Larry Demery

Lawrence Calvin Demery

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: June 4, 1953 in Bakersfield, CA
High School: Locke HS (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 7th round of the 1972 amateur draft (January Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: June 2, 1974
Team: Pirates 1974-1977

Final Game: September 24, 1977
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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	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1972	19	PIT-min	A	10	6	.625	3.91	24	24					145.0	113	80	63	6	119								1.600	7.0	0.4	7.4			GST · WCRS
1973	20	PIT-min	A,AAA	12	12	.500	2.84	28	27		1	0	0	190.0	160	80	60	8	102	0	12	0	0	0			1.379	7.6	0.4	4.8	0.6	0.12	SAL,CHL · CARL,IL
1974	21	PIT-min	AAA	4	2	.667	2.81	6	6		5	0	0	48.0	46	17	15	1	18	0	4	2	1	2			1.333	8.6	0.2	3.4	0.8	0.22	CHL · IL
1974	21	PIT	NL	6	6	.500	4.25	19	15	0	2	0	0	95.1	95	47	45	12	51	5	51	0	1	2	420	82	1.531	9.0	1.1	4.8	4.8	1.00
1975	22	PIT	NL	7	5	.583	2.90	45	8	23	1	0	4	114.2	95	40	37	7	43	6	59	3	0	3	468	122	1.203	7.5	0.5	3.4	4.6	1.37
1976	23	PIT	NL	10	7	.588	3.17	36	15	7	4	1	2	145.0	123	56	51	8	58	8	72	2	1	0	604	110	1.248	7.6	0.5	3.6	4.5	1.24
1977	24	PIT	NL	6	5	.545	5.08	39	8	8	0	0	1	90.1	100	59	51	13	47	3	35	0	0	6	409	78	1.627	10.0	1.3	4.7	3.5	0.74
1978	25	PIT-min	AAA,AA	0	3	.000	10.50	4	4		0	0	0	12.0	16	17	14	0	15	0	2	2	0	0			2.583	12.0	0.0	11.2	1.5	0.13	CLB,SHV · IL,TL
1979	26	PIT-min	A	0	1	.000	6.75	3	3					8.0	12	7	6	1	3								1.875	13.5	1.1	3.4			SAL · CARL
1980	27	ATL-min	AA	0	0		0.00	2	0		0	0	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	3	0	1	0	0	0			1.333	3.0	0.0	9.0	3.0	0.33	SAV · SOUL
4 Yrs				29	23	.558	3.72	139	46	38	7	1	7	445.1	413	202	184	40	199	22	217	5	2	11	1901	97	1.374	8.3	0.8	4.0	4.4	1.09
162 Game Avg.				11	8	.558	3.72	51	17	14	3	0	3	164	152	74	68	15	73	8	80	2	1	4	699	97	1.374	8.3	0.8	4.0	4.4	1.09

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
1974	21	PIT	NL	95.1	19	15	47	4.44	4.24	-0.07	0.10	94.9	4.19	-3	-0.3	1.6	-0.1	0.3	6	.482	.498	$
1975	22	PIT	NL	114.2	45	8	40	3.14	4.09	0.21	-0.13	97.2	3.65	6	0.6	.8	-0.1	1.4	17	.514	.504	$
1976	23	PIT	NL	145.0	36	15	56	3.48	3.90	0.08	-0.01	99.7	3.80	4	0.5	1.0	-0.1	1.5	18	.513	.503	$
1977	24	PIT	NL	90.1	39	8	59	5.88	4.38	0.31	-0.15	103.4	4.05	-19	-1.9	.8	-0.0	-1.2	-10	.450	.488	$
4 Seasons				445.1	139	46	202	4.08	4.12	0.13	-0.05	98.8	3.90	-12	-1.2	.9	-0.3	2.0	32	.491	.498	$

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	ERA	G	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1974	21	PIT	NL	NLCS	L	LAD	36.00	2	1.0	3	4	4	0	2	0	1	8	5.000	27.0	0.0	18.0	0.0	0.00
1975	22	PIT	NL	NLCS	L	CIN	18.00	1	2.0	4	4	4	1	1	1	0	11	2.500	18.0	4.5	4.5	4.5	1.00
2 Yrs (2 Series)							24.00	3	3.0	7	8	8	1	3	1	1	19	3.333	21.0	3.0	9.0	3.0	0.33
2 NLCS							24.00	3	3.0	7	8	8	1	3	1	1	19	3.333	21.0	3.0	9.0	3.0	0.33

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
1974	21	PIT	NL	19	420	362	47	95	11	2	12	5	6	51	51	.262	.351	.403	.754	.275	146	10	0	4	3	5	4
1975	22	PIT	NL	45	468	413	40	95	9	2	7	1	3	43	59	.230	.305	.312	.617	.251	129	12	3	5	4	6	3
1976	23	PIT	NL	36	604	525	56	123	26	5	8	14	4	58	72	.234	.309	.349	.657	.254	183	10	2	11	8	8	8
1977	24	PIT	NL	39	409	358	59	100	13	2	13	8	7	47	35	.279	.360	.436	.796	.278	156	5	0	1	3	3	9
4 Yrs				139	1901	1658	202	413	59	11	40	28	20	199	217	.249	.328	.370	.699	.263	614	37	5	21	18	22	24
162 Game Avg.				51	699	609	74	152	22	4	15	10	7	73	80	.249	.328	.370	.699	.263	226	14	2	8	7	8	9
MLB Averages																.259	.325	.377	.702	.283

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1974	21	PIT	NL	-6.7	-0.7	435	-0.6	6.0	-6.6	.89	-0.6	-0.1	-4.5	-0.5	0.89	-7.8	2	1	1
1975	22	PIT	NL	9.3	1.0	483	0.4	7.1	-6.7	.88	1.1	-0.6	14.0	1.5	0.88	11.2	9	2	26
1976	23	PIT	NL	6.0	0.6	623	0.9	9.4	-8.5	.91	0.6	0.5	5.8	0.6	0.91	6.0	7	3	10
1977	24	PIT	NL	-11.8	-1.2	433	-0.6	6.1	-6.7	.85	-1.1	0.4	-14.2	-1.4	0.85	-12.6	4	9	17
4 Yrs				-3.2	-0.2	1974	0.1	28.6	-28.5	.88	-0.0	0.2	1.1	0.3	0.88	-3.2	22	15	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
1974	21	PIT	NL	19	15	6	6	3	0	1	8	7	.533	0	2	2	0	9	60%	48.3	74	25	9	3	0	8	5.2	6.0	5.8
1975	22	PIT	NL	45	8	3	2	3	0	0	6	2	.750	0	2	1	0	4	50%	47.0	66	18	9	4	2	2	7.1	6.3	6.3
1976	23	PIT	NL	36	15	6	6	3	1	2	7	8	.467	1	1	4	1	8	53%	55.7	82	24	17	5	2	7	3.8	3.4	6.8
1977	24	PIT	NL	39	8	3	3	2	1	0	3	5	.375	0	1	0	0	2	25%	40.8	70	21	25	9	2	5	4.3	3.9	4.3
4 Yrs				139	46	18	17	11	2	3	24	22	.522	1	6	7	1	23	50%	49	82	18	60	21	6	22	4.9	4.8	6.0
MLB Averages													.500						53%	51	106	-13					4.2	4.2	6.5

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
1974	21	PIT	NL	19	4	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	7	5	71%	3	.886	2	1	1	1	1	2	4	0	3	1	3	0	6.0
1975	22	PIT	NL	45	37	23	4	3	5	4	1	80%	6	0	27	8	30%	8	.882	9	2	26	7	2	28	15	22	23	2	23	9	5.2
1976	23	PIT	NL	36	21	7	4	1	3	2	1	67%	6	2	16	7	44%	7	.906	7	3	10	7	2	12	7	14	15	2	17	1	6.1
1977	24	PIT	NL	39	31	8	3	2	2	1	1	50%	4	2	15	7	47%	6	.846	4	9	17	4	4	23	10	21	18	5	21	5	5.4
4 Yrs				139	93	38	11	6	10	7	3	70%	16	4	65	27	42%		.883	22	15	54	19	9	65	36	57	59	10	64	15	5.5

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1974	21	PIT	NL	420	52%	2.9%	12.1%	12.1%	6.0%	26%	1.08	72%	85	10	12%
1975	22	PIT	NL	468	55%	1.5%	12.6%	9.2%	3.9%	19%	1.12	75%	90	12	13%
1976	23	PIT	NL	604	59%	1.3%	11.9%	9.6%	6.5%	32%	1.10	75%	94	10	11%
1977	24	PIT	NL	409	65%	3.2%	8.6%	11.5%	6.9%	28%	1.06	77%	62	5	8%
4 Yrs				1901	58%	2.1%	11.4%	10.5%	5.8%	27%	1.09	75%	331	37	11%
MLB Averages					45%	1.9%	13.1%	8.7%	6.2%	27%	1.09	75%			11%

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
1974	21	PIT	NL	420	95			12	0	8	6	6	2	10	20	10	3	50%	4	2	2	164	5	6	45%	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	9	0
1975	22	PIT	NL	468	95			7	0	8	3	4	3	4	22	12	6	55%	3	3	4	184	1	3	25%	1	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	15	0
1976	23	PIT	NL	604	123			8	0	15	5	3	5	3	31	17	2	55%	8	0	0	211	14	4	78%	12	3	2	1	0	0	1	0	11	0
1977	24	PIT	NL	409	100			13	0	14	9	4	5	8	31	11	5	35%	9	6	3	133	8	7	53%	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	0
4 Yrs				1901	413			40	0	45	23	17	15	25	104	50	16	48%	24	11	9	692	28	20	58%	26	18	2	2	0	0	2	0	51	0
MLB Averages																		52%							65%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	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	ERA+
1974	21	6	6	.500	4.25	19	15	0	2	0	0	95.1	95	47	45	12	51	5	51	0	1	2	420	82	1.531	9.0	1.1	4.8	4.8	1.00	82
1975	22	13	11	.542	3.51	64	23	23	3	0	4	210.0	190	87	82	19	94	11	110	3	1	5	888	100	1.352	8.1	0.8	4.0	4.7	1.17	100
1976	23	23	18	.561	3.37	100	38	30	7	1	6	355.0	313	143	133	27	152	19	182	5	2	5	1492	104	1.310	7.9	0.7	3.9	4.6	1.20	104
1977	24	29	23	.558	3.72	139	46	38	7	1	7	445.1	413	202	184	40	199	22	217	5	2	11	1901	97	1.374	8.3	0.8	4.0	4.4	1.09	97

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	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
1974	21	3	6	.333	5.06	89.0	100	56	50	13	54	47	0	1.730	10.1	5.5	4.8	0.87	1.3	19
1975	22	6	5	.545	3.45	107.0	100	46	41	7	45	55	3	1.355	8.4	3.8	4.6	1.22	0.6	45
1976	23	8	7	.533	3.74	137.0	130	63	57	8	61	68	2	1.394	8.5	4.0	4.5	1.11	0.5	36
1977	24	3	6	.333	5.28	87.0	100	57	51	13	47	34	0	1.690	10.3	4.9	3.5	0.72	1.3	39
4 Yrs		20	24	.455	4.26	420.0	430	222	199	41	207	204	5	1.517	9.2		4.4	0.99	0.9	139

* 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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