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Cliff Politte

Clifford Anthony Politte

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: February 27, 1974 in Kirkwood, MO
High School: Vianney (Kirkwood, MO)
Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 54th round of the 1995 amateur draft.
Signed August 13, 1995. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 2, 1998
Teams (by GP): WhiteSox/BlueJays/Phillies/Cardinals 1998-2006

Final Game: July 15, 2006
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All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Cy Young… #3. Greg Maddux… #4. Christy Mathewson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Randy Johnson…

All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #1. Walter Johnson… #2. Cy Young… #3. Greg Maddux… #4. Christy Mathewson… #5. Pete Alexander… #6. Tom Seaver… #7. Randy Johnson…

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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
1996	22	STL-min	A	14	6	.700	2.59	25	25	0	0	0	0	149.2	108	50	43	8	47	0	151	7	1	5	603		1.036	6.5	0.5	2.8	9.1	3.21	PEO · MIDW
1997	23	STL-min	A+,AA	15	2	.882	2.22	25	25	0	0	0	0	158.0	124	52	39	14	40	1	144	2	2	2	627		1.038	7.1	0.8	2.3	8.2	3.60	PRW,ARK · CARL,TL
1998	24	STL-min	AA,AAA	6	7	.462	4.97	20	20	0	1	1	0	117.2	127	71	65	16	40	0	103	1	0	3	509		1.419	9.7	1.2	3.1	7.9	2.58	ARK,MEM · TL,PCL
1998	24	STL	NL	2	3	.400	6.32	8	8	0	0	0	0	37.0	45	32	26	6	18	0	22	1	1	2	172	68	1.703	10.9	1.5	4.4	5.4	1.22
1999	25	PHI-min	AA	9	8	.529	3.63	37	13	16	1	0	5	109.0	112	45	44	12	33	3	97	5	0	4	460		1.330	9.2	1.0	2.7	8.0	2.94	REA · EL
1999	25	PHI	NL	1	0	1.000	7.13	13	0	0	0	0	0	17.2	19	14	14	2	15	0	15	0	0	2	85	68	1.925	9.7	1.0	7.6	7.6	1.00
2000	26	PHI-min	AAA	8	4	.667	3.12	21	20	0	1	0	0	112.2	94	45	39	8	41	2	106	2	1	3	467		1.198	7.5	0.6	3.3	8.5	2.59	SWB · IL
2000	26	PHI	NL	4	3	.571	3.66	12	8	1	0	0	0	59.0	55	24	24	8	27	1	50	0	0	3	251	129	1.390	8.4	1.2	4.1	7.6	1.85
2001	27	PHI-min	A+	0	1	.000	2.45	7	7	0	0	0	0	11.0	8	4	3	0	3	0	15	0	0	0	43		1.000	6.5	0.0	2.5	12.3	5.00	CLW · FLOR
2001	27	PHI	NL	2	3	.400	2.42	23	0	7	0	0	0	26.0	24	8	7	2	8	3	23	1	0	1	109	179	1.231	8.3	0.7	2.8	8.0	2.88
2002	28	TOT	MLB	3	3	.500	3.67	68	0	20	0	0	1	73.2	57	33	30	5	28	2	72	2	0	2	304	123	1.154	7.0	0.6	3.4	8.8	2.57
2002	28	PHI	NL	2	0	1.000	3.86	13	0	7	0	0	0	16.1	19	10	7	0	9	1	15	1	0	1	77	103	1.714	10.5	0.0	5.0	8.3	1.67
2002	28	TOR	AL	1	3	.250	3.61	55	0	13	0	0	1	57.1	38	23	23	5	19	1	57	1	0	1	227	129	0.994	6.0	0.8	3.0	8.9	3.00
2003	29	TOR-min	AAA	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3		0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0		SYR · IL
2003	29	TOR	AL	1	5	.167	5.66	54	0	30	0	0	12	49.1	52	32	31	11	17	4	40	1	0	1	216	84	1.399	9.5	2.0	3.1	7.3	2.35
2004	30	CHW	AL	0	3	.000	4.38	54	0	9	0	0	1	51.1	52	26	25	6	22	5	48	2	0	2	225	109	1.442	9.1	1.1	3.9	8.4	2.18
2005	31	CHW	AL	7	1	.875	2.00	68	0	14	0	0	1	67.1	42	15	15	7	21	4	57	3	0	1	262	225	0.936	5.6	0.9	2.8	7.6	2.71
2006	32	CHW-min	AAA	0	0		1.93	3	2	0	0	0	0	4.2	5	1	1	0	1	0	5	0	0	1	20		1.286	9.6	0.0	1.9	9.6	5.00	CHR · IL
2006	32	CHW	AL	2	2	.500	8.70	30	0	13	0	0	0	30.0	47	30	29	9	15	7	15	1	0	0	151	55	2.067	14.1	2.7	4.5	4.5	1.00
2007	33	CLE-min	AA	0	0		6.75	8	3	1	0	0	0	8.0	8	6	6	2	5	0	10	0	1	0	36		1.625	9.0	2.2	5.6	11.2	2.00	AKR · EL
2008	34	STL-min	AAA	1	1	.500	5.79	7	0	1	0	0	0	9.1	9	6	6	2	2	0	9	0	0	0	38		1.179	8.7	1.9	1.9	8.7	4.50	MEM · PCL
9 Seasons				22	23	.489	4.40	330	16	94	0	0	15	411.1	393	214	201	56	171	26	342	11	1	14	1775	105	1.371	8.6	1.2	3.7	7.5	2.00
162 Game Avg.				4	5	.489	4.40	65	3	18	0	0	3	81	77	42	40	11	34	5	67	2	0	3	349	105	1.371	8.6	1.2	3.7	7.5	2.00

PHI (4 yrs)				9	6	.600	3.93	61	8	15	0	0	0	119.0	117	56	52	12	59	5	103	2	0	7	522	116	1.479	8.8	0.9	4.5	7.8	1.75
CHW (3 yrs)				9	6	.600	4.18	152	0	36	0	0	2	148.2	141	71	69	22	58	16	120	6	0	3	638	111	1.339	8.5	1.3	3.5	7.3	2.07
TOR (2 yrs)				2	8	.200	4.56	109	0	43	0	0	13	106.2	90	55	54	16	36	5	97	2	0	2	443	103	1.181	7.6	1.4	3.0	8.2	2.69
STL (1 yr)				2	3	.400	6.32	8	8	0	0	0	0	37.0	45	32	26	6	18	0	22	1	1	2	172	68	1.703	10.9	1.5	4.4	5.4	1.22

AL (5 yrs)			AL	11	14	.440	4.34	261	0	79	0	0	15	255.1	231	126	123	38	94	21	217	8	0	5	1081	108	1.273	8.1	1.3	3.3	7.6	2.31
NL (5 yrs)			NL	11	9	.550	4.50	69	16	15	0	0	0	156.0	162	88	78	18	77	5	125	3	1	9	694	100	1.532	9.3	1.0	4.4	7.2	1.62

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
1998	24	STL	NL	37.0	8	32	22	0	1.0	-10	-1.0	$170,000
1999	25	PHI	NL	17.2	0	14	11	0	.4	-3	-0.3	$
2000	26	PHI	NL	59.0	8	24	37	1	.9	13	1.2	$
2001	27	PHI	NL	26.0	0	8	14	1	.9	6	0.4	$225,000
2002	28	PHI	NL	16.1	0	10	9	0	.8	-1	-0.2	$245,000
2002	28	TOR	AL	57.1	0	23	38	0	1.3	15	1.2	$
2003	29	TOR	AL	49.1	0	32	36	-2	1.3	4	-0.1	$845,000
2004	30	CHW	AL	51.1	0	26	36	0	1.0	10	0.5	$800,000
2005	31	CHW	AL	67.1	0	15	43	0	1.3	28	2.6	$1,000,000
2006	32	CHW	AL	30.0	0	30	22	-1	.7	-8	-0.9	$1,200,000
9 Seasons				411.1	16	214	268	-1	1.1	54	3.4	$4,485,000

PHI (4 yrs)				119.0	8	56	71	2	.8	15	1.1	$470,000
CHW (3 yrs)				148.2	0	71	101	-1	1.1	30	2.2	$3,000,000
TOR (2 yrs)				106.2	0	55	74	-2	1.3	19	1.1	$845,000
STL (1 yr)				37.0	8	32	22	0	1.0	-10	-1.0	$170,000

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Rslt	Opp	ERA	G	GF	IP	H	R	ER	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
2005	31	CHW	AL	ALDS	W	BOS	0.00	1	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1.000	9.0	0.0	0.0
2005	31	CHW	AL	WS	W	HOU	3.86	3	0	2.1	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	10	0.857	0.0	7.7	7.7	1.00
1 Season (2 Series)							2.70	4	1	3.1	1	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	14	0.900	2.7	5.4	5.4	1.00
1 ALDS							0.00	1	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1.000	9.0	0.0	0.0
1 WS							3.86	3	0	2.1	0	1	1	2	1	2	1	1	10	0.857	0.0	7.7	7.7	1.00

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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
1996	22	STL-min	A	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	PEO · MIDW
1997	23	STL-min	AA,A+	25	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.111	.000	.111		0	0	0	0	0	0	ARK,PRW · TL,CARL
1998	24	STL-min	AA,AAA	20	29	26	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.115	.115	.154	.269		4	0	0	3	0	0	ARK,MEM · TL,PCL
1998	24	STL	NL	8	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.071	.133	.071	.205	-44	1	1	0	1	0	0	/1
1999	25	PHI-min	AA	37	10	9	1	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	4	.222	.222	.222	.444		2	0	0	1	0	0	REA · EL
1999	25	PHI	NL	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2000	26	PHI-min	AAA	22	19	16	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.063	.118	.125	.243		2	0	0	2	0	0	SWB · IL
2000	26	PHI	NL	12	19	15	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.133	.176	.200	.376	-5	3	0	0	2	1	0	1
2001	27	PHI-min	A+	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	CLW · FLOR
2001	27	PHI	NL	23	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.333	.000	.333	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2002	28	TOT	MLB	68	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2002	28	PHI	NL	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2002	28	TOR	AL	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2003	29	TOR-min	AAA	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	SYR · IL
2003	29	TOR	AL	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2004	30	CHW	AL	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2005	31	CHW	AL	68	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	431	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
2006	32	CHW-min	AAA	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	CHR · IL
2006	32	CHW	AL	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	1
2007	33	CLE-min	AA	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	AKR · EL
2008	34	STL-min	AAA	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	MEM · PCL
9 Seasons				330	40	33	3	4	1	0	0	3	0	0	3	14	.121	.189	.152	.341	-10	5	1	0	3	1	0
162 Game Avg.				162	20	16	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	7	.121	.189	.152	.341	-10	2	0	0	1	0	0

PHI (4 yrs)				61	23	18	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	6	.111	.190	.167	.357	-8	3	0	0	2	1	0
CHW (3 yrs)				152	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	431	1	0	0	0	0	0
TOR (2 yrs)				109	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
STL (1 yr)				8	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.071	.133	.071	.205	-44	1	1	0	1	0	0

AL (5 yrs)				261	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	431	1	0	0	0	0	0
NL (5 yrs)				69	39	32	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	3	14	.094	.167	.125	.292	-23	4	1	0	3	1	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
1998	24	STL	NL	16	-3	0	0	0	0	2	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$170,000	/1

2000	26	PHI	NL	19	-2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.1	0	0.0	0.1	$	1
2001	27	PHI	NL	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$225,000	1
2002	28	PHI	NL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$245,000	1

2005	31	CHW	AL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$1,000,000	1
5 Seasons				40	-5	0	0	0	0	4	0	-1	0.0	-1	-0.1	0.1	$1,640,000

PHI (3 yrs)				23	-2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0.1	0	0.0	0.1	$470,000
STL (1 yr)				16	-3	0	0	0	0	2	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$170,000
CHW (1 yr)				1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$1,000,000

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
2005	31	CHW	AL	WS	HOU	W	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
1 WS							2	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	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	Fld%	Rdrs	Rdrs/yr	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO
1998	STL	NL	24	P	8	8	37.0	8	3	4	1	.875			1.70	0.88	.961	1.85	1.84	2	2	50%	0
1999	PHI	NL	25	P	13	0	17.2	2	1	1	0	1.000			1.02	0.15	.950	1.73	1.71	1	0	0%	0
2000	PHI	NL	26	P	12	8	59.0	13	5	8	0	1.000			1.98	1.08	.962	1.74	1.72	3	1	25%	0
2001	PHI	NL	27	P	23	0	26.0	10	4	4	2	.800			2.77	0.35	.959	1.77	1.73	2	1	33%	2
2002	TOT	MLB	28	P	68	0	73.2	6	1	5	0	1.000			0.73	0.09	.957	1.72	1.70	8	3	27%	0
2002	PHI	NL	28	P	13	0	16.1	0	0	0	0				0.00	0.00		1.82	1.81	4	1	20%	0
2002	TOR	AL	28	P	55	0	57.1	6	1	5	0	1.000			0.94	0.11	.957	1.70	1.67	4	2	33%	0
2003	TOR	AL	29	P	54	0	49.1	3	2	1	0	1.000	-1	-4	0.55	0.06	.957	1.73	1.71	5	2	29%	0
2004	CHW	AL	30	P	54	0	51.1	4	0	4	0	1.000	0	0	0.70	0.07	.948	1.67	1.65	7	2	22%	0
2005	CHW	AL	31	P	68	0	67.1	8	1	6	1	.875	1	3	0.94	0.10	.954	1.70	1.68	6	2	25%	0
2006	CHW	AL	32	P	30	0	30.0	3	0	3	0	1.000	1	7	0.90	0.10	.957	1.56	1.54	3	0	0%	0
	9 Seasons			P	330	16	411.1	57	17	36	4	.930	1	1	1.16	0.16	.958	1.72	1.68	37	13	26%	2
	9 Seasons			TOT	330	16	411.1	57	17	36	4	.930	1	6	1.16	0.16	.958	1.72	1.68	37	13	26%	2

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-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

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 2005 AL 26.10 (7th)	Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y 2005 AL 3.5 (4th)	Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 2005 AL 2.6 (8th)	Fielding % as P s c a p y 2006 AL 1.000 (1st)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
2005 AL 26.10 (7th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
2005 AL 3.5 (4th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
2005 AL 2.6 (8th)

Fielding % as P s c a p y
2006 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.

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Pitching - 7 (1143), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

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Transactions

June 1, 1995: Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 54th round of the 1995 amateur draft. Player signed August 13, 1995.
November 19, 1998: Traded by the St. Louis Cardinals with Jeff Brantley and Ron Gant to the Philadelphia Phillies for Ricky Bottalico and Garrett Stephenson.
May 26, 2002: Traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Toronto Blue Jays for Dan Plesac.
December 21, 2003: Granted Free Agency.
January 7, 2004: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago White Sox.
July 20, 2006: Released by the Chicago White Sox.
March 27, 2007: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cleveland Indians.
October 29, 2007: Granted Free Agency.
December 29, 2007: Signed as a Free Agent with the St. Louis Cardinals.
November 3, 2008: Granted Free Agency.

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Salaries

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Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources
1998	24	St. Louis Cardinals	$170,000	4/3/98 USA Today

2001	27	Philadelphia Phillies	$225,000	4/6/01 USA Today
2002	28	Philadelphia Phillies	$245,000	4/3/02 AP
2003	29	Toronto Blue Jays	$845,000	4/3/03 AP
2004	30	Chicago White Sox	$800,000	4/7/04 AP
2005	31	Chicago White Sox	$1,000,000
2006	32	Chicago White Sox	$1,200,000

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$4,485,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
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