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R obert
Robert
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2025 SEASON
◆ Began year on Angels injured list recovering from right elbow UCL surgery...Made two rehab appearances with
Low-A Inland Empire and three with Triple-A Salt Lake, before making Angels debut on May 28 vs. Yankees.
◆ Following his first Angels appearance, returned to injured list with right biceps inflammation and would miss
70 games...Had three additional rehab outings between Salt Lake and Inland Empire in mid-August, before
returning to Angels on Aug. 22.
◆ Went 2-0 with a 2.70 ERA (10.0 IP - 3 ER) in 12 total outings with Angels and held opponents scoreless in nine of
the 12 appearances.
◆ Earned first win of the season Sept. 3 at Kansas City, and first win since Sept. 19, 2023 with Rays against Angels.
◆ Missed final eight games of season on injured list with right elbow inflammation.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
◆ Has pitched in 283 career MLB games with the Reds (2016-20), Rockies (2021-22), Pirates (2022-23), Rays (2023)
and Angels (2025).
◆ From 2021-23, totaled 184 strikeouts and 48 walks across 156.1 IP...In that span, has averaged a 33.9% swing-
and-miss rate.
◆ Made Major League debut with Cincinnati, April 7, 2016 vs. Philadelphia.
MAJOR LEAGUE SUMMARY
STEPHENSON
2024
◆ In first year with Angels, missed entire regular season on injured list...Walked only batter faced on four pitches
on rehab appearance with Triple-A Salt Lake on April 13 at Las Vegas, before exiting with injury.
◆ Underwent UCL reconstruction with internal brace surgery on May 1.
2023
◆ Made a career-high 60 appearances between Pirates
and Rays…Opened season on 15-day IL with right MISSING BATS
elbow inflammation before being activated April 14.
◆ Pitched to a 5.14 ERA (14.0IP - 8 ER) in 18 appearances Highest single-season swing-and-miss rates
with Pirates before being traded June 3 to Rays in (since tracking began in 1988/min. 200 BF)
exchange for INF Alika Williams...Posted a 2.35 ERA Player Swing-and-miss% Year
(38.1IP - 10 ER) in 42 games with Tampa Bay. Edwin Diaz, NYM 49.9% 2022
◆ After joining Rays, led Majors with a 50.8 pct. whiff
rate over the remainder of the season (min. 100 Brad Lidge, HOU 48.1% 2004
pitches swung at)…Marked highest whiff rate by a Robert Stephenson, PIT/TB 46.5% 2023
Rays pitcher in pitch tracking era (since 2008) under
the same parameter.
◆ On the season, 24.8% of his pitches resulted in swinging strikes…Marked second-highest swinging strike rate by
a pitcher (min. 50 IP) since the statistic was first tracked in 2002 (Sports Info Solutions), trailing Houston’s Brad
Lidge in 2004 (25.1%).
◆ Held right-handed batters to a .143 (17/119) average, which was the sixth-lowest mark in Majors (min. 100 AB).
◆ From July 6 - Aug. 27, strung together 34 straight hitless at-bats against right-handed batters, a streak that
concluded with a Jake Burger double for Miami Aug. 29…The streak tied Chris Archer (July 14 - Aug. 2, 2013) for
longest streak in Rays history.
◆ Added a cutter to his arsenal after joining Rays, holding opponents to a .101 (8/79) average on the pitch over the
remainder of the season…His 59.9% whiff rate on the offering was the highest on any Major League pitch (min.
150 pitches swung at).
◆ Recorded at least one strikeout in each of his final 18 appearances from Aug. 11 through the end of the season,
the longest active run among relievers in 2023.
◆ Pitched to a 0.93 ERA (9.2 IP - 1ER) with 17 strikeouts against one walk across final 11 appearances.
◆ On Sept. 2 at Cleveland, struck out the side on nine pitches in the 10th inning, but the Rays intentionally walked
Andrés Giménez (third batter of inning)…According to Elias Sports Bureau, while there is no “official” definition
of an immaculate inning, the inning was not considered immaculate because he faced four batters and allowed
a baserunner…Since the no-pitch intentional walk rule went into effect in 2017, was the first instance of striking
out the side on nine pitches in the same inning as an intentional walk.
2022
◆ Split season between Rockies and Pirates, totaling a then-career-high 58 games and recording 77 strikeouts in
52.1 innings of work with just 16 walks.

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