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Ray Lamb

Raymond Richard Lamb

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: December 23, 1944 in Glendale, CA
School: University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 40th round of the 1966 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 1, 1969
Teams (by GP): Indians/Dodgers 1969-1973

Final Game: September 28, 1973
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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
1966	21	LAD-min	A-	12	3	.800	2.33	16	14					112.0	88	34	29	6	28		143						1.036	7.1	0.5	2.2	11.5	5.11	TRI · NORW
1967	22	LAD-min	AA	7	4	.636	4.03	19	8					76.0	82	36	34	8	15		58						1.276	9.7	0.9	1.8	6.9	3.87	ABQ · TL
1968	23	LAD-min	AA	6	9	.400	4.97	29	22					134.0	167	90	74	7	59		104						1.687	11.2	0.5	4.0	7.0	1.76	ABQ · TL
1969	24	LAD-min	AAA	6	2	.750	4.02	40	1		0	0	8	65.0	54	31	29	3	26	5	57	5	1	4			1.231	7.5	0.4	3.6	7.9	2.19	SPO · PCL
1969	24	LAD	NL	0	1	.000	1.80	10	0	5	0	0	1	15.0	12	3	3	2	7	0	11	0	0	0	60	190	1.267	7.2	1.2	4.2	6.6	1.57
1970	25	LAD	NL	6	1	.857	3.79	35	0	15	0	0	0	57.0	59	27	24	4	27	9	32	4	1	4	250	101	1.509	9.3	0.6	4.3	5.1	1.19
1971	26	CLE	AL	6	12	.333	3.35	43	21	6	3	1	1	158.1	147	67	59	11	69	7	91	1	2	5	679	114	1.364	8.4	0.6	3.9	5.2	1.32
1972	27	CLE	AL	5	6	.455	3.09	34	9	3	0	0	0	107.2	101	42	37	5	29	5	64	1	1	3	447	105	1.207	8.4	0.4	2.4	5.3	2.21
1973	28	CLE	AL	3	3	.500	4.60	32	1	6	0	0	2	86.0	98	44	44	7	42	6	60	2	0	6	386	86	1.628	10.3	0.7	4.4	6.3	1.43
5 Yrs				20	23	.465	3.54	154	31	35	3	1	4	424.0	417	183	167	29	174	27	258	8	4	18	1822	104	1.394	8.9	0.6	3.7	5.5	1.48
162 Game Avg.				7	8	.465	3.54	57	11	13	1	0	1	156	153	67	61	11	64	10	95	3	1	7	670	104	1.394	8.9	0.6	3.7	5.5	1.48

CLE (3 yrs)				14	21	.400	3.58	109	31	15	3	1	3	352.0	346	153	140	23	140	18	215	4	3	14	1512	103	1.381	8.8	0.6	3.6	5.5	1.54
LAD (2 yrs)				6	2	.750	3.38	45	0	20	0	0	1	72.0	71	30	27	6	34	9	43	4	1	4	310	111	1.458	8.9	0.8	4.3	5.4	1.26

AL (3 yrs)				14	21	.400	3.58	109	31	15	3	1	3	352.0	346	153	140	23	140	18	215	4	3	14	1512	103	1.381	8.8	0.6	3.6	5.5	1.54
NL (2 yrs)				6	2	.750	3.38	45	0	20	0	0	1	72.0	71	30	27	6	34	9	43	4	1	4	310	111	1.458	8.9	0.8	4.3	5.4	1.26

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	24	LAD	NL	15.0	10	0	3	1.80	3.91	0.11	-0.17	92.1	3.35	2	0.3	.9	-0.0	0.4	4	.528	.502	$
1970	25	LAD	NL	57.0	35	0	27	4.26	4.63	0.27	-0.20	97.0	4.04	-2	-0.2	.8	-0.1	0.2	4	.493	.499	$10,000
1971	26	CLE	AL	158.2	43	21	67	3.80	3.95	-0.08	0.00	109.2	4.41	11	1.3	1.3	-0.1	2.6	26	.530	.508	$17,500
1972	27	CLE	AL	107.2	34	9	42	3.51	3.51	0.32	-0.06	104.6	3.28	-2	-0.2	.9	-0.1	0.6	6	.493	.499	$
1973	28	CLE	AL	86.0	32	1	44	4.60	4.39	-0.33	-0.36	103.4	4.51	-2	-0.2	1.3	-0.2	0.4	8	.495	.499	$
5 Seasons				424.1	154	31	183	3.88	4.02	0.02	-0.12	104.6	4.05	8	0.9	1.0	-0.5	4.2	48	.506	.501	$27,500

CLE (3 yrs)				352.1	109	31	153	3.91	3.92	-0.02	-0.10	106.4	4.09	7	0.9	1.1	-0.4	3.6	40	.508	.502	$17,500
LAD (2 yrs)				72.0	45	0	30	3.75	4.48	0.24	-0.19	96.0	3.89	0	0.1	.8	-0.1	0.6	8	.501	.500	$10,000

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	24	LAD	NL	10	60	51	3	12	2	0	2	0	1	7	11	.235	.328	.392	.720	.263	20	2	0	2	0	0	0
1970	25	LAD	NL	35	250	213	27	59	9	0	4	8	1	27	32	.277	.366	.376	.741	.307	80	8	4	4	2	9	4
1971	26	CLE	AL	43	680	596	67	147	21	1	11	10	6	69	91	.247	.323	.341	.664	.272	203	11	1	8	6	7	7
1972	27	CLE	AL	34	447	408	42	101	16	2	5	7	2	29	64	.248	.299	.333	.632	.283	136	9	1	9	0	5	5
1973	28	CLE	AL	32	386	337	44	98	14	1	7	7	4	42	60	.291	.369	.401	.769	.332	135	10	2	1	4	6	4
5 Yrs				154	1823	1605	183	417	62	4	29	32	14	174	258	.260	.333	.358	.691	.292	574	40	8	24	12	27	20
162 Game Avg.				57	670	590	67	153	23	1	11	12	5	64	95	.260	.333	.358	.691	.292	211	15	3	9	4	10	7
MLB Averages																.251	.320	.371	.690	.277

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	24	LAD	NL	3.1	0.3	62	-0.1	0.6	-0.8	.56	0.3	-0.5	2.8	0.3	0.56	1.8	2	4	4
1970	25	LAD	NL	0.2	0.0	264	0.3	3.1	-2.9	.81	0.1	0.3	3.7	0.4	0.81	-0.2	7	3	24
1971	26	CLE	AL	7.2	0.8	706	0.9	11.0	-10.1	.94	0.1	0.8	3.5	0.4	0.94	3.5	7	4	11
1972	27	CLE	AL	2.0	0.2	462	1.2	8.0	-6.8	1.04	0.9	0.2	6.3	0.7	1.04	6.1	4	7	13
1973	28	CLE	AL	-3.3	-0.3	403	-0.3	4.6	-4.8	.71	-0.5	0.2	-5.6	-0.6	0.71	-4.7	13	5	11
5 Yrs				9.3	1.0	1897	2.0	27.3	-25.3	.88	0.9	1.4	10.6	1.2	0.88	6.6	33	23	63

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
1971	26	CLE	AL	43	21	6	10	5	0	3	9	12	.429	2	2	3	1	12	57%	51.6	80	26	27	9	7	6	3.9	3.7	5.7
1972	27	CLE	AL	34	9	1	4	4	0	1	3	6	.333	1	2	0	0	5	56%	49.7	61	28	13	6	5	3	2.9	2.0	5.3
1973	28	CLE	AL	32	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0%	20.0	20	20	31	10	1	0	9.0		0.3
3 Yrs				109	31	7	15	9	0	4	12	19	.387	3	4	3	1	17	55%	50	80	20	71	25	13	9	3.8	3.2	5.4
MLB Averages													.500						56%	53	109	-3					4.1	4.0	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	24	LAD	NL	10	10	5	0	1	1	1	0	100%	3	2	9	4	44%	7	.559	2	4	4	3	1	6	5	5	4	2	4	0	4.5
1970	25	LAD	NL	35	35	15	6	1	0	0	0		2	2	15	4	27%	8	.814	7	3	24	4	4	27	10	25	20	5	21	7	4.9
1971	26	CLE	AL	43	22	6	0	2	1	1	0	100%	2	1	31	11	35%	7	.935	7	4	11	2	4	16	15	7	13	5	13	8	5.3
1972	27	CLE	AL	34	25	3	4	2	1	0	1	0%	2	1	16	0	0%	5	1.042	4	7	13	3	3	19	10	15	17	3	18	3	7.2
1973	28	CLE	AL	32	31	6	3	2	3	2	1	67%	7	2	39	15	38%	4	.713	13	5	11	7	4	20	23	8	27	3	28	6	8.3
5 Yrs				154	123	35	13	8	6	4	2	67%	16	8	110	34	31%		.885	33	23	63	19	16	88	63	60	81	18	84	24	6.3

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1969	24	LAD	NL	60	75%	3.3%	18.3%	11.7%	6.7%	33%	1.91	63%	8	2	25%
1970	25	LAD	NL	250	68%	1.6%	12.8%	10.8%	5.2%	22%	1.31	72%	55	8	15%
1971	26	CLE	AL	680	53%	1.6%	13.4%	10.2%	4.9%	22%	0.99	74%	143	11	8%
1972	27	CLE	AL	447	61%	1.1%	14.3%	6.5%	5.2%	23%	1.60	76%	82	9	11%
1973	28	CLE	AL	386	67%	1.8%	15.5%	10.9%	5.7%	22%	1.26	71%	80	10	13%
5 Yrs				1823	61%	1.6%	14.2%	9.5%	5.2%	23%	1.24	73%	368	40	11%
MLB Averages					46%	2.1%	14.7%	8.8%	6.0%	27%	1.11	73%			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	24	LAD	NL	60	12			2	0	1	2	0	2	0	4	2	2	50%	0	0	1	22	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1970	25	LAD	NL	250	59			4	0	12	2	2	2	2	20	7	2	35%	4	4	0	104	8	1	89%	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
1971	26	CLE	AL	680	147			11	0	23	6	5	9	2	42	23	8	55%	7	5	3	258	10	6	63%	10	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	27	0
1972	27	CLE	AL	447	101			5	0	6	3	2	4	1	20	9	3	45%	5	3	0	169	7	2	78%	7	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	0
1973	28	CLE	AL	386	98			7	0	12	5	2	5	2	27	16	3	59%	4	6	0	158	7	4	64%	7	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	15	0
5 Yrs				1823	417			29	0	54	18	11	22	7	113	57	18	50%	20	18	4	711	32	14	70%	32	13	0	0	0	1	1	1	58	0
MLB Averages																		49%							63%

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	24	0	1	.000	1.80	10	0	5	0	0	1	15.0	12	3	3	2	7	0	11	0	0	0	60	190	1.267	7.2	1.2	4.2	6.6	1.57	190
1970	25	6	2	.750	3.38	45	0	20	0	0	1	72.0	71	30	27	6	34	9	43	4	1	4	310	111	1.458	8.9	0.8	4.3	5.4	1.26	111
1971	26	12	14	.462	3.36	88	21	26	3	1	2	230.1	218	97	86	17	103	16	134	5	3	9	989	113	1.394	8.5	0.7	4.0	5.2	1.30	113
1972	27	17	20	.459	3.28	122	30	29	3	1	2	338.0	319	139	123	22	132	21	198	6	4	12	1436	111	1.334	8.5	0.6	3.5	5.3	1.50	111
1973	28	20	23	.465	3.54	154	31	35	3	1	4	424.0	417	183	167	29	174	27	258	8	4	18	1822	104	1.394	8.9	0.6	3.7	5.5	1.48	104

Neutralized Pitching

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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	24	1	0	1.000	2.77	13.0	13	4	4	2	8	10	0	1.615	9.0	5.5	6.9	1.25	1.4	10
1970	25	2	3	.400	4.25	53.0	60	28	25	4	27	30	4	1.642	10.2	4.6	5.1	1.11	0.7	35
1971	26	9	8	.529	3.65	153.0	151	69	62	11	71	88	1	1.451	8.9	4.2	5.2	1.24	0.6	43
1972	27	5	6	.455	3.99	106.0	116	52	47	6	33	63	1	1.406	9.8	2.8	5.3	1.91	0.5	34
1973	28	3	5	.375	5.29	80.0	101	52	47	7	43	56	2	1.800	11.4	4.8	6.3	1.30	0.8	32
5 Yrs		20	22	.476	4.11	405.0	441	205	185	30	182	247	8	1.538	9.8		5.5	1.36	0.7	154

* 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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