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Tony Horton

Anthony Darrin Horton

Positions: First Baseman and Leftfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 210 lb.

Born: December 6, 1944 in Santa Monica, CA
High School: University HS (Los Angeles, CA)
School: University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in 1962. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 31, 1964
Teams (by GP): Indians/RedSox 1964-1970

Final Game: August 28, 1970
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Standard Batting

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
1963	18	BOS-min	A	122	449	449		127	19	4	21						.283	.283	.483	.766		217							WLO · MIDW
1964	19	BOS-min	AA	94	385	343	60	102	29	5	7	62	2	3	42	36	.297	.374	.472	.846		162							REA · EL
1964	19	BOS	AL	36	130	126	9	28	5	0	1	8	0	0	3	20	.222	.238	.286	.524	43	36	7	0	0	1	0	7/3
1965	20	BOS-min	AAA	52	222	196	35	59	16	2	9	37	2	0	20	31	.301	.362	.541	.903		106		1	1	4			TTO · IL
1965	20	BOS	AL	60	183	163	23	48	8	1	7	23	0	2	18	36	.294	.361	.485	.845	133	79	2	0	0	2	1	3
1966	21	BOS-min	AAA	133	548	498	75	148	23	9	26	85	2	0	45	87	.297	.356	.536	.893		267		2	1	2			TTO · IL
1966	21	BOS	AL	6	23	22	0	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	.136	.136	.136	.273	-24	3	2	0	1	0	0	/3
1967	22	TOT	AL	127	427	402	37	114	16	4	10	53	3	0	18	57	.284	.319	.418	.737	114	168	10	4	1	2	3	3
1967	22	BOS	AL	21	40	39	2	12	3	0	0	9	0	0	0	5	.308	.300	.385	.685	94	15	2	0	0	1	0	/3
1967	22	CLE	AL	106	387	363	35	102	13	4	10	44	3	0	18	52	.281	.321	.421	.743	116	153	8	4	1	1	3	3
1968	23	CLE	AL	133	517	477	57	119	29	3	14	59	3	1	34	56	.249	.302	.411	.713	116	196	8	3	1	2	5	*3
1969	24	CLE	AL	159	669	625	77	174	25	4	27	93	3	3	37	91	.278	.319	.461	.780	114	288	21	2	2	3	3	*3
1970	25	CLE	AL	115	452	413	48	111	19	3	17	59	3	2	30	54	.269	.321	.453	.774	108	187	18	4	0	5	5	*3	MVP-27
7 Yrs				636	2401	2228	251	597	102	15	76	297	12	8	140	319	.268	.313	.430	.743	109	957	68	13	5	15	17
162 Game Avg.				162	612	568	64	152	26	4	19	76	3	2	36	81	.268	.313	.430	.743	109	244	17	3	1	4	4

BOS (4 yrs)				123	376	350	34	91	16	1	8	42	0	2	21	66	.260	.299	.380	.679	87	133	13	0	1	4	1
CLE (4 yrs)				513	2025	1878	217	506	86	14	68	255	12	6	119	253	.269	.316	.439	.754	114	824	55	13	4	11	16

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1964	19	BOS	AL	36	130	-9	-1	-1	-1	-2	-14	-1.7	4	-10	-1.3	.455	.490	-1.1	-0.4	-9	$	7/3
1965	20	BOS	AL	60	183	6	-0	0	-4	-2	-0	-0.1	5	5	0.4	.499	.500	0.9	-0.7	9	$	3
1966	21	BOS	AL	6	23	-4	0	-0	0	-0	-4	-0.5	1	-4	-0.5	.412	.497	-0.5	-0.0	-4	$	/3
1967	22	BOS	AL	21	40	-1	0	-0	-0	-0	-1	-0.2	1	-0	-0.1	.492	.499	0.0	-0.1	0	$17,000	/3
1967	22	CLE	AL	106	387	9	0	-1	4	-5	8	0.8	11	19	1.9	.509	.506	1.5	-0.2	15	$	3
1968	23	CLE	AL	133	517	11	0	0	5	-7	10	1.0	15	25	2.5	.510	.508	2.0	-0.4	19	$22,000	*3
1969	24	CLE	AL	159	669	10	0	-2	1	-9	0	-0.1	18	18	1.7	.500	.500	1.7	-1.0	17	$25,000	*3
1970	25	CLE	AL	115	452	3	-2	-2	0	-6	-7	-0.9	15	8	0.6	.493	.495	0.6	-0.7	8	$45,000	*3	MVP-27
7 Seasons				636	2401	26	-3	-5	5	-33	-9	-1.6	69	60	5.2	.499	.499	5.1	-3.6	55	$109,000

BOS (4 yrs)				123	376	-8	-1	-1	-6	-5	-20	-2.5	10	-10	-1.5	.481	.496	-0.7	-1.3	-4	$17,000
CLE (4 yrs)				513	2025	34	-1	-4	11	-28	11	0.9	59	70	6.7	.503	.502	5.8	-2.3	59	$92,000

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1964	19	BOS	AL	130	106	7	1.8	100	.255	.222	.261	.238	.330	.286	.406	.524	.736	43	.170	-10.2	-1.1	.371	.087	.063	.0
1965	20	BOS	AL	183	121	29	6.4	97	.336	.294	.257	.361	.328	.485	.394	.845	.723	133	.703	7.3	0.8	.798	.288	.190	.0
1966	21	BOS	AL	23	22	0	0.0	98	.176	.136	.260	.136	.328	.136	.401	.273	.729	-24	.000	-3.7	-0.4	.143	.000	.000
1967	22	TOT	AL	427	301	52	4.7	87	.309	.284	.246	.319	.316	.418	.369	.737	.685	114	.600	5.6	0.6	.648	.187	.134	4.6
1967	22	BOS	AL	40	30	4	3.6	91	.343	.308	.253	.300	.324	.385	.379	.685	.703	94	.484	-0.3	-0.0	.517	.077	.077
1967	22	CLE	AL	387	271	48	4.8	86	.305	.281	.245	.321	.315	.421	.368	.743	.683	116	.611	5.9	0.6	.662	.198	.140	4.6
1968	23	CLE	AL	517	370	59	4.3	79	.257	.249	.237	.302	.306	.411	.351	.713	.656	116	.591	8.2	0.9	.640	.237	.161	4.9
1969	24	CLE	AL	669	480	85	4.8	97	.288	.278	.258	.319	.335	.461	.389	.780	.724	114	.557	7.8	0.8	.688	.242	.182	5.4
1970	25	CLE	AL	452	327	55	4.5	101	.271	.269	.263	.321	.337	.453	.401	.774	.738	108	.523	3.2	0.3	.689	.259	.184	5.1
7 Yrs				2401	1727	287	4.5	92	.282	.268	.252	.313	.325	.430	.381	.743	.706	109	.554	18.2	2.0	.653	.226	.162	20.7
162 Game Avg.				612	440	73	4.5	92	.282	.268	.252	.313	.325	.430	.381	.743	.706	109	.554	5	1	.653	.226	.162	5

BOS (4 yrs)				376	279	40	3.9	97	.296	.260	.258	.299	.329	.380	.397	.679	.726	87	.477	-6.9	-0.8	.555	.174	.120	.0
CLE (4 yrs)				2025	1448	247	4.6	91	.279	.269	.251	.316	.324	.439	.378	.754	.702	114	.567	25.1	2.7	.671	.236	.169	20.4

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1964	19	BOS	AL	130	0.8%	15.4%	2.3%	4.6%	21%	6.67	6.3	126.0	15.8	1.71	82%
1965	20	BOS	AL	183	3.8%	19.7%	9.8%	8.7%	33%	2.00	4.5	23.3	7.1	1.13	67%
1966	21	BOS	AL	23	0.0%	21.7%	0.0%	0.0%	0%		4.4		11.0	1.13	74%
1967	22	TOT	AL	427	2.3%	13.4%	4.2%	7.0%	26%	3.17	7.1	40.2	7.6	1.28	79%
1967	22	BOS	AL	40	0.0%	12.5%	0.0%	7.5%	25%		7.8		4.3	0.92	88%
1967	22	CLE	AL	387	2.6%	13.4%	4.7%	7.0%	27%	2.89	7.0	36.3	8.3	1.33	78%
1968	23	CLE	AL	517	2.7%	10.8%	6.6%	8.9%	39%	1.65	8.5	34.1	8.1	1.31	79%
1969	24	CLE	AL	669	4.0%	13.6%	5.5%	8.4%	32%	2.46	6.9	23.1	6.7	1.35	76%
1970	25	CLE	AL	452	3.8%	12.0%	6.6%	8.6%	35%	1.80	7.6	24.3	7.0	1.39	77%
7 Yrs				2401	3.2%	13.3%	5.8%	8.0%	32%	2.28	7.0	29.3	7.5	1.34	77%
MLB Averages					2.1%	15.5%	8.3%	6.1%	28%	1.88	5.8	42.6	9.2	1.12	72%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1964	19	BOS	AL	-10.2	-1.1	132	-1.3	1.5	-2.7	1.02	-1.2	-0.1	-12.9	-1.3	0.95	-10.6	0.88	6
1965	20	BOS	AL	7.3	0.8	185	1.3	4.6	-3.3	1.07	0.7	0.6	5.0	0.5	0.96	7.5	1.80	14
1966	21	BOS	AL	-3.7	-0.4	23	-0.8	0.2	-1.0	1.73	-0.4	-0.1	-3.6	-0.4	1.10	-3.7	1.46	2
1967	22	TOT	AL	5.6	0.6	435	0.7	8.9	-8.2	1.09	0.5	0.1	11.7	1.3	0.95	8.2	1.26	31
1967	22	BOS	AL	-0.3	-0.0	41	0.2	1.1	-0.9	1.38	-0.0	0.1	0.7	0.1	1.10	-0.5	1.93	14
1967	22	CLE	AL	5.9	0.6	394	0.5	7.8	-7.3	1.06	0.5	-0.1	11.1	1.2	0.93	8.8	0.70	17
1968	23	CLE	AL	8.2	0.9	535	2.6	11.3	-8.8	1.06	2.3	0.1	18.9	2.1	0.97	18.5	1.06	9
1969	24	CLE	AL	7.8	0.8	687	0.6	13.9	-13.2	1.11	0.6	-0.0	11.4	1.2	0.98	8.8	2.40	2
1970	25	CLE	AL	3.2	0.3	464	-0.3	9.1	-9.4	1.14	0.1	-0.3	-4.8	-0.5	1.01	0.7	1.54	9
7 Yrs				18.2	2.0	2461	2.9	49.4	-46.5	1.10	2.6	0.0	25.7	2.9	0.98	29.4	1.38	73

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	PO	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1964	19	BOS	AL	2	27%	49	0	0		0	0	0	1	3	1	40%	7	4	1	2	0	2	1	0	1
1965	20	BOS	AL	1	27%	76	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	1	5	65%	8	4	4	1	1	0	8	1	7
1966	21	BOS	AL	0	0%	3	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	22	TOT	AL	9	21%	142	3	0	100%	3	0	0	1	5	6	60%	14	8	6	5	1	4	6	1	5
1967	22	BOS	AL	0	17%	14	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	1	75%	2	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	1
1967	22	CLE	AL	9	22%	128	3	0	100%	3	0	0	1	5	5	57%	12	7	5	4	1	3	5	1	4
1968	23	CLE	AL	12	30%	157	3	1	75%	2	1	1	0	13	20	40%	30	16	11	6	6	0	12	3	8
1969	24	CLE	AL	8	27%	208	3	3	50%	3	4	0	2	10	13	56%	18	11	6	9	4	5	18	4	14
1970	25	CLE	AL	6	24%	171	3	2	60%	3	2	0	2	7	9	33%	26	17	8	2	2	0	8	4	4
7 Yrs				38	26%	806	12	8	60%	11	9	1	6	39	54	48%	103	60	36	25	14	11	53	13	39

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1964	19	BOS	AL	130	24%	28			6	0	0	0	0.88	1	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0		27	7	26%	12	6	50%	84	8	10%	5	4	80%	9	6	67%	0
1965	20	BOS	AL	183	50%	48			14	3	0	1	1.80	7	0	7	4	3	3	4	0	1	0	0%	34	2	6%	17	3	18%	124	18	15%	9	6	67%	8	2	25%	0
1966	21	BOS	AL	23	30%	3			2	0	0	0	1.46	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	7	2	29%	5	1	20%	16	2	13%	1	0	0%	0	0		0
1967	22	TOT	AL	427	36%	114			31	10	0	7	1.26	10	1	7	8	2	8	2	0	1	1	100%	65	10	15%	38	10	26%	252	46	18%	23	10	43%	20	10	50%	0
1967	22	BOS	AL	40	15%	12			14	6	0	6	1.93	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		9	2	22%	6	3	50%	41	9	22%	4	3	75%	3	2	67%	0
1967	22	CLE	AL	387	38%	102			17	4	0	1	0.70	10	1	5	8	2	8	2	0	1	1	100%	56	8	14%	32	7	22%	211	37	18%	19	7	37%	17	8	47%	0
1968	23	CLE	AL	517	29%	119			9	2	0	1	1.06	14	0	12	10	4	7	7	0	1	1	100%	89	8	9%	36	9	25%	314	48	15%	21	10	48%	13	4	31%	0
1969	24	CLE	AL	669	28%	174			2	0	0	0	2.40	27	0	19	21	6	16	11	0	2	2	100%	140	21	15%	52	15	29%	453	69	15%	46	26	57%	18	12	67%	0
1970	25	CLE	AL	452	43%	111			9	3	1	2	1.54	17	1	15	6	11	14	3	0	0	0		93	18	19%	52	13	25%	322	44	14%	24	13	54%	21	7	33%	0
7 Yrs				2401	34%	597			73	18	1	11	1.38	76	2	64	50	26	48	28	0	6	5	83%	455	68	15%	212	57	27%	1565	235	15%	129	69	53%	89	41	46%	0
MLB Averages					53%																			78%			10%			30%			14%			47%			51%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1964	19	36	130	126	9	28	5	0	1	8	0	0	3	20	.222	.238	.286	.524	43	36	7	0	0	1	0
1965	20	96	313	289	32	76	13	1	8	31	0	2	21	56	.263	.310	.398	.708	94	115	9	0	0	3	1
1966	21	102	336	311	32	79	13	1	8	33	0	2	21	61	.254	.299	.379	.678	86	118	11	0	1	3	1
1967	22	229	763	713	69	193	29	5	18	86	3	2	39	118	.271	.310	.401	.711	101	286	21	4	2	5	4
1968	23	362	1280	1190	126	312	58	8	32	145	6	3	73	174	.262	.307	.405	.712	107	482	29	7	3	7	9
1969	24	521	1949	1815	203	486	83	12	59	238	9	6	110	265	.268	.311	.424	.735	109	770	50	9	5	10	12
1970	25	636	2401	2228	251	597	102	15	76	297	12	8	140	319	.268	.313	.430	.743	109	957	68	13	5	15	17

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1964	19	36	129	125	9	28	5	0	1	8	0	3	20	.224	.240	.288	.528	9	36
1965	20	60	184	164	24	49	8	1	7	24	0	18	36	.299	.364	.488	.852	30	60
1966	21	6	23	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	6
1967	22	127	439	412	43	124	17	4	11	61	3	20	57	.301	.338	.442	.780	61	127
1968	23	133	545	498	75	140	34	4	16	77	4	40	56	.281	.338	.462	.800	77	133
1969	24	159	675	630	81	179	26	4	28	97	3	38	91	.284	.325	.471	.797	96	159
1970	25	115	455	415	49	113	19	3	17	60	3	31	54	.272	.325	.455	.781	61	115
7 Yrs		636	2450	2266	281	633	109	16	80	327	13	150	319	.279	.326	.447	.773	334	636
162 Game Avg.		162	624	577	72	161	28	4	20	83	3	38	81	.279	.326	.447	.773	85	636

* 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1970 AL (27, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Games Played s c a p y 1969 AL 159 (7th)	At Bats s c a p y 1969 AL 625 (3rd)	Hits s c a p y 1969 AL 174 (5th)
Doubles s c a p y 1968 AL 29 (5th)	Runs Batted In s c a p y 1969 AL 93 (10th)	Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y 1969 AL 21 (5th) 1970 AL 18 (10th)	Outs Made s c a p y 1969 AL 480 (4th)
Youngest s c a p y 1964 AL born 1944-12-06 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Batting - 11 (1346), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 7 (1934), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Similar Batters

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Keith Hernandez (969) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ed Stevens (959) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Keith Hernandez (955) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Derrek Lee (947) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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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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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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