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Bud Byerly
Eldred William Byerly

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Weight: 185 lb.

Born: October 26, 1920 in Webster Groves, MO
High School: Webster Groves (Webster Groves, MO)
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1940. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 26, 1943
Final Game: July 21, 1960
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Standard Pitching

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	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
1943	22	STL	NL	1	0	1.000	3.46	2	2	0	0	0	0	13.0	14	6	5	0	5		6	0	0	0	56	97	1.462	9.7	0.0	3.5	4.2	1.20
1944	23	STL	NL	2	2	.500	3.40	9	4	3	2	0	0	42.1	37	18	16	2	20		13	0	1	4	184	104	1.346	7.9	0.4	4.3	2.8	0.65
1945	24	STL	NL	4	5	.444	4.74	33	8	9	2	0	0	95.0	111	61	50	3	41		39	1	0	3	431	79	1.600	10.5	0.3	3.9	3.7	0.95

1950	29	CIN	NL	0	1	.000	2.45	4	1	1	0	0	0	14.2	12	4	4	1	4		5	0	0	0	59	172	1.091	7.4	0.6	2.5	3.1	1.25
1951	30	CIN	NL	2	1	.667	3.27	40	0	16	0	0	0	66.0	69	33	24	6	25		28	2	0	3	289	125	1.424	9.4	0.8	3.4	3.8	1.12
1952	31	CIN	NL	0	1	.000	5.11	12	2	4	0	0	1	24.2	29	15	14	0	7		14	0	0	0	103	74	1.459	10.6	0.0	2.6	5.1	2.00

1956	35	WSH	AL	2	4	.333	2.96	25	0	17	0	0	4	51.2	45	19	17	6	14	3	19	2	0	1	207	140	1.142	7.8	1.0	2.4	3.3	1.36
1957	36	WSH	AL	6	6	.500	3.13	47	0	33	0	0	6	95.0	94	38	33	6	22	5	39	1	0	2	398	124	1.221	8.9	0.6	2.1	3.7	1.77
1958	37	TOT	AL	3	2	.600	3.98	35	0	22	0	0	1	54.1	65	32	24	5	18	5	29	2	0	0	242	98	1.528	10.8	0.8	3.0	4.8	1.61
1958	37	WSH	AL	2	0	1.000	6.75	17	0	12	0	0	1	24.0	34	20	18	4	11	2	13	1	0	0	114	56	1.875	12.8	1.5	4.1	4.9	1.18
1958	37	BOS	AL	1	2	.333	1.78	18	0	10	0	0	0	30.1	31	12	6	1	7	3	16	1	0	0	128	224	1.253	9.2	0.3	2.1	4.7	2.29
1959	38	SFG	NL	1	0	1.000	1.38	11	0	6	0	0	0	13.0	11	2	2	2	5	1	4	0	0	0	52	274	1.231	7.6	1.4	3.5	2.8	0.80
1960	39	SFG	NL	1	0	1.000	5.32	19	0	9	0	0	2	22.0	32	14	13	3	6	0	13	1	0	1	106	66	1.727	13.1	1.2	2.5	5.3	2.17
11 Seasons				22	22	.500	3.70	237	17	120	4	0	14	491.2	519	242	202	34	167	14	209	9	1	14	2127	104	1.395	9.5	0.6	3.1	3.8	1.25
162 Game Avg.				6	6	.500	3.70	63	5	32	1	0	4	132	139	65	54	9	45		56	2	0	4	569	104	1.395	9.5	0.6	3.1	3.8	1.25

WSH (3 yrs)				10	10	.500	3.59	89	0	62	0	0	11	170.2	173	77	68	16	47	10	71	4	0	3	719	110	1.289	9.1	0.8	2.5	3.7	1.51
STL (3 yrs)				7	7	.500	4.25	44	14	12	4	0	0	150.1	162	85	71	5	66		58	1	1	7	671	86	1.517	9.7	0.3	4.0	3.5	0.88
CIN (3 yrs)				2	3	.400	3.59	56	3	21	0	0	1	105.1	110	52	42	7	36		47	2	0	3	451	112	1.386	9.4	0.6	3.1	4.0	1.31
SFG (2 yrs)				2	0	1.000	3.86	30	0	15	0	0	2	35.0	43	16	15	5	11	1	17	1	0	1	158	94	1.543	11.1	1.3	2.8	4.4	1.55
BOS (1 yr)				1	2	.333	1.78	18	0	10	0	0	0	30.1	31	12	6	1	7	3	16	1	0	0	128	224	1.253	9.2	0.3	2.1	4.7	2.29

NL (8 yrs)				11	10	.524	3.96	130	17	48	4	0	3	290.2	315	153	128	17	113	1	122	4	1	11	1280	96	1.472	9.8	0.5	3.5	3.8	1.08
AL (3 yrs)				11	12	.478	3.31	107	0	72	0	0	11	201.0	204	89	74	17	54	13	87	5	0	3	847	119	1.284	9.1	0.8	2.4	3.9	1.61

Postseason Pitching

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1944	23	STL	NL	WS	W	SLB	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.8
1 WS							0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.8

Batting Against -- Pitching*

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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
1956	35	WSH	AL	25	206	184	19	45	7	0	6	0	3	14	19	.245	.305	.380	.685	.245	70	6	2	6	0	3
1957	36	WSH	AL	47	398	356	38	94	17	3	6	7	1	22	39	.264	.305	.379	.685	.279	135	11	1	15	4	5
1958	37	BOS	AL	18	129	115	12	31	4	0	1	2	2	7	16	.270	.310	.330	.640	.297	38	0	1	3	3	3
1958	37	TOT	AL	35	242	212	32	65	13	1	5	4	4	18	29	.307	.359	.448	.807	.328	95	2	2	5	5	5
1958	37	WSH	AL	17	113	97	20	34	9	1	4	2	2	11	13	.351	.414	.588	1.002	.366	57	2	1	2	2	2
1959	38	SFG	NL	11	52	47	2	11	1	0	2	1	0	5	4	.234	.308	.383	.691	.220	18	1	0	0	0	1
1960	39	SFG	NL	19	106	94	14	32	5	0	3	1	0	6	13	.340	.379	.489	.868	.363	46	1	1	3	2	0
5 Seasons				137	1004	893	105	247	43	4	22	13	8	65	104	.277	.326	.408	.734	.289	364	21	6	29	11	14
162 Game Avg.				68	498	443	52	123	21	2	11	6	4	32	52	.277	.326	.408	.734	.289	181	10	3	14	5
MLB Averages

Reliever Pitching*

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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
1956	35	WSH	AL	25	25	17	2	4	6	4	2	67%	6	0	21	4	19%	8	1.291	13	2	10	6	5	14	12	13	14	3	15	4	6.2
1957	36	WSH	AL	47	47	33	6	6	9	6	3	67%	10	0	20	10	50%	8	1.279	14	14	19	11	10	26	14	33	25	6	26	6	6.1
1958	37	TOT	AL	35	35	22	3	2	3	1	2	33%	3	0	19	9	47%		0.674	8	6	21	4	4	27	10	25	17	6	19	3	4.6
1958	37	WSH	AL	17	17	12	2	0	1	1	0	100%	1	0	9	5	56%	8	0.694	3	5	9	2	3	12	5	12	7	4	9	1	4.2
1958	37	BOS	AL	18	18	10	1	2	2	0	2	0%	2	0	10	4	40%	7	0.656	5	1	12	2	1	15	5	13	10	2	10	2	5.1
1959	38	SFG	NL	11	11	6	1	0	1	0	1	0%	1	0	7	2	29%	7	0.532	2	1	7	1	0	10	4	7	4	3	4	1	3.5
1960	39	SFG	NL	19	19	9	1	0	2	2	0	100%	4	1	17	7	41%	7	0.793	6	3	9	4	2	13	8	11	8	7	9	3	3.5
5 Seasons				137	137	87	13	12	21	13	8	62%	24	1	84	32	38%		1.046	43	26	66	26	21	90	48	89	68	25	73	17	5.2

Ratio Pitching*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1943	22	STL	NL
1944	23	STL	NL
1945	24	STL	NL

1950	29	CIN	NL
1951	30	CIN	NL
1952	31	CIN	NL

1956	35	WSH	AL	206	34%	2.9%	9.2%	6.8%	6.3%	29%	1.47	77%	47	6	13%
1957	36	WSH	AL	398	35%	1.5%	9.8%	5.5%	6.5%	28%	1.48	79%	69	11	16%
1958	37	TOT	AL	242	40%	2.1%	12.0%	7.4%	7.9%	29%	1.80	76%	56	2	4%
1958	37	WSH	AL	113	41%	3.5%	11.5%	9.7%	12.4%	41%	1.75	73%	27	2	7%
1958	37	BOS	AL	129	39%	0.8%	12.4%	5.4%	3.9%	16%	1.84	78%	29	0	0%
1959	38	SFG	NL	52	44%	3.9%	7.7%	9.6%	5.8%	27%	1.69	79%	8	1	13%
1960	39	SFG	NL	106	40%	2.8%	12.3%	5.7%	7.6%	25%	1.12	75%	21	1	5%
11 Seasons				1004	37%	3.4%	20.8%	16.6%	6.9%	13%	1.51	77%	201	21	10%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

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					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
1943	22	STL	NL		14			0												0
1944	23	STL	NL		37			2												4
1945	24	STL	NL		111			3												3

1950	29	CIN	NL		12			1												0
1951	30	CIN	NL		69			6												3
1952	31	CIN	NL		29			0												0

1956	35	WSH	AL	206	45			6	0	3	3	3	2	4	10	3	1	30%	2	1	0	86	0	3	0%	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	0	1	0
1957	36	WSH	AL	398	94			6	0	4	4	2	2	4	24	12	2	50%	9	2	2	166	7	1	88%	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
1958	37	TOT	AL	242	65			5	0	7	4	1	1	4	23	17	3	74%	5	0	0	101	4	4	50%	3	2	1	0	0	2	1	0	7	0
1958	37	WSH	AL	113	34			4	0	4	3	1	0	4	14	9	3	64%	2	0	0	46	2	2	50%	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	0
1958	37	BOS	AL	129	31			1	0	3	1	0	1	0	9	8	0	89%	3	0	0	55	2	2	50%	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	4	0
1959	38	SFG	NL	52	11			2	0	1	1	1	0	2	1	0	0	0%	0	0	0	21	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1960	39	SFG	NL	106	32			3	0	4	3	0	2	1	8	5	1	63%	2	1	2	46	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
11 Seasons				1004	519			34	0	19	15	7	7	15	66	37	7	56%	18	14	4	420	13	8	62%	10	3	3	3	0	2	2	0	24	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Pitching

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Year	Age	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	ERA+
1943	22	1	0	1.000	3.46	2	2	0	0	0	13.0	14	6	5	0	5		6	0	0	0	56	97	1.462	9.7	0.0	3.5	4.2	1.20	97
1944	23	3	2	.600	3.42	11	6	3	2	0	55.1	51	24	21	2	25		19	0	1	4	240	102	1.373	8.3	0.3	4.1	3.1	0.76	102
1945	24	7	7	.500	4.25	44	14	12	4	0	150.1	162	85	71	5	66		58	1	1	7	671	86	1.517	9.7	0.3	4.0	3.5	0.88	86
1946	25	7	7	.500	4.25	44	14	12	4	0	150.1	162	85	71	5	66		58	1	1	7	671	86	1.517	9.7	0.3	4.0	3.5	0.88	86
1947	26	7	7	.500	4.25	44	14	12	4	0	150.1	162	85	71	5	66		58	1	1	7	671	86	1.517	9.7	0.3	4.0	3.5	0.88	86
1948	27	7	7	.500	4.25	44	14	12	4	0	150.1	162	85	71	5	66		58	1	1	7	671	86	1.517	9.7	0.3	4.0	3.5	0.88	86
1949	28	7	7	.500	4.25	44	14	12	4	0	150.1	162	85	71	5	66		58	1	1	7	671	86	1.517	9.7	0.3	4.0	3.5	0.88	86
1950	29	7	8	.467	4.09	48	15	13	4	0	165.0	174	89	75	6	70		63	1	1	7	730	91	1.479	9.5	0.3	3.8	3.4	0.90	91
1951	30	9	9	.500	3.86	88	15	29	4	0	231.0	243	122	99	12	95		91	3	1	10	1019	99	1.463	9.5	0.5	3.7	3.5	0.96	99
1952	31	9	10	.474	3.98	100	17	33	4	1	255.2	272	137	113	12	102		105	3	1	10	1122	96	1.463	9.6	0.4	3.6	3.7	1.03	96
1953	32	9	10	.474	3.98	100	17	33	4	1	255.2	272	137	113	12	102		105	3	1	10	1122	96	1.463	9.6	0.4	3.6	3.7	1.03	96
1954	33	9	10	.474	3.98	100	17	33	4	1	255.2	272	137	113	12	102		105	3	1	10	1122	96	1.463	9.6	0.4	3.6	3.7	1.03	96
1955	34	9	10	.474	3.98	100	17	33	4	1	255.2	272	137	113	12	102		105	3	1	10	1122	96	1.463	9.6	0.4	3.6	3.7	1.03	96
1956	35	11	14	.440	3.81	125	17	50	4	5	307.1	317	156	130	18	116	3	124	5	1	11	1329	102	1.409	9.3	0.5	3.4	3.6	1.07	102
1957	36	17	20	.459	3.65	172	17	83	4	11	402.1	411	194	163	24	138	8	163	6	1	13	1727	106	1.365	9.2	0.5	3.1	3.6	1.18	106
1958	37	20	22	.476	3.69	207	17	105	4	12	456.2	476	226	187	29	156	13	192	8	1	13	1969	105	1.384	9.4	0.6	3.1	3.8	1.23	105
1959	38	21	22	.488	3.62	218	17	111	4	12	469.2	487	228	189	31	161	14	196	8	1	13	2021	107	1.380	9.3	0.6	3.1	3.8	1.22	107
1960	39	22	22	.500	3.70	237	17	120	4	14	491.2	519	242	202	34	167	14	209	9	1	14	2127	104	1.395	9.5	0.6	3.1	3.8	1.25	104

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
1943	22	0	1	.000	4.50	12.0	16	7	6	0	6	6	0	1.833	12.0	4.5	4.5	1.00	0.0	2
1944	23	2	2	.500	3.48	44.0	39	19	17	2	21	14	0	1.364	8.0	4.3	2.9	0.67	0.4	9
1945	24	4	6	.400	4.82	97.0	115	58	52	3	42	40	1	1.619	10.7	3.9	3.7	0.95	0.3	33

1950	29	1	0	1.000	2.40	15.0	12	4	4	1	4	5	0	1.067	7.2	2.4	3.0	1.25	0.6	4
1951	30	4	3	.571	3.22	67.0	71	27	24	6	26	28	2	1.448	9.5	3.5	3.8	1.08	0.8	40
1952	31	1	1	.500	5.62	24.0	30	17	15	0	7	14	0	1.542	11.3	2.6	5.3	2.00	0.0	12

1956	35	3	2	.600	3.00	51.0	46	19	17	6	14	19	2	1.176	8.1	2.5	3.4	1.36	1.1	25
1957	36	6	4	.600	3.21	98.0	100	39	35	6	23	40	1	1.255	9.2	2.1	3.7	1.74	0.6	47
1958	37	3	3	.500	4.33	54.0	69	29	26	5	19	29	2	1.630	11.5	3.2	4.8	1.53	0.8	35
1959	38	1	0	1.000	1.38	13.0	11	2	2	2	5	4	0	1.231	7.6	3.5	2.8	0.80	1.4	11
1960	39	1	1	.500	6.14	22.0	36	17	15	3	7	13	1	1.955	14.7	2.9	5.3	1.86	1.2	19
11 Seasons		26	23	.531	3.86	497.0	545	238	213	34	174	212	9	1.447	9.9		3.8	1.22	0.6	237

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Games Played s c a p y
1957 AL--47--6th

Saves s c a p y
1957 AL--6--10th

Games Finished s c a p y
1957 AL--33--3rd

Oldest s c a p y
1959 NL--born 1920-10-26--9th
1960 NL--born 1920-10-26--5th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink Pitching - 4 (1919), Average HOFer ≈ 185

Hall of Fame Monitor Pitching - 1 (1877), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Similarity Scores

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Name and misspellings: Eldred Bud William Byerly

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Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
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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 (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') 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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Gray Ink	Pitching - 4 (1919), Average HOFer ≈ 185
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