Luke Putkonen

Mobile Site You Are Here > Home > Encyclopedia of Players > P Listing > Luke Putkonen Statistics and History

News: s-r blog:Check Out B-R’s Bullpen Wiki!

Luke Putkonen \Puh-KOH-nen\

Luke Webber Putkonen

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 6", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: May 10, 1986 in Wheaton, IL
High School: Walton HS (Marietta, GA)
School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 3rd round of the 2007 amateur draft.
Signed July 19, 2007. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 29, 2012 (Age 25) vs. NYY 1.2 IP, 3 H, 0 SO, 2 BB, 2 ER
Team: Tigers 2012-2013
2013 Contract Status: Pre-Arb Eligible (details) [*]
Service Time (01/2013): 0.079, Arb Eligible: 2016, Free Agent: 2019 [*],
About biographical information

View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

Select Luke Putkonen on draftstreet.com for your chance to win some real $$$$ prizes. CLICK HERE to sign up for FREE and join the $300 freeroll.

Our primary support comes from users like you. Sponsor this page for $10. Your message will replace this ad.

Player News

Add Your Blog Posts Here · Player News Archive · Player News RSS Feed

5/20 FFLockerRoom: Detroit Tigers Recall Luke Putkonen, Option Evan Reed: The Detroit Tigers have recalled right-handed reliever Luke Putkonen...

Standard Pitching

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
2007	21	DET-min	Rk	0	1	.000	4.15	3	3	0	0	0	0	8.2	8	5	4	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	35		0.923	8.3	0.0	0.0	9.3		LAT · GULF
2008	22	DET-min	A-	2	1	.667	3.65	6	6	0	0	0	0	24.2	24	10	10	1	8	0	17	1	0	0	98		1.297	8.8	0.4	2.9	6.2	2.13	ONE · NYPL
2009	23	DET-min	A	7	8	.467	3.13	28	28	0	1	1	0	149.1	148	63	52	3	47	0	115	9	0	9	631		1.306	8.9	0.2	2.8	6.9	2.45	WMI · MIDW
2010	24	DET-min	A+	9	7	.563	3.18	27	26	0	1	0	0	152.2	144	55	54	8	44	1	87	6	1	6	617		1.231	8.5	0.5	2.6	5.1	1.98	LAK · FLOR
2011	25	DET-min	A+,AA	3	13	.188	6.44	29	19	6	1	0	0	117.1	145	96	84	18	40	1	75	5	1	4	532		1.577	11.1	1.4	3.1	5.8	1.88	LAK,ERI · FLOR,EL
2012	26	DET-min	AAA	3	3	.500	4.92	24	2	6	0	0	0	56.2	68	37	31	3	20	0	46	1	0	2	249		1.553	10.8	0.5	3.2	7.3	2.30	TOL · IL
2012	26	DET	AL	0	2	.000	3.94	12	0	6	0	0	1	16.0	19	7	7	0	8	1	10	0	0	2	72	110	1.688	10.7	0.0	4.5	5.6	1.25
2013	27	DET-min	AAA	1	0	1.000	1.96	10	1	1	0	0	0	23.0	15	7	5	0	7	0	21	0	0	1	90		0.957	5.9	0.0	2.7	8.2	3.00	TOL · IL
2013	27	DET	AL	1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.2	0	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	0	10		0.750	0.0	0.0	6.8	13.5	2.00
2 Yrs				1	2	.333	3.38	14	0	7	0	0	1	18.2	19	7	7	0	10	1	14	0	0	2	82	131	1.554	9.2	0.0	4.8	6.8	1.40
162 Game Avg.				5	10	.333	3.38	68	0	34	0	0	5	91	92	34	34	0	49	5	68	0	0	10	398	131	1.554	9.2	0.0	4.8	6.8	1.40

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%
2012	26	DET	AL	16.0	12	7	3.94	4.54	-0.23	-0.34	99.6	4.41	1	0.1	1.2	-0.0	0.2	2	.507	.501
2013	27	DET	AL	2.2	2	0	0.00	3.75	-0.05	-0.27	100.8	3.56	1	0.1	1.5	0.0	0.2	1	.555	.501
2 Seasons				18.2	14	7	3.38	4.43	-0.20	-0.33	99.7	4.29	2	0.2	1.2	-0.0	0.4	4	.514	.501

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	Pos	Awards
2007	21	DET-min	Rk	3		LAT · GULF
2008	22	DET-min	A-	6		ONE · NYPL
2009	23	DET-min	A	28		WMI · MIDW
2010	24	DET-min	A+	27		LAK · FLOR
2011	25	DET-min	A+,AA	29		LAK,ERI · FLOR,EL
2012	26	DET-min	AAA	24		TOL · IL
2012	26	DET	AL	12	1
2013	27	DET	AL	2	/1
2 Yrs				14
162 Game Avg.				162

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	oRAR	Pos
2012	26	DET	AL	12						.501	.500			1
2013	27	DET	AL	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.501	.500	0.0	0	/1
2 Seasons				13	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.501	.500	0.0	0

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Inn	Ch	PO	A	Fld%	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%
2012	DET	AL	26	P	12	16.0	4	2	2	1.000	-1	-12	2.25	0.33	.955	1.58	1.56	1	1	50%	26%
2013	DET	AL	27	P	2	2.2	0	0	0		0	0	0.00	0.00		1.69	1.55	0	0
	2 Seasons			P	14	18.2	4	2	2	1.000	-1	-10	1.93	0.29	.955	1.59	1.56	1	1	50%	26%
	2 Seasons			TOT	14	18.2	4	2	2	1.000	-1	-64	1.93	0.29	.955	1.59	1.56	1	1	50%	26%

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1945 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1945 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1916 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1945 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Transactions

June 7, 2007: Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 3rd round of the 2007 amateur draft. Player signed July 19, 2007.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet WahooSam.com

Viewed 4,537 times through May 22, 2013.
Name and misspellings: Luke Luke W. Webber Putkonen

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.