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Chet Nichols
Chester Raymond Nichols Jr.

Bats: Both , Throws: Left
Weight: 195 lb.

Born: February 22, 1931 in Pawtucket, RI
High School: East (Pawtucket, RI)
Signed by the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1949. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 19, 1951
Final Game: April 24, 1964
Died: March 27, 1995 in Lincoln, RI
Relatives: Son of Chet Nichols
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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
1951	20	BSN	NL	11	8	.579	2.88	33	19	6	12	3	2	156.0	142	61	50	4	69		71	1	0	8	663	128	1.353	8.2	*0.2*	4.0	4.1	1.03	RoY-2

1954	23	MLN	NL	9	11	.450	4.41	35	20	5	5	1	1	122.1	132	68	60	5	65		55	4	0	1	545	85	1.610	9.7	0.4	4.8	4.0	0.85
1955	24	MLN	NL	9	8	.529	4.00	34	21	5	6	0	1	144.0	139	79	64	20	67	6	44	1	2	3	625	94	1.431	8.7	1.3	4.2	2.8	0.66
1956	25	MLN	NL	0	1	.000	6.75	2	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	9	3	3	1	3	1	2	0	0	0	20	51	3.000	20.3	2.3	6.8	4.5	0.67

1960	29	BOS	AL	0	2	.000	4.26	6	1	3	0	0	0	12.2	12	6	6	0	4	0	11	0	0	0	55	94	1.263	8.5	0.0	2.8	7.8	2.75
1961	30	BOS	AL	3	2	.600	2.09	26	2	12	0	0	3	51.2	40	12	12	3	26	1	20	0	0	1	215	198	1.277	7.0	0.5	4.5	3.5	0.77
1962	31	BOS	AL	1	1	.500	3.00	29	1	13	0	0	3	57.0	61	25	19	3	22	1	33	0	0	2	250	138	1.456	9.6	0.5	3.5	5.2	1.50
1963	32	BOS	AL	1	3	.250	4.78	21	7	6	0	0	0	52.2	61	30	28	8	24	0	27	0	0	4	236	79	1.614	10.4	1.4	4.1	4.6	1.13
1964	33	CIN	NL	0	0		6.00	3	0	3	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	13	60	1.333	12.0	3.0	0.0	9.0
9 Seasons				34	36	.486	3.64	189	71	53	23	4	10	603.1	600	286	244	45	280	9	266	6	2	19	2622	105	1.459	9.0	0.7	4.2	4.0	0.95
162 Game Avg.				9	9	.486	3.64	49	19	14	6	1	3	158	157	75	64	12	73		70	2	1	5	686	105	1.459	9.0	0.7	4.2	4.0	0.95

MLN (4 yrs)				29	28	.509	3.74	104	60	16	23	4	4	426.1	422	211	177	30	204	7	172	6	2	12	1853	100	1.468	8.9	0.6	4.3	3.6	0.84
BOS (4 yrs)				5	8	.385	3.36	82	11	34	0	0	6	174.0	174	73	65	14	76	2	91	0	0	7	756	119	1.437	9.0	0.7	3.9	4.7	1.20
CIN (1 yr)				0	0		6.00	3	0	3	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	13	60	1.333	12.0	3.0	0.0	9.0

NL (5 yrs)				29	28	.509	3.75	107	60	19	23	4	4	429.1	426	213	179	31	204	7	175	6	2	12	1866	99	1.467	8.9	0.6	4.3	3.7	0.86
AL (4 yrs)				5	8	.385	3.36	82	11	34	0	0	6	174.0	174	73	65	14	76	2	91	0	0	7	756	119	1.437	9.0	0.7	3.9	4.7	1.20

Batting Against -- Pitching*

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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
1954	23	MLN	NL	35	545	461	68	132	17	7	5	4	2	65	55	.286	.376	.386	.762	.313	178	12	4	10	5
1955	24	MLN	NL	34	626	550	79	139	19	5	20	3	2	67	44	.253	.333	.415	.748	.243	228	11	1	5	3	6
1956	25	MLN	NL	2	20	16	3	9	0	0	1	0	0	3	2	.563	.632	.750	1.382	.615	12	0	0	1	0	1

1960	29	BOS	AL	6	55	50	6	12	0	0	0	0	0	4	11	.240	.296	.240	.536	.308	12	1	0	1	0	0
1961	30	BOS	AL	26	215	181	12	40	6	1	3	2	3	26	20	.221	.317	.315	.632	.233	57	5	0	7	1	1
1962	31	BOS	AL	29	246	217	25	61	16	2	3	3	1	22	33	.281	.344	.415	.759	.317	90	7	0	5	2	1
1963	32	BOS	AL	21	237	206	30	61	17	2	8	2	3	24	27	.296	.363	.515	.878	.303	106	6	0	3	4	0
1964	33	CIN	NL	3	13	13	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	.308	.308	.538	.846	.333	7	0	0	0	0	0
8 Seasons				156	1957	1694	225	458	75	17	41	15	11	211	195	.270	.350	.407	.757	.283	690	42	5	32	15	9
162 Game Avg.				51	640	554	74	150	25	6	13	5	4	69	64	.270	.350	.407	.757	.283	226	14	2	10	5
MLB Averages

Starting Pitching*

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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	23	MLN	NL	35	20	7	8	5	0	0	10	10	.500	0	2	5	1	8	40%	47	82	26	25	8	7	9	4.6	4.1	5.1
1955	24	MLN	NL	34	21	8	7	6	2	2	12	9	.571	0	2	6	0	9	43%	48	79	29	10	2	4	14	5.2	5.2	6.0

1960	29	BOS	AL	6	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0%	38	38	38	3	2	0	1	1.0	0.0	2.7
1961	30	BOS	AL	26	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0%	49	55	42	7	2	1	0	2.0	0.9	4.8
1962	31	BOS	AL	29	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	0%	40	40	40	7	1	0	1	9.0	13.5	5.7
1963	32	BOS	AL	21	7	1	3	3	0	0	3	4	.429	0	2	0	0	1	14%	42	71	24	7	2	3	3	4.3	4.2	4.6
6 Seasons				151	52	17	20	15	3	2	26	26	.500	0	7	11	1	18	35%	47	82	24	59	17	15	28	4.7	4.7	5.4
MLB Averages

Reliever Pitching*

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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	23	MLN	NL	35	15	5	2	3	1	1	0	100%	2	0	16	6	38%	4	1.268	7	4	2	4	5	4	7	6	7	6	5	2	4.1
1955	24	MLN	NL	34	13	5	1	1	2	1	2	50%	2	0	7	4	57%		1.119	3	2	3	3	1	4	3	5	4	6	2	3	4.0
1956	25	MLN	NL	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		2	0.925	0	1	1	0	1	1	0	2	2	0	2	0	6.0

1960	29	BOS	AL	6	5	3	0	1	0	0	0		1	0	3	1	33%	8	0.747	2	0	3	1	1	3	2	3	3	1	3	1	6.0
1961	30	BOS	AL	26	24	12	3	1	3	3	0	100%	5	1	21	5	24%	7	1.026	8	4	12	6	2	16	10	14	13	7	14	3	5.3
1962	31	BOS	AL	29	28	13	0	1	4	3	1	75%	4	0	33	10	30%	8	0.771	9	4	15	6	3	19	15	13	18	6	18	7	5.5
1963	32	BOS	AL	21	14	6	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	16	8	50%	6	0.762	3	1	10	0	1	13	8	6	5	5	5	2	4.4
1964	33	CIN	NL	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		9	0.003	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	3.0
8 Seasons				156	104	47	6	8	10	8	3	80%	14	1	96	34	35%		1.023	32	16	48	20	14	63	45	52	52	31	49	18	4.9

Ratio Pitching*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1951	20	BSN	NL

1954	23	MLN	NL	545	73%	0.9%	10.1%	11.9%	5.3%	22%	1.73	75%	82	12	15%
1955	24	MLN	NL	626	68%	3.2%	7.0%	10.7%	7.0%	32%	1.19	78%	107	11	10%
1956	25	MLN	NL	20	60%	5.0%	10.0%	15.0%	5.0%	11%	2.00	65%	3	0	0%

1960	29	BOS	AL	55	73%	0.0%	20.0%	7.3%	0.0%	0%	1.08	71%	15	1	7%
1961	30	BOS	AL	215	61%	1.4%	9.3%	12.1%	4.7%	25%	1.25	74%	39	5	13%
1962	31	BOS	AL	246	63%	1.2%	13.4%	8.9%	8.5%	34%	1.37	74%	55	7	13%
1963	32	BOS	AL	237	62%	3.4%	11.4%	10.1%	11.4%	44%	1.08	74%	42	6	14%
1964	33	CIN	NL	13	69%	7.7%	23.1%	0.0%	7.7%	25%	0.50	69%	3	0	0%
9 Seasons				1957	67%	2.3%	13.6%	14.3%	6.8%	22%	1.31	75%	346	42	12%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

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					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
1951	20	BSN	NL		142			4												8

1954	23	MLN	NL	428	132			5	0	11	4	0	2	2	26	12	2	46%	8	1	0	161	4	2	67%	4	2	0	0	0	0	3	0	5	117
1955	24	MLN	NL	500	139			20	1	15	10	7	6	11	32	16	3	50%	13	3	0	194	3	2	60%	2	1	1	1	0	0	2	0	6	126
1956	25	MLN	NL	20	9			1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	12	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0

1960	29	BOS	AL	55	12			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	67%	2	0	0	29	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1961	30	BOS	AL	212	40			3	0	4	3	0	1	2	12	7	1	58%	4	1	0	82	2	3	40%	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	3
1962	31	BOS	AL	245	61			3	1	16	2	1	2	1	28	11	7	39%	2	2	1	99	3	1	75%	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	5	1
1963	32	BOS	AL	237	61			8	0	4	6	2	0	8	17	11	0	65%	5	4	1	89	2	3	40%	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	12	0
1964	33	CIN	NL	13	4			1	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	50%	0	0	0	3	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9 Seasons				1710	600			45	2	50	26	11	11	26	120	60	14	50%	34	19	2	669	15	11	58%	12	8	3	1	0	2	5	0	32	247
MLB Averages

Cumulative Pitching

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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+
1951	20	11	8	.579	2.88	33	19	6	12	3	2	156.0	142	61	50	4	69		71	1	0	8	663	128	1.353	8.2	0.2	4.0	4.1	1.03	128
1952	21	11	8	.579	2.88	33	19	6	12	3	2	156.0	142	61	50	4	69		71	1	0	8	663	128	1.353	8.2	0.2	4.0	4.1	1.03	128
1953	22	11	8	.579	2.88	33	19	6	12	3	2	156.0	142	61	50	4	69		71	1	0	8	663	128	1.353	8.2	0.2	4.0	4.1	1.03	128
1954	23	20	19	.513	3.56	68	39	11	17	4	3	278.1	274	129	110	9	134		126	5	0	9	1208	104	1.466	8.9	0.3	4.3	4.1	0.94	104
1955	24	29	27	.518	3.71	102	60	16	23	4	4	422.1	413	208	174	29	201	6	170	6	2	12	1833	100	1.454	8.8	0.6	4.3	3.6	0.85	100
1956	25	29	28	.509	3.74	104	60	16	23	4	4	426.1	422	211	177	30	204	7	172	6	2	12	1853	100	1.468	8.9	0.6	4.3	3.6	0.84	100
1957	26	29	28	.509	3.74	104	60	16	23	4	4	426.1	422	211	177	30	204	7	172	6	2	12	1853	100	1.468	8.9	0.6	4.3	3.6	0.84	100
1958	27	29	28	.509	3.74	104	60	16	23	4	4	426.1	422	211	177	30	204	7	172	6	2	12	1853	100	1.468	8.9	0.6	4.3	3.6	0.84	100
1959	28	29	28	.509	3.74	104	60	16	23	4	4	426.1	422	211	177	30	204	7	172	6	2	12	1853	100	1.468	8.9	0.6	4.3	3.6	0.84	100
1960	29	29	30	.492	3.75	110	61	19	23	4	4	439.0	434	217	183	30	208	7	183	6	2	12	1908	99	1.462	8.9	0.6	4.3	3.8	0.88	99
1961	30	32	32	.500	3.58	136	63	31	23	4	7	490.2	474	229	195	33	234	8	203	6	2	13	2123	106	1.443	8.7	0.6	4.3	3.7	0.87	106
1962	31	33	33	.500	3.52	165	64	44	23	4	10	547.2	535	254	214	36	256	9	236	6	2	15	2373	108	1.444	8.8	0.6	4.2	3.9	0.92	108
1963	32	34	36	.486	3.63	186	71	50	23	4	10	600.1	596	284	242	44	280	9	263	6	2	19	2609	105	1.459	8.9	0.7	4.2	3.9	0.94	105
1964	33	34	36	.486	3.64	189	71	53	23	4	10	603.1	600	286	244	45	280	9	266	6	2	19	2622	105	1.459	9.0	0.7	4.2	4.0	0.95	105

Neutralized Pitching

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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
1951	20	10	7	.588	3.19	155.0	150	61	55	4	73	71	1	1.439	8.7	4.2	4.1	0.97	0.2	33

1954	23	5	8	.385	4.95	120.0	140	73	66	5	69	54	4	1.742	10.5	5.2	4.1	0.78	0.4	35
1955	24	7	9	.438	4.38	144.0	151	78	70	22	73	44	1	1.556	9.4	4.6	2.8	0.60	1.4	34
1956	25	0	0		9.00	3.0	9	3	3	1	3	2	0	4.000	27.0	9.0	6.0	0.67	3.0	2

1960	29	0	1	.000	3.86	14.0	13	7	6	0	4	12	0	1.214	8.4	2.6	7.7	3.00	0.0	6
1961	30	4	1	.800	1.98	50.0	39	12	11	3	25	19	0	1.280	7.0	4.5	3.4	0.76	0.5	26
1962	31	4	2	.667	2.89	56.0	60	20	18	3	22	32	0	1.464	9.6	3.5	5.1	1.45	0.5	29
1963	32	2	3	.400	5.22	50.0	62	32	29	8	24	26	0	1.720	11.2	4.3	4.7	1.08	1.4	21
1964	33	0	0		4.50	4.0	0	2	2	0	0	4	0	0.000	0.0	0.0	9.0		0.0	3
9 Seasons		32	31	.508	3.93	596.0	624	288	260	46	293	264	6	1.539	9.4		4.0	0.90	0.7	189

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Earned Run Average s c a p y 1951 NL--2.885--1st	Shutouts s c a p y 1951 NL--3--7th	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1951 NL--.231--1st	Wild Pitches s c a p y 1951 NL--8--3rd
Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1951 NL--128--5th	Youngest s c a p y 1951 NL--born 1931-02-22--6th

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink Pitching - 4 (461), Average HOFer ≈ 40

Gray Ink Pitching - 5 (1819), Average HOFer ≈ 185

Hall of Fame Monitor Pitching - 3 (1494), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Pitching - 4 (1498), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Similar Pitchers

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Bill Bailey (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Bruce Ruffin (988) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ron Bryant (984) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Marcelino Lopez (977) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Garland Buckeye (982) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave Danforth (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Sam Zoldak (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Dave Danforth (976) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Don Hood (956) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') 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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Black Ink	Pitching - 4 (461), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 5 (1819), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 3 (1494), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 4 (1498), Average HOFer ≈ 50