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Dave Frost

Carl David Frost

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 6", Weight: 235 lb.

Born: November 17, 1952 in Long Beach, CA
High School: Millikan HS (Long Beach, CA)
School: Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 18th round of the 1974 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 11, 1977
Teams (by GP): Angels/Royals/WhiteSox 1977-1982

Final Game: October 3, 1982
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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	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1974	21	CHW-min	Rk,AA	2	3	.400	1.88	11	6		2	1	0	48.0	37	15	10	0	21	1	34	2	1	1			1.208	6.9	0.0	3.9	6.4	1.62	WHS,KNX · GULF,SOUL
1975	22	CHW-min	AA	5	14	.263	3.21	28	25		7	1	0	171.0	157	73	61	6	68	0	100	7	1	8			1.316	8.3	0.3	3.6	5.3	1.47	KNX · SOUL
1976	23	CHW-min	AA	8	7	.533	2.38	20	20		10	1	0	136.0	121	43	36	6	32	2	88	2	0	6			1.125	8.0	0.4	2.1	5.8	2.75	KNX · SOUL
1977	24	CHW-min	AAA	9	8	.529	4.04	23	23		6	0	0	136.0	138	69	61	13	41	0	99	1	2	2			1.316	9.1	0.9	2.7	6.6	2.41	IWA · AA
1977	24	CHW	AL	1	1	.500	3.04	4	3	0	0	0	0	23.2	30	9	8	0	3	0	15	1	0	0	101	137	1.394	11.4	0.0	1.1	5.7	5.00
1978	25	ANA-min	AAA	6	4	.600	3.96	13	13		3	0	0	91.0	100	50	40	8	32	0	53	1	0	6			1.451	9.9	0.8	3.2	5.2	1.66	SLC · PCL
1978	25	CAL	AL	5	4	.556	2.58	11	10	0	2	1	0	80.1	71	24	23	6	24	3	30	2	0	3	330	142	1.183	8.0	0.7	2.7	3.4	1.25
1979	26	CAL	AL	16	10	.615	3.57	36	33	2	12	2	1	239.1	226	108	95	17	77	4	107	5	0	5	1001	114	1.266	8.5	0.6	2.9	4.0	1.39
1980	27	CAL	AL	4	8	.333	5.29	15	15	0	2	0	0	78.1	97	53	46	8	21	1	28	2	0	3	343	75	1.506	11.1	0.9	2.4	3.2	1.33
1981	28	ANA-min	AAA	1	2	.333	8.61	5	5	0	0	0	0	23.0	35	27	22	1	7	1	14	2	0	2			1.826	13.7	0.4	2.7	5.5	2.00	SLC · PCL
1981	28	CAL	AL	1	8	.111	5.51	12	9	1	0	0	0	47.1	44	30	29	3	19	0	16	1	0	1	200	66	1.331	8.4	0.6	3.6	3.0	0.84
1982	29	KCR-min	AAA	1	0	1.000	4.76	4	4	0	0	0	0	22.2	21	12	12	1	4	0	12	2	0	1			1.103	8.3	0.4	1.6	4.8	3.00	OMA · AA
1982	29	KCR	AL	6	6	.500	5.51	21	14	4	0	0	0	81.2	103	53	50	7	30	0	26	3	0	4	368	74	1.629	11.4	0.8	3.3	2.9	0.87
1983	30	PHI-PIT-min	AAA	4	1	.800	5.50	20	3	5	0	0	1	55.2	56	36	34	7	23	1	26	3	0	0			1.419	9.1	1.1	3.7	4.2	1.13	POR,HAW · PCL
6 Yrs				33	37	.471	4.10	99	84	7	16	3	1	550.2	571	277	251	41	174	8	222	14	0	16	2343	97	1.353	9.3	0.7	2.8	3.6	1.28
162 Game Avg.				12	14	.471	4.10	37	31	3	6	1	0	205	212	103	93	15	65	3	82	5	0	6	871	97	1.353	9.3	0.7	2.8	3.6	1.28

CAL (4 yrs)				26	30	.464	3.90	74	67	3	16	3	1	445.1	438	215	193	34	141	8	181	10	0	12	1874	101	1.300	8.9	0.7	2.8	3.7	1.28
KCR (1 yr)				6	6	.500	5.51	21	14	4	0	0	0	81.2	103	53	50	7	30	0	26	3	0	4	368	74	1.629	11.4	0.8	3.3	2.9	0.87
CHW (1 yr)				1	1	.500	3.04	4	3	0	0	0	0	23.2	30	9	8	0	3	0	15	1	0	0	101	137	1.394	11.4	0.0	1.1	5.7	5.00

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
1977	24	CHW	AL	23.2	4	3	9	3.42	4.19	-0.62	0.08	99.4	4.86	4	0.4	.2	-0.0	0.6	6	.604	.503	$
1978	25	CAL	AL	80.1	11	10	24	2.69	4.44	-0.18	0.11	94.8	4.49	16	2.0	1.5	-0.0	2.6	24	.679	.512	$23,000
1979	26	CAL	AL	239.1	36	33	108	4.06	4.61	-0.33	0.14	96.5	4.90	22	2.3	1.5	-0.1	4.3	50	.565	.514	$
1980	27	CAL	AL	78.1	15	15	53	6.09	4.27	-0.43	0.14	98.7	4.78	-12	-1.1		-0.0	-0.5	-3	.424	.493	$
1981	28	CAL	AL	47.1	12	9	30	5.70	3.82	-0.02	0.04	104.1	4.04	-9	-0.9	1.0	-0.0	-0.6	-6	.424	.494	$112,500
1982	29	KCR	AL	81.2	21	14	53	5.84	4.28	0.25	0.07	101.6	4.17	-15	-1.4	.9	-0.0	-0.8	-7	.431	.491	$
6 Seasons				550.2	99	84	277	4.53	4.40	-0.22	0.11	98.1	4.64	7	1.2	1.0	-0.3	5.6	65	.512	.501	$135,500

CAL (4 yrs)				445.1	74	67	215	4.35	4.43	-0.29	0.12	97.4	4.71	18	2.2	1.3	-0.2	5.8	65	.530	.503	$135,500
KCR (1 yr)				81.2	21	14	53	5.84	4.28	0.25	0.07	101.6	4.17	-15	-1.4	.9	-0.0	-0.8	-7	.431	.491	$
CHW (1 yr)				23.2	4	3	9	3.42	4.19	-0.62	0.08	99.4	4.86	4	0.4	.2	-0.0	0.6	6	.604	.503	$

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
1979	26	CAL	AL	ALCS	L	BAL	0	1	.000	18.69	2	1	0	0	0	0	4.1	8	10	9	0	5	1	1	0	0	1	24	3.000	16.6	0.0	10.4	2.1	0.20
1 ALCS							0	1	.000	18.69	2	1	0	0	0	0	4.1	8	10	9	0	5	1	1	0	0	1	24	3.000	16.6	0.0	10.4	2.1	0.20

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	IBB	ROE
1977	24	CHW	AL	4	101	93	9	30	5	0	0	3	1	3	15	.323	.343	.376	.720	.375	35	2	1	2	2	0	2
1978	25	CAL	AL	11	330	296	24	71	12	0	6	6	2	24	30	.240	.298	.341	.640	.247	101	6	2	5	3	3	4
1979	26	CAL	AL	36	1001	900	108	226	45	4	17	25	5	77	107	.251	.311	.367	.677	.266	330	24	5	10	9	4	6
1980	27	CAL	AL	15	343	315	53	97	11	2	8	10	2	21	28	.308	.352	.432	.784	.316	136	8	2	2	3	1	5
1981	28	CAL	AL	12	200	176	30	44	7	4	3	5	1	19	16	.250	.323	.386	.710	.258	68	6	1	2	2	0	1
1982	29	KCR	AL	21	368	329	53	103	15	3	7	7	4	30	26	.313	.372	.441	.812	.320	145	10	3	2	4	0	3
6 Yrs				99	2343	2109	277	571	95	13	41	56	15	174	222	.271	.327	.386	.714	.284	815	56	14	23	23	8	21
162 Game Avg.				37	871	784	103	212	35	5	15	21	6	65	82	.271	.327	.386	.714	.284	303	21	5	9	9	3	8
MLB Averages																.262	.326	.388	.714	.284

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevLo
1977	24	CHW	AL	2.9	0.3	104	0.2	1.6	-1.4	.91	0.2	0.0	3.2	0.3	0.91	2.5	0	1
1978	25	CAL	AL	10.8	1.2	342	1.3	5.7	-4.4	.96	0.8	0.5	11.4	1.3	0.96	9.4	1	0
1979	26	CAL	AL	12.8	1.3	1037	1.0	16.7	-15.7	.95	2.0	-0.9	16.2	1.7	0.95	26.0	1	2
1980	27	CAL	AL	-12.8	-1.2	359	-0.8	5.9	-6.6	1.01	-0.7	-0.1	-10.1	-1.0	1.01	-8.1	0	0
1981	28	CAL	AL	-8.8	-0.9	208	-0.7	3.4	-4.1	1.03	-0.3	-0.4	-5.0	-0.5	1.03	-2.9	1	2
1982	29	KCR	AL	-11.8	-1.2	385	-1.1	6.1	-7.2	.96	-1.0	-0.2	-12.3	-1.2	0.96	-13.2	3	4
6 Yrs				-6.9	-0.5	2435	-0.2	39.3	-39.5	.97	1.0	-1.2	3.4	0.6	0.97	13.6	6	9

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
1977	24	CHW	AL	4	3	1	1	1	0	1	1	2	.333	1	0	0	0	3	100%	51.0	52	49	3	1	0	3	4.5	5.4	7.0
1978	25	CAL	AL	11	10	5	4	1	0	1	5	5	.500	0	1	2	1	7	70%	57.8	77	41	13	2	2	4	2.5	2.3	7.7
1979	26	CAL	AL	36	33	16	9	8	1	3	20	13	.606	2	3	12	2	21	64%	53.9	81	18	22	9	20	7	5.9	6.0	7.1
1980	27	CAL	AL	15	15	4	8	3	0	1	6	9	.400	0	1	2	0	6	40%	42.9	80	12	12	7	0	7	4.1	4.1	5.2
1981	28	CAL	AL	12	9	1	7	1	0	0	2	7	.222	0	0	0	0	2	22%	43.7	75	30	11	5	1	4	2.7	2.5	4.2
1982	29	KCR	AL	21	14	3	6	5	1	1	7	7	.500	1	0	0	0	4	29%	42.0	62	22	11	4	2	4	4.8	5.0	4.9
6 Yrs				99	84	30	35	19	2	7	41	43	.488	4	5	16	3	43	51%	49	81	12	72	28	25	29	4.6	4.7	6.2
MLB Averages													.500						52%	51	99	-13					4.3	4.3	6.3

Reliever Pitching*

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
1977	24	CHW	AL	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		4	.913	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	8.0
1978	25	CAL	AL	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	2	0	0%	3	.959	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	11.0
1979	26	CAL	AL	36	3	2	0	1	1	1	0	100%	1	0	3	1	33%	2	.947	1	0	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	0	4.0

1981	28	CAL	AL	12	3	1	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	2	0	0%	4	1.034	1	0	2	1	1	1	1	2	3	0	3	0	9.3
1982	29	KCR	AL	21	7	4	3	0	0	0	0		1	1	4	2	50%	5	.963	3	0	4	2	2	3	3	4	5	0	5	1	5.6
5 Yrs				84	15	7	3	2	1	1	0	100%	2	1	11	3	27%		.959	6	0	9	4	4	7	7	8	11	2	12	1	6.5

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1977	24	CHW	AL	101	42%	0.0%	14.9%	3.0%	5.0%	17%	1.00	79%	20	2	10%
1978	25	CAL	AL	330	48%	1.8%	9.1%	7.3%	5.5%	25%	1.25	80%	56	6	11%
1979	26	CAL	AL	1001	50%	1.7%	10.7%	7.7%	6.6%	29%	0.94	78%	173	24	14%
1980	27	CAL	AL	343	43%	2.3%	8.2%	6.1%	6.1%	22%	1.01	82%	86	8	9%
1981	28	CAL	AL	200	53%	1.5%	8.0%	9.5%	7.0%	32%	1.64	80%	42	6	14%
1982	29	KCR	AL	368	45%	1.9%	7.1%	8.2%	6.8%	24%	0.84	82%	87	10	11%
6 Yrs				2343	48%	1.8%	9.5%	7.4%	6.4%	26%	1.02	80%	464	56	12%
MLB Averages					44%	2.0%	12.8%	8.4%	6.6%	28%	1.10	75%			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
1977	24	CHW	AL	101	30			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	1	57%	2	0	0	45	3	1	75%	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1978	25	CAL	AL	330	71			6	0	3	0	6	2	4	15	7	1	47%	4	3	0	119	6	2	75%	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
1979	26	CAL	AL	1001	226			17	0	24	5	12	9	8	50	25	2	50%	6	5	1	345	25	5	83%	24	5	1	0	0	0	4	0	22	0
1980	27	CAL	AL	343	97			8	0	10	3	5	3	5	25	14	3	56%	5	3	0	136	10	2	83%	10	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
1981	28	CAL	AL	200	44			3	0	2	1	2	2	1	15	11	0	73%	1	1	1	68	5	1	83%	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1982	29	KCR	AL	368	103			7	0	1	3	4	1	6	25	13	2	52%	3	4	0	162	7	4	64%	7	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0
6 Yrs				2343	571			41	0	40	12	29	17	24	137	74	9	54%	21	16	2	875	56	15	79%	54	15	2	0	0	0	4	0	55	0
MLB Averages																		53%							65%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1977	24	1	1	.500	3.04	4	3	0	0	0	0	23.2	30	9	8	0	3	0	15	1	0	101	137	1.394	11.4	0.0	1.1	5.7	5.00	137
1978	25	6	5	.545	2.68	15	13	0	2	1	0	104.0	101	33	31	6	27	3	45	3	3	431	140	1.231	8.7	0.5	2.3	3.9	1.67	140
1979	26	22	15	.595	3.30	51	46	2	14	3	1	343.1	327	141	126	23	104	7	152	8	8	1432	120	1.255	8.6	0.6	2.7	4.0	1.46	120
1980	27	26	23	.531	3.67	66	61	2	16	3	1	421.2	424	194	172	31	125	8	180	10	11	1775	108	1.302	9.0	0.7	2.7	3.8	1.44	108
1981	28	27	31	.466	3.86	78	70	3	16	3	1	469.0	468	224	201	34	144	8	196	11	12	1975	102	1.305	9.0	0.7	2.8	3.8	1.36	102
1982	29	33	37	.471	4.10	99	84	7	16	3	1	550.2	571	277	251	41	174	8	222	14	16	2343	97	1.353	9.3	0.7	2.8	3.6	1.28	97

Neutralized Pitching

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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	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
1977	24	1	1	.500	3.27	22.0	30	9	8	0	3	14	1	1.500	12.3	1.2	5.7	4.67	0.0	4
1978	25	5	3	.625	3.24	75.0	77	30	27	7	26	28	2	1.373	9.2	3.1	3.4	1.08	0.8	11
1979	26	13	12	.520	3.97	229.0	234	112	101	18	80	103	5	1.371	9.2	3.1	4.0	1.29	0.7	36
1980	27	2	6	.250	6.16	73.0	101	56	50	8	22	26	2	1.685	12.5	2.7	3.2	1.18	1.0	15
1981	28	2	5	.286	7.09	66.0	72	58	52	5	31	22	2	1.561	9.8	4.2	3.0	0.71	0.7	12
1982	29	2	6	.250	6.28	76.0	106	59	53	7	31	24	3	1.803	12.6	3.7	2.8	0.77	0.8	21
6 Yrs		25	33	.431	4.84	541.0	620	324	291	45	193	217	15	1.503	10.3		3.6	1.12	0.7	99

* 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

Wins s c a p y 1979 AL 16 (8th)	Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1979 AL 8.499 (9th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1979 AL 0.639 (5th)

Wins s c a p y
1979 AL 16 (8th)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1979 AL 8.499 (9th)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
1979 AL 0.639 (5th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 6 (1781), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 2 (1697), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 5 (1383), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

Compare Stats to Similars

Most Similar by Ages

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Bob Sadowski (990) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bob Carpenter (987) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jim Gardner (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Marv Breuer (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Albert Williams (985) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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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 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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