Biographical

Portrait of Andrew Albers

Andrew Albers PTwins

Twins Player Cards | Twins Team Audit | Twins Depth Chart

2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 33)
IP ERA WHIP SO W L SV WARP
Login or Subscribe today for access to projections!
Birth Date10-6-1985
Height6' 1"
Weight200 lbs
Age38 years, 6 months, 13 days
BatsR
ThrowsL
-0.12015
-0.32016
-0.02017
2018
0.12019
proj
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.
Multiple stints are are currently shown —Click to hide.
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
2013 MIN MLB 10 10 60.0 2 5 0 64 7 25 6 100 9.6 1.1 0.9 3.8 0% .278 1.18 3.99 4.05 109 5.07 121.4 -0.1
2015 TOR MLB 1 0 2.7 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 113 3.4 6.8 3.4 3.4 0% .000 1.13 9.47 3.38 135 7.28 170.2 -0.1
2016 MIN MLB 6 2 17.0 0 0 0 27 6 16 5 118 14.3 3.2 2.6 8.5 49% .379 1.94 6.10 5.82 111 6.74 149.1 -0.3
2017 SEA MLB 9 6 41.0 5 1 1 43 10 37 6 100 9.4 2.2 1.3 8.1 34% .303 1.29 4.12 3.51 110 5.50 117.1 0.0
CareerMLB2618120.776113525791810310.11.91.35.943%.3011.334.454.101105.50124.9-0.5

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-
2008 PDR Rk AZL 5 2 7.0 1 0 0 3 3 7 0 95 3.9 3.9 0.0 9.0 0% .200 0.86 3.35 0.00 92 2.31 47.3
2011 FTM A+ FSL 22 2 52.3 4 1 4 48 7 46 2 101 8.3 1.2 0.3 7.9 0% .313 1.05 2.57 1.55 75 3.56 72.7
2011 NBR AA EAS 13 5 43.3 4 1 0 44 7 34 0 85 9.1 1.5 0.0 7.1 0% .338 1.18 2.66 2.91 86 4.35 88.8
2012 NBR AA EAS 19 17 98.3 4 3 0 111 12 73 7 102 10.2 1.1 0.6 6.7 0% .346 1.25 3.06 3.75 88 4.88 101.7
2012 CAN int WBQ 1 1 6.0 1 0 0 2 0 3 1 3.0 0.0 1.5 4.5 0% .063 0.33 4.98 1.50 0 0.00 0.0
2012 TWI Rk GCL 2 1 4.7 1 0 0 4 3 3 0 119 7.7 5.8 0.0 5.8 0% .267 1.50 4.07 1.93 112 4.11 85.7
2013 MIN MLB AL 10 10 60.0 2 5 0 64 7 25 6 100 9.6 1.1 0.9 3.8 0% .278 1.18 3.99 4.05 109 5.07 121.4
2013 ROC AAA INT 22 22 132.3 11 5 0 124 32 116 14 103 8.4 2.2 1.0 7.9 0% .297 1.18 3.54 2.86 93 3.90 84.7
2013 CAN int WBC 1 0 3.0 0 0 0 6 0 3 0 18.0 0.0 0.0 9.0 0% .546 2.00 1.63 6.00 0 0.00 0.0
2015 TOR MLB AL 1 0 2.7 0 0 0 1 2 1 1 113 3.4 6.8 3.4 3.4 0% .000 1.13 9.47 3.38 135 7.28 170.2
2015 BUF AAA INT 20 15 83.7 2 11 0 110 26 53 7 93 11.8 2.8 0.8 5.7 0% .359 1.63 4.05 5.70 109 7.21 158.2
2016 MIN MLB AL 6 2 17.0 0 0 0 27 6 16 5 118 14.3 3.2 2.6 8.5 49% .379 1.94 6.10 5.82 111 6.74 149.1
2016 ROC AAA INT 21 21 124.3 10 6 0 150 30 84 10 101 10.9 2.2 0.7 6.1 41% .346 1.45 3.68 3.69 101 5.74 126.8
2017 SEA MLB AL 9 6 41.0 5 1 1 43 10 37 6 100 9.4 2.2 1.3 8.1 34% .303 1.29 4.12 3.51 110 5.50 117.1
2017 GWN AAA INT 26 17 120.7 12 3 0 120 19 115 6 99 9.0 1.4 0.4 8.6 48% .327 1.15 2.58 2.61 79 3.80 80.8

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2013 916 0.5568 0.4803 0.8477 0.6294 0.2931 0.8754 0.7731 0.1523
2015 35 0.4000 0.3429 0.9167 0.5000 0.2381 0.8571 1.0000 0.0833
2016 326 0.4847 0.4571 0.8389 0.6329 0.2917 0.8600 0.7959 0.1611
2017 723 0.5380 0.5228 0.8280 0.6684 0.3533 0.8538 0.7712 0.1720
Career20000.53550.48950.84040.64180.31370.86480.78010.1596

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
2009-06-21 2009-08-29 Minors 69 0 Left Elbow Recovery From Surgery Tommy John Surgery 2009-04-01 -
2009-04-01 2009-04-01 Minors 0 0 Left Elbow Surgery Tommy John Surgery 2009-04-01 -

Compensation

Year Team Salary
2017 ATL $
2016 MIN $
2015 TOR $
2013 MIN $

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
1 y 10 d1 year (2022)

Details
  • 1 year (2022). Signed by Seattle as a free agent 3/21/22 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2021). Signed by Minnesota as a free agent 2/8/21 (minor-league contract). Salary of $750,000 in majors. Contract selected by Minnesota 8/19/21. Sent outright to Triple-A by Minnesota 10/7/21.
  • 2019-20. Orix Buffaloes of Japan.
  • 2018. Signed by Orix Buffaloes of Japan 12/17.
  • 1 year (2017). Signed by Atlanta as a free agent 12/20/16 (minor-league contract). Acquired by Seattle in trade from Atlanta 8/11/17. Contract selected by Seattle 8/15/17. Released by Seattle 12/17 (will pursue opportunity in Japan).
  • 1 year (2016). Signed by Minnesota as a free agent 4/28/16 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by Minnesota 8/11/16. DFA by Minnesota 8/13/16 (optional assignment). Sent outright to Triple-A by Minnesota 10/17/16.
  • 1 year (2015). Signed by Toronto as a free agent 12/14 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by Toronto 5/1/15.
  • 2014. Released by Minnesota 1/30/14. Signed for 2014 by Hanwha Eagles of Korea.
  • 1 year (2013). Contract selected by Minnesota 8/3/13.
  • Signed by Minnesota as a free agent 3/10/11 (minor-league contract).
  • Signed by independent Quebec 5/10.
  • Released by San Diego 3/25/10.
  • Drafted by San Diego 2008 (10-315) (Kentucky). $10,000 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
90o 0 3.7 0.1 11 8 50.1 48 12 37 7 .273 1.18 3.75 4.1 -4.6 -0.5
80o 0 3.5 0.1 10 7 44.5 45 11 33 6 .287 1.27 4.11 4.49 -5.9 -0.6
70o 0 3.3 0 9 6 40.5 43 11 30 6 .297 1.33 4.38 4.78 -6.6 -0.7
60o 0 3.2 0 8 6 37.2 41 10 27 6 .305 1.38 4.61 5.04 -7.1 -0.8
50o 0 3 0 7 5 34.2 39 10 25 5 .313 1.44 4.83 5.28 -7.3 -0.8
40o 0 2.8 0 7 5 31.2 37 9 23 5 .321 1.49 5.05 5.52 -7.5 -0.8
30o 0 2.6 0 6 4 28.1 35 9 21 5 .329 1.55 5.29 5.79 -7.5 -0.8
20o 0 2.4 0 5 4 24.6 32 8 18 4 .339 1.62 5.58 6.1 -7.4 -0.8
10o 0 2 0 4 3 19.8 27 7 15 4 .352 1.73 5.98 6.55 -6.9 -0.7
Weighted Mean02.907533.5389255.3111.434.805.25-7.1-0.8

The rest of this card is restricted to Baseball Prospectus Subscribers.

Not a subscriber? Click here for a free card so you can see what's missing.

Click here for more information on Baseball Prospectus subscriptions or to subscribe and get instant access to the best baseball content on the web.

BP Annual Player Comments

The rest of this card is restricted to Baseball Prospectus Subscribers.

Not a subscriber? Click here for a free card so you can see what's missing.

Click here for more information on Baseball Prospectus subscriptions or to subscribe and get instant access to the best baseball content on the web.

BP Articles

Click here to see articles tagged with Andrew Albers

BP Chats

DateQuestionAnswer
2014-04-29 13:00:00 (link to chat)Hi RJ, curious if there is a recent precedent for what Collin McHugh is doing, and if so, how long was Quality Start performance sustained by the precedent? Andrew Albers comes to mind, but I think they're different pitchers.
(Drifter from Long Branch)		Albers is a good call as a pop-up type. Maybe Scott Diamond as well? Back in 2012 he had a pretty good ERA for a few months there. It's funny because McHugh's comment in the annual wasn't the least bit optimistic:

After another disastrous season-this one split between the Mets and Rockies, preceding an offseason waiver claim by the Astros-it's time to ask what McHugh really offers a major-league team. The only pitches he routinely throws for strikes-his fastball and slider-were hammered for slugging percentages over .550 (as was his sinker, at .952). His only asset appears to be his changeup, a groundball machine. But nothing about that arsenal suggests McHugh would succeed out of the bullpen, either-his fastball is just too hittable, and none of his breaking pitches have shown swing-and-miss movement. On second thought, maybe it's not time to ask the question, but rather to answer it.


Obviously pitchers can change, and maybe he's found something that works for him. My guess is he'll fade and we'll look back in a year at McHugh like we're doing right now with Albers and Diamond. There is something interesting about his profile: he's become less of a groundball pitcher thus far; not just in his two big-league appearances, but also in his 14 minor-league innings, too. I guess I should make an appointment to see his next start. (R.J. Anderson)


BP Roundtables

No BP Roundtables have mentioned this guy.

 

PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

A Collaboration between BrooksBaseball.net and Baseball Prospectus - Pitch classifications provided by Pitch Info LLC


Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Andrew Albers threw 2,387 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2013 and 2023, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2023, he relied primarily on his Sinker (88mph), also mixing in a Slider (78mph), Fourseam Fastball (88mph), Curve (69mph) and Change (79mph).