Joe Edelen

Benny Joe Edelen

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: September 16, 1955 in Durant, OK
High School: Gracemont HS (Gracemont, OK)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1st round (12th pick) of the 1973 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 18, 1981
Teams (by GP): Reds/Cardinals 1981-1982

Final Game: May 15, 1982
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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
1973	17	STL-min	Rk	49	165	165		36	8	0	5						.218	.218	.358	.576		59							CDS · GULF
1974	18	STL-min	A	112	439	391	43	94	23	1	4	44	1	2	40	78	.240	.314	.335	.649		131	7	3	3	2	2		SPT · FLOR
1975	19	STL-min	AA,A	93	262	224	23	44	9	1	5	29	1	1	27	54	.196	.282	.313	.594		70	1	2	3	6	0		ARK,SPT · TL,FLOR
1976	20	STL-min	AA,A	56	152	138	13	35	5	1	2	12	0	1	13	23	.254	.318	.348	.666		48		0	1	0			ARK,SPT · TL,FLOR
1977	21	STL-min	AA,A	26	15	12	4	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	2	.250	.400	.250	.650		3		0	0	0			ARK,SPT · TL,FLOR
1978	22	STL-min	AA,AAA	27	13	10	2	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	2	2	.400	.500	.500	1.000		5		0	1	0			ARK,SPR · TL,AA
1979	23	STL-min	AA,AAA	27	17	15	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.200	.250	.267	.517		4		0	1	0			ARK,SPR · TL,AA
1980	24	STL-min	AA	32	43	38	4	14	2	0	1	4	1	0	1	15	.368	.375	.500	.875		19		0	3	1			ARK · TL
1981	25	STL-min	AAA	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0		0	0	0	0		SPR · AA
1981	25	TOT	NL	18	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1981	25	STL	NL	13	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	88	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
1981	25	CIN	NL	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1982	26	CIN-min	AAA	15	23	22	4	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	10	.091	.091	.227	.318		5		0	1	0	0		INA · AA
1982	26	CIN	NL	9	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	179	1	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1983	27	CIN-min	AAA	9	6	6	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.500	.833		3		0	0	0	0		INA · AA
2 Yrs				27	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	61	2	0	0	0	0	0
162 Game Avg.				162	42	42	0	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	.286	.286	.286	.571	61	12	0	0	0	0	0

CIN (2 yrs)				14	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	41	1	0	0	0	0	0
STL (1 yr)				13	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	88	1	0	0	0	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
1981	25	STL	NL	13	3	-0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.502	.500	0.0	0.0	0	$	1
1981	25	CIN	NL	5	2	-0	0	0	0	0	-0	-0.0	0	0	0.0	.498	.500	0.0	0.0	0	$	/1
1982	26	CIN	NL	9	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.505	.500	0.0	0.0	1	$	/1
2 Seasons				27	7	-0	0	0	0	1	1	0.0	0	1	0.0	.502	.500	0.0	0.0	1	$

CIN (2 yrs)				14	4	-0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.502	.500	0.0	0.0	1	$
STL (1 yr)				13	3	-0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.502	.500	0.0	0.0	0	$

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
1981	25	TOT	NL	5	4	0	0.0	94	.333	.200	.266	.200	.331	.200	.381	.400	.712	13	.000	-0.6	-0.1	.250	.000	.000
1981	25	STL	NL	3	2	0	0.0	94	.500	.333	.266	.333	.332	.333	.381	.667	.713	88	.000	-0.1	-0.0	.500	.000	.000
1981	25	CIN	NL	2	2	0	0.0	94	.000	.000	.265	.000	.330	.000	.380	.000	.710	-100	.000	-0.5	-0.1	.000	.000	.000
1982	26	CIN	NL	2	1	1	27.1	96	.500	.500	.268	.500	.332	.500	.390	1.000	.721	179	.968	0.2	0.0	1.000	.000	.000
2 Yrs				7	5	1	5.4	95	.400	.286	.266	.286	.331	.286	.383	.571	.714	61	.620	-0.4	-0.1	.400	.000	.000
162 Game Avg.				42	30	6	5.4	95	.400	.286	.266	.286	.331	.286	.383	.571	.714	61	.620	-0.4	-0.1	.400	.000	.000

CIN (2 yrs)				4	3	1	9.0	95	.333	.250	.266	.250	.331	.250	.384	.500	.716	41	.804	-0.3	-0.0	.333	.000	.000
STL (1 yr)				3	2	0	0.0	94	.500	.333	.266	.333	.332	.333	.381	.667	.713	88	.000	-0.1	-0.0	.500	.000	.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%
1981	25	TOT	NL	5	0.0%	40.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		2.5			0.50	60%
1981	25	STL	NL	3	0.0%	33.3%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		3.0			0.00	67%
1981	25	CIN	NL	2	0.0%	50.0%	0.0%	0.0%			2.0			1.00	50%
1982	26	CIN	NL	2	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%					0.00	100%
2 Yrs				7	0.0%	28.6%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		3.5			0.33	71%
MLB Averages					1.9%	12.9%	8.3%	6.4%	28%	1.55	6.9	46.2	8.7	1.11	75%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI
1981	25	TOT	NL	-0.6	-0.1	5	-0.1	-0.1	.68	-0.0	-0.1	-0.8	-0.1	1.03	-0.6
1981	25	STL	NL	-0.1	-0.0	3	-0.1	-0.1	.76	0.0	-0.1	-0.1	-0.0	0.69	-0.1
1981	25	CIN	NL	-0.5	-0.1	2	-0.0	-0.0	.56	-0.0	-0.0	-0.7	-0.1	1.53	-0.5
1982	26	CIN	NL	0.2	0.0	2	-0.0	-0.0	.84	0.0	-0.1	-0.0	-0.0	0.86	0.2
2 Yrs				-0.4	-0.1	7	-0.1	-0.1	.73	-0.0	-0.1	-0.8	-0.1	0.98	-0.4

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	RS%	SBO
1981	25	TOT	NL	0%	1
1981	25	STL	NL	0%	1
1981	25	CIN	NL		0
1982	26	CIN	NL	0%	2
2 Yrs				0%	3

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
1981	25	TOT	NL	5	20%	1			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	1	0	0%	2	0	0%	3	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
1981	25	STL	NL	3	0%	1			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
1981	25	CIN	NL	2	50%	0			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	1	0	0%	2	0	0%	3	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
1982	26	CIN	NL	2	50%	1			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0%	1	0	0%	1	0	0%	1	0	0%	0	0		0	0		0
2 Yrs				7	29%	2			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0%	2	0	0%	3	0	0%	4	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
MLB Averages					56%																			82%			11%			36%			14%			51%			54%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1981	25	18	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.200	.200	.200	.400	13	1	0	0	0	0	0
1982	26	27	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	61	2	0	0	0	0	0

Neutralized Batting

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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	G	PA	AB	H	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1981	25	27	8	8	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	18
1982	26	9	3	3	2	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	1	9
2 Yrs		36	11	11	2	3	.182	.182	.182	.364	1	27
162 Game Avg.		162	50	50	9	14	.182	.182	.182	.364	5	27

* 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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