John Briscoe

John Eric Briscoe

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: September 22, 1967 in La Grange, IL
School: Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 3rd round of the 1988 amateur draft.
Signed June 12, 1988. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1991
Team: Athletics 1991-1996

Final Game: May 21, 1996
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1988	20	OAK-min	Rk	1	1	.500	3.51	7	6	0	0	0	25.2	26	14	10	1	6	0	23	1	3	3			1.247	9.1	0.4	2.1	8.1	3.83	ATH · ARIZ
1989	21	OAK-min	A	7	5	.583	4.21	21	20	1	1	0	117.2	121	66	55	7	57	0	69	9	1	11			1.513	9.3	0.5	4.4	5.3	1.21	MAD · MIDW
1990	22	OAK-min	A+,AA	3	6	.333	5.04	32	12	12	1	4	91.0	81	57	51	13	59	0	73	2	0	8			1.538	8.0	1.3	5.8	7.2	1.24	MOD,HVL · CALL,SOUL
1991	23	OAK-min	AAA,AA	5	5	.500	3.46	24	9	8	0	1	80.2	74	37	31	7	46	1	72	5	0	3	361		1.488	8.3	0.8	5.1	8.0	1.57	TAC,HVL · PCL,SOUL
1991	23	OAK	AL	0	0		7.07	11	0	9	0	0	14.0	12	11	11	3	10	0	9	0	0	3	62	55	1.571	7.7	1.9	6.4	5.8	0.90
1992	24	OAK-min	AAA	2	5	.286	5.88	33	6	11	0	0	78.0	78	62	51	7	68	5	66	1	0	6	368		1.872	9.0	0.8	7.8	7.6	0.97	TAC · PCL
1992	24	OAK	AL	0	1	.000	6.43	2	2	0	0	0	7.0	12	6	5	0	9	0	4	0	0	2	40	61	3.000	15.4	0.0	11.6	5.1	0.44
1993	25	OAK-min	AA,AAA	5	1	.833	3.00	39	0	36	0	22	51.0	41	19	17	4	25	4	78	1	0	1	217		1.294	7.2	0.7	4.4	13.8	3.12	HVL,TAC · SOUL,PCL
1993	25	OAK	AL	1	0	1.000	8.03	17	0	6	0	0	24.2	26	25	22	2	26	3	24	0	0	5	122	52	2.108	9.5	0.7	9.5	8.8	0.92
1994	26	OAK-min	A+	0	0		0.00	2	2	0	0	0	3.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	12		0.667	6.0	0.0	0.0	27.0		MOD · CALL
1994	26	OAK	AL	4	2	.667	4.01	37	0	8	0	1	49.1	31	24	22	7	39	2	45	1	1	8	210	111	1.419	5.7	1.3	7.1	8.2	1.15
1995	27	OAK-min	AAA,A+	0	0		2.31	7	7	0	0	0	11.2	10	3	3	0	7	0	8	0	0	0	48		1.457	7.7	0.0	5.4	6.2	1.14	EDM,MOD · PCL,CALL
1995	27	OAK	AL	0	1	.000	8.35	16	0	7	0	0	18.1	25	17	17	4	21	1	19	2	0	1	99	52	2.509	12.3	2.0	10.3	9.3	0.90
1996	28	OAK-min	AAA	5	2	.714	4.77	30	1	10	0	1	54.2	69	33	29	6	23	3	62	2	1	5	256		1.683	11.4	1.0	3.8	10.2	2.70	EDM · PCL
1996	28	OAK	AL	0	1	.000	3.76	17	0	8	0	1	26.1	18	11	11	2	24	2	14	0	0	3	116	137	1.595	6.2	0.7	8.2	4.8	0.58
1997	29	CLE-PIT-min	AA,AAA	0	2	.000	5.49	37	0	28	0	5	39.1	59	30	24	8	14	3	35	2	0	6	186		1.856	13.5	1.8	3.2	8.0	2.50	AKR,CGY · EL,PCL
6 Yrs				5	5	.500	5.67	100	2	38	0	2	139.2	124	94	88	18	129	8	115	3	1	22	649	78	1.811	8.0	1.2	8.3	7.4	0.89
162 Game Avg.				3	3	.500	5.67	67	1	25	0	1	93	83	63	59	12	86	5	77	2	1	15	433	78	1.811	8.0	1.2	8.3	7.4	0.89

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
1991	23	OAK	AL	14.0	11	0	11	7.07	3.97	0.11	-0.30	95.3	3.39	-6	-0.6	.3	0.2	-0.3	-4	.448	.496	$
1992	24	OAK	AL	7.0	2	2	6	7.71	4.48	0.09	0.16	91.0	4.14	-3	-0.3		-0.0	-0.2	-2	.369	.498	$
1993	25	OAK	AL	24.2	17	0	25	9.12	4.92	-0.23	-0.38	93.6	4.47	-13	-1.2	.4	0.3	-0.6	-10	.430	.493	$110,000
1994	26	OAK	AL	49.1	37	0	24	4.38	5.27	0.20	-0.41	94.1	4.38	-0	-0.0	1.2	-0.1	0.4	5	.500	.500	$114,000
1995	27	OAK	AL	18.1	16	0	17	8.35	5.15	-0.25	-0.38	94.7	4.75	-7	-0.7	.8	0.0	-0.5	-5	.458	.496	$150,000
1996	28	OAK	AL	26.1	17	0	11	3.76	5.37	-0.29	-0.40	102.0	5.37	4	0.4	.6	-0.1	0.5	8	.524	.502	$150,000
6 Seasons				139.2	100	2	94	6.06	5.04	-0.04	-0.36	95.6	4.52	-24	-2.3	.8	0.3	-0.7	-8	.477	.498	$524,000

Batting Against -- Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	BAbip	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE
1991	23	OAK	AL	11	62	51	11	12	3	0	3	0	0	10	9	.235	.355	.471	.825	.225	24	3	0	0	1	0	1
1992	24	OAK	AL	2	40	30	6	12	2	0	0	0	1	9	4	.400	.538	.467	1.005	.462	14	1	0	1	0	0	1
1993	25	OAK	AL	17	122	94	25	26	6	0	2	0	2	26	24	.277	.426	.404	.830	.343	38	3	0	0	2	3	0
1994	26	OAK	AL	37	210	168	24	31	4	0	7	1	1	39	45	.185	.340	.333	.673	.205	56	6	1	1	1	2	3
1995	27	OAK	AL	16	99	72	17	25	5	0	4	0	1	21	19	.347	.495	.583	1.078	.412	42	4	2	2	2	1	2
1996	28	OAK	AL	17	116	88	11	18	4	0	2	1	1	24	14	.205	.368	.318	.687	.216	28	2	0	2	2	2	0
6 Yrs				100	649	503	94	124	24	0	18	2	6	129	115	.247	.398	.402	.800	.280	202	19	3	6	8	8	7
162 Game Avg.				67	433	335	63	83	16	0	12	1	4	86	77	.247	.398	.402	.800	.280	135	13	2	4	5	5	5
MLB Averages																.264	.332	.405	.737	.294

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1991	23	OAK	AL	-4.8	-0.5	65	0.0	0.2	-0.1	.16	-0.1	0.3	-5.4	-0.5	0.16	-5.5	0	1	9
1992	24	OAK	AL	-2.2	-0.2	44	-0.4	0.6	-1.0	1.29	-0.3	0.1	-3.7	-0.4	1.29	-3.6	0	0	0
1993	25	OAK	AL	-11.8	-1.1	128	0.1	0.8	-0.7	.44	-0.6	0.8	-9.4	-0.9	0.44	-8.0	2	0	13
1994	26	OAK	AL	2.7	0.2	222	1.1	4.6	-3.5	1.13	0.5	0.4	9.0	0.9	1.13	3.5	13	9	14
1995	27	OAK	AL	-8.2	-0.8	100	-0.2	0.7	-0.9	.57	-0.6	0.2	-9.2	-0.9	0.57	-10.0	3	3	8
1996	28	OAK	AL	4.4	0.4	124	0.5	1.5	-1.1	.67	0.3	0.4	5.5	0.5	0.67	5.5	2	3	10
6 Yrs				-19.8	-1.9	683	1.0	8.4	-7.4	.75	-0.9	2.2	-13.2	-1.3	0.75	-18.1	20	16	54

Starting Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GS	Wgs	Lgs	ND	Wchp	Ltuf	Wtm	Ltm	tmW-L%	Wlst	Lsv	CG	SHO	QS	QS%	GmScA	Best	Wrst	BQR	BQS	sDR	lDR	RS/GS	RS/IP	IP/GS	Pit/GS	<80	80-99	100-119	≥120	Max
1992	24	OAK	AL	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0%	35.0	37	33	4	0	0	1	4.5	3.9	3.5	69	2	0	0	0	76
1 Yr				2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0%	35	37	33	4	0	0	1	4.5	3.9	3.5	69	2	0	0	0	76
MLB Averages													.500						50%	49	101	-14					4.7	4.6	6.1	95

Reliever Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GR	GF	Wgr	Lgr	SVOpp	SV	BSv	SV%	SVSit	Hold	IR	IS	IS%	1^stIP	aLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo	Ahd	Tie	Bhd	Runr	Empt	>3o	<3o	IPmult	0DR	Out/GR	Pit/GR
1991	23	OAK	AL	11	11	9	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	9	5	56%	8	.163	0	1	9	2	0	9	6	5	3	4	4	1	3.8	23

1993	25	OAK	AL	17	17	6	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	9	2	22%	8	.438	2	0	13	2	2	13	5	12	9	4	9	2	4.4	30
1994	26	OAK	AL	37	37	8	4	2	2	1	1	50%	11	9	31	7	23%	8	1.135	13	9	14	17	2	18	19	18	19	8	21	5	4.0	23
1995	27	OAK	AL	16	16	7	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	22	9	41%	7	.571	3	3	8	4	2	10	10	6	7	6	7	1	3.4	25
1996	28	OAK	AL	17	17	8	0	1	2	1	1	50%	3	1	10	1	10%	9	.668	2	3	10	6	1	10	6	11	9	4	10	2	4.6	26
5 Yrs				98	98	38	5	4	4	2	2	50%	14	10	81	24	30%		.716	20	16	54	31	7	60	46	52	47	26	51	11	4.1	25

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1991	23	OAK	AL	62	63%	4.8%	14.5%	16.1%	9.7%	50%	0.50	0.94	65%	26%	11.5%	7%	13	3	23%
1992	24	OAK	AL	40	40%	0.0%	10.0%	22.5%	5.0%	17%	0.79	1.00	65%	22%	0.0%	14%	13	1	8%
1993	25	OAK	AL	122	55%	1.6%	19.7%	21.3%	6.6%	31%	0.76	1.18	57%	22%	5.4%	10%	37	3	8%
1994	26	OAK	AL	210	48%	3.3%	21.4%	18.6%	5.2%	36%	0.72	0.92	56%	13%	12.3%	20%	54	6	11%
1995	27	OAK	AL	99	51%	4.0%	19.2%	21.2%	9.1%	36%	0.67	1.19	52%	37%	13.3%	9%	32	4	13%
1996	28	OAK	AL	116	55%	1.7%	12.1%	20.7%	5.2%	33%	0.39	0.49	64%	27%	3.9%	6%	24	2	8%
6 Yrs				649	52%	2.8%	17.7%	19.9%	6.5%	34%	0.62	0.87	58%	23%	8.5%	12%	173	19	11%
MLB Averages					42%	2.4%	15.6%	8.8%	7.2%	31%	0.82	1.08	72%	21%	7.1%	16%			10%

Pitch Summary -- Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Pit	Pit/PA	Str	Str%	L/Str	S/Str	F/Str	I/Str	AS/Str	I/Bll	AS/Pit	Con	1st%	30%	30c	30s	02%	02c	02s	02h	L/SO	3pK	4pW	PAu	Pitu	Stru
1991	23	OAK	AL	62	249	4.02	138	55%	28%	14%	27%	31%	72%	0%	40%	80%	40%	6%	4	3	8%	5	2	0	22%	1	1	0	0	0
1992	24	OAK	AL	40	138	3.45	70	51%	39%	10%	13%	39%	61%	0%	31%	84%	53%	13%	5	0	13%	5	3	2	25%	0	5	0	0	0
1993	25	OAK	AL	122	508	4.16	270	53%	28%	14%	31%	27%	72%	5%	38%	80%	43%	15%	18	8	18%	22	10	0	17%	5	8	0	0	0
1994	26	OAK	AL	204	833	4.08	447	54%	28%	18%	27%	27%	72%	2%	38%	75%	47%	13%	27	15	17%	34	20	1	19%	6	10	6	0	1
1995	27	OAK	AL	100	394	3.94	211	54%	29%	15%	29%	27%	71%	2%	38%	79%	47%	11%	11	5	13%	13	6	2	21%	3	5	-1	0	0
1996	28	OAK	AL	107	409	3.82	212	52%	33%	13%	21%	33%	67%	4%	35%	81%	50%	12%	13	6	15%	16	7	1	14%	3	5	9	0	0
6 Yrs				635	2531	3.99	1348	53%	30%	15%	26%	29%	70%	3%	37%	78%	47%	12%	78	37	15%	95	48	6	19%	18	34	14	0	1
MLB Averages						3.68		61%	25%	15%	27%	33%	75%	2%	46%	80%	56%	6%			19%				27%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

					Hits			Home Runs							Advances				Baserunning
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	H	Inf	Bnt	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	<2,3B	Scr	SO	%	ROE	WP	PB	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	BT	PAu
1991	23	OAK	AL	62	12	4	0	3	0	0	3	0	2	1	3	3	0	100%	1	3	0	30	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
1992	24	OAK	AL	40	12	7	1	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	67%	1	2	0	20	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1993	25	OAK	AL	122	26	3	0	2	0	5	2	0	2	0	10	6	0	60%	0	5	1	58	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0
1994	26	OAK	AL	210	31	2	1	7	0	13	3	4	3	4	15	8	6	53%	3	8	0	89	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0
1995	27	OAK	AL	99	25	1	0	4	1	14	3	1	2	2	15	8	3	53%	2	1	0	48	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
1996	28	OAK	AL	116	18	1	0	2	0	7	2	0	1	1	12	5	0	42%	0	3	3	43	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0
6 Yrs				649	124	18	2	18	1	43	13	5	10	8	58	32	9	55%	7	22	4	288	2	6	25%	2	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	45	0
MLB Averages																		54%							68%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1991	23	0	0		7.07	11	0	9	0	14.0	12	11	11	3	10	0	9	0	0	3	62	55	1.571	7.7	1.9	6.4	5.8	0.90	55
1992	24	0	1	.000	6.86	13	2	9	0	21.0	24	17	16	3	19	0	13	0	0	5	102	57	2.048	10.3	1.3	8.1	5.6	0.68	57
1993	25	1	1	.500	7.49	30	2	15	0	45.2	50	42	38	5	45	3	37	0	0	10	224	54	2.080	9.9	1.0	8.9	7.3	0.82	54
1994	26	5	3	.625	5.68	67	2	23	1	95.0	81	66	60	12	84	5	82	1	1	18	434	75	1.737	7.7	1.1	8.0	7.8	0.98	75
1995	27	5	4	.556	6.11	83	2	30	1	113.1	106	83	77	16	105	6	101	3	1	19	533	70	1.862	8.4	1.3	8.3	8.0	0.96	70
1996	28	5	5	.500	5.67	100	2	38	2	139.2	124	94	88	18	129	8	115	3	1	22	649	78	1.811	8.0	1.2	8.3	7.4	0.89	78

Neutralized Pitching

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Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
1991	23	0	1	.000	8.31	13.0	13	13	12	3	11	8	0	1.846	9.0	7.6	5.5	0.73	2.1	11
1992	24	0	0		9.00	6.0	13	7	6	0	10	3	0	3.833	19.5	15.0	4.5	0.30	0.0	2
1993	25	0	2	.000	9.00	23.0	27	26	23	2	27	22	0	2.348	10.6	10.6	8.6	0.81	0.8	17
1994	26	3	4	.429	4.03	67.0	43	33	30	10	54	61	1	1.448	5.8	7.3	8.2	1.13	1.3	37
1995	27	0	2	.000	9.47	19.0	28	22	20	4	24	20	2	2.737	13.3	11.4	9.5	0.83	1.9	16
1996	28	1	1	.500	3.60	25.0	17	11	10	2	23	13	0	1.600	6.1	8.3	4.7	0.57	0.7	17
6 Yrs		4	10	.286	5.94	153.0	141	112	101	21	149	127	3	1.895	8.3		7.5	0.85	1.2	100

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

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