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Portrait of Armando Rivero

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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 31)
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Birth Date2-1-1988
Height6' 4"
Weight190 lbs
Age36 years, 2 months, 22 days
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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.
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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

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-
2013 KNC A MID 11 0 18.3 0 0 1 19 9 28 4 9.3 4.4 2.0 13.7 0% .366 1.53 4.75 5.40 85 4.16 90.3
2013 DAY A+ FSL 3 0 3.3 0 0 1 3 0 5 0 8.1 0.0 0.0 13.5 0% .300 0.90 1.14 2.70 62 2.10 45.7
2013 TEN AA SOU 6 0 8.7 0 1 0 8 3 12 0 8.3 3.1 0.0 12.5 0% .364 1.27 1.17 2.08 69 3.86 84.0
2014 TEN AA SOU 26 0 34.7 2 1 10 18 16 54 2 4.7 4.2 0.5 14.0 0% .250 0.98 2.28 1.56 59 2.21 46.8
2014 IOW AAA PCL 23 0 30.3 3 0 1 25 12 46 4 7.4 3.6 1.2 13.6 0% .328 1.22 3.56 2.97 82 3.13 66.2
2015 IOW AAA PCL 48 0 57.0 2 2 0 45 32 53 4 7.1 5.1 0.6 8.4 0% .263 1.35 4.54 3.16 106 3.65 80.1
2016 IOW AAA PCL 43 0 67.7 5 3 1 41 35 105 3 5.5 4.7 0.4 14.0 35% .279 1.12 2.83 2.13 72 2.00 44.1
2018 CAG Wnt PWL 19 0 23.0 0 1 6 15 11 21 2 5.9 4.3 0.8 8.2 0% .217 1.13 2.57 1.96 0 0.00 0.0

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%

Injury History  —  No longer being updated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
2017 ATL $535,000
YearsDescriptionSalary
1 yrPrevious$535,000
1 yrTotal$535,000

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
1 y 0 d2018

Details
  • 1 year (2017). Selected by Atlanta from Chicago Cubs in Rule 5 draft 12/8/16. Re-signed by Atlanta 3/17. Sent outright to Triple-A by Atlanta 10/22/17. Released by Atlanta 11/17.
  • Signed by Chicago Cubs 3/18/13 as a free agent from Cuba. $3.1M 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 1.5 1.9 39 0 52.0 33 23 62 5 .239 1.09 2.87 3.09 -0.7 -0.1
80o 0 1.2 1.6 35 0 45.6 32 22 55 5 .255 1.19 3.28 3.54 -2.8 -0.3
70o 0 1.1 1.4 31 0 41.2 31 21 50 4 .266 1.26 3.59 3.87 -3.9 -0.4
60o 0 0.9 1.3 29 0 37.6 29 20 45 4 .276 1.32 3.86 4.16 -4.7 -0.5
50o 0 0.8 1.1 26 0 34.3 28 20 41 4 .285 1.39 4.11 4.44 -5.3 -0.6
40o 0 0.7 1 24 0 31.0 26 18 37 4 .294 1.45 4.37 4.72 -5.7 -0.6
30o 0 0.6 0.9 21 0 27.6 25 17 33 4 .304 1.52 4.66 5.02 -5.9 -0.6
20o 0 0.5 0.7 18 0 23.8 22 16 29 3 .315 1.60 4.99 5.39 -6.0 -0.7
10o 0 0.3 0.5 14 0 18.7 19 13 22 3 .332 1.73 5.48 5.91 -5.7 -0.6
Weighted Mean00.81.125033.52719404.2821.374.074.39-5.0-0.5

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Armando Rivero threw 40 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system in 2014, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2014, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (96mph) and Slider (83mph). He also rarely threw a Splitter (83mph).