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Pitching Stats Glossary

The player, team and league statlines are now dramatically different than when the site first launched, so a comprehensive list of the stats would take far longer and would likely be much less useful than previously. So we have implemented a tooltip solution that shows you a description of the statistic when you hold your mouse over the header abbreviation for the stat. You can try it below.

We also have implemented a sorting feature. When the header abbreviation is red (and this is true of all red text), you can click the header to sort by that column. In many cases the table contains partial season (for a traded player) and full season data, their full season summary. When this is the case, we hide the partial seasons in the sorted results, and provide another tooltip to bring the partial seasons back. Occasionally, there is a select box toggle that allows you to hide or show players who may not have met some minimum qualification such as 502 PA's for the batting title. This only comes into play when sorting on ratio stats like on-base percentage, but not counting stats like home runs.

The CSV and PRE tooltips provide a means to get comma-separated values suitable for loading into excel and pre-formatted text that might work better in things like message boards and e-mails.

In some cases, a player's career may span seasons for which a stat like strikeouts or sacrifice flies are not available and seasons for which they are. In those cases we attempt to mark the statistic as shown 162. This means that this career total does not include all seasons the player played and therefore we do not know the exact number.

For the most common stats found in our leaderboards, we denote league leading stats with bold text and major league leading totals are further marked with italics. For career statistics, all-time leaders are marked with **'s and active leaders with italics.

When a stat is unavailable its season entry should be blank, rather than zero. This may not always be the case, but it is what we've tried to do.

Standard Pitching

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Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB SO BF ERA+ WHIP SO/9 SO/BB HR/9 Awards
2001 20 CLE AL 17 5 .773 4.39 33 33 0 0 0 180.1 149 93 88 19 95 171 763 102 1.353 8.5 1.8 0.9 RoY-2
2002 21 CLE AL 13 11 .542 4.37 33 33 2 0 0 210.0 198 109 102 17 88 149 891 100 1.362 6.4 1.7 0.7
2003 22 CLE AL 13 9 .591 3.60 30 30 2 1 0 197.2 190 85 79 19 66 141 832 122 1.295 6.4 2.1 0.9
2004 23 CLE AL 11 10 .524 4.12 30 30 1 1 0 188.0 176 90 86 20 72 139 787 106 1.319 6.7 1.9 1.0
2005 24 CLE AL 15 10 .600 4.03 31 31 1 0 0 196.2 185 92 88 19 62 161 823 104 1.256 7.4 2.6 0.9
2006 25 CLE AL 12 11 .522 3.22 28 28 6 2 0 192.2 182 83 69 17 44 172 802 140 1.173 8.0 3.9 0.8
2007 26 CLE AL 19 7 .731 3.21 34 34 4 1 0 241.0 238 94 86 20 37 209 975 143 1.141 7.8 5.6 0.7 CYA-1,MVP-14
2008 27 TOT 17 10 .630 2.70 35 35 10 5 0 253.0 223 85 76 19 59 251 1023 162 1.115 8.9 4.3 0.7 CYA-5,MVP-6
CLE AL 6 8 .429 3.83 18 18 3 2 0 122.1 117 54 52 13 34 123 507 116 1.234 9.0 3.6 1.0
MIL NL 11 2 .846 1.65 17 17 7 3 0 130.2 106 31 24 6 25 128 516 260 1.003 8.8 5.1 0.4
8 Seasons 117 73 .616 3.66 254 254 26 10 0 1659.1 1541 731 674 150 523 1393 6896 121 1.244 7.6 2.7 0.8
162 Game Avg. 16 10 .616 3.66 34 34 3 1 0 222 206 98 90 20 70 186 923 121 1.244 7.6 2.7 0.8
CLE (8 seasons) 106 71 .599 3.83 237 237 19 7 0 1528.2 1435 700 650 144 498 1265 6380 116 1.3 7.4 2.5 0.8
AL (8 seasons) 106 71 .599 3.83 237 237 19 7 0 1528.2 1435 700 650 144 498 1265 6380 116 1.3 7.4 2.5 0.8
NL (1 season) 11 2 .846 1.65 17 17 7 3 0 130.2 106 31 24 6 25 128 516 260 1.0 8.8 5.1 0.4

162 Game Average

This is an attempt to condense each pitcher's career into a single season's worth of stats. With batters this is easy. Just take their career games played and divide by 162 and then divide their career totals by that factor. For pitchers, this is more difficult. What I have done is treat a pitcher season as having Games Pitched + Games Started = 68 as a single-season. So I normalize everything, so a pitcher has Games + Games Started = 68. So an average season is 34 starts or 68 relief appearances.

Team Pages

The pitchers are listed as follows. First any starters with more than ten games started and most of their appearances as starters are listed. Next, we list the leader in saves (when more than 9) and then the relievers appearing in the most games. Next, we list other starters and then other relievers. It isn't a perfect setup and I'm open to other suggestions.

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