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Mike Zagurski PCubs

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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 36)

IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
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Birth Date	1-27-1983
Height	6' 0"
Weight	240 lbs

Age	41 years, 2 months, 29 days
Bats	L
Throws	L

: 2015
: 2016
: 2017
: -0.02018
: 0.32019
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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	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
2007	PHI	MLB	25	21.3	1	0	25	11	21	3	105	10.5	4.6	1.3	8.9	0%	.338	1.69	4.71	5.91	104	4.96	102.7	0.1
2010	PHI	MLB	8	7.0	0	0	8	5	11	1	95	10.3	6.4	1.3	14.1	0%	.467	1.86	4.81	10.29	94	4.23	95.5	0.1
2011	PHI	MLB	4	3.3	0	0	4	3	4	1	96	10.8	8.1	2.7	10.8	0%	.333	2.10	7.19	5.40	108	5.25	122.0	0.0
2012	ARI	MLB	45	37.3	0	0	37	19	34	5	103	8.9	4.6	1.2	8.2	0%	.308	1.50	4.65	5.54	107	5.20	119.3	-0.2
2013	NYA	0	1	0.3	0	0	1	0	0	0	105	27.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0%	.500	3.00	12.07	54.00	149	1.37	32.9	0.0
2013	PIT	0	6	6.0	0	0	10	8	5	1	97	15.0	12.0	1.5	7.5	0%	.409	3.00	8.02	15.00	110	3.85	92.2	0.1
2018	MIL	MLB	2	1.0	0	1	5	2	2	0	94	45.0	18.0	0.0	18.0	67%	.833	7.00	5.12	63.00	106	5.40	120.7	0.0
2013	TOT	MLB	7	6.3	0	0	11	8	5	1	98	15.6	11.4	1.4	7.1	0%	.000	3.00	8.23	17.05	113	3.72	89.1	0.1
Career		MLB	91	76.3	1	1	90	48	77	11	102	10.6	5.7	1.3	9.1	45%	.354	1.81	5.10	7.78	106	4.93	110.1	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-
2005	BAT	A-	NYP	15	8	45.0	3	4	0	47	15	43	2	90	9.4	3.0	0.4	8.6	0%	-.714	1.38	3.28	4.60	95	5.42	106.7
2006	LWD	A	SAL	42	0	56.0	4	4	1	46	22	75	0	83	7.4	3.5	0.0	12.1	0%	.343	1.21	1.80	3.54	67	3.45	72.3
2007	PHI	MLB	NL	25	0	21.3	1	0	0	25	11	21	3	105	10.5	4.6	1.3	8.9	0%	.338	1.69	4.71	5.91	104	4.96	102.7
2007	CLR	A+	FSL	12	0	16.3	0	0	5	6	4	30	0	102	3.3	2.2	0.0	16.6	0%	.240	0.61	0.54	1.10	28	1.50	30.7
2007	REA	AA	EAS	6	0	7.0	0	0	0	2	2	8	0	103	2.6	2.6	0.0	10.3	0%	.125	0.57	1.82	1.29	74	2.53	51.9
2007	OTT	AAA	INT	7	0	9.0	0	0	0	7	6	11	0	94	7.0	6.0	0.0	11.0	0%	.318	1.44	2.72	2.00	86	3.54	72.6
2009	CLR	A+	FSL	3	2	3.0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	108	6.0	0.0	0.0	3.0	0%	.182	0.67	2.52	0.00	100	3.13	65.9
2009	REA	AA	EAS	45	0	53.0	3	4	8	42	27	63	7	97	7.1	4.6	1.2	10.7	0%	.267	1.30	4.22	3.57	88	3.29	69.1
2010	PHI	MLB	NL	8	0	7.0	0	0	0	8	5	11	1	95	10.3	6.4	1.3	14.1	0%	.467	1.86	4.81	10.29	94	4.23	95.5
2010	LEH	AAA	INT	52	0	52.3	2	3	3	44	27	71	3		7.6	4.6	0.5	12.2	0%	.328	1.36	2.98	3.27	0	0.00	0.0
2011	PHI	MLB	NL	4	0	3.3	0	0	0	4	3	4	1	96	10.8	8.1	2.7	10.8	0%	.333	2.10	7.19	5.40	108	5.25	122.0
2011	LEH	AAA	INT	46	0	54.3	4	0	11	43	27	63	3		7.1	4.5	0.5	10.4	0%	.313	1.29	3.29	2.65	84	3.76	76.7
2011	EST	Wnt	LID	11	0	12.0	0	0	1	9	8	14	0		6.8	6.0	0.0	10.5	0%	.310	1.42	2.73	3.00	0	0.00	0.0
2012	ARI	MLB	NL	45	0	37.3	0	0	0	37	19	34	5	103	8.9	4.6	1.2	8.2	0%	.308	1.50	4.65	5.54	107	5.20	119.3
2012	RNO	AAA	PCL	6	0	9.0	0	0	0	3	2	7	1		3.0	2.0	1.0	7.0	0%	.095	0.56	4.55	2.00	93	1.85	38.6
2013	NYA	MLB	AL	1	0	0.3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	105	27.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0%	.500	3.00	12.07	54.00	149	1.37	32.9
2013	PIT	MLB	NL	6	0	6.0	0	0	0	10	8	5	1	97	15.0	12.0	1.5	7.5	0%	.409	3.00	8.02	15.00	110	3.85	92.2
2013	IND	AAA	INT	19	0	21.0	1	0	1	15	9	37	2		6.4	3.9	0.9	15.9	0%	.310	1.14	2.34	2.14	68	4.51	97.9
2013	SAC	AAA	PCL	6	0	6.0	0	0	0	7	3	8	0		10.5	4.5	0.0	12.0	0%	.412	1.67	3.40	6.00	80	4.16	90.3
2013	SWB	AAA	INT	20	0	26.3	5	3	1	22	12	38	2		7.5	4.1	0.7	13.0	0%	.364	1.29	2.78	3.08	69	4.38	95.2
2014	BUF	AAA	INT	30	0	44.3	2	1	0	31	19	61	0		6.3	3.9	0.0	12.4	0%	.310	1.13	1.95	1.83	67	3.45	73.1
2014	COH	AAA	INT	16	0	16.3	2	0	0	11	10	22	1		6.1	5.5	0.6	12.1	0%	.270	1.29	3.28	2.76	67	5.01	106.0
2017	ERI	AA	EAS	12	0	16.7	2	2	0	12	5	25	2		6.5	2.7	1.1	13.5	31%	.303	1.02	2.69	2.16	64	2.52	53.7
2017	TOL	AAA	INT	13	0	10.7	0	2	0	13	3	18	0		11.0	2.5	0.0	15.2	23%	.500	1.50	1.09	5.06	58	4.10	87.3
2018	MIL	MLB	NL	2	0	1.0	0	1	0	5	2	2	0	94	45.0	18.0	0.0	18.0	67%	.833	7.00	5.12	63.00	106	5.40	120.7
2018	CSP	AAA	PCL	49	0	45.0	1	1	4	39	17	66	5		7.8	3.4	1.0	13.2	43%	.330	1.24	3.38	3.20	73	2.31	48.8

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2010	153	0.4706	0.4837	0.6757	0.6806	0.3086	0.7347	0.5600	0.3243
2011	81	0.4691	0.3704	0.7333	0.6053	0.1628	0.7391	0.7143	0.2667
2012	637	0.4694	0.4176	0.7932	0.5953	0.2604	0.8764	0.6250	0.2068
2013	151	0.5033	0.3907	0.8475	0.6053	0.1733	0.9348	0.5385	0.1525
2018	40	0.6500	0.5000	0.7500	0.6538	0.2143	0.7647	0.6667	0.2500
Career	1062	0.4812	0.4228	0.7778	0.6120	0.2458	0.8496	0.6117	0.2222

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
2009-03-27	2009-04-23	15-DL	27	13	Right	Elbow	Recovery From Surgery	Tommy John Surgery	2008-04-03
2008-03-21	2008-10-28	60-DL	221	162	Right	Elbow	Surgery	Tommy John Surgery	2008-04-03
2007-08-19	2007-10-07	60-DL	49	40	Right	Thigh	Surgery	Hamstring	2007-08-27

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2018	MIL	$
2017	DET	$
2013	PIT	$
2012	ARI	$
2009	PHI	$400,000
2008	PHI	$392,500

Years	Description	Salary
2 yr	Previous	$792,500
2 yr	Total	$792,500

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
3 y 70 d		1 year (2019)

Details

1 year (2019). Signed by Chicago Cubs as a free agent 12/23/18 (minor-league contract).
1 year (2018). Signed by Milwaukee as a free agent 12/15/17 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by Milwaukee 6/28/18. DFA by Milwaukee 7/8/18. Sent outright to Triple-A 7/12/18.
1 year (2017). Signed by Detroit as a free agent 2/5/17 (minor-league contract).
2015-16. Signed by Hiroshima of Japan as a free agent 10/21/14.
1 year (2014). Signed by Cleveland as a free agent 11/22/13 (minor-league contract). Opted out of contract with Cleveland 5/24/14. Signed by Toronto as a free agent 5/27/14 (minor-league contract).
1 year (2013). Signed by Pittsburgh as a free agent 12/1/12 (minor-league contract). Contract selected by Pittsburgh 5/27/13. DFA by Pittsburgh 6/15/13. Sent outright to Triple-A 6/18/13 (refused assignment). Signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 6/21/13 (minor-league contract). Exercised right to opt out of contract 8/15/13. Signed by Oakland as a free agent 8/17/13 (minor-league contract). Released by Oakland 9/2/13. Signed by NY Yankees as a free agent 9/10/13. Sent outright to Triple-A by NY Yankees 10/3/13. Elected free agency 10/13.
1 year (2012). Signed by Arizona 2/12. Sent outright to Triple-A by Arizona 4/4/12. Contract purchased by Arizona 4/24/12. DFA by Arizona 8/11/12. Sent outright to Triple-A 8/13/12. Contract purchased by Arizona 8/14/12. Elected free agency 11/5/12.
1 year (2011). Re-signed by Philadelphia 2/11. Acquired by Arizona in trade 9/23/11 after being DFA by Philadelphia 9/17/11.
1 year (2010). Re-signed by Philadelphia 2/10.
1 year/$0.4M (2009). Re-signed 2/25/09.
1 year/$0.3925M (2008).
1 year (2007). Contract purchased by Philadelphia 5/25/07.
Drafted by Philadelphia 2005 (12-367) (University of Kansas).

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	9.7	6.8	58	56.1	36	19	70	5	.248	1.00	2.50	2.78	1.0	0.1
80^o	8.3	5.8	51	49.3	35	19	61	5	.264	1.09	2.90	3.21	-1.4	-0.1
70^o	7.4	5.2	46	44.6	34	18	56	5	.276	1.15	3.19	3.53	-2.8	-0.3
60^o	6.7	4.6	42	40.7	32	17	51	5	.286	1.21	3.44	3.81	-3.7	-0.4
50^o	6	4.1	38	37.1	31	16	46	5	.296	1.27	3.69	4.08	-4.5	-0.5
40^o	5.3	3.7	35	33.6	29	16	42	4	.305	1.33	3.93	4.35	-5.0	-0.5
30^o	4.7	3.2	31	30.0	27	15	37	4	.315	1.40	4.20	4.64	-5.4	-0.6
20^o	4	2.7	27	25.8	25	13	32	4	.327	1.47	4.52	4.99	-5.6	-0.6
10^o	3	2	21	20.3	21	11	25	3	.344	1.59	4.97	5.49	-5.5	-0.6
Weighted Mean	5.9	4	38	36.2	30	16	45	4	.293	1.25	3.65	4.03	-4.2	-0.5

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Mike Zagurski threw 1,115 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2007 and 2018, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2018, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (94mph) and Slider (82mph).