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Ray Narleski

Raymond Edmond Narleski

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: November 25, 1928 in Camden, NJ
High School: Collingswood HS (Collingswood, NJ)
Signed by the Cleveland Indians as an amateur free agent in 1948. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1954
Teams (by GP): Indians/Tigers 1954-1959

Final Game: September 26, 1959
Died: March 29, 2012 in Clementon, NJ
Buried: Eglington Cemetery, Clarksboro, NJ
Relatives: Son of Bill Narleski
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All-Star

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
1948	19	CLE-min	A	2	10	.167	4.37	20	13					103.0	94	62	50		76								1.650	8.2		6.6			WKB · EL
1949		Did not play in major leagues (Out of Baseball)
1950	21	CLE-min	B	9	5	.643	3.57	17						111.0	77	54	44	6	91								1.514	6.2	0.5	7.4			CDR · IIIL
1951	22	CLE-min	AA	15	8	.652	2.42	33	32					242.0	175	75	65		130								1.260	6.5		4.8			DAL · TL
1952	23	CLE-min	AAA	11	15	.423	4.67	41	24		9	1		181.0	180	108	94		117		132	3	0	11			1.641	9.0		5.8	6.6	1.13	INA · AA
1953	24	CLE-min	AAA	6	8	.429	4.36	33	10		3	1		97.0	95	52	47	5	38		71	3	0	4			1.371	8.8	0.5	3.5	6.6	1.87	INA · AA
1954	25	CLE	AL	3	3	.500	2.22	42	2	19	1	0	13	89.0	59	25	22	8	44		52	2	1	2	362	166	1.157	6.0	0.8	4.4	5.3	1.18
1955	26	CLE	AL	9	1	.900	3.71	60	1	36	1	0	19	111.2	91	47	46	11	52	3	94	0	0	3	471	108	1.281	7.3	0.9	4.2	7.6	1.81	MVP-6
1956	27	CLE	AL	3	2	.600	1.52	32	0	21	0	0	4	59.1	36	11	10	5	19	0	42	1	0	0	234	279	0.927	5.5	0.8	2.9	6.4	2.21	AS
1957	28	CLE	AL	11	5	.688	3.09	46	15	24	7	1	16	154.1	136	65	53	15	70	6	93	4	0	1	662	122	1.335	7.9	0.9	4.1	5.4	1.33
1958	29	CLE	AL	13	10	.565	4.07	44	24	11	7	0	1	183.1	179	87	83	21	91	10	102	3	2	6	806	91	1.473	8.8	1.0	4.5	5.0	1.12	AS
1959	30	DET	AL	4	12	.250	5.78	42	10	21	1	0	5	104.1	105	83	67	21	59	3	71	1	0	4	487	70	1.572	9.1	1.8	5.1	6.1	1.20
6 Yrs				43	33	.566	3.60	266	52	132	17	1	58	702.0	606	318	281	81	335	22	454	11	3	16	3022	107	1.340	7.8	1.0	4.3	5.8	1.36
162 Game Avg.				9	7	.566	3.60	57	11	28	4	0	12	150	130	68	60	17	72		97	2	1	3	646	107	1.340	7.8	1.0	4.3	5.8	1.36

CLE (5 yrs)				39	21	.650	3.22	224	42	111	16	1	53	597.2	501	235	214	60	276	19	383	10	3	12	2535	119	1.300	7.5	0.9	4.2	5.8	1.39
DET (1 yr)				4	12	.250	5.78	42	10	21	1	0	5	104.1	105	83	67	21	59	3	71	1	0	4	487	70	1.572	9.1	1.8	5.1	6.1	1.20

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	Awards
1954	25	CLE	AL	89.0	42	2	25	2.53	4.25	0.19	0.00	100.5	4.08	15	1.7	1.7	0.3	2.7	23	.541	.511	$
1955	26	CLE	AL	111.2	60	1	47	3.79	4.52	-0.30	0.00	102.5	4.94	13	1.4	1.8	0.2	2.5	24	.524	.509	$	MVP-6
1956	27	CLE	AL	59.0	32	0	11	1.68	4.72	0.04	0.00	101.2	4.73	20	2.1	1.1	0.0	2.6	26	.565	.513	$	AS
1957	28	CLE	AL	154.1	46	15	65	3.79	4.19	-0.27	0.00	99.7	4.45	12	1.3	2.7	0.2	2.7	24	.529	.508	$
1958	29	CLE	AL	183.1	44	24	87	4.27	4.28	-0.07	0.00	99.6	4.33	1	0.2	1.8	-0.1	1.4	17	.503	.501	$	AS
1959	30	DET	AL	104.1	42	10	83	7.16	4.38	0.08	0.00	104.7	4.50	-30	-3.0	1.5	-0.5	-2.7	-22	.429	.482	$
6 Seasons				701.2	266	52	318	4.08	4.34	-0.09	0.00	101.1	4.48	32	3.7	1.7	0.2	9.2	92	.514	.504	$

CLE (5 yrs)				597.1	224	42	235	3.54	4.34	-0.12	0.00	100.5	4.48	62	6.7	1.8	0.7	11.9	114	.530	.508	$
DET (1 yr)				104.1	42	10	83	7.16	4.38	0.08	0.00	104.7	4.50	-30	-3.0	1.5	-0.5	-2.7	-22	.429	.482	$

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
1954	25	CLE	AL	WS	L	NYG	0	0		2.25	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	14	0.500	2.3	0.0	2.3	4.5	2.00
1 WS							0	0		2.25	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	1	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	14	0.500	2.3	0.0	2.3	4.5	2.00

All-Star Pitching

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	GS	W	L	ERA	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
1956	CLE	AL	27

1958	CLE	AL	29	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	3.1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	0.600	2.7	0.0	2.7	0.0	0.00

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
1954	25	CLE	AL	42	363	313	25	59	9	2	8	4	4	44	52	.188	.292	.307	.599	.202	96	6	2	4	0		2
1955	26	CLE	AL	60	472	413	47	91	8	1	11	3	1	52	94	.220	.306	.324	.631	.258	134	6	0	5	2	3	3
1956	27	CLE	AL	32	235	212	11	36	3	3	5	3	0	19	42	.170	.240	.283	.523	.187	60	1	1	1	1	0	2
1957	28	CLE	AL	46	648	586	65	136	13	3	15	3	2	70	93	.232	.316	.341	.657	.251	200	9	4	5	5	6	11
1958	29	CLE	AL	44	807	703	87	179	27	2	21	7	7	91	102	.255	.341	.388	.730	.271	273	17	3	6	3	10	10
1959	30	DET	AL	42	488	414	83	105	10	1	21	6	2	59	71	.254	.343	.435	.778	.255	180	1	1	6	7	3	13
6 Yrs				266	3013	2641	318	606	70	12	81	26	16	335	454	.229	.317	.357	.674	.247	943	40	11	27	18	22	41
162 Game Avg.				57	644	565	68	130	15	3	17	6	3	72	97	.229	.317	.357	.674	.247	202	9	2	6	4		9
MLB Averages																.258	.328	.391	.720	.275

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1954	25	CLE	AL	14.5	1.5	375	2.4	7.2	-4.7	1.03	1.3	1.0	19.7	2.1	1.03	15.6	16	4	20
1955	26	CLE	AL	6.0	0.6	483	*6.1*	12.2	-6.1	1.26	1.6	3.3	13.0	1.3	1.26	15.3	28	11	20
1956	27	CLE	AL	17.8	1.8	238	1.5	4.7	-3.2	1.03	1.7	-0.2	24.4	2.5	1.03	18.0	8	9	14
1957	28	CLE	AL	8.8	0.9	660	*4.6*	16.4	-11.8	1.39	0.9	2.4	13.6	1.4	1.39	7.1	24	6	1
1958	29	CLE	AL	-5.1	-0.5	832	-3.0	13.2	-16.2	1.01	-0.9	-2.1	-4.6	-0.5	1.01	-9.2	8	5	7
1959	30	DET	AL	-21.7	-2.1	497	-3.6	7.6	-11.2	1.06	-1.9	-1.4	-35.2	-3.3	1.06	-22.1	13	6	12
6 Yrs				20.3	2.2	3085	8.1	61.4	-53.2	1.14	2.7	4.4	30.9	3.5	1.14	24.6	97	41	74

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
1954	25	CLE	AL	42	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	1	.500	0	1	1	0	1	50%	46.0	57	35	9	3	1	1	2.5	0.0	5.3
1955	26	CLE	AL	60	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.000	0	0	1	0	1	100%	72.0	72	72	15	2	1	0	3.0	3.0	9.0

1957	28	CLE	AL	46	15	6	4	5	0	2	8	7	.533	1	2	7	1	11	73%	54.9	76	17	7	0	9	5	4.6	4.0	7.1
1958	29	CLE	AL	44	24	11	9	4	1	2	14	10	.583	0	5	7	0	12	50%	50.1	82	27	20	7	10	6	5.2	5.3	6.4
1959	30	DET	AL	42	10	2	6	2	1	0	2	8	.200	1	1	1	0	2	20%	42.5	75	24	20	8	4	3	4.5	3.6	5.1
5 Yrs				234	52	20	20	12	2	5	26	26	.500	2	9	17	1	27	52%	50	82	17	71	20	25	15	4.7	4.4	6.4
MLB Averages													.500						50%	51	118	-2					4.4	4.4	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
1954	25	CLE	AL	42	40	19	3	2	16	13	3	81%	17	1	31	9	29%	7	1.026	16	4	20	19	4	17	15	25	26	5	26	7	5.9
1955	26	CLE	AL	60	59	36	8	1	21	19	2	90%	27	6	55	13	24%	9	1.260	28	11	20	29	6	24	31	28	35	11	37	19	5.2
1956	27	CLE	AL	32	32	21	3	2	2	4	2	200%	5	3	21	1	5%	8	1.026	8	9	14	7	4	21	11	21	18	4	18	5	5.5
1957	28	CLE	AL	46	31	24	5	1	16	16	0	100%	19	2	34	3	9%	9	1.393	24	6	1	20	7	4	18	13	18	9	19	4	4.6
1958	29	CLE	AL	44	20	11	2	1	3	1	2	33%	4	0	10	5	50%	8	1.013	8	5	7	4	6	10	5	15	12	5	12	3	4.5
1959	30	DET	AL	42	32	21	2	6	8	5	3	63%	9	1	15	10	67%	8	1.058	13	6	12	10	5	17	7	25	16	7	17	7	5.0
6 Yrs				266	214	132	23	13	66	58	12	88%	81	13	166	41	25%		1.143	97	41	74	89	32	93	87	127	125	41	129	45	5.2

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1954	25	CLE	AL	363	61%	2.2%	14.3%	12.1%	5.2%	32%	0.43	70%	71	6	8%
1955	26	CLE	AL	472	63%	2.3%	19.9%	11.0%	4.2%	22%	0.49	66%	105	6	6%
1956	27	CLE	AL	235	69%	2.1%	17.9%	8.1%	4.7%	31%	0.51	71%	32	1	3%
1957	28	CLE	AL	671	61%	2.3%	14.4%	10.8%	4.8%	23%	0.56	75%	141	9	6%
1958	29	CLE	AL	807	57%	2.6%	12.6%	11.3%	6.2%	28%	0.59	72%	165	17	10%
1959	30	DET	AL	488	63%	4.3%	14.6%	12.1%	6.6%	31%	0.70	67%	106	1	1%
6 Yrs				3036	61%	2.7%	15.1%	11.1%	5.4%	27%	0.55	70%	620	40	6%
MLB Averages					52%	2.4%	12.6%	9.4%	6.7%	28%	0.98	77%			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
1954	25	CLE	AL	363	59			8	0	18	5	3	6	2	26	13	4	50%	2	2	0	129	4	4	50%	2	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	4	0
1955	26	CLE	AL	472	91			11	1	22	8	3	4	7	30	13	5	43%	3	3	2	197	3	1	75%	3	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	11	0
1956	27	CLE	AL	235	36			5	0	7	2	3	4	1	8	1	2	13%	2	0	0	80	3	0	100%	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1957	28	CLE	AL	648	136			15	0	24	9	4	10	3	24	10	6	42%	11	1	1	267	3	2	60%	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	23
1958	29	CLE	AL	807	179			21	0	17	15	6	8	13	40	19	3	48%	10	6	2	313	7	7	50%	6	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	19	0
1959	30	DET	AL	488	105			21	4	16	16	5	12	9	33	18	5	55%	13	4	2	201	6	2	75%	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	16	0
6 Yrs				3013	606			81	5	104	55	24	44	35	161	74	25	46%	41	16	7	1187	26	16	62%	22	15	4	1	0	0	1	1	60	23
MLB Averages																		51%							57%

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+
1954	25	3	3	.500	2.22	42	2	19	1	0	13	89.0	59	25	22	8	44		52	2	1	2	362	166	1.157	6.0	0.8	4.4	5.3	1.18	166
1955	26	12	4	.750	3.05	102	3	55	2	0	32	200.2	150	72	68	19	96	3	146	2	1	5	833	127	1.226	6.7	0.9	4.3	6.5	1.52	127
1956	27	15	6	.714	2.70	134	3	76	2	0	36	260.0	186	83	78	24	115	3	188	3	1	5	1067	147	1.158	6.4	0.8	4.0	6.5	1.63	147
1957	28	26	11	.703	2.85	180	18	100	9	1	52	414.1	322	148	131	39	185	9	281	7	1	6	1729	136	1.224	7.0	0.8	4.0	6.1	1.52	136
1958	29	39	21	.650	3.22	224	42	111	16	1	53	597.2	501	235	214	60	276	19	383	10	3	12	2535	119	1.300	7.5	0.9	4.2	5.8	1.39	119
1959	30	43	33	.566	3.60	266	52	132	17	1	58	702.0	606	318	281	81	335	22	454	11	3	16	3022	107	1.340	7.8	1.0	4.3	5.8	1.36	107

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
1954	25	6	3	.667	2.56	88.0	64	28	25	9	48	51	2	1.273	6.5	4.9	5.2	1.06	0.9	42
1955	26	6	6	.500	3.68	115.0	94	52	47	11	54	97	0	1.287	7.4	4.2	7.6	1.80	0.9	60
1956	27	6	1	.857	1.43	63.0	36	11	10	5	19	45	1	0.873	5.1	2.7	6.4	2.37	0.7	32
1957	28	10	7	.588	3.40	156.0	147	66	59	16	76	94	4	1.429	8.5	4.4	5.4	1.24	0.9	46
1958	29	8	12	.400	4.65	182.0	194	104	94	23	99	101	3	1.610	9.6	4.9	5.0	1.02	1.1	44
1959	30	4	8	.333	5.42	113.0	108	76	68	22	61	77	1	1.496	8.6	4.9	6.1	1.26	1.8	42
6 Yrs		40	37	.519	3.80	717.0	643	337	303	86	357	465	11	1.395	8.1		5.8	1.30	1.1	266

* 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

All-Star Games 1956 1958 *	MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1955 AL (6, 27%) 0.27 Career Shares (641st)	WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 1957 AL 2.7 (10th)	Earned Run Average s c a p y 1957 AL 3.09 (7th)
Win-Loss % s c a p y 1957 AL .688 (4th) 1958 AL .565 (10th)	Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1957 AL 7.931 (8th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1957 AL 5.423 (8th)	Games Played s c a p y 1954 AL 42 (9th) 1955 AL 60 (1st) 1957 AL 46 (8th) 1958 AL 44 (9th) 1959 AL 42 (10th)
Saves s c a p y 1954 AL 13 (3rd) 1955 AL 19 (1st) 1957 AL 16 (2nd) Career 58 (237th)	Bases on Balls s c a p y 1958 AL 91 (5th)	Losses s c a p y 1959 AL 12 (8th)	Wild Pitches s c a p y 1958 AL 6 (5th)
Games Finished s c a p y 1955 AL 36 (2nd) 1956 AL 21 (9th) 1957 AL 24 (5th) 1959 AL 21 (8th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1957 AL 122 (8th)	Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 1956 AL 18 (10th)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 1956 AL 1.8 (10th)
Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 1956 AL 24.44 (9th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 1954 AL 2.4 (10th) 1955 AL 6.1 (1st) 1957 AL 4.6 (1st)	Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y 1955 AL 1.6 (10th)	Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 1956 AL 2.5 (9th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, 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 (·)

Black Ink	Pitching - 4 (471), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 26 (901), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 10 (961), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 13 (615), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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