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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 32)

IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
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Birth Date	2-13-1987
Height	6' 4"
Weight	230 lbs

Age	37 years, 2 months, 11 days
Bats	L
Throws	L

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Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	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
2014	ATL	MLB	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	104	0.0	9.0	0.0	9.0	0%	.000	1.00	4.10	0.00	79	3.00	73.7	0.0
2016	SDN	MLB	67	63.0	3	0	1	34	31	78	4	91	4.9	4.4	0.6	11.1	21%	.227	1.03	3.10	2.86	120	5.61	124.2	-0.5
2017	KCA	0	29	27.0	1	0	0	16	8	18	3		5.3	2.7	1.0	6.0	32%	.173	0.89	4.47	2.67	112	5.67	120.7	-0.2
2017	SDN	0	42	38.3	3	3	1	28	18	47	7		6.6	4.2	1.6	11.0	33%	.239	1.20	4.58	3.05	106	5.03	107.0	0.1
2018	OAK	MLB	54	39.3	6	0	0	32	15	41	4	96	7.3	3.4	0.9	9.4	28%	.272	1.19	3.57	2.75	99	3.60	80.3	0.6
2019	OAK	MLB	64	45.3	1	1	0	42	23	50	8	99	8.3	4.6	1.6	9.9	29%	.296	1.43	4.99	2.98	108	5.94	121.9	-0.3
2017	TOT	MLB	71	65.3	4	3	1	44	26	65	10		6.1	3.6	1.4	9.0	32%	.209	1.07	4.54	2.89	109	5.30	112.7	-0.1
Career		MLB	257	214.0	15	4	2	152	96	235	26	66	6.4	4.0	1.1	9.9	28%	.245	1.16	4.03	2.86	110	5.20	111.9	-0.2

Statistics for All Levels

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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-
2006	NAT	Rk	GCL	11	1	13.1	1	1	0	18	13	12	1	93	12.4	8.9	0.7	8.2	0%	.386	2.37	5.55	7.56	124	9.15	192.0
2007	VER	A-	NYP	20	0	31.7	1	2	2	41	19	34	3	99	11.6	5.4	0.9	9.7	0%	.396	1.89	4.89	6.81	104	6.70	137.5
2008	HAG	A	SAL	13	0	19.3	2	2	0	18	13	17	0	110	8.4	6.1	0.0	7.9	0%	.340	1.61	4.59	3.26	114	6.23	127.4
2008	NAT	Rk	GCL	4	0	5.0	2	0	0	1	1	8	0	104	1.8	1.8	0.0	14.4	0%	.143	0.40	1.54	0.00	65	1.64	33.5
2009	PEO	A	MDW	38	0	61.0	3	0	5	36	34	79	1	105	5.3	5.0	0.1	11.7	0%	.261	1.15	3.11	1.33	83	2.72	57.2
2010	TEN	AA	SOU	47	1	60.0	7	2	0	61	47	71	6	101	9.2	7.1	0.9	10.7	0%	.350	1.80	5.21	4.65	0	0.00	0.0
2011	DAY	A+	FSL	6	0	10.3	1	0	1	2	3	17	0		1.7	2.6	0.0	14.8	0%	.125	0.48	0.95	0.00	51	1.44	29.3
2011	LYN	A+	CAR	34	0	42.7	2	5	15	36	22	49	3		7.6	4.6	0.6	10.3	0%	.303	1.36	3.81	3.59	98	4.25	86.8
2011	TEN	AA	SOU	10	0	11.0	3	0	0	13	11	13	1		10.6	9.0	0.8	10.6	0%	.375	2.18	5.11	6.55	117	7.02	143.3
2012	MIS	AA	SOU	35	0	41.3	3	1	4	24	19	50	1		5.2	4.1	0.2	10.9	0%	.247	1.04	2.55	1.31	79	2.87	59.7
2012	GWN	AAA	INT	9	0	8.0	0	2	0	10	17	5	1		11.3	19.1	1.1	5.6	0%	.300	3.38	9.90	10.13	180	8.82	183.7
2012	PDD	Wnt	AFL	10	0	14.7	2	0	0	10	9	14	1		6.1	5.5	0.6	8.6	0%	.225	1.30	5.15	1.84	0	0.00	0.0
2013	GWN	AAA	INT	51	0	62.0	4	0	5	36	51	103	5		5.2	7.4	0.7	15.0	0%	.279	1.40	3.58	2.76	91	3.06	66.6
2014	ATL	MLB	NL	1	0	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	104	0.0	9.0	0.0	9.0	0%	.000	1.00	4.10	0.00	79	3.00	73.7
2014	GWN	AAA	INT	49	0	63.0	3	3	1	51	40	63	5		7.3	5.7	0.7	9.0	0%	.286	1.44	4.38	3.29	109	4.60	97.3
2015	IOW	AAA	PCL	16	0	18.0	2	0	0	9	9	23	0		4.5	4.5	0.0	11.5	0%	.231	1.00	2.70	2.00	79	4.75	104.2
2015	OKL	AAA	PCL	27	0	32.7	0	0	3	27	16	39	0		7.4	4.4	0.0	10.7	0%	.321	1.32	2.77	1.65	78	3.33	72.9
2016	SDN	MLB	NL	67	0	63.0	3	0	1	34	31	78	4	91	4.9	4.4	0.6	11.1	21%	.227	1.03	3.10	2.86	120	5.61	124.2
2016	ELP	AAA	PCL	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	2	1	1	0		18.0	9.0	0.0	9.0	50%	.500	3.00	4.72	18.00	102	4.62	102.0
2017	KCA	MLB	AL	29	0	27.0	1	0	0	16	8	18	3		5.3	2.7	1.0	6.0	32%	.173	0.89	4.47	2.67	112	5.67	120.7
2017	SDN	MLB	NL	42	0	38.3	3	3	1	28	18	47	7		6.6	4.2	1.6	11.0	33%	.239	1.20	4.58	3.05	106	5.03	107.0
2018	OAK	MLB	AL	54	0	39.3	6	0	0	32	15	41	4	96	7.3	3.4	0.9	9.4	28%	.272	1.19	3.57	2.75	99	3.60	80.3
2018	STO	A+	CAL	2	1	2.0	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	95	9.0	4.5	0.0	9.0	40%	.400	1.50	3.25	0.00	97	4.72	99.9
2018	NAS	AAA	PCL	4	0	3.3	1	0	0	1	1	3	0		2.7	2.7	0.0	8.1	43%	.143	0.60	2.84	0.00	89	3.12	66.0
2019	OAK	MLB	AL	64	0	45.3	1	1	0	42	23	50	8	99	8.3	4.6	1.6	9.9	29%	.296	1.43	4.99	2.98	108	5.94	121.9
2019	LVG	AAA	PCL	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	33%	.000	0.00	3.79	0.00	106	4.72	97.2

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2014	12	0.4167	0.3333	0.7500	0.4000	0.2857	1.0000	0.5000	0.2500
2016	1114	0.4973	0.4327	0.7510	0.6516	0.2161	0.7729	0.6860	0.2490
2017	1090	0.5174	0.4899	0.7603	0.6791	0.2871	0.7937	0.6755	0.2397
2018	679	0.5169	0.4713	0.7406	0.6638	0.2652	0.7983	0.5862	0.2594
2019	767	0.4720	0.4654	0.7339	0.6713	0.2815	0.7942	0.6053	0.2661
Career	3662	0.5014	0.4634	0.7483	0.6653	0.2603	0.7890	0.6469	0.2517

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
2010-07-27	2010-08-03	Minors	7	0			Not Disclosed		-
2010-05-29	2010-06-05	Minors	7	0			Not Disclosed		-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2022	SEA	$
2021	ARI	$
2020	ANA	$
2019	OAK	$1,400,000
2018	OAK	$555,000
2017	SDN	$544,700
2016	SDN	$520,000
2015	LAN	$
2014	ATL	$500,000

Years	Description	Salary
5 yr	Previous	$3,519,700
5 yr	Total	$3,519,700

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
4 y 149 d	L. Warner Cos.	1 year (2022)

Details

1 year (2022). Signed by Seattle as a free agent 20/22 (minor-league contract).
1 year (2021). Signed by Arizona as a free agent 1/19/21 (minor-league contract). Salary of $925,000 in majors. Contract selected by Arizona 5/27/21. DFA by Arizona 7/5/21. Sent outright to Triple-A 7/7/21. Contract selected by Arizona 7/30/21. Returned by Arizona to Triple-A 8/6/21.
1 year (2020). Signed by LA Angels as a free agent 2/17/20 (minor-league contract). Salary of $1.5M in majors. Contract selected by LA Angels 3/22/20. DFA by LA Angels 9/2/20. Sent outright to Alternate Training Site 9/5/20 (elected free agency).
1 year/$1.4M (2019). Re-signed by Oakland 1/10/19 (avoided arbitration). Non-tendered by Oakland 12/2/19.
1 year/$555,000 (2018). Acquired by Oakland in trade from Kansas City 1/29/18. Re-signed by Oakland 3/18.
1 year/$544,700 (2017). Re-signed by San Diego 3/17. Acquired by Kansas City in trade from San Diego 7/24/17, with Royals responsible for remaining $205,378 in 2017 salary.
1 year/$520,000 (2016). Signed by San Diego as a free agent 12/8/15 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by San Diego 1/8/16.
1 year (2015). Signed by LA Dodgers as a free agent 12/22/14 (minor-league contract). Released by LA Dodgers 7/21/15. Signed by Chicago Cubs as a free agent 7/26/15 (minor-league contract).
1 year/$500,000 (2014). Contract selected by Atlanta 11/1/13. Re-signed by Atlanta 2/25/14. Sent outright to Triple-A by Atlanta 9/26/14.
Acquired by Atlanta in trade from Chicago Cubs 5/26/11 (in exchange for rhp Rodrigo Lopez).
Acquired by Chicago Cubs in trade from Washington 11/3/08 (in exchange for rhp Matt Avery).
Drafted by Washington 2005 (33-984) (Gloucester County CC, N.J.).

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
90^o	0	0	0	0	0	14.6	10	5	14	2	.229	1.06	3.60	3.78
80^o	0	0	0	0	0	9.4	7	4	9	1	.242	1.15	4.03	4.23
70^o	0	0	0	0	0	5.9	5	2	6	1	.252	1.21	4.33	4.56
60^o	0	0	0	0	0	2.9	2	1	3	0	.260	1.26	4.60	4.84
50^o	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	0	0	0	0	.268	1.32	4.85	5.11
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Ryan Buchter threw 4,238 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2014 and 2021, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2021, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (91mph) and Curve (76mph), also mixing in a Cutter (87mph).