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Mike Norris

Michael Kelvin Norris

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: March 19, 1955 in San Francisco, CA
High School: Balboa HS (San Francisco, CA)
Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1st round (24th pick) of the 1973 amateur draft (January). (All Transactions)
Debut: April 10, 1975
Team: Athletics 1975-1990

Final Game: July 4, 1990
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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
1975 20 OAK AL 1 0 1.000 0.00 4 3 0 1 1 0 16.2 6 2 0 0 8 0 5 0 0 0 65 0.840 3.2 0.0 4.3 2.7 0.63
1976 21 OAK AL 4 5 .444 4.78 24 19 1 1 1 0 96.0 91 53 51 10 56 2 44 2 0 4 430 70 1.531 8.5 0.9 5.3 4.1 0.79
1977 22 OAK AL 2 7 .222 4.77 16 12 2 1 1 0 77.1 77 45 41 14 31 1 35 4 0 4 335 84 1.397 9.0 1.6 3.6 4.1 1.13
1978 23 OAK AL 0 5 .000 5.51 14 5 1 1 0 0 49.0 46 35 30 2 35 1 36 3 0 1 229 66 1.653 8.4 0.4 6.4 6.6 1.03
1979 24 OAK AL 5 8 .385 4.80 29 18 3 3 0 0 146.1 146 87 78 11 94 9 96 9 1 10 669 85 1.640 9.0 0.7 5.8 5.9 1.02
1980 25 OAK AL 22 9 .710 2.53 33 33 0 24 1 0 284.1 215 88 80 18 83 2 180 6 4 9 1135 149 1.048 6.8 0.6 2.6 5.7 2.17 CYA-2,MVP-15,GG
1981 26 OAK AL 12 9 .571 3.75 23 23 0 12 2 0 172.2 145 77 72 17 63 0 78 10 5 14 721 92 1.205 7.6 0.9 3.3 4.1 1.24 AS,GG
1982 27 OAK AL 7 11 .389 4.76 28 28 0 7 1 0 166.1 154 103 88 25 84 1 83 6 4 7 735 81 1.431 8.3 1.4 4.5 4.5 0.99
1983 28 OAK AL 4 5 .444 3.76 16 16 0 2 0 0 88.2 68 42 37 11 36 0 63 3 1 1 365 102 1.173 6.9 1.1 3.7 6.4 1.75
1990 35 OAK AL 1 0 1.000 3.00 14 0 9 0 0 0 27.0 24 10 9 0 9 0 16 2 2 3 113 125 1.222 8.0 0.0 3.0 5.3 1.78
10 Yrs 58 59 .496 3.89 201 157 16 52 7 0 1124.1 972 542 486 108 499 16 636 45 17 53 4797 96 1.308 7.8 0.9 4.0 5.1 1.27
162 Game Avg. 11 11 .496 3.89 38 30 3 10 1 0 214 185 103 92 21 95 3 121 9 3 10 911 96 1.308 7.8 0.9 4.0 5.1 1.27

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
1975 20 OAK AL 16.2 4 3 2 1.08 4.18 0.25 0.11 96.8 3.91 5 0.6 2.2 0.0 0.8 7 .655 .504 $
1976 21 OAK AL 96.0 24 19 53 4.97 3.92 -0.08 0.06 97.1 3.94 -11 -1.2 1.0 -0.1 -0.4 -2 .451 .493 $
1977 22 OAK AL 77.1 16 12 45 5.24 4.63 -0.13 0.10 99.6 4.83 -4 -0.4 .6 -0.0 0.3 5 .477 .498 $
1978 23 OAK AL 49.0 14 5 35 6.43 4.48 -0.24 -0.13 95.6 4.38 -11 -1.1 .6 0.1 -0.6 -6 .420 .493 $24,000
1979 24 OAK AL 146.1 29 18 87 5.35 4.73 -0.68 0.04 96.0 5.23 -2 -0.2 1.2 -0.1 1.0 15 .493 .499 $
1980 25 OAK AL 284.1 33 33 88 2.79 4.46 0.56 0.15 94.3 3.80 31 3.4 -0.1 5.6 62 .604 .521 $40,000 CYA-2,MVP-15,GG
1981 26 OAK AL 172.2 23 23 77 4.01 3.99 0.52 0.13 95.3 3.43 -11 -1.2 -0.1 0.1 -0 .449 .493 $325,000 AS,GG
1982 27 OAK AL 166.1 28 28 103 5.57 4.56 0.03 0.16 95.1 4.46 -20 -1.9 -0.1 -0.6 -3 .431 .488 $
1983 28 OAK AL 88.2 16 16 42 4.26 4.50 0.03 0.15 93.9 4.33 1 0.1 -0.0 0.7 10 .503 .500 $
1990 35 OAK AL 27.0 14 0 10 3.33 4.40 0.66 -0.34 94.8 3.22 -0 -0.0 .5 -0.1 0.2 3 .499 .500 $100,000
10 Seasons 1124.1 201 157 542 4.34 4.40 0.13 0.10 95.5 4.17 -22 -1.9 .8 -0.6 7.1 91 .491 .499 $489,000

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
1981 26 OAK AL ALDS W KCR 1 0 1.000 0.00 1 1 0 1 1 0 9.0 4 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 34 0.778 4.0 0.0 3.0 2.0 0.67
1981 26 OAK AL ALCS L NYY 0 1 .000 3.68 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.1 6 3 3 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 30 1.091 7.4 0.0 2.5 4.9 2.00
1 Yr (2 Series) 1 1 .500 1.65 2 2 0 1 1 0 16.1 10 3 3 0 5 0 6 0 0 0 64 0.918 5.5 0.0 2.8 3.3 1.20
1 ALDS 1 0 1.000 0.00 1 1 0 1 1 0 9.0 4 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 34 0.778 4.0 0.0 3.0 2.0 0.67
1 ALCS 0 1 .000 3.68 1 1 0 0 0 0 7.1 6 3 3 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 30 1.091 7.4 0.0 2.5 4.9 2.00

Standard Batting

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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
1975 20 OAK AL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
1976 21 OAK AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1977 22 OAK AL 17 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1978 23 OAK AL 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1979 24 OAK AL 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1980 25 OAK AL 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 CYA-2,MVP-15,GG
1981 26 OAK AL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 AS,GG
1982 27 OAK AL 29 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1/D
1983 28 OAK AL 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1990 35 OAK AL 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
10 Yrs 204 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 0
162 Game Avg. 162 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 0 0 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 Awards
1975 20 OAK AL 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $ /1
1976 21 OAK AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $ 1
1977 22 OAK AL 17 1 -0 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .499 .500 0.0 0.0 -0 $ 1
1978 23 OAK AL 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $24,000 1
1979 24 OAK AL 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $ 1
1980 25 OAK AL 33 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $40,000 1 CYA-2,MVP-15,GG
1981 26 OAK AL 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $325,000 1 AS,GG
1982 27 OAK AL 29 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $ 1/D
1983 28 OAK AL 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $ 1
1990 35 OAK AL 14 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.0 0 $100,000 1
10 Seasons 204 1 -0 0 0 0 0 -0 -0.0 0 -0 0.0 .500 .500 0.0 0.2 -0 $489,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1981 26 OAK AL ALDS KCR W 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1981 26 OAK AL ALCS NYY L 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Yr (2 Series) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 ALDS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 ALCS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% lgCS% PO Awards
1975 OAK AL 20 P 4 3 1 16.2 6 1 4 1 0 .833 2.70 1.25 .940 1.89 1.85 2 0 0% 38% 1
1976 OAK AL 21 P 24 19 1 96.0 42 11 29 2 1 .952 3.75 1.67 .950 1.87 1.88 8 2 20% 34% 4
1977 OAK AL 22 P 16 12 1 77.1 27 8 17 2 1 .926 2.91 1.56 .948 1.94 1.93 8 5 38% 39% 1
1978 OAK AL 23 P 14 5 1 49.0 12 5 5 2 0 .833 1.84 0.71 .954 1.89 1.88 6 3 33% 38% 0
1979 OAK AL 24 P 29 18 3 146.1 24 6 17 1 0 .958 1.41 0.79 .949 1.92 1.89 10 11 52% 36% 1
1980 OAK AL 25 P 33 33 24 284.1 80 25 52 3 3 .963 2.44 2.33 .957 1.85 1.85 16 12 43% 35% 1 CYA-2,MVP-15,GG
1981 OAK AL 26 P 23 23 12 172.2 42 16 25 1 0 .976 2.14 1.78 .963 1.98 1.98 16 6 27% 38% 1 AS,GG
1982 OAK AL 27 P 28 28 7 166.1 45 22 21 2 1 .956 2.33 1.54 .958 1.80 1.80 17 8 32% 36% 0
1982 OAK AL 27 DH 1 0
1983 OAK AL 28 P 16 16 2 88.2 8 3 4 1 1 .875 0.71 0.44 .958 1.80 1.78 7 3 30% 33% 0
1990 OAK AL 35 P 14 0 0 27.0 6 3 3 0 0 1.000 2.00 0.43 .953 1.77 1.76 1 0 0% 34% 0
10 Seasons P 201 157 52 1124.1 292 100 177 15 7 .949 2.22 1.38 .955 1.88 1.86 91 50 35% 36% 9
10 Seasons TOT 201 157 52 1124.1 292 100 177 15 7 .949 2.22 1.38 .955 1.88 1.86 91 50 35% 36% 9
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
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.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1948 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1981 *

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1980 AL (15, 3%)
0.03 Career Shares (1270th)

Cy Young (yr lg (rk, shr))
1980 AL (2, 65%)
0.65 Career Shares (84th)

Gold Gloves
1980 AL (P)
1981 AL (P)
All multiple winners

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
1980 AL  5.6 (3rd)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
1980 AL  2.53 (2nd)

Wins s c a p y
1980 AL  22 (2nd)
1981 AL  12 (7th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
1980 AL  .710 (5th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
1980 AL  1.048 (2nd)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1980 AL  6.805 (1st)
Career  7.781 (64th)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
1980 AL  5.698 (7th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
1980 AL  284.3 (2nd)
1981 AL  172.7 (7th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1980 AL  180 (2nd)

Games Started s c a p y
1981 AL  23 (9th)

Complete Games s c a p y
1980 AL  24 (2nd)
1981 AL  12 (4th)

Shutouts s c a p y
1981 AL  2 (8th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1981 AL  17 (3rd)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1979 AL  94 (7th)
1980 AL  83 (9th)
1981 AL  63 (4th)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
1980 AL  2.169 (8th)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
1980 AL  0.570 (5th)

Earned Runs s c a p y
1981 AL  72 (3rd)

Wild Pitches s c a p y
1979 AL  10 (7th)
1980 AL  9 (7th)
1981 AL  14 (1st)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1979 AL  9 (4th)
1980 AL  6 (7th)
1981 AL  10 (3rd)

Batters Faced s c a p y
1980 AL  1,135 (4th)
1981 AL  721 (7th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
1980 AL  149 (2nd)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
1980 AL  43 (1st)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
1980 AL  4.6 (1st)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
1980 AL  50.26 (1st)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1980 AL  6.8 (3rd)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1980 AL  5.3 (1st)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
1980 AL  5.8 (1st)

Putouts as P s c a p y
1980 AL  25 (3rd)
1981 AL  16 (3rd)
1982 AL  22 (5th)

Assists as P s c a p y
1980 AL  52 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as P s c a p y
1980 AL  2.33 (1st)

Youngest s c a p y
1975 AL  born 1955-03-19 (3rd)

             

† 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 InkPitching - 2 (742), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 33 (729), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 15 (766), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 7 (1131), Average HOFer ≈ 50
JAWS Starting Pitcher (922nd), 7.1 career WAR/8.7 7yr-peak WAR/7.9 JAWS
Average HOF P (out of 58) = 67.9 career WAR/47.7 7yr-peak WAR/57.8 JAWS

Similarity Scores

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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
197823Oakland Athletics$24,000Tom Timmerman databasePlayer loss; $55,000 requested
198025Oakland Athletics$40,0003/7/81 TSN
198126Oakland Athletics$325,0001982 TSN GuidePlayer loss; asked for $450K
198530Oakland Athletics$283,107*
199035Oakland Athletics$100,000USA Today
Career to date (may be incomplete)$772,107
Disputed Salaries
*1985 - $729,321 - 1985 USA Today survey -
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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