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Wayne Granger
Wayne Allan Granger

Bats: Right , Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2" , Weight: 165 lb.

Born: March 15, 1944 in Springfield, MA
High School: Huntington (Huntington, MA)
School: Springfield College
Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1965. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 5, 1968
Final Game: June 25, 1976
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Wayne Granger
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Minors
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- 1968
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- 1968
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Standard Pitching

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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
1968	24	STL	NL	4	2	.667	2.25	34	0	19	0	0	4	44.0	40	14	11	2	12	3	27	2	0	2	184	129	1.182	8.2	0.4	2.5	5.5	2.25
1969	25	CIN	NL	9	6	.600	2.80	90	0	55	0	0	27	144.2	143	64	45	10	40	14	68	7	2	5	611	135	1.265	8.9	0.6	2.5	4.2	1.70	MVP-15
1970	26	CIN	NL	6	5	.545	2.66	67	0	59	0	0	35	84.2	79	33	25	5	27	8	38	1	0	3	352	157	1.252	8.4	0.5	2.9	4.0	1.41	CYA-8,MVP-30
1971	27	CIN	NL	7	6	.538	3.33	70	0	41	0	0	11	100.0	94	39	37	8	28	7	51	1	0	1	412	98	1.220	8.5	0.7	2.5	4.6	1.82
1972	28	MIN	AL	4	6	.400	3.01	63	0	40	0	0	19	89.2	83	42	30	7	28	6	45	2	0	0	378	107	1.238	8.3	0.7	2.8	4.5	1.61
1973	29	TOT	MLB	2	5	.286	3.63	40	0	24	0	0	5	62.0	69	36	25	4	24	8	24	3	0	2	275	101	1.500	10.0	0.6	3.5	3.5	1.00
1973	29	STL	NL	2	4	.333	4.24	33	0	18	0	0	5	46.2	50	29	22	3	21	7	14	2	0	1	203	86	1.521	9.6	0.6	4.1	2.7	0.67
1973	29	NYY	AL	0	1	.000	1.76	7	0	6	0	0	0	15.1	19	7	3	1	3	1	10	1	0	1	72	208	1.435	11.2	0.6	1.8	5.9	3.33
1974	30	CHW	AL	0	0		8.22	5	0	3	0	0	0	7.2	16	8	7	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	40	46	2.478	18.8	1.2	3.5	4.7	1.33
1975	31	HOU	NL	2	5	.286	3.65	55	0	22	0	0	5	74.0	76	39	30	7	23	7	30	4	1	1	323	93	1.338	9.2	0.9	2.8	3.6	1.30
1976	32	MON	NL	1	0	1.000	3.66	27	0	7	0	0	2	32.0	32	15	13	3	16	4	16	2	0	1	143	103	1.500	9.0	0.8	4.5	4.5	1.00
9 Seasons				35	35	.500	3.14	451	0	270	0	0	108	638.2	632	290	223	47	201	57	303	22	3	15	2718	113	1.304	8.9	0.7	2.8	4.3	1.51
162 Game Avg.				5	5	.500	3.14	68	0	41	0	0	16	96	95	44	34	7	30	9	46	3	0	2	410	113	1.304	8.9	0.7	2.8	4.3	1.51

CIN (3 yrs)				22	17	.564	2.92	227	0	155	0	0	73	329.1	316	136	107	23	95	29	157	9	2	9	1375	127	1.248	8.6	0.6	2.6	4.3	1.65
STL (2 yrs)				6	6	.500	3.28	67	0	37	0	0	9	90.2	90	43	33	5	33	10	41	4	0	3	387	101	1.357	8.9	0.5	3.3	4.1	1.24
MIN (1 yr)				4	6	.400	3.01	63	0	40	0	0	19	89.2	83	42	30	7	28	6	45	2	0	0	378	107	1.238	8.3	0.7	2.8	4.5	1.61
MON (1 yr)				1	0	1.000	3.66	27	0	7	0	0	2	32.0	32	15	13	3	16	4	16	2	0	1	143	103	1.500	9.0	0.8	4.5	4.5	1.00
NYY (1 yr)				0	1	.000	1.76	7	0	6	0	0	0	15.1	19	7	3	1	3	1	10	1	0	1	72	208	1.435	11.2	0.6	1.8	5.9	3.33
HOU (1 yr)				2	5	.286	3.65	55	0	22	0	0	5	74.0	76	39	30	7	23	7	30	4	1	1	323	93	1.338	9.2	0.9	2.8	3.6	1.30
CHW (1 yr)				0	0		8.22	5	0	3	0	0	0	7.2	16	8	7	1	3	0	4	0	0	0	40	46	2.478	18.8	1.2	3.5	4.7	1.33

NL (7 yrs)				31	28	.525	3.13	376	0	221	0	0	89	526.0	514	233	183	38	167	50	244	19	3	14	2228	115	1.295	8.8	0.7	2.9	4.2	1.46
AL (3 yrs)				4	7	.364	3.20	75	0	49	0	0	19	112.2	118	57	40	9	34	7	59	3	0	1	490	104	1.349	9.4	0.7	2.7	4.7	1.74

Postseason Pitching

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	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
1968	24	STL	NL	WS	L	DET	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	7	0.500	0.0	0.0	4.5	4.5	1.00

1970	26	CIN	NL	NLCS	W	PIT	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1.500	13.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
1970	26	CIN	NL	WS	L	BAL	0	0	33.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.1	7	5	5	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	12	6.000	47.3	6.8	6.8	6.8	1.00
2 Seasons (3 Series)							0	0	11.25	4	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	8	5	5	1	2	1	2	2	0	0	22	2.500	18.0	2.3	4.5	4.5	1.00
1 NLCS							0	0	0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1.500	13.5	0.0	0.0	0.0
2 WS							0	0	13.50	3	0	0	0	0	0	3.1	7	5	5	1	2	1	2	2	0	0	19	2.700	18.9	2.7	5.4	5.4	1.00

Batting Against -- Pitching*

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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
1968	24	STL	NL	34	184	168	14	40	2	1	2	2	1	12	27	.238	.297	.298	.594	.273	50	3	2	2	0	3
1969	25	CIN	NL	90	611	546	64	143	26	4	10	0	3	40	68	.262	.316	.379	.695	.279	207	23	7	10	8	14
1970	26	CIN	NL	67	352	314	33	79	9	1	5	1	2	27	38	.252	.311	.334	.645	.271	105	17	1	8	2	8
1971	27	CIN	NL	70	412	375	39	94	11	3	8	1	2	28	51	.251	.303	.360	.663	.270	135	9	1	6	2	7
1972	28	MIN	AL	63	378	342	42	83	10	3	7	3	3	28	45	.243	.303	.351	.654	.261	120	6	2	5	1	6
1973	29	TOT	MLB	40	275	244	36	69	11	0	4	2	5	24	24	.283	.352	.377	.729	.298	92	11	3	2	2	8
1973	29	NYY	AL	7	72	68	7	19	2	0	1	2	0	3	10	.279	.319	.353	.672	.316	24	2	1	0	0	1
1973	29	STL	NL	33	203	176	29	50	9	0	3	0	5	21	14	.284	.363	.386	.750	.292	68	9	2	2	2	7
1974	30	CHW	AL	5	40	37	8	16	1	0	1	0	0	3	4	.432	.475	.541	1.016	.469	20	1	0	0	0	0
1975	31	HOU	NL	55	321	285	39	76	11	3	7	5	3	23	30	.267	.327	.400	.727	.275	114	8	4	6	3	7
1976	32	MON	NL	27	143	121	15	32	6	0	3	3	0	16	16	.264	.355	.388	.743	.279	47	3	2	2	2	4
9 Seasons				451	2716	2432	290	632	87	15	47	17	19	201	303	.260	.320	.366	.686	.278	890	81	22	41	20	57
162 Game Avg.				68	410	367	44	95	13	2	7	3	3	30	46	.260	.320	.366	.686	.278	134	12	3	6	3	9
MLB Averages

Reliever Pitching*

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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
1968	24	STL	NL	34	34	19	4	2	6	4	2	67%	10	3	29	15	52%	8	1.175	13	9	12	11	4	19	16	18	14	8	16	6	3.9
1969	25	CIN	NL	90	90	55	9	6	37	27	10	73%	39	1	112	33	29%	8	1.677	45	25	19	40	9	41	62	28	50	22	52	44	4.8
1970	26	CIN	NL	67	67	59	6	5	39	35	4	90%	43	4	51	17	33%	9	1.932	41	11	12	43	7	17	29	38	26	16	26	25	3.8
1971	27	CIN	NL	70	70	41	7	6	13	11	2	85%	18	4	45	17	38%	8	1.168	27	16	26	19	14	36	25	44	32	14	36	23	4.3
1972	28	MIN	AL	63	63	40	4	6	25	19	6	76%	29	4	50	18	36%	7	1.733	37	6	20	30	11	22	27	36	26	15	28	20	4.3
1973	29	TOT	MLB	40	40	24	2	5	9	5	4	56%	11	2	36	11	31%		1.113	19	5	16	11	7	22	17	23	17	8	20	3	4.7
1973	29	STL	NL	33	33	18	2	4	9	5	4	56%	11	2	32	10	31%	8	1.393	18	4	11	11	6	16	15	18	13	7	16	3	4.2
1973	29	NYY	AL	7	7	6	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	4	1	25%	6	0.323	1	1	5	0	1	6	2	5	4	1	4	0	6.6
1974	30	CHW	AL	5	5	3	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	4	3	75%	7	0.168	0	1	3	0	0	5	2	3	2	0	3	0	4.6
1975	31	HOU	NL	55	55	22	2	5	8	5	3	63%	12	4	63	18	29%	8	1.469	27	15	13	16	12	27	33	22	26	21	29	16	4.0
1976	32	MON	NL	27	27	7	1	0	4	2	2	50%	4	0	35	18	51%	7	1.379	10	6	11	5	4	18	18	9	10	14	10	9	3.6
9 Seasons				451	451	270	35	35	141	108	33	77%	166	22	425	150	35%		1.487	219	94	132	175	68	207	229	221	203	118	220	146	4.2

Ratio Pitching*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1968	24	STL	NL	184	32%	1.1%	14.7%	6.5%	2.7%	13%	3.12	76%	35	3	9%
1969	25	CIN	NL	611	37%	1.6%	11.1%	6.6%	6.6%	28%	2.22	78%	147	23	16%
1970	26	CIN	NL	352	39%	1.4%	10.8%	7.7%	4.3%	19%	2.09	78%	100	17	17%
1971	27	CIN	NL	412	37%	1.9%	12.4%	6.8%	5.3%	23%	2.26	77%	71	9	13%
1972	28	MIN	AL	378	38%	1.9%	11.9%	7.4%	5.3%	24%	2.38	77%	81	6	7%
1973	29	TOT	MLB	275	36%	1.5%	8.7%	8.7%	5.5%	22%	3.00	79%	63	11	17%
1973	29	STL	NL	203	37%	1.5%	6.9%	10.3%	5.9%	24%	2.75	79%	47	9	19%
1973	29	NYY	AL	72	32%	1.4%	13.9%	4.2%	4.2%	16%	4.14	79%	16	2	13%
1974	30	CHW	AL	40	38%	2.5%	10.0%	7.5%	5.0%	13%	0.90	80%	10	1	10%
1975	31	HOU	NL	321	35%	2.2%	9.4%	7.2%	6.5%	28%	1.95	78%	68	8	12%
1976	32	MON	NL	143	27%	2.1%	11.2%	11.2%	6.3%	28%	1.55	73%	33	3	9%
9 Seasons				2716	36%	1.7%	11.2%	7.4%	5.5%	24%	2.23	77%	608	81	13%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

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					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
1968	24	STL	NL	184	40			2	0	1	2	0	1	1	8	7	0	88%	3	2	1	77	2	1	67%	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	0
1969	25	CIN	NL	611	143			10	0	44	5	5	6	4	57	28	5	49%	14	5	3	264	0	3	0%	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	23	0
1970	26	CIN	NL	351	79			5	0	21	2	3	4	1	31	16	5	52%	12	3	2	157	1	2	33%	1	1	0	1	0	0	2	0	7	1
1971	27	CIN	NL	409	94			8	1	14	5	3	6	2	25	16	1	64%	5	1	0	148	1	2	33%	1	1	0	1	0	0	3	0	5	3
1972	28	MIN	AL	378	83			7	0	18	4	3	7	0	30	15	1	50%	8	0	1	135	3	3	50%	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1973	29	TOT	MLB	275	69			4	0	14	3	1	1	3	26	14	0	54%	9	2	2	112	2	5	29%	2	3	0	0	0	2	4	0	8	0
1973	29	STL	NL	203	50			3	0	13	2	1	1	2	23	13	0	57%	5	1	2	75	0	5	0%	0	3	0	0	0	2	4	0	7	0
1973	29	NYY	AL	72	19			1	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	1	0	33%	4	1	0	37	2	0	100%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1974	30	CHW	AL	40	16			1	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	1	0	50%	0	0	0	22	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1975	31	HOU	NL	321	76			7	0	18	3	4	3	4	27	15	1	56%	12	1	0	135	5	3	63%	5	1	0	0	0	2	4	1	6	0
1976	32	MON	NL	143	32			3	0	16	3	0	1	2	14	5	0	36%	1	1	0	59	3	0	100%	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	0
9 Seasons				2712	632			47	1	146	27	20	29	18	220	117	13	53%	64	15	9	1109	17	19	47%	15	11	1	2	1	6	14	1	58	4
MLB Averages

Cumulative Pitching

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Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GF	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	ERA+
1968	24	4	2	.667	2.25	34	19	4	44.0	40	14	11	2	12	3	27	2	0	2	184	129	1.182	8.2	0.4	2.5	5.5	2.25	129
1969	25	13	8	.619	2.67	124	74	31	188.2	183	78	56	12	52	17	95	9	2	7	795	134	1.246	8.7	0.6	2.5	4.5	1.83	134
1970	26	19	13	.594	2.67	191	133	66	273.1	262	111	81	17	79	25	133	10	2	10	1147	141	1.248	8.6	0.6	2.6	4.4	1.68	141
1971	27	26	19	.578	2.84	261	174	77	373.1	356	150	118	25	107	32	184	11	2	11	1559	127	1.240	8.6	0.6	2.6	4.4	1.72	127
1972	28	30	25	.545	2.88	324	214	96	463.0	439	192	148	32	135	38	229	13	2	11	1937	123	1.240	8.5	0.6	2.6	4.5	1.70	123
1973	29	32	30	.516	2.97	364	238	101	525.0	508	228	173	36	159	46	253	16	2	13	2212	120	1.270	8.7	0.6	2.7	4.3	1.59	120
1974	30	32	30	.516	3.04	369	241	101	532.2	524	236	180	37	162	46	257	16	2	13	2252	117	1.288	8.9	0.6	2.7	4.3	1.59	117
1975	31	34	35	.493	3.12	424	263	106	606.2	600	275	210	44	185	53	287	20	3	14	2575	114	1.294	8.9	0.7	2.7	4.3	1.55	114
1976	32	35	35	.500	3.14	451	270	108	638.2	632	290	223	47	201	57	303	22	3	15	2718	113	1.304	8.9	0.7	2.8	4.3	1.51	113

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
1968	24	2	2	.500	3.07	41.0	45	16	14	2	14	25	2	1.439	9.9	3.1	5.5	1.79	0.4	34
1969	25	9	6	.600	3.04	139.0	146	52	47	10	41	65	7	1.345	9.5	2.7	4.2	1.59	0.6	90
1970	26	6	3	.667	2.60	83.0	77	27	24	5	26	37	1	1.241	8.3	2.8	4.0	1.42	0.5	67
1971	27	5	5	.500	4.40	92.0	103	50	45	9	31	47	1	1.457	10.1	3.0	4.6	1.52	0.9	70
1972	28	5	4	.556	3.99	88.0	97	43	39	8	33	44	2	1.477	9.9	3.4	4.5	1.33	0.8	63
1973	29	3	3	.500	4.19	58.0	72	30	27	4	25	22	3	1.672	11.2	3.9	3.4	0.88	0.6	40
1974	30	0	0		9.00	7.0	16	8	7	1	3	4	0	2.714	20.6	3.9	5.1	1.33	1.3	5
1975	31	3	4	.429	4.31	71.0	82	38	34	8	25	29	4	1.507	10.4	3.2	3.7	1.16	1.0	55
1976	32	1	2	.333	4.06	31.0	33	16	14	3	16	16	2	1.581	9.6	4.6	4.6	1.00	0.9	27
9 Seasons		34	29	.540	3.70	610.0	671	280	251	50	214	289	22	1.451	9.9		4.3	1.35	0.7	451

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

MVP (yr-lg-rk-shr) 1969-NL-15-2% 1970-NL-30-0% 0.02 Career Shares (1327th)	Cy Young (yr-lg-rk-shr) 1970-NL--8--2% 0.02 Career Shares (240th)	Games Played s c a p y 1969 NL--90--1st 1970 NL--67--3rd 1971 NL--70--1st 1972 AL--63--3rd	Saves s c a p y 1969 NL--27--2nd 1970 NL--35--1st 1971 NL--11--9th 1972 AL--19--4th Career--108--106th
Games Finished s c a p y 1969 NL--55--1st 1970 NL--59--1st 1971 NL--41--5th 1972 AL--40--6th Career--270--133rd

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink Pitching - 5 (420), Average HOFer ≈ 40

Gray Ink Pitching - 16 (1184), Average HOFer ≈ 185

Hall of Fame Monitor Pitching - 13 (800), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Pitching - 10 (816), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

Compare Stats to Similars

Most Similar by Ages

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Clay Carroll (984) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Rawly Eastwick (980) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Rawly Eastwick (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Roger McDowell (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mel Rojas (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jack Aker (974) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Cecil Upshaw (973) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Greg Minton (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball Library Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet The Baseball Cube The Baseball Page WhatIfSports: Wayne Granger

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

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Black Ink	Pitching - 5 (420), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 16 (1184), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 13 (800), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 10 (816), Average HOFer ≈ 50