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Steve Dunning
Steven John Dunning

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

Born: May 15, 1949 in Denver, CO
High School: University (San Diego, CA)
School: Stanford University
Drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1970 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 14, 1970
Final Game: September 30, 1977
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Steve Dunning
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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
1970	21	CLE	AL	4	9	.308	4.96	19	17	1	0	0	0	94.1	93	55	52	16	54	3	77	4	0	3	421	79	1.558	8.9	1.5	5.2	7.3	1.43
1971	22	CLE	AL	8	14	.364	4.50	31	29	1	3	1	1	184.0	173	98	92	25	109	5	132	5	2	8	811	85	1.533	8.5	1.2	5.3	6.5	1.21
1972	23	CLE	AL	6	4	.600	3.26	16	16	0	1	0	0	105.0	98	39	38	16	43	8	52	0	1	2	441	100	1.343	8.4	1.4	3.7	4.5	1.21
1973	24	TOT	AL	2	8	.200	5.53	27	15	4	2	0	0	112.1	118	78	69	13	65	2	48	1	1	7	509	68	1.629	9.5	1.0	5.2	3.8	0.74
1973	24	CLE	AL	0	2	.000	6.50	4	3	0	0	0	0	18.0	17	15	13	2	13	0	10	0	1	3	83	61	1.667	8.5	1.0	6.5	5.0	0.77
1973	24	TEX	AL	2	6	.250	5.34	23	12	4	2	0	0	94.1	101	63	56	11	52	2	38	1	0	4	426	69	1.622	9.6	1.0	5.0	3.6	0.73
1974	25	TEX	AL	0	0		19.29	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.1	3	5	5	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	12	18	2.571	11.6	7.7	11.6	3.9	0.33

1976	27	TOT	MLB	2	6	.250	4.35	36	7	8	1	0	0	97.1	102	59	47	8	39	5	76	2	0	6	427	86	1.449	9.4	0.7	3.6	7.0	1.95
1976	27	CAL	AL	0	0		7.50	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	9	9	5	2	6	1	4	0	0	0	37	44	2.500	13.5	3.0	9.0	6.0	0.67
1976	27	MON	NL	2	6	.250	4.14	32	7	7	1	0	0	91.1	93	50	42	6	33	4	72	2	0	6	390	91	1.380	9.2	0.6	3.3	7.1	2.18
1977	28	OAK	AL	1	0	1.000	3.93	6	0	4	0	0	0	18.1	17	8	8	2	10	1	4	0	0	2	78	102	1.473	8.3	1.0	4.9	2.0	0.40
7 Seasons				23	41	.359	4.56	136	84	18	7	1	1	613.2	604	342	311	82	323	25	390	12	4	28	2699	81	1.511	8.9	1.2	4.7	5.7	1.21
162 Game Avg.				7	13	.359	4.56	42	26	6	2	0	0	190	187	106	96	25	100	8	121	4	1	9	834	81	1.511	8.9	1.2	4.7	5.7	1.21

CLE (4 yrs)				18	29	.383	4.37	70	65	2	4	1	1	401.1	381	207	195	59	219	16	271	9	4	16	1756	85	1.495	8.5	1.3	4.9	6.1	1.24
TEX (2 yrs)				2	6	.250	5.68	24	12	4	2	0	0	96.2	104	68	61	13	55	3	39	1	0	4	438	65	1.645	9.7	1.2	5.1	3.6	0.71
OAK (1 yr)				1	0	1.000	3.93	6	0	4	0	0	0	18.1	17	8	8	2	10	1	4	0	0	2	78	102	1.473	8.3	1.0	4.9	2.0	0.40
MON (1 yr)				2	6	.250	4.14	32	7	7	1	0	0	91.1	93	50	42	6	33	4	72	2	0	6	390	91	1.380	9.2	0.6	3.3	7.1	2.18
CAL (1 yr)				0	0		7.50	4	0	1	0	0	0	6.0	9	9	5	2	6	1	4	0	0	0	37	44	2.500	13.5	3.0	9.0	6.0	0.67

AL (7 yrs)				21	35	.375	4.63	104	77	11	6	1	1	522.1	511	292	269	76	290	21	318	10	4	22	2309	80	1.534	8.8	1.3	5.0	5.5	1.10
NL (1 yr)				2	6	.250	4.14	32	7	7	1	0	0	91.1	93	50	42	6	33	4	72	2	0	6	390	91	1.380	9.2	0.6	3.3	7.1	2.18

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
1970	21	CLE	AL	19	421	357	55	93	10	3	16	2	2	54	77	.261	.362	.440	.802	.289	157	11	4	4	2	3
1971	22	CLE	AL	31	811	681	98	173	18	4	25	15	12	109	132	.254	.359	.402	.762	.280	274	13	5	12	4	5
1972	23	CLE	AL	16	441	395	39	98	18	1	16	1	3	43	52	.248	.321	.420	.741	.250	166	10	0	2	1	8
1973	24	TOT	AL	27	509	435	78	118	25	6	13	11	2	65	48	.271	.364	.446	.810	.277	194	13	1	3	5	2
1973	24	CLE	AL	4	83	68	15	17	3	1	2	2	0	13	10	.250	.370	.412	.782	.268	28	2	0	2	0	0
1973	24	TEX	AL	23	426	367	63	101	22	5	11	9	2	52	38	.275	.362	.452	.815	.279	166	11	1	1	5	2
1974	25	TEX	AL	1	12	9	5	3	1	0	2	0	0	3	1	.333	.500	1.111	1.611	.167	10	1	0	0	0	1

1976	27	TOT	MLB	36	427	368	59	102	16	4	8	4	6	39	76	.277	.345	.408	.752	.324	150	3	2	12	6	5
1976	27	CAL	AL	4	37	29	9	9	1	1	2	1	0	6	4	.310	.417	.621	1.037	.292	18	0	0	1	1	1
1976	27	MON	NL	32	390	339	50	93	15	3	6	3	6	33	72	.274	.338	.389	.727	.327	132	3	2	11	5	4
1977	28	OAK	AL	6	79	68	8	17	3	0	2	1	0	10	4	.250	.346	.382	.729	.242	26	3	0	1	0	1
7 Seasons				136	2700	2313	342	604	91	18	82	34	25	323	390	.261	.352	.422	.775	.281	977	54	12	34	18	25
162 Game Avg.				42	835	715	106	187	28	6	25	11	8	100	121	.261	.352	.422	.775	.281	302	17	4	11	6	8
MLB Averages

Starting Pitching*

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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
1970	21	CLE	AL	19	17	4	9	4	2	1	6	11	.353	0	2	0	0	4	24%	48	86	35	12	5	6	4	4.0	3.6	5.5
1971	22	CLE	AL	31	29	8	14	7	2	2	11	18	.379	1	2	3	1	12	41%	49	86	23	29	8	4	10	3.2	3.5	6.3
1972	23	CLE	AL	16	16	6	4	6	0	2	9	7	.563	2	1	1	0	13	81%	53	75	30	17	5	9	3	3.4	3.3	6.6
1973	24	TOT	AL	27	15	2	8	5	0	1	3	12	.200	1	3	2	0	4	27%	42	71	19	17	8	3	7	3.9	3.3	5.0
1973	24	CLE	AL	4	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0%	41	45	36	3	3	1	1	3.7	0.0	4.4
1973	24	TEX	AL	23	12	2	6	4	0	1	3	9	.250	1	2	2	0	4	33%	42	71	19	14	5	2	6	4.0	3.9	5.1

1976	27	TOT	MLB	36	7	2	4	1	0	0	3	4	.429	1	0	1	0	3	43%		81	17	21	6	3	4	3.2	3.1	6.0
1976	27	MON	NL	32	7	2	4	1	0	0	3	4	.429	1	0	1	0	3	43%	49	81	17	15	4	3	4	3.2	3.1	6.0
5 Seasons				125	84	22	39	23	4	6	32	52	.381	5	8	7	1	36	43%	48	86	17	90	30	25	28	3.5	3.4	5.9
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
1970	21	CLE	AL	19	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0%	1	0	1	1	100%	8	0.997	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	2.0
1971	22	CLE	AL	31	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	100%	1	0	3	0	0%	4	1.181	1	0	1	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3.0

1973	24	TOT	AL	27	12	4	0	0	1	0	1	0%	1	0	18	4	22%		0.869	2	5	5	1	0	11	10	2	11	1	11	0	9.3
1973	24	CLE	AL	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0%	2	0.832	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	14.0
1973	24	TEX	AL	23	11	4	0	0	1	0	1	0%	1	0	17	4	24%	2	0.876	2	5	4	1	0	10	9	2	10	1	10	0	8.9
1974	25	TEX	AL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	1	1	100%	3	0.222	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	7.0

1976	27	TOT	MLB	36	29	8	0	2	0	0	0		2	1	18	6	33%		0.818	4	6	19	2	1	26	8	21	22	4	22	2	5.7
1976	27	CAL	AL	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		7	0.338	0	1	3	0	0	4	0	4	2	1	2	0	4.5
1976	27	MON	NL	32	25	7	0	2	0	0	0		2	1	18	6	33%	7	0.863	4	5	16	2	1	22	8	17	20	3	20	2	5.9
1977	28	OAK	AL	6	6	4	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	7	3	43%	6	0.449	1	1	4	0	0	6	4	2	5	0	5	0	9.2
6 Seasons				120	52	18	1	2	3	1	2	33%	5	1	48	15	31%		0.977	9	13	29	5	1	46	26	26	39	6	39	2	6.7

Ratio Pitching*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1970	21	CLE	AL	421	46%	3.8%	18.3%	12.8%	6.9%	31%	0.92	63%	99	11	11%
1971	22	CLE	AL	811	49%	3.1%	16.3%	13.4%	5.8%	27%	0.80	65%	150	13	9%
1972	23	CLE	AL	441	51%	3.6%	11.8%	9.8%	7.9%	36%	0.72	74%	71	10	14%
1973	24	TOT	AL	509	39%	2.6%	9.4%	12.8%	8.6%	37%	1.08	74%	95	13	14%
1973	24	CLE	AL	83	39%	2.4%	12.1%	15.7%	7.2%	35%	0.83	67%	13	2	15%
1973	24	TEX	AL	426	39%	2.6%	8.9%	12.2%	8.9%	38%	1.13	76%	82	11	13%
1974	25	TEX	AL	12	75%	16.7%	8.3%	25.0%	25.0%	100%	5.00	50%	1	1	100%

1976	27	TOT	MLB	427	39%	1.9%	17.8%	9.1%	6.6%	28%	1.02	68%	89	3	3%
1976	27	CAL	AL	37	24%	5.4%	10.8%	16.2%	10.8%	44%	0.56	65%	9	0	0%
1976	27	MON	NL	390	41%	1.5%	18.5%	8.5%	6.2%	26%	1.06	68%	80	3	4%
1977	28	OAK	AL	79	46%	2.5%	5.1%	12.7%	6.3%	29%	1.32	78%	26	3	12%
7 Seasons				2700	45%	3.0%	14.4%	12.0%	7.1%	32%	0.90	69%	531	54	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
1970	21	CLE	AL	421	93			16	0	16	11	5	7	9	19	9	4	47%	3	3	3	159	2	2	50%	2	2	0	0	0	0	3	1	11	0
1971	22	CLE	AL	811	173			25	0	21	11	14	15	10	40	21	5	53%	3	8	4	282	15	12	56%	14	9	1	3	0	0	2	0	23	0
1972	23	CLE	AL	441	98			16	0	5	3	13	10	6	11	2	1	18%	4	2	0	150	1	3	25%	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	5	0
1973	24	TOT	AL	509	118			13	1	15	10	3	6	7	39	20	4	51%	9	7	0	195	11	2	85%	9	2	2	0	0	0	3	1	17	0
1973	24	CLE	AL	83	17			2	0	2	2	0	2	0	4	2	1	50%	1	3	0	35	2	0	100%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
1973	24	TEX	AL	426	101			11	1	13	8	3	4	7	35	18	3	51%	8	4	0	160	9	2	82%	7	2	2	0	0	0	3	1	12	0
1974	25	TEX	AL	12	3			2	0	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	0		0	0	0	3	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1976	27	TOT	MLB	427	102			8	1	20	4	4	4	4	38	20	5	53%	9	6	1	152	4	6	40%	4	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	17	0
1976	27	CAL	AL	37	9			2	0	2	2	0	1	1	4	2	0	50%	4	0	0	16	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1976	27	MON	NL	390	93			6	1	18	2	4	3	3	34	18	5	53%	5	6	1	136	3	6	33%	3	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	15	0
1977	28	OAK	AL	79	17			2	0	5	0	2	2	0	6	3	1	50%	1	2	0	37	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
7 Seasons				2700	604			82	2	82	40	42	44	38	153	75	20	49%	29	28	8	978	34	25	58%	31	22	3	3	0	0	11	2	75	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Pitching

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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+
1970	21	4	9	.308	4.96	19	17	1	0	0	0	94.1	93	55	52	16	54	3	77	4	0	3	421	79	1.558	8.9	1.5	5.2	7.3	1.43	79
1971	22	12	23	.343	4.66	50	46	2	3	1	1	278.1	266	153	144	41	163	8	209	9	2	11	1232	83	1.541	8.6	1.3	5.3	6.8	1.28	83
1972	23	18	27	.400	4.27	66	62	2	4	1	1	383.1	364	192	182	57	206	16	261	9	3	13	1673	86	1.487	8.5	1.3	4.8	6.1	1.27	86
1973	24	20	35	.364	4.56	93	77	6	6	1	1	495.2	482	270	251	70	271	18	309	10	4	20	2182	81	1.519	8.8	1.3	4.9	5.6	1.14	81
1974	25	20	35	.364	4.63	94	77	6	6	1	1	498.0	485	275	256	72	274	19	310	10	4	20	2194	80	1.524	8.8	1.3	5.0	5.6	1.13	80
1975	26	20	35	.364	4.63	94	77	6	6	1	1	498.0	485	275	256	72	274	19	310	10	4	20	2194	80	1.524	8.8	1.3	5.0	5.6	1.13	80
1976	27	22	41	.349	4.58	130	84	14	7	1	1	595.1	587	334	303	80	313	24	386	12	4	26	2621	81	1.512	8.9	1.2	4.7	5.8	1.23	81
1977	28	23	41	.359	4.56	136	84	18	7	1	1	613.2	604	342	311	82	323	25	390	12	4	28	2699	81	1.511	8.9	1.2	4.7	5.7	1.21	81

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
1970	21	3	6	.333	5.36	89.0	95	59	53	16	55	73	4	1.685	9.6	5.6	7.4	1.33	1.6	19
1971	22	7	12	.368	4.97	174.0	178	107	96	26	112	125	5	1.667	9.2	5.8	6.5	1.12	1.3	31
1972	23	5	6	.455	4.36	99.0	113	53	48	18	50	49	0	1.646	10.3	4.5	4.5	0.98	1.6	16
1973	24	3	8	.273	6.66	104.0	126	86	77	14	69	44	1	1.875	10.9	6.0	3.8	0.64	1.2	27
1974	25	0	0		27.00	2.0	3	7	6	2	3	1	0	3.000	13.5	13.5	4.5	0.33	9.0	1

1976	27	4	6	.400	4.74	93.0	105	54	49	8	40	73	2	1.559	10.2	3.9	7.1	1.83	0.8	36
1977	28	0	1	.000	5.06	16.0	18	10	9	2	11	3	0	1.813	10.1	6.2	1.7	0.27	1.1	6
7 Seasons		22	39	.361	5.27	577.0	638	376	338	86	340	368	12	1.695	10.0		5.7	1.08	1.3	136

* 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

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
1971 AL--6.457--9th

Home Runs s c a p y
1971 AL--25--8th

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1971 AL--109--4th

Wild Pitches s c a p y
1971 AL--8--10th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Hall of Fame Standards Pitching - 3 (1658), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Milt Wilcox (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jim Gott (972) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Scott Scudder (972) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Andy Ashby (973) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jim Owens (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

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.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
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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