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Miles Mikolas PCardinals

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IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
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Birth Date	8-23-1988
Height	6' 4"
Weight	230 lbs

Age	35 years, 8 months, 0 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

: 2015
: 2016
: 2017
: 4.52018
: 1.42019
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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	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-	WARP
2012	SDN	MLB	25	0	32.3	2	1	32	15	23	4	95	8.9	4.2	1.1	6.4	0%	.280	1.45	4.89	3.62	103	4.96	113.6	-0.1
2013	SDN	MLB	2	0	1.7	0	0	0	1	1	0	93	0.0	5.4	0.0	5.4	0%	.000	0.60	5.42	0.00	77	1.75	42.0	0.1
2014	TEX	MLB	10	10	57.3	2	5	64	18	38	8	98	10.0	2.8	1.3	6.0	0%	.300	1.43	4.80	6.44	130	6.53	160.1	-1.2
2018	SLN	MLB	32	32	200.7	18	4	186	29	146	16	93	8.3	1.3	0.7	6.5	51%	.279	1.07	3.24	2.83	88	3.38	75.6	4.5
2019	SLN	MLB	32	32	184.0	9	14	193	32	144	27	93	9.4	1.6	1.3	7.0	49%	.302	1.22	4.22	4.16	94	4.14	85.0	3.3
Career		MLB	101	74	476.0	31	24	475	95	352	55	94	9.0	1.8	1.0	6.7	49%	.290	1.20	3.93	3.82	97	4.16	91.9	6.5

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.
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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-
2009	EUG	A-	NWN	15	11	53.0	1	8	0	77	9	39	1	93	13.1	1.5	0.2	6.6	0%	.388	1.62	3.34	5.94	94	7.49	157.6
2010	FTW	A	MDW	60	0	81.7	6	3	13	76	15	78	3		8.4	1.7	0.3	8.6	0%	.305	1.11	2.72	2.20	0	0.00	0.0
2011	LEL	A+	CAL	34	0	39.7	3	0	12	31	9	42	1		7.0	2.0	0.2	9.5	0%	.288	1.01	3.06	1.13	67	1.88	38.3
2011	SAN	AA	TEX	28	0	32.3	1	0	9	29	6	27	0		8.1	1.7	0.0	7.5	0%	.299	1.08	2.26	1.67	74	3.25	66.4
2012	SDN	MLB	NL	25	0	32.3	2	1	0	32	15	23	4	95	8.9	4.2	1.1	6.4	0%	.280	1.45	4.89	3.62	103	4.96	113.6
2012	SAN	AA	TEX	12	0	12.3	1	1	4	16	3	11	0		11.7	2.2	0.0	8.0	0%	.410	1.54	2.22	2.92	82	6.91	143.9
2012	TUC	AAA	PCL	17	0	19.7	2	1	0	20	8	17	1		9.2	3.7	0.5	7.8	0%	.312	1.42	3.81	3.20	89	3.81	79.4
2013	SDN	MLB	NL	2	0	1.7	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	93	0.0	5.4	0.0	5.4	0%	.000	0.60	5.42	0.00	77	1.75	42.0
2013	TUC	AAA	PCL	54	0	61.0	4	2	26	62	17	40	6		9.1	2.5	0.9	5.9	0%	.287	1.30	4.37	3.25	100	3.35	72.7
2014	TEX	MLB	AL	10	10	57.3	2	5	0	64	18	38	8	98	10.0	2.8	1.3	6.0	0%	.300	1.43	4.80	6.44	130	6.53	160.1
2014	ROU	AAA	PCL	16	6	44.7	5	1	2	53	3	38	3	94	10.7	0.6	0.6	7.7	0%	.343	1.25	3.06	3.22	77	4.15	87.8
2018	SLN	MLB	NL	32	32	200.7	18	4	0	186	29	146	16	93	8.3	1.3	0.7	6.5	51%	.279	1.07	3.24	2.83	88	3.38	75.6
2019	SLN	MLB	NL	32	32	184.0	9	14	0	193	32	144	27	93	9.4	1.6	1.3	7.0	49%	.302	1.22	4.22	4.16	94	4.14	85.0

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2012	518	0.4884	0.4266	0.8145	0.5968	0.2642	0.8940	0.6429	0.1855
2013	30	0.4333	0.3333	0.9000	0.5385	0.1765	1.0000	0.6667	0.1000
2014	917	0.5616	0.4918	0.8182	0.6330	0.3109	0.8712	0.6800	0.1818
2018	3004	0.5433	0.5160	0.7955	0.6630	0.3411	0.8604	0.6453	0.2045
2019	2800	0.5007	0.4846	0.7797	0.6391	0.3298	0.8415	0.6594	0.2203
Career	7269	0.5248	0.4937	0.7941	0.6448	0.3268	0.8575	0.6550	0.2059

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
2014-08-26	2014-09-29	DTD	34	32	Right	Shoulder	Fatigue		-
2014-04-02	2014-04-19	Minors	17	0	Right	Elbow	Recovery From Previous Injury	Inflammation	-
2014-02-25	2014-03-15	Camp	18	0	Right	Elbow	Inflammation		-	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2025	SLN	$17,666,667
2024	SLN	$17,666,667
2023	SLN	$20,416,667
2022	SLN	$17,000,000
2021	SLN	$17,000,000
2020	SLN	$17,000,000
2019	SLN	$9,000,000
2018	SLN	$7,500,000
2014	TEX	$
2013	SDN	$
2012	SDN	$

Years	Description	Salary
6 yr	Previous	$87,916,667
2019	Current	$17,666,667
7 yr	Pvs + Cur	$105,583,334
1 yr	Future	$17,666,667
8 yr	Total	$123,250,001

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
6 y 37 d	Octagon	3 years/$55.75M (2023-25)

Details

3 years/$55.75M (2023-25). Signed extension with St. Louis 3/24/23, replacing final season of previous contract. $5M signing bonus, paid 7/1/23. 23:$18.75M, 24:$16M, 25:$16M. Award bonuses: $250,000 for Cy Young. $150,000 for WS MVP. $100,000 for LCS MVP. $50,000 each for All Star, Gold Glove.
4 years/$68M (2020-23). Signed extension with St. Louis 2/26/19. $5M signing bonus, paid $1M at signing and $1M each 1/15, 2020-23. 19-23:$15.75M annually. Annual salaries increase by $500,000 each with 200 innings pitched in 2019. Full no-trade protection.
2 years/$15.5M (2018-19). Signed by St. Louis as a free agent 12/5/17. 18:$7.5M, 19:$8M. 2019 salary may increase based on 2018 innings pitched (increased by $1M to $9M).
2015-17. Yomiuri of Japan.
2014. Texas sold rights to Mikolas to Yomiuri Giants 11/14.
1 year/$492,800 (2013). Re-signed by San Diego 3/9/13. Acquired by Pittsburgh in trade 11/25/13 after being DFA by San Diego 11/20/13. Acquired by Texas in trade from Pittsburgh 12/30/13.
1 year (2012). Contract purchased by San Diego 5/5/12.
Drafted by San Diego 2009 (7-204) (Nova Southeastern, Fla.). $125,000 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
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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Date	Question	Answer
2019-06-19 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Not a question, just wanted to share a cold hard lesson in trash talk. Last week I threatened to "stomp" the first place team in my league. I was joking, but having just stolen Miles Mikolas and Max Fried from another owner, I felt confident. Anyway, he blasted me by 250 points, dropped me to 5-6, and ended my season. Oh and to make matters worse, he won't even trade me good players for my awesome prospects, like Austin Beck. Sigh. The lesson here is, just don't talk trash, I guess. (Haddy from Minnesota)	Since this isn't a question I will add some notes to my response to Phillip earlier: I was told David Roher's Boxball project might be a good start, as well. Rob McQuown also said to feel free to use the contact form and send him a message if you're looking for advice on SQLing and other tasks like that. (Craig Goldstein)
2019-03-11 16:00:00 (link to chat)	Looking for the next Miles Mikolas...is Merrill Kelly my guy? (sportsguy21792 from Cube by the window)	The cost is basically nothing right now so I don't mind the shot in case he turns into something, but I don't think the command is close. (Darius Austin)
2018-12-12 17:00:00 (link to chat)	I have Miles Mikolas at $10 in a 12 team head to head 5x5 dynasty. (ERA, WHIP, W, K, SV) Is he worth keeping because of his high floor or does his lack of K's make him a risky keep? Already keeping Verlander, Nola, Morton, Buehler, Clevenger, Pivetta, and Greinke. Thanks! (Salty MFer from Mom's Basement)	I don't know how many keeps you have but I think you have to keep Mikolas at that price. (Mike Gianella)
2018-04-05 20:00:00 (link to chat)	I've been hearing that the reports on Miles Mikolas were pretty good. Could he end up as the biggest bargain of the off-season? (Mr. Fister from Arlington)	there were so many cheap/discount contracts that I will say no. (Mike Gianella)
2013-11-25 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Looks like the Padres and Pirates just struck a deal. Jaff Decker and Miles Mikolas to the Pirates for first baseman/outfielder Alex Dickerson. Have any hot takes on the swap or the players? (Chase from California)	It doesn't do anything for me on any level. (Jason Parks)
2011-09-02 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Between JD Martinez, Michael Fiers, and Miles Mikolas, how did Nova Southeastern not make the NCAAs in 2009? (Dallas Comegys from DePaul)	Because they are a D-II school. Where's Kenny Patterson? Your name made me laugh, I hope that doesn't make me a douche. (Kevin Goldstein)

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Miles Mikolas has thrown 15,697 pitches that have been tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2012 and 2024, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2024, he has relied primarily on his Slider (86mph) and Fourseam Fastball (93mph), also mixing in a Sinker (93mph), Change (85mph) and Curve (75mph).