The Decade’s Best: No. 28 Shaun Seibert

Shaun Seibert
Brewster 2006
Pitcher
Arkansas

The first start of Shaun Seibert’s summer didn’t yield the prettiest of stat lines: 4.2 innings, three hits, five strikeouts, four walks, four runs. But one number stood out in that stat line: zero earned runs.

It would continue to stand out for the duration of a remarkable summer.

It wasn’t always easy for Seibert, who walked almost as many hitters as he struck out, but the end result was almost always the same. In seven of his eight starts, he didn’t allow an earned run. His ERA was 0.00 until July 31 — his seventh start — when he allowed two runs to Harwich.

If not for those two runs, Seibert would have become the first pitcher in league history with a 0.00 ERA and enough innings to qualify for the ERA title. As it was, Seibert finished with a 0.39 ERA, which ties him for second in the league record books. It also ties him for the best mark this decade.

Seibert came to the Cape after his sophomore season at Arkansas, where he went 4-0 with a 2.79 ERA. After that first start on the Cape, Seibert consistently found a way to keep teams off the scoreboard. The rest of the summer, he allowed just five total runs and just the two earned runs. He also found a way to win, leading the league in wins and going 6-0.

With the ERA title also on his resume, Seibert was picked as the co-winner of the league’s Pitcher of the Year award, along with Y-D’s Terry Doyle.

After the Cape

Seibert made six appearances for the Razorbacks in 2007 before undergoing Tommy John Surgery. It was an inopportune time. Seibert returned in 2008 but didn’t recapture his form right away and had an ERA of 7.46 in only 25.1 innings. After going undrafted in 2008, Seibert signed on with the Gateway Grizzlies of the Frontier League, where he continued to pitch this season.

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