Alex Ferguson

James Alexander Ferguson

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: February 16, 1897 in Montclair, NJ
High School: Bloomfield HS (Bloomfield, NJ) (All Transactions)
Debut: August 16, 1918
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Phillies/Yankees/Senators/Robins 1918-1929

Final Game: May 18, 1929
Died: April 26, 1976 in Sepulveda, CA
Buried: Conejo Mountain Memorial Park, Camarillo, CA
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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
1917	20	BPT	B	6	4	.600		16						109.0	86	36			28							1.046	7.1		2.3			BPT · EL
1918	21	BPT	B	16	3	.842		19						157.1	87				48							0.858	5.0		2.7			BPT · EL
1918	21	NYY	AL	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	8		2.400	10.8	0.0	10.8	5.4	0.50

1919	22	TOL	AA	12	16	.429	3.35	37						212.0	218	105	79		80							1.406	9.3		3.4			TOL · AA
1920	23	JER	AA	21	13	.618	2.82	35						265.0	257	123	83		77							1.260	8.7		2.6			JER · IL
1921	24	NYY	AL	3	1	.750	5.91	17	4	7	1	0	1	56.1	64	40	37	4	27	9	4	0	1	258	71	1.615	10.2	0.6	4.3	1.4	0.33
1922	25	BOS	AL	9	16	.360	4.31	39	27	7	10	1	2	198.1	201	108	95	5	62	44	6	0	2	851	95	1.326	9.1	0.2	2.8	2.0	0.71
1923	26	BOS	AL	9	13	.409	4.04	34	27	5	11	0	0	198.1	229	115	89	5	67	72	9	1	6	871	101	1.492	10.4	0.2	3.0	3.3	1.07
1924	27	BOS	AL	14	17	.452	3.79	41	32	7	15	0	2	237.2	259	115	100	6	108	78	6	3	2	1063	115	1.544	9.8	0.2	4.1	3.0	0.72
1925	28	TOT	AL	9	5	.643	6.18	33	16	9	3	0	2	125.1	157	101	86	11	70	49	5	0	0	591	70	1.811	11.3	0.8	5.0	3.5	0.70
1925	28	BOS	AL	0	2	.000	10.91	5	4	1	0	0	1	15.2	22	22	19	6	5	5	1	0	0	77	42	1.723	12.6	3.4	2.9	2.9	1.00
1925	28	NYY	AL	4	2	.667	7.79	21	6	7	0	0	1	54.1	83	57	47	3	42	20	2	0	0	280	55	2.301	13.7	0.5	7.0	3.3	0.48
1925	28	WSH	AL	5	1	.833	3.25	7	6	1	3	0	0	55.1	52	22	20	2	23	24	2	0	0	234	131	1.355	8.5	0.3	3.7	3.9	1.04
1926	29	BFL	AA	12	6	.667	4.01	20						146.0	165	68	65		51							1.479	10.2		3.1			BFL · IL
1926	29	WSH	AL	3	4	.429	7.74	19	4	8	0	0	1	47.2	69	51	41	4	18	16	3	0	0	233	50	1.825	13.0	0.8	3.4	3.0	0.89
1927	30	PHI	NL	8	16	.333	4.84	31	31	0	16	0	0	227.0	280	132	122	15	65	73	6	1	2	1001	81	1.520	11.1	0.6	2.6	2.9	1.12
1928	31	PHI	NL	5	10	.333	5.88	34	19	10	5	1	2	134.2	168	91	88	14	52	51	6	0	1	615	74	1.634	11.2	0.9	3.5	3.4	0.98
1929	32	TOL,BFL	AA	9	12	.429	4.50	25						142.0	163	75	71		37							1.408	10.3		2.3			TOL,BFL · AA,IL
1929	32	TOT	NL	1	3	.250	13.50	8	6	0	1	0	0	14.2	26	25	22	4	11	4	0	0	0	82	39	2.523	16.0	2.5	6.8	2.5	0.36
1929	32	PHI	NL	1	2	.333	12.08	5	4	0	1	0	0	12.2	19	18	17	2	10	3	0	0	0	67	44	2.289	13.5	1.4	7.1	2.1	0.30
1929	32	BRO	NL	0	1	.000	22.50	3	2	0	0	0	0	2.0	7	7	5	2	1	1	0	0	0	15	24	4.000	31.5	9.0	4.5	4.5	1.00
1930	33	TOL	AA	14	7	.667	4.86	30						185.0	250	136	100		61							1.681	12.2		3.0			TOL · AA
1931	34	BFL,TOL	AA	3	13	.188	5.89	36						113.0	158	93	74		46							1.805	12.6		3.7			BFL,TOL · IL,AA
1932	35	YOR,WKB	B	3	5	.375	4.88	14						59.0	74	37	32		22							1.627	11.3		3.4			YOR,WKB · NYPL
1933	36	NYY-min	B	13	10	.565		27						167.0	203	98			41							1.461	10.9		2.2			WLT,DHM · PIED
10 Yrs				61	85	.418	4.93	257	166	54	62	2	10	1241.2	1455	778	680	68	482	397	45	5	14	5573	85	1.560	10.5	0.5	3.5	2.9	0.82
162 Game Avg.				10	14	.418	4.93	41	27	9	10	0	2	200	234	125	109	11	77	64	7	1	2	896	85	1.560	10.5	0.5	3.5	2.9	0.82

BOS (4 yrs)				32	48	.400	4.20	119	90	20	36	1	5	650.0	711	360	303	22	242	199	22	4	10	2862	100	1.466	9.8	0.3	3.4	2.8	0.82
PHI (3 yrs)				14	28	.333	5.46	70	54	10	22	1	2	374.1	467	241	227	31	127	127	12	1	3	1683	76	1.587	11.2	0.7	3.1	3.1	1.00
NYY (3 yrs)				7	3	.700	6.73	39	10	15	1	0	2	112.1	149	97	84	7	71	30	6	0	1	546	63	1.958	11.9	0.6	5.7	2.4	0.42
WSH (2 yrs)				8	5	.615	5.33	26	10	9	3	0	1	103.0	121	73	61	6	41	40	5	0	0	467	77	1.573	10.6	0.5	3.6	3.5	0.98
BRO (1 yr)				0	1	.000	22.50	3	2	0	0	0	0	2.0	7	7	5	2	1	1	0	0	0	15	24	4.000	31.5	9.0	4.5	4.5	1.00

AL (7 yrs)				47	56	.456	4.66	184	110	44	40	1	8	865.1	981	530	448	35	354	269	33	4	11	3875	90	1.543	10.2	0.4	3.7	2.8	0.76
NL (3 yrs)				14	29	.326	5.55	73	56	10	22	1	2	376.1	474	248	232	33	128	128	12	1	3	1698	74	1.600	11.3	0.8	3.1	3.1	1.00

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
1918	21	NYY	AL	1.2	1	0	0	0.00	3.61	0.14	0.00	102.0	3.54	1	0.1	1.0	-0.0	0.1	1	.584	.501	$

1921	24	NYY	AL	56.1	17	4	40	6.39	5.13	0.23	0.00	99.8	4.88	-10	-0.9	1.0	-0.0	-0.4	-3	.447	.494	$
1922	25	BOS	AL	198.1	39	27	108	4.90	4.84	0.00	0.00	99.4	4.81	-1	-0.1	1.0	-0.1	1.5	20	.498	.499	$
1923	26	BOS	AL	198.1	34	27	115	5.22	4.80	-0.23	0.00	101.2	5.09	-3	-0.3	1.0	-0.1	1.3	19	.492	.498	$
1924	27	BOS	AL	238.0	41	32	115	4.35	5.14	-0.30	0.00	102.2	5.56	30	3.0	1.0	-0.1	4.9	60	.573	.518	$
1925	28	BOS	AL	15.2	5	4	22	12.64	5.08	-0.35	0.00	103.8	5.63	-12	-0.9	1.0	-0.0	-0.8	-10	.311	.494	$
1925	28	NYY	AL	55.1	21	6	57	9.27	5.22	0.01	0.00	99.0	5.16	-25	-2.2	1.0	-0.0	-1.7	-18	.397	.487	$
1925	28	WSH	AL	55.1	7	6	22	3.58	5.24	0.24	0.00	94.6	4.74	7	0.7	1.0	-0.0	1.1	14	.599	.504	$
1926	29	WSH	AL	47.2	19	4	51	9.63	4.61	-0.15	0.00	95.6	4.55	-27	-2.4	1.0	-0.0	-2.0	-22	.374	.485	$
1927	30	PHI	NL	227.0	31	31	132	5.23	4.64	-0.42	0.00	101.1	5.12	-3	-0.3		-0.2	1.3	19	.490	.498	$
1928	31	PHI	NL	134.2	34	19	91	6.08	4.71	-0.33	0.00	107.5	5.42	-10	-1.0	1.0	-0.1	0.1	3	.472	.494	$
1929	32	PHI	NL	12.2	5	4	18	12.79	5.66	-0.33	0.00	103.3	6.19	-9	-0.7	1.0	-0.0	-0.6	-8	.352	.495	$
1929	32	BRO	NL	2.0	3	2	7	31.50	6.37	-0.41	0.00	115.2	7.81	-5	-0.4	1.0	-0.0	-0.4	-5	.359	.497	$
10 Seasons				1243.0	257	166	778	5.63	4.89	-0.20	0.00	101.2	5.15	-68	-5.4	1.0	-0.7	4.4	71	.479	.497	$

BOS (4 yrs)				650.1	119	90	360	4.98	4.94	-0.19	0.00	101.1	5.19	14	1.7	1.0	-0.4	6.9	89	.514	.503	$
PHI (3 yrs)				374.1	70	54	241	5.79	4.70	-0.39	0.00	103.5	5.26	-22	-2.0	1.0	-0.2	0.8	15	.472	.496	$
NYY (3 yrs)				113.1	39	10	97	7.70	5.15	0.12	0.00	99.4	5.00	-35	-3.0	1.0	-0.1	-2.0	-20	.423	.494	$
WSH (2 yrs)				103.0	26	10	73	6.38	4.95	0.06	0.00	95.1	4.65	-20	-1.7	1.0	-0.1	-0.9	-8	.435	.495	$
BRO (1 yr)				2.0	3	2	7	31.50	6.37	-0.41	0.00	115.2	7.81	-5	-0.4	1.0	-0.0	-0.4	-5	.359	.497	$

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1925	28	WSH	AL	WS	L	PIT	1	1	.500	3.21	2	2	0	0	0	0	14.0	13	6	5	1	6	1	11	1	0	0	64	1.357	8.4	0.6	3.9	7.1	1.83
1 WS							1	1	.500	3.21	2	2	0	0	0	0	14.0	13	6	5	1	6	1	11	1	0	0	64	1.357	8.4	0.6	3.9	7.1	1.83

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	IP%
1918	21	NYY	AL	8	0.0%	12.5%	25.0%			63%

1921	24	NYY	AL	257	1.6%	3.5%	10.5%	2.7%	11%	79%
1922	25	BOS	AL	851	0.6%	5.2%	7.3%	2.2%	10%	83%
1923	26	BOS	AL	879	0.6%	8.2%	7.6%	3.1%	12%	80%
1924	27	BOS	AL	1057	0.6%	7.4%	10.2%	3.0%	12%	77%
1925	28	TOT	AL	591	1.9%	8.3%	11.8%	3.4%	13%	75%
1925	28	BOS	AL	77	7.8%	6.5%	6.5%			77%
1925	28	NYY	AL	280	1.1%	7.1%	15.0%			75%
1925	28	WSH	AL	234	0.9%	10.3%	9.8%	4.7%	21%	76%
1926	29	WSH	AL	233	1.7%	6.9%	7.7%			78%
1927	30	PHI	NL	1001	1.5%	7.3%	6.5%	5.7%	20%	81%
1928	31	PHI	NL	615	2.3%	8.3%	8.5%	3.7%	14%	76%
1929	32	TOT	NL	82	4.9%	4.9%	13.4%	7.3%	23%	72%
1929	32	PHI	NL	67	3.0%	4.5%	14.9%	6.0%	21%	75%
1929	32	BRO	NL	15	13.3%	6.7%	6.7%			60%
10 Yrs				5574	1.2%	7.1%	8.7%	3.2%	12%	79%
MLB Averages					1.0%	7.4%	7.7%	2.9%	12%	80%

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+
1918	21	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	8		2.400	10.8	0.0	10.8	5.4	0.50
1919	22	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	8		2.400	10.8	0.0	10.8	5.4	0.50
1920	23	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.2	2	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	8		2.400	10.8	0.0	10.8	5.4	0.50
1921	24	3	1	.750	5.74	18	4	8	1	0	1	58.0	66	40	37	4	29	10	4	0	1	266	73	1.638	10.2	0.6	4.5	1.6	0.34	73
1922	25	12	17	.414	4.63	57	31	15	11	1	3	256.1	267	148	132	9	91	54	10	0	3	1117	89	1.397	9.4	0.3	3.2	1.9	0.59	89
1923	26	21	30	.412	4.37	91	58	20	22	1	3	454.2	496	263	221	14	158	126	19	1	9	1988	94	1.438	9.8	0.3	3.1	2.5	0.80	94
1924	27	35	47	.427	4.17	132	90	27	37	1	5	692.1	755	378	321	20	266	204	25	4	11	3051	100	1.475	9.8	0.3	3.5	2.7	0.77	100
1925	28	44	52	.458	4.48	165	106	36	40	1	7	817.2	912	479	407	31	336	253	30	4	11	3642	94	1.526	10.0	0.3	3.7	2.8	0.75	94
1926	29	47	56	.456	4.66	184	110	44	40	1	8	865.1	981	530	448	35	354	269	33	4	11	3875	90	1.543	10.2	0.4	3.7	2.8	0.76	90
1927	30	55	72	.433	4.70	215	141	44	56	1	8	1092.1	1261	662	570	50	419	342	39	5	13	4876	88	1.538	10.4	0.4	3.5	2.8	0.82	88
1928	31	60	82	.423	4.83	249	160	54	61	2	10	1227.0	1429	753	658	64	471	393	45	5	14	5491	86	1.548	10.5	0.5	3.5	2.9	0.83	86
1929	32	61	85	.418	4.93	257	166	54	62	2	10	1241.2	1455	778	680	68	482	397	45	5	14	5573	85	1.560	10.5	0.5	3.5	2.9	0.82	85

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
1918	21	0	0		0.00	1.0	3	0	0	0	3	1	0	6.000	27.0	27.0	9.0	0.33	0.0	1

1921	24	2	4	.333	5.34	59.0	64	39	35	4	27	9	4	1.542	9.8	4.1	1.4	0.33	0.6	17
1922	25	11	11	.500	3.96	207.0	201	101	91	5	62	46	6	1.271	8.7	2.7	2.0	0.74	0.2	39
1923	26	12	10	.545	3.75	204.0	229	94	85	5	67	74	9	1.451	10.1	3.0	3.3	1.10	0.2	34
1924	27	16	11	.593	3.26	251.0	253	101	91	6	105	82	6	1.426	9.1	3.8	2.9	0.78	0.2	41
1925	28	5	9	.357	5.43	131.0	155	88	79	11	69	51	5	1.710	10.6	4.7	3.5	0.74	0.8	33
1926	29	1	4	.200	7.56	50.0	72	47	42	4	19	17	3	1.820	13.0	3.4	3.1	0.89	0.7	19
1927	30	10	15	.400	4.85	230.0	290	138	124	16	67	74	6	1.552	11.3	2.6	2.9	1.10	0.6	31
1928	31	6	9	.400	5.07	142.0	164	89	80	14	51	54	6	1.514	10.4	3.2	3.4	1.06	0.9	34
1929	32	0	1	.000	9.53	17.0	24	20	18	4	10	5	0	2.000	12.7	5.3	2.6	0.50	2.1	8
10 Yrs		63	74	.460	4.49	1292.0	1455	717	645	69	480	413	45	1.498	10.1		2.9	0.86	0.5	257

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 1924 AL 4.9 (6th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1924 AL 2.954 (9th)	Games Played s c a p y 1924 AL 41 (10th)	Strikeouts s c a p y 1924 AL 78 (7th)
Games Started s c a p y 1924 AL 32 (9th) 1927 NL 31 (9th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1927 NL 15 (5th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 1924 AL 108 (2nd)	Hits s c a p y 1927 NL 280 (6th)
Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1922 AL 0.227 (4th) 1923 AL 0.227 (5th) 1924 AL 0.227 (9th)	Losses s c a p y 1922 AL 16 (7th) 1924 AL 17 (1st) 1927 NL 16 (6th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 1927 NL 122 (4th)	Wild Pitches s c a p y 1923 AL 6 (4th)
Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1923 AL 9 (9th) 1927 NL 6 (7th) 1928 NL 6 (7th)	Batters Faced s c a p y 1924 AL 1,063 (10th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 7 (1687), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 6 (1203), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 1 (1990), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') 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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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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