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Josh Towers

Birthdate: 2/26/1977 Bats/Throws: R/R
Height/Weight: 6-1/183 Position: P
Contract: Add New Contract

8/9/2009: The Yankees promoted Towers from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Saturday, the New York Daily News reports.

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Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	W	L	SV	G	GS	IP	K/9	BB/9	HR/9	BABIP	LOB%	GB%	HR/FB	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WAR
2001	Orioles	8	10	0	24	20	140.1	3.72	1.03	1.35	.297	71.7 %			4.49	4.64		1.2
2002	Orioles	0	3	0	5	3	27.1	4.28	1.65	3.62	.326	72.8 %	32.7 %	27.5 %	7.90	7.79	4.59	-0.5
2003	Blue Jays	8	1	1	14	8	64.1	5.88	0.98	2.10	.264	77.2 %	39.6 %	19.2 %	4.48	5.27	4.01	0.3
2004	Blue Jays	9	9	0	21	21	116.1	3.95	2.01	1.24	.317	70.4 %	47.2 %	11.2 %	5.11	4.86	4.82	1.3
2005	Blue Jays	13	12	0	33	33	208.2	4.83	1.25	1.04	.302	71.7 %	43.8 %	9.1 %	3.71	3.94	4.19	4.0
2006	Blue Jays (AAA)	5	5	0	15	15	101.1	6.75	0.98	1.07	.340	70.1 %			4.00	3.74
2006	Blue Jays	2	10	0	15	12	62.0	5.08	2.47	2.47	.341	57.2 %	39.0 %	17.9 %	8.42	6.55	5.14	-0.4
2007	Blue Jays	5	10	0	25	15	107.0	6.39	1.85	1.51	.320	63.7 %	43.9 %	14.1 %	5.38	4.79	4.10	0.8
2008	Rockies (AAA)	6	7	0	31	15	116.1	6.11	2.24	0.93	.358	62.9 %			6.27	4.19
2009	Yankees (AAA)	7	6	0	19	18	101.2	4.87	2.12	1.15	.247	86.0 %			2.74	4.61
2009	Nationals (AAA)	0	0	0	1	0	1.2	0.00	0.00	0.00	.546	33.3 %			21.60	3.20
2009	Yankees	0	0	0	2	0	5.1	3.38	1.69	0.00	.286	62.5 %	23.8 %	0.0 %	3.38	3.47	6.18	0.0
2010	Dodgers (AAA)	2	5	0	8	8	38.0	4.26	1.42	2.13	.340	47.9 %			8.05	5.88
2011	Mexican (AAA)	1	1	0	4	3	11.1	4.76	2.38	1.59	.341	33.0 %			7.94	5.49
2013	Steamer	2	1	0	30	0	30.0	6.00	2.77	1.08	.304	71.5 %			4.27	4.36		0.0
Total	- - -	45	55	1	139	112	731.1	4.79	1.51	1.50	.307	69.1 %	42.7 %	13.3 %	4.95	4.83	4.42	6.7

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Standard

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	ShO	SV	HLD	BS	IP	TBF	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	HBP	WP	BK	SO
2001	Orioles	8	10	4.49	24	20	1	1	0			140.1	586	165	74	70	21	16	0	6	1	0	58
2002	Orioles	0	3	7.90	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	27.1	124	42	24	24	11	5	0	0	1	0	13
2003	Blue Jays	8	1	4.48	14	8	1	0	1	0	0	64.1	265	67	34	32	15	7	1	4	1	0	42
2004	Blue Jays	9	9	5.11	21	21	0	0	0	0	0	116.1	518	148	70	66	16	26	4	9	0	1	51
2005	Blue Jays	13	12	3.71	33	33	2	1	0	0	0	208.2	876	237	101	86	24	29	2	6	1	1	112
2006	Blue Jays (AAA)	5	5	4.00	15	15	0	0	0			101.1	426	121	53	45	12	11	1	6	2	0	76
2006	Blue Jays	2	10	8.42	15	12	0	0	0	0	0	62.0	295	93	62	58	17	17	3	3	1	1	35
2007	Blue Jays	5	10	5.38	25	15	0	0	0	0	0	107.0	469	129	73	64	18	22	2	6	1	0	76
2008	Rockies (AAA)	6	7	6.27	31	15	0	0	0			116.1	532	156	83	81	12	29	0	10	6	0	79
2009	Yankees (AAA)	7	6	2.74	19	18	0	0	0			101.2	404	89	32	31	13	24	0	4	1	0	55
2009	Nationals (AAA)	0	0	21.60	1	0	0	0	0			1.2	11	6	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2009	Yankees	0	0	3.38	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5.1	25	6	3	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	2
2010	Dodgers (AAA)	2	5	8.05	8	8	0	0	0			38.0	190	62	42	34	9	6	0	1	1	0	18
2011	Mexican (AAA)	1	1	7.94	4	3	0	0	0			11.1	56	17	15	10	2	3	0	1	0	0	6
2013	Steamer	2	1	4.27	30	0			0			30.0	130	32	15	14	4	9		1			20
Total	- - -	45	55	4.95	139	112	4	2	1	0	0	731.1	3158	887	441	402	122	123	13	35	6	3	389

Advanced

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	AVG	WHIP	BABIP	LOB%	ERA-	FIP-	FIP
2001	Orioles	3.72	1.03	3.63	1.35	9.9 %	2.7 %	.293	1.29	.297	71.7 %	104	109	4.64
2001	Average	6.74	3.29	2.05	1.13	17.3 %	8.5 %	.259	1.38	.292	71.2 %			4.57
2002	Orioles	4.28	1.65	2.60	3.62	10.5 %	4.0 %	.353	1.72	.326	72.8 %	182	182	7.79
2002	Average	6.53	3.38	1.93	1.05	16.8 %	8.7 %	.257	1.38	.289	71.7 %			4.52
2003	Blue Jays	5.88	0.98	6.00	2.10	15.9 %	2.6 %	.264	1.15	.264	77.2 %	95	114	5.27
2003	Average	6.40	3.30	1.94	1.08	16.4 %	8.5 %	.260	1.38	.291	71.2 %			4.57
2004	Blue Jays	3.95	2.01	1.96	1.24	9.9 %	5.0 %	.306	1.50	.317	70.4 %	107	104	4.86
2004	Average	6.60	3.36	1.96	1.13	16.9 %	8.6 %	.261	1.40	.293	71.4 %			4.62
2005	Blue Jays	4.83	1.25	3.86	1.04	12.8 %	3.3 %	.282	1.27	.302	71.7 %	83	89	3.94
2005	Average	6.38	3.17	2.02	1.04	16.5 %	8.2 %	.260	1.37	.292	71.6 %			4.47
2006	Blue Jays (AAA)	6.75	0.98	6.91	1.07	17.8 %	2.6 %	.296	1.30	.340	70.1 %			3.74
2006	Blue Jays	5.08	2.47	2.06	2.47	11.9 %	5.8 %	.338	1.77	.341	57.2 %	182	143	6.55
2006	Average	6.59	3.30	2.00	1.12	16.8 %	8.4 %	.265	1.41	.298	70.9 %			4.58
2007	Blue Jays	6.39	1.85	3.45	1.51	16.2 %	4.7 %	.293	1.41	.320	63.7 %	120	108	4.79
2007	Average	6.67	3.33	2.00	1.03	17.1 %	8.5 %	.263	1.41	.299	70.7 %			4.43
2008	Rockies (AAA)	6.11	2.24	2.72	0.93	14.9 %	5.5 %	.316	1.59	.358	62.9 %			4.19
2009	Yankees (AAA)	4.87	2.12	2.29	1.15	13.6 %	5.9 %	.237	1.11	.247	86.0 %			4.61
2009	Nationals (AAA)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.0 %	0.0 %	.546	3.60	.546	33.3 %			3.20
2009	Yankees	3.38	1.69	2.00	0.00	8.0 %	4.0 %	.261	1.31	.286	62.5 %	74	77	3.47
2009	Average	6.99	3.46	2.02	1.05	18.0 %	8.9 %	.258	1.39	.295	71.9 %			4.42
2010	Dodgers (AAA)	4.26	1.42	3.00	2.13	9.5 %	3.2 %	.339	1.79	.340	47.9 %			5.88
2011	Mexican (AAA)	4.76	2.38	2.00	1.59	10.7 %	5.4 %	.327	1.76	.341	33.0 %			5.49
2013	Steamer	6.00	2.77	2.17	1.08			.274	1.37	.304	71.5 %			4.36
Total	- - -	4.79	1.51	3.16	1.50	12.3 %	3.9 %	.296	1.38	.307	69.1 %	109	108	4.83

Batted Ball

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	GB/FB	LD%	GB%	FB%	IFFB%	HR/FB	IFH%	BUH%	tERA	SIERA	xFIP-	xFIP
2002	Orioles	0.85	28.8 %	32.7 %	38.5 %	27.5 %	27.5 %	0.0 %	50.0 %	9.16	4.70	105	4.59
2003	Blue Jays	1.08	23.6 %	39.6 %	36.8 %	7.7 %	19.2 %	7.1 %	0.0 %	6.40	3.89	90	4.01
2004	Blue Jays	1.39	19.0 %	47.2 %	33.9 %	9.1 %	11.2 %	7.5 %	50.0 %	5.27	4.87	106	4.82
2005	Blue Jays	1.18	19.2 %	43.8 %	37.0 %	9.1 %	9.1 %	8.3 %	31.3 %	4.37	4.30	97	4.19
2006	Blue Jays	0.97	20.8 %	39.0 %	40.3 %	5.3 %	17.9 %	5.4 %	25.0 %	6.83	5.00	114	5.14
2007	Blue Jays	1.23	20.4 %	43.9 %	35.8 %	4.7 %	14.1 %	7.0 %	28.6 %	5.01	4.11	92	4.10
2009	Yankees	0.45	23.8 %	23.8 %	52.4 %	0.0 %	0.0 %	20.0 %	0.0 %	4.45	5.52	139	6.18
Total	- - -	1.16	20.5 %	42.7 %	36.7 %	8.6 %	13.3 %	7.2 %	35.9 %	5.35	4.45	100	4.42

More Batted Ball

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	GB	FB	LD	IFFB	IFH	BU	BUH	RS	Balls	Strikes	Pitches
2002	Orioles	34	40	30	11	0	2	1	3	138	292	430
2003	Blue Jays	84	78	50	6	6	0	0	57	285	625	910
2004	Blue Jays	199	143	80	13	15	10	5	62	525	1135	1660
2005	Blue Jays	312	264	137	24	26	16	5	126	927	2027	2954
2006	Blue Jays	92	95	49	5	5	4	1	36	341	653	994
2007	Blue Jays	157	128	73	6	11	7	2	65	550	1117	1667
2009	Yankees	5	11	5	0	1	0	0	5	23	47	70
Total	- - -	883	759	424	65	64	39	14	354	2789	5896	8685

Win Probability

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	WPA	-WPA	+WPA	RE24	REW	pLI	inLI	gmLI	exLI	Pulls	WPA/LI	Clutch	SD	MD
2001	Orioles	-1.06	-10.77	9.71	-1.47	-0.08	0.88	0.85	0.97	0.95	21	-0.60	-0.60	1	2
2002	Orioles	-0.60	-1.70	1.09	-9.79	-0.96	0.50	0.53	0.67	0.21	4	-0.62	-0.60	0	1
2003	Blue Jays	1.08	-3.33	4.42	2.39	0.15	0.78	0.86	0.97	0.64	11	0.48	0.91	2	0
2004	Blue Jays	0.18	-9.51	9.69	-5.19	-0.42	1.04	0.99	0.87	1.05	21	-0.81	0.98	0	0
2005	Blue Jays	-0.29	-15.15	14.86	7.02	0.74	0.94	0.90	0.87	1.07	31	0.58	-0.88	0	0
2006	Blue Jays	-2.34	-6.74	4.39	-24.51	-2.30	0.92	0.84	0.90	0.98	14	-1.90	-0.64	1	1
2007	Blue Jays	-2.00	-9.39	7.39	-16.55	-1.59	0.93	0.90	0.77	1.18	19	-1.17	-0.98	0	3
2009	Yankees	-0.01	-0.02	0.02	-0.52	-0.05	0.05	0.07	0.16		0	-0.07	-0.07	0	0
Total	- - -	-5.04	-56.61	51.57	-48.61	-4.51	0.91	0.88	0.87	0.98	121	-4.11	-1.45	4	7

Pitch Type

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	FB%	SL%	CT%	CB%	CH%	XX%
2002	Orioles	66.9% (87.6)			16.7% (77.7)	16.4% (79.8)	0.9%
2003	Blue Jays	66.1% (88.2)	15.3% (82.0)		8.3% (76.7)	10.2% (79.4)	1.1%
2004	Blue Jays	62.4% (88.4)	18.1% (82.9)	0.2% (86.3)	10.1% (78.0)	9.3% (81.1)	5.2%
2005	Blue Jays	57.6% (87.9)	28.8% (82.3)	1.4% (84.0)	4.2% (75.7)	8.1% (81.0)	13.9%
2006	Blue Jays	55.0% (86.5)	30.7% (80.7)	0.3% (84.3)	6.9% (74.1)	7.0% (79.5)	2.5%
2007	Blue Jays	52.5% (87.6)	32.9% (82.5)		5.4% (76.1)	9.2% (81.9)	2.3%
2009	Yankees	53.0% (86.4)	25.8% (82.5)		3.0% (73.5)	18.2% (81.2)	5.7%
Total	- - -	58.6% (87.8)	24.7% (82.2)	0.5% (84.2)	7.0% (76.6)	9.2% (80.8)	6.7%

PITCHf/x Pitch Type

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	FA%	SI%	SL%	CU%	CH%
2007	Blue Jays	39.3 %	0.1 %	39.0 %	2.7 %	18.3 %
2009	Yankees	24.3 %		24.3 %	1.4 %	44.3 %
Total	- - -	38.3 %	0.1 %	38.0 %	2.6 %	20.0 %

PITCHf/x Pitch Velocity

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	vFA	vSI	vSL	vCU	vCH
2007	Blue Jays	88.0	85.5	82.4	77.6	82.9
2009	Yankees	87.1		82.5	71.8	83.3
Total	- - -	88.0	85.5	82.4	77.4	83.0

Pitch Values

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFB	wSL	wCT	wCB	wCH	wFB/C	wSL/C	wCT/C	wCB/C	wCH/C
2002	Orioles	-14.0			-1.4	3.3	-4.91			-2.01	4.69
2003	Blue Jays	-3.4	2.1		-0.4	-2.0	-0.57	1.54		-0.52	-2.14
2004	Blue Jays	-6.4	-5.3	0.4	-2.9	4.3	-0.66	-1.86	13.26	-1.86	2.94
2005	Blue Jays	-1.3	-4.0	-2.6	-5.5	2.8	-0.09	-0.55	-7.51	-5.16	1.37
2006	Blue Jays	-9.3	-8.5	0.2	0.5	-4.3	-1.74	-2.87	5.05	0.77	-6.33
2007	Blue Jays	-1.5	-7.2		-5.4	-0.2	-0.18	-1.34		-6.21	-0.14
2009	Yankees	2.0	-1.3		-0.6	-0.6	5.63	-7.67		-30.69	-4.62
Total	- - -	-33.9	-24.1	-2.1	-15.8	3.3	-0.72	-1.21	-5.07	-2.78	0.45

PITCHf/x Pitch Values

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA	wSI	wSL	wCU	wCH
2007	Blue Jays	-3.5	-0.1	3.7	-1.9	0.1
2009	Yankees	0.4		-1.4	-0.5	0.9
Total	- - -	-3.1	-0.1	2.3	-2.4	1.0

PITCHf/x Pitch Values / 100

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA/C	wSI/C	wSL/C	wCU/C	wCH/C
2007	Blue Jays	-0.90	-9.72	0.96	-7.03	0.06
2009	Yankees	2.22		-8.13	-54.77	2.81
Total	- - -	-0.77	-9.72	0.58	-8.74	0.46

Plate Discipline

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	F-Strike%	SwStr%
2002	Orioles	8.2 %	70.7 %	49.3 %	33.3 %	89.4 %	86.2 %	65.7 %	66.9 %	6.7 %
2002	Average	18.1 %	70.1 %	46.5 %	47.5 %	85.5 %	78.8 %	54.6 %	58.3 %	9.8 %
2003	Blue Jays	28.7 %	68.1 %	49.9 %	63.0 %	88.5 %	81.8 %	53.9 %	62.3 %	9.0 %
2003	Average	22.2 %	68.8 %	46.2 %	51.9 %	87.8 %	79.4 %	51.4 %	58.6 %	9.5 %
2004	Blue Jays	13.0 %	71.1 %	50.8 %	57.8 %	88.6 %	85.9 %	65.0 %	63.7 %	7.2 %
2004	Average	16.6 %	69.6 %	45.8 %	53.7 %	85.2 %	80.1 %	55.1 %	58.4 %	9.0 %
2005	Blue Jays	23.8 %	68.5 %	50.2 %	68.6 %	90.4 %	86.2 %	59.0 %	66.7 %	7.2 %
2005	Average	20.3 %	68.0 %	46.0 %	51.8 %	88.3 %	80.8 %	53.8 %	59.1 %	8.7 %
2006	Blue Jays	23.9 %	64.4 %	46.8 %	71.3 %	92.1 %	87.5 %	56.5 %	64.4 %	5.6 %
2006	Average	23.5 %	66.6 %	46.1 %	57.4 %	88.5 %	81.0 %	52.6 %	58.8 %	8.5 %
2007	Blue Jays	26.5 %	65.0 %	48.4 %	67.4 %	89.6 %	84.3 %	56.9 %	66.7 %	7.3 %
2007	Average	25.0 %	66.6 %	45.9 %	60.8 %	88.2 %	80.8 %	50.3 %	58.7 %	8.6 %
2009	Yankees	16.0 %	70.0 %	49.2 %	50.0 %	89.3 %	84.4 %	61.5 %	64.0 %	7.1 %
2009	Average	25.1 %	66.0 %	45.3 %	61.7 %	87.8 %	80.5 %	49.3 %	58.2 %	8.6 %
Total	- - -	22.5 %	68.0 %	49.4 %	66.1 %	89.8 %	85.4 %	59.2 %	65.4 %	7.2 %

PITCHf/x Plate Discipline

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	Pace
2007	Blue Jays	30.1 %	64.6 %	48.0 %	70.1 %	89.2 %	83.5 %	52.0 %	20.5
2007	Average	28.6 %	62.3 %	45.2 %	66.4 %	87.6 %	80.8 %	49.3 %	21.5
2009	Yankees	28.1 %	60.5 %	45.7 %	77.8 %	87.0 %	84.4 %	54.3 %	19.2
2009	Average	27.6 %	61.4 %	44.5 %	65.5 %	88.0 %	81.0 %	50.1 %	21.4
Total	- - -	30.0 %	64.3 %	47.9 %	70.6 %	89.1 %	83.5 %	52.1 %	20.5

Fielding

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	FE	TE	DP	DPS	DPT	DPF	SB	FP
2001	Orioles	P	24	20	140.1	10	18	1			2					.966
2002	Orioles	P	5	3	27.1	5	7	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	1.000
2003	Blue Jays	P	14	8	64.1	9	10	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	.950
2004	Blue Jays	P	21	21	116.1	9	13	2	0	2	1	1	0	0	10	.917
2005	Blue Jays	P	33	33	208.2	29	31	0	0	0	4	3	0	1	14	1.000
2006	Blue Jays	P	15	12	62.0	7	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	12	.929
2007	Blue Jays	P	25	15	107.0	16	19	3	0	3	2	1	0	1	13	.921
2009	Yankees	P	2	0	5.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Total	- - -	P	139	112	731.1	85	104	8	0	7	10	6	0	2	55	.959

Advanced Fielding

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	Pos	Inn	rSB	rGFP	rPM	DRS
2003	Blue Jays	P	64.1	1	0	2	3
2004	Blue Jays	P	116.1	-1	0	-2	-4
2005	Blue Jays	P	208.2	0	1	0	2
2006	Blue Jays	P	62.0	-2	0	-1	-3
2007	Blue Jays	P	107.0	-1	0	0	-1
2009	Yankees	P	5.1	0	0	0	0
Total	- - -	P	731.1	-3	1	-1	-3

Value

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	RA9-Wins	BIP-Wins	LOB-Wins	FDP-Wins	RAR	WAR	Dollars	Salary
2001	Orioles	1.5	0.0	0.4	0.4	12.2	1.2
2002	Orioles	-0.4	-0.2	0.3	0.1	-5.6	-0.5	($1.2)	$0.2
2003	Blue Jays	0.9	0.4	0.3	0.7	2.6	0.3	$0.8
2004	Blue Jays	1.1	-0.7	0.4	-0.2	14.2	1.3	$4.1	$0.3
2005	Blue Jays	3.8	-0.5	0.2	-0.3	39.8	4.0	$13.7	$0.4
2006	Blue Jays	-1.5	-0.6	-0.5	-1.1	-4.9	-0.4	($1.6)	$2.3
2007	Blue Jays	-0.2	-0.5	-0.5	-0.9	8.0	0.8	$3.1	$2.9
2009	Yankees	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	$0.2
Total	- - -	5.3	-2.0	0.6	-1.4	66.7	6.7	$19.1	$6.1

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