Ryan Valdes

WTM’s PLAYER PROFILE

2017
R:  1-0-1, 0.00 ERA, 0.82 WHIP, 7.1 IP, 2.5 BB/9, 13.5 K/9
R+:  0-2-0, 5.19 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 17.1 IP, 6.2 BB/9, 11.4 K/9

The Pirates initially sent Valdes to the GCL, then moved him up to Bristol.  He pitched strictly in relief at both stops.  He had high K rates, but had control problems at Bristol.  Much of that occurred in his last two outings, when he allowed five walks and seven earned runs in two and a third innings.  In his other eight games at Bristol, he allowed seven walks and three earned runs in 15 innings.  He had problems with gopher balls, allowing five, or one every three and a half innings, at Bristol.

2018
A-:  1-1-1, 4.75 ERA, 1.62 WHIP, 30.1 IP, 5.3 BB/9, 8.6 K/9
A:  0-0-0, 0.87 ERA, 0.58 WHIP, 10.1 IP, 1.7 BB/9, 8.7 K/9

Valdes spent most of the season in the Morgantown bullpen, where he wasn’t especially effective.  At the end of the season, though, he moved up to West Virginia and pitched dramatically better in three long relief appearances.

2019
A+:  2-2-2, 6.83 ERA, 1.84 WHIP, 27.2 IP, 6.5 BB/9, 7.8 K/9
AA:  0-0-0, 9.00 ERA, 3.00 WHIP, 2.0 IP, 9.0 BB/9, 9.0 K/9

Valdes spent the season pitching in relief for Bradenton, except for one game filling in for Altoona in May.  He pitched only a little, just five games, in July and August.  He pitched scoreless ball in his first eight outings, but had an ERA of 10.90 after that, partly due to control problems.

Valdes will fill in somewhere if he’s back in 2020.