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Brian Holton

Brian John Holton

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: November 29, 1959 in McKeesport, PA
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1st round (22nd pick) of the 1978 amateur draft (January). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 9, 1985
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Orioles 1985-1990

Final Game: July 30, 1990
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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
1978	18	LAD-min	A	6	4	.600	4.33	14	13					79.0	94	51	38	4	23								1.481	10.7	0.5	2.6			CLI · MIDW
1979	19	LAD-min	A,AA	10	5	.667	3.07	23	17		3	0	0	123.0	97	50	42	4	57	3	40	2	0	3			1.252	7.1	0.3	4.2	2.9	0.70	LOD,SAN · CALL,TL
1980	20	LAD-min	AA	15	10	.600	3.43	27	27		16	2	0	207.0	204	93	79	16	65	2	139	2	3	11			1.300	8.9	0.7	2.8	6.0	2.14	SAN · TL
1981	21	LAD-min	AAA	16	6	.727	3.44	26	26	0	9	0	0	191.0	215	94	73	23	51	1	73	5	0	5			1.393	10.1	1.1	2.4	3.4	1.43	ABQ · PCL
1982	22	LAD-min	AAA	12	8	.600	5.13	32	22	6	7	1	3	161.1	191	102	92	15	60	2	76	4	0	6			1.556	10.7	0.8	3.3	4.2	1.27	ABQ · PCL
1983	23	LAD-min	AAA	7	5	.583	6.36	20	19	0	0	0	0	97.2	113	76	69	10	50	2	70	0	1	4			1.669	10.4	0.9	4.6	6.5	1.40	ABQ · PCL
1984	24	LAD-min	AAA	0	0		5.62	12	2	1	0	0	0	32.0	39	23	20	5	9	0	15	1	0	1			1.500	11.0	1.4	2.5	4.2	1.67	ABQ · PCL
1985	25	LAD-min	AAA	9	10	.474	3.61	27	27	0	7	1	0	179.2	183	83	72	15	40	1	86	0	3	4			1.241	9.2	0.8	2.0	4.3	2.15	ABQ · PCL
1985	25	LAD	NL	1	1	.500	9.00	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	9	7	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	21	43	2.500	20.3	0.0	2.3	2.3	1.00
1986	26	LAD-min	AAA	10	10	.500	3.65	27	27	0	5	1	0	182.2	200	90	74	18	20	0	105	0	5	6			1.204	9.9	0.9	1.0	5.2	5.25	ABQ · PCL
1986	26	LAD	NL	2	3	.400	4.44	12	3	4	0	0	0	24.1	28	13	12	1	6	2	24	1	0	1	106	79	1.397	10.4	0.4	2.2	8.9	4.00
1987	27	LAD	NL	3	2	.600	3.89	53	1	26	0	0	2	83.1	87	39	36	11	32	11	58	0	4	0	360	103	1.428	9.4	1.2	3.5	6.3	1.81
1988	28	LAD	NL	7	3	.700	1.70	45	0	11	0	0	1	84.2	69	19	16	1	26	7	49	1	6	1	339	198	1.122	7.3	0.1	2.8	5.2	1.88
1989	29	BAL	AL	5	7	.417	4.02	39	12	8	0	0	0	116.1	140	63	52	11	39	1	51	1	1	5	514	94	1.539	10.8	0.9	3.0	3.9	1.31
1990	30	BAL-min	AAA	1	4	.200	9.19	9	1	2	1	0	0	15.2	26	16	16	3	6	0	18	1	1	0			2.043	14.9	1.7	3.4	10.3	3.00	ROC · IL
1990	30	BAL	AL	2	3	.400	4.50	33	0	13	0	0	0	58.0	68	31	29	7	21	6	27	0	2	2	257	85	1.534	10.6	1.1	3.3	4.2	1.29
1991	31	LAD-min	AAA	7	7	.500	3.87	29	16	4	0	0	0	107.0	121	58	46	7	19	1	77	3	4	3	464		1.308	10.2	0.6	1.6	6.5	4.05	ABQ · PCL
1992	32	LAD-min	AAA	2	3	.400	5.75	29	2	7	0	0	1	40.2	50	26	26	1	13	1	28	0	0	3	178		1.549	11.1	0.2	2.9	6.2	2.15	ABQ · PCL
6 Yrs				20	19	.513	3.62	185	16	62	0	0	3	370.2	401	172	149	31	125	27	210	3	13	10	1597	103	1.419	9.7	0.8	3.0	5.1	1.68
162 Game Avg.				7	6	.513	3.62	63	5	21	0	0	1	125	136	58	50	10	42	9	71	1	4	3	540	103	1.419	9.7	0.8	3.0	5.1	1.68

LAD (4 yrs)				13	9	.591	3.12	113	4	41	0	0	3	196.1	193	78	68	13	65	20	132	2	10	3	826	118	1.314	8.8	0.6	3.0	6.1	2.03
BAL (2 yrs)				7	10	.412	4.18	72	12	21	0	0	0	174.1	208	94	81	18	60	7	78	1	3	7	771	91	1.537	10.7	0.9	3.1	4.0	1.30

NL (4 yrs)				13	9	.591	3.12	113	4	41	0	0	3	196.1	193	78	68	13	65	20	132	2	10	3	826	118	1.314	8.8	0.6	3.0	6.1	2.03
AL (2 yrs)				7	10	.412	4.18	72	12	21	0	0	0	174.1	208	94	81	18	60	7	78	1	3	7	771	91	1.537	10.7	0.9	3.1	4.0	1.30

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
1985	25	LAD	NL	4.0	3	0	7	15.75	3.68	0.11	-0.29	102.5	3.36	-6	-0.5	1.1	-0.0	-0.5	-5	.327	.497	$
1986	26	LAD	NL	24.1	12	3	13	4.81	4.23	-0.42	-0.11	95.9	4.36	-1	-0.1	1.6	-0.1	0.0	1	.488	.499	$60,000
1987	27	LAD	NL	83.1	53	1	39	4.21	4.56	-0.30	-0.31	99.3	4.52	2	0.2	.8	-0.2	0.8	12	.504	.501	$65,000
1988	28	LAD	NL	84.2	45	0	19	2.02	3.93	0.07	-0.31	95.9	3.40	13	1.5	.9	-0.2	2.0	21	.533	.509	$90,000
1989	29	BAL	AL	116.1	39	12	63	4.87	4.31	0.13	-0.10	97.8	3.99	-12	-1.2	1.0	-0.2	-0.4	0	.468	.492	$
1990	30	BAL	AL	58.0	33	0	31	4.81	4.27	0.26	-0.33	97.7	3.59	-7	-0.8	.9	-0.1	-0.3	-1	.476	.495	$347,500
6 Seasons				370.2	185	16	172	4.18	4.26	0.00	-0.23	97.6	3.93	-12	-1.0	.9	-0.7	1.6	27	.495	.499	$562,500

LAD (4 yrs)				196.1	113	4	78	3.58	4.23	-0.15	-0.29	97.5	3.99	8	1.1	.9	-0.4	2.3	28	.509	.502	$215,000
BAL (2 yrs)				174.1	72	12	94	4.85	4.29	0.17	-0.17	97.7	3.86	-19	-2.0	1.0	-0.3	-0.7	-1	.472	.494	$347,500

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	ERA	G	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	BF	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1988	28	LAD	NL	NLCS	W	NYM	2.25	3	1	1	4.0	2	1	1	1	2	13	0.750	4.5	2.3	4.5	2.00
1988	28	LAD	NL	WS	W	OAK	0.00	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	1	0	7	0.500	0.0	4.5	0.0	0.00
1 Yr (2 Series)							1.50	4	1	1	6.0	2	1	1	2	2	20	0.667	3.0	3.0	3.0	1.00
1 NLCS							2.25	3	1	1	4.0	2	1	1	1	2	13	0.750	4.5	2.3	4.5	2.00
1 WS							0.00	1	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	1	0	7	0.500	0.0	4.5	0.0	0.00

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
1985	25	LAD	NL	3	21	20	7	9	3	0	0	0	2	1	1	.450	.476	.600	1.076	.474	12	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986	26	LAD	NL	12	106	96	13	28	9	0	1	5	0	6	24	.292	.337	.417	.753	.375	40	2	1	2	1	2	1
1987	27	LAD	NL	53	360	323	39	87	14	2	11	11	4	32	58	.269	.332	.427	.760	.296	138	7	0	2	3	11	7
1988	28	LAD	NL	45	339	302	19	69	10	3	1	6	2	26	49	.228	.289	.291	.581	.267	88	10	1	7	3	7	2
1989	29	BAL	AL	39	514	467	63	140	25	2	11	15	7	39	51	.300	.352	.433	.784	.315	202	11	1	2	5	1	5
1990	30	BAL	AL	33	257	233	31	68	13	0	7	7	1	21	27	.292	.348	.438	.785	.303	102	5	0	1	2	6	2
6 Yrs				185	1597	1441	172	401	74	7	31	44	16	125	210	.278	.334	.404	.738	.305	582	35	3	14	14	27	17
162 Game Avg.				63	540	488	58	136	25	2	10	15	5	42	71	.278	.334	.404	.738	.305	197	12	1	5	5	9	6
MLB Averages																.257	.324	.390	.714	.285

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1985	25	LAD	NL	-3.5	-0.4	24	-0.5	0.2	-0.7	.63	-0.3	-0.5	-5.2	-0.5	0.63	-3.3	2	0	1
1986	26	LAD	NL	-2.4	-0.2	110	-0.9	2.1	-3.0	1.29	-0.1	-0.6	-1.7	-0.2	1.29	-1.6	3	2	4
1987	27	LAD	NL	1.7	0.2	377	-0.4	4.0	-4.4	.69	0.0	-0.6	4.6	0.5	0.69	-0.5	9	9	32
1988	28	LAD	NL	15.7	1.7	355	1.3	4.3	-3.0	.70	1.5	0.3	17.0	1.9	0.70	13.6	8	8	28
1989	29	BAL	AL	-5.4	-0.6	543	-1.0	8.0	-9.0	.95	-0.8	-0.2	-8.9	-0.9	0.95	-10.9	7	6	11
1990	30	BAL	AL	-3.6	-0.4	269	-0.4	2.3	-2.7	.60	-0.6	-0.1	-7.3	-0.7	0.59	-4.2	8	4	21
6 Yrs				2.4	0.4	1678	-1.9	20.9	-22.8	.80	-0.3	-2.1	-1.4	0.0	0.80	-7.0	37	29	97

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	Pit/GS	<80	80-99	100-119	≥120	Max
1986	26	LAD	NL	12	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	3	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0%	45.3	59	37	4	1	1	1	2.0	0.0	3.8
1987	27	LAD	NL	53	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	0	1	0	0	0	0%	52.0	52	52	6	2	0	0	5.0	0.0	5.0

1989	29	BAL	AL	39	12	3	3	6	2	1	9	3	.750	2	1	0	0	3	25%	46.8	62	22	31	15	2	6	4.8	5.1	4.7	72	8	3	0	0	94
3 Yrs				104	16	3	5	8	2	1	10	6	.625	2	3	0	0	3	19%	47	62	22	41	18	3	7	4.3	3.9	4.6	72	8	3	0	0	94
MLB Averages													.500						52%	51	103	-3					4.4	4.3	6.2	94

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	Pit/GR
1985	25	LAD	NL	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0		0	0	2	2	100%	7	.630	2	0	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	2	0	4.0
1986	26	LAD	NL	12	9	4	2	1	1	0	1	0%	1	0	6	0	0%	3	1.291	3	2	4	3	2	4	3	6	4	3	4	2	4.3
1987	27	LAD	NL	53	52	26	3	2	3	2	1	67%	5	2	31	10	32%	7	.688	9	9	32	8	4	40	16	36	31	10	31	12	4.5
1988	28	LAD	NL	45	45	11	7	3	2	1	1	50%	2	0	38	9	24%	7	.702	8	8	28	5	9	31	17	28	31	6	31	9	5.6	27
1989	29	BAL	AL	39	27	8	2	4	1	0	1	0%	3	2	30	16	53%	5	.950	7	6	11	9	2	16	16	11	21	1	22	4	6.6	35
1990	30	BAL	AL	33	33	13	2	3	1	0	1	0%	4	3	33	13	39%	7	.595	8	4	21	7	3	23	22	11	18	9	19	4	5.3	26
6 Yrs				185	169	62	17	14	8	3	5	38%	15	7	140	50	36%		.800	37	29	97	33	21	115	75	94	107	30	109	31	5.3	28

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GB/FB	GO/AO	IP%	LD%	HR/FB	IF/FB	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1985	25	LAD	NL	21	81%	0.0%	4.8%	4.8%	14.3%	33%		0.67	90%				5	0	0%
1986	26	LAD	NL	106	57%	0.9%	22.6%	5.7%	9.4%	36%		1.58	68%				18	2	11%
1987	27	LAD	NL	360	50%	3.1%	16.1%	8.9%	7.5%	31%		1.09	71%				79	7	9%
1988	28	LAD	NL	339	47%	0.3%	14.5%	7.7%	4.1%	20%	1.01	1.36	75%	15%	1.5%	48%	58	10	17%
1989	29	BAL	AL	514	52%	2.1%	9.9%	7.6%	7.4%	27%	0.77	1.01	80%	19%	5.7%	18%	92	11	12%
1990	30	BAL	AL	257	56%	2.7%	10.5%	8.2%	7.8%	29%	1.00	1.47	78%	22%	7.9%	13%	41	5	12%
6 Yrs				1597	52%	1.9%	13.2%	7.8%	7.0%	28%	0.88	1.19	76%	19%	5.5%	25%	293	35	12%
MLB Averages					40%	2.2%	14.9%	8.6%	6.8%	30%	0.80	1.06	73%	20%	6.6%	26%			11%

Pitch Summary -- Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Pit	Pit/PA	Str	Str%	L/Str	S/Str	F/Str	I/Str	AS/Str	I/Bll	AS/Pit	Con	1st%	30%	30c	30s	02%	02c	02s	02h	L/SO	3pK	4pW	PAu	Pitu	Stru
1988	28	LAD	NL	339	1199	3.54	738	62%	30%	13%	22%	36%	70%	5%	43%	81%	56%	6%	22	15	18%	61	30	3	17%	8	2	0	0	2
1989	29	BAL	AL	477	1661	3.48	1007	61%	29%	11%	21%	39%	71%	1%	43%	85%	57%	4%	18	11	13%	60	23	4	25%	3	6	37	0	2
1990	30	BAL	AL	257	844	3.28	517	61%	30%	10%	19%	40%	69%	7%	42%	85%	61%	8%	20	11	15%	39	15	4	44%	1	3	0	0	2
3 Yrs				1073	3704	3.45	2262	61%	29%	11%	21%	38%	70%	4%	43%	84%	58%	6%	60	37	15%	160	68	11	26%	12	11	37	0	6
MLB Averages						3.60		62%	24%	14%	27%	34%	75%	2%	47%	81%	57%	6%			19%				26%

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
1985	25	LAD	NL	21	9			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	50%	0	1	0	10	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1986	26	LAD	NL	106	28			1	0	4	0	1	0	1	10	3	2	30%	1	1	0	35	5	0	100%	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1987	27	LAD	NL	360	87			11	0	18	7	4	2	9	26	12	2	46%	7	0	0	147	11	4	73%	9	3	2	0	0	1	5	0	7	0
1988	28	LAD	NL	339	69	12	1	1	0	9	0	1	0	1	22	12	1	55%	2	1	0	133	6	2	75%	6	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	11	0
1989	29	BAL	AL	514	140	15	3	11	0	15	4	7	8	3	28	20	3	71%	5	5	2	203	15	7	68%	15	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	18	0
1990	30	BAL	AL	257	68	9	2	7	0	9	6	1	6	1	23	8	3	35%	2	2	0	98	7	1	88%	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0
6 Yrs				1597	401	36	6	31	0	55	17	14	16	15	111	56	12	50%	17	10	2	626	44	16	73%	41	13	3	1	0	2	6	0	45	0
MLB Averages																		53%							69%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	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+
1985	25	1	1	.500	9.00	3	0	0	0	4.0	9	7	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	21	43	2.500	20.3	0.0	2.3	2.3	1.00	43
1986	26	3	4	.429	5.08	15	3	4	0	28.1	37	20	16	1	7	2	25	1	0	2	127	70	1.553	11.8	0.3	2.2	7.9	3.57	70
1987	27	6	6	.500	4.19	68	4	30	2	111.2	124	59	52	12	39	13	83	1	4	2	487	93	1.460	10.0	1.0	3.1	6.7	2.13	93
1988	28	13	9	.591	3.12	113	4	41	3	196.1	193	78	68	13	65	20	132	2	10	3	826	118	1.314	8.8	0.6	3.0	6.1	2.03	118
1989	29	18	16	.529	3.45	152	16	49	3	312.2	333	141	120	24	104	21	183	3	11	8	1340	108	1.398	9.6	0.7	3.0	5.3	1.76	108
1990	30	20	19	.513	3.62	185	16	62	3	370.2	401	172	149	31	125	27	210	3	13	10	1597	103	1.419	9.7	0.8	3.0	5.1	1.68	103

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
1985	25	0	0		12.00	3.0	10	4	4	0	1	1	0	3.667	30.0	3.0	3.0	1.00	0.0	3
1986	26	1	1	.500	5.09	23.0	30	14	13	1	6	23	1	1.565	11.7	2.3	9.0	3.83	0.4	12
1987	27	4	4	.500	4.05	80.0	87	40	36	11	32	56	0	1.488	9.8	3.6	6.3	1.75	1.2	53
1988	28	6	2	.750	2.19	78.0	75	21	19	1	28	45	1	1.321	8.7	3.2	5.2	1.61	0.1	45
1989	29	4	7	.364	4.96	107.0	149	66	59	12	42	47	1	1.785	12.5	3.5	4.0	1.12	1.0	39
1990	30	2	4	.333	5.50	54.0	72	37	33	7	22	25	0	1.741	12.0	3.7	4.2	1.14	1.2	33
6 Yrs		17	18	.486	4.28	345.0	423	182	164	32	131	197	3	1.606	11.0		5.1	1.50	0.8	185

* 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

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 1988 NL 17.04 (10th)	Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 1988 NL 1.9 (10th)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
1988 NL 17.04 (10th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
1988 NL 1.9 (10th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, 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

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Hall of Fame Monitor

Pitching - 1 (1951), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

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