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Career Summary
Years G IP W L SV ERA WARP
11 241 316.7 13 15 6 4.12 -2.1
Birth Date2-15-1984
Height6' 4"
Weight235 lbs
Age40 years, 2 months, 28 days
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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
2008 SLN MLB 8 6 34.0 3 2 0 42 22 13 5 98 11.1 5.8 1.3 3.4 0% .303 1.88 6.36 7.41 134 7.85 167.4 -0.9
2009 SLN MLB 16 9 58.0 2 3 0 71 33 46 3 89 11.0 5.1 0.5 7.1 0% .374 1.79 4.05 4.19 102 5.46 117.1 0.0
2010 SLN MLB 61 0 67.3 2 3 0 60 27 52 5 90 8.0 3.6 0.7 7.0 0% .279 1.29 3.90 3.61 104 4.95 111.8 -0.1
2011 SLN MLB 51 0 60.7 2 3 4 62 21 48 4 95 9.2 3.1 0.6 7.1 0% .314 1.37 3.40 3.56 102 4.84 112.4 -0.1
2012 SLN MLB 78 0 73.3 4 1 0 56 21 58 5 99 6.9 2.6 0.6 7.1 0% .245 1.05 3.46 2.21 102 5.11 117.2 -0.3
2013 COL 0 9 0 8.7 0 0 0 7 5 5 2 110 7.3 5.2 2.1 5.2 0% .200 1.38 6.94 3.12 147 8.43 201.8 -0.4
2013 SLN 0 18 0 14.7 0 3 2 21 15 11 3 100 12.9 9.2 1.8 6.8 0% .353 2.45 7.65 11.05 125 7.21 172.6 -0.5
2013 TOT MLB 27 0 23.3 0 3 2 28 20 16 5 104 10.8 7.7 1.9 6.2 0% .000 2.06 7.39 8.10 132 7.66 183.4 -0.9
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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-
2005 NWJ A- NYP 15 14 71.7 4 4 0 77 24 61 5 37 9.7 3.0 0.6 7.7 0% -.758 1.41 3.83 3.89 98 5.36 105.7
2006 PMB A+ FSL 27 27 145.1 10 6 0 153 51 126 7 9.5 3.2 0.4 7.8 0% .330 1.41 3.35 3.41 0 0.00 0.0
2007 SFD AA TXS 26 26 152.3 11 7 0 167 62 117 15 102 9.9 3.7 0.9 6.9 0% .314 1.50 4.34 3.84 105 5.61 115.2
2007 MSS Wnt AFL 6 6 19.0 0 2 0 19 8 14 2 9.0 3.8 0.9 6.6 0% .293 1.42 4.69 5.21 0 0.00 0.0
2008 SLN MLB NL 8 6 34.0 3 2 0 42 22 13 5 98 11.1 5.8 1.3 3.4 0% .303 1.88 6.36 7.41 134 7.85 167.4
2008 MEM AAA PCL 21 21 125.3 9 3 0 107 46 81 11 104 7.7 3.3 0.8 5.8 0% .261 1.22 4.48 3.45 99 3.40 69.6
2009 SLN MLB NL 16 9 58.0 2 3 0 71 33 46 3 89 11.0 5.1 0.5 7.1 0% .374 1.79 4.05 4.19 102 5.46 117.1
2009 MEM AAA PCL 14 14 76.3 6 4 0 90 32 58 8 83 10.6 3.8 0.9 6.8 0% .336 1.60 4.71 4.84 105 6.39 134.5
2010 SLN MLB NL 61 0 67.3 2 3 0 60 27 52 5 90 8.0 3.6 0.7 7.0 0% .279 1.29 3.90 3.61 104 4.95 111.8
2011 SLN MLB NL 51 0 60.7 2 3 4 62 21 48 4 95 9.2 3.1 0.6 7.1 0% .314 1.37 3.40 3.56 102 4.84 112.4
2011 MEM AAA PCL 4 4 14.7 0 2 0 12 5 14 1 91 7.4 3.1 0.6 8.6 0% .289 1.16 4.18 2.45 82 3.09 63.0
2012 SLN MLB NL 78 0 73.3 4 1 0 56 21 58 5 99 6.9 2.6 0.6 7.1 0% .245 1.05 3.46 2.21 102 5.11 117.2
2013 COL MLB NL 9 0 8.7 0 0 0 7 5 5 2 110 7.3 5.2 2.1 5.2 0% .200 1.38 6.94 3.12 147 8.43 201.8
2013 SLN MLB NL 18 0 14.7 0 3 2 21 15 11 3 100 12.9 9.2 1.8 6.8 0% .353 2.45 7.65 11.05 125 7.21 172.6
2013 TUL AA TEX 4 0 6.0 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 3.0 0.0 1.5 4.5 0% .059 0.33 4.21 1.50 100 2.19 47.7
2013 CSP AAA PCL 12 0 16.3 1 4 0 33 11 7 1 18.2 6.1 0.6 3.9 0% .410 2.69 5.70 8.27 116 6.96 151.3
2013 MEM AAA PCL 18 3 23.7 0 2 0 30 11 14 2 83 11.4 4.2 0.8 5.3 0% .322 1.73 5.38 5.70 116 7.01 152.3
2013 USA int WBC 2 0 1.3 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 6.8 6.8 0.0 0.0 0% .200 1.50 5.88 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2014 CHR AAA INT 25 0 36.0 2 3 1 64 17 18 3 16.0 4.3 0.8 4.5 0% .424 2.25 4.93 9.50 116 8.89 188.3
2014 FRE AAA PCL 10 0 13.0 0 1 0 18 7 4 2 12.5 4.8 1.4 2.8 0% .327 1.92 6.69 6.23 136 7.28 154.1
2014 GIA Rk AZL 2 0 2.0 1 0 0 2 2 1 0 9.0 9.0 0.0 4.5 0% .333 2.00 7.51 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2015 GWN AAA INT 13 0 13.3 1 1 0 18 10 2 0 12.2 6.8 0.0 1.4 0% .346 2.10 5.32 6.08 138 7.87 172.5

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2008 576 0.4201 0.3958 0.8728 0.6488 0.2126 0.9363 0.7324 0.1272
2009 1009 0.4232 0.4054 0.7555 0.5831 0.2749 0.8514 0.6063 0.2445
2010 1062 0.4802 0.4567 0.7835 0.6745 0.2554 0.8663 0.5816 0.2165
2011 959 0.4161 0.4578 0.7882 0.6516 0.3196 0.8769 0.6592 0.2118
2012 1062 0.4539 0.4501 0.7887 0.6224 0.3069 0.8600 0.6685 0.2113
2013 442 0.4729 0.4457 0.7817 0.6507 0.2618 0.9118 0.4918 0.2183
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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
2012-09-16 2012-09-18 DTD 2 1 - Low Back Stiffness - -
2011-03-02 2011-03-12 Camp 10 0 - Low Back Cartilage Injury Bulging Disc -
2009-02-14 2009-02-24 Camp 10 0 Right Shoulder Stiffness -

Compensation

Year Team Salary
2015 BOS $
2014 CHA $270,492
2013 SLN $1,475,000
2012 SLN $506,000
2011 SLN $431,000
2010 SLN $402,000
YearsDescriptionSalary
5 yrPrevious$3,084,492
5 yrTotal$3,084,492

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
4 y 34 dCareer Sports & Entertainment1 year (2015)

Details
  • 1 year (2015). Signed by Boston as a free agent 1/5/15 (minor-league contract). May opt out of contract 4/4/15 if not on Major League roster. Released by Boston 3/26/15.
  • 1 year/$1.1M (2014). Signed by Chicago White Sox as a free agent 2/7/14. Released by Chicago White Sox 3/23/14 (due 45 days' salary, or $270,492). Re-signed by Chicago White Sox as a free agent 4/1/14 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year/$1.475M (2013). Re-signed by St. Louis 1/18/13 (avoided arbitration). Performance bonuses. Acquired by Colorado in trade from St. Louis 7/9/13. Non-tendered by Colorado 12/2/13.
  • 1 year/$0.506M (2012). Re-signed by St. Louis 2/29/12.
  • 1 year/$0.431M (2011). Re-signed by St. Louis 2/11.
  • 1 year/$0.402M (2010). Re-signed by St. Louis 3/4/10.
  • 1 year/$0.4M (2009). Re-signed by St. Louis 2/28/09.
  • 1 year (2008). Contract purchased by St. Louis 6/6/08.
  • Drafted by St. Louis 2005 (5-170) (Georgia). $0.17M signing bonus.

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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BP Chats

DateQuestionAnswer
2013-04-16 20:00:00 (link to chat)Do you expect Andrew Bailey to do a better job as interim closer than Mitchell Boggs is doing in St. Louis?
(bobbygoode from Santa Monica CA)		Yes, but that's not saying much considering that Boggs doesn't look like the closer any more in STL. (Bret Sayre)
2013-04-10 20:00:00 (link to chat)So, who do you have finishing the season with the most saves for the Cubs, Cards and Brewers? thanks
(Kevin from Boston)		For the Cubs, I would have to guess Kyuji Fujikawa. Carlos Marmol might get the job again, but he would probably be put in there to showcase him for a trade. Trevor Rosenthal isn't the closer now in St. Louis, but Mitchell Boggs has already struggled so if I'm going to guess, I'm going to guess the guy with the skills and the stuff. Milwaukee is a mystery to me. I thought John Axford would lose the job but had no idea it would happen so quickly. I would guess Jim Henderson, but he has some of the same control/command issues that Ax does/did. My sleeper in this pen is Brandon Kintzler, but I don't see Kintzler as having a path to the job at the moment. (Mike Gianella)
2010-01-14 16:00:00 (link to chat)What should the Cardinals do with the 5th starter spot behind Carp/Wainwright/Lohse/Penny?
(Jake from St. Louis)		Mitchell Boggs likes ground balls (which is good, because he also likes walks). Brad Thompson likes GBs too, but doesn't like strikeouts. I don't see the point of signing a free agent to be your 5th starter, so put Boggs and Thompson in a cage, and whoever emerges with his arm still attached gets the ball on fifth day. (Russell A. Carleton)
2010-01-14 16:00:00 (link to chat)Thanks for answering my question, but Brad Thompson is in the Royals' organization now. So, I guess you're going with Mitchell Boggs as the 5th starter in STL?
(Jake from St. Louis, MO)		This is what happens when you read Dr. Sears rather than Christina Kahrl's transaction column. (Russell A. Carleton)


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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Mitchell Boggs threw 5,404 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2008 and 2013, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2013, he relied primarily on his Sinker (95mph) and Slider (90mph), also mixing in a Fourseam Fastball (95mph) and Splitter (89mph).