Shane Bieber

Age: 24

Bats/Throws: R/R

6' 3" / 200

Birthdate: 5/31/1995 (24 y, 8 m, 20 d)
Drafted: 2016 June Amateur Draft - Round: 4, Pick: 16, Overall: 122, Team: Cleveland Indians
Contract: 1 yr, $559.6K (2019)

Service Time: 1.097

Reported as the pre-2020 value.
1 year and 97 days days of service time.

Free Agent:

Becomes a free agent entering the 2025 season, after the conclusion of the 2024 season.

2025

Arb Eligible:

Projected to be arbitration eligible for the 2022 season.

2022

MiLB Options: 2

Reported as the pre-2020 season number of waiver options remaining.

Prospects Report

Team Rank: 5Overall Rank: NAReported: 2018ETA: 2019

Fastball	Slider	Curveball	Changeup	Command	Future Value
50 / 50	45 / 50	55 / 60	45 / 50	55 / 70	45

RotoWire News: Bieber (15-8) took the loss Wednesday as Cleveland was downed 8-3 by the White Sox, giving up five runs (three earned) on 10 hits and a walk over 5.2 innings while striking out seven. (9/26/2019)

1/31/2020	RG	League Depth Affects Prospect Value by Brad Johnson
1/31/2020	RG	Ranking Five Tier 2 Starting Pitchers by Jeff Zimmerman
1/31/2020	RG	Ottoneu Top 100 Starting Pitchers for 2020 by Trey Baughn
1/30/2020	RG	On the Bubble Hitters without Options – American League by Paul Sporer
1/8/2020	RG	Top 125 SP for 2020 by Paul Sporer

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Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	W	L	G	GS	IP	K/9	BB/9	HR/9	BABIP	LOB%	GB%	HR/FB	ERA	FIP	xFIP	WAR
2016	Indians (A-)	0	0	9	8	24.0	7.88	0.75	0.00	.164	84.6 %	53.4 %	0.0 %	0.38	1.90	2.27
2017	Indians (A)	2	3	5	5	29.0	9.62	0.31	0.31	.375	62.5 %	43.0 %	3.4 %	3.10	1.91	2.44
2017	Indians (A+)	6	1	14	14	90.0	8.20	0.40	0.50	.340	70.2 %	49.4 %	7.4 %	3.10	2.50	2.58
2017	Indians (AA)	2	1	9	9	54.1	8.12	0.83	0.33	.331	79.0 %	48.8 %	4.7 %	2.32	2.18	2.64
2018	Indians (AA)	3	0	5	5	31.0	8.71	0.29	0.29	.278	82.0 %	46.6 %	3.0 %	1.16	1.91	2.67
2018	Indians (AAA)	3	1	8	8	48.2	8.69	1.11	0.55	.225	81.8 %	55.0 %	8.8 %	1.66	2.57	2.58
2018	Indians	11	5	20	19	114.2	9.26	1.81	1.02	.356	69.4 %	46.6 %	12.1 %	4.55	3.23	3.30	2.7
2019	Indians	15	8	34	33	214.1	10.88	1.68	1.30	.296	77.4 %	43.9 %	16.1 %	3.28	3.32	3.23	5.6
2020	THE BAT	14	9	32	32	196.0	10.09	1.81	1.23	.312	74.1 %			3.55	3.44
2020	ATC	14	8	31	31	195.0	10.06	1.74	1.26	.317	74.3 %			3.59	3.38
2020	Depth Charts	13	9	32	32	196.0	9.76	1.69	1.25	.315	73.6 %			3.66	3.51		4.8
2020	Steamer	14	9	32	32	201.0	9.73	1.81	1.29	.296	73.9 %	45.1 %		3.68	3.61	3.64	4.6
2020	ZiPS	13	8	32	31	195.7	9.80	1.56	1.20	.318	73.2 %			3.63	3.39		5.2
Total	- - -	26	13	54	52	329.0	10.31	1.72	1.20	.319	74.1 %	45.0 %	14.7 %	3.72	3.29	3.26	8.3

Standard

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	ShO	HLD	BS	IP	TBF	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	HBP	WP	BK	SO
2016	Indians (A-)	0	0	0.38	9	8	0	0	0	0	24.0	85	10	2	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	21
2017	Indians (A)	2	3	3.10	5	5	0	0	0	0	29.0	121	34	14	10	1	1	0	0	1	0	31
2017	Indians (A+)	6	1	3.10	14	14	0	0	0	0	90.0	358	95	35	31	5	4	2	2	6	0	82
2017	Indians (AA)	2	1	2.32	9	9	0	0	0	0	54.1	219	56	15	14	2	5	0	0	1	0	49
2018	Indians (AA)	3	0	1.16	5	5	0	0	0	0	31.0	122	26	6	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	30
2018	Indians (AAA)	3	1	1.66	8	8	1	1	0	0	48.2	176	30	10	9	3	6	0	0	1	0	47
2018	Indians	11	5	4.55	20	19	0	0	0	0	114.2	485	130	60	58	13	23	0	2	5	0	118
2019	Indians	15	8	3.28	34	33	3	2	0	0	214.1	859	186	86	78	31	40	1	6	6	1	259
2020	THE BAT	14	9	3.55	32	32					196.0	797	178	84	77	27	39	2	5			220
2020	ATC	14	8	3.59	31	31			0		195.0		181	84	78	27	38	0	1			218
2020	Depth Charts	13	9	3.66	32	32			0		196.0		183	86	80	27	37		6			213
2020	Steamer	14	9	3.68	32	32	1	1	0		201.0	829	187	89	82	29	41		6			218
2020	ZiPS	13	8	3.63	32	31					195.7		184	85	79	26	34	1	7	7	1	213
Total	- - -	26	13	3.72	54	52	3	2	0	0	329.0	1344	316	146	136	44	63	1	8	11	1	377

Advanced

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	K%	BB%	K-BB%	AVG	WHIP	BABIP	LOB%	ERA-	FIP-	FIP
2016	Indians (A-)	7.88	0.75	10.50	0.00	24.7 %	2.4 %	22.4 %	.122	0.50	.164	84.6 %			1.90
2017	Indians (A)	9.62	0.31	31.00	0.31	25.6 %	0.8 %	24.8 %	.283	1.21	.375	62.5 %			1.91
2017	Indians (A+)	8.20	0.40	20.50	0.50	22.9 %	1.1 %	21.8 %	.270	1.10	.340	70.2 %			2.50
2017	Indians (AA)	8.12	0.83	9.80	0.33	22.4 %	2.3 %	20.1 %	.262	1.12	.331	79.0 %			2.18
2018	Indians (AA)	8.71	0.29	30.00	0.29	24.6 %	0.8 %	23.8 %	.215	0.87	.278	82.0 %			1.91
2018	Indians (AAA)	8.69	1.11	7.83	0.55	26.7 %	3.4 %	23.3 %	.177	0.74	.225	81.8 %			2.57
2018	Indians	9.26	1.81	5.13	1.02	24.3 %	4.7 %	19.6 %	.283	1.33	.356	69.4 %	102	76	3.23
2018	Average	8.53	3.25	2.63	1.16	22.3 %	8.5 %	13.8 %	.245	1.30	.293	72.8 %			4.19
2019	Indians	10.88	1.68	6.48	1.30	30.2 %	4.7 %	25.5 %	.229	1.05	.296	77.4 %	68	73	3.32
2019	Average	8.88	3.29	2.69	1.40	23.0 %	8.5 %	14.4 %	.249	1.33	.296	72.3 %			4.49
2020	THE BAT	10.09	1.81	5.56	1.23				.244	1.11	.312	74.1 %			3.44
2020	ATC	10.06	1.74	5.79	1.26				.248	1.12	.317	74.3 %			3.38
2020	Depth Charts	9.76	1.69	5.76	1.25				.249	1.12	.315	73.6 %			3.51
2020	Steamer	9.73	1.81	5.37	1.29	26.3 %	4.9 %	21.4 %	.239	1.13	.296	73.9 %			3.61
2020	ZiPS	9.80	1.56	6.26	1.20				.250	1.11	.318	73.2 %			3.39
Total	- - -	10.31	1.72	5.98	1.20	28.1 %	4.7 %	23.4 %	.248	1.15	.319	74.1 %	80	74	3.29

ZiPS 3 Year Projections

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Age	W	L	G	GS	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	K/9	BB/9	K/BB	HR/9	AVG	WHIP	BABIP	LOB%	ERA	FIP	WAR
2020	25	13	8	32	31	195.7	184	85	79	26	34	213	9.80	1.56	6.26	1.20	.250	1.11	.318	73.2 %	3.63	3.39	5.2
2021	26	13	8	31	30	191.7	177	81	76	25	33	206	9.67	1.55	6.24	1.17	.247	1.10	.312	73.7 %	3.57	3.39	5.1
2022	27	13	8	31	30	190.7	174	80	75	25	32	208	9.82	1.51	6.50	1.18	.244	1.08	.311	73.7 %	3.54	3.35	5.1

Batted Ball

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	GB/FB	LD%	GB%	FB%	IFFB%	HR/FB	IFH%	BUH%	Pull%	Cent%	Oppo%	Soft%	Med%	Hard%	SIERA	xFIP-	xFIP
2016	Indians (A-)	2.07	20.7 %	53.4 %	25.9 %	20.0 %	0.0 %			47.5 %	18.0 %	34.4 %						2.27
2017	Indians (A)	1.28	23.3 %	43.0 %	33.7 %	17.2 %	3.4 %			41.6 %	31.5 %	27.0 %						2.44
2017	Indians (A+)	1.93	24.9 %	49.4 %	25.7 %	10.3 %	7.4 %			44.7 %	22.5 %	32.8 %						2.58
2017	Indians (AA)	1.81	24.4 %	48.8 %	26.9 %	11.6 %	4.7 %			38.2 %	20.6 %	41.2 %						2.64
2018	Indians (AA)	1.24	15.9 %	46.6 %	37.5 %	18.2 %	3.0 %			50.6 %	19.8 %	29.7 %						2.67
2018	Indians (AAA)	1.94	16.7 %	55.0 %	28.3 %	8.8 %	8.8 %			37.4 %	26.8 %	35.8 %						2.58
2018	Indians	1.49	22.0 %	46.6 %	31.4 %	5.6 %	12.1 %	6.9 %	100.0 %	36.0 %	33.6 %	30.4 %	10.5 %	45.6 %	43.9 %	3.45	78	3.30
2019	Indians	1.25	21.1 %	43.9 %	35.0 %	11.4 %	16.1 %	7.0 %	33.3 %	39.4 %	34.8 %	25.8 %	13.4 %	44.0 %	42.6 %	3.36	71	3.23
Total	- - -	1.34	21.4 %	45.0 %	33.6 %	9.3 %	14.7 %	7.0 %	50.0 %	38.1 %	34.4 %	27.6 %	12.3 %	44.6 %	43.1 %	3.39	73	3.26

More Batted Ball

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	GB	FB	LD	IFFB	IFH	BU	BUH	RS	Balls	Strikes	Pitches
2016	Indians (A-)	31	15	12	3					84	231	315
2017	Indians (A)	37	29	20	5					105	284	389
2017	Indians (A+)	131	68	66	7					312	807	1119
2017	Indians (AA)	78	43	39	5					236	548	784
2018	Indians (AA)	41	33	14	6					93	293	386
2018	Indians (AAA)	66	34	20	3					210	481	691
2018	Indians	159	107	75	6	11	1	1	87	590	1215	1805
2019	Indians	242	193	116	22	17	3	1	120	1124	2208	3332
Total	- - -	401	300	191	28	28	4	2	207	1714	3423	5137

Win Probability

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	WPA	-WPA	+WPA	RE24	REW	pLI	inLI	gmLI	exLI	Pulls	WPA/LI	Clutch	MD
2018	Indians	0.18	-8.81	8.99	1.10	0.18	0.98	0.93	0.88	1.20	20	0.00	0.18	1
2019	Indians	3.82	-13.07	16.89	40.87	3.77	0.96	0.97	0.85	1.25	30	3.29	0.68	0
Total	- - -	4.00	-21.87	25.87	41.97	3.95	0.97	0.96	0.86	1.23	50	3.29	0.83	1

Pitch Type

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	FB%	SL%	CB%	CH%	XX%
2018	Indians	57.3% (93.1)	22.8% (83.7)	16.0% (80.0)	3.9% (87.9)
2019	Indians	45.6% (93.1)	26.8% (85.1)	20.2% (82.7)	7.4% (87.6)	0.0%
Total	- - -	49.7% (93.1)	25.4% (84.6)	18.7% (81.9)	6.2% (87.7)	0.0%

PITCHf/x Pitch Type

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	FA%	SL%	CU%	KC%	CH%
2018	Indians	57.6 %	22.5 %	16.2 %		3.7 %
2019	Indians	45.8 %	27.0 %	6.3 %	13.6 %	7.4 %
Total	- - -	50.0 %	25.4 %	9.9 %	8.7 %	6.1 %

PITCHf/x Pitch Velocity

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	vFA	vSL	vCU	vKC	vCH
2018	Indians	93.0	83.7	80.0		87.7
2019	Indians	93.1	85.0	81.9	83.1	87.5
Total	- - -	93.1	84.6	80.8	83.1	87.6

Pitch Info Pitch Type

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	FA%	SI%	CH%	SL%	CU%
2018	Indians	57.4 %		3.9 %	22.7 %	16.0 %
2019	Indians	45.6 %	0.1 %	7.3 %	26.5 %	20.5 %
Total	- - -	49.9 %	0.0 %	6.1 %	25.2 %	18.9 %

Pitch Info Pitch Velocity

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	vFA	vSI	vCH	vSL	vCU
2018	Indians	93.4		88.1	84.0	80.4
2019	Indians	93.4	93.8	87.9	85.2	82.9
Total	- - -	93.4	93.8	87.9	84.8	82.1

Pitch Values

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFB	wSL	wCB	wCH	wFB/C	wSL/C	wCB/C	wCH/C
2018	Indians	-7.7	2.7	-0.5	-2.4	-0.75	0.67	-0.18	-3.36
2019	Indians	12.8	12.8	2.5	-1.7	0.84	1.44	0.37	-0.69
Total	- - -	5.1	15.6	1.9	-4.1	0.20	1.19	0.20	-1.28

PITCHf/x Pitch Values

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA	wSL	wCU	wKC	wCH
2018	Indians	-7.4	2.9	-0.1		-2.2
2019	Indians	14.8	10.5	0.3	2.8	-0.2
Total	- - -	7.3	13.4	0.1	2.8	-2.4

PITCHf/x Pitch Values / 100

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA/C	wSL/C	wCU/C	wKC/C	wCH/C
2018	Indians	-0.72	0.72	-0.05		-3.26
2019	Indians	1.00	1.21	0.12	0.64	-0.08
Total	- - -	0.29	1.05	0.02	0.64	-0.78

Pitch Info Pitch Values

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA	wSI	wCH	wSL	wCU
2018	Indians	-6.8		-2.4	3.6	-0.8
2019	Indians	15.0	0.1	-0.9	11.1	2.9
Total	- - -	8.1	0.1	-3.3	14.6	2.1

Pitch Info Pitch Values / 100

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	wFA/C	wSI/C	wCH/C	wSL/C	wCU/C
2018	Indians	-0.66		-3.44	0.88	-0.28
2019	Indians	1.02	5.82	-0.37	1.29	0.44
Total	- - -	0.32	5.82	-1.07	1.16	0.22

Plate Discipline

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	F-Strike%	SwStr%
2018	Indians	30.9 %	63.9 %	46.8 %	57.2 %	85.4 %	75.7 %	48.0 %	66.4 %	11.4 %
2018	Average	30.9 %	67.3 %	46.6 %	62.8 %	85.5 %	76.9 %	43.0 %	60.6 %	10.7 %
2019	Indians	35.0 %	66.6 %	47.7 %	51.3 %	85.8 %	70.6 %	40.0 %	65.3 %	14.0 %
2019	Average	31.6 %	68.5 %	47.0 %	62.7 %	84.9 %	76.2 %	41.8 %	60.9 %	11.1 %
Total	- - -	33.7 %	65.5 %	47.3 %	53.0 %	85.6 %	72.4 %	42.9 %	65.7 %	13.1 %

PITCHf/x Plate Discipline

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	Pace
2018	Indians	31.7 %	60.4 %	46.8 %	50.2 %	87.8 %	75.7 %	52.6 %	22.9
2018	Average	30.4 %	64.4 %	46.6 %	60.1 %	85.6 %	76.9 %	47.7 %	23.5
2019	Indians	34.8 %	62.7 %	47.7 %	48.2 %	84.8 %	70.5 %	46.3 %	22.4
2019	Average	30.6 %	65.2 %	47.0 %	59.4 %	84.9 %	76.2 %	47.4 %	24.4
Total	- - -	33.8 %	61.8 %	47.4 %	48.8 %	85.9 %	72.3 %	48.6 %	22.6

Pitch Info Plate Discipline

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season | Averages

Season	Team	O-Swing%	Z-Swing%	Swing%	O-Contact%	Z-Contact%	Contact%	Zone%	Pace
2018	Indians	31.9 %	60.0 %	46.8 %	50.9 %	87.3 %	75.7 %	53.2 %	23.4
2019	Indians	35.2 %	62.5 %	47.7 %	48.0 %	85.4 %	70.5 %	45.9 %	22.7
Total	- - -	34.1 %	61.5 %	47.4 %	48.9 %	86.1 %	72.3 %	48.5 %	23.0

Fielding

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	FE	TE	DPS	DPT	DPF	SB	FP
2018	Indians (AA)	P	5	5	31.0	3	0
2018	Indians (AAA)	P	8	8	48.2	3	7
2018	Indians	P	20	19	114.2	6	5	0	0	0	0	1	4	1.000
2019	Indians	P	34	33	214.1	12	14	0	0	0	0	0	7	1.000
Total	- - -	P	54	52	329.0	18	19	0	0	0	0	1	11	1.000

Advanced Fielding

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	Pos	Inn	rSZ	rSB	FRM
2018	Indians	P	114.2	0	0	0.7
2019	Indians	P	214.1	2	1	1.9
Total	- - -	P	329.0	2	1	2.6

Inside Edge Fielding

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	Pos	Inn	Impossible (0%)	Remote (1-10%)	Unlikely (10-40%)	Even (40-60%)	Likely (60-90%)	Routine (90-100%)
2018	Indians	P	114.2	0.0% (1)	0.0% (1)	0.0% (0)	100.0% (1)	0.0% (0)	100.0% (6)
2019	Indians	P	214.1	0.0% (0)	0.0% (1)	0.0% (0)	66.7% (3)	100.0% (1)	100.0% (9)
Total	- - -	P	329.0	0.0% (1)	0.0% (2)	0.0% (0)	75.0% (4)	100.0% (1)	100.0% (15)

Value

Projections | Minor Leagues | Regular Season

Season	Team	RA9-WAR	BIP-Wins	LOB-Wins	FDP-Wins	RAR	WAR	Dollars
2018	Indians	1.4	-1.6	0.4	-1.2	24.1	2.7	$21.3
2019	Indians	6.0	0.1	0.3	0.4	54.8	5.6	$44.9
Total	- - -	7.5	-1.5	0.7	-0.8	78.9	8.3	$66.2

Drafts

2016 June Amateur Draft - Round: 4, Pick: 16, Overall: 122

Team: Cleveland Indians
School: UC Santa Barbara

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