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A.J. Puk PAthletics

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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 24)
IP ERA WHIP SO W L SV WARP
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Birth Date4-25-1995
Height6' 7"
Weight248 lbs
Age28 years, 11 months, 4 days
BatsL
ThrowsL
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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
2019 OAK MLB 10 0 11.3 2 0 0 10 5 13 1 99 7.9 4.0 0.8 10.3 45% .321 1.32 3.42 3.18 93 3.44 70.5 0.2
CareerMLB10011.3200105131997.94.00.810.345%.3211.323.423.18933.4470.50.2

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-
2016 VER A- NYP 10 10 32.7 0 4 0 23 12 40 0 95 6.3 3.3 0.0 11.0 51% .271 1.07 1.91 3.03 82 2.82 62.4
2017 STO A+ CAL 14 11 61.0 4 5 0 44 23 98 1 105 6.5 3.4 0.1 14.5 42% .336 1.10 2.25 3.69 61 2.35 50.1
2017 MID AA TEX 13 13 64.0 2 5 0 64 25 86 2 108 9.0 3.5 0.3 12.1 48% .380 1.39 2.35 4.36 72 3.51 74.8
2019 OAK MLB AL 10 0 11.3 2 0 0 10 5 13 1 99 7.9 4.0 0.8 10.3 45% .321 1.32 3.42 3.18 93 3.44 70.5
2019 STO A+ CAL 3 3 6.0 0 0 0 5 4 9 2 96 7.5 6.0 3.0 13.5 33% .300 1.50 6.99 6.00 111 5.31 109.3
2019 MID AA TEX 6 1 8.3 0 0 0 9 3 13 2 69 9.7 3.2 2.2 14.0 58% .412 1.44 4.53 4.32 95 5.92 121.8
2019 LVG AAA PCL 9 0 11.0 4 1 0 7 3 16 3 5.7 2.5 2.5 13.1 45% .222 0.91 5.52 4.91 88 2.25 46.4

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2019 202 0.5198 0.4653 0.6915 0.6571 0.2577 0.7681 0.4800 0.3085
Career2020.51980.46530.69150.65710.25770.76810.48000.3085

Injury History  —  No longer being updated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
2023 MIA $736,000
2022 OAK $705,000
2021 OAK $
2020 OAK $563,500
2019 OAK $
YearsDescriptionSalary
3 yrPrevious$2,004,500
3 yrTotal$2,004,500

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
2 y 124 dISE1 year/$736,000 (2023)

Details
  • 1 year/$736,000 (2023). Acquired by Miami in trade from Oakland 2/11/23. Re-signed by Miami 3/23.
  • 1 year/$705,000 (2022). Renewed by Oakland 3/22.
  • 2021
  • 1 year/$563,500 (2020). Re-signed by Oakland 3/20.
  • 1 year (2019). Contract selected by Oakland 8/20/19.
  • Drafted by Oakland 2016 (1-6) (Florida). $4.0692M signing bonus (slot amount).

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 0 0 0 0 16.8 11 6 19 1 .242 1.00 2.26 2.62 0.0 0.0
80o 0 0 0 0 0 10.9 8 4 12 1 .258 1.09 2.62 3.03 0.0 0.0
70o 0 0 0 0 0 6.8 5 3 8 0 .270 1.16 2.87 3.33 0.0 0.0
60o 0 0 0 0 0 3.4 3 1 4 0 .280 1.22 3.09 3.59 0.0 0.0
50o 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 0 0 0 0 .289 1.27 3.31 3.84 0.0 0.0
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BP Chats

DateQuestionAnswer
2017-07-31 23:00:00 (link to chat)Who is your favorite A's prospect, and why is it Max Schrock?
(Carlo from NorCal)
Couple Puk questions, so I'll use this one as opportunity, as it garners a bonus mention for Schrock on his player page. A.J. Puk is...unique physically. I'm *not* putting a Randy Johnson comp on anyone here, okay, so let's get that straight. But if you were gonna ask me for one dude in minor league baseball to struggle putting it together for most of his 20's, then all of a sudden develop into a monster that strikes out the world at 29, he'd be the interrupting-cow name outta my mouth. That stuff from that arm slot with that extension is disgusting. If he ever gets remotely consistent with it...weeeeeee

Since we're winding down into the dubwise portion of the evening, let's roll on with a hard one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrUakDA9PVE (Wilson Karaman)
2017-06-27 20:00:00 (link to chat)Can you tell me nice things about A.J. Puk? Or give me hope that Matt Olson will learn how to hit left-handed pitching?
(John from San Francisco)
Kate Morrison saw Puk's Double-A debut and had some very nice things to say about his fastball/slider combo in the Ten Pack this past week. Olson...yeah, that sure looks like a platoon profile. (Jarrett Seidler)


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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2023, A.J. Puk threw 2,629 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2019 and 2024, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2024, he relied primarily on his Sinker (94mph) and Fourseam Fastball (95mph), also mixing in a Slider (85mph), Splitter (87mph) and Cutter (92mph).