Joe Blong

Joseph Myles Blong

Positions: Rightfielder and Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right

Born: September 17, 1853 in St. Louis, MO (All Transactions)
Debut: May 4, 1875
Teams (by GP): BrownStockings/RedStockings 1875-1877

Final Game: October 6, 1877
Died: September 17, 1892 in St. Louis, MO
Buried: Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, MO
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1875	21	SLR	NA	3	12	.200	3.07	15	15	1	12	1	0	129.0	169	121	44	0	2	14	1	12	597	72	1.326	11.8	*0.0*	0.1	1.0	7.00
1876	22	STL	NL	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	2	0	0	0	1	0		0	14		0.750	4.5	0.0	2.3	0.0	0.00
1877	23	STL	NL	10	9	.526	2.74	25	21	4	17	0	0	187.1	203	121	57	0	38	51		29	813	96	1.286	9.8	*0.0*	1.8	2.5	1.34
3 Yrs				13	21	.382	2.84	41	36	6	29	1	0	320.1	374	242	101	0	41	65	1	41	1424	86	1.296	10.5	0.0	1.2	1.8	1.59
162 Game Avg.				11	19	.382	2.84	36	32	5	26	1	0	283	330	214	89	0	36	57	1	36	1258	86	1.296	10.5	0.0	1.2	1.8	1.59

STL (2 yrs)				10	9	.526	2.68	26	21	5	17	0	0	191.1	205	121	57	0	39	51		29	827	98	1.275	9.6	0.0	1.8	2.4	1.31
SLR (1 yr)				3	12	.200	3.07	15	15	1	12	1	0	129.0	169	121	44	0	2	14	1	12	597	72	1.326	11.8	0.0	0.1	1.0	7.00

NL (2 yrs)				10	9	.526	2.68	26	21	5	17	0	0	191.1	205	121	57	0	39	51		29	827	98	1.275	9.6	0.0	1.8	2.4	1.31
NA (1 yr)				3	12	.200	3.07	15	15	1	12	1	0	129.0	169	121	44	0	2	14	1	12	597	72	1.326	11.8	0.0	0.1	1.0	7.00

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	RA9role	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary
1875	21	SLR	NA	129.0	15	15	121	8.44	6.22	-0.53	0.00	99.0	6.68	-24	-1.8		-0.2	-0.4	-16	.377	.489	$
1876	22	STL	NL	4.0	1	0	0	0.00	5.88	0.86	0.00	90.0	4.51	2	0.2	1.0	-0.0	0.2	2	.693	.501	$
1877	23	STL	NL	187.1	25	21	121	5.81	5.85	0.15	0.00	93.0	5.30	-10	-0.9	1.0	-0.2	0.5	-2	.463	.494	$
3 Seasons				320.1	41	36	242	6.80	6.00	-0.12	0.00	95.4	5.85	-32	-2.6	1.0	-0.5	0.3	-16	.437	.495	$

STL (2 yrs)				191.1	26	21	121	5.69	5.85	0.16	0.00	92.9	5.29	-8	-0.7	1.0	-0.2	0.7	1	.472	.498	$
SLR (1 yr)				129.0	15	15	121	8.44	6.22	-0.53	0.00	99.0	6.68	-24	-1.8		-0.2	-0.4	-16	.377	.489	$

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1875	21	3	12	.200	3.07	15	15	1	12	1	129.0	169	121	44	2	14	1	12	597	72	1.326	11.8	0.1	1.0	7.00	72
1876	22	3	12	.200	2.98	16	15	2	12	1	133.0	171	121	44	3	14	1	12	611	75	1.308	11.6	0.2	0.9	4.67	75
1877	23	13	21	.382	2.84	41	36	6	29	1	320.1	374	242	101	41	65	1	41	1424	86	1.296	10.5	1.2	1.8	1.59	86

Neutralized Pitching

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All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Gact
1875	21	41	10	.804	1.92	460.0	440	109	98	5	50	0.967	8.6	0.1	1.0	10.00	15
1876	22	1	0	1.000	0.00	11.0	0	0	0	2	0	0.182	0.0	1.6	0.0	0.00	1
1877	23	45	14	.763	2.18	533.0	501	143	129	94	145	1.116	8.5	1.6	2.4	1.54	25
3 Yrs		87	24	.784	2.03	1004.0	941	252	227	101	195	1.038	8.4		1.7	1.93	41

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 1876 NL 0.2 (10th) 1877 NL 0.5 (8th)	Earned Run Average s c a p y 1877 NL 2.74 (5th)	Wins s c a p y 1877 NL 10 (6th)	Win-Loss % s c a p y 1877 NL .526 (5th)
Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y 1877 NL 1.286 (6th)	Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1877 NL 9.753 (4th)	Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y 1875 NA 0.140 (2nd)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1877 NL 2.450 (3rd)
Games Played s c a p y 1877 NL 25 (6th)	Innings Pitched s c a p y 1877 NL 187.3 (6th)	Strikeouts s c a p y 1877 NL 51 (6th)	Games Started s c a p y 1877 NL 21 (6th)
Complete Games s c a p y 1877 NL 17 (6th)	Shutouts s c a p y 1875 NA 1 (10th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 1877 NL 38 (5th)	Hits s c a p y 1877 NL 203 (8th)
Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y 1875 NA 7.000 (4th) 1877 NL 1.342 (9th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1875 NA 0.000 (1st) 1877 NL 0.000 (1st)	Losses s c a p y 1877 NL 9 (8th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 1877 NL 57 (8th)
Wild Pitches s c a p y 1877 NL 29 (2nd)	Batters Faced s c a p y 1877 NL 813 (6th)	Games Finished s c a p y 1876 NL 1 (8th) 1877 NL 4 (4th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1877 NL 96 (5th)
Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 1876 NL 1 (8th)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 1876 NL 0.1 (8th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 27 (875), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 1 (1951), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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