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Portrait of Branch Kloess

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Career Summary
Years G IP W L SV ERA WARP
6 0 0.00 0
Birth Date12-9-1984
Height6' 2"
Weight195 lbs
Age40 years, 8 months, 10 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

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-
2009 GRF Rk PIO 18 2 58.7 2 0 4 49 17 72 4 98 7.5 2.6 0.6 11.0 0% .317 1.12 3.37 2.45 82 3.39 71.4
2010 KAN A SAL 25 0 38.0 1 1 9 32 9 47 1 7.6 2.1 0.2 11.1 0% .320 1.08 2.42 1.18 0 0.00 0.0
2010 WNS A+ CRL 13 0 17.0 1 2 1 21 5 24 2 11.1 2.6 1.1 12.7 0% .413 1.53 3.16 5.82 0 0.00 0.0
2011 WNS A+ CAR 21 0 39.0 2 2 6 31 13 43 3 7.2 3.0 0.7 9.9 0% .283 1.13 3.09 2.77 84 3.62 73.9
2011 BIR AA SOU 14 0 34.3 4 2 0 21 7 31 2 5.5 1.8 0.5 8.1 0% .211 0.82 3.20 1.31 83 2.67 54.5
2011 CHR AAA INT 4 0 6.3 1 0 0 2 0 8 0 2.8 0.0 0.0 11.4 0% .167 0.32 0.70 0.00 60 2.30 47.0
2012 BIR AA SOU 24 2 45.7 3 3 3 35 18 44 0 96 6.9 3.5 0.0 8.7 0% .267 1.16 2.59 3.35 85 3.28 68.3
2012 CHR AAA INT 13 1 28.0 3 0 1 27 12 26 1 96 8.7 3.9 0.3 8.4 0% .325 1.39 3.15 1.61 91 4.43 92.2
2012 EST Wnt DWL 10 0 8.3 1 1 2 12 8 5 0 13.0 8.6 0.0 5.4 0% .414 2.40 5.17 5.40 0 0.00 0.0
2013 TUC AAA PCL 41 14 101.0 3 6 0 120 39 97 10 103 10.7 3.5 0.9 8.6 0% .361 1.57 4.35 4.99 95 5.34 115.9
2014 ELP AAA PCL 46 5 76.3 3 5 1 78 37 45 11 9.2 4.4 1.3 5.3 0% .270 1.51 6.07 5.90 134 6.43 136.1

Plate Discipline

YEAR Pits Zone% Swing% Contact% Z-Swing% O-Swing% Z-Contact% O-Contact% SwStr%

Injury History  —  No longer being updated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
2014-08-19 2014-09-01 Minors 13 0 - Not Disclosed -
2010-06-30 2010-07-22 Minors 22 0 Not Disclosed -

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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
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PITCHf/x Pitcher Profile

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2025, Branch Kloess threw 79 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2012 and 2013, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2013, he relied primarily on his Sinker (93mph), also mixing in a Curve (80mph) and Change (89mph). He also rarely threw a Cutter (90mph).