0	1	.235	289	12.6	.355	5
2010	TB	2	33	73	0.45	2	2	0	1	4	.216	222	9.8	.347	1
2011	OAK	1	51	68	0.87	1	0	0	0	0	.199	242	9.3	.339	5
2012	OAK	2	58	89	0.69	3	3	0	0	2	.160	289	8.4	.253	2
2013	OAK	2	12	23	0.57	0	0	0	0	2	.194	76	10.3	.328	0
Total		11	302	487	0.67	21	11	2	1	14	.207	1764	10.8	.331	16

Postseason Pitching Stats
Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	SVO	INN	H	R	ER	HR	HBP	BB	SO
2004	MIN	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2008	TB	0	0	6.23	10	0	0	0	0	0	8.2	11	6	6	2	1	8	7
2010	TB	0	0	0.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
2012	OAK	0	1	5.40	2	0	0	0	1	1	1.2	3	1	1	0	0	1	2
Total		0	1	3.78	17	0	0	0	1	1	16.2	16	7	7	2	1	9	12

Minor League Pitching Stats
Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	INN	H	R	ER	HR	HBP	BB	SO
1997	R-Twins	2	4	3.76	13	12	0	0	0	67.0	73	31	28	1	4	20	43
1998	R-Elizabethtn	7	2	3.36	13	13	0	0	0	77.2	70	36	29	7	5	27	75
1999	A-Quad City	8	5	3.53	19	14	0	0	1	91.2	66	39	36	7	6	37	95
2000	A-Fort Myers	8	5	4.25	35	10	0	0	6	89.0	91	46	42	8	8	34	90
2001	AA-New Britain	2	1	1.08	35	0	0	0	13	50.0	26	6	6	1	0	22	72
2001	AAA-Edmonton	2	2	5.51	11	0	0	0	0	16.1	18	11	10	2	0	10	17
2002	AAA-Edmonton	2	4	4.16	58	0	0	0	8	71.1	60	34	33	3	0	30	88
2003	AAA-Rochester	5	2	2.41	21	11	0	0	5	71.0	48	21	19	6	3	16	87
2006	A-Sarasota	0	0	7.94	5	0	0	0	0	5.2	8	7	5	0	1	3	7
2006	A-Dayton	0	0	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
2006	R-Reds	0	0	13.50	2	2	0	0	0	1.1	1	2	2	0	1	3	2
2007	AA-Huntsville	0	0	2.38	8	0	0	0	2	11.1	8	3	3	0	0	4	21
2007	AAA-Nashville	1	1	1.69	24	0	0	0	5	32.0	17	6	6	2	0	11	47
2008	AAA-Durham	1	0	0.38	15	0	0	0	8	23.2	5	1	1	1	0	10	39
2010	AFA-Charlotte Stone Crab	0	1	13.50	2	2	0	0	0	1.1	2	3	2	0	0	3	2
2011	AAA-Sacramento River Cat	0	0	9.00	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	2	1	1	0	0	1	0

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Player Info

Height/Weight:: 6-2/200
Birthdate:: 12/30/1977
Age:: 35
Hometown:: Sydney, Australia
Bats/Throws:: R/R
Team:: Oakland Athletics
College:: No College
MLB Experience:: 10
Salary:: $4,500,000

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