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Rank	Player	Recent Views	Today's Views
1	Webb, Brandon SP ARI	126	512
2	Blanks, Kyle RF SD	81	750
3	Wood, Brandon 3B ANA	72	319
4	Beckham, Gordon 3B CHW	69	578
5	Strasburg, Stephen SP WAS	68	432
436	Nathan, Joe RP MIN	9	67
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Projections
IP	W-L	SV	ERA	WHIP	K	BBI
65	-1	37	2.08	1.03	76	21

Key Stats
IP	W-L	SV	ERA	Ks	BB
68.2	2-2	47	2.10	89	22

Games Played By Position
Pos	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF	DH	SP	RP
2009	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	70
2008	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	68

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Situational Stats
10/12/2009 vs N.Y. Yankees
Situation	IP	W	L	ERA	SV	BB	SO
vs N.Y. Yankees	0.2	0	1	40.50	0	2	1
vs LHB	33.1	0	0	2.16	0	12	42
vs RHB	35.1	0	0	2.04	0	10	47

Recent Trades
Date	Traded	Traded For
02/09/2010	Wade Davis, SP TB Billy Wagner, RP ATL	Asdrubal Cabrera, SS CLE Chris Coghlan, LF FLA Joe Nathan, RP MIN
02/09/2010	Adrian Beltre, 3B BOS Joe Nathan, RP MIN Javier Vazquez, SP NYY	Joey Votto, 1B CIN
02/08/2010	Robinson Cano, 2B NYY CC Sabathia, SP NYY	Joe Nathan, RP MIN Brandon Phillips, 2B CIN
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Last 10 Games
Date	Opp	W	L	SV	IP	HA	ER	BBA	SO
09/15	CLE	0	0	1	1.0	1	1	1	1
09/16	CLE	0	0	1	0.2	0	0	0	2
09/18	DET	0	0	1	1.0	1	0	1	1
09/22	CHW	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	1
09/23	CHW	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	1	1
09/29	DET	0	0	1	1.0	1	1	0	0
10/01	DET	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	1	0
10/02	KC	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	2
10/03	KC	0	0	1	1.0	0	0	0	2
10/06	DET	0	0	0	1.2	2	0	0	2
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Preseason Outlook

Nathan is one of those closers who has never been given top billing, but he has been more consistently outstanding than anyone, including Mariano Rivera, who has had some nagging injuries that Nathan hasn't really ever had to deal with. Nathan has an annual contender getting him a consistent number of save chances and every year he handles them as well as anyone, rarely posting a WHIP over 1.000 or an ERA over 2.00. There are only a handful of closers capable of posting one season with those kinds of numbers. Nathan does it every year and usually winds up getting picked after the elite as his position. Nathan is a top five closer to target on Draft Day and could outperform any number of the five closers that get picked before him. (Updated 1/20/10)

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Upcoming 7 Games
Date	Opp	Time	Scheduled Starter
3/4/10	@ BOS
3/5/10	BOS
3/6/10	@ BOS
3/7/10	NYY
3/7/10	@ PIT
3/8/10	@ BAL
3/9/10	STL

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Pitching Stats
Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	SVO	INN	H	R	ER	HR	HBP	BB	SO
1999	SF	7	4	4.18	19	14	0	0	1	1	90.1	84	45	42	17	1	46	54
2000	SF	5	2	5.21	20	15	0	0	0	1	93.1	89	63	54	12	4	63	61
2002	SF	0	0	0.00	4	0	0	0	0	0	3.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
2003	SF	12	4	2.96	78	0	0	0	0	3	79.0	51	26	26	7	3	33	83
2004	MIN	1	2	1.62	73	0	0	0	44	47	72.1	48	14	13	3	2	23	89
2005	MIN	7	4	2.70	69	0	0	0	43	48	70.0	46	22	21	5	0	22	94
2006	MIN	7	0	1.58	64	0	0	0	36	38	68.1	38	12	12	3	1	16	95
2007	MIN	4	2	1.88	68	0	0	0	37	41	71.2	54	15	15	4	1	19	77
2008	MIN	1	2	1.33	68	0	0	0	39	45	67.2	43	13	10	5	2	18	74
2009	MIN	2	2	2.10	70	0	0	0	47	52	68.2	42	16	16	7	2	22	89
Total		46	22	2.75	533	29	0	0	247	276	685.0	496	226	209	63	16	262	718

Batting Stats
Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	OBP	SLG	AVG
1999	SF	19	28	1	5	0	1	2	6	0	0	.233	.214	.179
2000	SF	20	32	3	5	2	3	1	9	0	0	.176	.406	.156
2002	SF	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2003	SF	78	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
2004	MIN	73	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
2005	MIN	69	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2006	MIN	64	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
2007	MIN	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2008	MIN	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
2009	MIN	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	---	---	---
Total		533	63	4	10	2	4	3	17	0	0	.194	.302	.159

Fielding Stats
Year	Team	Posn	G	GS	TC	PO	A	E	DP	FLD%
1999	SF	P	19	14	14	3	11	0	0	1.000
2000	SF	P	20	15	19	8	11	0	0	1.000
2002	SF	P	4	0	2	0	2	0	0	1.000
2003	SF	P	78	0	9	4	5	0	1	1.000
2004	MIN	P	73	0	7	1	6	0	1	1.000
2005	MIN	P	69	0	9	2	6	1	0	.889
2006	MIN	P	64	0	10	3	5	2	1	.800
2007	MIN	P	68	0	5	1	3	1	0	.800
2008	MIN	P	68	0	10	3	6	1	1	.900
2009	MIN	P	70	0	12	5	6	1	1	.917
Total			533	29	97	30	61	6	5	.938

More Pitching Stats
Year	Team	IBB	GO	AO	GO/AO	SB	CS	PK	BK	WP	AVG	PA	MB9	SLG	RPF
1999	SF	0	104	106	1.08	6	2	0	0	2	.243	395	13.1	.448	0
2000	SF	4	95	114	0.88	9	5	1	0	5	.255	426	15.0	.444	1
2002	SF	0	2	7	0.29	0	0	0	0	0	.083	12	2.5	.167	0
2003	SF	3	47	99	0.52	5	1	0	1	4	.186	316	9.9	.299	3
2004	MIN	3	45	77	0.62	4	3	0	0	5	.187	284	9.1	.257	3
2005	MIN	1	43	71	0.63	2	1	0	0	2	.183	276	8.7	.287	5
2006	MIN	4	48	64	0.77	2	0	0	0	3	.158	262	7.2	.242	2
2007	MIN	2	64	67	1.01	7	0	0	0	3	.209	282	9.3	.310	4
2008	MIN	4	67	57	1.30	5	0	0	0	2	.179	261	8.4	.279	6
2009	MIN	1	53	63	0.87	5	0	0	0	4	.171	271	8.7	.305	5
Total		22	568	725	0.84	45	12	1	1	30	.201	2785	10.2	.328	29

Postseason Pitching Stats
Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	SVO	INN	H	R	ER	HR	HBP	BB	SO
2003	SF	0	1	81.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	0.1	4	3	3	1	0	1	1
2004	MIN	0	1	3.60	3	0	0	0	1	1	5.0	2	2	2	0	0	5	6
2006	MIN	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
2009	MIN	0	0	9.00	2	0	0	0	0	1	2.0	5	2	2	1	0	1	2
Total		0	2	7.88	8	0	0	0	1	3	8.0	12	7	7	2	0	7	10

Minor League Pitching Stats
Year	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	INN	H	R	ER	HR	HBP	BB	SO
1995	-Dnp	0	0	---	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1996	-Restricted	0	0	---	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1997	A-Salem-Keizr	2	1	2.47	18	5	0	0	2	62.0	53	22	17	7	4	26	44
1998	AA-Shreveport	1	3	8.80	4	4	0	0	0	15.1	20	15	15	4	2	9	10
1998	A-San Jose	8	6	3.32	22	22	0	0	0	122.0	100	51	45	13	10	48	118
1999	AA-Shreveport	0	1	3.12	2	2	0	0	0	8.2	5	4	3	0	1	7	7
1999	AAA-Fresno	6	4	4.46	13	13	1	0	0	74.2	68	44	37	11	5	36	82
2000	A-San Jose	0	1	3.60	1	1	0	0	0	5.0	4	2	2	1	0	1	2
2000	A-Bakersfield	1	0	5.06	1	1	0	0	0	5.1	2	3	3	0	1	7	6
2000	AAA-Fresno	0	2	4.40	3	3	0	0	0	14.1	15	8	7	4	0	7	9
2001	AA-Shreveport	3	6	6.93	21	7	0	0	0	62.1	73	49	48	11	4	37	33
2001	AAA-Fresno	0	5	7.77	10	10	0	0	0	46.1	63	47	40	13	5	33	21
2002	AAA-Fresno	6	12	5.60	31	25	1	0	0	146.1	167	97	91	20	3	74	117