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Gary Peters

Gary Charles Peters

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: April 21, 1937 in Grove City, PA
High School: Mercer (Mercer, PA)
School: Grove City College
Signed
by the Chicago White Sox as an amateur free agent in 1956. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 10, 1959
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/RedSox 1959-1972

Final Game: September 23, 1972
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 8:17PM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #288. Ramon Martinez… #289. Mike Torrez… #290. John Franco… #291. GARY PETERS… #292. Ned Garver… #293. Teddy Higuera… #294. John Hiller… 

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
1959 22 CHW AL 0 0 0.00 2 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 7 4.000 18.0 0.0 18.0 9.0 0.50
1960 23 CHW AL 0 0 2.70 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.1 4 1 1 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 15 158 1.500 10.8 0.0 2.7 10.8 4.00
1961 24 CHW AL 0 0 1.74 3 0 2 0 0 1 10.1 10 2 2 0 2 0 6 0 0 0 41 233 1.161 8.7 0.0 1.7 5.2 3.00
1962 25 CHW AL 0 1 .000 5.68 5 0 0 0 0 0 6.1 8 5 4 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 29 73 1.421 11.4 0.0 1.4 5.7 4.00
1963 26 CHW AL 19 8 .704 2.33 41 30 4 13 4 1 243.0 192 69 63 9 68 2 189 8 0 5 978 150 1.070 7.1 0.3 2.5 7.0 2.78 MVP-8,RoY-1
1964 27 CHW AL 20 8 .714 2.50 37 36 0 11 3 0 273.2 217 89 76 20 104 9 205 7 0 15 1117 138 1.173 7.1 0.7 3.4 6.7 1.97 AS,MVP-7
1965 28 CHW AL 10 12 .455 3.62 33 30 1 1 0 0 176.1 181 76 71 19 63 8 95 4 0 8 764 88 1.384 9.2 1.0 3.2 4.8 1.51
1966 29 CHW AL 12 10 .545 1.98 30 27 3 11 4 0 204.2 156 54 45 11 45 6 129 3 1 11 801 160 0.982 6.9 0.5 2.0 5.7 2.87
1967 30 CHW AL 16 11 .593 2.28 38 36 0 11 3 0 260.0 187 81 66 15 91 8 215 11 1 7 1060 132 1.069 6.5 0.5 3.2 7.4 2.36 AS,MVP-9
1968 31 CHW AL 4 13 .235 3.76 31 25 4 6 1 1 162.2 146 79 68 7 60 6 110 7 1 9 684 85 1.266 8.1 0.4 3.3 6.1 1.83
1969 32 CHW AL 10 15 .400 4.53 36 32 2 7 3 0 218.2 238 118 110 21 78 1 140 5 0 9 946 86 1.445 9.8 0.9 3.2 5.8 1.79
1970 33 BOS AL 16 11 .593 4.06 34 34 0 10 4 0 221.2 221 114 100 20 83 2 155 7 0 16 960 98 1.371 9.0 0.8 3.4 6.3 1.87
1971 34 BOS AL 14 11 .560 4.37 34 32 1 9 1 1 214.0 241 111 104 25 70 3 100 6 0 2 927 86 1.453 10.1 1.1 2.9 4.2 1.43
1972 35 BOS AL 3 3 .500 4.32 33 4 17 0 0 1 85.1 91 48 41 10 38 8 67 3 0 1 378 76 1.512 9.6 1.1 4.0 7.1 1.76
14 Seasons 124 103 .546 3.25 359 286 35 79 23 5 2081.0 1894 847 751 157 706 53 1420 62 3 83 8707 107 1.249 8.2 0.7 3.1 6.1 2.01
162 Game Avg. 13 11 .546 3.25 38 30 4 8 2 1 219 200 89 79 17 74 6 150 7 0 9 918 107 1.249 8.2 0.7 3.1 6.1 2.01
CHW (11 yrs) 91 78 .538 2.92 258 216 17 60 18 3 1560.0 1341 574 506 102 515 40 1098 46 3 64 6442 115 1.190 7.7 0.6 3.0 6.3 2.13
BOS (3 yrs) 33 25 .569 4.23 101 70 18 19 5 2 521.0 553 273 245 55 191 13 322 16 0 19 2265 89 1.428 9.6 1.0 3.3 5.6 1.69

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg IP GS R Rrep Rdef aLI RAR WAR Salary Awards
1959 22 CHW AL 1.0 0 0 0 0 .4 0 0.0 $
1960 23 CHW AL 3.1 0 1 2 0 .4 1 0.0 $
1961 24 CHW AL 10.1 0 2 6 0 .7 4 0.3 $
1962 25 CHW AL 6.1 0 5 4 0 .4 -1 -0.1 $
1963 26 CHW AL 243.0 30 69 117 6 1.0 48 5.6 $ MVP-8,RoY-1
1964 27 CHW AL 273.2 36 89 123 17 1.1 34 4.1 $ AS,MVP-7
1965 28 CHW AL 176.1 30 76 77 7 1.0 1 0.1 $
1966 29 CHW AL 204.2 27 54 91 9 1.0 37 4.3 $
1967 30 CHW AL 260.0 36 81 106 13 1.1 25 3.2 $ AS,MVP-9
1968 31 CHW AL 162.2 25 79 76 3 1.0 -3 -0.4 $
1969 32 CHW AL 218.2 32 118 133 -3 1.0 15 1.5 $
1970 33 BOS AL 221.2 34 114 126 2 1.0 12 1.3 $
1971 34 BOS AL 214.0 32 111 119 2 1.0 8 0.9 $
1972 35 BOS AL 85.1 4 48 45 -3 .7 -3 -0.7 $
14 Seasons 2081.0 286 847 1025 53 1.0 178 20.1 $
CHW (11 yrs) 1560.0 216 574 735 52 1.0 161 18.6 $
BOS (3 yrs) 521.0 70 273 290 1 1.0 17 1.5 $

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
1959 22 CHW AL 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
1960 23 CHW AL 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
1961 24 CHW AL 3 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .333 .667 80 1 0 0 0 0 0 /1
1962 25 CHW AL 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /1
1963 26 CHW AL 50 89 81 12 21 4 1 3 12 0 0 3 19 .259 .287 .444 .732 104 36 1 1 2 2 1 1 MVP-8,RoY-1
1964 27 CHW AL 54 126 120 9 25 7 0 4 19 0 0 2 29 .208 .228 .367 .594 65 44 4 1 3 0 0 1 AS,MVP-7
1965 28 CHW AL 42 75 72 2 13 1 0 1 6 0 0 2 15 .181 .200 .236 .436 28 17 0 0 0 1 0 1
1966 29 CHW AL 38 84 81 12 19 3 2 1 9 0 0 0 19 .235 .235 .358 .593 73 29 1 0 3 0 0 1
1967 30 CHW AL 48 107 99 10 21 0 2 2 13 0 0 2 23 .212 .243 .313 .556 69 31 3 2 4 0 1 1 AS,MVP-9
1968 31 CHW AL 46 79 72 10 15 3 1 2 8 0 0 6 13 .208 .278 .361 .640 88 26 2 1 0 0 1 1
1969 32 CHW AL 37 81 71 9 12 4 0 2 4 0 0 2 15 .169 .200 .310 .510 38 22 1 1 6 1 0 1
1970 33 BOS AL 37 92 82 12 20 3 1 1 11 0 0 8 11 .244 .311 .341 .653 75 28 3 0 2 0 0 1
1971 34 BOS AL 53 107 96 7 26 4 0 3 19 0 1 3 20 .271 .294 .406 .700 91 39 1 1 5 2 0 1
1972 35 BOS AL 33 32 30 2 6 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 7 .200 .219 .267 .485 41 8 1 0 0 1 0 1
14 Seasons 450 875 807 86 179 31 7 19 102 0 1 29 172 .222 .253 .348 .601 70 281 17 7 25 7 3
162 Game Avg. 162 315 291 31 64 11 3 7 37 0 0 10 62 .222 .253 .348 .601 70 101 6 3 9 3 1
CHW (11 yrs) 327 644 599 65 127 22 6 15 71 0 0 17 134 .212 .240 .344 .584 67 206 12 6 18 4 3
BOS (3 yrs) 123 231 208 21 52 9 1 4 31 0 1 12 38 .250 .290 .361 .651 78 75 5 1 7 3 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1961 24 CHW AL 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ /1
1963 26 CHW AL 89 0 0 0 1 0 7 2 10 1.1 10 1.0 0.1 $ 1 MVP-8,RoY-1
1964 27 CHW AL 126 -6 0 -1 0 0 10 4 7 0.6 7 0.7 -0.1 $ 1 AS,MVP-7
1965 28 CHW AL 75 -7 0 -1 0 0 6 2 0 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $ 1
1966 29 CHW AL 84 -3 1 0 0 0 7 2 7 0.7 7 0.8 -0.1 $ 1
1967 30 CHW AL 107 -4 0 -1 -1 0 9 3 6 0.5 6 0.6 -0.1 $ 1 AS,MVP-9
1968 31 CHW AL 79 -1 0 -1 0 0 5 2 5 0.5 5 0.6 -0.1 $50,000 1
1969 32 CHW AL 81 -6 1 0 0 0 7 2 4 0.4 4 0.4 0.0 $ 1
1970 33 BOS AL 92 -3 1 -1 -1 0 9 3 8 0.8 8 0.8 0.0 $42,500 1
1971 34 BOS AL 107 -1 -1 -1 0 0 7 3 7 0.7 7 0.7 0.0 $ 1
1972 35 BOS AL 32 -2 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ 1
11 Seasons 875 -33 2 -6 -1 0 69 24 55 5.3 55 5.7 -0.4 $92,500
CHW (8 yrs) 644 -27 2 -4 0 0 51 17 39 3.7 39 4.1 -0.4 $50,000
BOS (3 yrs) 231 -6 0 -2 -1 0 18 7 16 1.6 16 1.6 0.0 $42,500

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% PO Awards
1959 CHW AL 22 P 2 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.80 2.05
1960 CHW AL 23 P 2 3.1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.00 1.89 1.95
1961 CHW AL 24 P 3 10.1 9 3 6 0 1 1.000 7.84 3.00 .954 2.00 2.03
1962 CHW AL 25 P 5 6.1 2 0 2 0 0 1.000 2.84 0.40 .960 2.13 2.08
1963 CHW AL 26 P 41 243.0 49 17 30 2 4 .959 1.74 1.15 .955 1.99 2.00 MVP-8,RoY-1
1964 CHW AL 27 P 37 273.2 60 16 41 3 4 .950 1.87 1.54 .957 1.90 1.89 AS,MVP-7
1965 CHW AL 28 P 33 176.1 45 12 32 1 0 .978 2.25 1.33 .951 2.04 2.03
1966 CHW AL 29 P 30 204.2 49 7 41 1 4 .980 2.11 1.60 .952 1.99 1.98
1967 CHW AL 30 P 38 260.0 67 15 50 2 5 .970 2.25 1.71 .957 1.96 1.96 AS,MVP-9
1968 CHW AL 31 P 31 162.2 33 12 21 0 3 1.000 1.83 1.06 .957 1.89 1.88
1969 CHW AL 32 P 36 218.2 32 6 25 1 1 .969 1.28 0.86 .951 1.88 1.88
1970 BOS AL 33 P 34 221.2 37 7 27 3 3 .919 1.38 1.00 .951 1.86 1.85
1971 BOS AL 34 P 34 214.0 42 13 27 2 2 .952 1.68 1.18 .958 1.98 1.97
1972 BOS AL 35 P 33 85.1 13 3 10 0 0 1.000 1.37 0.39 .950 1.86 1.85
14 Seasons P 359 2081.0 438 111 312 15 27 .966 1.83 1.18 .954 1.94 1.93
14 Seasons TOT 359 2081.0 438 111 312 15 27 .966 1.83 1.18 .954 1.94 1.93
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
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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-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 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 1950 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 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) 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 1950 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

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1963 AL (8, 20%)
1964 AL (7, 16%)
1967 AL (9, 13%)
0.49 Career Shares (453rd)

Wins Above Replacements c a p y
1963 AL  6.7 (2nd)
1966 AL  5.0 (10th)

WAR for Pitcherss c a p y
1963 AL  5.6 (2nd)
1964 AL  4.1 (6th)
1966 AL  4.3 (4th)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
1963 AL  2.33 (1st)
1964 AL  2.50 (4th)
1966 AL  1.98 (1st)
1967 AL  2.28 (2nd)

Wins s c a p y
1963 AL  19 (6th)
1964 AL  20 (1st)
1967 AL  16 (6th)
1970 AL  16 (10th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
1963 AL  .704 (6th)
1964 AL  .714 (3rd)
1967 AL  .593 (9th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
1963 AL  1.070 (3rd)
1964 AL  1.173 (10th)
1966 AL  0.982 (1st)
1967 AL  1.069 (5th)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1963 AL  7.111 (6th)
1964 AL  7.136 (4th)
1966 AL  6.860 (3rd)
1967 AL  6.473 (1st)
Career  8.191 (181st)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
1966 AL  1.979 (4th)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
1963 AL  7.000 (7th)
1964 AL  6.742 (10th)
1967 AL  7.442 (9th)
1970 AL  6.293 (9th)
Career  6.141 (209th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
1964 AL  273.7 (2nd)
1967 AL  260.0 (5th)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1963 AL  189 (4th)
1964 AL  205 (4th)
1967 AL  215 (5th)
Career  1,420 (209th)

Games Started s c a p y
1964 AL  36 (2nd)
1967 AL  36 (9th)

Complete Games s c a p y
1963 AL  13 (6th)
1964 AL  11 (9th)
1966 AL  11 (5th)
1967 AL  11 (8th)

Shutouts s c a p y
1963 AL  4 (3rd)
1964 AL  3 (9th)
1966 AL  4 (4th)
1969 AL  3 (10th)
1970 AL  4 (3rd)
Career  23 (203rd)

Home Runs s c a p y
1971 AL  25 (8th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1964 AL  104 (3rd)
1967 AL  91 (6th)

Hits s c a p y
1969 AL  238 (6th)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
1963 AL  2.779 (9th)
1966 AL  2.867 (3rd)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
1963 AL  0.333 (1st)
1964 AL  0.658 (6th)
1966 AL  0.484 (3rd)
1967 AL  0.519 (4th)
1968 AL  0.387 (4th)

Losses s c a p y
1969 AL  15 (8th)

Earned Runs s c a p y
1969 AL  110 (1st)
1970 AL  100 (9th)
1971 AL  104 (3rd)

Wild Pitches s c a p y
1964 AL  15 (1st)
1966 AL  11 (5th)
1968 AL  9 (8th)
1970 AL  16 (3rd)
Career  83 (171st)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1963 AL  8 (7th)
1964 AL  7 (9th)
1967 AL  11 (2nd)
1970 AL  7 (9th)

Batters Faced s c a p y
1964 AL  1,117 (2nd)
1967 AL  1,060 (6th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
1963 AL  150 (1st)
1964 AL  138 (4th)
1966 AL  160 (1st)
1967 AL  132 (4th)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
1963 AL  33 (1st)
1964 AL  29 (4th)
1966 AL  28 (1st)
1967 AL  20 (3rd)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
1963 AL  3.7 (2nd)
1964 AL  3.2 (4th)
1966 AL  3.2 (1st)
1967 AL  2.3 (3rd)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)s c a p y
1963 AL  43.70 (1st)
1964 AL  29.62 (5th)
1966 AL  32.82 (1st)
1967 AL  23.64 (2nd)

Win Probability Added (WPA)s c a p y
1963 AL  4.7 (2nd)
1964 AL  2.7 (10th)
1966 AL  2.9 (7th)
1967 AL  2.3 (9th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)s c a p y
1963 AL  3.6 (1st)
1964 AL  2.5 (9th)
1966 AL  3.5 (1st)
1967 AL  2.6 (2nd)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)s c a p y
1963 AL  5.0 (1st)
1964 AL  3.4 (4th)
1966 AL  4.0 (1st)
1967 AL  2.8 (2nd)
Career  9.0 (212th)

Assists as P s c a p y
1967 AL  50 (5th)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
1968 AL  1.000 (1st)
1972 AL  1.000 (1st)


Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, 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 - 14 (159), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 84 (280), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 41 (332), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 21 (280), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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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
196831Chicago White Sox$50,0003/9/68 TSN
197033Boston Red Sox$42,500Noll/Fort/Hylan database
Career to date (may be incomplete)$92,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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