Lynn Jones

Lynn Morris Jones

Position: Outfielder
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 9", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: January 1, 1953 in Meadville, PA
School: Thiel College (Greenville, PA)
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 10th round of the 1974 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 13, 1979
Teams (by GP): Tigers/Royals 1979-1986

Final Game: October 4, 1986
Relatives: Brother of Darryl Jones
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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
1974	21	CIN-min	A-	76	330	282	53	74	15	2	2	37	22	10	40	42	.262	.356	.351	.707		99	8	3	1	4	0		SLE · NORW
1975	22	CIN-min	A-,AA	115	352	352		100	16	4	14						.284	.284	.472	.756		166							EUG,TRV · NORW,EL
1976	23	CIN-min	AA	131	473	418	41	105	17	0	2	36	13	5	36	30	.251	.310	.306	.616		128		3	8	8			TRV · EL
1977	24	CIN-min	AA	94	371	324	49	87	14	2	5	32	15	8	31	37	.269	.343	.370	.714		120		7	7	2			TRV · EL
1978	25	CIN-min	AAA	126	532	482	81	158	28	4	9	62	20	9	39	42	.328	.386	.459	.845		221		8	1	2			INA · AA
1979	26	DET	AL	95	233	213	33	63	8	0	4	26	9	6	17	22	.296	.349	.390	.739	97	83	5	1	1	1	0	897/D
1980	27	DET-min	AAA	34	139	121	10	33	4	0	0	11	2	2	14	18	.273	.358	.306	.663		37		2	2	0			EVN · AA
1980	27	DET	AL	30	66	55	9	14	2	2	0	6	1	0	10	5	.255	.364	.364	.727	99	20	3	0	0	1	0	/9D87
1981	28	DET	AL	71	197	174	19	45	5	0	2	19	1	2	18	10	.259	.328	.322	.650	86	56	6	1	2	2	1	9/7D
1982	29	DET	AL	58	150	139	15	31	3	1	0	14	0	2	7	14	.223	.259	.259	.517	43	36	2	0	3	1	0	9/78D
1983	30	DET	AL	49	70	64	9	17	1	2	0	6	1	0	3	6	.266	.299	.344	.642	79	22	1	0	3	0	0	97/D8
1984	31	KCR-min	AAA	17	72	63	8	16	6	0	1	3	0	2	8	8	.254	.347	.397	.744		25		1	0	0	0		OMA · AA
1984	31	KCR	AL	47	109	103	11	31	6	0	1	10	1	3	4	9	.301	.330	.388	.719	99	40	4	1	0	1	0	97/8
1985	32	KCR	AL	110	169	152	12	32	7	0	0	9	0	1	8	15	.211	.261	.257	.517	44	39	6	3	4	2	0	798/D
1986	33	KCR	AL	67	54	47	1	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	6	5	.128	.226	.170	.397	10	8	2	0	1	0	0	79/8D4
8 Yrs				527	1048	947	109	239	34	5	7	91	13	14	73	86	.252	.308	.321	.629	74	304	29	6	14	8	1
162 Game Avg.				162	322	291	34	73	10	2	2	28	4	4	22	26	.252	.308	.321	.629	74	93	9	2	4	2	0

DET (5 yrs)				303	716	645	85	170	19	5	6	71	12	10	55	57	.264	.321	.336	.658	82	217	17	2	9	5	1
KCR (3 yrs)				224	332	302	24	69	15	0	1	20	1	4	18	29	.228	.278	.288	.566	57	87	12	4	5	3	0

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
1979	26	DET	AL	95	233	1	-2	-0	0	-3	-4	-0.4	8	3	0.3	.495	.497	0.3	-0.2	3	$	897/D
1980	27	DET	AL	30	66	-0	0	-0	2	-1	-0	0.0	2	2	0.2	.500	.500	0.0	0.1	0	$	/9D87
1981	28	DET	AL	71	197	-4	0	-0	4	-3	-2	-0.2	6	4	0.3	.496	.498	-0.1	0.2	-1	$	9/7D
1982	29	DET	AL	58	150	-11	-1	0	6	-2	-8	-0.8	5	-3	-0.3	.486	.495	-1.0	0.4	-9	$	9/78D
1983	30	DET	AL	49	70	-1	-1	0	1	-2	-3	-0.2	2	-1	0.0	.494	.498	-0.1	-0.1	-1	$	97/D8
1984	31	KCR	AL	47	109	-1	-0	-0	-2	-2	-6	-0.6	3	-2	-0.3	.487	.496	0.0	-0.4	-0	$	97/8
1985	32	KCR	AL	110	169	-12	0	-1	0	-4	-16	-1.6	5	-11	-1.1	.485	.490	-1.1	-0.3	-11	$202,500	798/D
1986	33	KCR	AL	67	54	-5	-0	-0	-2	-2	-10	-1.0	2	-8	-0.8	.485	.494	-0.6	-0.4	-6	$185,000	79/8D4
8 Seasons				527	1048	-33	-4	-2	9	-20	-49	-4.8	32	-17	-1.7	.490	.496	-2.6	-0.7	-26	$387,500

DET (5 yrs)				303	716	-15	-4	-1	13	-12	-17	-1.6	22	5	0.5	.494	.498	-0.9	0.4	-9	$
KCR (3 yrs)				224	332	-18	-0	-1	-4	-8	-32	-3.2	10	-22	-2.2	.485	.493	-1.7	-1.1	-17	$387,500

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
1979	26	DET	AL	233	163	28	4.6	104	.314	.296	.273	.349	.338	.390	.414	.739	.752	97	.487	-0.9	-0.1	.646	.188	.094	5.5
1980	27	DET	AL	66	45	8	4.8	100	.275	.255	.272	.364	.334	.364	.403	.727	.737	99	.518	0.3	0.0	.705	.309	.109	.0
1981	28	DET	AL	197	141	18	3.4	91	.262	.259	.260	.328	.325	.322	.378	.650	.702	86	.420	-2.7	-0.3	.540	.161	.063	1.3
1982	29	DET	AL	150	116	9	2.1	99	.246	.223	.264	.259	.328	.259	.403	.517	.731	43	.192	-11.1	-1.1	.366	.072	.036
1983	30	DET	AL	70	51	7	3.7	95	.293	.266	.262	.299	.324	.344	.395	.642	.719	79	.404	-2.2	-0.2	.542	.141	.078	.0
1984	31	KCR	AL	109	80	11	3.7	97	.319	.301	.264	.330	.326	.388	.398	.719	.724	99	.408	-0.2	-0.0	.544	.107	.087	1.0
1985	32	KCR	AL	169	133	10	2.0	98	.230	.211	.260	.261	.326	.257	.404	.517	.730	44	.181	-11.6	-1.2	.386	.092	.046
1986	33	KCR	AL	54	44	2	1.2	101	.143	.128	.263	.226	.331	.170	.410	.397	.740	10	.078	-5.9	-0.6	.326	.170	.043
8 Yrs				1048	773	93	3.2	98	.269	.252	.265	.308	.329	.321	.400	.629	.729	74	.350	-34.3	-3.4	.509	.145	.069	9.1
162 Game Avg.				322	238	29	3.2	98	.269	.252	.265	.308	.329	.321	.400	.629	.729	74	.350	-34.3	-3.4	.509	.145	.069	3

DET (5 yrs)				716	516	70	3.6	98	.279	.264	.266	.321	.331	.336	.399	.658	.729	82	.405	-16.6	-1.7	.550	.161	.073	8.0
KCR (3 yrs)				332	257	23	2.4	98	.247	.228	.262	.278	.327	.288	.403	.566	.729	57	.234	-17.7	-1.7	.426	.109	.060	1.0

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	IBB
1984	31	KCR	AL	ALCS	DET	L	3	5	5	1	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0
1985	32	KCR	AL	ALCS	TOR	W	5	0	0	0	0	0	0					0
1985	32	KCR	AL	WS	STL	W	6	3	3	0	2	1	1	.667	.667	1.667	2.333	5	0
2 Yrs (3 Series)							14	8	8	1	3	1	1	.375	.375	.750	1.125	6	0
2 ALCS							8	5	5	1	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0
1 WS							6	3	3	0	2	1	1	.667	.667	1.667	2.333	5	0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1979	26	DET	AL	233	1.7%	9.4%	7.3%	5.2%	19%	1.29	9.7	53.3	8.2	1.41	81%
1980	27	DET	AL	66	0.0%	7.6%	15.2%	6.1%	29%	0.50	11.0		9.2	0.67	77%
1981	28	DET	AL	197	1.0%	5.1%	9.1%	3.6%	16%	0.56	17.4	87.0	9.2	1.42	83%
1982	29	DET	AL	150	0.0%	9.3%	4.7%	2.7%	13%	2.00	9.9		9.9	1.04	84%
1983	30	DET	AL	70	0.0%	8.6%	4.3%	4.3%	18%	2.00	10.7		10.7	0.88	83%
1984	31	KCR	AL	109	0.9%	8.3%	3.7%	6.4%	23%	2.25	11.4	103.0	10.3	1.72	86%
1985	32	KCR	AL	169	0.0%	8.9%	4.7%	4.1%	22%	1.88	10.1		16.9	1.72	82%
1986	33	KCR	AL	54	0.0%	9.3%	11.1%	3.7%	33%	0.83	9.4		47.0	1.71	78%
8 Yrs				1048	0.7%	8.2%	7.0%	4.4%	19%	1.18	11.0	135.3	10.4	1.33	82%
MLB Averages					2.1%	13.5%	8.4%	6.7%	29%	1.60	6.6	42.8	8.4	1.08	74%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1979	26	DET	AL	-0.9	-0.1	252	0.0	4.2	-4.2	.99	0.5	-0.5	5.1	0.5	0.93	2.6	2.96	11
1980	27	DET	AL	0.3	0.0	71	-0.5	1.0	-1.5	1.01	-0.1	-0.5	-0.4	-0.0	0.87	-0.1	2.23	4
1981	28	DET	AL	-2.9	-0.3	206	0.2	3.6	-3.4	1.09	-0.5	0.7	-3.9	-0.4	0.97	-5.4	1.73	13
1982	29	DET	AL	-11.1	-1.1	153	-1.3	1.5	-2.8	.95	-1.1	-0.3	-5.4	-0.5	0.96	-11.7	0.69	7
1983	30	DET	AL	-2.2	-0.2	71	-0.1	1.1	-1.2	.94	-0.1	0.1	-1.4	-0.1	1.01	-2.4	1.22	15
1984	31	KCR	AL	-0.2	-0.0	115	0.0	1.8	-1.8	.88	-0.1	0.1	-1.3	-0.1	0.90	-1.5	1.51	8
1985	32	KCR	AL	-11.8	-1.2	173	-2.1	1.5	-3.6	1.03	-1.3	-0.7	-12.3	-1.2	0.93	-14.7	1.34	15
1986	33	KCR	AL	-6.0	-0.6	54	-1.0	0.2	-1.2	.96	-0.5	-0.5	-9.0	-0.9	0.92	-6.9	3.04	2
8 Yrs				-34.8	-3.4	1095	-4.8	14.9	-19.7	.99	-3.2	-1.6	-28.5	-2.9	0.94	-40.2	1.67	75

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1979	26	DET	AL	4	38%	97	9	6	60%	8	5	1	0	1	3	2	5	6	52%	15	7	8	1	1	0	11	4	6
1980	27	DET	AL	0	38%	39	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	5	22%	3	3	0	0	0	0	6	3	2
1981	28	DET	AL	1	27%	94	1	2	33%	1	2	0	0	0	3	1	2	6	37%	13	10	3	1	0	1	5	2	3
1982	29	DET	AL	1	40%	48	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	40%	7	3	3	4	3	1	4	2	2
1983	30	DET	AL	2	45%	26	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	27%	7	7	0	1	1	0	3	0	3
1984	31	KCR	AL	0	29%	42	1	3	25%	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	4	33%	7	5	2	3	2	1	5	1	2
1985	32	KCR	AL	2	28%	71	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	33%	14	10	4	4	2	1	9	3	4
1986	33	KCR	AL	2	8%	23	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20%	3	2	1	0	0	0	2	2	0
8 Yrs				12	33%	440	13	14	48%	12	12	1	1	1	7	3	15	27	37%	69	47	21	14	9	4	45	17	22

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
1979	26	DET	AL	233	62%	63			11	2	0	1	2.96	4	0	4	1	3	3	1	0	2	1	50%	39	5	13%	13	4	31%	135	23	17%	9	7	78%	5	5	100%	0
1980	27	DET	AL	66	73%	14			4	1	0	1	2.23	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		7	3	43%	5	1	20%	27	6	22%	5	2	40%	0	0		0
1981	28	DET	AL	197	69%	45			13	4	1	2	1.73	2	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	2	2	100%	36	6	17%	21	6	29%	107	17	16%	11	8	73%	5	2	40%	0
1982	29	DET	AL	150	36%	31			7	2	0	1	0.69	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	100%	27	2	7%	16	7	44%	99	17	17%	6	4	67%	4	3	75%	0
1983	30	DET	AL	70	70%	17			15	3	0	1	1.22	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	100%	15	1	7%	5	2	40%	47	6	13%	2	2	100%	1	0	0%	0
1984	31	KCR	AL	109	72%	31			8	2	0	1	1.51	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0		18	4	22%	9	3	33%	66	10	15%	4	1	25%	4	3	75%	0
1985	32	KCR	AL	169	57%	32			15	0	0	1	1.34	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	5	4	80%	31	6	19%	16	9	56%	93	10	11%	6	4	67%	12	9	75%	0
1986	33	KCR	AL	54	61%	6			2	0	0	0	3.04	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	11	2	18%	5	3	60%	30	1	3%	3	1	33%	0	0		0
8 Yrs				1048	61%	239			75	14	1	8	1.67	7	0	17	2	5	6	1	0	16	14	88%	184	29	16%	90	35	39%	604	90	15%	46	29	63%	31	22	71%	0
MLB Averages					58%																			81%			11%			35%			15%			52%			55%

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
1979	26	95	233	213	33	63	8	0	4	26	9	6	17	22	.296	.349	.390	.739	97	83	5	1	1	1	0
1980	27	125	299	268	42	77	10	2	4	32	10	6	27	27	.287	.352	.384	.737	98	103	8	1	1	2	0
1981	28	196	496	442	61	122	15	2	6	51	11	8	45	37	.276	.343	.360	.703	94	159	14	2	3	4	1
1982	29	254	646	581	76	153	18	3	6	65	11	10	52	51	.263	.323	.336	.659	82	195	16	2	6	5	1
1983	30	303	716	645	85	170	19	5	6	71	12	10	55	57	.264	.321	.336	.658	82	217	17	2	9	5	1
1984	31	350	825	748	96	201	25	5	7	81	13	13	59	66	.269	.322	.344	.666	84	257	21	3	9	6	1
1985	32	460	994	900	108	233	32	5	7	90	13	14	67	81	.259	.312	.329	.641	77	296	27	6	13	8	1
1986	33	527	1048	947	109	239	34	5	7	91	13	14	73	86	.252	.308	.321	.629	74	304	29	6	14	8	1

Neutralized Batting

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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	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1979	26	96	233	213	32	62	8	0	4	25	9	17	22	.291	.345	.385	.730	28	95
1980	27	30	68	56	10	15	2	2	0	7	1	11	5	.268	.382	.375	.757	8	30
1981	28	107	307	269	33	74	8	0	3	33	2	30	15	.275	.349	.338	.687	32	71
1982	29	58	151	140	16	32	3	1	0	15	0	7	14	.229	.264	.264	.528	10	58
1983	30	49	71	65	10	18	1	2	0	6	1	3	6	.277	.309	.354	.663	7	49
1984	31	47	110	104	12	32	6	0	1	11	1	4	9	.308	.336	.394	.731	14	47
1985	32	110	169	152	12	32	7	0	0	9	0	8	15	.211	.261	.257	.517	10	110
1986	33	67	54	47	1	6	2	0	0	1	0	6	5	.128	.226	.170	.397	2	67
8 Yrs		564	1163	1046	126	271	37	5	8	107	14	86	91	.259	.317	.327	.644	111	527
162 Game Avg.		162	334	300	36	78	11	1	2	31	4	25	26	.259	.317	.327	.644	32	527

* 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.

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Name and misspellings: Lynn lunn Lynn Morris Jones

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

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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