Player Report for #20 A.J. Hightower

Player Demographics
	Name:	A.J. Hightower	Height:	5' 11"
	Nickname:		Weight:	255 lbs
	Date of Birth:	June 10, 1983	Bats:	R
	Drafted:	Drafted by the Los Lunas Javelinas with the 7^th pick in the 2^nd round of the 2001 draft	Throws:	R
	Current Status:	Retired
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Honors and Awards
Award	Years	Times Won
Pitcher of the Month	9/14	1

Pitching Stats

Year/Team	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HP	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	WAR	ERC	FIP	ERA+
2007 - DEN	24	18	15	3	9	0	7.31	76.3	114	64	62	15	35	84	1	0	0	0	1.95	.418	0.0	8.19	4.93	55
2008 - TOR	25	4	4	2	2	0	4.28	27.3	24	13	13	5	11	28	0	0	0	0	1.28	.268	0.2	3.91	4.74	100
2009 - TOR	26	13	13	1	8	0	6.46	61.3	81	50	44	11	27	76	0	0	0	0	1.76	.407	0.7	6.63	4.37	66
2010 - PIT	27	27	27	11	10	0	3.95	164.0	163	74	72	31	36	230	4	0	0	0	1.21	.345	2.9	3.99	3.51	109
2011 - PIT	28	34	34	16	8	0	3.25	218.7	186	83	79	22	52	288	8	0	1	0	1.09	.322	6.2	2.83	2.59	130
2012 - PIT	29	33	33	15	10	0	3.84	208.3	193	90	89	35	44	257	9	0	0	0	1.14	.311	3.3	3.54	3.55	104
2013 - PIT	30	31	31	13	6	0	3.85	198.7	194	86	85	31	49	249	3	0	1	0	1.22	.336	3.5	3.80	3.46	100
2014 - PIT	31	33	33	17	7	0	3.01	212.0	175	78	71	26	39	277	7	0	1	0	1.01	.300	5.8	2.59	2.73	130
2015 - WIL	32	12	12	7	3	0	3.99	79.0	77	35	35	15	15	90	0	0	0	0	1.16	.315	0.9	3.71	3.96	94
2015 - PIT	32	14	14	4	7	0	4.82	84.0	89	49	45	17	14	83	1	0	0	0	1.23	.306	0.4	4.17	4.35	78
2015 - Tot	32	26	26	11	10	0	4.42	163.0	166	84	80	32	29	173	1	0	0	0	1.20	.310	1.3	3.95	4.16	86
2016 - WIL	33	29	29	7	11	0	3.75	173.0	160	83	72	25	31	206	7	0	0	0	1.10	.310	3.0	3.21	3.23	95
2017 - IND	34	30	30	12	11	0	3.41	192.7	184	79	73	29	37	200	3	0	0	0	1.15	.296	2.9	3.38	3.66	110
2018 - IND	35	8	8	2	3	0	4.99	52.3	57	31	29	12	7	44	1	0	1	0	1.22	.290	0.2	4.41	4.90	80
2019 - IND	36	14	2	0	1	1	5.94	33.3	40	22	22	7	8	43	0	0	0	0	1.44	.379	0.2	5.36	4.07	66
w/ DEN		18	15	3	9	0	7.31	76.3	114	64	62	15	35	84	1	0	0	0	1.95	.418	0.0	8.19	4.93	55
w/ TOR		17	17	3	10	0	5.79	88.7	105	63	57	16	38	104	0	0	0	0	1.61	.366	0.8	5.75	4.49	77
w/ PIT		172	172	76	48	0	3.66	1085.7	1000	460	441	162	234	1384	32	0	3	0	1.14	.320	22.1	3.36	3.24	112
w/ WIL		41	41	14	14	0	3.82	252.0	237	118	107	40	46	296	7	0	0	0	1.12	.312	3.9	3.36	3.46	95
w/ IND		52	40	14	15	1	4.01	278.3	281	132	124	48	52	287	4	0	1	0	1.20	.305	3.2	3.79	3.94	99
Per 162 games		35	33	13	11	0	4.00	207.0	202	97	92	33	47	250	5	0	0	0	1.20	.324	3.5	3.73	3.51	104
Totals		300	285	110	96	1	4.00	1781.0	1737	837	791	281	405	2155	44	0	4	0	1.20	.324	30.0	3.73	3.51	104

Expanded Pitching Stats

Year/Team	Age	BF	PI	R/9IP	H/9IP	K/9IP	BB/9IP	HR/9IP	K/BB	QS	QS%	CG%	GF	GB	FB	GB%	WP	BK	BS	SV%	SVO
2007 - DEN	24	372	1435	7.55	13.44	9.90	4.13	1.77	2.40	4	26.7	0.0	0	52	83	38.5	4	1	0	0.0	0
2008 - TOR	25	115	430	4.28	7.90	9.22	3.62	1.65	2.55	2	50.0	0.0	0	21	30	41.2	0	1	0	0.0	0
2009 - TOR	26	287	1121	7.34	11.89	11.15	3.96	1.61	2.81	3	23.1	0.0	0	38	63	37.6	1	0	0	0.0	0
2010 - PIT	27	684	2660	4.06	8.95	12.62	1.98	1.70	6.39	14	51.8	0.0	0	99	151	39.6	7	2	0	0.0	0
2011 - PIT	28	882	3501	3.42	7.66	11.85	2.14	0.91	5.54	22	64.7	2.9	0	138	205	40.2	5	1	0	0.0	0
2012 - PIT	29	855	3249	3.89	8.34	11.10	1.90	1.51	5.84	21	63.6	0.0	0	138	212	39.4	3	1	0	0.0	0
2013 - PIT	30	820	3182	3.90	8.79	11.28	2.22	1.40	5.08	20	64.5	3.2	0	132	189	41.1	2	3	0	0.0	0
2014 - PIT	31	846	3320	3.31	7.43	11.76	1.66	1.10	7.10	19	57.6	3.0	0	127	216	37.0	2	2	0	0.0	0
2015 - PIT	32	352	1316	5.25	9.54	8.89	1.50	1.82	5.93	5	35.7	0.0	0	62	102	37.8	4	0	0	0.0	0
2015 - WIL	32	320	1187	3.99	8.77	10.25	1.71	1.71	6.00	8	66.7	0.0	0	67	70	48.9	1	0	0	0.0	0
2015 - Tot	32	672	2503	4.64	9.17	9.55	1.60	1.77	5.97	13	50.0	0.0	0	129	172	42.9	5	0	0	0.0	0
2016 - WIL	33	711	2779	4.32	8.32	10.72	1.61	1.30	6.65	19	65.5	0.0	0	113	189	37.4	3	2	0	0.0	0
2017 - IND	34	794	2865	3.69	8.60	9.34	1.73	1.35	5.41	18	60.0	0.0	0	118	244	32.6	2	1	0	0.0	0
2018 - IND	35	219	781	5.33	9.80	7.57	1.20	2.06	6.29	4	50.0	12.5	0	38	70	35.2	0	0	0	0.0	0
2019 - IND	36	145	563	5.94	10.80	11.61	2.16	1.89	5.38	1	50.0	0.0	0	14	40	25.9	1	0	0	100.0	1
w/ DEN		372	1435	7.55	13.44	9.90	4.13	1.77	2.40	4	26.7	0.0	0	52	83	38.5	4	1	0	0.0	0
w/ TOR		402	1551	6.39	10.66	10.56	3.86	1.62	2.74	5	29.4	0.0	0	59	93	38.8	1	1	0	0.0	0
w/ PIT		4439	17228	3.81	8.29	11.47	1.94	1.34	5.91	101	58.7	1.7	0	696	1075	39.3	23	9	0	0.0	0
w/ WIL		1031	3966	4.21	8.46	10.57	1.64	1.43	6.43	27	65.8	0.0	0	180	259	41.0	4	2	0	0.0	0
w/ IND		1158	4209	4.27	9.09	9.28	1.68	1.55	5.52	23	57.5	2.5	0	170	354	32.4	3	1	0	100.0	1
Per 162 games		860	3300	4.23	8.78	10.89	2.05	1.42	5.32	19	56.1	1.4	0	134	217	38.3	4	2	0	100.0	0
Totals		7402	28389	4.23	8.78	10.89	2.05	1.42	5.32	160	56.1	1.4	0	1157	1864	38.3	35	14	0	100.0	1

Postseason Pitching Stats

Year/Team	Age	G	GS	W	L	SV	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	K	HP	HLD	CG	SHO	WHIP	BABIP	ERC	FIP
2011 - PIT	28	1	1	0	1	0	4.50	6.0	8	3	3	1	2	6	0	0	0	0	1.67	.389	6.38	4.37
2012 - PIT	29	1	1	0	1	0	8.44	5.3	9	5	5	1	1	11	1	0	0	0	1.88	.667	8.76	2.08
2013 - PIT	30	3	3	1	0	0	2.25	20.0	13	6	5	2	3	26	1	0	0	0	0.80	.250	1.61	2.35
2015 - WIL	32	2	2	0	2	0	13.50	7.3	12	12	11	1	2	11	1	0	0	0	1.91	.524	8.40	2.79
w/ PIT		5	5	1	2	0	3.73	31.3	30	14	13	4	6	43	2	0	0	0	1.15	.351	3.40	2.69
w/ WIL		2	2	0	2	0	13.50	7.3	12	12	11	1	2	11	1	0	0	0	1.91	.524	8.40	2.79
Per 162 games		34	34	5	19	0	5.59	187.8	204	126	117	24	39	262	15	0	0	0	1.29	.390	4.25	2.71
Totals		7	7	1	4	0	5.59	38.7	42	26	24	5	8	54	3	0	0	0	1.29	.390	4.25	2.71

Batting Stats

Year/Team	Age	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	HP	SH	SF	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR	wOBA	OPS+
2007 - DEN	24	3	4	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	-0.1	.360	184
2009 - TOR	26	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	.000	-100
2010 - PIT	27	4	10	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	0.0	.327	121
2011 - PIT	28	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	0.1	.150	-8
2012 - PIT	29	5	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	0.0	.083	-61
2013 - PIT	30	4	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.143	.143	.286	.429	-0.0	.155	17
2014 - PIT	31	3	8	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-0.0	.100	-30
2015 - PIT	32	1	3	3	1	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.333	3.333	0.3	1.363	797
2015 - WIL	32	11	22	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	4	0	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-0.1	.067	-48
2015 - Tot	32	12	25	5	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	5	0	4	0	0	.200	.200	.360	.560	0.2	.196	37
2016 - WIL	33	26	41	7	2	0	0	3	2	0	1	9	1	8	0	0	.171	.186	.220	.406	-0.4	.149	16
w/ DEN		3	4	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	-0.1	.360	184
w/ TOR		1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-0.1	.000	-100
w/ PIT		19	41	10	2	0	1	1	4	0	1	4	0	8	0	0	.244	.262	.366	.628	0.4	.250	65
w/ WIL		37	63	9	2	0	0	4	2	0	1	14	1	12	0	0	.143	.154	.175	.328	-0.5	.121	-6
Per 162 games		162	294	57	11	0	3	14	19	0	5	51	3	59	0	0	.193	.205	.257	.462	-0.9	.174	25
Totals		60	109	21	4	0	1	5	7	0	2	19	1	22	0	0	.193	.205	.257	.462	-0.3	.174	25

Expanded Batting Stats

Year/Team	Age	PA	Outs	EBH	TB	IBB	PS	PS/PA	PA/HR	BB/K	GDP	PwrSpd	SB%	RC	RC/27	BBABIP	ISO
2007 - DEN	24	5	3	0	2	0	22	4.40	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	1.0	9.1	1.000	.000
2009 - TOR	26	1	1	0	0	0	4	4.00	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	.000	.000
2010 - PIT	27	11	7	0	4	0	45	4.09	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	1.6	6.3	.571	.000
2011 - PIT	28	6	5	0	1	0	18	3.00	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.9	.167	.000
2012 - PIT	29	9	8	0	0	0	32	3.56	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.3	.000	.000
2013 - PIT	30	8	7	1	2	0	36	4.50	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.2	.167	.143
2014 - PIT	31	9	8	0	1	0	28	3.11	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.2	0.6	.167	.000
2015 - PIT	32	3	0	2	7	0	12	4.00	3.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	7.0	0.0	1.000	1.333
2015 - WIL	32	27	25	0	2	0	110	4.07	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.4	.111	.000
2015 - Tot	32	30	25	2	9	0	122	4.07	30.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	1.9	2.1	.200	.160
2016 - WIL	33	52	44	2	9	0	152	2.92	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	2.2	1.4	.206	.049
w/ DEN		5	3	0	2	0	22	4.40	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	1.0	9.1	1.000	.000
w/ TOR		1	1	0	0	0	4	4.00	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	.000	.000
w/ PIT		46	35	3	15	0	171	3.72	46.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	4.1	3.2	.281	.122
w/ WIL		79	69	2	11	0	262	3.32	0.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	2.4	0.9	.173	.032
Per 162 games		354	292	14	76	0	1239	3.50	131.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	18.4	1.7	.230	.064
Totals		131	108	5	28	0	459	3.50	131.0	0.00	0	0.0	0.0	6.8	1.7	.230	.064

Postseason Batting Stats

Year/Team	Age	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	R	BB	HP	SH	SF	K	SB	CS	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	wOBA
2015 - WIL	32	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000
w/ WIL		2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000
Per 162 games		162	81	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	162	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000
Totals		2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	.000

Fielding Stats

Year/Team	Age	Pos	G	GS	PO	A	DP	TC	E	Pct	Inn	Rng	ZR	PB	SBA	RTO	RTO%
2007 - DEN	24	P	18	15	3	9	0	12	0	1.000	76.3	1.41	-1.1
2008 - TOR	25	P	4	4	3	1	0	4	0	1.000	27.3	1.32	0.7
2009 - TOR	26	P	13	13	4	2	0	6	0	1.000	61.3	0.88	-0.9
2010 - PIT	27	P	27	27	4	7	0	11	0	1.000	164.0	0.60	-0.4
2011 - PIT	28	P	34	34	4	20	5	24	0	1.000	218.7	0.99	1.2
2012 - PIT	29	P	33	33	5	14	1	20	1	.950	208.3	0.82	1.4
2013 - PIT	30	P	31	31	16	21	1	37	0	1.000	198.7	1.68	0.4
2014 - PIT	31	P	33	33	7	17	2	24	0	1.000	212.0	1.02	1.0
2015 - WIL	32	P	12	12	4	13	0	17	0	1.000	79.0	1.94	2.0
2015 - PIT	32	P	14	14	1	5	1	7	1	.857	84.0	0.64	-0.1
2015 - P Tot	32	P	26	26	5	18	1	24	1	.958	163.0	1.27	1.9
2016 - WIL	33	P	29	29	4	16	0	21	1	.952	173.0	1.04	-1.0
2017 - IND	34	P	30	30	8	15	1	23	0	1.000	192.7	1.07	0.5
2018 - IND	35	P	8	8	3	2	0	5	0	1.000	52.3	0.86	0.3
2019 - IND	36	P	14	2	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	33.3	0.27	0.2
Pitcher			300	285	67	142	11	212	3	.986	1781.0	1.06	4.2

Leaderboard Appearances

Year	GS	Rank
2011	34	2
2012	33	1
2014	33	3

Year	W	Rank
2011	16	8
2012	15	8
2014	17	3

Year	Win%	Rank
2011	.667	9
2013	.684	8
2014	.708	8

Year	IP	Rank
2014	212.0	9

Year	HRA	Rank
2010	31	4
2012	35	1
2013	31	3
2014	26	9
2016	25	4
2017	29	5

Year	K	Rank
2010	230	2
2011	288	1
2012	257	2
2013	249	3
2014	277	1
2016	206	7
2017	200	7

Year	WP	Rank
2010	7	9

Year	ERA	Rank
2014	3.01	8

Year	WHIP	Rank
2011	1.09	5
2014	1.01	4

Year	K/BB	Rank
2010	6.39	1
2011	5.54	6
2012	5.84	5
2013	5.08	8
2014	7.10	3
2016	6.65	6
2017	5.41	7

Year	RA/9IP	Rank
2011	10.12	4
2014	9.38	5

Year	H/9IP	Rank
2011	7.66	10
2014	7.43	5

Year	BB/9IP	Rank
2010	1.98	10
2014	1.66	8
2017	1.73	10

Year	K/9IP	Rank
2010	12.62	1
2011	11.85	1
2012	11.10	1
2013	11.28	2
2014	11.76	1
2016	10.72	3
2017	9.34	4

Year	VORP	Rank
2011	48.5	7
2014	47.1	7

Year	QS	Rank
2011	22	4

Year	QS%	Rank
2011	64.7	10

Year	WAR	Rank
2011	8.61	2
2014	7.92	3

Career Metrics
Black Ink	5
Gray Ink	48
HOF Standards (pitching)	18

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Trades
Date	Traded By	With	Traded To	For
January 16th, 2006	Dallas Snappers	CF Pat Stewart P Franklin Martinez P Leo Garcia LF Doug Gill 1st Round Draft Pick	Denver Bulls	RF Sonny Marshburn $10,000,000
December 1st, 2007	Denver BC	P Ron Malone	Toronto Canadians	1B Tom Cole
February 1st, 2010	Toronto Canadians	P Maxence Claveau P Ron Malone 1B Brendon Gleason	Pittsburgh Millers	RF Travis Wallis 1B Jordan Camejo
July 6th, 2015	Pittsburgh Millers	-	Wilmington Wildcats	1st Round Draft Pick 3rd Round Draft Pick