Amateur career
Bubic attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose,California,where he played football [2] and baseball,and he graduated in 2015. As a junior,he was 8–2 with a 0.89 ERA, [3] and as a senior,he compiled a 1.20 ERA and struck out 82 batters in 70 innings pitched. [4] He was not drafted out of high school in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft and he enrolled at Stanford University where he played college baseball for the Stanford Cardinal.
As a freshman at Stanford in 2016,Bubic was 0–3 with a 3.26 ERA in 21 games (six starts). [5] In 2017,as a sophomore,he started 15 games and posted a 7–6 record and 2.79 ERA with 96 strikeouts in 90 innings. [6] After the season,he played in the Cape Cod Baseball League for the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox,earning Pitcher of the Year honors after going 4–1 with a 1.65 ERA in 32+2⁄3 innings. [7] [8] As a junior in 2018, he went 8–1 with a 2.62 ERA [9] and was named to the Pac-12 All-Conference Team. [10]
Professional career
Bubic was drafted 40th overall by the Kansas City Royals in the 2018 Major League Baseball draft and he signed with the Royals on June 18 for $1,597,500. [11] [12] [13] He made his professional debut with the Idaho Falls Chukars where he was named a Pioneer League All-Star. [14] [15] In ten starts for Idaho Falls, Bubic posted a 2–3 record with a 4.03 ERA. [16] Bubic began 2019 with the Lexington Legends. [17] After pitching to a 4–1 record with a 2.08 ERA in nine starts, he was promoted to the Wilmington Blue Rocks. [18] Over 17 starts with Wilmington, he went 7–4 with a 2.30 ERA. Bubic was named to the 2019 All-Star Futures Game. [19]
Bubic made his major league debut on July 31, 2020, against the Chicago White Sox, pitching four innings while allowing three earned runs and striking out three. [20] With the 2020 Kansas City Royals, Bubic made ten starts, compiling a 1–6 record with 4.32 ERA and 49 strikeouts over fifty innings pitched. [21] In 2021 he was 6–7 with an ERA of 4.43. [22]
In 2022 he was 3–13 with an ERA of 5.58 in 129 innings, as he had the worst OBP-against among major league pitchers, at .381, the highest WHIP (1.70), gave up the highest percentage of line drives (25.8%), and gave up the most walks per nine innings among major league pitchers (4.4). [23]
Bubic began the 2023 pitching out of the Royals' rotation. In 3 starts for the team, Bubic logged an 0-2 record and 3.94 ERA with 16 strikeouts in 16.0 innings pitched. On April 21, 2023, it was announced that Bubic would undergo Tommy John surgery, prematurely ending his season. [24]
Bubic was activated from the injured list and reinstated to the active roster on July 6, 2024. [25]
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