Brad Ziegler Update

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Brad Ziegler Called Up?
Published 5/30/2008 by baseballgirl at Athletics Nation
... I'm working on rumors here; stay tuned to AN for the day for further developments, but it looks like our very own Ziggy has been called up to the A's!!!! From Baseball Prospectus : After the 2006 season, I wrote a feature on A’s prospect Brad Ziegler, and how the organization had decided to convert him into a sidearmer.  Year one of that experiment was overall quite the success, as Ziegler has a 1.14 ERA ...

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Published 8/26/2008 by Tim Dierkes at Fantasy Baseball - RotoAuthority.com
... Ziegler, a friend of Baseball Prospectus writer Kevin Goldstein, got some publicity earlier this season for his funky delivery and more recently, his Athletics franchise record-setting scoreless innings streak for a rookie pitcher.  With the furor involving Huston Street's fastball velocity reaching full bore (with the results just not there for Street), the A's bullpen became a bit of a free-for-all.  Ziegler's deception has proved worthy of absolutely insane ratios this year, and despite a fairly low K rate for a back-end reliever (21 K in 44 IP), ...