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Jeff Lahti

Jeffrey Allen Lahti

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: October 8, 1956 in Oregon City, OR
School: Portland State University
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 5th round of the 1978 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 27, 1982
Team: Cardinals 1982-1986

Final Game: April 24, 1986
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Dec 23, 2011, 8:36AM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Cy Young… #3. Greg Maddux… #4. Christy Mathewson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Randy Johnson… 

Standard Pitching

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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 IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
1982 25 STL NL 5 4 .556 3.81 33 1 9 0 0 0 56.2 53 27 24 3 21 8 22 2 2 3 245 96 1.306 8.4 0.5 3.3 3.5 1.05
1983 26 STL NL 3 3 .500 3.16 53 0 13 0 0 0 74.0 64 31 26 2 29 12 26 1 2 3 305 116 1.257 7.8 0.2 3.5 3.2 0.90
1984 27 STL NL 4 2 .667 3.72 63 0 19 0 0 1 84.2 69 36 35 6 34 12 45 2 0 0 353 95 1.217 7.3 0.6 3.6 4.8 1.32
1985 28 STL NL 5 2 .714 1.84 52 0 31 0 0 19 68.1 63 15 14 3 26 10 41 0 0 1 279 194 1.302 8.3 0.4 3.4 5.4 1.58
1986 29 STL NL 0 0 0.00 4 0 1 0 0 0 2.1 3 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 10 1.714 11.6 0.0 3.9 11.6 3.00
5 Seasons 17 11 .607 3.12 205 1 73 0 0 20 286.0 252 109 99 14 111 42 137 5 4 7 1192 116 1.269 7.9 0.4 3.5 4.3 1.23
162 Game Avg. 6 4 .607 3.12 68 0 24 0 0 7 94 83 36 33 5 37 14 45 2 1 2 393 116 1.269 7.9 0.4 3.5 4.3 1.23

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg IP GS R Rrep Rdef aLI RAR WAR Salary Awards
1982 25 STL NL 56.2 1 27 29 2 1.1 2 -0.2 $
1983 26 STL NL 74.0 0 31 41 0 .9 10 0.5 $
1984 27 STL NL 84.2 0 36 45 1 .9 9 0.4 $
1985 28 STL NL 68.1 0 15 34 2 1.6 19 2.2 $250,000
1986 29 STL NL 2.1 0 0 1 0 .8 1 0.1 $450,000
5 Seasons 286.0 1 109 150 5 1.1 41 3.0 $700,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
1982 25 STL NL WS W MIL 0 0 10.80 2 0 2 0 0 0 1.2 4 2 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 10 3.000 21.6 0.0 5.4 5.4 1.00
1985 28 STL NL NLCS W LAD 1 0 1.000 0.00 2 0 2 0 0 0 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 1.000 9.0 0.0 0.0 4.5
1985 28 STL NL WS L KCR 0 0 12.27 3 0 2 0 0 1 3.2 10 6 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 20 2.727 24.5 0.0 0.0 4.9
2 Seasons (3 Series) 1 0 1.000 8.59 7 0 6 0 0 1 7.1 16 8 7 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 38 2.318 19.6 0.0 1.2 4.9 4.00
1 NLCS 1 0 1.000 0.00 2 0 2 0 0 0 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 1.000 9.0 0.0 0.0 4.5
2 WS 0 0 11.81 5 0 4 0 0 1 5.1 14 8 7 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 30 2.813 23.6 0.0 1.7 5.1 3.00

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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
1982 25 STL NL 33 13 13 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 8 .077 .077 .077 .154 -57 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1983 26 STL NL 53 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1984 27 STL NL 63 7 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .167 .167 .167 .333 -5 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
1985 28 STL NL 52 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1986 29 STL NL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
5 Seasons 205 39 38 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 20 .053 .053 .053 .105 -70 2 0 0 1 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 31 30 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 16 .053 .053 .053 .105 -70 2 0 0 1 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1982 25 STL NL 13 -3 -1 1 0 0 1 0 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $ 1
1983 26 STL NL 10 -3 0 0 0 0 1 0 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $ 1
1984 27 STL NL 7 -1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ 1
1985 28 STL NL 9 -3 0 0 0 0 1 0 -2 -0.2 -2 -0.2 0.0 $250,000 1
4 Seasons 39 -10 -1 1 0 0 4 0 -6 -0.6 -6 -0.6 0.0 $250,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1985 28 STL NL NLCS LAD W 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1985 28 STL NL WS KCR L 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Season (2 Series) 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 WS 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% PO Awards
1982 STL NL 25 P 33 1 0 56.2 25 9 15 1 1 .960 3.81 0.73 .952 1.95 1.97 6 0 0% 0
1983 STL NL 26 P 53 0 0 74.0 20 6 14 0 3 1.000 2.43 0.38 .952 1.92 1.91 11 2 15% 1
1984 STL NL 27 P 63 0 0 84.2 20 4 15 1 1 .950 2.02 0.30 .954 1.88 1.87 7 0 0% 0
1985 STL NL 28 P 52 0 0 68.1 15 5 9 1 1 .933 1.84 0.27 .953 1.92 1.92 3 1 25% 0
1986 STL NL 29 P 4 0 0 2.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.93 1.95 0 0 0
5 Seasons P 205 1 0 286.0 80 24 53 3 6 .963 2.42 0.38 .953 1.92 1.91 27 3 10% 1
5 Seasons TOT 205 1 0 286.0 80 24 53 3 6 .963 2.42 0.38 .953 1.92 1.91 27 3 10% 1
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Games Played s c a p y
1984 NL  63 (10th)

Saves s c a p y
1985 NL  19 (7th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1985 NL  3.9 (4th)

Range Factor/9Inn as P† s c a p y
1982 NL  3.81 (1st)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, 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

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkPitching - 4 (1971), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 10 (959), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Similarity Scores

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  3. Jim Todd (984)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Tim Stoddard (981)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
198528St. Louis Cardinals$250,0001985 USA Today survey
198629St. Louis Cardinals$450,0001986 USA Today survey
198730St. Louis Cardinals$450,0001987 USA Today surveyMissed entire season with injury
Career to date (may be incomplete)$1,150,000
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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