B-R Blog & Stat of the Day

In honor of election day -

Here are  the top five  players in career runs created who were born in Washington DC.

    1 Lu Blue              947   1921 1933 24-36 1615  7207  5904 1151 1696 319 109  44  695 1092   0  436  43 168   0   0  151  85  .287  .402  .401  .803 *3/8      DET-SLB-CHW-BRO Washington, DC
    2 Maury Wills          887   1959 1972 26-39 1942  8304  7588 1067 2134 177  71  20  458  552  26  684  16 119  29  92  586 208  .281  .330  .331  .661 *65       LAD-PIT-TOT-LAD Washington, DC
    3 Don Money            845   1968 1983 21-36 1720  6998  6215  798 1623 302  36 176  729  600  45  866  40  90  53 121   80  51  .261  .328  .406  .734 *54D63/7  PHI-MIL     Washington, DC
    4 Art Devlin           529   1904 1913 24-33 1313  5241  4412  603 1185 164  57  10  505  576   0  105  84 169   0   0  285   0  .269  .364  .338  .702 *5/3647   NYG-BSN     Washington, DC
    5 Milt Thompson        493   1984 1996 25-37 1359  4155  3761  491 1029 156  37  47  357  336  46  635  22  20  16  60  214  66  .274  .335  .372  .707 879       ATL-STL-PHI-HOU-TOT Washington, DC

The active leader is Emmanuel Burriss who is 31st with 29.

Here are  the top five pitchers in career wins who were born in Washington DC.

    1 Doc White           189   1901 1913 22-34  427 363 262  45  53 156  .548   5 3041   2743 1115  808  670 1384   2.39  113  33  9414     119   7  62 PHI-CHW     Washington, DC
    2 Johnny Klippstein   101   1950 1967 22-39  711 161  37   6 275 118  .461  66 1967.2 1915 1059  927  978 1158   4.24   94 203  8656  70  70   6  97 CHC-CIN-TOT-LAD-CLE-WSA-CIN-PHI-MIN-DET Washington, DC
    3 Clay Kirby           75   1969 1976 21-28  261 239  42   8   8 104  .419   0 1548   1430  755  660  713 1061   3.84   92 156  6682  57  30   2  83 SDP-CIN-MON Washington, DC
    4 Billy Taylor         50   1881 1887 26-32  100  84  83   3  15  36  .581   4  799.2  811  456  282  165  376   3.17  102  11  2330      15   0   8 TOT-PIT-PHA-BAL Washington, DC
    5 Bob Barr             49   1883 1891 26-34  158 151 141   6   7  98  .333   1 1327.1 1455  935  565  363  588   3.83   86  31  5764      34   0  52 PIT-TOT-WHS-ROC-NYG Washington, DC

The active leader is Brendan Donnelly who is eighth with 26.

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