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Willie Ramsdell

James Willard Ramsdell (Willie the Knuck)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: April 4, 1916 in Williamsburg, KS (All Transactions)
Debut: September 24, 1947
Teams (by GP): Reds/Dodgers/Cubs 1947-1952

Final Game: July 15, 1952
Died: October 8, 1969 in Wichita, KS
Buried: Riverview Cemetery, Kiowa, KS
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Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1938	22	BIG	D	6	7	.462	4.99	17	14					137.0	125	89	76		71							1.431	8.2		4.7			BIG · WTNM
1939	23	NYY-min	D	6	1	.857	3.21	10	5					70.0	81	32	25		28							1.557	10.4		3.6			BIG · WTNM
1940	24	BIG	D	23	18	.561	4.00	47						351.0	385	220	156		112							1.416	9.9		2.9			BIG · WTNM
1941	25	LAD-min	D	25	9	.735	2.94	42						282.0	282	133	92		84							1.298	9.0		2.7			BIG · WTNM
1942	26	LAD-min	C	20	11	.645	1.52	40						266.0	236	112	45		74							1.165	8.0		2.5			SNB,MSK · CALL,WA
1946	30	LAD-min	AA	17	7	.708	2.32	31	24					206.0	185	78	53		67							1.223	8.1		2.9			FTW · TL
1947	31	LAD-min	AA	21	5	.808	2.25	34						240.0	200	76	60		78							1.158	7.5		2.9			FTW · TL
1947	31	BRO	NL	1	1	.500	6.75	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.2	4	6	2	0	3	3	1	0	0	17	69	2.625	13.5	0.0	10.1	10.1	1.00
1948	32	LAD-min	AA	7	3	.700	3.00	14	9					84.0	73	37	28		27							1.190	7.8		2.9			FTW,MOB · TL,SOUA
1948	32	BRO	NL	4	4	.500	5.19	27	1	14	0	0	4	50.1	48	35	29	6	41	34	3	0	2	241	78	1.768	8.6	1.1	7.3	6.1	0.83

1949	33	LAD-min	AAA	18	12	.600	2.59	34	31		22	2		267.1	227	95	77		85	152	5	1	13			1.167	7.6		2.9	5.1	1.79	HOL · PCL
1950	34	TOT	NL	8	14	.364	3.68	32	22	7	8	1	1	163.2	158	80	67	17	77	85	3	0	6	699	115	1.436	8.7	0.9	4.2	4.7	1.10
1950	34	BRO	NL	1	2	.333	2.84	5	0	5	0	0	1	6.1	7	3	2	0	2	2	1	0	1	27	153	1.421	9.9	0.0	2.8	2.8	1.00
1950	34	CIN	NL	7	12	.368	3.72	27	22	2	8	1	0	157.1	151	77	65	17	75	83	2	0	5	672	114	1.436	8.6	1.0	4.3	4.7	1.11
1951	35	CIN	NL	9	17	.346	4.04	31	31	0	10	1	0	196.0	204	103	88	18	70	88	8	1	9	857	101	1.398	9.4	0.8	3.2	4.0	1.26
1952	36	CHC-min	Opn	5	6	.455	3.64	13	13		6	0		89.0	81	40	36		38	42	1	0	1			1.337	8.2		3.8	4.2	1.11	LOS · PCL
1952	36	CHC	NL	2	3	.400	2.42	19	4	8	0	0	0	67.0	41	22	18	5	24	30	5	0	2	271	160	0.970	5.5	0.7	3.2	4.0	1.25
1953	37	CHC-min	Opn	5	6	.455	5.35	23	9		1	1		67.1	78	47	40	4	33	29	7	0	0			1.649	10.4	0.5	4.4	3.9	0.88	LOS,POR · PCL
1954	38	CHW-CHC-min	A,C,AA	0	7	.000	5.23	29	3					43.0	49	33	25	1	29							1.814	10.3	0.2	6.1			CSP,IOL,BMT · WL,WA,TL
5 Yrs				24	39	.381	3.83	111	58	30	18	2	5	479.2	455	246	204	46	215	240	20	1	19	2085	107	1.397	8.5	0.9	4.0	4.5	1.12
162 Game Avg.				10	16	.381	3.83	45	23	12	7	1	2	193	183	99	82	19	87	97	8	0	8	839	107	1.397	8.5	0.9	4.0	4.5	1.12

BRO (3 yrs)				6	7	.462	5.01	34	1	20	0	0	5	59.1	59	44	33	6	46	39	5	0	3	285	82	1.770	8.9	0.9	7.0	5.9	0.85
CIN (2 yrs)				16	29	.356	3.90	58	53	2	18	2	0	353.1	355	180	153	35	145	171	10	1	14	1529	107	1.415	9.0	0.9	3.7	4.4	1.18
CHC (1 yr)				2	3	.400	2.42	19	4	8	0	0	0	67.0	41	22	18	5	24	30	5	0	2	271	160	0.970	5.5	0.7	3.2	4.0	1.25

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
1947	31	BRO	NL	2.2	2	0	6	20.25	4.40	0.32	0.00	99.2	4.05	-5	-0.4	1.0	-0.0	-0.4	-4	.301	.498	$
1948	32	BRO	NL	50.1	27	1	35	6.26	4.49	0.12	0.00	100.5	4.39	-11	-1.1	1.7	-0.4	-0.9	-5	.461	.493	$

1950	34	BRO	NL	6.1	5	0	3	4.26	4.70	0.21	0.00	102.7	4.62	0	0.0	4.3	0.0	0.1	1	.506	.500	$
1950	34	CIN	NL	156.2	27	22	77	4.42	4.67	-0.17	0.00	101.5	4.92	10	1.0	.4	-0.1	2.3	27	.537	.506	$
1951	35	CIN	NL	196.0	31	31	103	4.73	4.60	-0.01	0.00	103.0	4.75	0	0.0		-0.1	1.7	22	.501	.500	$
1952	36	CHC	NL	67.0	19	4	22	2.96	4.27	0.04	0.00	101.7	4.30	10	1.2	.9	-0.1	1.6	17	.561	.507	$
5 Seasons				479.0	111	58	246	4.62	4.57	-0.04	0.00	102.0	4.70	5	0.8	1.6	-0.7	4.4	57	.507	.501	$

BRO (3 yrs)				59.1	34	1	44	6.67	4.51	0.14	0.00	100.7	4.40	-15	-1.4	2.0	-0.3	-1.2	-8	.458	.497	$
CIN (2 yrs)				352.2	58	53	180	4.59	4.63	-0.08	0.00	102.3	4.82	10	1.0	.4	-0.2	4.0	48	.518	.503	$
CHC (1 yr)				67.0	19	4	22	2.96	4.27	0.04	0.00	101.7	4.30	10	1.2	.9	-0.1	1.6	17	.561	.507	$

Batting Against -- Pitching*

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	ROE
1948	32	BRO	NL	27	241	191	35	48	6	2	6	1	0	41	34	.251	.391	.398	.789	.278	76	0	3	6	0	2

1950	34	TOT	NL	32	522	620	80	158	16	0	17	13	2	77	85	.255	.340	.363	.703	.272	225	10	3	3	0	6
1950	34	BRO	NL	5	27	24	3	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	.292	.370	.292	.662	.318	7	1	1	0	0	0
1950	34	CIN	NL	27	495	596	77	151	16	0	17	13	2	75	83	.253	.339	.366	.705	.270	218	9	2	3	0	6
1951	35	CIN	NL	31	699	764	103	204	23	5	18	12	7	70	88	.267	.335	.381	.716	.283	291	12	8	11	0	11
1952	36	CHC	NL	19	206	237	22	41	2	1	5	8	2	24	30	.173	.263	.253	.516	.178	60	1	5	5	0	4
4 Yrs				109	1668	1812	240	451	47	8	46	34	11	212	237	.249	.334	.360	.694	.265	652	23	19	25	0	23
162 Game Avg.				44	679	738	98	184	19	3	19	14	4	86	97	.249	.334	.360	.694	.265	265	9	8	10	0	9
MLB Averages																.261	.338	.365	.703	.277

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1948	32	BRO	NL	-7.3	-0.7	251	0.7	4.7	-4.0	1.15	-0.4	1.0	-3.2	-0.3	1.15	-4.8	11	6	9

1950	34	TOT	NL	8.2	0.8	563	-1.6	10.4	-12.0	1.21	-0.1	-1.2	0.8	0.1	1.20	2.6	5	0	4
1950	34	BRO	NL	0.7	0.1	28	-0.9	1.7	-2.5	3.92	0.0	-0.2	0.1	0.0	3.92	0.8	5	0	0
1950	34	CIN	NL	7.5	0.7	535	-0.7	8.7	-9.5	1.06	-0.1	-0.5	0.7	0.1	1.05	1.8	0	0	4
1951	35	CIN	NL	-0.5	-0.1	736	-0.3	13.0	-13.3	1.04	0.5	-0.7	2.2	0.2	1.04	4.3	0	0	0
1952	36	CHC	NL	9.7	1.0	218	0.6	2.9	-2.3	.81	1.0	-0.3	8.0	0.8	0.81	12.3	2	2	4
5 Yrs				7.9	0.9	1768	-0.5	31.0	-31.5	1.08	1.0	-1.5	7.8	0.8	1.08	14.4	18	8	17

Starting Pitching*

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
1948	32	BRO	NL	27	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0%	45.0	45	45	16	8	0	1	1.0	1.5	7.0

1950	34	TOT	NL	32	22	6	11	5	2	6	10	12	.455	0	0	8	1	11	50%		77	31	8	0	7	9	4.3	4.6	6.8
1950	34	CIN	NL	27	22	6	11	5	2	6	10	12	.455	0	0	8	1	11	50%	52.2	77	31	8	0	7	9	4.3	4.6	6.8
1951	35	CIN	NL	31	31	9	17	5	2	6	11	20	.355	0	6	10	1	13	42%	49.1	86	25	7	3	14	9	3.4	2.3	6.3
1952	36	CHC	NL	19	4	0	3	1	0	1	1	3	.250	0	1	0	0	2	50%	53.8	69	38	5	1	2	2	2.6	0.5	5.4
4 Yrs				104	58	15	32	11	4	13	22	36	.379	0	7	18	2	26	45%	51	86	25	36	12	23	21	3.6	3.0	6.5
MLB Averages													.500						50%	50	111	-11					4.6	4.6	6.7

Reliever Pitching*

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
1947	31	BRO	NL	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	0		0	0														1	1		1	4.0
1948	32	BRO	NL	27	26	14	4	3	5	4	1	80%	7	1	26	4	15%	8	1.152	11	6	9	9	3	14	14	12	12	8	15	6	5.0

1950	34	TOT	NL	32	10	7	2	3	2	1	1	50%	2	0	9	2	22%		1.205	5	0	4	3	3	3	6	3	4	5	3	0	3.9
1950	34	BRO	NL	5	5	5	1	2	2	1	1	50%	2	0	8	2	25%	9	3.916	5	0	0	2	3	0	5	0	2	3	2	0	3.8
1950	34	CIN	NL	27	5	2	1	1	0	0	0		0	0	1	0	0%	7	1.057	0	0	4	1	0	3	1	3	2	2	1	0	4.0

1952	36	CHC	NL	19	15	8	2	0	0	0	0		0	0	11	4	36%		.805	2	2	4	1	1	7	5	4	11	2	6	4	9.1
4 Yrs				80	53	30	9	7	7	5	2	71%	9	1	46	10	22%		1.107	18	8	17	13	7	24	25	19	28	16	24	11	5.9

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1947	31	BRO	NL	17		0.0%	17.7%	17.7%				53%
1948	32	BRO	NL	241	66%	2.5%	14.1%	17.0%	5.8%	29%	0.73	63%	49	0	0%

1950	34	TOT	NL	703	52%	3.3%	16.3%	14.8%	6.3%	21%	0.72	99%	104	10	10%
1950	34	BRO	NL	27	33%	0.0%	7.4%	7.4%	0.0%	0%	1.13	81%	6	1	17%
1950	34	CIN	NL	676	54%	3.4%	16.8%	15.2%	6.7%	22%	0.70	100%	98	9	9%
1951	35	CIN	NL	853	62%	2.6%	12.6%	10.0%	6.6%	23%	0.81	94%	138	12	9%
1952	36	CHC	NL	271	68%	2.4%	14.6%	11.7%	3.9%	20%	0.88	98%	28	1	4%
5 Yrs				2085	60%	2.7%	14.2%	12.8%	6.0%	22%	0.78	91%	319	23	7%
MLB Averages					49%	2.3%	12.2%	12.3%	6.2%	22%	0.95	95%			11%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

					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
1947	31	BRO	NL		4			0												0
1948	32	BRO	NL	241	48			6	0	18	3	3	3	3	19	9	6	47%	2	2	5	99	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	10	0

1950	34	TOT	NL	522	158			17	1	15	7	4	7	4	35	19	4	54%	6	6	8	196	13	2	87%	12	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	20	181
1950	34	BRO	NL	27	7			0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0%	0	1	0	10	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1950	34	CIN	NL	495	151			17	1	13	7	4	7	4	33	19	4	58%	6	5	8	186	13	2	87%	12	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	19	181
1951	35	CIN	NL	699	204			18	0	13	7	7	4	10	47	18	7	38%	11	9	2	265	12	7	63%	10	6	1	0	1	1	3	0	12	154
1952	36	CHC	NL	206	41			5	0	7	1	2	2	1	9	5	2	56%	4	2	1	63	8	2	80%	6	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	65
5 Yrs				1668	455			46	1	53	18	16	16	18	110	51	19	46%	23	19	16	623	34	11	76%	29	10	3	0	2	1	8	0	45	400
MLB Averages																		53%							56%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1947	31	1	1	.500	6.75	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.2	4	6	2	0	3	3	1	0	0	17	69	2.625	13.5	0.0	10.1	10.1	1.00	69
1948	32	5	5	.500	5.26	29	1	15	0	0	4	53.0	52	41	31	6	44	37	4	0	2	258	77	1.811	8.8	1.0	7.5	6.3	0.84	77
1949	33	5	5	.500	5.26	29	1	15	0	0	4	53.0	52	41	31	6	44	37	4	0	2	258	77	1.811	8.8	1.0	7.5	6.3	0.84	77
1950	34	13	19	.406	4.07	61	23	22	8	1	5	216.2	210	121	98	23	121	122	7	0	8	957	103	1.528	8.7	1.0	5.0	5.1	1.01	103
1951	35	22	36	.379	4.06	92	54	22	18	2	5	412.2	414	224	186	41	191	210	15	1	17	1814	102	1.466	9.0	0.9	4.2	4.6	1.10	102
1952	36	24	39	.381	3.83	111	58	30	18	2	5	479.2	455	246	204	46	215	240	20	1	19	2085	107	1.397	8.5	0.9	4.0	4.5	1.12	107

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
1947	31	0	0		6.00	3.0	4	2	2	0	3	4	1	2.333	12.0	9.0	12.0	1.33	0.0	2
1948	32	2	3	.400	5.19	52.0	50	33	30	6	43	35	3	1.788	8.7	7.4	6.1	0.81	1.0	27

1950	34	10	8	.556	3.64	163.0	160	73	66	17	78	85	3	1.460	8.8	4.3	4.7	1.09	0.9	32
1951	35	11	11	.500	3.90	201.0	207	97	87	18	71	90	8	1.383	9.3	3.2	4.0	1.27	0.8	31
1952	36	5	2	.714	2.44	70.0	43	21	19	5	25	31	5	0.971	5.5	3.2	4.0	1.24	0.6	19
5 Yrs		28	24	.538	3.75	489.0	464	226	204	46	220	245	20	1.399	8.5		4.5	1.11	0.8	111

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1950 NL 4.674 (8th)	Saves s c a p y 1948 NL 4 (7th)	Losses s c a p y 1951 NL 17 (1st)	Wild Pitches s c a p y 1950 NL 6 (5th) 1951 NL 9 (1st)
Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1951 NL 8 (3rd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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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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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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