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Fu-Te Ni P

Career Summary

Years	G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	WARP
4	58	54	0	1	0	4.33	0.2

Birth Date	11-14-1982
Height	6' 0"
Weight	170 lbs

Age	41 years, 5 months, 5 days
Bats	L
Throws	L

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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	IP	L	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2009	DET	MLB	36	31.0	0	20	11	21	3	105	5.8	3.2	0.9	6.1	0%	.200	1.00	4.20	2.61	106	4.36	93.5	0.3
2010	DET	MLB	22	23.0	1	27	19	22	2	107	10.6	7.4	0.8	8.6	0%	.352	2.00	5.00	6.65	109	5.14	116.1	-0.1
Career		MLB	58	54.0	1	47	30	43	5	106	7.8	5.0	0.8	7.2	34%	.269	1.43	4.54	4.33	108	4.69	103.1	0.2

Statistics for All Levels

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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	GS	IP	W	L	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
2009	DET	MLB	AL	36	0	31.0	0	0	20	11	21	3	105	5.8	3.2	0.9	6.1	0%	.200	1.00	4.20	2.61	106	4.36	93.5
2009	TOL	AAA	INT	24	0	34.7	3	0	31	9	32	4	113	8.0	2.3	1.0	8.3	0%	.287	1.15	3.58	2.59	89	3.10	65.3
2010	DET	MLB	AL	22	0	23.0	0	1	27	19	22	2	107	10.6	7.4	0.8	8.6	0%	.352	2.00	5.00	6.65	109	5.14	116.1
2010	TOL	AAA	INT	12	0	12.0	0	0	18	8	16	3		13.5	6.0	2.3	12.0	0%	.455	2.17	5.87	7.50	0	0.00	0.0
2011	TOL	AAA	INT	34	12	111.0	6	3	106	34	93	10	89	8.6	2.8	0.8	7.5	0%	.288	1.26	3.73	3.24	98	4.96	101.2
2011	CAR	Wnt	LVB	6	6	27.0	0	3	22	8	17	3		7.3	2.7	1.0	5.7	0%	.229	1.11	3.95	4.00	0	0.00	0.0
2012	TOL	AAA	INT	7	5	23.7	2	2	27	14	14	5	97	10.3	5.3	1.9	5.3	0%	.290	1.73	6.75	4.56	147	7.42	154.5

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2009	501	0.5669	0.4351	0.7752	0.5880	0.2350	0.8263	0.6078	0.2248
2010	426	0.5000	0.3944	0.7500	0.5634	0.2254	0.8083	0.6042	0.2500
Career	927	0.5362	0.4164	0.7636	0.5767	0.2306	0.8180	0.6061	0.2364

Injury History — No longer being updated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
2012-05-19	2012-08-07	Minors	80	75	Left	Elbow	Surgery	Tommy John Surgery	2012-06-02	-
2012-04-18	2012-04-28	Minors	10	9	Left	Shoulder	Not Disclosed		-	-
2010-07-31	2010-09-01	Minors	32	0	Left	Elbow	Impingement		-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2010	DET	$407,500

Years	Description	Salary
1 yr	Previous	$407,500
1 yr	Total	$407,500

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
1 y 15 d		2011

Details
1 year/$0.4075M (2010). Re-signed by Detroit 3/2/10. Sent outright to AAA by Detroit 11/19/10. 1 year (2009). $0.4M salary in majors. Contract purchased by Detroit 6/28/09. Signed 1/13/09 as amateur free agent from Taiwan. $0.15M 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
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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BP Annual Player Comments

Year		Comment
2011		What do you get when you cross a soft-tossing southpaw with a sudden inability to retire lefty hitters? A bus ticket to Toledo, that’s what. Ni started the year with a chance to work his way up the bullpen pecking order, but had trouble consistently throwing his off-speed pitches over the plate and saw his walk rate double, earning a mid-season demotion. Passed on the depth charts by Daniel Schlereth, Ni’s future is looking more and more situational. Though he was still able to manage 12 strikeouts per nine against lefties even in a down year, the Tigers won't be able to say "Ni" unless they place him back on the 40-man roster—he was outrighted in November.
2010		Ni was one of the leading pitchers in Taiwan, leading the league in strikeouts in 2008. He became a free agent when his team folded, a not uncommon happening in the American minors during the Great Depression and earlier. The Tigers signed him and let him play in the World Baseball Classic (or else he may have started the season in Detroit). He's a well-polished lefty with good control, a fairly weak fastball that tops out at 89 mph, a changeup, and a hard curve, all thrown sidearm. Lefties stand about much chance against him as a November turkey does of making it to December, hitting .113 in 62 at-bats.

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Fu-Te Ni threw 927 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2009 and 2010, including pitches thrown in . In 2010, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (89mph) and Curve (77mph), also mixing in a Sinker (88mph) and Change (80mph).