Ray Crone

Raymond Hayes Crone

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: August 7, 1931 in Memphis, TN
High School: Christian Brothers HS (Memphis, TN)
Signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1954
Teams (by GP): Braves/Giants 1954-1958

Final Game: July 14, 1958
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Standard Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1949	17	ATL-min	D	14	29	29		3	0	0	0						.103	.103	.103	.207		3							OWN · KITL
1950	18	ATL-min	B	32	50	50		9	0	0	0						.180	.180	.180	.360		9							EVN · IIIL
1951	19	ATL-min	A	28	53	53		11	0	1	0						.208	.208	.245	.453		13							HFD · EL
1952	20	ATL-min	A,AA	37	65	65		17	4	0	0						.262	.262	.308	.569		20							HFD,ATA · EL,SOUA
1953	21	ATL-min	A	35	87	87		18	0	0	0						.207	.207	.207	.414		18							JCK · SALL
1954	22	ATL-min	AAA	16	36	32	7	8	0	0	0	1	0		1	3	.250	.273	.250	.523		8	1	0	3	0			TOL · AA
1954	22	MLN	NL	19	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	8	2	0	0	0	0		1
1955	23	ATL-min	AAA	4	12	12		2									.167	.167											TOL · AA
1955	23	MLN	NL	33	50	44	4	7	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	9	.159	.213	.159	.372	3	7	2	0	3	0	0	1
1956	24	MLN	NL	35	62	49	4	6	1	0	0	2	0	0	8	18	.122	.246	.143	.388	11	7	1	0	5	0	0	1
1957	25	TOT	NL	36	58	51	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	22	.059	.143	.078	.221	-38	4	1	0	2	0	0	1
1957	25	MLN	NL	11	14	11	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	.182	.308	.273	.580	63	3	0	0	1	0	0	1
1957	25	NYG	NL	25	44	40	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	18	.025	.093	.025	.118	-66	1	1	0	1	0	0	1
1958	26	TTO	AAA	7	4	4		0									.000	.000											TTO · IL
1958	26	SFG	NL	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1959	27	DET-min	AA,AAA	23	47	41	2	7	0	0	0	2	1		3	9	.171	.244	.098	.342		4		1	2	0	0		MEM,BIR,TTO · SOUA,IL
1960	28	OAK-min	AAA	37	39	36	0	5	0	0	0	0	0		3	6	.139	.205	.139	.344		5							POR,DFW · PCL,AA
1961	29	JCK	A	23	27	25	0	3	1	0	0	2	0		2	9	.120	.185	.160	.345		4							JCK · SALL
5 Yrs				137	182	156	10	18	2	0	0	5	0	0	16	52	.115	.198	.128	.326	-9	20	4	0	10	0	0
162 Game Avg.				162	215	184	12	21	2	0	0	6	0	0	19	61	.115	.198	.128	.326	-9	24	5	0	12	0

MLN (4 yrs)				98	136	114	9	17	2	0	0	4	0	0	13	34	.149	.236	.167	.403	13	19	3	0	9	0	0
SFG (2 yrs)				39	46	42	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	18	.024	.089	.024	.113	-68	1	1	0	1	0	0

Player Value--Batters

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

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
1954	22	MLN	NL	19	10	-1	0	0	0	1	-0	-0.0	0	0	0.0	.498	.500	0.0	-0.0	0	$	1
1955	23	MLN	NL	33	50	-6	0	-0	0	5	-2	-0.2	2	0	-0.2	.495	.499	-0.2	-0.0	0	$	1
1956	24	MLN	NL	35	62	-6	-0	-0	0	7	0	-0.0	2	2	0.0	.500	.500	0.0	-0.1	2	$	1
1957	25	MLN	NL	11	14	-1	0	0	0	2	1	0.1	0	1	0.1	.509	.501	0.1	-0.0	1	$	1
1957	25	NYG	NL	25	44	-10	0	0	0	5	-5	-0.5	2	-3	-0.5	.479	.497	-0.5	-0.0	-3	$	1
1958	26	SFG	NL	14	2	-1	0	0	0	0	-0	-0.0	0	-0	0.0	.497	.500	0.0	0.0	-0	$	1
5 Seasons				137	182	-25	0	-1	0	19	-6	-0.7	6	-0	-0.6	.495	.499	-0.6	-0.1	-0	$

MLN (4 yrs)				98	136	-15	0	-1	0	14	-1	-0.2	5	4	-0.1	.499	.500	-0.1	-0.1	4	$
SFG (2 yrs)				39	46	-10	0	0	0	5	-5	-0.6	2	-4	-0.5	.486	.498	-0.5	-0.0	-4	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO
1954	22	MLN	NL	10	8	0	0.0	104	.286	.200	.267	.200	.337	.200	.412	.400	.750	8	.000	-1.4	-0.1	.250	.000	.000
1955	23	MLN	NL	50	42	1	0.6	102	.200	.159	.261	.213	.331	.159	.413	.372	.744	3	.026	-6.1	-0.6	.256	.068	.000
1956	24	MLN	NL	62	49	2	1.1	98	.194	.122	.257	.246	.323	.143	.406	.388	.729	11	.070	-5.8	-0.6	.341	.184	.020
1957	25	TOT	NL	58	51	1	0.5	102	.103	.059	.267	.143	.330	.078	.413	.221	.743	-38	.018	-10.0	-1.0	.184	.118	.020
1957	25	MLN	NL	14	10	1	2.7	97	.286	.182	.260	.308	.322	.273	.403	.580	.725	63	.273	-0.4	-0.0	.556	.273	.091
1957	25	NYG	NL	44	41	0	0.0	103	.045	.025	.269	.093	.332	.025	.416	.118	.748	-66	.000	-9.6	-1.0	.100	.075	.000
1958	26	SFG	NL	2	2	0	0.0	104	.000	.000	.268	.000	.335	.000	.418	.000	.752	-100	.000	-0.6	-0.1	.000	.000	.000
5 Yrs				182	152	4	0.7	101	.173	.115	.262	.198	.328	.128	.411	.326	.739	-9	.032	-23.9	-2.4	.254	.115	.013
162 Game Avg.				215	180	5	0.7	101	.173	.115	.262	.198	.328	.128	.411	.326	.739	-9	.032	-23.9	-2.4	.254	.115	.013

MLN (4 yrs)				136	109	4	1.0	100	.213	.149	.260	.236	.327	.167	.409	.403	.736	13	.056	-13.8	-1.4	.320	.132	.018
SFG (2 yrs)				46	43	0	0.0	103	.042	.024	.269	.089	.332	.024	.416	.113	.748	-68	.000	-10.1	-1.0	.095	.071	.000

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1954	22	MLN	NL	10	0.0%	30.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		3.3		10.0	1.50	70%
1955	23	MLN	NL	50	0.0%	18.0%	6.0%	0.0%	0%	3.00	4.9		44.0	1.91	70%
1956	24	MLN	NL	62	0.0%	29.0%	12.9%	1.6%	17%	2.25	2.7		24.5	0.86	50%
1957	25	TOT	NL	58	0.0%	37.9%	8.6%	1.7%	33%	4.40	2.3		51.0	0.50	50%
1957	25	MLN	NL	14	0.0%	28.6%	14.3%	7.1%	50%	2.00	2.8			0.50	50%
1957	25	NYG	NL	44	0.0%	40.9%	6.8%	0.0%	0%	6.00	2.2		40.0	0.50	50%
1958	26	SFG	NL	2	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%							100%
5 Yrs				182	0.0%	28.6%	8.8%	1.1%	11%	3.25	3.0		31.2	1.04	57%
MLB Averages					2.3%	11.9%	9.1%	6.6%	29%	1.31	7.4	38.6	8.3	0.98	75%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI
1954	22	MLN	NL	-1.4	-0.1	9	0.2	0.4	-0.3	1.58	-0.1	0.2	-0.7	-0.1	1.08	-1.1
1955	23	MLN	NL	-6.1	-0.6	47	-0.7	0.3	-0.9	.88	-0.6	-0.1	-8.7	-0.9	0.94	-7.3
1956	24	MLN	NL	-5.8	-0.6	54	-0.4	0.5	-0.9	.80	-0.4	-0.1	-3.7	-0.4	0.88	-4.5
1957	25	TOT	NL	-10.0	-1.0	55	-0.7	0.3	-1.0	.83	-0.9	0.1	-8.4	-0.8	0.88	-9.0
1957	25	MLN	NL	-0.4	-0.0	14	-0.1	0.1	-0.2	.60	-0.1	-0.0	-1.2	-0.1	0.78	-0.9
1957	25	NYG	NL	-9.6	-1.0	41	-0.6	0.2	-0.8	.90	-0.8	0.1	-7.2	-0.7	0.92	-8.1
1958	26	SFG	NL	-0.6	-0.1	2	-0.1	0.0	-0.1	1.15	-0.1	-0.0	-0.5	-0.0	0.86	-0.5
5 Yrs				-23.9	-2.4	167	-1.6	1.5	-3.1	.88	-2.0	0.2	-21.9	-2.2	0.91	-22.4

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	RS%	SBO	PO	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stD	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1954	22	MLN	NL	0%	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1955	23	MLN	NL	40%	12	0	1	33%	1	1	0	0	2	1	1
1956	24	MLN	NL	29%	14	1	1	100%	0	0	1	1	2	0	2
1957	25	TOT	NL	25%	11	0	0	50%	2	2	0	0	2	0	2
1957	25	MLN	NL	25%	6	0	0	50%	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
1957	25	NYG	NL	25%	5	0	0	50%	1	1	0	0	1	0	1
1958	26	SFG	NL		0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5 Yrs				29%	38	1	2	60%	3	3	1	1	6	1	5

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1954	22	MLN	NL	10	78%	2			0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		8	2	25%	0	0		0	0		0
1955	23	MLN	NL	50	11%	7			0	0	0	0		0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	300%	8	2	25%	13	1	8%	33	1	3%	5	0	0%	0	0		0
1956	24	MLN	NL	62	13%	6			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	83%	8	1	13%	8	0	0%	24	4	17%	3	1	33%	1	0	0%	0
1957	25	TOT	NL	58	29%	3			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	50%	8	1	13%	9	1	11%	31	1	3%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
1957	25	MLN	NL	14	0%	2			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	2	0	0%	2	0	0%	6	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
1957	25	NYG	NL	44	39%	1			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	33%	6	1	17%	7	1	14%	25	1	4%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
1958	26	SFG	NL	2	100%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0
5 Yrs				182	22%	18			0	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	11	10	91%	24	4	17%	30	2	7%	96	8	8%	8	1	13%	2	0	0%	0
MLB Averages					48%																			79%			11%			31%			14%			49%			54%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	SH	IBB
1954	22	19	10	10	0	2	0	1	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	8	2	0	0
1955	23	52	60	54	4	9	0	2	3	12	.167	.211	.167	.377	4	9	2	3	0
1956	24	87	122	103	8	15	1	4	11	30	.146	.228	.155	.383	8	16	3	8	0
1957	25	123	180	154	10	18	2	5	16	52	.117	.200	.130	.330	-7	20	4	10	0
1958	26	137	182	156	10	18	2	5	16	52	.115	.198	.128	.326	-9	20	4	10	0

Neutralized Batting

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average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1954	22	20	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	19
1955	23	35	55	48	6	9	0	1	4	9	.188	.250	.188	.438	2	33
1956	24	37	66	52	5	7	1	2	9	19	.135	.262	.154	.416	2	35
1957	25	38	63	54	2	4	1	1	7	23	.074	.180	.093	.273	1	36
1958	26	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	14
5 Yrs		145	197	167	13	20	2	4	20	54	.120	.214	.132	.346	5	137
162 Game Avg.		162	220	187	15	22	2	4	22	60	.120	.214	.132	.346	6	137

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