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IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
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Birth Date	12-8-1987
Height	5' 10"
Weight	190 lbs

Age	36 years, 4 months, 17 days
Bats	L
Throws	L

: -0.12015
: 2016
: 2017
: 2018
: -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	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
2011	TBA	MLB	4	8.0	1	1	0	8	7	9	0	99	9.0	7.9	0.0	10.1	0%	.364	1.88	3.81	3.38	101	4.35	101.1	0.0
2013	TBA	MLB	39	58.0	4	2	0	32	20	62	1	96	5.0	3.1	0.2	9.6	0%	.221	0.90	2.35	1.71	81	2.81	67.3	1.2
2014	SDN	MLB	70	54.0	2	1	0	46	33	51	2	97	7.7	5.5	0.3	8.5	0%	.290	1.46	3.69	3.33	107	4.14	101.5	0.2
2015	NYN	MLB	39	34.3	0	0	1	26	26	35	6	84	6.8	6.8	1.6	9.2	0%	.233	1.51	5.75	3.15	111	4.89	114.2	-0.1
Career		MLB	152	154.3	7	4	1	112	86	157	9	94	6.5	5.0	0.5	9.2	49%	.265	1.28	3.65	2.68	99	3.82	91.5	1.4

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	ANG	Rk	AZL	14	9	50.0	2	5	1	42	36	47	1	99	7.6	6.5	0.2	8.5	0%	.308	1.56	4.92	4.32	107	3.83	80.4
2007	ANG	Rk	AZL	4	0	5.7	1	0	0	4	8	3	0	109	6.3	12.6	0.0	4.7	0%	.211	2.11	7.92	4.74	153	8.00	164.0
2008	RCU	A+	CLF	10	10	53.0	3	2	0	52	29	62	1	95	8.8	4.9	0.2	10.5	0%	.370	1.53	3.49	3.91	80	3.86	79.0
2008	ANG	Rk	AZL	4	4	23.3	4	0	0	11	10	24	1	104	4.2	3.9	0.4	9.3	0%	.213	0.90	3.98	1.55	94	1.49	30.5
2009	RCU	A+	CLF	21	19	121.3	10	3	0	93	63	124	4	102	6.9	4.7	0.3	9.2	0%	.288	1.29	3.85	2.75	96	3.93	82.6
2009	ARK	AA	TXS	5	5	26.0	3	1	0	23	17	25	0	107	8.0	5.9	0.0	8.7	0%	.329	1.54	3.40	2.77	94	4.87	102.4
2009	MNT	AA	SOU	2	2	8.7	0	2	0	7	5	7	1	98	7.2	5.2	1.0	7.2	0%	.240	1.38	4.70	3.10	113	4.63	97.4
2010	MNT	AA	SOU	27	27	142.7	11	6	0	136	70	150	9	98	8.6	4.4	0.6	9.5	0%	.335	1.44	3.65	3.47	0	0.00	0.0
2010	ZUL	Wnt	VWL	6	6	27.7	4	0	0	19	6	30	0		6.2	1.9	0.0	9.7	0%	.284	0.90	1.57	1.30	0	0.00	0.0
2011	TBA	MLB	AL	4	0	8.0	1	1	0	8	7	9	0	99	9.0	7.9	0.0	10.1	0%	.364	1.88	3.81	3.38	101	4.35	101.1
2011	DUR	AAA	INT	27	27	146.3	9	7	0	134	83	156	7	95	8.2	5.1	0.4	9.6	0%	.331	1.48	3.55	3.08	97	5.32	108.7
2012	DUR	AAA	INT	26	14	69.0	3	7	0	70	63	91	6	102	9.1	8.2	0.8	11.9	0%	.368	1.93	4.52	7.30	111	6.66	138.8
2012	RAY	Rk	GCL	4	4	11.3	0	1	0	7	4	17	0	94	5.6	3.2	0.0	13.5	0%	.304	0.97	1.49	3.18	70	2.07	43.2
2012	ZUL	Wnt	VWL	14	14	60.3	2	4	0	57	27	86	3		8.5	4.0	0.4	12.8	0%	.375	1.39	2.62	4.48	0	0.00	0.0
2013	TBA	MLB	AL	39	0	58.0	4	2	0	32	20	62	1	96	5.0	3.1	0.2	9.6	0%	.221	0.90	2.35	1.71	81	2.81	67.3
2013	DUR	AAA	INT	9	9	46.0	2	2	0	34	21	61	2	110	6.7	4.1	0.4	11.9	0%	.288	1.20	2.61	3.52	82	2.99	65.0
2013	VEN	int	WBC	1	0	0.7	0	0	0	1	2	2	0		13.5	27.0	0.0	27.0	0%	1.000	4.50	6.62	27.00	0	0.00	0.0
2014	SDN	MLB	NL	70	0	54.0	2	1	0	46	33	51	2	97	7.7	5.5	0.3	8.5	0%	.290	1.46	3.69	3.33	107	4.14	101.5
2015	NYN	MLB	NL	39	0	34.3	0	0	1	26	26	35	6	84	6.8	6.8	1.6	9.2	0%	.233	1.51	5.75	3.15	111	4.89	114.2
2015	LVG	AAA	PCL	10	0	7.7	0	0	0	6	4	9	0		7.0	4.7	0.0	10.6	0%	.286	1.30	2.81	1.17	84	2.22	48.7
2016	SAC	AAA	PCL	40	1	38.0	1	2	1	34	32	38	1	77	8.1	7.6	0.2	9.0	45%	.303	1.74	4.66	4.26	109	4.76	105.2
2017	LAG	Wnt	VWL	2	2	6.3	0	0	0	12	5	8	2		17.1	7.1	2.8	11.4	0%	.500	2.68	7.46	7.11	0	0.00	0.0
2018	MAG	Wnt	VWL	9	1	3.7	0	0	0	6	8	4	0		14.7	19.6	0.0	9.8	0%	.500	3.82	9.13	24.55	0	0.00	0.0

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2011	156	0.4872	0.3654	0.7544	0.5658	0.1750	0.8140	0.5714	0.2456
2013	883	0.4643	0.4587	0.7037	0.6317	0.3087	0.7568	0.6096	0.2963
2014	983	0.4059	0.4364	0.6970	0.6617	0.2825	0.7992	0.5333	0.3030
2015	639	0.4617	0.4022	0.7432	0.6508	0.1890	0.8385	0.4615	0.2568
Career	2661	0.4434	0.4314	0.7137	0.6435	0.2624	0.7954	0.5436	0.2863

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

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2016	SFN	$
2015	NYN	$522,900
2014	SDN	$509,000
2013	TBA	$
2012	TBA	$

Years	Description	Salary
2 yr	Previous	$1,031,900
2 yr	Total	$1,031,900

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
2 y 95 d		1 year (2016)

Details

1 year (2016). Signed by Atlanta as a free agent 1/8/16 (minor-league contract). Released by Atlanta 3/30/16. Signed by San Francisco as a free agent 4/14/16 (minor-league contract).
1 year/$0.5229M (2015). Re-signed by San Diego 3/10/15. Acquired by NY Mets in trade from San Diego 3/30/15. DFA by NY Mets 8/5/15.
1 year/$0.509M (2014). Acquired by San Diego in trade from Tampa Bay 1/22/14. Re-signed by San Diego 3/3/14.
1 year (2013). Re-signed by Tampa Bay 3/2/13.
1 year (2012). Re-signed by Tampa Bay 3/3/12.
1 year (2011). Re-signed by Tampa Bay 2/26/11.
1 year (2010). Contract purchased by Tampa Bay 11/20/09. Re-signed by Tampa Bay 3/3/10.
Acquired by Tampa Bay in trade from LA Angels 8/28/09 (Kazmir deal).
Signed 2005 by LA Angels as an amateur free agent from Venezuela.

2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	W	SV	G	GS	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
90^o	8.4	1.5	39	5	49.3	35	33	48	4	.238	1.37	3.87	4.33	-6.8	-0.7
80^o	7.1	1.2	34	4	43.0	33	31	42	4	.253	1.49	4.34	4.85	-8.3	-0.9
70^o	6.2	1.1	30	4	38.6	31	30	38	4	.265	1.58	4.68	5.23	-9.1	-1.0
60^o	5.4	0.9	28	4	35.0	30	28	34	4	.274	1.66	4.98	5.57	-9.5	-1.0
50^o	4.8	0.8	25	3	31.7	28	27	31	4	.283	1.73	5.27	5.89	-9.7	-1.1
40^o	4.2	0.7	22	3	28.6	27	25	28	3	.293	1.82	5.56	6.22	-9.7	-1.1
30^o	3.6	0.6	20	3	25.2	25	23	25	3	.302	1.90	5.88	6.58	-9.6	-1.0
20^o	2.9	0.5	17	2	21.5	22	21	21	3	.314	2.01	6.27	7.01	-9.1	-1.0
10^o	2.1	0.3	13	2	16.6	18	18	16	2	.331	2.17	6.83	7.64	-8.2	-0.9
Weighted Mean	4.7	0.8	24	3	31.0	27	26	30	3	.281	1.71	5.22	5.83	-9.3	-1.0

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Date	Question	Answer
2009-05-07 14:00:00 (link to chat)	What do you think of Alexander Torres? Lots of strikeouts, lots of groundballs, but too many walks and a bit short at 5'10. What's his ceiling? (John from Anaheim)	He might have some relief possibilities, but that's about it. (Kevin Goldstein)

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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2024, Alex Torres threw 2,840 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2011 and 2015, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2015, he relied primarily on his Fourseam Fastball (93mph) and Change (84mph), also mixing in a Sinker (92mph) and Slider (83mph). He also rarely threw a Curve (79mph).