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Birth Date	8-13-1987
Height	6' 3"
Weight	240 lbs

Age	36 years, 8 months, 13 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

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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
2012	CIN	MLB	28	30.7	1	0	1	17	13	31	2	100	5.0	3.8	0.6	9.1	0%	.195	0.98	3.23	2.05	110	5.11	117.0	-0.1
2013	CIN	MLB	69	66.0	5	5	3	47	26	67	6	101	6.4	3.5	0.8	9.1	0%	.244	1.11	3.44	2.86	108	4.48	107.2	0.1
2014	CIN	MLB	54	62.7	1	10	0	56	31	75	13	100	8.0	4.5	1.9	10.8	0%	.277	1.39	4.93	4.88	115	5.32	130.4	-0.6
2015	CIN	MLB	67	64.3	8	2	1	44	31	52	7	92	6.2	4.3	1.0	7.3	0%	.215	1.17	4.49	2.94	111	5.03	117.4	-0.2
2016	CIN	MLB	18	18.7	1	2	1	29	12	15	9	95	14.0	5.8	4.3	7.2	33%	.333	2.20	9.93	13.50	121	6.84	151.4	-0.4
2017	ARI	MLB	52	41.3	3	1	0	47	26	54	7		10.2	5.7	1.5	11.8	34%	.367	1.77	4.72	3.92	97	4.83	102.9	0.2
2018	MIL	MLB	2	1.3	0	1	0	4	2	0	1	88	27.0	13.5	6.8	0.0	38%	.429	4.50	17.37	20.25	119	8.13	181.6	0.0
Career		MLB	290	285.0	19	21	6	244	141	294	45	83	7.7	4.5	1.4	9.3	31%	.281	1.35	4.66	4.17	110	5.08	118.3	-1.2

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-
2008	DNV	Rk	APL	2	0	4.7	1	0	0	4	1	6	0	86	7.7	1.9	0.0	11.5	0%	.364	1.06	1.86	0.00	71	3.26	66.7
2009	ROM	A	SAL	25	18	134.3	7	6	1	135	25	148	9	90	9.0	1.7	0.6	9.9	0%	.341	1.19	2.83	3.35	85	4.31	90.7
2009	MYR	A+	CRL	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	3	5	2	1	104	9.0	15.0	3.0	6.0	0%	.222	2.67	11.35	9.00	157	7.24	152.3
2010	MYR	A+	CRL	24	24	132.7	11	6	0	126	35	118	7	100	8.5	2.4	0.5	8.0	0%	.299	1.21	3.22	3.26	0	0.00	0.0
2010	MIS	AA	SOU	4	4	20.7	3	1	0	15	15	34	1	97	6.5	6.5	0.4	14.8	0%	.350	1.45	2.89	3.48	0	0.00	0.0
2011	MIS	AA	SOU	31	12	87.0	2	5	1	65	28	86	5	103	6.7	2.9	0.5	8.9	0%	.262	1.07	3.17	2.48	87	3.46	70.6
2011	GWN	AAA	INT	12	2	18.7	1	1	1	12	12	31	0	92	5.8	5.8	0.0	14.9	0%	.308	1.29	1.84	3.38	69	2.65	54.1
2012	CIN	MLB	NL	28	0	30.7	1	0	1	17	13	31	2	100	5.0	3.8	0.6	9.1	0%	.195	0.98	3.23	2.05	110	5.11	117.0
2012	LOU	AAA	INT	30	0	37.0	4	0	13	15	12	55	1		3.6	2.9	0.2	13.4	0%	.203	0.73	1.59	1.22	53	1.80	37.4
2013	CIN	MLB	NL	69	0	66.0	5	5	3	47	26	67	6	101	6.4	3.5	0.8	9.1	0%	.244	1.11	3.44	2.86	108	4.48	107.2
2014	CIN	MLB	NL	54	0	62.7	1	10	0	56	31	75	13	100	8.0	4.5	1.9	10.8	0%	.277	1.39	4.93	4.88	115	5.32	130.4
2014	LOU	AAA	INT	4	0	5.0	0	0	0	3	2	7	0		5.4	3.6	0.0	12.6	0%	.231	1.00	1.74	0.00	71	2.34	49.6
2015	CIN	MLB	NL	67	0	64.3	8	2	1	44	31	52	7	92	6.2	4.3	1.0	7.3	0%	.215	1.17	4.49	2.94	111	5.03	117.4
2016	CIN	MLB	NL	18	0	18.7	1	2	1	29	12	15	9	95	14.0	5.8	4.3	7.2	33%	.333	2.20	9.93	13.50	121	6.84	151.4
2016	LOU	AAA	INT	32	0	38.3	4	2	4	39	11	50	2		9.2	2.6	0.5	11.7	35%	.370	1.30	2.17	3.52	72	4.13	91.1
2017	ARI	MLB	NL	52	0	41.3	3	1	0	47	26	54	7		10.2	5.7	1.5	11.8	34%	.367	1.77	4.72	3.92	97	4.83	102.9
2017	KNC	A	MID	1	0	1.0	0	1	0	2	0	2	0		18.0	0.0	0.0	18.0	33%	.667	2.00	-0.50	9.00	67	2.97	63.2
2017	RNO	AAA	PCL	9	0	10.3	0	0	0	6	7	12	1		5.2	6.1	0.9	10.5	59%	.238	1.26	4.69	0.87	101	3.30	70.1
2017	DIA	Rk	AZL	1	1	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	87	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0	50%	.000	0.00	2.22	0.00	96	3.62	77.1
2018	MIL	MLB	NL	2	0	1.3	0	1	0	4	2	0	1	88	27.0	13.5	6.8	0.0	38%	.429	4.50	17.37	20.25	119	8.13	181.6
2018	CSP	AAA	PCL	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	1	0	0	0		13.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0%	.333	1.50	3.74	0.00	107	5.08	107.4
2019	FRE	AAA	PCL	30	16	95.7	6	6	0	127	40	89	26	103	11.9	3.8	2.4	8.4	35%	.339	1.75	6.81	8.47	112	6.59	135.6

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2012	514	0.4650	0.4319	0.7252	0.6360	0.2545	0.7632	0.6429	0.2748
2013	1119	0.4835	0.4656	0.7620	0.6562	0.2872	0.8000	0.6807	0.2380
2014	1113	0.4843	0.4663	0.7476	0.6456	0.2979	0.7931	0.6550	0.2524
2015	1112	0.4730	0.4460	0.7440	0.6331	0.2782	0.7628	0.7055	0.2560
2016	408	0.4730	0.4485	0.7650	0.6788	0.2419	0.8168	0.6346	0.2350
2017	826	0.4346	0.4068	0.6726	0.5961	0.2612	0.7570	0.5246	0.3274
2018	41	0.3902	0.3415	0.8571	0.4375	0.2800	0.7143	1.0000	0.1429
Career	5133	0.4701	0.4463	0.7379	0.6373	0.2765	0.7805	0.6505	0.2621

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

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2019	WAS	$
2018	MIL	$
2017	ARI	$900,000
2016	CIN	$1,400,000
2015	CIN	$535,000
2014	CIN	$520,000
2013	CIN	$492,500
2012	CIN	$

Years	Description	Salary
5 yr	Previous	$3,847,500
5 yr	Total	$3,847,500

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
4 y 141 d	Ballengee Group	1 year (2019)

Details

1 year (2019). Signed by Washington as a free agent 2/1/19 (minor-league contract).
1 year (2018). Signed by Milwaukee as a free agent 1/10/18 (minor-league contract). Salary of $1.1M in majors. May earn additional $1.65M in performance bonuses. Contract selected by Milwaukee 4/7/18. DFA by Milwaukee 4/11/18. Sent outright to Triple-A 4/14/18 (elected free agency).
1 year (2017). Signed by Arizona as a free agent 1/10/17 (minor-league contract). Salary of $0.9M in majors. May earn additional $0.425M in performance bonuses. Contract selected by Arizona 3/31/17. Non-tendered by Arizona 12/1/17.
1 year/$1.4M (2016). Won arbitration with Cincinnati 2/5/16 ($1.4M-$1.225M). Sent outright to Triple-A by Cincinnati 8/4/16.
1 year/$0.535M (2015). Re-signed by Cincinnati 3/15.
1 year/$0.52M (2014). Re-signed by Cincinnati 3/14.
1 year/$0.4925M (2013). Re-signed by Cincinnati 3/13.
1 year (2012). Contract purchased by Atlanta 11/16/11. Re-signed by Atlanta 3/12. Acquired by Cincinnati in trade from Atlanta 4/1/12.
Drafted by Atlanta 2008 (10-310) (Calhoun CC, Ala.). $0.4M signing bonus.

2019 Preseason Forecast

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

PCT	W	SV	G	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
90^o	6.3	1.1	48	48.6	43	23	40	8	.253	1.36	4.67	5.02	-10.6	-1.2
80^o	5.4	0.9	42	42.8	41	22	36	8	.267	1.46	5.13	5.51	-11.6	-1.3
70^o	4.8	0.8	38	38.8	39	21	32	8	.277	1.54	5.47	5.88	-12.0	-1.3
60^o	4.3	0.7	35	35.4	37	20	29	7	.286	1.61	5.76	6.19	-12.1	-1.3
50^o	3.9	0.6	32	32.4	35	19	27	7	.294	1.67	6.04	6.5	-12.2	-1.3
40^o	3.4	0.5	29	29.4	33	18	24	7	.302	1.74	6.33	6.8	-12.0	-1.3
30^o	3	0.5	26	26.3	31	17	22	6	.310	1.81	6.64	7.14	-11.7	-1.3
20^o	2.5	0.4	23	22.7	28	15	19	6	.321	1.90	7.01	7.54	-11.0	-1.2
10^o	1.9	0.3	18	18.0	24	13	15	5	.335	2.03	7.55	8.11	-9.8	-1.1
Weighted Mean	3.8	0.6	31	31.7	34	18	26	7	.292	1.66	6.00	6.45	-11.7	-1.3

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Date	Question	Answer
2016-01-21 19:00:00 (link to chat)	Any chance michael lorenzen gets a shot at the closers job? (Katie from Natti)	Nope. Out of 141 starters who threw 100 innings last season, Lorenz ranked dead-last in DRA (6.42). A move to the pen seems inevitable, especially given the pitching prospects the Reds added in the second half of last year. At least for the immediate future, J.J. Hoover and Jumbo Diaz will get the first shot to close. (George Bissell)
2013-05-29 18:30:00 (link to chat)	What's going on? In a yahoo league rotisserie standard 8 team league. Standard starters with a utility player. We use 2 SP,2RP 3P in general. I really need to make a couple of adjustments. Need to add another pitcher and solid bar to this line up. This league is tough with trades! so would need to rely on the waivers Who should we ditch and is there anyone we should be tracking or picking up? Here is the squad...Here is the squad... Albert Pujols 1B Joe Mauer C,1B Jacoby Ellsbury OF Evan Longoria 3B Matt Holliday OF Shin-Soo Choo OF Jose Altuve 2B Jimmy Rollins SS Anthony Rizzo 1B Alex Gordon OF Rickie Weeks 2B Rickie Weeks 2B Cliff Lee SP Hiroki Kuroda Heath Bell Huston Street RP Addison Reed RP Jason Grilli RP Tim Lincecum SP Brett Anderson DL Dan Haren SP Kenley Jansen RP Lance Lynn FA available. Prado Matt Carpenter Daniel Nava Coco crisp Todd Frasier Norichika Aoki Michael Morse Kelly Johnson Josh Donaldson Justin Morneau John Buck Evan Gattis Adam Dunn pitching Doug Fister Derek Holland Hyun-Jin Ryu Brandon Morrow Paul Maholm Trevor Cahill Jason Hammel Wandy Rodriguez Jose Veras J.J. Hoover J.J. Putz DL (coach53 from CT)	Hey coach. It's always difficult to answer a full blown roster question without having access to everyone else's roster and teams. Generally speaking, your offense looks strong, although in a shallow league under performing players like Weeks should probably be shown the door. On the pitching side, I think that Lincecum is a weak play for an eight-team mixed format. None of the free agents stand out, but Aoki could arguably be added to your squad. (Mike Gianella)
2013-04-03 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Thoughts on J.J. Hoover? (grandslam28 from Chicago)	I like him just a tiny bit less than I like John Axford (Sam Miller)
2013-02-27 20:00:00 (link to chat)	Any of these guys worth a look in an NL only 4x4 standard league? Trevor Rosenthal, Tony Cingrani, Arodys Vizcaino, Christian Garcia, J.J. Hoover, or Sam Lecure. (Johnny T from The Hills)	Rosenthal is definitely worth a $2-3 bid in NL-only. His stuff is legitimate and even if he's only a set-up man, his Ks mean that he could put up sneaky $10-12 value. (Mike Gianella)
2013-01-22 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Thanks for the chat. Do you think the Aroldis Chapman experiment will work? He seemed to be too valuable closing out games. What are you thoughts on some sneaky good RP's like Tony Cingrani and J.J. Hoover in Cincinnati? (Rockford from Flowmont)	A year ago I would've said no on Chapman starting because of his control woes. He seemed to improve on that aspect and if it sticks then I'd say he's got a chance. I haven't seen much of Cingrani-though he sounds like someone who could help now-but Hoover is a nice arm that got buried in Atlanta because others had higher ceilings. (R.J. Anderson)
2012-07-20 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Ive recently acquired joey votto in a ss league and been offered jj and zimmermann. what are your thoughts for jj in the second half. (j from some yankee town)	Depends on who J.J. is. If it's Putz, I think he'll improve a little but not enough to be interesting. If it's Hardy, he also is capable of better things. If it's Josh Johnson, same thing, but with perpetual injury risk. Who else is there? J.J. Hoover. Jon Jay. Jair Jurrjens. John Jaso. Jim Johnson. I'm not getting warm and fuzzy about any of these guys. So I guess it doesn't depend on who J.J. is. Good chance of small improvement, but nothing exciting. I wouldn't trade Votto for Zimmermann and anyone with the initials J.J. (Geoff Young)

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, J.J. Hoover threw 8,121 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2012 and 2022, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2022, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (87mph), also mixing in a Slider (81mph), Curve (73mph) and Change (83mph). He also rarely threw a Sinker (85mph).