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Portrait of Jose G. Valdez

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Career Summary
Years G IP W L SV ERA WARP
13 24 26 0 0 0 5.88 -0.2
Birth Date1-22-1983
Height6' 4"
Weight200 lbs
Age41 years, 3 months, 17 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
2011 HOU MLB 12 0 14.0 0 0 0 17 7 15 2 101 10.9 4.5 1.3 9.6 0% .375 1.71 4.41 9.00 99 5.51 128.1 -0.1
2012 HOU MLB 12 0 12.0 0 0 0 12 8 10 1 97 9.0 6.0 0.8 7.5 0% .289 1.67 4.54 2.25 102 5.47 125.4 -0.1
CareerMLB24026.0000291525310010.05.21.08.756%.3331.694.475.881015.49126.8-0.2

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-
2002 STA A- NYP 4 4 20.0 1 3 0 19 9 21 0 8.6 4.1 0.0 9.5 0% .333 1.40 2.77 5.40 0 0.00 0.0
2003 GRL A MDW 22 22 133.7 11 7 0 132 42 76 14 8.9 2.8 0.9 5.1 0% .276 1.30 4.50 3.64 0 0.00 0.0
2003 TAM A+ FSL 3 3 15.7 1 1 0 11 4 9 2 6.3 2.3 1.1 5.2 0% .196 0.96 4.32 4.01 0 0.00 0.0
2004 TAM A+ FSL 23 20 111.7 7 7 0 116 38 76 7 9.3 3.1 0.6 6.1 0% .303 1.38 3.88 4.27 0 0.00 0.0
2006 CSC A SAL 5 0 8.2 0 0 2 8 2 6 0 8.8 2.2 0.0 6.6 0% .333 1.22 2.57 1.10 0 0.00 0.0
2006 YAN Rk GCL 9 0 10.0 1 1 1 12 1 7 2 98 10.8 0.9 1.8 6.3 0% .313 1.30 4.92 2.70 100 2.63 55.3
2007 TAM A+ FSL 37 0 59.7 3 4 3 54 21 60 4 100 8.1 3.2 0.6 9.0 0% .301 1.26 3.22 2.86 86 3.82 78.3
2008 TAM A+ FSL 27 0 36.0 6 2 3 30 9 32 4 99 7.5 2.3 1.0 8.0 0% .271 1.08 3.62 2.75 90 3.52 72.0
2008 TRN AA EAS 17 0 24.3 1 0 4 17 7 23 4 92 6.3 2.6 1.5 8.5 0% .213 0.99 4.45 2.22 99 3.28 67.2
2009 TRN AA EAS 34 0 38.3 1 1 10 32 23 42 2 88 7.5 5.4 0.5 9.9 0% .297 1.44 3.65 3.05 91 4.08 85.9
2009 SWB AAA INT 9 0 19.3 2 1 0 23 10 18 2 102 10.7 4.7 0.9 8.4 0% .375 1.71 4.18 4.20 99 4.86 102.2
2009 LIC Wnt DWL 16 0 16.0 3 0 0 11 0 13 0 6.2 0.0 0.0 7.3 0% .244 0.69 1.66 1.69 0 0.00 0.0
2010 CCH AA TXS 9 0 12.3 0 0 0 5 4 11 0 3.7 2.9 0.0 8.0 0% .161 0.73 2.84 1.46 0 0.00 0.0
2010 AST Rk GCL 4 0 4.0 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 4.5 0.0 0.0 9.0 0% .222 0.50 1.50 0.00 0 0.00 0.0
2011 HOU MLB NL 12 0 14.0 0 0 0 17 7 15 2 101 10.9 4.5 1.3 9.6 0% .375 1.71 4.41 9.00 99 5.51 128.1
2011 OKL AAA PCL 20 0 20.7 1 0 9 23 9 26 4 10.0 3.9 1.7 11.3 0% .322 1.55 5.23 5.66 87 3.84 78.4
2011 AST Rk GCL 4 0 4.0 0 1 0 3 1 7 0 6.8 2.3 0.0 15.8 0% .333 1.00 0.65 4.50 49 0.84 17.2
2012 HOU MLB NL 12 0 12.0 0 0 0 12 8 10 1 97 9.0 6.0 0.8 7.5 0% .289 1.67 4.54 2.25 102 5.47 125.4
2012 OKL AAA PCL 46 0 43.7 0 5 21 53 12 59 5 10.9 2.5 1.0 12.2 0% .375 1.49 3.34 4.95 75 4.15 86.4
2012 AST Rk GCL 5 5 5.0 0 0 0 2 1 7 0 97 3.6 1.8 0.0 12.6 0% .182 0.60 1.23 0.00 67 1.53 31.8
2012 LIC Wnt DWL 1 0 0.3 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 27.0 54.0 0.0 0.0 0% .500 9.00 21.14 54.00 0 0.00 0.0
2013 OKL AAA PCL 35 0 39.3 3 3 13 42 21 33 4 9.6 4.8 0.9 7.6 0% .322 1.60 5.11 5.72 110 5.23 113.7
2014 PME AA EAS 13 0 17.0 0 1 4 18 4 13 1 9.5 2.1 0.5 6.9 0% .321 1.29 3.82 1.59 93 4.34 91.9
2014 PAW AAA INT 11 0 18.7 0 1 0 20 7 15 1 9.6 3.4 0.5 7.2 0% .312 1.45 3.56 2.41 97 5.09 107.8
2015 MTR AAA MEX 14 0 12.0 1 3 0 13 4 13 2 9.8 3.0 1.5 9.8 0% .324 1.42 4.52 5.25 0 0.00 0.0
2015 REY AAA MEX 27 0 25.0 2 4 8 23 6 21 2 8.3 2.2 0.7 7.6 0% .280 1.16 3.84 2.88 0 0.00 0.0

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2011 258 0.5310 0.4496 0.7414 0.5912 0.2893 0.8272 0.5429 0.2586
2012 225 0.4622 0.4444 0.7700 0.5577 0.3471 0.8621 0.6429 0.2300
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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
2014-08-21 2014-09-01 Minors 11 0 - Not Disclosed -
2014-07-20 2014-08-01 Minors 12 0 Left Lower Leg Contusion Shin -
2014-06-07 2014-07-01 Minors 24 0 - Not Disclosed -
2011-06-29 2011-08-19 Minors 51 0 - Shoulder Soreness - -
2010-04-07 2010-08-11 Minors 126 0 Not Disclosed -
2005-04-07 2005-09-04 Minors 150 0 Right Elbow Nerve Injury Ulnar Neuritis - -

Compensation

Year Team Salary
2013 HOU $

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
0 y 51 d1 year (2014)

Details
  • 1 year (2014). Signed by Boston as a free agent 1/30/14 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2013). Re-signed by Houston 11/21/12 (minor-league contract). Released by Houston 7/15/13.
  • 1 year (2012). Re-signed by Houston as a free agent 10/24/11 (minor-league contract). Contract purchased by Houston 9/1/12. Sent outright to Triple-A by Houston 11/1/12 (refused assignment).
  • 1 year (2011). Re-signed by Houston as a free agent 11/11/10 (minor-league contract). Contract purchased by Houston 4/15/11. Sent outright to AAA by Houston 10/13/11.
  • 1 year (2010). Signed by Houston as a free agent 11/20/09 (minor-league contract). Contract purchased by Houston 11/20/09. Sent outright to Triple-A by Houston 11/4/10.
  • Signed 2000 as an amateur free agent from the Dominican Republic.

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
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BP Annual Player Comments

YearComment
2013 Jose Valdez can top 95 mph semi-regularly, but the Astros let him go, and there was so little demand for him that they were able to bring him back on a minor-league deal.
2012 Since moving to the bullpen in 2007, Jose Valdez has shown promising strikeout rates in the minors, but he's been so riddled with injuries in his career he's rarely at his best. The Astros see the potential and kept him on the 40-man roster despite his age and struggles.
2010 Valdez had been in the Yankees organization since 2002, but injuries kept him in A-ball until 2008. He throws in the low 90s with deception, but that's a double-edged word, as the deception is created by miserable mechanics, also the cause of the aforementioned injuries. After a terrific showing in the Dominican Winter League (including two walks in 21 innings) the Astros signed him to a free-agent contract and will give him a 40-man roster spot and a shot at the back of their bullpen.

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Jose G. Valdez threw 559 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2011 and 2023, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2023, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (95mph) and Slider (89mph), also mixing in a Sinker (94mph) and Splitter (89mph).