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Portrait of Alex Valverde

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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 22)
IP ERA WHIP SO W L SV WARP
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Birth Date9-26-1996
Height6' 2"
Weight185 lbs
Age27 years, 6 months, 29 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-
2017 HUD A- NYP 3 2 14.0 2 1 0 11 7 13 0 90 7.1 4.5 0.0 8.4 57% .314 1.29 3.28 1.93 104 5.28 112.3
2017 RAY Rk GCL 4 3 11.3 0 1 0 8 2 11 1 91 6.4 1.6 0.8 8.7 55% .219 0.88 4.21 3.18 94 1.95 41.5
2018 BGR A MID 24 21 108.7 8 7 0 120 57 79 15 100 9.9 4.7 1.2 6.5 39% .307 1.63 5.61 4.56 131 6.94 146.8
2019 PCH A+ FSL 34 0 65.0 4 6 3 63 22 65 11 8.7 3.0 1.5 9.0 47% .286 1.31 4.84 4.29 117 5.63 115.8

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Injury History  —  No longer being updated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

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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 11.4 0 0.4 26 17 100.0 91 50 63 16 .248 1.42 5.18 5.67 -25.1 -2.7
80o 9.8 0 0.3 24 16 91.9 91 50 58 16 .263 1.54 5.69 6.23 -28.3 -3.1
70o 8.7 0 0.3 23 15 86.3 91 50 54 16 .274 1.63 6.07 6.64 -30.1 -3.3
60o 7.8 0 0.2 22 14 81.6 90 49 51 16 .284 1.71 6.40 7.01 -31.6 -3.4
50o 7 0 0.2 20 13 77.3 89 49 48 16 .293 1.79 6.72 7.36 -32.6 -3.5
40o 6.2 0 0.2 19 13 73.1 88 49 46 16 .302 1.87 7.04 7.72 -33.5 -3.6
30o 5.4 0 0.2 18 12 68.8 87 48 43 15 .312 1.96 7.40 8.11 -34.3 -3.7
20o 4.6 0 0.1 17 11 63.9 85 47 40 15 .324 2.07 7.83 8.59 -35.0 -3.8
10o 3.4 0 0.1 15 10 57.3 82 45 36 15 .341 2.23 8.45 9.27 -35.3 -3.8
Weighted Mean700.2201376.788484815.2911.776.667.3-31.9-3.5

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Alex Valverde threw 657 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system in 2023, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2023, he relied primarily on his Slider (84mph), Sinker (91mph) and Change (82mph), also mixing in a Fourseam Fastball (92mph). He also rarely threw a Curve (78mph).