Jose Alvarado
25-Year-Old
2019 Stats
W-L
1-6
ERA
4.80
WHIP
1.87
K
39
SV
7
2020 Projections
2020 Fantasy Outlook
Alvarado opened the season sharing closing duties with Diego Castillo. He was effective early, posting a 1.04 ERA and 0.92 WHIP, fanning 26 in 17.1 innings, with five holds and a perfect 4-for-4 saves mark. Things then unraveled for Alvarado, as he allowed seven earned runs over his next seven frames, walking eight while surrendering 11 hits. Alvarado then left the country to attend to a personal matter in Venezuela, returning to the club in late June. His season was interrupted twice more, the first with a sore oblique followed by elbow inflammation prematurely ending his season in August. After his dominant start to the season, Alvarado never regained form. With a revamped bullpen featuring Emilio Pagan and Nick Anderson, Alvarado will first need to show he's healthy, then pitch well enough to return to late-inning duties. Read Past Outlooks
Looking to erase '19
Alvarado is one of several Rays players with plenty to prove in 2020, Josh Tolentino of The Athletic reports.
ANALYSIS
The hard-throwing left-hander had a largely forgettable 2019 campaign that included a multi-week absence to tend to his ailing mother in Venezuela. The bulk of Alvarado's struggles came during the latter part of the season, as he posted a 9.95 ERA over his last 17 appearances. Alvarado did enter spring with a much clearer mind because he was able to move his parents to the United States during the offseason, and he certainly has the tools for a resurgence in the form of a 98 mph fastball, along with a cutter, sinker and curveball. However, it's worth noting the 25-year-old also endured a rocky Grapefruit League stint before play was paused, as he posted an 8.31 ERA and walked four batters over 4.1 innings across five appearances. He projects to primarily return to a setup role in an abbreviated 2020 season.
The hard-throwing left-hander had a largely forgettable 2019 campaign that included a multi-week absence to tend to his ailing mother in Venezuela. The bulk of Alvarado's struggles came during the latter part of the season, as he posted a 9.95 ERA over his last 17 appearances. Alvarado did enter spring with a much clearer mind because he was able to move his parents to the United States during the offseason, and he certainly has the tools for a resurgence in the form of a 98 mph fastball, along with a cutter, sinker and curveball. However, it's worth noting the 25-year-old also endured a rocky Grapefruit League stint before play was paused, as he posted an 8.31 ERA and walked four batters over 4.1 innings across five appearances. He projects to primarily return to a setup role in an abbreviated 2020 season.
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Pitching Appearances Breakdown
Average Pitch Count
17
Last 10 Games
20
Last 5 Games
21
How many pitches does Jose Alvarado generally throw?
1-10
11-20
21-30
31-40
41-50
51-60
61-70
71-80
81-90
91-100
101-110
111-120
121+
What part of the game does Jose Alvarado generally pitch?
1st
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4th
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
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% Games Reaching Innings Threshold
% Games By Number of Innings Pitched
Left/Right Pitching Splits
Since 2017
-17%
BAA vs RHP
2019
-31%
BAA vs LHP
| BAA | K | BB | H | HR | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since 2017vs Left | .235 | 48 | 22 | 38 | 1 | |||
| Since 2017vs Right | .195 | 100 | 43 | 57 | 3 | |||
| 2019vs Left | .194 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 0 | |||
| 2019vs Right | .282 | 26 | 19 | 22 | 2 | |||
| 2018vs Left | .215 | 26 | 10 | 17 | 1 | |||
| 2018vs Right | .167 | 54 | 19 | 25 | 0 | |||
| 2017vs Left | .298 | 9 | 4 | 14 | 0 | |||
| 2017vs Right | .156 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 1 | |||
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Home/Away Pitching Splits
Since 2017
-34%
ERA on Road
2019
-6%
ERA on Road
| ERA | WHIP | IP | K/9 | BB/9 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since 2017Home | 3.84 | 1.12 | 70.1 | 11.6 | 4.1 | ||||
| Since 2017Away | 2.53 | 1.52 | 53.1 | 9.6 | 5.6 | ||||
| 2019Home | 4.91 | 1.64 | 18.1 | 12.3 | 6.9 | ||||
| 2019Away | 4.63 | 2.23 | 11.2 | 10.8 | 10.0 | ||||
| 2018Home | 2.70 | 0.93 | 33.1 | 12.7 | 3.8 | ||||
| 2018Away | 2.05 | 1.30 | 30.2 | 9.7 | 4.4 | ||||
| 2017Home | 4.82 | 0.96 | 18.2 | 9.2 | 1.9 | ||||
| 2017Away | 1.64 | 1.36 | 11.0 | 8.2 | 4.1 | ||||
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Stat Review
How does Jose Alvarado compare to other relievers?
This section compares his stats with all relief pitcher seasons from the previous three seasons (minimum 30 innings)*. The bar represents the player's percentile rank. For example, if the bar is halfway across, then the player falls into the 50th percentile for that stat and it would be considered average.
* Exit Velocity, Barrels/BBE %, Balls Hit 95+ MPH %, and Spin Rate are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 30 IP). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
* Exit Velocity, Barrels/BBE %, Balls Hit 95+ MPH %, and Spin Rate are benchmarked against 2019 data (min 30 IP). See here for more exit velocity/barrels stats plus an explanation of current limitations with that data set.
K/BB
1.44K/9
11.7BB/9
8.1HR/9
0.6Fastball
98.2 mphERA
4.80WHIP
1.87BABIP
.372GB/FB
2.18Left On Base
71.4%Exit Velocity
89.3 mphBarrels/BBE
5.1%Spin Rate
2243 rpmBalls Hit 95+ MPH
34.6%Swinging Strike
12.6%Advanced Pitching Stats
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Defensive Stats
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2019
2018
Closers need a couple things: two quality pitches (or one amazing one) and command. Alvarado has two excellent pitches in a fastball that tickles triple digits and a hard, 11-5 breaking ball that batters have a tough time picking up out of his hand. Early in 2018, he lacked the command portion of that equation and had a 14% K-BB rate despite his stuff because he could not hit his spots consistently. That changed midseason and Alvarado had a 28 K-BB% in the second half while holding hitters to a .154 batting average and a .244 slugging percentage. He allowed one home run on the season to the 263 batters he faced, which while fortunate, also speaks to how tough he is for batters to pick up. A few year ago, the club had Felipe Vazquez on the roster and traded him to get Jose Lobaton. They have Vazquez 2.0 here and will not repeat that mistake. As long as the Rays do not try to game the arbitration system, this is their new closer.
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Not viewed as top closing candidate
Alvarado is expected to work primarily as a setup man to begin the 2020 season with Nick Anderson "in line to get the bulk of the save opportunities" for the Rays, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.
ANALYSIS
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Bounces back in second outing
Alvarado fired a scoreless sixth inning during which he struck out the side and hit a batter in a Grapefruit League loss to the Braves on Saturday.
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Scuffles in spring debut
Alvarado made his first Grapefruit League appearance in Wednesday's loss to the Twins, allowing two earned runs on two hits and two walks over one-third of an inning. He struck out one.
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First spring appearance forthcoming
Alvarado, who threw another successful bullpen session Sunday, is likely to make his spring debut Wednesday against the Twins, Juan Toribio of MLB.com reports.
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Encouraging bullpen session
Alvarado threw an impressive bullpen session Friday, Juan Toribio of MLB.com reports.
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