Zach Duke

Zachary Thomas Dukes MLB 2005-2011 | 2002-2012

Control
78

K-Rating
30

Efficiency
50

vsPower
63

Tags: Futures Game Participant | Major League All-Star Game | Opening Day Starts | Rookie of the Month | Top Prospect

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Positions P-264 Born Apr 19, 1983 (29) Place Clifton,Texas Ht/Wt 6-2 / 210 Bats/Throws: Left / Left High School Midway (Waco,TX) College None listed
Drafted Pittsburgh Pirates: 2001-20-594 (June-Reg)MLB Debut: July 2,2005 box

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Pitching Statistics

Data Products Career Cumulative Career Strikeout Log About the Stats

Year	Team	Lg	Level	Unif	Org	Age	Rk	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SH	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	Bk	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	BB/SO	GB/FB	QS	HB	AB	Bavg	TBF	Pit/B	Bal	Str	Sw	Record	TR
2002	GCL Pirates	GCL	Rk		pit	19	8	8	1	1.95	11	11	1	1	0	0	60.0	38	15	13	2	18	48	1	0	0.93	5.70	0.30	2.70	7.20	0.38	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	37-23	1
2003	Hickory	SAL	A		pit	20	19	8	7	3.11	26	26	1	1	0	0	141.2	124	66	49	7	46	113	2	0	1.20	7.88	0.44	2.92	7.18	0.41	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	82-54	1
2004	Lynchburg	Caro	A+	-	pit	21	28	10	5	1.39	17	17	1	0	0	0	97.0	73	24	15	3	20	106	1	0	0.96	6.77	0.28	1.86	9.84	0.19	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	57-81	3
	Altoona	East	AA		pit	21	-	5	1	1.58	9	9	0	0	0	0	51.1	41	11	9	2	10	36	1	0	0.99	7.19	0.35	1.75	6.31	0.28	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	85-56	1
2005	Indianapolis	IL	AAA	-	pit	22	50	12	3	2.92	16	16	1	0	0	0	108.0	108	39	35	8	23	66	1	2	1.21	9.00	0.67	1.92	5.50	0.35	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	78-66	2
	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	22	-	8	2	1.81	14	14	0	0	0	0	84.2	79	20	17	3	23	58	1	0	1.20	8.40	0.32	2.45	6.17	0.40	1.02	0	0	0	--	0	--	36.2	63.8	8.0	67-95	6
2006	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	23	20	10	15	4.47	34	34	2	1	0	0	215.1	255	116	107	17	68	117	8	1	1.50	10.66	0.71	2.84	4.89	0.58	1.19	0	0	0	--	0	--	37.8	62.2	5.8	67-95	5
2007	GCL Pirates	GCL	Rk		pit	24	-	0	0	1.35	2	2	0	0	0	0	6.2	5	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	1.05	6.76	0.00	2.70	4.05	0.67	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	26-30	4
	State College	NYPL	A-	-	pit	24	-	1	0	1.59	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.2	3	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	0.88	4.77	0.00	3.18	4.77	0.67	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	36-39	3
	Indianapolis	IL	AAA		pit	24	-	0	1	4.92	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.2	7	2	2	0	2	1	0	0	2.46	17.21	0.00	4.92	2.46	2.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	70-73	3
	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	24	-	3	8	5.53	20	19	0	0	0	0	107.1	161	74	66	14	25	41	0	1	1.73	13.50	1.17	2.10	3.44	0.61	1.11	0	0	0	--	0	--	36.5	63.5	6.0	68-94	6
2008	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	25	42	5	14	4.82	31	31	1	1	0	0	185.0	230	111	99	19	47	87	2	2	1.50	11.19	0.92	2.29	4.23	0.54	1.01	0	0	0	--	0	--	37.3	62.7	5.8	67-95	6
2009	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	26	22	11	16	4.06	32	32	3	1	0	0	213.0	231	101	96	23	49	106	2	1	1.31	9.76	0.97	2.07	4.48	0.46	1.01	0	0	0	--	0	--	35.4	64.6	6.8	62-99	6
2010	Altoona	East	AA	-	pit	27	-	0	0	2.57	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.0	5	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0.86	6.43	1.29	1.29	1.29	1.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	82-60	1
	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	27	39	8	15	5.72	29	29	0	0	0	0	159.0	212	115	101	25	51	96	4	3	1.65	12.00	1.42	2.89	5.43	0.53	0.97	0	0	0	--	0	--	36.9	63.1	7.3	57-105	6
2011	Visalia	Calif	A+	-	ari	28	-	1	0	1.80	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.0	5	1	1	0	0	4	0	0	1.00	9.00	0.00	0.00	7.20	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	63-77	5
	Reno	PCL	AAA	-	ari	28	-	1	0	8.44	1	1	0	0	0	0	5.1	7	5	5	2	1	2	0	0	1.50	11.81	3.38	1.69	3.38	0.50	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	77-67	1
	Arizona	NL	MLB	19	ari	28	-	3	4	4.93	21	9	0	0	5	1	76.2	101	42	42	6	19	32	1	0	1.57	11.86	0.70	2.23	3.76	0.59	1.00	0	0	0	--	0	--	37.4	62.6	7.1	94-68	1
2012	syracuse	il	AAA		wan	29	5/29/2012	6	2	3.97	10	10	1	0	0	0	59.0	67	28	26	5	15	35			1.39	10.22	0.76	2.29	5.34	0.43	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
MLB Totals (7 years)								48	74	4.56	181	168	6	3	5	1	1041	1269	579	528	107	282	537	18	8	1.49	10.97	0.93	2.44	4.64	0.53	1.05	0	0	0	--	0	--	36.8	63.2	6.5	.425	--
Minor League Totals (8 years)								52	20	2.60	97	97	5	2	0	0	550	483	195	159	30	140	418	6	2	1.13	7.90	0.49	2.29	6.84	0.33	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.525	--
AAA Totals (4 years)								19	6	3.48	28	28	2	0	0	0	176	189	74	68	15	41	104	1	2	1.31	9.67	0.77	2.10	5.32	0.39	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.522	--
AA Totals (2 years)								5	1	1.70	11	11	0	0	0	0	58	46	13	11	3	11	37	1	0	0.98	7.10	0.46	1.70	5.71	0.30	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.590	--
A+ Totals (2 years)								11	5	1.41	18	18	1	0	0	0	102	78	25	16	3	20	110	1	0	0.96	6.88	0.26	1.76	9.71	0.18	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.432	--
A Totals (1 year)								8	7	3.11	26	26	1	1	0	0	142	124	66	49	7	46	113	2	0	1.20	7.88	0.44	2.92	7.18	0.41	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.603	--
A- Totals (1 year)								1	0	1.59	1	1	0	0	0	0	6	3	1	1	0	2	3	0	0	0.88	4.77	0.00	3.18	4.77	0.67	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.480	--
Rookie Totals (2 years)								8	1	1.89	13	13	1	1	0	0	67	43	16	14	2	20	51	1	0	0.95	5.81	0.27	2.70	6.89	0.39	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.543	--

Batting Statistics

Data Products Career Cumulative Career Home Run Log About the Stats

Year	Team	Lg	Level	Unif	Org	Age	Pos	Rk	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	GS	GS%	TB	PA	outs	RC	RC/G	babip	SA	ISO	bb/k	HR%	XBH%	BB%	SO%	G/F	P/PA	Pit	Str	Bal	Swg	Record	TR	Year	Team
2004	Altoona	East	AA		pit	21	p	-	9	8	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	.125	.125	.250	375	-	-	2	8	7	0	-0.9	.333	.125	.125	0.00	0.0	100.0	0.0	62.5	--	--	--	--	--	--	85-56	1	2004	Altoona
2005	Indianapolis	IL	AAA	-	pit	22	p	-	4	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	-	-	0	10	10	--	--	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0.0	0.0	20.0	--	--	--	--	--	--	78-66	2	2005	Indianapolis
	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	22	p	-	14	28	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	10	0	0	0	1	2	.143	.194	.143	336	14	100	4	31	27	-1	-1.3	.211	.071	.000	0.20	0.0	0.0	6.5	32.3	1.71	3.5	107	66.4	33.6	14.0	67-95	6		Pittsburgh
2006	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	23	p	-	33	68	2	13	3	0	0	7	0	0	1	32	0	0	9	0	0	.191	.203	.235	438	33	100	16	78	64	0	0.1	.361	.059	.044	0.03	0.0	23.1	1.3	41.0	1.71	3.2	249	76.7	23.3	18.1	67-95	5	2006	Pittsburgh
2007	Indianapolis	IL	AAA		pit	24	p	-	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	-	-	0	1	1	--	--	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0.0	0.0	100.0	--	--	--	--	--	--	70-73	3	2007	Indianapolis
	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	24	p	-	20	32	3	8	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	12	0	0	3	0	0	.250	.250	.250	500	17	85	8	35	27	1	0.8	.400	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0.0	0.0	34.3	3.60	3.3	115	73.0	27.0	17.4	68-94	6		Pittsburgh
2008	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	25	p	-	31	57	2	9	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	20	0	0	6	0	0	.158	.186	.158	344	30	97	9	65	54	-1	-0.6	.243	.035	.000	0.10	0.0	0.0	3.1	30.8	2.07	3.5	226	73.5	26.5	13.7	67-95	6	2008	Pittsburgh
2009	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	26	p	66	31	60	1	12	2	0	0	5	0	0	4	18	0	0	14	1	0	.200	.246	.233	479	31	100	14	79	63	3	1.2	.279	.100	.033	0.22	0.0	16.7	5.1	22.8	1.90	3.2	250	69.6	30.4	8.4	62-99	6	2009	Pittsburgh
2010	Altoona	East	AA	-	pit	27	p	-	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	-	-	0	2	2	--	--	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0.0	0.0	50.0	--	--	--	--	--	--	82-60	1	2010	Altoona
	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	57	pit	27	p	-	32	48	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	17	0	0	8	0	0	.062	.100	.104	204	29	91	5	58	53	-3	-1.5	.097	.083	.042	0.12	0.0	66.7	3.4	29.3	2.25	3.3	192	74.0	26.0	13.0	57-105	6		Pittsburgh
2011	Arizona	NL	MLB	19	ari	28	p	-	20	20	3	6	0	0	2	6	0	0	1	7	0	0	2	0	0	.300	.333	.600	933	8	40	12	23	16	4	6.5	.364	.350	.300	0.14	8.7	33.3	4.3	30.4	1.14	3.5	81	69.1	30.9	16.0	94-68	1	2011	Arizona
MLB Totals (7 years)									181	313	17	55	7	0	2	23	0	0	12	116	0	0	42	2	2	.176	.205	.217	422	162	90	68	369	304	2	0.2	.269	.080	.042	0.10	0.5	16.4	3.3	31.4	1.96	3.31	--	72.5	27.5	13.9	.425	--	--	--
Minor League Totals (4 years)									16	20	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	1	0	0	.050	.050	.100	150	--	--	2	21	20	-2	-2.5	.091	.050	.050	0.00	0.0	100.0	0.0	42.9	--	--	--	--	--	--	.553	--	--	--
AAA Totals (2 years)									5	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	--	--	0	11	11	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0.0	0.0	27.3	--	--	--	--	--	--	.516	--	--	--
AA Totals (2 years)									11	10	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	.100	.100	.200	300	--	--	2	10	9	-1	-1.7	.250	.100	.100	0.00	0.0	100.0	0.0	60.0	--	--	--	--	--	--	.590	--	--	--

Fielding Statistics

Data Products

Year	Team	Lg	Level	Org	Age	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	P %	C %	1B %	2B %	3B %	SS %	LF %	CF %	RF %	OF %	PO	A	E
2002	GCL Pirates	GCL	Rk	pit	19	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	6	22	0
2003	Hickory	SAL	A	pit	20	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.921	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	7	28	3
2004	Altoona	East	AA	pit	21	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	5	13	0
2004	Lynchburg	Caro	A+	pit	21	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.875	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	8	20	4
2005	Indianapolis	IL	AAA	pit	22	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.971	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	10	23	1
2005	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	pit	22	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	4	15	0
2006	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	pit	23	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.984	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	8	52	1
2007	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	pit	24	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	2	22	0
2008	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	pit	25	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.962	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	11	39	2
2009	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	pit	26	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.962	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	16	35	2
2010	Altoona	East	AA	pit	27	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	1
2010	Pittsburgh	NL	MLB	pit	27	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	11	23	0
2011	Arizona	NL	MLB	ari	28	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	6	10	0
2011	Reno	PCL	AAA	ari	28	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0
2011	Visalia	Calif	A+	ari	28	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0
MLB Totals						181	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.981	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	58	196	5
Minor League Totals						83	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.940	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	36	106	9

Transactions

Drafted: Selected by Pittsburgh Pirates in 20th round (594th overall) of 2001 Amateur Draft (June-Reg Phase)

2001-07-31 - signed 2010-11-24 - Traded by Pirates to Diamondbacks 2011-10-31 - Granted free agency 2012-01-27 - Signed by Astros 2012-03-27 - Released by Astros 2012-03-29 - Signed by Nationals

Awards

2004 - Baseball America 2nd team Minor League All-Star SP; Carolina League All-Star SP; Carolina League Pitcher of the Year; High A All-Star SP; Pittsburgh Pirates Minor League Player of the Year; 2005 - International League All-Star SP; International League Most Valuable Pitcher; NL Rookie of the Year (Voting Rank: #5); Pittsburgh Pirates Minor League Player of the Year; Triple-A All-Star SP; 2009 - Played in MLB All-Star Game (NL);

Contracts

2005-2005 - Signed by PIT to 1-year contract worth $0.3m (6/27/2005) -- Contract purchased from minors
2006-2006 - Signed by PIT to 1-year contract worth $0.335m
2007-2007 - Signed by PIT to 1-year contract worth $0.41m (3/7/2007)
2008-2008 - Signed by PIT to 1-year contract worth $0.4m (3/10/2008)
2009-2009 - Signed by PIT to 1-year contract worth $2.2m (1/20/2009) -- Avoided arbitration
2010-2010 - Signed by PIT to 1-year contract worth $4.3m (1/19/2010) -- avoided arbitration
2011-2011 - Signed by ARI to 1-year contract worth $4.25m (12/2/2010) -- Avoided arbitration. Club option for 2012
2012-2012 - Signed by HOU to 1-year contract worth $0.414m (1/27/2012) -- Minor league contract

Disabled List

2005-08-27 - Disabled (sprained left ankle ); 2005-09-16 - Activated; 2007-07-01 - Disabled (Left elbow tendinitis); 2007-08-14 - Transferred; 2007-09-11 - Activated; 2010-06-23 - Disabled (Sore Left Elbow); 2010-07-12 - Activated; 2011-03-30 - Disabled (Broken left hand); 2011-05-28 - Activated;

Salaries

$300,000

$335,000

$410,000

$400,000

$2,200,000

$4,300,000

$3,500,000

Salary data is available for Major Leaguers since 1985. Players not on opening day roster, for the most part, are assumed to have earned the minimum salary for that year. MLB rank in parentheses.

Feats

2004 - ERA Below 2.30 Caro --- 1.39
2004 - WHIP below 1 Caro --- 0.96
2005 - ERA Below 2.30 NL --- 1.81

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Other Batting Statistics

Year	Team	League	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	GDP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
2010	Pittsburgh Pirates	MLB-ST	5	4	1	3	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.750	.750	1.500	2250
2011	Arizona Diamondbacks	MLB-ST	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0
2012	Houston Astros	MLB-ST	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0

Other Pitching Statistics

Year	Team	League	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9
2010	Pittsburgh Pirates	MLB-ST	0	2	6.27	5	5	0	0	0	18.2	19	13	13	1	8	13	1.45	9.16	0.48	3.86	6.27
2011	Arizona Diamondbacks	MLB-ST	0	2	7.88	4	3	0	0	0	8	18	8	7	3	2	3	2.50	20.25	3.38	2.25	3.38
2012	Houston Astros	MLB-ST	0	3	11.30	4	1	0	0	0	14.1	25	18	18	5	6	8	2.16	15.70	3.14	3.77	5.02

Leaderboard History (Top Tens)

Hover over year/rank to see Stat value and Team/League.

Stat Category	Freq	MLB	Minor	College
SH	1x	2009-6
WHIP	1x		2003-10
HR9	2x	2006-3	2003-7
BB9	1x	2009-7
W	3x		2002-1 2004-8 2005-5
L	4x	2006-4 2008-4 2009-1 2010-2
GS	2x	2006-7	2002-9
CG	2x	2009-7	2002-8
SHO	2x		2002-9 2003-7
IP	1x		2002-8
H	4x	2006-1 2008-2 2009-2 2010-8
R	3x	2006-7 2008-4 2010-3
ER	4x	2006-7 2008-6 2009-9 2010-3
SO	2x		2002-9 2004-8
WP	1x	2006-10
BK	2x	2008-6 2010-2

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