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Career Summary
Years G IP W L SV ERA WARP
9 3 12.7 0 2 0 9.24 -0.3
Birth Date8-24-1985
Height6' 0"
Weight185 lbs
Age40 years, 1 months, 19 days
BatsR
ThrowsR
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
2009 ANA MLB 3 3 12.7 0 2 0 19 6 7 4 109 13.5 4.3 2.8 5.0 0% .333 1.97 7.55 9.24 127 7.58 162.5 -0.3
CareerMLB3312.70201967410913.54.32.85.047%.3331.977.559.241277.58162.5-0.3

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-
2006 CDR A MDW 12 12 66.2 1 6 0 71 27 55 5 9.7 3.7 0.7 7.5 0% .333 1.48 3.93 4.21 0 0.00 0.0
2006 RCU A+ CLF 5 1 8.1 0 1 1 9 5 5 0 10.0 5.6 0.0 5.6 0% .333 1.73 4.37 2.22 0 0.00 0.0
2006 ORM Rk PIO 2 2 11.2 1 1 0 6 2 11 0 4.8 1.6 0.0 8.8 0% .222 0.71 2.52 0.80 0 0.00 0.0
2007 RCU A+ CLF 28 28 163.3 7 11 0 157 68 127 17 96 8.7 3.7 0.9 7.0 0% .288 1.38 4.91 4.02 100 4.18 85.7
2007 LAG Wnt VWL 12 1 14.0 0 0 1 18 15 7 3 11.6 9.6 1.9 4.5 0% .313 2.36 8.38 7.07 0 0.00 0.0
2007 LAG Wnt VWL 1 0 1.0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 27.0 9.0 0.0 0.0 0% .500 4.00 5.95 18.00 0 0.00 0.0
2008 ARK AA TXS 22 22 135.0 9 7 0 124 49 83 11 82 8.3 3.3 0.7 5.5 0% .270 1.28 4.40 3.73 105 4.39 89.9
2008 SLC AAA PCL 6 6 39.3 5 0 0 46 6 22 2 109 10.5 1.4 0.5 5.0 0% .314 1.32 3.71 2.52 94 3.74 76.6
2009 ANA MLB AL 3 3 12.7 0 2 0 19 6 7 4 109 13.5 4.3 2.8 5.0 0% .333 1.97 7.55 9.24 127 7.58 162.5
2009 SLC AAA PCL 4 4 18.7 2 1 0 30 6 5 5 116 14.4 2.9 2.4 2.4 0% .347 1.93 7.51 9.63 131 7.87 165.6
2010 ARK AA TXS 10 0 15.7 0 1 0 21 14 12 4 12.0 8.0 2.3 6.9 0% .347 2.23 7.62 8.03 0 0.00 0.0
2010 ANG Rk AZL 5 3 9.0 0 0 0 11 5 11 1 93 11.0 5.0 1.0 11.0 0% .385 1.78 4.91 8.00 0 0.00 0.0
2010 LAG Wnt VWL 5 0 7.3 0 0 0 4 8 5 0 4.9 9.9 0.0 6.2 0% .211 1.64 4.90 1.23 0 0.00 0.0
2011 SLC AAA PCL 20 3 35.0 1 3 0 54 15 28 9 112 13.9 3.9 2.3 7.2 0% .402 1.97 6.89 8.23 116 7.80 159.3
2011 ANG Rk AZL 4 1 6.0 0 0 0 3 0 5 0 92 4.5 0.0 0.0 7.5 0% .188 0.50 2.70 1.50 88 1.73 35.3
2012 LAG Wnt VWL 29 0 31.3 1 1 0 30 12 35 1 8.6 3.4 0.3 10.1 0% .349 1.34 2.94 4.31 0 0.00 0.0
2013 ABQ AAA PCL 39 1 62.0 4 4 0 62 29 49 9 121 9.0 4.2 1.3 7.1 0% .293 1.47 5.42 4.79 113 4.48 97.4
2015 YUC AAA MEX 31 2 40.3 3 1 2 37 11 31 3 8.3 2.5 0.7 6.9 0% .293 1.19 4.22 3.35 0 0.00 0.0

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%
2009 248 0.4960 0.4194 0.8846 0.6260 0.2160 0.9091 0.8148 0.1154
Career2480.49600.41940.88460.62600.21600.90910.81480.1154

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
2011-04-20 2011-07-16 Minors 87 80 Right Wrist Contusion -
2010-03-30 2010-08-04 15-DL 127 108 Right Elbow Inflammation Triceps Tendinitis -
2009-05-13 2009-09-05 Minors 115 0 Right Elbow Inflammation -
2009-02-28 2009-03-20 Camp 20 0 Right Forearm Soreness -

Compensation

Year Team Salary
2013 LAN $
2012 ANA $
2011 ANA $
2010 ANA $400,000
YearsDescriptionSalary
1 yrPrevious$400,000
1 yrTotal$400,000

 

Service TimeAgentContract Status
0 y 139 dGreg Maroni1 year (2013)

Details
  • 1 year (2013). Signed by Kansas City as a free agent 11/16/12 (minor-league contract). Released by Kansas City 3/13. Signed by LA Dodgers as a free agent 4/21/13 (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2012). Re-signed by LA Angels (minor-league contract).
  • 1 year (2011). Re-signed by LA Angels 3/11. Released by LA Angels 11/15/11.
  • 1 year/$0.4M (2010). Re-signed by LA Angels 2/10.
  • 1 year/$0.4M (2009). Contract purchased by LA Angels 11/17/08. Re-signed 1/6/09.
  • Signed by LA Angels 2006 as an amateur free agent from Venezuela.

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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Comparable Players (Similarity Index )

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BP Annual Player Comments

YearComment
2012 Anthony Ortega was supposed to be the safe prospect—pitchability, no upside. Since 2009, though, he has an 8.22 ERA spread across four levels. No, it's not safe. It's very dangerous. Be careful.
2011 Ortega’s ceiling never reached the kind of height that makes scouts and real-estate agents swoon, but the six-foot righty has to stoop to fit under it now. In the wake of a successful 2008 in the rotation, injuries have limited the Dominican to 56 total innings over the last two seasons, spread between Double- and Triple-A, and the majors, but they haven’t exerted the same slimming effect on his ERA: Ortega has allowed 62 runs over that span. On the plus side, only 55 of them were earned. A move to the bullpen hasn’t kept him healthy so far, though his arm was sound enough to see some action in the Venezuelan winter league.
2010 Ortega won the Angels' Minor League Pitcher of the Year award thanks to a breakout 2008 in which he pitched down in the zone more consistently and generated more ground balls, but the follow-up didn't go so well. After battling forearm and elbow problems during spring training, he was pummeled both at Salt Lake City, and during his brief major-league trial as well. Shortly after returning to Triple-A, he was sidelined—for the year, as it turned out—due to elbow inflammation. A pitch-to-contact type whose upside is as a fourth or fifth starter, Ortega throws a low-90s fastball, but just an average curve, and he lacks a consistent out pitch.
2009 Venezuelan Anthony Ortega took a big step forward in 2008, but that only upgraded his outlook from organizational arm to potential middle reliever.

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2025, Anthony Ortega threw 286 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2009 and 2013, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2013, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (94mph), Sinker (94mph) and Slider (86mph). He also rarely threw a Change (82mph).