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Bryan Bullington PPirates

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Career Summary

Years	G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	WARP
5	26	81.7	1	9	0	5.62	-0.6

Birth Date	9-30-1980
Height	6' 4"
Weight	210 lbs

Age	43 years, 6 months, 27 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

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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	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2005	PIT	MLB	1	0	1.3	0	0	1	1	1	0	105	6.8	6.8	0.0	6.8	0%	.250	1.50	5.98	13.50	98	4.84	104.1	0.0
2007	PIT	MLB	5	3	17.0	0	3	24	5	7	3	101	12.7	2.6	1.6	3.7	0%	.344	1.71	5.52	5.29	109	5.38	111.2	0.1
2008	CLE	MLB	3	2	14.7	0	2	15	2	12	4	107	9.2	1.2	2.5	7.4	0%	.268	1.16	5.68	4.91	85	3.21	68.5	0.4
2009	TOR	MLB	4	0	6.0	0	0	7	6	5	0	107	10.5	9.0	0.0	7.5	0%	.350	2.17	4.46	3.00	125	8.01	171.7	-0.2
2010	KCA	MLB	13	5	42.7	1	4	51	17	29	6	109	10.8	3.6	1.3	6.1	0%	.321	1.59	4.99	6.12	114	6.81	153.8	-0.8
Career		MLB	26	10	81.7	1	9	98	31	54	13	107	10.8	3.4	1.4	6.0	47%	.320	1.58	5.20	5.62	109	5.92	130.1	-0.6

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	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
2005	PIT	MLB	NL	1	0	1.3	0	0	1	1	1	0	105	6.8	6.8	0.0	6.8	0%	.250	1.50	5.98	13.50	98	4.84	104.1
2007	PIT	MLB	NL	5	3	17.0	0	3	24	5	7	3	101	12.7	2.6	1.6	3.7	0%	.344	1.71	5.52	5.29	109	5.38	111.2
2008	CLE	MLB	AL	3	2	14.7	0	2	15	2	12	4	107	9.2	1.2	2.5	7.4	0%	.268	1.16	5.68	4.91	85	3.21	68.5
2009	TOR	MLB	AL	4	0	6.0	0	0	7	6	5	0	107	10.5	9.0	0.0	7.5	0%	.350	2.17	4.46	3.00	125	8.01	171.7
2010	KCA	MLB	AL	13	5	42.7	1	4	51	17	29	6	109	10.8	3.6	1.3	6.1	0%	.321	1.59	4.99	6.12	114	6.81	153.8

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2008	139	0.5540	0.5108	0.7183	0.6494	0.3387	0.7600	0.6190	0.2817
2009	113	0.5044	0.4071	0.7826	0.5614	0.2500	0.9063	0.5000	0.2174
2010	708	0.5184	0.4477	0.8297	0.6185	0.2639	0.8987	0.6556	0.1703
Career	960	0.5219	0.4521	0.8080	0.6163	0.2731	0.8795	0.6320	0.1920

Injury History — No longer being updated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
2009-06-30	2009-09-08	Minors	70	0			Not Disclosed		-
2006-03-31	2006-10-01	60-DL	184	161	Right	Shoulder	Recovery From Surgery	Labrum - Posterior Aspect	2005-10-17
2005-10-17	2005-10-17	Off	0	0	Right	Shoulder	Surgery	Labrum - Posterior Aspect	2005-10-17
2005-09-19	2005-10-03	DTD	14	13	Right	Shoulder	Soreness		-
2005-06-13	2005-07-06	Minors	23	22			Not Disclosed		-
2005-04-05	2005-05-11	Minors	36	31	Right	Shoulder	Inflammation		-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
1 y 92 d	Casey Close

Details

optioned to Triple-A 5/24/10 contract purchased 5/17/10 signed as a free agent from TOR 11/24/09 (minor-league contract)
sent outright to Triple-A 5/7/09 optioned to Triple-A 4/30/09 contract purchased 4/23/09 sent to minor-league camp 3/11/09 sent outright to Triple-A 3/2/09 re-signed 2/17/09, 1 year/$0.4024M (09)
claimed off waivers from CLE 10/24/08 recalled 9/8/08 optioned to Triple-A 7/10/08 claimed off waivers from PIT 7/10/08 designated for assignment 7/3/08 optioned to Triple-A 6/13/08 recalled 5/29/08 optioned to Triple-A 3/17/08
recalled 9/3/07 optioned to Triple-A 3/07 re-signed 3/07, 1 year (07)
re-signed 2/06, 1 year/$0.327M (06)
contract purchased 9/05 sent to minor-league camp 3/03 signed 10/02
$4M signing bonus
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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
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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BP Chats

Date	Question	Answer
2009-05-04 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Joe, I am shocked that Brian Burres and Bryan Bullington didn't work out. (JP from Toronto)	Yeah, but you cut bait quickly. That was good. You sure have a lot of pitchers up there. (Joe Sheehan)

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Bryan Bullington threw 1,220 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2010, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2010, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (92mph), Sinker (92mph) and Slider (83mph), also mixing in a Change (87mph). He also rarely threw a Curve (78mph).