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Carlos Martínez PCardinals

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2019 Projections (Preseason PECOTA - seasonal age 27)

IP	ERA	WHIP	SO	W	L	SV	WARP
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Birth Date	9-21-1991
Height	6' 0"
Weight	200 lbs

Age	33 years, 6 months, 21 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

: 5.02015
: 4.22016
: 4.92017
: 0.92018
: 0.32019
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Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
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YEAR	Team	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
2013	SLN	21	1	28.3	2	1	1	31	9	24	1	103	9.8	2.9	0.3	7.6	0%	.345	1.41	3.05	5.08	100	4.48	107.4	0.1
2014	SLN	57	7	89.3	2	4	1	90	36	84	4	102	9.1	3.6	0.4	8.5	0%	.333	1.41	3.14	4.03	95	3.69	90.4	1.0
2015	SLN	31	29	179.7	14	7	0	168	63	184	13	94	8.4	3.2	0.7	9.2	0%	.318	1.29	3.23	3.01	78	2.74	63.9	5.0
2016	SLN	31	31	195.3	16	9	0	169	70	174	15	91	7.8	3.2	0.7	8.0	58%	.286	1.22	3.64	3.04	91	3.46	76.6	4.2
2017	SLN	32	32	205.0	12	11	0	179	71	217	27	96	7.9	3.1	1.2	9.5	52%	.285	1.22	3.92	3.64	82	3.43	72.9	4.9
2018	SLN	33	18	118.7	8	6	5	100	60	117	5	92	7.6	4.6	0.4	8.9	51%	.290	1.35	3.49	3.11	99	4.63	103.4	0.9
2019	SLN	48	0	48.3	4	2	24	39	18	53	2	93	7.3	3.4	0.4	9.9	59%	.298	1.18	2.81	3.17	79	3.29	67.5	1.1
Career		253	118	864.7	58	40	31	776	327	853	67	94	8.1	3.4	0.7	8.9	55%	.296	1.28	3.49	3.36	87	3.51	78.7	17.2

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-
2011	QUD	A	MID	8	8	38.7	3	2	0	27	14	50	1	96	6.3	3.3	0.2	11.6	0%	.299	1.06	2.50	2.33	79	3.30	67.3
2011	PMB	A+	FSL	10	10	46.0	3	3	0	49	30	48	2	100	9.6	5.9	0.4	9.4	0%	.351	1.72	4.20	5.28	105	6.91	141.0
2012	PMB	A+	FSL	7	7	33.0	2	2	0	29	10	34	0	97	7.9	2.7	0.0	9.3	0%	.319	1.18	2.78	3.00	81	4.07	84.8
2012	SFD	AA	TEX	15	14	71.3	4	3	0	62	22	58	6	99	7.8	2.8	0.8	7.3	0%	.276	1.18	3.92	2.90	101	4.37	91.0
2013	SLN	MLB	NL	21	1	28.3	2	1	1	31	9	24	1	103	9.8	2.9	0.3	7.6	0%	.345	1.41	3.05	5.08	100	4.48	107.4
2013	SFD	AA	TEX	3	3	11.7	1	0	0	11	1	9	1	103	8.5	0.8	0.8	6.9	0%	.278	1.03	3.13	2.31	90	3.59	78.1
2013	MEM	AAA	PCL	13	13	68.0	5	3	0	54	27	63	3	88	7.1	3.6	0.4	8.3	0%	.268	1.19	3.74	2.51	88	2.86	62.1
2014	SLN	MLB	NL	57	7	89.3	2	4	1	90	36	84	4	102	9.1	3.6	0.4	8.5	0%	.333	1.41	3.14	4.03	95	3.69	90.4
2014	MEM	AAA	PCL	2	2	10.3	1	0	0	6	1	7	0	89	5.2	0.9	0.0	6.1	0%	.207	0.68	2.63	0.00	88	2.61	55.3
2015	SLN	MLB	NL	31	29	179.7	14	7	0	168	63	184	13	94	8.4	3.2	0.7	9.2	0%	.318	1.29	3.23	3.01	78	2.74	63.9
2016	SLN	MLB	NL	31	31	195.3	16	9	0	169	70	174	15	91	7.8	3.2	0.7	8.0	58%	.286	1.22	3.64	3.04	91	3.46	76.6
2017	SLN	MLB	NL	32	32	205.0	12	11	0	179	71	217	27	96	7.9	3.1	1.2	9.5	52%	.285	1.22	3.92	3.64	82	3.43	72.9
2018	SLN	MLB	NL	33	18	118.7	8	6	5	100	60	117	5	92	7.6	4.6	0.4	8.9	51%	.290	1.35	3.49	3.11	99	4.63	103.4
2018	SFD	AA	TEX	3	1	7.0	0	0	0	6	0	6	3	102	7.7	0.0	3.9	7.7	29%	.167	0.86	7.30	3.86	124	4.58	96.9
2019	SLN	MLB	NL	48	0	48.3	4	2	24	39	18	53	2	93	7.3	3.4	0.4	9.9	59%	.298	1.18	2.81	3.17	79	3.29	67.5
2019	PEO	A	MID	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	100%	.000	0.00	3.43	0.00	106	4.51	92.9
2019	SFD	AA	TEX	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0		18.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	63%	.500	2.00	4.95	4.50	111	7.32	150.5
2019	MEM	AAA	PCL	3	0	3.7	0	0	0	1	4	6	0		2.5	9.8	0.0	14.7	83%	.167	1.36	4.61	0.00	80	1.74	35.7

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%
2013	470	0.5234	0.5106	0.7917	0.6667	0.3393	0.8841	0.5921	0.2083
2014	1350	0.4711	0.4807	0.7026	0.6226	0.3543	0.8157	0.5257	0.2974
2015	2821	0.4878	0.4665	0.7546	0.6105	0.3294	0.8631	0.5630	0.2454
2016	3000	0.5273	0.4643	0.7688	0.6220	0.2884	0.8435	0.5892	0.2312
2017	3121	0.5056	0.4601	0.7493	0.6084	0.3085	0.8333	0.5798	0.2507
2018	1973	0.4906	0.4633	0.7473	0.6271	0.3055	0.8369	0.5700	0.2527
2019	767	0.4941	0.4941	0.7071	0.6412	0.3505	0.8313	0.4853	0.2929
Career	13502	0.5010	0.4686	0.7489	0.6199	0.3160	0.8422	0.5666	0.2511

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
2011-08-17	2011-08-28	Minors	11	0	-		Not Disclosed		-	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary
2013	SLN	$
2014	SLN	$505,000
2015	SLN	$520,000
2016	SLN	$539,000
2017	SLN	$3,700,000
2018	SLN	$11,700,000
2019	SLN	$11,700,000
2020	SLN	$11,700,000
2021	SLN	$11,700,000
2022	SFN	$

Years	Description	Salary
8 yr	Previous	$52,064,000
8 yr	Total	$52,064,000

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status
8 y 73 d	Octagon	1 year (2022)

Details

1 year (2022). Signed by San Francisco as a free agent 3/13/22 (minor-league contract). Salary of $2.5M in majors. May earn additional $1.5M in performance bonuses. Released by San Francisco 4/28/22. Signed by Boston as a free agent 5/8/22 (minor-league contract). Released by Boston 5/18/22. Suspended 80 games without pay 5/28/22 (violation of MLB PED policy).
5 years/$51M (2017-21), plus 2022-23 options. Signed extension with St. Louis 2/2/17 (avoided arbitration, $4.25M-$3.9M). $1M signing bonus. 17:$3.5M, 18:$11.5M, 19:$11.5M, 20:$11.5M, 21:$11.5M, 22:$17M club option ($0.5M buyout), 23:$18M club option ($0.5M buyout). Assignment bonus: $0.5M if traded before end of 2019 season. $1M if traded after 2019 season. Perks: suite on road beginning in 2020. St. Louis declined 2022 option 11/4/21.
1 year/$539,000 (2016). Re-signed by St. Louis 3/16.
1 year/$520,000 (2015). Re-signed by St. Louis 3/15.
1 year/$505,000 (2014). Re-signed by St. Louis 3/14.
1 year (2013). Contract purchased by St. Louis 5/3/13.
Signed by St. Louis 2010 as an amateur free agent from the Dominican Republic. $1.5M signing bonus.
Previously known as Carlos Matias, he signed with Boston in 2009 for $160,000, but the deal was voided.

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
90^o	0	0	0	0	0	11.4	8	4	12	1	.253	1.04	2.22	2.71
80^o	0	0	0	0	0	7.5	5	3	8	0	.264	1.11	2.51	3.05
70^o	0	0	0	0	0	4.7	4	2	5	0	.271	1.15	2.71	3.29
60^o	0	0	0	0	0	2.4	2	1	3	0	.278	1.19	2.89	3.5
50^o	0	0	0	0	0	0.3	0	0	0	0	.285	1.23	3.06	3.7
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?

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Although he has not thrown an MLB pitch in 2025, Carlos Martinez threw 16,124 pitches that were tracked by the PITCHf/x system between 2013 and 2023, all of them occuring in Spring Training. In 2023, he relied primarily on his Sinker (89mph), Cutter (89mph), Slider (81mph) and Fourseam Fastball (91mph), also mixing in a Change (82mph).