Pavel Procházka

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 185 lb.

• Born August 31, 1982

Biographical Information

Pavel Procházka has played in the Extraliga and for the Czech national team.

He debuted in 1999 with Olympia Blansko, going 0-1 with a save and a 16.58 ERA; on offense, he was 3-for-30 with a walk. At age 18, he improved to 4-6, 8.86 on the mound and .382/.456/.596 at the plate. In 2001, the young infield scored 23 times in 31 games, hitting .298/.370/.479 and going 3-4 with a 6.51 ERA. He was 8th in the high-offense loop in ERA, between Robert Roudný and Aleš Keprta.

Procházka went 0-5 with a 3.46 ERA in 2002 and batted .330/.427/.472 with 25 runs and 14 doubles in 28 contests. He tied Martin Veselý for the double lead. He had a 2-3, 2.25 record in '03 while hitting .296/.414/.409 with 32 runs in 30 games. He was among the league leaders in doubles (11, 3rd, after Dmytro Nelipa and Ivo Kučera), steals (tied Kučera for 7th), extra-base hits (12, tied Pavel Budský for 6th), walks (19, tied Jan Jablonka for 7th) and runs (4th). In the 2003 European Championship, he was 2-for-12 and handled 10 chances error-free as a backup infielder for the Czechs.

In 2004, he was 3-5 with a 1.14 ERA but fell to .220/.377/.248 at the plate. He stole 18 bases in 23 tries. He tied Jan Toman for second in swipes (four behind Petr Baroch), tied Jiří Drha for the walk lead and was 6th in ERA (with offensive levels way down; perhaps they had switched from aluminum to wood bats in the interim), between Zdeněk Kocman and Michal Kočí. He was 2-4 with a save and a 2.31 ERA in '05, hitting .244/.357/.313. He tied Ondřej Petřík and Jan Drábek for 5th in steals (10), was 7th in ERA (between Marián Gajdoš and Jan Řeháček) and was 9th with 56 strikeouts (between Martin Schneider and Boris Bokaj). Backing up Jakub Hajtmar at 2B and Baroch at SS, he was 0-for-4 and handled four chances error-free.

The right-hander posted a 1.17 ERA in 2006, going 3-2 with two saves, and hitting .285/.359/.321. He was second in ERA, .09 behind Jiří Marek. He did not appear in the Extraliga again until 2012, when he batted .295/.324/.419 and had a 0-8, 5.50 record. He made his last leaderboards: tied for 7th in triples, 2nd in losses and 10th in K/9 (6.7, between former major leaguer Pat Ahearne and Jan Blažek). Moving to Skokani Olomouc in 2013 (his lone season outside of Blansko), he was 1-1 with a save and a 2.66 ERA, hitting .226/.415/.290. He vanished again until one last season with Olympia Blansko in 2017, when he batted .220/.267/.321 and was 0-6 with a 8.51 ERA.

Overall, he had hit .279/.373/.381 in 304 Extraliga games, scoring 189 times and going 66-for-78 in steal attempts. He was 18-43 with five saves and a 4.57 ERA.