Dennis Lewallyn

Dennis Dale Lewallyn

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: August 11, 1953 in Pensacola, FL
High School: Escambia HS (Pensacola, FL)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1st round (8th pick) of the 1972 amateur draft (January Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: September 21, 1975
Teams (by GP): Dodgers/Indians/Rangers 1975-1982

Final Game: April 27, 1982
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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
1972	18	LAD-min	A	11	6	.647	3.70	22	21		6	0	0	146.0	120	65	60	5	75	3	122	6	0	9			1.336	7.4	0.3	4.6	7.5	1.63	DYB · FLOR
1973	19	LAD-min	A	11	12	.478	3.86	29	27					175.0	167	95	75	7	76								1.389	8.6	0.4	3.9			BAK · CALL
1974	20	LAD-min	AA	7	10	.412	4.30	27	23		8	1	0	138.0	140	76	66	10	43	2	75	3	0	7			1.326	9.1	0.7	2.8	4.9	1.74	WBY · EL
1975	21	LAD-min	AAA	13	10	.565	3.90	29	28		12	3	0	180.0	207	102	78	9	49	5	81	0	0	3			1.422	10.4	0.4	2.4	4.0	1.65	ABQ · PCL
1975	21	LAD	NL	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	0	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10		0.333	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1976	22	LAD-min	AAA	15	10	.600	3.55	25	25		13	2	0	180.0	207	98	71	12	61	2	62	1	0	4			1.489	10.4	0.6	3.0	3.1	1.02	ABQ · PCL
1976	22	LAD	NL	1	1	.500	2.16	4	2	1	0	0	0	16.2	12	5	4	1	6	0	4	0	0	1	67	160	1.080	6.5	0.5	3.2	2.2	0.67
1977	23	LAD-min	AAA	13	12	.520	6.22	28	27		8	0	0	175.0	252	146	121	20	60	4	59	0	1	3			1.783	13.0	1.0	3.1	3.0	0.98	ABQ · PCL
1977	23	LAD	NL	3	1	.750	4.24	5	1	2	0	0	1	17.0	22	8	8	1	4	1	8	0	0	1	76	93	1.529	11.6	0.5	2.1	4.2	2.00
1978	24	LAD-min	AAA	8	10	.444	5.29	52	0		0	0	13	85.0	96	56	50	7	39	10	52	2	1	0			1.588	10.2	0.7	4.1	5.5	1.33	ABQ · PCL
1978	24	LAD	NL	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8		1.000	9.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1979	25	LAD-min	AAA	10	8	.556	3.74	43	10		3	1	14	125.0	139	66	52	7	36	7	71	2	0	6			1.400	10.0	0.5	2.6	5.1	1.97	ABQ · PCL
1979	25	LAD	NL	0	1	.000	5.11	7	0	4	0	0	0	12.1	19	8	7	0	5	3	1	1	0	0	61	73	1.946	13.9	0.0	3.6	0.7	0.20
1980	26	LAD-min	AAA	15	2	.882	2.13	55	1		1	1	24	127.0	110	33	30	5	40	7	58	5	0	1			1.181	7.8	0.4	2.8	4.1	1.45	ABQ · PCL
1980	26	TEX	AL	0	0		7.94	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.2	7	5	5	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	27	52	1.941	11.1	0.0	6.4	1.6	0.25
1981	27	TEX-min	AAA	8	5	.615	3.44	52	0	44	0	0	25	68.0	68	27	26	3	31	7	45	0	0	3			1.456	9.0	0.4	4.1	6.0	1.45	WCH · AA
1981	27	CLE	AL	0	0		5.40	7	0	4	0	0	0	13.1	16	8	8	1	2	0	11	0	0	0	57	70	1.350	10.8	0.7	1.4	7.4	5.50
1982	28	CLE-min	AAA	1	5	.167	4.24	41	2	26	1	0	7	93.1	95	51	44	6	28	3	55	1	1	3			1.318	9.2	0.6	2.7	5.3	1.96	CHL · IL
1982	28	CLE	AL	0	1	.000	6.97	4	0	1	0	0	0	10.1	13	8	8	3	1	0	3	0	0	0	45	61	1.355	11.3	2.6	0.9	2.6	3.00
1987	33	LAD-min	AA	0	1	.000	1.23	4	0	4	0	0	0	7.1	8	1	1	0	5	3	7	0	0	0			1.773	9.8	0.0	6.1	8.6	1.40	SAN · TL
8 Yrs				4	4	.500	4.48	34	3	15	0	0	1	80.1	92	42	40	6	22	5	28	1	0	2	351	86	1.419	10.3	0.7	2.5	3.1	1.27
162 Game Avg.				7	7	.500	4.48	62	6	28	0	0	2	148	169	77	74	11	40	9	51	2	0	4	645	86	1.419	10.3	0.7	2.5	3.1	1.27

LAD (5 yrs)				4	3	.571	3.35	19	3	9	0	0	1	51.0	56	21	19	2	15	4	13	1	0	2	222	112	1.392	9.9	0.4	2.6	2.3	0.87
CLE (2 yrs)				0	1	.000	6.08	11	0	5	0	0	0	23.2	29	16	16	4	3	0	14	0	0	0	102	66	1.352	11.0	1.5	1.1	5.3	4.67
TEX (1 yr)				0	0		7.94	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.2	7	5	5	0	4	1	1	0	0	0	27	52	1.941	11.1	0.0	6.4	1.6	0.25

NL (5 yrs)				4	3	.571	3.35	19	3	9	0	0	1	51.0	56	21	19	2	15	4	13	1	0	2	222	112	1.392	9.9	0.4	2.6	2.3	0.87
AL (3 yrs)				0	1	.000	6.44	15	0	6	0	0	0	29.1	36	21	21	4	7	1	15	0	0	0	129	62	1.466	11.0	1.2	2.1	4.6	2.14

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
1975	21	LAD	NL	3.0	2	0	0	0.00	4.42	0.55	-0.36	86.8	3.05	1	0.1	.1	-0.1	0.1	1	.557	.501	$
1976	22	LAD	NL	16.2	4	2	5	2.70	3.81	0.39	0.04	101.3	3.51	1	0.2	.3	-0.0	0.3	3	.540	.501	$
1977	23	LAD	NL	17.0	5	1	8	4.24	4.35	0.08	-0.13	102.3	4.23	-0	-0.0	1.5	-0.0	0.1	2	.497	.500	$
1978	24	LAD	NL	2.0	1	0	0	0.00	4.08	0.03	-0.33	96.0	3.57	1	0.1	.5	-0.0	0.1	1	.593	.501	$
1979	25	LAD	NL	12.1	7	0	8	5.84	3.90	-0.30	-0.31	93.8	3.65	-3	-0.3	1.8	-0.2	-0.4	-2	.454	.498	$
1980	26	TEX	AL	5.2	4	0	5	7.94	4.50	-0.65	-0.36	95.6	4.57	-2	-0.2	1.8	-0.1	-0.3	-2	.447	.499	$
1981	27	CLE	AL	13.1	7	0	8	5.40	4.19	-0.53	-0.33	105.4	4.63	-1	-0.1	.8	-0.0	0.0	-0	.482	.499	$
1982	28	CLE	AL	10.1	4	0	8	6.97	5.39	-0.15	-0.42	101.6	5.19	-2	-0.2	1.1	-0.0	-0.1	-1	.450	.499	$
8 Seasons				80.1	34	3	42	4.71	4.28	-0.08	-0.22	100.0	4.15	-5	-0.5	1.2	-0.4	-0.2	2	.485	.500	$

LAD (5 yrs)				51.0	19	3	21	3.71	4.06	0.11	-0.14	98.8	3.76	-0	0.0	1.3	-0.3	0.2	5	.502	.500	$
CLE (2 yrs)				23.2	11	0	16	6.08	4.72	-0.36	-0.37	103.7	4.88	-3	-0.3	.9	-0.0	-0.1	-1	.471	.499	$
TEX (1 yr)				5.2	4	0	5	7.94	4.50	-0.65	-0.36	95.6	4.57	-2	-0.2	1.8	-0.1	-0.3	-2	.447	.499	$

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
1975	21	LAD	NL	2	10	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	.100	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
1976	22	LAD	NL	4	67	58	5	12	1	0	1	1	2	6	4	.207	.281	.276	.557	.208	16	0	0	3	0	0	2
1977	23	LAD	NL	5	76	72	8	22	1	1	1	0	0	4	8	.306	.342	.389	.731	.333	28	1	0	0	0	1	0
1978	24	LAD	NL	1	8	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	.250	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
1979	25	LAD	NL	7	61	53	8	19	1	0	0	0	0	5	1	.358	.417	.377	.794	.358	20	1	1	1	1	3	1
1980	26	TEX	AL	4	27	23	5	7	2	0	0	1	1	4	1	.304	.407	.391	.799	.318	9	0	0	0	0	1	0
1981	27	CLE	AL	7	57	54	8	16	3	0	1	2	1	2	11	.296	.316	.407	.723	.349	22	1	0	0	1	0	1
1982	28	CLE	AL	4	45	42	8	13	2	1	3	1	0	1	3	.310	.311	.619	.930	.263	26	0	0	0	2	0	0
8 Yrs				34	351	320	42	92	10	2	6	5	4	22	28	.288	.331	.388	.719	.297	124	3	1	4	4	5	4
162 Game Avg.				62	645	588	77	169	18	4	11	9	7	40	51	.288	.331	.388	.719	.297	228	6	2	7	7	9	7
MLB Averages																.261	.325	.383	.708	.283

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1975	21	LAD	NL	1.4	0.2	10	0.0	0.0	-0.0	.08	0.2	0.1	1.3	0.1	0.08	1.8	0	0	2
1976	22	LAD	NL	2.3	0.3	71	0.1	0.7	-0.6	.53	0.2	0.0	3.1	0.4	0.53	2.0	0	0	2
1977	23	LAD	NL	-0.2	-0.0	77	0.1	1.5	-1.5	1.12	0.2	-0.1	-0.8	-0.1	1.12	0.5	2	2	0
1978	24	LAD	NL	1.0	0.1	8	0.1	0.1	-0.0	.62	0.1	0.0	0.9	0.1	0.62	0.7	0	0	1
1979	25	LAD	NL	-1.9	-0.2	61	-0.4	0.9	-1.2	1.17	-0.2	-0.1	-5.9	-0.6	1.17	-2.8	3	2	2
1980	26	TEX	AL	-2.2	-0.2	29	-0.3	0.3	-0.6	.71	-0.1	-0.3	-1.7	-0.2	0.71	-0.9	1	1	2
1981	27	CLE	AL	-2.0	-0.2	60	0.0	0.4	-0.4	.43	-0.0	0.1	-3.0	-0.3	0.43	-2.2	2	1	2
1982	28	CLE	AL	-2.7	-0.3	46	-0.2	1.0	-1.2	1.24	-0.3	0.1	-1.9	-0.2	1.24	-4.3	1	2	1
8 Yrs				-4.2	-0.4	362	-0.7	4.8	-5.5	.84	-0.1	-0.7	-8.0	-0.7	0.84	-5.1	9	8	12

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
1976	22	LAD	NL	4	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	.500	0	0	0	0	1	50%	54.0	65	43	2	1	0	2	5.3	6.2	6.8
1977	23	LAD	NL	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	1	100%	46.0	46	46	2	0	0	1	20.3	27.0	7.0
2 Yrs				9	3	2	1	0	0	0	2	1	.667	0	0	0	0	2	67%	51	65	43	4	1	0	3	10.1	12.8	6.9
MLB Averages													.500						53%	51	105	-13					4.3	4.2	6.4

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
1975	21	LAD	NL	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		7	.084	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	4.5
1976	22	LAD	NL	4	2	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		7	.534	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	4.5
1977	23	LAD	NL	5	4	2	2	1	2	1	1	50%	2	0	0	0		3	1.119	2	2	0	2	1	1	0	4	2	0	2	0	7.5
1978	24	LAD	NL	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		3	.617	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	6.0
1979	25	LAD	NL	7	7	4	0	1	0	0	0		1	1	7	4	57%	7	1.175	3	2	2	1	3	3	3	4	4	2	4	4	5.3
1980	26	TEX	AL	4	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	0%	1	0	7	2	29%	4	.712	1	1	2	1	0	3	4	0	2	2	3	1	4.3
1981	27	CLE	AL	7	7	4	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	8	5	63%	8	.434	2	1	2	2	1	4	4	3	5	1	5	0	5.7
1982	28	CLE	AL	4	4	1	0	1	0	0	0		1	1	6	2	33%	4	1.237	1	2	1	1	0	3	4	0	3	1	3	0	7.8
8 Yrs				34	31	15	2	3	3	1	2	33%	5	2	28	13	46%		.849	9	8	12	7	5	19	15	16	19	6	20	5	5.8

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1975	21	LAD	NL	10	50%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%	1.25	100%	0	0
1976	22	LAD	NL	67	67%	1.5%	6.0%	9.0%	3.0%	17%	0.83	79%	12	0	0%
1977	23	LAD	NL	76	63%	1.3%	10.5%	5.3%	4.0%	14%	1.15	83%	10	1	10%
1978	24	LAD	NL	8	88%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0.0%	0%	2.00	100%	3	0	0%
1979	25	LAD	NL	61	66%	0.0%	1.6%	8.2%	1.6%	5%	1.50	87%	17	1	6%
1980	26	TEX	AL	27	63%	0.0%	3.7%	14.8%	7.4%	29%	1.50	81%	4	0	0%
1981	27	CLE	AL	57	54%	1.8%	19.3%	3.5%	7.0%	25%	1.00	75%	10	1	10%
1982	28	CLE	AL	45	62%	6.7%	6.7%	2.2%	13.3%	46%	1.15	84%	5	0	0%
8 Yrs				351	63%	1.7%	8.0%	6.3%	5.1%	20%	1.14	83%	61	3	5%
MLB Averages					44%	1.9%	12.8%	8.5%	6.4%	28%	1.10	75%			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
1975	21	LAD	NL	10	1			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1976	22	LAD	NL	67	12			1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	0		2	1	0	26	1	2	33%	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1977	23	LAD	NL	76	22			1	0	3	0	1	1	0	2	0	2	0%	0	1	0	24	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1978	24	LAD	NL	8	2			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	4	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1979	25	LAD	NL	61	19			0	0	4	0	0	0	0	6	3	0	50%	1	0	0	28	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1980	26	TEX	AL	27	7			0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	100%	0	0	0	12	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1981	27	CLE	AL	57	16			1	0	3	0	1	0	1	7	4	2	57%	1	0	0	23	2	1	67%	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
1982	28	CLE	AL	45	13			3	0	0	3	0	2	1	4	3	0	75%	0	0	0	15	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
8 Yrs				351	92			6	0	11	4	2	3	3	20	12	4	60%	4	2	0	133	5	4	56%	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
MLB Averages																		53%							65%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1975	21	0	0		0.00	2	0	2	0	3.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10		0.333	3.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
1976	22	1	1	.500	1.83	6	2	3	0	19.2	13	5	4	1	6	0	4	0	1	77	193	0.966	5.9	0.5	2.7	1.8	0.67	193
1977	23	4	2	.667	2.95	11	3	5	1	36.2	35	13	12	2	10	1	12	0	2	153	126	1.227	8.6	0.5	2.5	2.9	1.20	126
1978	24	4	2	.667	2.79	12	3	5	1	38.2	37	13	12	2	10	1	12	0	2	161	134	1.216	8.6	0.5	2.3	2.8	1.20	134
1979	25	4	3	.571	3.35	19	3	9	1	51.0	56	21	19	2	15	4	13	1	2	222	112	1.392	9.9	0.4	2.6	2.3	0.87	112
1980	26	4	3	.571	3.81	23	3	10	1	56.2	63	26	24	2	19	5	14	1	2	249	99	1.447	10.0	0.3	3.0	2.2	0.74	99
1981	27	4	3	.571	4.11	30	3	14	1	70.0	79	34	32	3	21	5	25	1	2	306	92	1.429	10.2	0.4	2.7	3.2	1.19	92
1982	28	4	4	.500	4.48	34	3	15	1	80.1	92	42	40	6	22	5	28	1	2	351	86	1.419	10.3	0.7	2.5	3.1	1.27	86

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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
1975	21	0	0		0.00	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	2
1976	22	1	0	1.000	2.81	16.0	13	6	5	1	6	4	0	1.188	7.3	3.4	2.3	0.67	0.6	4
1977	23	0	1	.000	4.50	16.0	23	9	8	1	4	8	0	1.688	12.9	2.3	4.5	2.00	0.6	5
1978	24	0	0		0.00	3.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	1
1979	25	0	1	.000	6.00	12.0	20	9	8	0	5	1	1	2.083	15.0	3.8	0.8	0.20	0.0	7
1980	26	0	0		10.80	5.0	7	7	6	0	4	1	0	2.200	12.6	7.2	1.8	0.25	0.0	4
1981	27	1	1	.500	6.16	19.0	26	14	13	2	3	16	0	1.526	12.3	1.4	7.6	5.33	0.9	7
1982	28	0	1	.000	7.20	10.0	13	9	8	3	1	3	0	1.400	11.7	0.9	2.7	3.00	2.7	4
8 Yrs		2	4	.333	5.14	84.0	102	54	48	7	23	33	1	1.488	10.9		3.5	1.43	0.8	34

* 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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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.
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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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