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Wayne Nordhagen

Wayne Oren Nordhagen

Positions: Outfielder, Designated Hitter and Catcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: July 4, 1948 in Thief River Falls, MN
High School: Glide HS (Glide, OR)
Schools: Portland State University (Portland, OR), Treasure Valley Community College (Ontario, OR)
Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 7th round of the 1968 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 16, 1976
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/BlueJays/Cubs/Pirates 1976-1983

Final Game: May 30, 1983
Relatives: Uncle of Kevin Millar
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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
1968	19	NYY-min	Rk	63	234	213	35	62	9	1	7	34	6	3	20	67	.291	.355	.441	.796		94		1	0	0			JOH · APPY
1969	20	NYY-min	A	25	100	90	17	21	1	0	4	9	0	2	5	20	.233	.289	.378	.666		34		2	3	0			KIN · CARL
1970	21	NYY-min	A	88	319	283	31	65	10	3	2	30	2	0	28	59	.230	.301	.307	.608		87		3	0	5			KIN · CARL
1971	22	NYY-min	A	114	453	412	65	121	25	3	14	76	4	1	35	68	.294	.349	.471	.820		194		2	0	4			KIN · CARL
1972	23	NYY-min	AA	117	464	414	50	109	21	4	14	73	3	1	39	91	.263	.326	.435	.761		180		3	1	7			WHA · EL
1973	24	NYY-ATL-min	AAA	130	476	438	46	115	15	0	13	70	9	3	34	98	.263	.321	.386	.707		169		4	0	0			SYR,RMD · IL
1974	25	ATL-min	AAA	112	414	374	53	108	18	6	16	77	2	3	33	73	.289	.350	.497	.848		186		4	0	3			RMD · IL
1975	26	STL-ATL-min	AAA	108	389	358	48	117	22	2	15	68	1	4	26	76	.327	.375	.525	.900		188		3	0	2			TUL,RMD · AA,IL
1976	27	PHI-CHW-min	AAA	99	392	350	56	106	30	6	11	78	0	0	31	46	.303	.352	.517	.869		181		1	0	10			OKC,IWA · AA
1976	27	CHW	AL	22	61	53	6	10	2	0	0	5	0	0	4	12	.189	.233	.226	.460	35	12	1	0	1	3	0	9/D2
1977	28	CHW	AL	52	128	124	16	39	7	3	4	22	1	0	2	12	.315	.323	.516	.839	125	64	3	0	1	1	0	97/28D
1978	29	CHW	AL	68	216	206	28	62	16	0	5	35	0	1	5	18	.301	.310	.451	.762	112	93	6	0	0	5	0	79D2
1979	30	CHW	AL	78	207	193	20	54	15	0	7	25	0	0	13	22	.280	.324	.466	.790	111	90	9	0	0	1	2	D/9721
1980	31	CHW	AL	123	428	415	45	115	22	4	15	59	0	1	10	45	.277	.294	.458	.752	104	190	13	1	0	2	3	7D9
1981	32	CHW	AL	65	222	208	19	64	8	1	6	33	0	1	10	25	.308	.338	.442	.780	127	92	8	1	0	3	0	97/D
1982	33	TOT	MLB	73	201	189	12	52	6	0	1	22	0	2	10	23	.275	.308	.323	.631	68	61	6	0	0	2	1	D7/9
1982	33	TOT	AL	72	197	185	12	50	6	0	1	20	0	2	10	22	.270	.305	.319	.623	66	59	6	0	0	2	1	D7/9
1982	33	TOR	AL	44	125	115	8	32	3	0	1	14	0	2	9	13	.278	.328	.330	.658	76	38	4	0	0	1	1	D7/9
1982	33	PIT	NL	1	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	177	2	0	0	0	0	0	/7
1982	33	TOR	AL	28	72	70	4	18	3	0	0	6	0	0	1	9	.257	.264	.300	.564	49	21	2	0	0	1	0
1983	34	CHC	NL	21	37	35	1	5	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	5	.143	.162	.257	.419	13	9	2	1	0	1	0	/7
8 Yrs				502	1500	1423	147	401	77	8	39	205	1	5	54	162	.282	.306	.429	.735	102	611	48	3	2	18	6
162 Game Avg.				162	484	459	47	129	25	3	13	66	0	2	17	52	.282	.306	.429	.735	102	197	15	1	1	6	2

CHW (6 yrs)				408	1262	1199	134	344	70	8	37	179	1	3	44	134	.287	.310	.451	.761	110	541	40	2	2	15	5
TOR (1 yr)				72	197	185	12	50	6	0	1	20	0	2	10	22	.270	.305	.319	.623	66	59	6	0	0	2	1
PIT (1 yr)				1	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	177	2	0	0	0	0	0
CHC (1 yr)				21	37	35	1	5	1	0	1	4	0	0	0	5	.143	.162	.257	.419	13	9	2	1	0	1	0

AL (7 yrs)				480	1459	1384	146	394	76	8	38	199	1	5	54	156	.285	.309	.434	.742	104	600	46	2	2	17	6
NL (2 yrs)				22	41	39	1	7	1	0	1	6	0	0	0	6	.179	.195	.282	.477	29	11	2	1	0	1	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos
1976	27	CHW	AL	22	61	-5	-0	-0	1	-1	-5	-0.6	2	-3	-0.4	.473	.496	-0.5	0.1	-4	$	9/D2
1977	28	CHW	AL	52	128	4	0	-0	-9	-2	-7	-0.7	4	-3	-0.3	.486	.495	0.6	-1.1	5	$	97/28D
1978	29	CHW	AL	68	216	4	1	-1	-6	-3	-4	-0.4	7	3	0.3	.493	.497	0.9	-0.9	9	$	79D2
1979	30	CHW	AL	78	207	3	-1	-2	-0	-4	-4	-0.3	7	3	0.3	.495	.498	0.4	-0.5	4	$	D/9721
1980	31	CHW	AL	123	428	-1	0	-2	-6	-7	-16	-1.5	13	-3	-0.3	.486	.489	0.3	-1.3	3	$	7D9
1981	32	CHW	AL	65	222	7	-2	-1	-3	-3	-2	-0.2	7	4	0.4	.496	.498	0.8	-0.7	8	$160,000	97/D
1982	33	TOR	AL	72	197	-8	-3	-0	-0	-6	-18	-1.9	6	-12	-1.3	.473	.488	-1.2	-0.7	-12	$	D7/9
1982	33	PIT	NL	1	4	0	0	0	-0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.532	.500	0.1	-0.0	1	$	/7
1983	34	CHC	NL	21	37	-3	0	-0	-1	-0	-4	-0.5	1	-3	-0.4	.477	.497	-0.3	-0.1	-2	$	/7
8 Seasons				502	1500	2	-4	-6	-25	-27	-61	-6.0	47	-14	-1.7	.487	.496	1.1	-5.1	11	$160,000

CHW (6 yrs)				408	1262	13	-2	-6	-23	-20	-39	-3.7	40	1	0.0	.490	.496	2.5	-4.3	25	$160,000
PIT (1 yr)				1	4	0	0	0	-0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	.532	.500	0.1	-0.0	1	$
CHC (1 yr)				21	37	-3	0	-0	-1	-0	-4	-0.5	1	-3	-0.4	.477	.497	-0.3	-0.1	-2	$
TOR (1 yr)				72	197	-8	-3	-0	-0	-6	-18	-1.9	6	-12	-1.3	.473	.488	-1.2	-0.7	-12	$

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ERA	G	GF	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1979	30	CHW	AL	9.00	2	2	2.0	2	2	2	1	2	8	56	1.500	9.0	4.5	9.0	2.00
1 Yr				9.00	2	2	2.0	2	2	2	1	2	8	56	1.500	9.0	4.5	9.0	2.00
162 Game Avg.				9.00	68	68	68	68	68	68	34	68	272	56	1.500	9.0	4.5	9.0	2.00

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
1979	30	CHW	AL	2.0	2	0	2	9.00	5.39	0.06	-0.43	102.0	5.00	-1	-0.1	.0	0.0	0.0	-1	.457	.499	$
1 Season				2.0	2	0	2	9.00	5.39	0.06	-0.43	102.0	5.00	-1	-0.1	.0	0.0	0.0	-1	.457	.499	$

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards
1976	CHW	AL	27	OF	10	7	5	72.0	21	20	1	0	0	1.000	1	23	2.62	2.10	.981	2.48	2.48
1976	CHW	AL	27	RF	10	7	5	72.0	20	19	1	0	0	1.000	1	23	2.50	2.00	.980	2.21	2.22
1976	CHW	AL	27	DH	6	5
1976	CHW	AL	27	C	5	2	0	21.0	18	15	2	1	0	.944	0	0	7.29	3.40	.981	5.74	5.76	0	0	6	2	25%	34%	0
1977	CHW	AL	28	OF	46	27	16	272.1	54	50	1	3	0	.944	-8	-34	1.69	1.11	.978	2.34	2.32
1977	CHW	AL	28	RF	33	21	12	202.0	40	36	1	3	1	.925	-6	-33	1.65	1.12	.974	2.08	2.07
1977	CHW	AL	28	LF	14	6	4	70.0	12	12	0	0	0	1.000	-2	-36	1.54	0.86	.976	2.11	2.09
1977	CHW	AL	28	C	3	0	0	3.0	4	2	0	2	0	.500	-1	-400	6.00	0.67	.985	6.00	5.97	0	1	2	0	0%	39%	0
1977	CHW	AL	28	CF	2	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-360	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.80
1977	CHW	AL	28	DH	2	2
1978	CHW	AL	29	OF	36	29	19	247.1	51	46	2	3	1	.941	-5	-24	1.75	1.33	.979	2.47	2.45
1978	CHW	AL	29	LF	19	13	10	116.1	29	26	1	2	1	.931	-2	-18	2.09	1.42	.974	2.21	2.19
1978	CHW	AL	29	RF	18	16	9	131.0	22	20	1	1	0	.955	-3	-30	1.44	1.17	.978	2.24	2.22
1978	CHW	AL	29	DH	15	11
1978	CHW	AL	29	C	12	12	11	104.0	54	41	10	3	1	.944	-1	-12	4.41	4.25	.983	5.53	5.48	7	4	7	8	53%	38%	0
1979	CHW	AL	30	DH	47	38
1979	CHW	AL	30	OF	12	10	4	81.0	23	19	4	0	0	1.000	2	22	2.56	1.92	.981	2.46	2.43
1979	CHW	AL	30	RF	7	5	3	40.0	11	10	1	0	0	1.000	0	9	2.48	1.57	.980	2.25	2.21
1979	CHW	AL	30	LF	6	5	1	41.0	12	9	3	0	0	1.000	1	35	2.63	2.00	.980	2.22	2.20
1979	CHW	AL	30	C	5	2	2	22.1	12	9	0	3	0	.750	-2	-107	3.63	1.80	.982	5.44	5.40	1	0	4	0	0%	36%	0
1979	CHW	AL	30	P	2	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0				0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90			0	0			0
1980	CHW	AL	31	OF	74	70	50	578.0	130	120	6	4	1	.969	-6	-13	1.96	1.70	.979	2.47	2.46
1980	CHW	AL	31	LF	45	38	28	324.1	78	74	3	1	2	.987	-3	-10	2.14	1.71	.980	2.35	2.35
1980	CHW	AL	31	DH	37	30
1980	CHW	AL	31	RF	33	32	22	253.2	56	49	4	3	0	.946	-4	-18	1.88	1.61	.975	2.13	2.12
1981	CHW	AL	32	OF	60	57	24	441.1	94	85	4	5	1	.947	-3	-9	1.81	1.48	.983	2.48	2.47
1981	CHW	AL	32	RF	37	34	15	267.1	57	50	4	3	1	.947	-2	-8	1.82	1.46	.980	2.16	2.15
1981	CHW	AL	32	LF	27	23	9	174.0	35	33	0	2	0	.943	-1	-10	1.71	1.22	.979	2.38	2.38
1981	CHW	AL	32	DH	1	0
1982	TOT	MLB	33	LF	11	11	3	85.0	18	17	1	0	1	1.000	-1	-13	1.91	1.64	.981	2.27	2.26
1982	TOT	MLB	33	OF	11	11	3	89.0	18	17	1	0	1	1.000	-0	-7	1.82	1.64	.982	2.45	2.45
1982	TOR	AL	33	DH	60	32
1982	TOR	AL	33	LF	10	10	2	76.0	16	15	1	0	1	1.000	-1	-13	1.89	1.60	.981	2.29	2.28
1982	TOR	AL	33	OF	10	10	2	80.0	16	15	1	0	1	1.000	-0	-6	1.80	1.60	.982	2.48	2.46
1982	TOR	AL	33	RF	1	0	0	4.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0	120	4.50	2.00	.980	2.25	2.30
1982	PIT	NL	33	LF	1	1	1	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-13	2.00	2.00	.975	2.10	2.10
1982	PIT	NL	33	OF	1	1	1	9.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	-0	-13	2.00	2.00	.980	2.20	2.30
1983	CHC	NL	34	LF	7	6	4	46.2	6	5	1	0	0	1.000	-1	-18	1.16	0.86	.977	2.02	2.01
1983	CHC	NL	34	OF	7	6	4	46.2	7	7	0	0	0	1.000	-1	-18	1.35	1.00	.980	2.28	2.26
	8 Seasons			OF	256	217	125	1827.2	398	364	19	15	4	.962	-21	-14	1.89	1.50	.980	2.45	2.43
	7 Seasons			RF	139	115	66	970.0	208	186	12	10	2	.952	-12	-15	1.84	1.42	.977	2.15	2.14
	7 Seasons			LF	129	102	59	857.1	190	176	9	5	4	.974	-8	-11	1.94	1.43	.979	2.29	2.27
	4 Seasons			C	25	16	13	150.1	88	67	12	9	1	.898	-4	-32	4.73	3.16	.982	5.56	5.58	8	5	19	10	34%	36%	0
	1 Season			CF	2	0	0	0.1	0	0	0	0	0		-0	-360	0.00	0.00		2.70	2.80
	1 Season			P	2	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0				0.00	0.00		1.80	1.90			0	0			0
	8 Seasons			TOT	283	233	138	1980.0	486	431	31	24	5	.951	-25	-15	2.10	1.63	.981	2.68	2.70	8	5	19	10	34%	36%	0
Lg				Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	lgCS%	PO	Awards

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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-1948 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1948 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 1948 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 1918 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1948 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1918) 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

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Passed Balls s c a p y 1978 AL 7 (5th)	Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y 1981 AL 3 (4th)

Passed Balls s c a p y
1978 AL 7 (5th)

Errors Committed as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1981 AL 3 (4th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 6 (2076), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS	Left Field (1079th), -1.7 career WAR/0.0 7yr-peak WAR/-0.8 JAWS Average HOF LF (out of 19) = 61.7 career WAR/39.7 7yr-peak WAR/50.7 JAWS

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Transactions

June 7, 1968: Drafted by the New York Yankees in the 7th round of the 1968 amateur draft.
June 7, 1973: Traded by the New York Yankees with players to be named later and Frank Tepedino to the Atlanta Braves for Pat Dobson. The New York Yankees sent Dave Cheadle (August 15, 1973) and Al Closter (September 5, 1973) to the Atlanta Braves to complete the trade.
June 2, 1975: the Atlanta Braves sent Wayne Nordhagen to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete an earlier deal made on May 28, 1975. May 28, 1975: The Atlanta Braves sent a player to be named later and Ron Reed to the St. Louis Cardinals for Ray Sadecki and Elias Sosa.
April 9, 1976: Purchased by the Philadelphia Phillies from the St. Louis Cardinals.
July 14, 1976: Traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Chicago White Sox for Rich Coggins.
April 2, 1982: Traded by the Chicago White Sox to the Toronto Blue Jays for Aurelio Rodriguez.
June 15, 1982: Traded by the Toronto Blue Jays to the Philadelphia Phillies for Dick Davis.
June 15, 1982: Traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Bill Robinson.
June 25, 1982: the Pittsburgh Pirates sent Wayne Nordhagen to the Toronto Blue Jays to complete an earlier deal made on June 22, 1982. June 22, 1982: The Pittsburgh Pirates sent a player to be named later to the Toronto Blue Jays for Dick Davis.
November 10, 1982: Granted Free Agency.
December 10, 1982: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago Cubs.
June 9, 1983: Released by the Chicago Cubs.

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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
1981	32	Chicago White Sox	$160,000	1982 TSN Guide	Player loss; asked for $225,379

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$160,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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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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Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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