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Cliff Fannin

Clifford Bryson Fannin (Mule)

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

Born: May 13, 1924 in Louisa, KY
Signed by the St. Louis Browns as an amateur free agent in 1942. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 2, 1945
Team: Browns 1945-1952

Final Game: September 27, 1952
Died: December 11, 1966 in Sandusky, OH
Buried: Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery, Sylvania, OH
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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	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1942	18	BAL-min	C	12	8	.600		30						143.0	157	65			63							1.538	9.9		4.0			HUN · MTNS
1943	19	OAK-BAL-min	A,AA	8	2	.800	1.92	21	10	5	1	0		89.0	87	26	19		51	8	0	0	0			1.551	8.8		5.2	0.8	0.16	ELM,TOL · EL,AA
1944	20	BAL-min	AA	11	7	.611	3.50	40	10	25	6	2		126.0	111	53	49		41	91	0	1	0			1.206	7.9		2.9	6.5	2.22	TOL · AA
1945	21	BAL-min	AA	11	9	.550	3.41	25	22	3	13	2		161.0	165	80	61		79	126	1	0	1			1.516	9.2		4.4	7.0	1.59	TOL · AA
1945	21	SLB	AL	0	0		2.61	5	0	2	0	0	0	10.1	8	3	3	0	5	5	0	0	0	41	142	1.258	7.0	0.0	4.4	4.4	1.00
1946	22	SLB	AL	5	2	.714	3.01	27	7	11	4	1	2	86.2	76	37	29	4	42	52	1	1	2	373	125	1.362	7.9	0.4	4.4	5.4	1.24
1947	23	SLB	AL	6	8	.429	3.58	26	18	6	6	2	1	145.2	134	70	58	10	77	77	1	0	2	637	109	1.449	8.3	0.6	4.8	4.8	1.00
1948	24	SLB	AL	10	14	.417	4.17	34	29	3	10	3	1	213.2	198	106	99	14	104	102	1	0	3	921	109	1.413	8.3	0.6	4.4	4.3	0.98	MVP-32
1949	25	SLB	AL	8	14	.364	6.17	30	25	2	5	0	1	143.0	177	106	98	15	93	57	0	1	2	680	74	1.888	11.1	0.9	5.9	3.6	0.61
1950	26	SLB	AL	5	9	.357	6.53	25	16	8	3	0	1	102.0	116	82	74	18	58	42	0	0	1	475	76	1.706	10.2	1.6	5.1	3.7	0.72
1951	27	BAL-min	AAA	6	8	.429	4.36	23	20		8	2		130.0	126	65	63		37	72	0	0	1			1.254	8.7		2.6	5.0	1.95	TTO · IL
1951	27	SLB	AL	0	2	.000	6.46	7	1	5	0	0	0	15.1	20	16	11	7	5	11	0	0	0	70	70	1.630	11.7	4.1	2.9	6.5	2.20
1952	28	BAL-min	AA	9	8	.529	2.65	19	17					139.0	114	52	41		41							1.115	7.4		2.7			SAN · TL
1952	28	SLB	AL	0	2	.000	12.67	10	2	2	0	0	0	16.1	34	25	23	5	9	6	0	0	2	85	31	2.633	18.7	2.8	5.0	3.3	0.67
1953	29	SDG	Opn	14	12	.538	3.24	31	28		16	2		213.2	180	80	77	19	70	137	0	0	3			1.170	7.6	0.8	2.9	5.8	1.96	SDG · PCL
1954	30	SDG	Opn	8	5	.615	2.54	21	17		9	3		131.1	98	42	37	7	60	99	0	0	1			1.203	6.7	0.5	4.1	6.8	1.65	SDG · PCL
1955	31	SDG	Opn	0	1	.000	2.79	2	2		0	0		9.2	7	4	3	2	6	4	1	0	0			1.345	6.5	1.9	5.6	3.7	0.67	SDG · PCL
8 Yrs				34	51	.400	4.85	164	98	39	28	6	6	733.0	763	445	395	73	393	352	3	2	12	3282	90	1.577	9.4	0.9	4.8	4.3	0.90
162 Game Avg.				9	13	.400	4.85	43	25	10	7	2	2	190	198	115	103	19	102	91	1	1	3	852	90	1.577	9.4	0.9	4.8	4.3	0.90

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	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary	Awards
1945	21	SLB	AL	10.1	5	0	3	2.61	3.83	0.06	101.4	3.82	1	0.2	1.0	-0.0	0.2	2	.533	.501	$
1946	22	SLB	AL	86.2	27	7	37	3.84	3.92	-0.17	105.8	4.32	5	0.5	1.0	-0.1	1.1	11	.519	.503	$
1947	23	SLB	AL	145.2	26	18	70	4.32	4.06	-0.19	107.4	4.56	4	0.5	1.0	-0.1	1.4	15	.519	.503	$
1948	24	SLB	AL	213.2	34	29	106	4.46	4.83	-0.29	104.2	5.33	20	2.1	.9	-0.1	3.5	40	.562	.513	$	MVP-32
1949	25	SLB	AL	143.0	30	25	106	6.67	4.69	-0.70	106.4	5.74	-15	-1.4	1.2	-0.1	-0.5	-2	.453	.491	$
1950	26	SLB	AL	102.0	25	16	82	7.24	5.23	-0.56	106.6	6.17	-13	-1.2	1.1	-0.1	-0.5	-2	.454	.493	$
1951	27	SLB	AL	15.1	7	1	16	9.39	4.87	-0.31	109.4	5.67	-6	-0.6	.8	0.0	-0.5	-5	.413	.496	$
1952	28	SLB	AL	16.1	10	2	25	13.78	4.13	-0.06	103.0	4.31	-17	-1.6	.3	0.4	-1.1	-16	.339	.490	$
8 Seasons				733.0	164	98	445	5.46	4.57	-0.36	105.8	5.22	-20	-1.5	.9	0.0	3.6	44	.491	.499	$

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	ROE
1948	24	SLB	AL	34	257	808	106	198	15	4	14	0	3	104	102	.245	.332	.325	.657	.266	263	3	1	8	0	3
1949	25	SLB	AL	30	469	575	106	177	21	7	15	2	3	93	57	.308	.404	.447	.851	.322	257	4	0	12	0	2
1950	26	SLB	AL	25	213	413	82	116	10	1	18	0	0	58	42	.281	.369	.441	.810	.278	182	4	0	3	0	2
1951	27	SLB	AL	7	70	64	16	20	5	0	7	0	1	5	11	.313	.362	.719	1.081	.283	46	1	0	2	0	1
1952	28	SLB	AL	10	81	75	25	34	4	0	5	1	2	9	6	.453	.512	.707	1.219	.453	53	2	0	1	0	1
5 Yrs				106	1090	1935	335	545	55	12	59	3	9	269	218	.282	.370	.414	.784	.293	801	14	1	26	0	9
162 Game Avg.				40	414	735	127	207	21	5	22	1	3	102	83	.282	.370	.414	.784	.293	304	5	0	10	0	3
MLB Averages																.260	.336	.353	.689	.277

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1948	24	SLB	AL	10.4	1.0	261	0.2	3.5	-3.2	.76	0.6	-0.3	1.2	0.1	0.76	5.6	1	0	2
1949	25	SLB	AL	-21.1	-2.0	479	-2.7	8.5	-11.2	1.15	-2.2	-0.1	-23.5	-2.1	1.16	-23.4	1	0	1
1950	26	SLB	AL	-16.1	-1.5	234	0.6	4.4	-3.8	1.11	0.2	0.3	1.7	0.2	1.10	2.6	3	1	4
1951	27	SLB	AL	-4.6	-0.4	73	-0.5	0.7	-1.2	.65	-0.3	-0.4	-8.4	-0.8	0.64	-6.6	2	0	2
1952	28	SLB	AL	-14.4	-1.4	88	-1.0	0.4	-1.4	.44	-1.0	-1.3	-18.4	-1.7	0.44	-13.0	0	0	7
8 Yrs				-35.7	-3.2	1135	-3.3	17.5	-20.8	.96	-2.7	-0.7	-47.5	-4.3	0.96	-35.0	7	1	16

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
1946	22	SLB	AL	27	7	4	2	1	1	0	5	2	.714	0	0	4	1	3	43%	53.4	84	23			2	5	5.7		7.0
1947	23	SLB	AL	26	18	6	8	4	0	3	8	10	.444	0	0	6	2	10	56%	49.3	89	18			0	11	4.1		6.7
1948	24	SLB	AL	34	29	10	13	6	1	4	13	16	.448	1	1	10	3	13	45%	49.6	83	20	4	1	6	11	4.8	6.9	6.9
1949	25	SLB	AL	30	25	8	12	5	3	1	11	14	.440	1	1	5	0	6	24%	39.9	72	8	12	8	11	7	4.8	4.8	5.6
1950	26	SLB	AL	25	16	3	8	5	0	1	5	11	.313	0	0	3	0	4	25%	37.8	80	6	2	2	4	9	4.8	4.5	5.0
1951	27	SLB	AL	7	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	0	1	0	0	0	0%	40.0	40	40	0	0	0	1	10.0	0.0	3.0
1952	28	SLB	AL	10	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0%	31.0	34	28	6	0	0	2	3.0	0.0	1.3
7 Yrs				159	98	31	45	22	5	9	43	55	.439	2	3	28	6	36	37%	45	89	6	24	11	23	46	4.7	5.2	6.1
MLB Averages													.500						51%	50	115	-11					4.5	4.6	6.7

Reliever Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	GR	GF	Wgr	Lgr	SVOpp	SV	BSv	SV%	SVSit	IR	IS	IS%	1^stIP	aLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo	Ahd	Tie	Bhd	Runr	Empt	>3o	<3o	IPmult	0DR	Out/GR
1945	21	SLB	AL	5	5	2	0	0	0	0	0		0														4	0		0	6.2
1946	22	SLB	AL	27	20	11	1	0	0	2	0		0														10	4		1	5.6
1947	23	SLB	AL	26	8	6	0	0	0	1	0		0														6	0		1	9.5
1948	24	SLB	AL	34	5	3	0	1	0	1	0		0	0	0			.756	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	3	4	0	2	1	8.0
1949	25	SLB	AL	30	5	2	0	2	1	1	0	100%	1	0	0			1.146	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	1	2	1	1	2.2
1950	26	SLB	AL	25	9	8	2	1	3	1	2	33%	3	5	2	40%	7	1.110	3	1	4	3	0	5	2	6	6	1	6	1	7.4
1951	27	SLB	AL	7	6	5	0	2	0	0	0		0	4	2	50%	8	.646	2	0	2	0	2	4	2	4	4	0	4	0	6.2
1952	28	SLB	AL	10	8	2	0	0	0	0	0		0	4	2	50%	7	.437	0	0	7	0	0	7	3	4	4	1	4	1	5.1
8 Yrs				164	66	39	3	6	4	6	2	150%	4	13	6	46%		.962	7	1	16	4	3	19	7	19	39	8	17	6	6.3

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1945	21	SLB	AL	41		0.0%	12.2%	12.2%				76%
1946	22	SLB	AL	373		1.1%	13.9%	11.3%	2.4%	12%		71%
1947	23	SLB	AL	637		1.6%	12.1%	12.1%	2.4%	11%		72%
1948	24	SLB	AL	921	58%	5.5%	39.7%	40.5%	12.8%	17%	0.81	269%	47	3	6%
1949	25	SLB	AL	680	50%	3.2%	12.2%	19.8%	9.2%	24%	0.47	107%	121	4	3%
1950	26	SLB	AL	474	62%	8.5%	19.7%	27.2%	13.6%	25%	0.65	166%	49	4	8%
1951	27	SLB	AL	71	53%	10.0%	15.7%	7.1%	17.1%	60%	0.88	66%	12	1	8%
1952	28	SLB	AL	85	67%	6.2%	7.4%	11.1%	11.1%	27%	0.76	79%	26	2	8%
8 Yrs				3282	55%	3.4%	16.4%	18.4%	7.0%	20%	0.62	113%	255	14	5%
MLB Averages					49%	1.9%	11.3%	11.3%	5.2%	19%	0.95	90%			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
1945	21	SLB	AL		8			0												0
1946	22	SLB	AL		76			4												2
1947	23	SLB	AL		134			10												2
1948	24	SLB	AL	257	198			14	0	4	2	3	1	4	12	6	1	50%	3	3	0	87	0	3	0%	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	664
1949	25	SLB	AL	469	177			15	1	19	1	10	1	10	37	22	1	59%	2	2	0	205	2	3	40%	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	211
1950	26	SLB	AL	213	116			18	0	5	3	3	2	4	12	8	0	67%	2	1	0	91	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	261
1951	27	SLB	AL	70	20			7	0	3	2	5	4	3	4	2	1	50%	1	0	0	21	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
1952	28	SLB	AL	81	34			5	0	1	2	2	1	3	10	7	0	70%	1	2	1	40	1	2	33%	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	4
8 Yrs				1090	763			73	1	32	10	23	9	24	75	45	3	60%	9	12	1	444	3	9	25%	3	8	0	1	0	0	3	0	6	1141
MLB Averages																		53%							56%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1945	21	0	0		2.61	5	0	2	0	0	0	10.1	8	3	3	0	5	5	0	0	0	41	142	1.258	7.0	0.0	4.4	4.4	1.00	142
1946	22	5	2	.714	2.97	32	7	13	4	1	2	97.0	84	40	32	4	47	57	1	1	2	414	127	1.351	7.8	0.4	4.4	5.3	1.21	127
1947	23	11	10	.524	3.34	58	25	19	10	3	3	242.2	218	110	90	14	124	134	2	1	4	1051	115	1.409	8.1	0.5	4.6	5.0	1.08	115
1948	24	21	24	.467	3.73	92	54	22	20	6	4	456.1	416	216	189	28	228	236	3	1	7	1972	112	1.411	8.2	0.6	4.5	4.7	1.04	112
1949	25	29	38	.433	4.31	122	79	24	25	6	5	599.1	593	322	287	43	321	293	3	2	9	2652	99	1.525	8.9	0.6	4.8	4.4	0.91	99
1950	26	34	47	.420	4.63	147	95	32	28	6	6	701.1	709	404	361	61	379	335	3	2	10	3127	94	1.551	9.1	0.8	4.9	4.3	0.88	94
1951	27	34	49	.410	4.67	154	96	37	28	6	6	716.2	729	420	372	68	384	346	3	2	10	3197	93	1.553	9.2	0.9	4.8	4.3	0.90	93
1952	28	34	51	.400	4.85	164	98	39	28	6	6	733.0	763	445	395	73	393	352	3	2	12	3282	90	1.577	9.4	0.9	4.8	4.3	0.90	90

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
1945	21	1	0	1.000	2.70	10.0	8	3	3	0	5	5	0	1.300	7.2	4.5	4.5	1.00	0.0	5
1946	22	6	3	.667	3.07	88.0	80	33	30	4	44	53	1	1.409	8.2	4.5	5.4	1.20	0.4	27
1947	23	8	8	.500	3.73	147.0	140	68	61	10	80	78	1	1.497	8.6	4.9	4.8	0.98	0.6	26
1948	24	13	11	.542	3.69	222.0	194	101	91	14	102	106	1	1.333	7.9	4.1	4.3	1.04	0.6	34
1949	25	6	10	.375	5.38	149.0	173	99	89	15	91	59	0	1.772	10.4	5.5	3.6	0.65	0.9	30
1950	26	5	7	.417	5.11	111.0	109	70	63	17	54	46	0	1.468	8.8	4.4	3.7	0.85	1.4	25
1951	27	0	1	.000	5.63	16.0	20	11	10	7	5	12	0	1.563	11.3	2.8	6.8	2.40	3.9	7
1952	28	0	1	.000	14.40	15.0	35	27	24	5	9	6	0	2.933	21.0	5.4	3.6	0.67	3.0	10
8 Yrs		39	41	.488	4.41	758.0	759	412	371	72	390	365	3	1.516	9.0		4.3	0.94	0.9	164

* 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1948 AL (32, 1%) 0.01 Career Shares (1497th)	WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 1948 AL 3.5 (6th)	Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1948 AL 8.340 (9th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1948 AL 4.296 (8th)
Strikeouts s c a p y 1948 AL 102 (8th)	Shutouts s c a p y 1948 AL 3 (5th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1948 AL 14 (10th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 1948 AL 104 (10th)
Losses s c a p y 1948 AL 14 (9th) 1949 AL 14 (7th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 1948 AL 99 (8th)	Youngest s c a p y 1945 AL born 1924-05-13 (9th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 7 (1687), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 2 (1862), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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