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Saul Rivera Birthdate: 12/7/1977 Bats/Throws: B/R Height/Weight: 5-10/180 Position: P Contract: Add New Contract
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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
2006	Nationals (AAA)	1	1	1	12	2	28.1	7.94	3.81	0.32	.289	85.9 %			1.59	3.59
2006	Nationals	3	0	1	54	0	60.1	6.12	4.77	0.60	.281	74.9 %	46.1 %	6.0 %	3.43	4.44	5.14	-0.1
2007	Nationals (AAA)	0	1	0	1	0	0.2	0.00	0.00	0.00	.500	50.0 %			13.50	3.20
2007	Nationals	4	6	3	85	0	93.0	6.19	4.06	0.10	.301	71.2 %	49.6 %	1.1 %	3.68	3.42	4.48	1.1
2008	Nationals	5	6	0	76	0	84.0	6.96	3.75	0.32	.327	70.0 %	54.0 %	4.5 %	3.96	3.37	3.94	1.0
2009	Nationals (AAA)	2	5	2	30	0	45.2	6.31	4.93	0.20	.364	70.2 %			3.55	3.86
2009	Nationals	1	3	0	30	0	38.1	4.93	3.29	1.64	.313	67.0 %	56.0 %	19.4 %	6.10	5.71	4.56	-0.6
2010	Diamondbacks (AAA)	0	1	0	11	0	14.0	3.86	3.86	0.64	.389	65.2 %			7.07	4.77
2010	Indians (AAA)	2	1	5	21	0	24.0	5.25	4.50	0.00	.186	80.0 %			1.50	3.53
2010	Diamondbacks	0	0	0	4	0	3.2	2.45	7.36	4.91	.474	44.6 %	55.0 %	40.0 %	22.09	12.08	6.65	-0.2
2011	Mexican (AAA)	1	0	1	12	0	13.1	4.73	2.70	2.03	.311	67.4 %			6.08	6.20
2013	Steamer	2	1	0	30	0	30.0	6.39	3.58	0.94	.303	71.7 %			4.21	4.34		0.0
Total	- - -	13	15	4	249	0	279.1	6.19	4.06	0.55	.310	70.4 %	51.2 %	6.5 %	4.29	4.05	4.50	1.3

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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
2006	Nationals (AAA)	1	1	1.59	12	2	0	0	1			28.1	125	25	7	5	1	12	1	4	4	0	25
2006	Nationals	3	0	3.43	54	0	0	0	1	9	2	60.1	277	59	28	23	4	32	6	4	3	0	41
2007	Nationals (AAA)	0	1	13.50	1	0	0	0	0			0.2	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
2007	Nationals	4	6	3.68	85	0	0	0	3	19	2	93.0	398	88	39	38	1	42	4	2	4	0	64
2008	Nationals	5	6	3.96	76	0	0	0	0	17	6	84.0	371	90	41	37	3	35	2	2	4	1	65
2009	Nationals (AAA)	2	5	3.55	30	0	0	0	2			45.2	214	57	26	18	1	25	6	2	4	1	32
2009	Nationals	1	3	6.10	30	0	0	0	0	2	1	38.1	176	48	28	26	7	14	4	3	1	0	21
2010	Diamondbacks (AAA)	0	1	7.07	11	0	0	0	0			14.0	68	22	11	11	1	6	0	1	2	0	6
2010	Indians (AAA)	2	1	1.50	21	0	0	0	5			24.0	96	13	5	4	0	12	0	0	3	0	14
2010	Diamondbacks	0	0	22.09	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.2	25	11	9	9	2	3	0	0	0	0	1
2011	Mexican (AAA)	1	0	6.08	12	0	0	0	1			13.1	60	17	10	9	3	4	0	1	1	1	7
2013	Steamer	2	1	4.21	30	0			0			30.0	132	31	15	14	3	12		1			21
Total	- - -	13	15	4.29	249	0	0	0	4	47	11	279.1	1247	296	145	133	17	126	16	11	12	1	192

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
2006	Nationals (AAA)	7.94	3.81	2.08	0.32	20.0 %	9.6 %	.229	1.31	.289	85.9 %			3.59
2006	Nationals	6.12	4.77	1.28	0.60	14.8 %	11.6 %	.245	1.51	.281	74.9 %	79	102	4.44
2006	Average	6.59	3.30	2.00	1.12	16.8 %	8.4 %	.265	1.41	.298	70.9 %			4.58
2007	Nationals (AAA)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.0 %	0.0 %	.500	3.00	.500	50.0 %			3.20
2007	Nationals	6.19	4.06	1.52	0.10	16.1 %	10.6 %	.249	1.40	.301	71.2 %	86	79	3.42
2007	Average	6.67	3.33	2.00	1.03	17.1 %	8.5 %	.263	1.41	.299	70.7 %			4.43
2008	Nationals	6.96	3.75	1.86	0.32	17.5 %	9.4 %	.269	1.49	.327	70.0 %	93	78	3.37
2008	Average	6.83	3.39	2.01	1.01	17.5 %	8.7 %	.259	1.39	.296	71.4 %			4.39
2009	Nationals (AAA)	6.31	4.93	1.28	0.20	15.0 %	11.7 %	.305	1.80	.364	70.2 %			3.86
2009	Nationals	4.93	3.29	1.50	1.64	11.9 %	8.0 %	.302	1.62	.313	67.0 %	146	135	5.71
2009	Average	6.99	3.46	2.02	1.05	18.0 %	8.9 %	.258	1.39	.295	71.9 %			4.42
2010	Diamondbacks (AAA)	3.86	3.86	1.00	0.64	8.8 %	8.8 %	.361	2.00	.389	65.2 %			4.77
2010	Indians (AAA)	5.25	4.50	1.17	0.00	14.6 %	12.5 %	.155	1.04	.186	80.0 %			3.53
2010	Diamondbacks	2.45	7.36	0.33	4.91	4.0 %	12.0 %	.500	3.82	.474	44.6 %	519	285	12.08
2010	Average	7.13	3.28	2.17	0.96	18.5 %	8.5 %	.253	1.35	.293	72.2 %			4.20
2011	Mexican (AAA)	4.73	2.70	1.75	2.03	11.7 %	6.7 %	.309	1.58	.311	67.4 %			6.20
2013	Steamer	6.39	3.58	1.79	0.94			.266	1.42	.303	71.7 %			4.34
Total	- - -	6.19	4.06	1.52	0.55	15.4 %	10.1 %	.267	1.51	.310	70.4 %	100	94	4.05

Batted Ball

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	GB/FB	LD%	GB%	FB%	IFFB%	HR/FB	IFH%	BUH%	tERA	SIERA	xFIP-	xFIP
2006	Nationals	1.33	19.2 %	46.1 %	34.7 %	6.0 %	6.0 %	3.4 %	0.0 %	4.47	4.88	114	5.14
2007	Nationals	1.54	18.1 %	49.6 %	32.2 %	6.7 %	1.1 %	8.0 %	23.1 %	3.34	4.44	100	4.48
2008	Nationals	2.15	20.9 %	54.0 %	25.1 %	4.5 %	4.5 %	7.0 %	33.3 %	3.89	3.78	91	3.94
2009	Nationals	2.08	17.2 %	56.0 %	26.9 %	13.9 %	19.4 %	6.7 %	0.0 %	5.67	4.19	108	4.56
2010	Diamondbacks	2.20	20.0 %	55.0 %	25.0 %	0.0 %	40.0 %	0.0 %	0.0 %	11.28	5.66	166	6.65
Total	- - -	1.73	19.1 %	51.2 %	29.7 %	6.8 %	6.5 %	6.4 %	16.1 %	4.21	4.34	102	4.50

More Batted Ball

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	GB	FB	LD	IFFB	IFH	BU	BUH	RS	Balls	Strikes	Pitches
2006	Nationals	89	67	37	4	3	7	0	28	392	627	1019
2007	Nationals	137	89	50	6	11	13	3	40	571	913	1484
2008	Nationals	142	66	55	3	10	6	2	48	559	869	1428
2009	Nationals	75	36	23	5	5	4	0	26	217	403	620
2010	Diamondbacks	11	5	4	0	0	1	0	0	31	53	84
Total	- - -	454	263	169	18	29	31	5	142	1770	2865	4635

Win Probability

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	WPA	-WPA	+WPA	RE24	REW	pLI	inLI	gmLI	exLI	Pulls	WPA/LI	Clutch	SD	MD
2006	Nationals	0.59	-3.39	3.98	1.08	0.11	0.83	0.73	0.84	1.00	38	0.57	0.14	11	6
2007	Nationals	1.27	-7.28	8.55	16.87	1.73	1.22	1.16	1.25	1.26	68	1.09	-0.06	26	12
2008	Nationals	0.31	-8.95	9.27	2.54	0.27	1.46	1.33	1.33	1.40	62	0.05	0.17	23	17
2009	Nationals	-0.78	-3.28	2.50	-6.89	-0.69	0.94	0.90	0.96	0.76	21	-0.72	-0.11	5	5
2010	Diamondbacks	-0.15	-0.18	0.03	-7.31	-0.78	0.17	0.14	0.14	0.01	3	-0.70	-0.17	0	1
Total	- - -	1.24	-23.08	24.32	6.28	0.64	1.15	1.07	1.13	1.18	192	0.28	0.80	65	41

Pitch Type

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	FB%	SL%	CT%	CB%	CH%	XX%
2006	Nationals	65.3% (88.7)	25.7% (82.6)		3.8% (80.5)	5.2% (82.1)	2.9%
2007	Nationals	47.5% (88.6)	31.6% (83.5)	13.5% (88.2)	0.1% (79.0)	7.4% (82.8)	2.4%
2008	Nationals	45.3% (89.4)	34.1% (84.7)	18.5% (88.5)	0.1% (00.0)	2.0% (84.2)	1.5%
2009	Nationals	44.9% (88.7)	20.9% (83.9)	31.7% (87.8)	0.2% (82.0)	2.3% (86.0)	2.9%
2010	Diamondbacks	49.4% (88.2)	21.0% (83.7)	29.6% (87.6)			3.6%
Total	- - -	50.4% (88.9)	29.5% (83.8)	14.8% (88.2)	0.9% (80.5)	4.4% (83.0)	2.3%

PITCHf/x Pitch Type

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	FA%	FT%	FC%	SI%	SL%	CU%	CH%
2007	Nationals	30.2 %		4.3 %	3.5 %	54.1 %	0.8 %	5.5 %
2008	Nationals	44.0 %		7.8 %	2.7 %	39.1 %		5.7 %
2009	Nationals	44.6 %	3.7 %	19.6 %		27.8 %	0.5 %	1.8 %
2010	Diamondbacks	44.1 %		17.9 %		35.7 %		2.4 %
Total	- - -	42.7 %	1.0 %	10.9 %	2.0 %	37.6 %	0.2 %	4.5 %

PITCHf/x Pitch Velocity

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	vFA	vFT	vFC	vSI	vSL	vCU	vCH
2007	Nationals	89.2		89.0	89.7	85.5	83.5	85.3
2008	Nationals	89.6		89.0	90.1	85.3		86.0
2009	Nationals	88.6	89.3	87.9		84.8	82.6	85.0
2010	Diamondbacks	88.3		87.6		85.0		85.3
Total	- - -	89.3	89.3	88.4	90.0	85.2	82.9	85.8

Pitch Values

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFB	wSL	wCT	wCB	wCH	wFB/C	wSL/C	wCT/C	wCB/C	wCH/C
2006	Nationals	-4.7	6.6		1.5	-0.7	-0.73	2.60		3.84	-1.29
2007	Nationals	1.1	4.3	3.4	0.1	2.4	0.17	0.95	1.76	5.89	2.26
2008	Nationals	0.4	-0.3	4.2	-0.5	0.2	0.06	-0.06	1.64	-50.41	0.63
2009	Nationals	0.2	-2.6	-6.0	0.0	-0.3	0.09	-2.08	-3.15	4.33	-2.06
2010	Diamondbacks	-0.5	-3.2	-1.2			-1.30	-19.05	-5.04
Total	- - -	-3.5	4.8	0.5	1.1	1.6	-0.15	0.36	0.07	2.58	0.82

PITCHf/x Pitch Values

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA	wFT	wFC	wSI	wSL	wCU	wCH
2007	Nationals	-5.7		0.8	0.0	1.2	0.3	0.4
2008	Nationals	0.6		0.2	1.9	-0.5		-0.2
2009	Nationals	-1.5	-0.1	-3.8		-4.2	-0.1	0.0
2010	Diamondbacks	-2.4		0.0		-2.9		0.0
Total	- - -	-8.9	-0.1	-2.9	1.9	-6.4	0.2	0.1

PITCHf/x Pitch Values / 100

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA/C	wFT/C	wFC/C	wSI/C	wSL/C	wCU/C	wCH/C
2007	Nationals	-7.34		7.24	-0.12	0.84	16.62	2.51
2008	Nationals	0.10		0.16	4.98	-0.09		-0.26
2009	Nationals	-0.54	-0.37	-3.16		-2.44	-3.68	-0.16
2010	Diamondbacks	-6.40		-0.14		-9.65		0.76
Total	- - -	-0.88	-0.37	-1.12	4.00	-0.73	4.44	0.14

Plate Discipline

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	F-Strike%	SwStr%
2006	Nationals	26.0 %	67.2 %	46.6 %	55.8 %	92.5 %	82.3 %	50.0 %	57.0 %	8.1 %
2006	Average	23.5 %	66.6 %	46.1 %	57.4 %	88.5 %	81.0 %	52.6 %	58.8 %	8.5 %
2007	Nationals	26.3 %	70.6 %	48.2 %	53.4 %	88.9 %	79.1 %	49.4 %	57.3 %	9.9 %
2007	Average	25.0 %	66.6 %	45.9 %	60.8 %	88.2 %	80.8 %	50.3 %	58.7 %	8.6 %
2008	Nationals	27.4 %	66.4 %	45.7 %	58.5 %	87.2 %	78.0 %	46.8 %	51.5 %	9.7 %
2008	Average	25.4 %	65.4 %	45.9 %	61.7 %	87.9 %	80.8 %	51.1 %	58.6 %	8.6 %
2009	Nationals	28.6 %	70.6 %	50.1 %	72.3 %	93.0 %	87.2 %	51.1 %	60.8 %	6.3 %
2009	Average	25.1 %	66.0 %	45.3 %	61.7 %	87.8 %	80.5 %	49.3 %	58.2 %	8.6 %
2010	Diamondbacks	27.0 %	58.1 %	43.8 %	90.0 %	88.0 %	88.6 %	53.8 %	60.0 %	4.8 %
2010	Average	29.3 %	64.4 %	45.6 %	66.5 %	88.1 %	80.7 %	46.5 %	58.8 %	8.5 %
Total	- - -	26.9 %	68.4 %	47.2 %	58.7 %	89.8 %	80.8 %	49.0 %	56.1 %	8.9 %

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	Nationals	23.9 %	68.6 %	45.4 %	58.1 %	84.3 %	77.2 %	48.2 %	23.1
2007	Average	28.9 %	62.3 %	45.4 %	66.4 %	87.6 %	80.8 %	49.6 %	21.5
2008	Nationals	31.1 %	63.2 %	45.6 %	62.6 %	88.1 %	78.6 %	45.3 %	22.5
2008	Average	28.0 %	62.5 %	45.3 %	65.9 %	88.0 %	81.2 %	50.3 %	21.6
2009	Nationals	31.4 %	65.8 %	49.3 %	78.0 %	91.8 %	87.6 %	52.2 %	21.8
2009	Average	27.9 %	61.4 %	44.8 %	65.5 %	88.0 %	81.0 %	50.4 %	21.4
2010	Diamondbacks	27.5 %	59.1 %	44.1 %	90.9 %	88.5 %	89.2 %	52.4 %	21.9
2010	Average	28.4 %	61.3 %	44.9 %	64.6 %	87.9 %	80.6 %	50.4 %	21.5
Total	- - -	30.3 %	64.4 %	46.5 %	66.9 %	88.8 %	81.3 %	47.7 %	22.4

Fielding

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	TE	DP	DPS	DPF	SB	FP
2006	Nationals	P	54	60.1	2	8	1	1	0	0	0	4	.909
2007	Nationals	P	85	93.0	4	26	0	0	2	2	0	2	1.000
2008	Nationals	P	76	84.0	8	21	0	0	3	2	1	13	1.000
2009	Nationals	P	30	38.1	7	7	0	0	1	0	1	1	1.000
2010	Diamondbacks	P	4	3.2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Total	- - -	P	249	279.1	21	62	1	1	6	4	2	20	.988

Advanced Fielding

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	Pos	Inn	rSB	rGFP	rPM	DRS
2006	Nationals	P	60.1	0	0	-1	-1
2007	Nationals	P	93.0	1	1	2	4
2008	Nationals	P	84.0	-2	0	2	0
2009	Nationals	P	38.1	0	0	0	0
2010	Diamondbacks	P	3.2	0	0	-1	-1
Total	- - -	P	279.1	-1	1	2	2

Value

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	RA9-Wins	BIP-Wins	LOB-Wins	FDP-Wins	RAR	WAR	Dollars	Salary
2006	Nationals	0.4	0.2	0.2	0.4	-0.5	-0.1	($0.2)
2007	Nationals	1.2	-0.2	0.2	0.1	10.8	1.1	$4.4
2008	Nationals	0.4	-0.7	0.1	-0.6	10.0	1.0	$4.6	$0.4
2009	Nationals	-0.8	-0.2	0.0	-0.3	-5.5	-0.6	($2.5)
2010	Diamondbacks	-0.4	-0.2	0.1	-0.2	-1.7	-0.2	($0.7)
Total	- - -	0.8	-1.2	0.6	-0.6	13.1	1.3	$5.6	$0.4

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