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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 30)

IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
36.0	4.12	1.31	40	2	1	1	0.2

Birth Date	6-5-1989
Height	6' 0"
Weight	190 lbs

Age	34 years, 10 months, 19 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

: 2015
: -0.02016
: 2017
: 2018
: 0.22019
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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	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2016	CIN	MLB	2	0	2.3	0	0	0	6	3	2	2	109	23.1	11.6	7.7	7.7	45%	.444	3.86	16.46	19.29	106	5.30	117.2	0.0
Career		MLB	2	0	2.3	0	0	0	6	3	2	2	109	23.1	11.6	7.7	7.7	45%	.444	3.86	16.46	19.29	106	5.30	117.2	0.0

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	BIL	Rk	PIO	17	0	43.3	4	1	1	37	15	40	1		7.7	3.1	0.2	8.3	0%	.303	1.20	3.64	1.66	86	2.84	61.8
2014	DYT	A	MID	11	1	19.3	1	1	2	12	4	26	1	86	5.6	1.9	0.5	12.1	0%	.262	0.83	2.08	1.40	68	2.43	51.4
2014	BAK	A+	CAL	21	2	39.7	2	2	1	32	16	38	4	115	7.3	3.6	0.9	8.6	0%	.275	1.21	4.41	3.86	103	3.55	75.1
2015	PEN	AA	SOU	12	1	32.7	2	0	0	23	16	31	1	103	6.3	4.4	0.3	8.5	0%	.262	1.19	3.36	2.76	95	3.40	74.5
2015	LOU	AAA	INT	15	3	29.7	0	1	0	24	14	29	2	101	7.3	4.2	0.6	8.8	0%	.272	1.28	3.49	2.73	99	3.84	84.2
2015	PER	Wnt	AFL	9	0	10.7	0	0	1	11	4	13	0		9.3	3.4	0.0	11.0	0%	.367	1.41	2.27	3.38	0	0.00	0.0
2016	CIN	MLB	NL	2	0	2.3	0	0	0	6	3	2	2	109	23.1	11.6	7.7	7.7	45%	.444	3.86	16.46	19.29	106	5.30	117.2
2016	LOU	AAA	INT	10	0	19.0	0	0	0	10	7	19	2		4.7	3.3	0.9	9.0	57%	.182	0.89	3.64	1.89	95	3.37	74.4
2016	OKL	AAA	PCL	6	0	5.7	0	2	0	14	9	4	1		22.2	14.3	1.6	6.4	48%	.464	4.06	9.36	14.29	151	10.10	223.0
2016	SWB	AAA	INT	4	0	6.0	1	0	0	3	5	10	0		4.5	7.5	0.0	15.0	67%	.250	1.33	2.83	0.00	89	4.80	105.9
2017	TUL	AA	TEX	19	0	30.3	5	1	3	31	18	30	0		9.2	5.3	0.0	8.9	58%	.337	1.62	3.12	2.08	93	4.90	104.3
2017	OKL	AAA	PCL	20	0	30.7	2	0	0	26	13	32	3		7.6	3.8	0.9	9.4	56%	.291	1.27	4.18	2.35	86	3.23	68.7
2018	TUL	AA	TEX	11	0	12.3	1	0	2	10	2	18	0		7.3	1.5	0.0	13.1	41%	.370	0.97	1.01	0.73	58	3.09	65.4
2019	TUL	AA	TEX	9	0	10.7	0	1	3	11	4	10	0		9.3	3.4	0.0	8.4	58%	.333	1.41	2.98	3.38	90	6.03	124.2
2019	OKL	AAA	PCL	5	0	5.0	2	0	0	7	8	3	1		12.6	14.4	1.8	5.4	71%	.375	3.00	9.99	9.00	117	7.48	153.9

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2016	57	0.6140	0.5088	0.8621	0.7714	0.0909	0.8889	0.5000	0.1379
Career	57	0.6140	0.5088	0.8621	0.7714	0.0909	0.8889	0.5000	0.1379

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
2014-06-22	2014-07-30	Minors	38	0	-		Not Disclosed		-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2016	CIN	$

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
0 y 0 d		1 year (2016)

Details
1 year (2016). Contract selected by Cincinnati 4/25/16. Claimed by NY Yankees off waivers from Cincinnati 5/24/16. Claimed by LA Dodgers off waivers 6/22/16 after being DFA by NY Yankees 6/13/16. DFA by LA Dodgers 7/1/16. Sent outright to Triple-A 7/3/16. Drafted by Cincinnati 2013 (22-675) (South Dakota State).

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	4.6	1.6	33	52.2	36	20	56	6	.241	1.09	3.10	3.28	-1.8	-0.2
80^o	4	1.4	29	46.0	35	19	49	5	.256	1.18	3.50	3.71	-3.6	-0.4
70^o	3.5	1.2	27	41.6	33	19	45	5	.267	1.25	3.80	4.04	-4.6	-0.5
60^o	3.2	1.1	24	38.0	32	18	41	5	.276	1.31	4.06	4.31	-5.3	-0.6
50^o	2.8	0.9	22	34.6	30	17	37	5	.285	1.37	4.31	4.58	-5.8	-0.6
40^o	2.5	0.8	20	31.4	29	16	34	4	.294	1.43	4.56	4.85	-6.1	-0.7
30^o	2.2	0.7	18	28.0	27	15	30	4	.303	1.49	4.83	5.14	-6.3	-0.7
20^o	1.9	0.6	15	24.2	24	14	26	4	.314	1.58	5.16	5.49	-6.3	-0.7
10^o	1.4	0.4	12	19.1	21	12	20	3	.330	1.69	5.62	5.99	-5.9	-0.6
Weighted Mean	2.8	0.9	22	33.9	29	16	36	4	.283	1.35	4.27	4.54	-5.5	-0.6

Preseason Long-Term Forecast (Beyond the 2019 Projections)

Playing time estimates are based on performance, not Depth Charts.

Year	Age	W	L	SV	G	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	H/9	BB/9	K/9	HR/9	WARP
2020	31	2	1	2	43	70	57	33	79	9	45	.302	1.29	4.19	4.70	7.4	4.3	10.2	1.2	0.2
2021	32	2	1	2	40	65	53	32	72	9	45	.296	1.31	4.34	4.87	7.4	4.5	10.0	1.3	0.0
2022	33	2	1	2	39	63	52	30	70	9	45	.300	1.30	4.29	4.82	7.4	4.3	10.0	1.3	0.1
2023	34	2	1	2	37	60	49	28	66	8	45	.300	1.29	4.28	4.80	7.4	4.2	10.0	1.2	0.1
2024	35	2	1	1	33	53	44	25	58	7	45	.300	1.31	4.32	4.85	7.5	4.3	9.9	1.2	0.0
2025	36	2	1	1	33	53	44	25	58	7	45	.301	1.31	4.31	4.84	7.5	4.3	9.9	1.2	0.0
2026	37	2	1	1	31	49	41	23	54	7	45	.300	1.30	4.35	4.88	7.5	4.2	9.9	1.3	0.0
2027	38	1	1	1	30	48	41	23	53	7	45	.301	1.32	4.37	4.90	7.6	4.3	9.9	1.3	0.0
2028	39	1	1	1	30	47	40	22	52	7	45	.301	1.31	4.38	4.92	7.6	4.2	9.9	1.3	-0.0

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Rank	Score	Name	Year	Run Average	Trend
1	93	Jordan De Jong	2009	0.00	DNP
2	91	Dustin Molleken	2015	0.00	DNP
3	91	Cody Hall	2018	0.00	DNP
4	91	Jumbo Diaz	2014	3.38
5	91	Atahualpa Severino	2015	0.00	DNP
6	89	Gabe DeHoyos	2010	0.00	DNP
7	89	Rafael Martin	2014	0.00	DNP
8	88	Jess Todd	2016	0.00	DNP
9	88	Andrew Robinson	2018	0.00	DNP
10	87	Steve Andrade	2008	0.00	DNP
11	87	Curtis Partch	2017	0.00	DNP
12	87	Jailen Peguero	2011	0.00	DNP
13	87	Ryan Kelly	2018	0.00	DNP
14	87	Pat Venditte	2015	4.40
15	87	Brad Salmon	2010	0.00	DNP
16	87	Jose De La Torre	2016	0.00	DNP
17	86	Pedro Beato	2017	0.00
18	86	Beau Vaughan	2011	0.00	DNP
19	86	Anthony Slama	2014	0.00	DNP
20	86	Mike DeMark	2013	0.00	DNP
21	86	Jason Gurka	2018	0.00	DNP
22	86	Jason Urquidez	2013	0.00	DNP
23	86	Joe Bateman	2010	0.00	DNP
24	86	Buddy Baumann	2018	35.10
25	85	Cody Satterwhite	2017	0.00	DNP
26	85	Warner Madrigal	2014	0.00	DNP
27	85	Derrick Loop	2014	0.00	DNP
28	85	Scott Rice	2012	0.00	DNP
29	85	Conor Mullee	2018	0.00	DNP
30	85	Ryan Reid	2015	0.00	DNP
31	85	John Church	2017	0.00	DNP
32	85	Jose Valdez	2013	0.00	DNP
33	85	Dalier Hinojosa	2016	3.27
34	84	Erik Davis	2017	0.00	DNP
35	84	A.J. Morris	2017	0.00	DNP
36	84	Tyler Sturdevant	2016	3.93
37	84	Bobby Korecky	2010	0.00	DNP
38	84	Bobby LaFromboise	2016	0.00	DNP
39	84	Michael Broadway	2017	0.00	DNP
40	83	Travis Hughes	2008	0.00	DNP
41	83	Jon Link	2014	0.00	DNP
42	83	Erik Cordier	2016	0.00	DNP
43	83	Joe Torres	2013	0.00	DNP
44	82	Jim Miller	2012	2.77
45	82	Paul Bush	2010	0.00	DNP
46	82	Dane De La Rosa	2013	3.36
47	82	Ross Wolf	2013	4.53
48	82	Brian Gordon	2009	0.00	DNP
49	82	Joe Paterson	2016	0.00	DNP
50	82	Zach Phillips	2017	0.00	DNP
51	81	Kyler Newby	2015	0.00	DNP
52	81	Derek Eitel	2018	0.00	DNP
53	81	Randy Boone	2015	0.00	DNP
54	81	Diego Moreno	2018	0.00	DNP
55	81	Ashur Tolliver	2018	0.00	DNP
56	81	Tim Hamulack	2007	0.00	DNP
57	81	Marcus McBeth	2011	0.00	DNP
58	81	Jairo Asencio	2013	7.71
59	81	Greg Burke	2013	7.67
60	81	Seth Simmons	2018	0.00	DNP
61	81	Gregory Infante	2018	8.00
62	80	Simon Castro	2018	0.00	DNP
63	80	Jerome Gamble	2010	0.00	DNP
64	80	Casey Coleman	2018	0.00	DNP
65	80	Wirfin Obispo	2015	0.00	DNP
66	80	Ian Thomas	2017	0.00	DNP
67	80	Rob Wooten	2016	0.00	DNP
68	80	Jarrett Grube	2012	0.00	DNP
69	80	Justin James	2012	0.00	DNP
70	80	Josh Schmidt	2013	0.00	DNP
71	80	Roberto Giron	2006	0.00	DNP
72	79	Rob Scahill	2017	5.64
73	79	Ryan Houston	2010	0.00	DNP
74	79	Rich Rundles	2011	0.00	DNP
75	79	Chris Oxspring	2007	0.00	DNP
76	79	Kevin Chapman	2018	0.00	DNP
77	79	Lucas Luetge	2017	0.00	DNP
78	79	Neil Wagner	2014	8.10
79	79	Blake Johnson	2015	0.00	DNP
80	79	Clay Rapada	2011	6.61
81	78	Juan Cedeno	2014	0.00	DNP
82	78	Justin Lehr	2008	0.00	DNP
83	78	Colter Bean	2007	12.00
84	78	Chad Paronto	2006	3.49
85	78	Philip Barzilla	2009	0.00	DNP
86	78	Jeremy Bleich	2017	0.00	DNP
87	78	Robert Coello	2015	0.00	DNP
88	78	Felix Romero	2010	0.00	DNP
89	77	Chris Martin	2016	0.00	DNP
90	77	Cory Gearrin	2016	4.47
91	77	Brian Falkenborg	2008	5.24
92	77	Mitchell Harris	2016	0.00	DNP
93	77	Ben Julianel	2010	0.00	DNP
94	77	Ryan Braun	2011	0.00	DNP
95	77	Cesar Jimenez	2015	3.13
96	77	Andy Oliver	2018	0.00	DNP
97	77	Buddy Boshers	2018	0.00	DNP
98	77	Spike Lundberg	2007	0.00	DNP
99	77	Adam Liberatore	2017	2.70
100	76	Blake Parker	2015	0.00	DNP

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Layne Somsen threw 90 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2016 and 2019, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2019, he relied primarily on his Cutter (90mph), also mixing in a Curve (81mph).