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Bruce Dal Canton

John Bruce Dal Canton

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: June 15, 1941 in California, PA
High School: California (California, PA)
School: California University of Pennsylvania
Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1966. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 3, 1967
Teams (by GP): Royals/Pirates/Braves/WhiteSox 1967-1977

Final Game: May 27, 1977
Died: October 7, 2008 in Pittsburgh, PA
Buried: Mt. Prospect Cemetery, Hickory, PA
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All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Cy Young… #3. Greg Maddux… #4. Christy Mathewson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Randy Johnson…

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Cy Young… #3. Greg Maddux… #4. Christy Mathewson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Randy Johnson…

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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	Awards
1966	25	PIT-min	AA,AAA	3	2	.600	3.63	19	9		0	0		67.0	77	31	27	5	26	0	38	2	1	5			1.537	10.3	0.7	3.5	5.1	1.46	AVL,CLB · SOUL,IL
1967	26	PIT-min	AA	5	5	.500	3.10	14	13					93.0	73	37	32	7	23		68						1.032	7.1	0.7	2.2	6.6	2.96	MAC · SOUL
1967	26	PIT	NL	2	1	.667	1.88	8	2	2	1	0	0	24.0	19	5	5	1	10	3	13	1	0	0	101	182	1.208	7.1	0.4	3.8	4.9	1.30
1968	27	PIT-min	AA,AAA	5	6	.455	3.79	22	15		0	0		95.0	92	46	40	7	35	4	67	1	1	2			1.337	8.7	0.7	3.3	6.3	1.91	YOR,CLB · EL,IL
1968	27	PIT	NL	1	1	.500	2.12	7	0	5	0	0	2	17.0	7	4	4	0	6	2	8	2	0	0	66	141	0.765	3.7	0.0	3.2	4.2	1.33
1969	28	PIT	NL	8	2	.800	3.34	57	0	19	0	0	5	86.1	79	34	32	3	49	12	56	0	1	2	372	105	1.483	8.2	0.3	5.1	5.8	1.14
1970	29	PIT	NL	9	4	.692	4.57	41	6	14	1	0	1	84.2	94	48	43	7	39	8	53	1	0	1	379	86	1.571	10.0	0.7	4.1	5.6	1.36
1971	30	KCR	AL	8	6	.571	3.44	25	22	1	2	0	0	141.1	144	63	54	8	44	0	58	0	0	3	603	100	1.330	9.2	0.5	2.8	3.7	1.32
1972	31	KCR	AL	6	6	.500	3.40	35	16	8	1	0	2	132.1	135	54	50	7	29	6	75	1	2	5	551	89	1.239	9.2	0.5	2.0	5.1	2.59
1973	32	KCR	AL	4	3	.571	4.81	32	3	16	1	0	3	97.1	108	60	52	8	46	12	38	4	1	5	440	85	1.582	10.0	0.7	4.3	3.5	0.83
1974	33	KCR	AL	8	10	.444	3.13	31	22	4	9	2	0	175.1	135	71	61	5	82	3	96	5	0	16	736	122	1.238	6.9	*0.3*	4.2	4.9	1.17
1975	34	TOT	MLB	2	9	.182	4.76	30	11	12	0	0	3	75.2	86	51	40	2	31	1	43	7	0	5	353	80	1.546	10.2	0.2	3.7	5.1	1.39
1975	34	KCR	AL	0	2	.000	15.58	4	2	1	0	0	0	8.2	23	18	15	0	7	0	5	1	0	1	56	26	3.462	23.9	0.0	7.3	5.2	0.71
1975	34	ATL	NL	2	7	.222	3.36	26	9	11	0	0	3	67.0	63	33	25	2	24	1	38	6	0	4	297	113	1.299	8.5	0.3	3.2	5.1	1.58
1976	35	ATL	NL	3	5	.375	3.56	42	1	16	0	0	1	73.1	67	41	29	6	42	8	36	2	1	8	328	107	1.486	8.2	0.7	5.2	4.4	0.86
1977	36	CHW	AL	0	2	.000	3.75	8	0	5	0	0	2	24.0	20	11	10	1	13	0	9	0	0	1	101	111	1.375	7.5	0.4	4.9	3.4	0.69
1978	37	CHW-min	AAA	0	0		8.10	6	0		0	0	0	10.0	9	11	9	2	11	0	11	1	0	2			2.000	8.1	1.8	9.9	9.9	1.00	IWA · AA
11 Seasons				51	49	.510	3.67	316	83	102	15	2	19	931.1	894	442	380	48	391	55	485	23	5	46	4030	99	1.380	8.6	0.5	3.8	4.7	1.24
162 Game Avg.				9	8	.510	3.67	54	14	17	3	0	3	159	152	75	65	8	67	9	83	4	1	8	687	99	1.380	8.6	0.5	3.8	4.7	1.24

KCR (5 yrs)				26	27	.491	3.76	127	65	30	13	2	5	555.0	545	266	232	28	208	21	272	11	3	30	2386	95	1.357	8.8	0.5	3.4	4.4	1.31
PIT (4 yrs)				20	8	.714	3.57	113	8	40	2	0	8	212.0	199	91	84	11	104	25	130	4	1	3	918	101	1.429	8.4	0.5	4.4	5.5	1.25
ATL (2 yrs)				5	12	.294	3.46	68	10	27	0	0	4	140.1	130	74	54	8	66	9	74	8	1	12	625	110	1.397	8.3	0.5	4.2	4.7	1.12
CHW (1 yr)				0	2	.000	3.75	8	0	5	0	0	2	24.0	20	11	10	1	13	0	9	0	0	1	101	111	1.375	7.5	0.4	4.9	3.4	0.69

AL (6 yrs)			AL	26	29	.473	3.76	135	65	35	13	2	7	579.0	565	277	242	29	221	21	281	11	3	31	2487	96	1.358	8.8	0.5	3.4	4.4	1.27
NL (6 yrs)			NL	25	20	.556	3.53	181	18	67	2	0	12	352.1	329	165	138	19	170	34	204	12	2	15	1543	105	1.416	8.4	0.5	4.3	5.2	1.20

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary
1967	26	PIT	NL	24.0	2	5	12	0	1.1	7	0.8	$
1968	27	PIT	NL	17.0	0	4	7	1	1.9	3	0.5	$
1969	28	PIT	NL	86.1	0	34	47	0	1.0	13	0.8	$
1970	29	PIT	NL	84.2	6	48	46	2	1.0	-2	-0.5	$
1971	30	KCR	AL	141.1	22	63	72	0	1.0	9	1.0	$
1972	31	KCR	AL	132.1	16	54	64	-2	1.1	10	1.1	$
1973	32	KCR	AL	97.1	3	60	64	-4	.8	4	0.0	$
1974	33	KCR	AL	175.1	22	71	103	-3	1.0	32	3.5	$
1975	34	KCR	AL	8.2	2	18	5	0	.6	-13	-1.2	$
1975	34	ATL	NL	67.0	9	33	42	-4	1.3	9	0.9	$
1976	35	ATL	NL	73.1	1	41	48	-5	.6	7	0.2	$
1977	36	CHW	AL	24.0	0	11	16	-2	.6	5	0.2	$
11 Seasons				931.1	83	442	526	-17	1.0	84	7.3	$

KCR (5 yrs)				555.0	65	266	308	-9	1.0	42	4.4	$
PIT (4 yrs)				212.0	8	91	112	3	1.1	21	1.6	$
ATL (2 yrs)				140.1	10	74	90	-9	.9	16	1.1	$
CHW (1 yr)				24.0	0	11	16	-2	.6	5	0.2	$

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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
1966	25	PIT-min	AA,AAA	19	18	18	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.222	.389		4		0	0	0		AVL,CLB · SOUL,IL
1967	26	PIT-min	AA	14	31	31	1	6	1	0	0	5	0	0	0	15	.194	.194	.226	.419		7						MAC · SOUL
1967	26	PIT	NL	8	7	6	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.333	.429	.333	.762	122	2	0	1	0	0	0	/1
1968	27	PIT-min	AA,AAA	22	29	23	1	4	1	0	0	5	0	0	5	9	.174	.321	.217	.539		5		0	1	0		YOR,CLB · EL,IL
1968	27	PIT	NL	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0	/1
1969	28	PIT	NL	57	12	10	2	3	0	1	0	2	0	0	2	3	.300	.417	.500	.917	159	5	0	0	0	0	0	1
1970	29	PIT	NL	41	20	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	9	.000	.158	.000	.158	-53	0	1	1	1	0	0	1
1971	30	KCR	AL	25	53	46	4	4	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	19	.087	.106	.087	.193	-44	4	0	0	6	0	0	1
1972	31	KCR	AL	35	47	41	3	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	14	.098	.119	.122	.241	-28	5	1	0	5	0	0	1
1973	32	KCR	AL	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1974	33	KCR	AL	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
1975	34	TOT	MLB	30	19	19	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.105	.105	.105	.211	-42	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
1975	34	KCR	AL	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1975	34	ATL	NL	26	19	19	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.105	.105	.105	.211	-42	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
1976	35	ATL	NL	42	11	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.222	.300	.222	.522	47	2	0	0	1	0	0	1
1977	36	CHW	AL	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1978	37	CHW-min	AAA	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0		0	0	0		IWA · AA
11 Seasons				316	173	150	11	17	1	1	0	5	0	0	7	59	.113	.164	.133	.297	-14	20	2	2	14	0	0
162 Game Avg.				162	89	77	6	9	1	1	0	3	0	0	4	30	.113	.164	.133	.297	-14	10	1	1	7	0	0

KCR (5 yrs)				127	100	87	7	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	33	.092	.112	.103	.216	-37	9	1	0	11	0	0
PIT (4 yrs)				113	43	35	2	5	0	1	0	3	0	0	4	16	.143	.268	.200	.468	33	7	1	2	2	0	0
ATL (2 yrs)				68	30	28	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	10	.143	.172	.143	.315	-12	4	0	0	1	0	0
CHW (1 yr)				8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0

AL (6 yrs)				135	100	87	7	8	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	33	.092	.112	.103	.216	-37	9	1	0	11	0	0
NL (6 yrs)				181	73	63	4	9	0	1	0	3	0	0	5	26	.143	.229	.175	.403	14	11	1	2	3	0	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
1967	26	PIT	NL	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0.1	1	0.1	0.0	$	/1
1968	27	PIT	NL	4	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$	/1
1969	28	PIT	NL	12	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	0.4	3	0.3	0.1	$	1
1970	29	PIT	NL	20	-4	0	0	0	0	2	1	-1	-0.2	-1	-0.1	-0.1	$14,500	1
1971	30	KCR	AL	53	-8	-1	-1	1	0	4	2	-3	-0.5	-3	-0.3	-0.2	$16,000	1
1972	31	KCR	AL	47	-7	0	0	0	0	3	1	-3	-0.4	-3	-0.3	-0.1	$	1

1975	34	ATL	NL	19	-3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	-0.1	0	0.0	-0.1	$	1
1976	35	ATL	NL	11	-1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$	1
8 Seasons				173	-23	-1	0	1	0	14	5	-4	-0.8	-4	-0.4	-0.4	$30,500

PIT (4 yrs)				43	-4	0	1	0	0	4	1	2	0.2	2	0.2	-0.0	$14,500
KCR (2 yrs)				100	-15	-1	-1	1	0	7	3	-6	-0.9	-6	-0.6	-0.3	$16,000
ATL (2 yrs)				30	-4	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	-0.1	0	0.0	-0.1	$

Standard Fielding

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO
1967	PIT	NL	26	P	8	2	1	24.0	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.12	0.38	.960	1.99	2.00	3	1	25%	0
1968	PIT	NL	27	P	7	0	0	17.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.53	0.14	.960	2.01	2.01	0	0		0
1969	PIT	NL	28	P	57	0	0	86.1	20	7	12	1	1	.950	1.98	0.33	.958	1.95	1.94	3	3	50%	1
1970	PIT	NL	29	P	41	6	1	84.2	13	3	10	0	2	1.000	1.38	0.32	.951	1.85	1.84	4	1	20%	1
1971	KCR	AL	30	P	25	22	2	141.1	29	11	16	2	0	.931	1.72	1.08	.958	1.98	1.97	3	2	40%	0
1972	KCR	AL	31	P	35	16	1	132.1	20	5	14	1	1	.950	1.29	0.54	.950	1.86	1.85	1	6	86%	0
1973	KCR	AL	32	P	32	3	1	97.1	23	5	17	1	1	.957	2.03	0.69	.951	1.86	1.85	3	5	63%	0
1974	KCR	AL	33	P	31	22	9	175.1	40	14	25	1	2	.975	2.00	1.26	.947	1.81	1.80	25	11	31%	1
1975	TOT	MLB	34	P	30	11	0	75.2	20	7	13	0	1	1.000	2.38	0.67	.945	1.86	1.86	22	0	0%	0
1975	KCR	AL	34	P	4	2	0	8.2	3	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.12	0.75	.940	1.87	1.85	2	0	0%	0
1975	ATL	NL	34	P	26	9	0	67.0	17	6	11	0	1	1.000	2.28	0.65	.946	1.85	1.86	20	0	0%	0
1976	ATL	NL	35	P	42	1	0	73.1	23	4	17	2	0	.913	2.58	0.50	.950	1.88	1.87	13	1	7%	0
1977	CHW	AL	36	P	8	0	0	24.0	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	0.75	0.25	.950	1.95	1.92	3	2	40%	0
	11 Seasons			P	316	83	15	931.1	194	58	128	8	8	.959	1.80	0.59	.951	1.89	1.88	80	32	29%	3
	11 Seasons			TOT	316	83	15	931.1	194	58	128	8	8	.959	1.80	0.59	.951	1.89	1.88	80	32	29%	3

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Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1974 AL 6.930 (3rd)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1974 AL 0.257 (1st)	Wild Pitches s c a p y 1974 AL 16 (1st)	Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1975 NL 6 (10th)
Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1974 AL 122 (10th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 2 (2433), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 5 (1383), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Transactions

Before 1966 Season: Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent.
December 2, 1970: Traded by the Pittsburgh Pirates with Jerry May and Freddie Patek to the Kansas City Royals for Jim Campanis, Jackie Hernandez and Bob Johnson.
June 30, 1975: Traded by the Kansas City Royals with players to be named later to the Atlanta Braves for a player to be named later and cash. The Kansas City Royals sent Norm Angelini (September 4, 1975) and Al Autry (September 4, 1975) to the Atlanta Braves to complete the trade. The Atlanta Braves sent Ray Sadecki (September 4, 1975) to the Kansas City Royals to complete the trade.
March 30, 1977: Released by the Atlanta Braves.
April 4, 1977: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago White Sox.
August 25, 1977: Released by the Chicago White Sox.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
1970	29	Pittsburgh Pirates	$14,500	Noll/Fort/Hylan database
1971	30	Kansas City Royals	$16,000	Noll/Fort/Hylan database

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$30,500

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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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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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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