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Mark Fidrych

Mark Steven Fidrych (The Bird)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: August 14, 1954 in Worcester, MA
High School: Worcester Academy (Worcester, MA)
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 10th round of the 1974 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 20, 1976
Team: Tigers 1976-1980

Final Game: October 1, 1980
Died: April 13, 2009 in Northborough, MA
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Dec 23, 2011, 7:37AM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Cy Young… #3. Greg Maddux… #4. Christy Mathewson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Randy Johnson… 

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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 Awards
1976 21 DET AL 19 9 .679 2.34 31 29 2 24 4 0 250.1 217 76 65 12 53 3 97 3 0 6 996 159 1.079 7.8 0.4 1.9 3.5 1.83 AS,CYA-2,MVP-11,RoY-1
1977 22 DET AL 6 4 .600 2.89 11 11 0 7 1 0 81.0 82 29 26 2 12 2 42 1 0 1 326 149 1.160 9.1 0.2 1.3 4.7 3.50 AS
1978 23 DET AL 2 0 1.000 2.45 3 3 0 2 0 0 22.0 17 6 6 1 5 0 10 0 0 0 85 161 1.000 7.0 0.4 2.0 4.1 2.00
1979 24 DET AL 0 3 .000 10.43 4 4 0 0 0 0 14.2 23 17 17 3 9 2 5 1 0 0 73 43 2.182 14.1 1.8 5.5 3.1 0.56
1980 25 DET AL 2 3 .400 5.68 9 9 0 1 0 0 44.1 58 35 28 5 20 2 16 1 0 3 215 73 1.759 11.8 1.0 4.1 3.2 0.80
5 Seasons 29 19 .604 3.10 58 56 2 34 5 0 412.1 397 163 142 23 99 9 170 6 0 10 1695 126 1.203 8.7 0.5 2.2 3.7 1.72
162 Game Avg. 17 11 .604 3.10 35 33 1 20 3 0 246 237 97 85 14 59 5 101 4 0 6 1011 126 1.203 8.7 0.5 2.2 3.7 1.72

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg IP GS R Rrep Rdef aLI RAR WAR Salary Awards
1976 21 DET AL 250.1 29 76 150 -6 1.1 74 8.5 $ AS,CYA-2,MVP-11,RoY-1
1977 22 DET AL 81.0 11 29 51 -1 1.1 22 2.3 $ AS
1978 23 DET AL 22.0 3 6 12 0 1.1 6 0.7 $
1979 24 DET AL 14.2 4 17 10 0 1.0 -7 -0.7 $
1980 25 DET AL 44.1 9 35 26 -1 1.0 -9 -1.0 $
5 Seasons 412.1 56 163 249 -8 1.1 86 9.8 $

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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
1976 21 DET AL 31 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS,CYA-2,MVP-11,RoY-1
1977 22 DET AL 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS
1978 23 DET AL 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
1979 24 DET AL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
1980 25 DET AL 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1D
5 Seasons 59 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% PO Awards
1976 DET AL 21 P 31 29 24 250.1 78 19 59 0 4 1.000 2.80 2.52 .950 1.87 1.88 13 16 55% 0 AS,CYA-2,MVP-11,RoY-1
1977 DET AL 22 P 11 11 7 81.0 14 7 6 1 0 .929 1.44 1.18 .948 1.94 1.93 7 2 22% 0 AS
1978 DET AL 23 P 3 3 2 22.0 11 4 7 0 0 1.000 4.50 3.67 .954 1.88 1.87 1 0 0% 0
1979 DET AL 24 P 4 4 0 14.2 3 2 1 0 0 1.000 1.84 0.75 .950 1.90 1.90 1 1 50% 0
1980 DET AL 25 P 9 9 1 44.1 14 5 9 0 0 1.000 2.84 1.56 .957 1.85 1.86 5 1 17% 0
1980 DET AL 25 DH 1 1
5 Seasons P 58 56 34 412.1 120 37 82 1 4 .992 2.60 2.05 .951 1.88 1.89 27 20 43% 0
5 Seasons TOT 58 56 34 412.1 120 37 82 1 4 .992 2.60 2.05 .951 1.88 1.89 27 20 43% 0
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1976 (P)
1977

Awards (yr lg award)
1976 AL Rookie of the Year

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1976 AL (11, 12%)
0.12 Career Shares (859th)

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
1976 AL (2, 42%)
0.42 Career Shares (113th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1976 AL  8.5 (1st)

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
1976 AL  8.5 (1st)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
1976 AL  2.34 (1st)

Wins s c a p y
1976 AL  19 (4th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
1976 AL  .679 (4th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
1976 AL  1.079 (3rd)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1976 AL  7.802 (8th)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
1976 AL  1.906 (5th)

Complete Games s c a p y
1976 AL  24 (1st)

Shutouts s c a p y
1976 AL  4 (5th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
1976 AL  159 (1st)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
1976 AL  35 (1st)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
1976 AL  4.0 (1st)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
1976 AL  36.16 (2nd)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1976 AL  4.4 (4th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1976 AL  4.0 (3rd)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
1976 AL  4.0 (3rd)

Assists as P s c a p y
1976 AL  59 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as P s c a p y
1976 AL  2.52 (1st)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
1976 AL  1.000 (1st)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 6 (374), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 18 (1139), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 14 (782), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  1. Jake Thielman (979)
  2. Bill Mountjoy (975)
  3. Charlie Case (971)
  4. Johnny Beazley (970)
  5. Daniel Hudson (970)
  6. Bud Tinning (968)
  7. Bob Spade (968)
  8. Tom Walker (965)
  9. Bill Wise (964)
  10. Dick Burns (963)
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  1. Bill Stafford (975)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  2. Gus Krock (993)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Mel Stottlemyre (983)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. George Winter (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. Erik Hanson (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
197621Detroit Tigers$60,0004/9/77 TSN$19,000 minimum plus $41,000 bonuses
197722Detroit Tigers$55,0004/9/77 TSN10/30/76 TSN: $50,000
197823Detroit Tigers$90,0004/9/77 TSN
197924Detroit Tigers$125,0004/9/77 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$330,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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