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Matt DeSalvo

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Age: 44

Birth Date: 1980 Sep 11

Birthplace: New Castle, PA, USA

Height: 6' 0"

Weight: 180 lb.

B/T: Right/Right

Season Contract Year	G Games	IP Innings Pitched	WARP Wins Above Replacement Player	DRA- Deserved Run Average Minus - 100 is average. Lower is better, higher is worse	DRA Deserved Run Average - Analyzes pitcher contributions, not just pitching results; scaled to RA9	SD DRA Standard Deviation - Our measure of uncertainty surrounding a player’s DRA	cFIP
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2012-12-26 : RHP Matt DeSalvo transferred to Estrellas de Oriente from Tigres del Licey.
2012-01-05 : RHP Matt DeSalvo transferred to Criollos de Caguas from Gigantes de Carolina.
2010-05-03 : New Orleans Zephyrs released RHP Matt DeSalvo.
2009-11-09 : RHP Matt DeSalvo elected free agency.
2009-08-07 : Hudson Valley Renegades released RHP Matt DeSalvo.

Date On When the player was placed on IL or injured	Date Off When the player was activated from IL or returned	Transaction Action taken by team	Days Total days missed by player	Games Approximate team games missed by player	Side The side of the body where the injury occurred	Body Part The part of the body where the injury occured	Injury A description of the injury
2010-04-22	2010-04-29	Minors	7	-	Not Known	Not Disclosed	Not Disclosed
2005-06-09	2005-06-16	Minors	7	-	Right	Shoulder	Tendonitis

Year	Book	Comments	Buy now
2008		Another graduate of the Fabian school of pitching, DeSalvo doesn't have the stuff to challenge hitters so he has to beat them with smarts and precision. That precision deserted him in 2006. He made something of a recovery at Scranton last year, but his walk rate was still high for a pitcher with his stuff and approach, and that proved to be his downfall in the majors. Interesting stat: just 4.6 percent of the fly balls DeSalvo gave up in the majors left the park (league average is about 11 percent).	Buy it now
2006		A creative pitcher, DeSalvo`s like a Swiss army knife, coming at hitters with up to five pitches: fastball, curve, two different sliders, and a change. (DeSalvo has said, `I have every pitch you can possibly throw.`) His fastball sits in the 90-92 MPH range, so it`s not like he`s a soft-tosser, and he`s very good at keeping the ball down. In all, batters hit just .202 against him. DeSalvo`s trapezius troubled him early in the year, causing him some uncharacteristic control problems. It was the second year in a row that he had back problems, and perhaps anticipating another Kevin Brown situation, the Yankees theorized DeSalvo`s mechanics were the cause. He switched to a more conventional delivery, stayed healthy, and thanks to the simplified mechanics his control improved as the year went on. Assuming continued health, Triple-A is not going to be an obstacle to him. PECOTA is too pessimistic.
2005		A little guy with a funky delivery, DeSalvo was an astute pickup by Yankees scouts who grabbed him as a non-drafted free agent in 2003. His first 26 pro starts were pure chewing satisfaction: 146.1 innings, 105 hits, 54 walks, 153 strikeouts, 1.48 ERA (2.64 runs allowed). Five late-season starts at Double-A Trenton were less successful (Double-A: Where Yankees prospects go to die). Those 27 innings, in which a bad back may have been complicit, don't erase what he did at the lower levels, but they bring up all the usual questions about whether a guy who hides a weak fastball with guile can survive against more advanced hitters. Stand by for a conversion to middle relief.