Bubba Starling - The Baseball Cube

PositionsCF-543, RF-59, LF-2Position when DraftedOFPlayer Listed UnderMinors Leaguers
Proper NameDerek Starling
Height6-4Weight180BatsRightThrowsRight
Born DateAugust 3,1992 [26.197]PlaceGardner,Kansas
High SchoolGardner Edgerton (Gardner,KS)

DraftedSelected by the Kansas City Royals [Team Picks] in the 1st round (5th overall) of the 2011 Amateur Entry Draft [Signed]
Signing Bonus$7,500,000Signing ScoutsBlake Davis Lonnie Goldberg Mitch WebsterService Time0.037 (2017)
Prospect Rankings[BA] 2012-MLB-#24 ... 2012-KCA-#2 ... 2013-MLB-#35 ... 2013-KCA-#2 ... 2014-KCA-#8 ... 2016-KCA-#3 � [PIPE] 2016-KCA-#7
OrganizationsKCA [7] Awards2
TBC Player ID165352MLBAM ID605490
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Year	Team	League	Lvl	Org	Unif	Pos	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	XBH	PA	babip	ISO	SecA	wOBA	BB%	SO%	K-BB	HR%	AB/HR	XBH%
2012	Burlington Royals	App	Rk	kca	23	cf	19	53	200	35	55	8	2	10	33	10	1	28	70	3	0	1	2	2	.275	.371	.485	.856	97	20	232	.372	.210	.395	.369	12.07	30.17	2.50	4.31	20.00	36.36
2013	Lexington Legends	SAL	A	kca	11	cf	20	125	435	51	105	21	4	13	63	22	3	53	128	6	0	4	1	8	.241	.329	.398	.727	173	38	498	.309	.157	.322	.322	10.64	25.70	2.42	2.61	33.46	36.19
2014	Wilmington Blue Rocks	Caro	A+	kca	16	cf	21	132	482	67	105	23	4	9	54	17	2	49	150	13	0	5	0	4	.218	.304	.338	.642	163	36	549	.293	.120	.253	.291	8.93	27.32	3.06	1.64	53.56	34.29
2015	Wilmington Blue Rocks	Caro	A+	kca	16	cf	22	12	44	6	17	4	0	2	12	2	1	7	17	0	0	0	1	0	.386	.471	.614	1.085	27	6	51	.600	.228	.409	.459	13.73	33.33	2.43	3.92	22.00	35.29
2015	Northwest Arkansas Natura	Tex	AA	kca	6	cf	22	91	331	51	84	19	4	10	32	4	5	30	91	2	1	2	1	3	.254	.318	.426	.744	141	33	366	.319	.172	.260	.322	8.20	24.86	3.03	2.73	33.10	39.29
2015	Minor Totals (2 teams)	Minor		�	�	�	�	103	375	57	101	23	4	12	44	6	6	37	108	2	1	2	2	3	.269	.337	.448	.785	168	39	417	.346	.179	.277	.339	8.87	25.90	2.92	2.88	31.25	38.61
2016	Northwest Arkansas Natura	Tex	AA	kca	6	cf	23	62	233	28	43	15	1	5	23	10	1	15	81	6	0	1	0	4	.185	.251	.322	.573	75	21	255	.257	.137	.240	.252	5.88	31.76	5.40	1.96	46.60	48.84
2016	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	30	cf	23	47	166	14	30	8	0	2	17	1	0	7	64	0	2	1	0	2	.181	.213	.265	.478	44	10	176	.277	.084	.133	.209	3.98	36.36	9.14	1.14	83.00	33.33
2016	Minor Totals (2 teams)	Minor		�	�	�	�	109	399	42	73	23	1	7	40	11	1	22	145	6	2	2	0	6	.183	.235	.298	.533	119	31	431	.265	.115	.195	.235	5.10	33.64	6.59	1.62	57.00	42.47
2017	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	6	cf	24	80	278	35	69	14	1	7	21	5	4	19	65	3	3	0	0	9	.248	.303	.381	.684	106	22	303	.301	.133	.205	.297	6.27	21.45	3.42	2.31	39.71	31.88
2018	Arizona Royals	Ariz	Rk	kca			25	4	11	3	3	0	0	3	5	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	0	.273	.333	1.091	1.424	12	3	12	.000	.818	.818	.568	0.00	33.33	0.00	25.00	3.67	100.00
2018	Idaho Falls Chukars	Pio	Rk	kca			25	5	8	5	4	3	0	1	4	0	0	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.692	1.250	1.942	10	4	13	.600	.750	1.375	.709	38.46	15.38	0.40	7.69	8.00	100.00
2018	Totals for Rk	-	Rk	�	�	�	�	9	19	8	7	3	0	4	9	0	0	5	6	1	0	0	0	0	.368	.520	1.158	1.678	22	7	25	.333	.790	1.053	.641	20.00	24.00	1.20	16.00	4.75	100.00
2018	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca			25	11	35	5	9	2	0	0	2	1	0	5	6	0	1	0	0	1	.257	.350	.314	.664	11	2	41	.310	.057	.229	.303	12.20	14.63	1.20	0.00	0.00	22.22
2018	Minor Totals (3 teams)	Minor		�	�	�	�	20	54	13	16	5	0	4	11	1	0	10	12	1	1	0	0	1	.296	.415	.611	1.026	33	9	66	.316	.315	.519	.433	15.15	18.18	1.20	6.06	13.50	56.25
Minor League Totals - 7 Season(s)Filter								622	2223	300	524	117	16	62	266	72	17	218	678	34	7	14	5	33	.236	.312	.386	.698	859	195	2496	.309	.150	.274	.000	8.73	27.16	3.11	2.48	35.85	37.21
AAA Totals - 3 Season(s)Filter								138	479	54	108	24	1	9	40	7	4	31	135	3	6	1	0	12	.225	.276	.336	.612	161	34	520	.295	.111	.182	.000	5.96	25.96	4.35	1.73	53.22	31.48
AA Totals - 2 Season(s)Filter								153	564	79	127	34	5	15	55	14	6	45	172	8	1	3	1	7	.225	.290	.383	.673	216	54	621	.295	.158	.252	.000	7.25	27.70	3.82	2.42	37.60	42.52
A+ Totals - 2 Season(s)Filter								144	526	73	122	27	4	11	66	19	3	56	167	13	0	5	1	4	.232	.318	.361	.679	190	42	600	.314	.129	.266	.000	9.33	27.83	2.98	1.83	47.82	34.43
A Totals - 1 Season(s)Filter								125	435	51	105	21	4	13	63	22	3	53	128	6	0	4	1	8	.241	.329	.398	.727	173	38	498	.309	.157	.322	.000	10.64	25.70	2.42	2.61	33.46	36.19
Rk Totals - 2 Season(s)Filter								62	219	43	62	11	2	14	42	10	1	33	76	4	0	1	2	2	.283	.385	.543	.928	119	27	257	.369	.260	.452	.000	12.84	29.57	2.30	5.45	15.64	43.55
Average Minor - Per 162 games								162	579	78	136	30	4	16	69	19	4	57	177	9	2	4	1	9	.236	.312	.386	.698	224	51	650	.309	.150	.274	.000	8.73	27.16	3.11	2.48	35.85	37.21

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Year	Team Name	Lg	Level	Org	Age	Pos	G	GS	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	TC	TSC	FPct	RFg	RFi	SB	CS	SB%	PB	GP	Pos-Share	Tm-Share
2012	Burlington Royals	App	Rk	kca	19	CF	53	-	-	132	6	4	3	142	138	.972	2.60	-	-	-	--	-	53	100.0	80.3
2013	Lexington Legends	SAL	A	kca	20	CF	118	-	-	233	6	3	1	242	239	.988	2.03	-	-	-	--	-	125	94.4	85.5
2014	Wilmington Blue Rocks	Caro	A+	kca	21	CF	130	-	-	265	14	2	5	281	279	.993	2.15	-	-	-	--	-	132	98.5	94.9
2015	Wilmington Blue Rocks	Caro	A+	kca	22	CF	11	-	-	26	1	-	-	27	27	1.000	2.45	-	-	-	--	-	12	91.7	7.9
2015	Northwest Arkansas Naturals	Tex	AA	kca	22	CF	75	-	-	171	3	-	1	174	174	1.000	2.32	-	-	-	--	-	91	82.4	54.0
2015	Northwest Arkansas Naturals	Tex	AA	kca	22	RF	9	-	-	23	-	-	-	23	23	1.000	2.56	-	-	-	--	-	91	9.9	6.5
2016	Northwest Arkansas Naturals	Tex	AA	kca	23	CF	51	-	-	117	6	2	1	125	123	.984	2.41	-	-	-	--	-	62	82.3	36.4
2016	Northwest Arkansas Naturals	Tex	AA	kca	23	RF	8	-	-	20	-	2	-	22	20	.909	2.50	-	-	-	--	-	62	12.9	5.7
2016	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	23	CF	44	-	-	101	7	-	3	108	108	1.000	2.45	-	-	-	--	-	47	93.6	31.4
2016	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	23	RF	1	-	-	2	-	-	-	2	2	1.000	2.00	-	-	-	--	-	47	2.1	0.7
2017	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	24	RF	40	-	-	92	6	3	-	101	98	.970	2.45	-	-	-	--	-	80	50.0	28.4
2017	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	24	CF	37	-	-	88	5	1	1	94	93	.989	2.51	-	-	-	--	-	80	46.3	26.2
2017	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	24	LF	2	-	-	2	-	1	-	3	2	.667	1.00	-	-	-	--	-	80	2.5	1.4
2018	Idaho Falls Chukars	Pio	Rk	kca	25	CF	8	-	-	6	-	-	-	6	6	1.000	0.75	-	-	-	--	-	5	160.0	10.5
2018	Arizona Royals	Ariz	Rk	kca	25	CF	6	-	-	4	-	-	-	4	4	1.000	0.67	-	-	-	--	-	4	150.0	11.5
2018	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	25	CF	10	-	-	24	-	-	-	24	24	1.000	2.40	-	-	-	--	-	11	90.9	7.1
2018	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	25	RF	1	-	-	2	-	1	-	3	2	.667	2.00	-	-	-	--	-	11	9.1	0.7
AAA Totals for CF - 3 season(s)				-	�	CF	91	-	-	213	12	1	4	226	225	.996	2.47	-	-	-	--	-	91	0.0	0.0
AAA Totals for RF - 3 season(s)				-	�	RF	42	-	-	96	6	4	-	106	102	.962	2.43	-	-	-	--	-	42	0.0	0.0
AAA Totals for LF - 1 season(s)				-	�	LF	2	-	-	2	-	1	-	3	2	.667	1.00	-	-	-	--	-	2	0.0	0.0
AA Totals for CF - 2 season(s)				-	�	CF	126	-	-	288	9	2	2	299	297	.993	2.36	-	-	-	--	-	126	0.0	0.0
AA Totals for RF - 2 season(s)				-	�	RF	17	-	-	43	-	2	-	45	43	.956	2.53	-	-	-	--	-	17	0.0	0.0
A+ Totals for CF - 2 season(s)				-	�	CF	141	-	-	291	15	2	5	308	306	.994	2.17	-	-	-	--	-	141	0.0	0.0
A Totals for CF - 1 season(s)				-	�	CF	118	-	-	233	6	3	1	242	239	.988	2.03	-	-	-	--	-	118	0.0	0.0
Rk Totals for CF - 2 season(s)				-	�	CF	67	-	-	142	6	4	3	152	148	.974	2.21	-	-	-	--	-	67	0.0	0.0

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Year	Team Name	League	Level	Org	Age	P	C	1B	2B	SS	3B	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH
2012	Burlington Royals	App	Rk	kca	19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	53	-	-	-
2013	Lexington Legends	SAL	A	kca	20	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	118	-	-	-
2014	Wilmington Blue Rocks	Caro	A+	kca	21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	130	-	-	-
2015	Wilmington Blue Rocks	Caro	A+	kca	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-
2015	Northwest Arkansas Naturals	Tex	AA	kca	22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	75	9	-	-
2016	Northwest Arkansas Naturals	Tex	AA	kca	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	51	8	-	-
2016	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	44	1	-	-
2017	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	24	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	37	40	-	-
2018	Idaho Falls Chukars	Pio	Rk	kca	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-
2018	Arizona Royals	Ariz	Rk	kca	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-
2018	Omaha Storm Chasers	PCL	AAA	kca	25	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	1	-	-

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Year	Team	League	Category	Age	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	DP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	XBH	PA	babip	ISO	SecA	BB%	SO%	K-BB	HR%	AB/HR	XBH%
2014	Peoria Javelinas	Arizona Fall Lg	Minor	21	20	79	7	14	5	0	0	5	0	0	3	30	0	0	0	0	0	.177	.207	.241	.448	19	5	82	.286	.064	.101	3.66	36.59	10.00	0.00	0.00	35.71
2014	Kansas City Royals	MLB Spring Training	MLB	21	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2015	Surprise Saguaros	Arizona Fall Lg	Minor	22	22	84	10	23	2	0	4	10	5	0	6	25	0	0	0	0	0	.274	.322	.440	.762	37	6	90	.345	.166	.298	6.67	27.78	4.17	4.44	21.00	26.09
2015	Kansas City Royals	MLB Spring Training	MLB	22	8	16	3	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	8	1	0	0	0	0	.250	.333	.313	.646	5	1	18	.500	.063	.125	5.56	44.44	8.00	0.00	0.00	25.00
2016	Kansas City Royals	MLB Spring Training	MLB	23	12	30	4	4	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	.133	.133	.267	.400	8	2	30	.150	.134	.133	0.00	30.00	0.00	3.33	30.00	50.00
2017	Kansas City Royals	MLB Spring Training	MLB	24	12	20	3	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	.300	.391	.300	.691	6	0	23	.375	.000	.100	8.70	17.39	2.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
2018	Kansas City Royals	MLB Spring Training	MLB	25	7	11	2	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	.273	.385	.545	.930	6	1	13	.333	.272	.455	15.38	30.77	2.00	7.69	11.00	33.33
Arizona Fall League Totals - 2 yrs					42	163	17	37	7	0	4	15	5	0	9	55	0	0	0	0	0	.227	.267	.344	.611	56	11	172	.317	.117	.202	5.23	31.98	6.11	2.33	40.75	29.73
MLB Spring Training Totals - 5 yrs					40	78	12	17	2	0	2	7	0	0	5	25	2	0	0	0	1	.218	.282	.321	.603	25	4	85	.294	.103	.167	5.88	29.41	5.00	2.35	39.00	23.53

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2011	High School All-American - 1st Team (UT)	1
2012	Appalachian League All-Star (UT)	1

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Tranx Date	Pos	Organization	Assignment	40m	Status	Type	Transaction Description	Age	Roster for Current Team
2018-12-18	OF	Kansas City Royals	Kansas City Royals (MLB)	-	Minors	Contract	Signed to Minor League Contract	26.137	Team Roster on 2018-12-18
2018-11-30	OF	Free Agent	�	-	Free Agent	Free Agent	Granted free agency	26.119	�
2018-04-27	OF	Kansas City Royals	Omaha (AAA)	Y	Minors	Activated Minors	Activated from DL and assigned to Omaha (AAA)	25.267	Team Roster on 2018-04-27
2018-03-29	OF	Kansas City Royals	Kansas City Royals (MLB)	Y	DL-10	Injured	DL10 Left oblique strain	25.238	Team Roster on 2018-03-29
2017-11-01	OF	Kansas City Royals	Kansas City Royals (MLB)	Y	Active	MLB Active	Activated from DL	25.090	Team Roster on 2017-11-01
2017-08-26	OF	Kansas City Royals	Kansas City Royals (MLB)	-	DL-60	Injured	DL60 Transferred to 60-day DL	25.023	Team Roster on 2017-08-26
2017-08-23	OF	Kansas City Royals	Omaha (AAA)	Y	DL-7	Injured	DL7 Strained oblique	25.020	Team Roster on 2017-08-23
2017-08-11	OF	Kansas City Royals	Omaha (AAA)	Y	Minors	Activated Minors	Activated from disabled list	25.008	Team Roster on 2017-08-11
2017-07-13	OF	Kansas City Royals	Omaha (AAA)	Y	DL-7	Injured	DL7 Injured	24.344	Team Roster on 2017-07-13
2016-07-02	OF	Kansas City Royals	Omaha (AAA)	Y	Minors	Reassigned Minors	Assigned to Omaha (AAA)	23.333	Team Roster on 2016-07-02
2016-04-07	OF	Kansas City Royals	Northwest Arkansas (AA)	Y	Minors	Reassigned Minors	Assigned to Northwest Arkansas (AA)	23.247	Team Roster on 2016-04-07
2016-03-15	OF	Kansas City Royals	Kansas City Royals (MLB)	Y	Minors	Reassigned Minors	Assigned to minors	23.224	Team Roster on 2016-03-15
2015-11-22	OF	Kansas City Royals	Kansas City Royals (MLB)	Y	Active	MLB Active	Contract purchased from minors	23.111	Team Roster on 2015-11-22
2015-06-06	OF	Kansas City Royals	Northwest Arkansas (AA)	-	Minors	Activated Minors	Activated from disabled list	22.307	Team Roster on 2015-06-06
2015-05-15	OF	Kansas City Royals	Northwest Arkansas (AA)	-	DL-7	Injured	DL7 Injured	22.285	Team Roster on 2015-05-15
2015-04-24	OF	Kansas City Royals	Northwest Arkansas (AA)	-	Minors	Reassigned Minors	Assigned to Northwest Arkansas (AA)	22.264	Team Roster on 2015-04-24
2014-04-12	OF	Kansas City Royals	Wilmington (A+)	-	Minors	Reassigned Minors	Assigned to Wilmington (A+)	21.252	Team Roster on 2014-04-12
2013-04-14	OF	Kansas City Royals	Lexington (A)	-	Minors	Reassigned Minors	Assigned to Lexington (A)	20.254	Team Roster on 2013-04-14
2012-06-28	OF	Kansas City Royals	Burlington (Rk)	-	Minors	--		19.329	Team Roster on 2012-06-28
Tranx Date	Pos	Organization	Assignment	40m	Status	Type	Transaction Description	Age	Roster for Current Team
2011-08-15						Contract	Signed by Royals		�

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