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Portrait of Oscar Villarreal

Oscar Villarreal PD-backs

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Career Summary
Years G IP W L SV ERA WARP
12 258 336 24 15 1 3.86 2.7
Birth Date11-22-1981
Height6' 0"
Weight195 lbs
Age42 years, 4 months, 27 days
BatsL
ThrowsR
WARP Summary

MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
cFIP and DRA are not available on a by-team basis and display as zeroes(0). See TOT line for season totals of these stats.
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YEAR Team Lg G GS IP W L SV H BB SO HR PPF H/9 BB/9 HR/9 K/9 GB% BABIP WHIP FIP ERA cFIP DRA DRA- WARP
2003 ARI MLB 86 1 98.0 10 7 0 80 46 80 6 104 7.3 4.2 0.6 7.3 0% .258 1.29 3.63 2.57 96 4.41 92.4 1.1
2004 ARI MLB 17 0 18.0 0 2 0 25 7 17 3 100 12.5 3.5 1.5 8.5 0% .393 1.78 4.55 7.00 108 5.37 110.8 0.0
2005 ARI MLB 11 0 13.7 2 0 0 11 6 5 2 112 7.2 4.0 1.3 3.3 0% .209 1.24 5.69 5.27 124 7.49 161.1 -0.3
2006 ATL MLB 58 4 92.3 9 1 0 93 27 55 13 94 9.1 2.6 1.3 5.4 0% .269 1.30 4.78 3.61 103 4.62 94.2 1.1
2007 ATL MLB 51 0 76.3 2 2 1 75 32 58 6 101 8.8 3.8 0.7 6.8 0% .292 1.40 4.08 4.24 101 3.98 82.4 1.2
2008 HOU MLB 35 0 37.7 1 3 0 42 17 21 12 99 10.0 4.1 2.9 5.0 0% .259 1.57 7.64 5.02 124 6.32 134.9 -0.4
CareerMLB2585336.024151326135236421008.73.61.16.346%.2741.374.633.861044.7699.22.7

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
Minor league stats are currently shown —Click to hide.
YEAR Team Lg LG G GS IP W L SV H BB SO HR PPF H/9 BB/9 HR/9 K/9 GB% BABIP WHIP FIP ERA cFIP DRA DRA-
2003 ARI MLB NL 86 1 98.0 10 7 0 80 46 80 6 104 7.3 4.2 0.6 7.3 0% .258 1.29 3.63 2.57 96 4.41 92.4
2004 ARI MLB NL 17 0 18.0 0 2 0 25 7 17 3 100 12.5 3.5 1.5 8.5 0% .393 1.78 4.55 7.00 108 5.37 110.8
2005 ARI MLB NL 11 0 13.7 2 0 0 11 6 5 2 112 7.2 4.0 1.3 3.3 0% .209 1.24 5.69 5.27 124 7.49 161.1
2006 ATL MLB NL 58 4 92.3 9 1 0 93 27 55 13 94 9.1 2.6 1.3 5.4 0% .269 1.30 4.78 3.61 103 4.62 94.2
2007 ATL MLB NL 51 0 76.3 2 2 1 75 32 58 6 101 8.8 3.8 0.7 6.8 0% .292 1.40 4.08 4.24 101 3.98 82.4
2008 HOU MLB NL 35 0 37.7 1 3 0 42 17 21 12 99 10.0 4.1 2.9 5.0 0% .259 1.57 7.64 5.02 124 6.32 134.9
2011 ABQ AAA PCL 2 0 2.7 0 0 0 5 0 3 1 16.9 0.0 3.4 10.1 0% .444 1.88 6.40 6.75 75 2.93 59.9
2011 MXC Wnt LMP 28 0 28.0 2 0 19 23 10 20 1 7.4 3.2 0.3 6.4 0% .253 1.18 2.98 2.57 0 0.00 0.0
2012 NOR AAA INT 37 2 68.7 3 4 1 62 27 49 1 99 8.1 3.5 0.1 6.4 0% .288 1.30 3.27 2.88 96 4.28 89.1
2012 MXC Wnt LMP 31 0 37.3 1 2 17 31 10 42 0 7.5 2.4 0.0 10.1 0% .341 1.10 1.71 1.45 0 0.00 0.0
2013 PAW AAA INT 14 0 24.3 4 2 0 23 9 23 2 8.5 3.3 0.7 8.5 0% .304 1.32 3.73 4.44 97 4.64 100.9
2013 MEX int WBC 2 0 2.0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 4.5 4.5 0.0 9.0 0% .200 1.00 3.13 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2015 MTR AAA MEX 62 0 58.0 4 3 2 50 18 48 1 7.8 2.8 0.2 7.4 0% .292 1.17 3.23 3.10 0 0.00 0.0
2016 MTR AAA MEX 38 8 63.7 5 4 0 73 23 46 5 10.3 3.3 0.7 6.5 0% .332 1.51 4.18 3.96 0 0.00 0.0
2017 MTR AAA MEX 17 0 13.0 1 1 0 19 6 6 2 13.2 4.2 1.4 4.2 0% .362 1.92 6.05 3.46 0 0.00 0.0

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2008 594 0.4579 0.4377 0.7962 0.6544 0.2547 0.8708 0.6341 0.2038
Career5940.45790.43770.79620.65440.25470.87080.63410.2038

Injury History  —  No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On Date Off Transaction Days Games Side Body Part Injury Severity Surgery Date Reaggravation
2010-03-26 2010-04-18 Minors 23 0 Right Elbow Soreness -
2009-04-15 2009-04-15 FA 0 0 Right Elbow Surgery Tommy John Surgery - Date Is Approximate - -
2005-04-11 2005-09-02 60-DL 144 129 Right Shoulder Strain Rotator Cuff -
2004-05-10 2004-10-04 60-DL 147 132 Right Elbow Surgery Ulnar Nerve Transposition and Bone Chips 2004-08-17

Compensation

Year Team Salary
2008 HOU $1,000,000
2007 ATL $960,000
2006 ATL $462,500
2004 ARI $325,000
2003 ARI $300,000
YearsDescriptionSalary
5 yrPrevious$3,047,500
5 yrTotal$3,047,500

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
5 y 103 d

Details
  • signed as a free agent from KC 2/4/10 (minor-league contract)
  • signed as a free agent from COL 1/09 (minor-league contract)
  • signed as a free agent from HOU 8/16/08 (minor-league contract)
  • release waivers 7/10/08 designated for assignment 7/2/08 signed extension 12/28/07, 2 year/$2.85M (08-09)+$2M 10 club option
  • $0.25M signing bonus, 08:$1M, 09:$1.6M, 10:$2M club option
  • acquired in trade from ATL 11/16/07 avoided arbitration 2/07 ($1.3M-$0.86M), 1 year/$0.96M (07)+performance bonus:$25K each 30,39,48,60 pts (3pt/games started, 1pt/games finished)
  • avoided arbitration 1/06, 1 year/$0.4625M (06)
  • acquired in trade from AZ 12/05
  • recalled 4/05
  • 1 year/$0.325M (04)
  • 1 year/$0.3M (03)

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT W L SV G GS IP H BB SO HR BABIP WHIP ERA DRA VORP WARP
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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Oscar Villarreal threw 1,314 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2011, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2011, he relied primarily on his Sinker (92mph) and Cutter (87mph), also mixing in a Slider (84mph) and Change (85mph).