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Bart Johnson

Clair Barth Johnson

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 5", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: January 3, 1950 in Torrance, CA
High School: Torrance HS (Torrance, CA)
Drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1968 amateur draft (June Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 8, 1969
Team: WhiteSox 1969-1977

Final Game: September 21, 1977
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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
1968	18	CHW-min	A	3	5	.375	2.69	12	10					67.0	46	27	20	0	28								1.104	6.2	0.0	3.8			APP · MIDW
1969	19	CHW-min	A	16	4	.800	2.17	22	22					170.0	123	53	41	3	59								1.071	6.5	0.2	3.1			APP · MIDW
1969	19	CHW	AL	1	3	.250	3.22	4	3	1	0	0	0	22.1	22	11	8	2	6	0	18	0	1	2	91	123	1.254	8.9	0.8	2.4	7.3	3.00
1970	20	CHW-min	AAA,AA	7	4	.636	2.40	14	11		5	0	0	90.0	85	30	24	4	29	1	50	0	0	0			1.267	8.5	0.4	2.9	5.0	1.72	TUC,MOB · PCL,SOUL
1970	20	CHW	AL	4	7	.364	4.82	18	15	1	2	1	0	89.2	92	53	48	11	46	2	71	2	1	4	393	79	1.539	9.2	1.1	4.6	7.1	1.54
1971	21	CHW	AL	12	10	.545	2.93	53	16	24	4	0	14	178.0	148	67	58	9	111	6	153	6	0	11	784	123	1.455	7.5	0.5	5.6	7.7	1.38
1972	22	CHW-min	A	1	0	1.000	0.53	5	2					17.0	10	1	1	0	2								0.706	5.3	0.0	1.1			APP · MIDW
1972	22	CHW	AL	0	3	.000	9.22	9	0	5	0	0	1	13.2	18	20	14	2	13	2	9	1	0	2	71	36	2.268	11.9	1.3	8.6	5.9	0.69
1973	23	CHW	AL	3	3	.500	4.13	22	9	6	0	0	0	80.2	76	39	37	6	40	0	56	2	0	1	352	98	1.438	8.5	0.7	4.5	6.2	1.40
1974	24	CHW-min	AAA	3	2	.600	5.33	18	8		1	1	1	54.0	64	36	32	4	12	1	38	0	1	3			1.407	10.7	0.7	2.0	6.3	3.17	IWA · AA
1974	24	CHW	AL	10	4	.714	2.74	18	18	0	8	2	0	121.2	105	42	37	6	32	2	76	1	0	1	493	138	1.126	7.8	0.4	2.4	5.6	2.38

1976	26	CHW	AL	9	16	.360	4.73	32	32	0	8	3	0	211.1	231	115	111	19	62	1	91	1	0	4	901	76	1.386	9.8	0.8	2.6	3.9	1.47
1977	27	CHW	AL	4	5	.444	4.01	29	4	11	0	0	2	92.0	114	48	41	5	38	3	46	2	0	3	426	103	1.652	11.2	0.5	3.7	4.5	1.21
1978	28	OAK-min	AAA	0	1	.000	36.00	1	1		0	0	0	1.0	5	4	4	1	2	0	0	1	0	0			7.000	45.0	9.0	18.0	0.0	0.00	VAN · PCL
1979	29	CHW-min	AAA	1	5	.167	4.58	8	8		1	0		53.0	60	34	27	4	16	0	14	0	0	1			1.434	10.2	0.7	2.7	2.4	0.88	IWA · AA
8 Yrs				43	51	.457	3.94	185	97	48	22	6	17	809.1	806	395	354	60	348	16	520	15	2	28	3511	96	1.426	9.0	0.7	3.9	5.8	1.49
162 Game Avg.				10	12	.457	3.94	45	23	12	5	1	4	195	194	95	85	14	84	4	125	4	0	7	847	96	1.426	9.0	0.7	3.9	5.8	1.49

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
1969	19	CHW	AL	22.1	4	3	11	4.43	4.07	-0.10	0.05	101.6	4.29	-0	-0.0	1.5	-0.0	0.1	2	.495	.500	$
1970	20	CHW	AL	89.2	18	15	53	5.32	4.27	-0.37	0.06	102.2	4.81	-4	-0.5	.8	-0.0	0.3	4	.474	.497	$
1971	21	CHW	AL	178.0	53	16	67	3.39	3.82	-0.27	-0.03	103.2	4.20	16	1.9	2.1	0.3	3.8	33	.536	.512	$
1972	22	CHW	AL	13.2	9	0	20	13.17	3.40	-0.47	-0.15	102.7	3.82	-14	-1.5	1.9	-0.7	-2.1	-13	.335	.491	$
1973	23	CHW	AL	80.2	22	9	39	4.35	4.41	-0.40	-0.09	104.0	4.90	4	0.5	.4	-0.2	1.0	13	.522	.503	$
1974	24	CHW	AL	121.2	18	18	42	3.11	4.15	-0.23	0.12	103.9	4.67	21	2.6		-0.1	3.6	33	.643	.516	$

1976	26	CHW	AL	211.1	32	32	115	4.90	3.92	-0.30	0.12	103.3	4.49	-9	-1.0		-0.1	0.7	11	.469	.494	$
1977	27	CHW	AL	92.0	29	4	48	4.70	4.47	-0.65	-0.29	99.4	4.79	1	0.1	1.2	-0.1	0.8	11	.503	.501	$
8 Seasons				809.1	185	97	395	4.39	4.08	-0.34	0.01	102.8	4.55	15	2.1	1.5	-1.0	8.2	95	.511	.502	$

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
1969	19	CHW	AL	4	91	85	11	22	3	1	2	1	0	6	18	.259	.308	.388	.696	.308	33	5	0	0	0	0	2
1970	20	CHW	AL	18	393	343	53	92	14	3	11	10	6	46	71	.268	.358	.423	.781	.310	145	10	2	2	0	2	2
1971	21	CHW	AL	53	784	652	67	148	29	3	9	16	7	111	153	.227	.342	.322	.664	.281	210	13	6	10	5	6	11
1972	22	CHW	AL	9	71	55	20	18	3	1	2	2	1	13	9	.327	.464	.527	.991	.364	29	0	1	2	0	2	2
1973	23	CHW	AL	22	352	302	39	76	14	1	6	8	2	40	56	.252	.338	.364	.702	.286	110	6	2	3	5	0	4
1974	24	CHW	AL	18	493	458	42	105	15	1	6	15	3	32	76	.229	.280	.306	.586	.263	140	11	1	1	1	2	4

1976	26	CHW	AL	32	901	818	115	231	27	9	19	30	9	62	91	.282	.329	.407	.736	.294	333	18	1	8	12	1	8
1977	27	CHW	AL	29	426	377	48	114	21	4	5	10	2	38	46	.302	.365	.419	.784	.329	158	2	2	4	5	3	7
8 Yrs				185	3511	3090	395	806	126	23	60	92	30	348	520	.261	.336	.375	.711	.294	1158	65	15	30	28	16	40
162 Game Avg.				45	847	745	95	194	30	6	14	22	7	84	125	.261	.336	.375	.711	.294	279	16	4	7	7	4	10
MLB Averages																.254	.322	.373	.696	.280

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1969	19	CHW	AL	0.9	0.1	96	-0.4	1.6	-2.0	1.04	-0.0	-0.3	-0.9	-0.1	1.04	-0.4	1	0	0
1970	20	CHW	AL	-9.4	-1.0	415	-1.2	6.7	-7.9	.96	-1.2	-0.1	-11.6	-1.1	0.96	-10.8	1	0	2
1971	21	CHW	AL	12.1	1.3	822	2.0	15.9	-14.0	1.21	-0.5	2.1	9.1	1.0	1.21	-3.6	22	4	11
1972	22	CHW	AL	-10.5	-1.1	77	-1.3	1.1	-2.4	1.12	-0.7	-0.4	-13.9	-1.4	1.12	-10.2	5	1	3
1973	23	CHW	AL	0.3	0.0	367	-0.6	4.1	-4.7	.69	-0.0	-0.8	4.8	0.5	0.69	0.8	0	4	8
1974	24	CHW	AL	13.6	1.5	513	1.9	9.9	-8.0	1.09	1.8	-0.1	14.5	1.6	1.09	19.5	0	0	0

1976	26	CHW	AL	-21.2	-2.2	946	-1.7	15.2	-16.9	.99	-1.8	0.0	-16.5	-1.7	0.99	-14.9	0	0	0
1977	27	CHW	AL	0.3	0.0	439	-1.3	6.7	-8.0	1.02	-0.8	-0.5	-5.7	-0.6	1.02	-5.4	8	5	12
8 Yrs				-14.0	-1.3	3675	-2.7	61.2	-63.9	1.03	-3.2	0.6	-20.2	-1.9	1.03	-24.9	37	14	36

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
1969	19	CHW	AL	4	3	1	2	0	0	1	1	2	.333	0	0	0	0	2	67%	54.3	58	48	2	1	0	3	3.8	4.5	6.8
1970	20	CHW	AL	18	15	4	7	4	0	2	5	10	.333	1	2	2	1	7	47%	46.9	76	20	12	3	2	6	4.3	3.1	5.7
1971	21	CHW	AL	53	16	8	6	2	2	2	9	7	.563	0	1	4	0	9	56%	53.4	83	23	27	6	9	5	5.0	5.4	6.5

1973	23	CHW	AL	22	9	2	3	4	1	0	3	6	.333	0	2	0	0	1	11%	45.4	64	34	14	6	6	3	4.5	3.8	4.9
1974	24	CHW	AL	18	18	10	4	4	0	2	12	6	.667	1	1	8	2	14	78%	58.1	86	20	16	6	12	5	4.0	3.6	6.8

1976	26	CHW	AL	32	32	9	16	7	1	4	11	21	.344	0	4	8	3	17	53%	47.7	86	8	24	12	3	8	3.0	2.9	6.6
1977	27	CHW	AL	29	4	1	3	0	0	0	1	3	.250	0	0	0	0	1	25%	31.5	58	19	21	4	0	2	4.9	3.8	3.1
7 Yrs				176	97	35	41	21	4	11	42	55	.433	2	10	22	6	51	53%	50	86	8	116	38	32	32	3.9	3.6	6.2
MLB Averages													.500						55%	52	109	-13					4.1	4.1	6.5

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
1969	19	CHW	AL	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		7	1.038	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	6.0
1970	20	CHW	AL	18	3	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		9	.963	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	3	1	0	1	0	4.0
1971	21	CHW	AL	53	37	24	4	4	19	14	5	74%	19	0	41	14	34%	8	1.207	22	4	11	19	8	10	22	15	26	5	27	9	5.9
1972	22	CHW	AL	9	9	5	0	3	2	1	1	50%	2	0	5	1	20%	9	1.119	5	1	3	2	3	4	3	6	5	2	5	1	4.6
1973	23	CHW	AL	22	13	6	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	17	5	29%	7	.689	0	4	8	0	0	13	9	4	11	1	11	1	8.5

1977	27	CHW	AL	29	25	11	3	2	3	2	1	67%	3	0	27	10	37%	2	1.016	8	5	12	6	6	13	18	7	20	5	21	2	9.6
6 Yrs				135	88	48	8	10	24	17	7	71%	24	0	90	30	33%		1.027	37	14	36	27	19	42	52	36	64	13	66	13	7.1

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1969	19	CHW	AL	91	54%	2.2%	19.8%	6.6%	6.6%	27%	1.82	71%	22	5	23%
1970	20	CHW	AL	393	56%	2.8%	18.1%	11.7%	7.1%	30%	1.13	66%	69	10	14%
1971	21	CHW	AL	784	56%	1.2%	19.5%	14.2%	5.2%	28%	1.05	63%	182	13	7%
1972	22	CHW	AL	71	45%	2.8%	12.7%	18.3%	8.5%	33%	0.53	62%	10	0	0%
1973	23	CHW	AL	352	67%	1.7%	15.9%	11.4%	6.0%	28%	0.78	70%	66	6	9%
1974	24	CHW	AL	493	50%	1.2%	15.4%	6.5%	4.5%	21%	0.67	76%	86	11	13%

1976	26	CHW	AL	901	52%	2.1%	10.1%	6.9%	6.1%	24%	0.91	80%	159	18	11%
1977	27	CHW	AL	426	59%	1.2%	10.8%	8.9%	7.0%	26%	0.87	78%	82	2	2%
8 Yrs				3511	55%	1.7%	14.8%	9.9%	6.0%	26%	0.91	72%	676	65	10%
MLB Averages					46%	2.0%	13.9%	8.8%	6.1%	27%	1.10	74%			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
1969	19	CHW	AL	91	22			2	0	2	1	1	0	2	4	3	1	75%	2	2	1	34	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0
1970	20	CHW	AL	393	92			11	0	6	5	6	7	4	13	3	3	23%	2	4	1	145	10	6	63%	9	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	0
1971	21	CHW	AL	784	148			9	0	25	6	3	5	4	49	25	9	51%	11	11	3	352	16	7	70%	15	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	24	0
1972	22	CHW	AL	71	18			2	0	1	1	1	2	0	4	1	0	25%	2	2	0	31	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0
1973	23	CHW	AL	352	76			6	0	10	2	4	4	2	24	12	4	50%	4	1	2	144	8	2	80%	8	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	9	0
1974	24	CHW	AL	493	105			6	1	4	2	4	2	4	19	9	5	47%	4	1	1	182	15	3	83%	14	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	0

1976	26	CHW	AL	901	231			19	0	8	10	9	6	13	46	35	2	76%	8	4	2	321	30	9	77%	26	9	4	0	0	0	0	0	22	0
1977	27	CHW	AL	426	114			5	0	15	3	2	2	3	30	15	3	50%	7	3	0	182	10	2	83%	9	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	10	0
8 Yrs				3511	806			60	1	71	30	30	28	32	189	103	27	55%	40	28	10	1391	92	30	75%	84	28	7	1	1	1	2	0	83	0
MLB Averages																		50%							64%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	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	ERA+
1969	19	1	3	.250	3.22	4	3	1	0	0	0	22.1	22	11	8	2	6	0	18	0	1	2	91	123	1.254	8.9	0.8	2.4	7.3	3.00	123
1970	20	5	10	.333	4.50	22	18	2	2	1	0	112.0	114	64	56	13	52	2	89	2	2	6	484	85	1.482	9.2	1.0	4.2	7.2	1.71	85
1971	21	17	20	.459	3.54	75	34	26	6	1	14	290.0	262	131	114	22	163	8	242	8	2	17	1268	105	1.466	8.1	0.7	5.1	7.5	1.48	105
1972	22	17	23	.425	3.79	84	34	31	6	1	15	303.2	280	151	128	24	176	10	251	9	2	19	1339	97	1.502	8.3	0.7	5.2	7.4	1.43	97
1973	23	20	26	.435	3.86	106	43	37	6	1	15	384.1	356	190	165	30	216	10	307	11	2	20	1691	97	1.488	8.3	0.7	5.1	7.2	1.42	97
1974	24	30	30	.500	3.59	124	61	37	14	3	15	506.0	461	232	202	36	248	12	383	12	2	21	2184	105	1.401	8.2	0.6	4.4	6.8	1.54	105
1975	25	30	30	.500	3.59	124	61	37	14	3	15	506.0	461	232	202	36	248	12	383	12	2	21	2184	105	1.401	8.2	0.6	4.4	6.8	1.54	105
1976	26	39	46	.459	3.93	156	93	37	22	6	15	717.1	692	347	313	55	310	13	474	13	2	25	3085	95	1.397	8.7	0.7	3.9	5.9	1.53	95
1977	27	43	51	.457	3.94	185	97	48	22	6	17	809.1	806	395	354	60	348	16	520	15	2	28	3511	96	1.426	9.0	0.7	3.9	5.8	1.49	96

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
1969	19	1	1	.500	3.43	21.0	22	9	8	2	6	17	0	1.333	9.4	2.6	7.3	2.83	0.9	4
1970	20	3	6	.333	5.42	83.0	94	56	50	11	47	66	2	1.699	10.2	5.1	7.2	1.40	1.2	18
1971	21	10	8	.556	3.39	170.0	156	71	64	9	117	146	6	1.606	8.3	6.2	7.7	1.25	0.5	53
1972	22	0	1	.000	14.25	12.0	21	21	19	2	15	8	1	3.000	15.8	11.3	6.0	0.53	1.5	9
1973	23	3	5	.375	4.56	77.0	78	43	39	6	41	53	2	1.545	9.1	4.8	6.2	1.29	0.7	22
1974	24	7	5	.583	3.18	116.0	111	46	41	6	34	72	1	1.250	8.6	2.6	5.6	2.12	0.5	18

1976	26	7	14	.333	5.85	197.0	249	142	128	20	67	85	1	1.604	11.4	3.1	3.9	1.27	0.9	32
1977	27	5	5	.500	4.20	90.0	115	47	42	5	38	45	2	1.700	11.5	3.8	4.5	1.18	0.5	29
8 Yrs		36	45	.444	4.59	766.0	846	435	391	61	365	492	15	1.581	9.9		5.8	1.35	0.7	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

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1971 AL 7.483 (10th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1971 AL 7.736 (3rd)	Saves s c a p y 1971 AL 14 (8th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1976 AL 19 (8th)
Bases on Balls s c a p y 1971 AL 111 (3rd)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1971 AL 0.455 (1st)	Losses s c a p y 1976 AL 16 (4th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 1976 AL 111 (4th)
Wild Pitches s c a p y 1971 AL 11 (4th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1971 AL 123 (8th)	Youngest s c a p y 1969 AL born 1950-01-03 (2nd) 1970 AL born 1950-01-03 (5th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 5 (1889), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 3 (1555), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 3 (1711), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

Compare Stats to Similars

Monk Dubiel (978)
Francisco Cordova (972)
Ken McBride (970)
Bob Hendley (963)
Bruce Berenyi (963)
Jackie Brown (962)
Harry Byrd (961)
Eric King (961)
Oscar Judd (959)
Fred Talbot (959)

Most Similar by Ages

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Dick Brodowski (987) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Tom Gordon (959) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Erv Palica (964) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Rich Gossage (971) * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Floyd Youmans (983) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Aase (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bob Hendley (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

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