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Ken Dixon

Kenneth John Dixon

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 166 lb.

Born: October 17, 1960 in Monroe, VA
High School: Amherst County HS (Monroe, VA)
Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 3rd round of the 1980 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 22, 1984
Team: Orioles 1984-1987
Agents: Ron Shapiro [*]
Final Game: September 14, 1987
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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
1980	19	BAL-min	Rk	4	5	.444	4.62	13	13		3	1	0	78.0	69	46	40	5	48	1	62	5	3	5			1.500	8.0	0.6	5.5	7.2	1.29	BLD · APPY
1981	20	BAL-min	A,Rk	6	14	.300	3.90	23	23	0	9	1	0	143.0	124	78	62	10	83	3	135	2	3	5			1.448	7.8	0.6	5.2	8.5	1.63	HGR,MIA,BLD · CARL,FLOR,APPY
1982	21	BAL-min	A,AA	10	16	.385	4.59	28	27	1	8	3	0	174.1	169	103	89	18	92	1	132	2	2	14			1.497	8.7	0.9	4.7	6.8	1.43	HGR,CHR · CARL,SOUL
1983	22	BAL-min	AA,AAA	11	13	.458	4.12	31	31	0	7	2	0	194.1	188	105	89	21	96	4	107	5	1	7			1.461	8.7	1.0	4.4	5.0	1.11	CHR,ROC · SOUL,IL
1984	23	BAL-min	AA	16	8	.667	2.85	31	29	1	20	2	1	240.0	198	92	76	20	78	1	211	1	1	6			1.150	7.4	0.8	2.9	7.9	2.71	CHR · SOUL
1984	23	BAL	AL	0	1	.000	4.15	2	2	0	0	0	0	13.0	14	6	6	1	4	0	8	0	0	2	56	96	1.385	9.7	0.7	2.8	5.5	2.00
1985	24	BAL	AL	8	4	.667	3.67	34	18	7	3	1	1	162.0	144	68	66	20	64	7	108	2	2	5	683	110	1.284	8.0	1.1	3.6	6.0	1.69
1986	25	BAL	AL	11	13	.458	4.58	35	33	1	2	0	0	202.1	194	111	103	33	83	6	170	1	3	7	874	91	1.369	8.6	1.5	3.7	7.6	2.05
1987	26	BAL-min	AAA	4	0	1.000	3.27	5	5	0	1	1	0	33.0	27	15	12	3	10	0	25	0	0	0			1.121	7.4	0.8	2.7	6.8	2.50	ROC · IL
1987	26	BAL	AL	7	10	.412	6.43	34	15	13	0	0	5	105.0	128	81	75	31	27	4	91	1	1	5	470	68	1.476	11.0	2.7	2.3	7.8	3.37
1989	28	CLE-BAL-min	AA	1	0	1.000	1.86	10	4	3	0	0	0	38.2	25	11	8	0	9	0	29	1	3	2			0.879	5.8	0.0	2.1	6.8	3.22	CAK,HGR · EL
4 Yrs				26	28	.481	4.66	105	68	21	5	1	6	482.1	480	266	250	85	178	17	377	4	6	19	2083	89	1.364	9.0	1.6	3.3	7.0	2.12
162 Game Avg.				10	11	.481	4.66	41	27	8	2	0	2	190	189	105	98	33	70	7	148	2	2	7	819	89	1.364	9.0	1.6	3.3	7.0	2.12

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
1984	23	BAL	AL	13.0	2	2	6	4.15	4.83	0.37	0.16	101.0	4.67	1	0.1		-0.0	0.2	2	.543	.501	$
1985	24	BAL	AL	162.0	34	18	68	3.78	4.58	-0.10	-0.02	96.3	4.49	13	1.4	.8	-0.2	2.5	30	.540	.508	$
1986	25	BAL	AL	202.1	35	33	111	4.94	4.63	-0.05	0.15	99.0	4.79	-4	-0.4	.6	-0.1	1.2	19	.489	.498	$140,000
1987	26	BAL	AL	105.0	34	15	81	6.94	4.93	-0.05	-0.02	98.6	4.89	-24	-2.2	3.1	-0.9	-2.2	-12	.435	.486	$155,000
4 Seasons				482.1	105	68	266	4.96	4.68	-0.06	0.06	98.1	4.71	-14	-1.1	2.0	-1.2	1.7	39	.489	.498	$295,000

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
1984	23	BAL	AL	2	56	52	6	14	1	1	1	0	0	4	8	.269	.321	.385	.706	.302	20	2	0	0	0	0	1
1985	24	BAL	AL	34	683	607	68	144	29	3	20	14	3	64	108	.237	.311	.394	.705	.258	239	7	2	8	2	7	7
1986	25	BAL	AL	35	874	779	111	194	30	9	33	22	6	83	170	.249	.320	.438	.758	.277	341	14	1	5	6	6	11
1987	26	BAL	AL	34	470	439	81	128	21	3	31	9	1	27	91	.292	.333	.565	.898	.304	248	7	1	1	2	4	7
4 Yrs				105	2083	1877	266	480	81	16	85	45	10	178	377	.256	.320	.452	.772	.277	848	30	4	14	10	17	26
162 Game Avg.				41	819	738	105	189	32	6	33	18	4	70	148	.256	.320	.452	.772	.277	333	12	2	6	4	7	10
MLB Averages																.259	.326	.397	.722	.285

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1984	23	BAL	AL	0.1	0.0	58	-0.2	1.3	-1.5	1.23	-0.0	-0.2	0.5	0.1	1.23	-0.0	0	0	0
1985	24	BAL	AL	9.2	0.9	710	0.0	9.6	-9.6	.80	0.4	-0.3	3.9	0.4	0.80	7.3	3	5	7
1986	25	BAL	AL	-8.2	-0.8	913	0.6	16.7	-16.1	1.03	-0.9	1.5	-4.9	-0.5	1.03	-10.1	0	1	1
1987	26	BAL	AL	-23.2	-2.1	488	-1.4	10.5	-11.9	1.24	-2.1	0.9	-22.9	-2.1	1.24	-26.4	15	2	2
4 Yrs				-22.1	-2.0	2169	-1.1	38.0	-39.1	1.01	-2.7	1.6	-23.5	-2.2	1.01	-29.3	18	8	10

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
1984	23	BAL	AL	2	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	.000	0	1	0	0	2	100%	50.5	56	45	0	0	0	1	2.5	3.0	6.5
1985	24	BAL	AL	34	18	8	3	7	2	1	10	8	.556	2	3	3	1	9	50%	52.6	81	27	27	4	2	8	5.3	5.4	5.9
1986	25	BAL	AL	35	33	11	13	9	1	2	15	18	.455	1	2	2	0	17	52%	50.7	81	23	30	11	8	14	4.4	4.0	6.1
1987	26	BAL	AL	34	15	5	6	4	2	1	6	9	.400	2	1	0	0	4	27%	42.6	70	14	18	5	0	8	5.3	6.7	4.5
4 Yrs				105	68	24	23	21	5	5	31	37	.456	5	7	5	1	32	47%	49	81	14	75	20	10	31	4.8	4.8	5.7
MLB Averages													.500						50%	50	98	-3					4.5	4.4	6.2

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
1985	24	BAL	AL	34	16	7	0	1	1	1	0	100%	3	2	18	9	50%	2	.804	3	5	7	3	1	12	11	5	13	1	13	1	10.6
1986	25	BAL	AL	35	2	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	4	3	75%	7	1.035	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	0	1	1	1	0	2.5
1987	26	BAL	AL	34	19	13	2	4	9	5	4	56%	11	2	20	4	20%	7	1.235	15	2	2	11	4	4	12	7	10	3	11	5	5.9
3 Yrs				103	37	21	2	5	10	6	4	60%	14	4	42	16	38%		1.004	18	8	10	14	5	18	25	12	24	5	25	6	7.7

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1984	23	BAL	AL	56	54%	1.8%	14.3%	7.1%	5.4%	21%	2.10	77%	14	2	14%
1985	24	BAL	AL	683	44%	2.9%	15.8%	9.4%	7.6%	36%	0.62	70%	103	7	7%
1986	25	BAL	AL	874	50%	3.8%	19.5%	9.5%	8.2%	37%	0.67	67%	139	14	10%
1987	26	BAL	AL	470	50%	6.6%	19.4%	5.7%	11.7%	43%	0.69	68%	59	7	12%
4 Yrs				2083	48%	4.1%	18.1%	8.6%	8.7%	38%	0.68	68%	315	30	10%
MLB Averages					40%	2.4%	14.7%	8.7%	7.0%	30%	1.07	73%			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
1984	23	BAL	AL	56	14			1	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	1	0	50%	1	2	0	25	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1985	24	BAL	AL	683	144			20	1	17	11	9	15	5	35	22	3	63%	7	5	0	217	14	3	82%	14	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	10	0
1986	25	BAL	AL	874	194			33	1	19	18	15	23	10	51	21	12	41%	11	7	1	293	22	6	79%	21	5	1	1	0	0	3	0	19	0
1987	26	BAL	AL	470	128			31	0	10	17	14	18	13	19	9	5	47%	7	5	0	161	9	1	90%	9	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	10	0
4 Yrs				2083	480			85	2	46	47	38	57	28	107	53	20	50%	26	19	1	696	45	10	82%	44	8	1	2	0	0	4	0	41	0
MLB Averages																		53%							68%

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+
1984	23	0	1	.000	4.15	2	2	0	0	0	0	13.0	14	6	6	1	4	0	8	0	0	2	56	96	1.385	9.7	0.7	2.8	5.5	2.00	96
1985	24	8	5	.615	3.70	36	20	7	3	1	1	175.0	158	74	72	21	68	7	116	2	2	7	739	109	1.291	8.1	1.1	3.5	6.0	1.71	109
1986	25	19	18	.514	4.17	71	53	8	5	1	1	377.1	352	185	175	54	151	13	286	3	5	14	1613	98	1.333	8.4	1.3	3.6	6.8	1.89	98
1987	26	26	28	.481	4.66	105	68	21	5	1	6	482.1	480	266	250	85	178	17	377	4	6	19	2083	89	1.364	9.0	1.6	3.3	7.0	2.12	89

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
1984	23	0	1	.000	4.50	12.0	15	7	6	1	4	8	0	1.583	11.3	3.0	6.0	2.00	0.8	2
1985	24	8	9	.471	4.06	155.0	149	78	70	21	66	104	2	1.387	8.7	3.8	6.0	1.58	1.2	34
1986	25	8	13	.381	4.89	197.0	198	119	107	34	85	165	1	1.437	9.0	3.9	7.5	1.94	1.6	35
1987	26	3	8	.273	6.34	105.0	127	82	74	31	27	91	1	1.467	10.9	2.3	7.8	3.37	2.7	34
4 Yrs		19	31	.380	4.93	469.0	489	286	257	87	182	368	4	1.431	9.4		7.1	2.02	1.7	105

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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 1985 AL 8.000 (7th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1985 AL 6.000 (10th) 1986 AL 7.562 (6th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1986 AL 33 (6th)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1985 AL 8.000 (7th)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
1985 AL 6.000 (10th)
1986 AL 7.562 (6th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1986 AL 33 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Pitching - 2 (2466), Average HOFer ≈ 185

Similarity Scores

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Similar Pitchers

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