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John Hofford

John William Hofford

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Unknown, Throws: Unknown
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 168 lb.

Born: May 25, 1863 in Philadelphia, PA (All Transactions)
Debut: September 26, 1885 (Age 22)
Team: PittsburghAlleghenys 1885-1886

Final Game: July 24, 1886 (Age 23)
Died: December 16, 1915 in Philadelphia, PA
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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	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1885	22	AUG	N/A	38	13	.745	0.59	51	50		50	8		457.0	293	182	30		37	389			25			0.722	5.8		0.7	7.7	10.51	AUG · SOUL
1885	22	PIT	AA	0	3	.000	3.60	3	3	0	3	0	0	25.0	28	16	10	1	9	21	0	1	5	111	92	1.480	10.1	0.4	3.2	7.6	2.33
1886	23	ROC	N/A	1	0	1.000	0.00	1	1		1	0		7.0	6	3	0		3	5			1			1.286	7.7		3.9	6.4	1.67	ROC · IL
1886	23	PIT	AA	3	6	.333	4.33	9	9	0	9	0	0	81.0	88	66	39	1	40	25	2	0	9	379	77	1.580	9.8	0.1	4.4	2.8	0.63
1887	24	KCY	N/A	7	4	.636	3.91	11	11		11	1		99.0	159	88	43		28	12	4		5			1.889	14.5		2.5	1.1	0.43	KCY · WL
1888	25	MEM	N/A	0	1	.000	4.50	1	1		1	0		8.0	11	5	4		2	2	1		1			1.625	12.4		2.2	2.2	1.00	MEM · SOUL
1892	29	MAC	B	0	1	.000		2	1		0	0		6.0	10	10			3	0						2.167	15.0		4.5	0.0	0.00	MAC · SOUA
1893	30	DVL	N/A	0	5	.000	4.99	8	5		4	0		48.2	86	78	27		23	7	4		10			2.240	15.9		4.3	1.3	0.30	DVL · PASL
2 Yrs				3	9	.250	4.16	12	12	0	12	0	0	106.0	116	82	49	2	49	46	2	1	14	490	80	1.557	9.8	0.2	4.2	3.9	0.94
162 Game Avg.				9	26	.250	4.16	34	34	0	34	0	0	300	329	232	139	6	139	130	6	3	40	1388	80	1.557	9.8	0.2	4.2	3.9	0.94

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.2): 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	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%
1885	22	PIT	AA	25.0	3	3	16	5.76	5.57	0.11	99.0	5.41	-1	-0.1	-0.0	0.1	1	.477	.500
1886	23	PIT	AA	81.0	9	9	66	7.33	5.66	0.23	97.0	5.27	-18	-1.3	-0.1	-0.9	-13	.352	.492
2 Seasons				106.0	12	12	82	6.96	5.64	0.20	97.5	5.30	-18	-1.4	-0.1	-0.9	-12	.383	.496

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	HBP	Pos	Awards
1884	21	LTL,FRK	N/A																				LTL,FRK · KEYA,IAOA
1885	22	AUG	N/A	72	298	298	54	77	2	3	1				.258	.258	.295	.554		88			AUG · SOUL
1885	22	PIT	AA	3	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0		0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-21	1	0	/1
1886	23	ROC	N/A	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000		0			ROC · IL
1886	23	PIT	AA	9	37	34	4	10	3	1	0	5	2	3	.294	.351	.441	.793	153	15	0	/1
1887	24	KCY,UTI	N/A	12	48	48	8	16	3	0	0		0		.333	.333	.396	.729		19			KCY,UTI · WL,INTA
1888	25	MEM,SAN,FTW,KSN,ALD	Sp,N/A	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000		0			MEM,SAN,FTW,KSN,ALD · SOUL,TL,PHIL,CPAL
1889	26	CNG	N/A	14	55	55	7	9	2	1	0		0		.164	.164	.236	.400		13			CNG · SOUL
1892	29	MAC	B	8	29	29	4	4	0	0	0		2		.138	.138	.138	.276		4			MAC · SOUA
1893	30	DVL	N/A	14	45	45	3	5	0	0	0		0		.111	.111	.111	.222		5			DVL · PASL
1894	31	LBG	N/A																				LBG · VIRL
1895	32	PRT,BKT	B																				PRT,BKT · NENL
1896	33	TTN	N/A																				TTN · NAUG
2 Yrs				12	45	42	5	11	3	1	0	5	2	3	.262	.311	.381	.692	120	16	0
162 Game Avg.				162	608	567	68	149	41	14	0	68		41	.262	.311	.381	.692	120	216	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.2): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	oRAR	Pos
1885	22	PIT	AA	3	8	-1	0	-1	-0.1	0	-1	-0.1	.477	.500	-0.1	-1	/1
1886	23	PIT	AA	9	37	2	2	4	0.3	1	4	0.3	.534	.502	0.3	4	/1
2 Seasons				12	45	1	2	3	0.2	1	4	0.2	.520	.501	0.2	4

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG
1885	PIT	AA	22	P	3	25.0	6	1	5	0	1.000	2.16	2.00	.878	1.91	1.87
1886	PIT	AA	23	P	9	81.0	24	5	17	2	.917	2.44	2.44	.885	2.00	1.96
	2 Seasons			P	12	106.0	30	6	22	2	.933	2.38	2.33	.884	1.98	1.93
	2 Seasons			TOT	12	106.0	30	6	22	2	.933	2.38	2.33	.884	1.98	1.93

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-1945 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1945 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 1945 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 1916 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1945 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1916) 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 1945 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

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