Bert Rueter  
Starting Pitcher | Free Agents

Pitching
His fastball gets into the high 80s, but it's the sink that makes the pitch effective. Rueter also has a decent changeup. The Free Agents hope he can work on his control a little bit. Every once and a while one slips away from him and either ends up at the backstop or in the right field bleachers. He's almost as effective against lefthanders as he is versus righthanders.

Defense & Hitting
He doesn't have much of a pickoff move and he's slow getting the ball to home plate out of the set position. Rueter seems distracted after his delivery. He's sometimes out of position, fails to cover a base or doesn't back up throws. Rueter is a surpisingly good hitting pitcher. And I'm not sure you can say this about a pitcher, but Rueter has some pop in his swing. Interesting sidenote, The Free Agents have been known to use Rueter as a pinch-runner on occasion.

2014 Outlook
It's really a shame he hasn't caught on somewhere. He might be a decent addition to someone's bench.

          -- Moostard Nyman
 

 

Year Team AS EN CO HR GF vL Hm Sc CL FB CU SI SL CB SC KN Age Exp Delivery Slot CH PH SP FA Nyman Rating
2003 VIE 94 81 69 61 53 48 47 52 48 59 60 0 52 58 0 0 28 4 Overhand Active 0 0 0 49 388
2004 SJ 93 81 69 61 53 48 47 52 48 59 60 0 52 60 0 0 29 5 Overhand Active 0 0 0 49 389
2005 SJ 93 81 69 61 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 52 60 0 0 30 7 Overhand Active 0 0 0 49 390
2006 SJ 93 81 69 61 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 52 60 0 0 30 7 Overhand Active 0 0 0 49 390
2007 SJ 94 81 69 61 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 52 60 0 0 32 8 Overhand Active 0 0 0 48 388
2008 SJ 92 81 69 61 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 52 60 0 0 33 9 Overhand Active 0 0 0 48 385
2009 SJ 91 80 69 61 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 53 60 0 0 34 10 Overhand Active 0 0 0 48 382
2010 SJ 91 80 69 60 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 53 60 0 0 35 11 Overhand Active 0 0 0 48 380
2011 SJ 90 79 69 58 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 53 60 0 0 36 12 Overhand Active 0 0 0 47 375
2012 SJ 89 79 69 58 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 53 61 0 0 37 13 Overhand Active 0 0 0 46 374
2013 FA 86 78 69 56 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 53 61 0 0 38 14 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 45 366
2014 FA 86 78 66 54 53 48 47 52 48 59 61 0 53 61 0 0 39 15 Overhand Free Agent 0 0 0 43 360
Ratings Delta       -3 -2                         +1 +1           -2 -6
History generated by Biorhythm v2.6.86 on Tue May 10 16:22:47 EDT 2005

Data printed in red denotes that player was in the top two percent for that category and year. Blue data denotes membership to the bottom two percent.