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Elmer Riddle

Elmer Ray Riddle

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 170 lb.

Born: July 31, 1914 in Columbus, GA (All Transactions)
Debut: October 1, 1939
Teams (by GP): Reds/Pirates 1939-1949

Final Game: August 3, 1949
Died: May 14, 1984 in Columbus, GA
Buried: Parkhill Cemetery, Columbus, GA
Relatives: Brother of Johnny Riddle
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All-Star

Standard Pitching

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
1939 24 CIN NL 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.500 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
1940 25 CIN NL 1 2 .333 1.87 15 1 12 1 0 2 33.2 30 12 7 0 17 9 0 0 0 142 206 1.396 8.0 0.0 4.5 2.4 0.53
1941 26 CIN NL 19 4 .826 2.24 33 22 4 15 4 1 216.2 180 68 54 8 59 80 5 0 2 884 161 1.103 7.5 0.3 2.5 3.3 1.36 MVP-5
1942 27 CIN NL 7 11 .389 3.69 29 19 5 7 1 0 158.1 157 74 65 7 79 78 4 0 2 700 89 1.491 8.9 0.4 4.5 4.4 0.99
1943 28 CIN NL 21 11 .656 2.63 36 33 3 19 5 3 260.1 235 87 76 6 107 69 2 0 0 1086 127 1.314 8.1 0.2 3.7 2.4 0.64 MVP-7
1944 29 CIN NL 2 2 .500 4.05 4 4 0 2 0 0 26.2 25 12 12 0 12 6 0 0 0 113 88 1.388 8.4 0.0 4.1 2.0 0.50
1945 30 CIN NL 1 4 .200 8.19 12 3 6 0 0 0 29.2 39 27 27 4 27 5 0 0 1 146 47 2.225 11.8 1.2 8.2 1.5 0.19
1947 32 CIN NL 1 0 1.000 8.31 16 3 6 0 0 0 30.1 42 30 28 5 31 8 1 0 0 159 51 2.407 12.5 1.5 9.2 2.4 0.26
1948 33 PIT NL 12 10 .545 3.49 28 27 1 12 3 1 191.0 184 83 74 17 81 63 3 0 9 828 117 1.387 8.7 0.8 3.8 3.0 0.78 AS
1949 34 PIT NL 1 8 .111 5.33 16 12 3 1 0 1 74.1 81 45 44 9 45 24 4 1 0 341 79 1.695 9.8 1.1 5.4 2.9 0.53
10 Yrs 65 52 .556 3.40 190 124 40 57 13 8 1023.0 974 438 387 56 458 342 19 1 14 4406 107 1.400 8.6 0.5 4.0 3.0 0.75
162 Game Avg. 14 11 .556 3.40 41 27 9 12 3 2 222 211 95 84 12 99 74 4 0 3 954 107 1.400 8.6 0.5 4.0 3.0 0.75
CIN (8 yrs) 52 34 .605 3.20 146 85 36 44 10 6 757.2 709 310 269 30 332 255 12 0 5 3237 109 1.374 8.4 0.4 3.9 3.0 0.77
PIT (2 yrs) 13 18 .419 4.00 44 39 4 13 3 2 265.1 265 128 118 26 126 87 7 1 9 1169 103 1.474 9.0 0.9 4.3 3.0 0.69

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
1939 24 CIN NL 2.0 1 0 0 0.00 4.50 0.41 0.00 96.0 3.93 1 0.1 1.0 -0.0 0.1 1 .598 .501 $
1940 25 CIN NL 33.2 15 1 12 3.21 4.44 0.65 0.00 99.0 3.75 2 0.2 1.0 -0.0 0.5 6 .515 .501 $
1941 26 CIN NL 216.2 33 22 68 2.82 4.36 0.17 0.00 99.4 4.16 33 3.9 1.0 -0.1 5.8 56 .617 .524 $ MVP-5
1942 27 CIN NL 158.1 29 19 74 4.21 3.68 0.23 0.00 98.9 3.41 -13 -1.4 1.0 -0.1 -0.2 -0 .451 .491 $
1943 28 CIN NL 260.1 36 33 87 3.01 3.89 0.32 0.00 98.5 3.52 15 1.8 1.0 -0.2 3.7 38 .550 .511 $ MVP-7
1944 29 CIN NL 26.2 4 4 12 4.05 4.67 0.57 0.00 94.5 3.87 -1 -0.1 -0.0 0.1 2 .486 .500 $
1945 30 CIN NL 29.2 12 3 27 8.19 4.95 0.03 0.00 101.0 4.97 -11 -1.0 1.0 -0.0 -0.8 -8 .413 .494 $
1947 32 CIN NL 30.1 16 3 30 8.90 4.86 -0.35 0.00 101.6 5.29 -12 -1.2 1.0 -0.0 -0.9 -9 .426 .493 $
1948 33 PIT NL 191.0 28 27 83 3.91 4.41 0.20 0.00 102.1 4.30 8 0.8 1.0 -0.1 2.5 30 .529 .505 $ AS
1949 34 PIT NL 74.1 16 12 45 5.45 4.86 -0.05 0.00 104.8 5.14 -3 -0.3 .7 -0.0 0.4 6 .483 .498 $
10 Seasons 1023.0 190 124 438 3.85 4.22 0.21 0.00 99.9 4.01 20 2.8 1.0 -0.6 11.2 122 .515 .502 $
CIN (8 yrs) 757.2 146 85 310 3.68 4.11 0.24 0.00 98.9 3.83 15 2.3 1.0 -0.4 8.3 86 .516 .502 $
PIT (2 yrs) 265.1 44 39 128 4.34 4.54 0.13 0.00 102.8 4.54 5 0.5 .7 -0.1 2.9 36 .512 .502 $

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
1940 25 CIN NL WS W DET 0 0 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.0
1 WS 0 0 0.00 1 0 1 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 18.0

All-Star Pitching

Year Tm Lg Age GS W L W-L% ERA 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
1948 PIT NL 33

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 IBB ROE
1948 33 PIT NL 28 158 733 83 184 17 1 17 4 2 81 63 .251 .328 .347 .675 .256 254 3 3 10 0 1
1949 34 PIT NL 16 193 286 45 81 8 1 9 1 3 45 24 .283 .388 .413 .801 .285 118 6 4 4 0 2
2 Yrs 44 351 1019 128 265 25 2 26 5 5 126 87 .260 .345 .365 .711 .264 372 9 7 14 0 3
162 Game Avg. 36 288 835 105 217 20 2 21 4 4 103 71 .260 .345 .365 .711 .264 305 7 6 11 0 2
MLB Averages .261 .333 .332 .665 .279

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 33 PIT NL 12.7 1.3 168 0.2 2.5 -2.3 .93 -0.0 0.3 2.9 0.3 0.93 1.7 0 0 0
1949 34 PIT NL -6.7 -0.6 199 -1.3 3.4 -4.7 1.04 -1.1 -0.1 -13.2 -1.2 1.04 -13.1 0 0 2
10 Yrs 33.7 4.1 367 -1.0 5.9 -7.0 .99 -1.2 0.1 -10.3 -0.9 0.99 -11.4 0 0 2

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 Pit/GS <80 80-99 100-119 ≥120 Max
1940 25 CIN NL 15 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 .000 0 0 1 0 1 100% 51.0 51 51 1 0 1.0 8.0
1941 26 CIN NL 33 22 16 4 2 3 4 18 4 .818 0 0 15 4 18 82% 61.1 80 15 8 10 5.1 8.3
1942 27 CIN NL 29 19 6 9 4 0 1 7 12 .368 0 0 7 1 8 42% 47.7 85 21 4 12 3.5 6.4
1943 28 CIN NL 36 33 21 11 1 2 4 22 11 .667 0 0 19 5 24 73% 56.0 88 15 18 10 4.5 7.7
1944 29 CIN NL 4 4 2 2 0 0 0 2 2 .500 0 0 2 0 2 50% 50.5 74 31 0 3 3.7 6.7
1945 30 CIN NL 12 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 3 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0% 28.7 37 17 2 1 4.0 3.9
1947 32 CIN NL 16 3 1 0 2 1 0 2 1 .667 0 0 0 0 0% 38.7 41 36 1 2 6.7 4.4
1948 33 PIT NL 28 27 12 10 5 0 2 14 13 .519 0 1 12 3 18 67% 52.2 81 9 0 0 5 12 4.0 7.0 7.0
1949 34 PIT NL 16 12 1 7 4 0 2 4 8 .333 0 1 1 0 4 33% 43.8 64 24 10 3 1 10 3.9 2.9 5.7
9 Yrs 189 124 59 47 18 6 14 69 55 .556 0 2 57 13 75 60% 52 88 9 10 3 40 60 4.3 4.7 7.1
MLB Averages .500 53% 51 115 -20 4.4 4.8 6.9

Reliever Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GR GF Wgr Lgr SVOpp SV BSv SV% SVSit Hold IR IS IS% 1stIP aLI LevHi LevMd LevLo Ahd Tie Bhd Runr Empt >3o <3o IPmult 0DR Out/GR Pit/GR
1939 24 CIN NL 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6.0
1940 25 CIN NL 15 14 12 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 6 1 1 5.5
1941 26 CIN NL 33 11 4 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 7 1 1 9.4
1942 27 CIN NL 29 10 5 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 1 11.3
1943 28 CIN NL 36 3 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 4.7
1945 30 CIN NL 12 9 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 6.0
1947 32 CIN NL 16 13 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1 3.9
1948 33 PIT NL 28 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 .927 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.0
1949 34 PIT NL 16 4 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 2 100% 1.036 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 4.8
9 Yrs 186 66 40 6 5 0 8 0 0 0 2 2 100% .987 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 33 13 1 5 6.7

Ratio Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB DPopp DPs DP%
1939 24 CIN NL 7 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 100%
1940 25 CIN NL 142 0.0% 6.3% 12.0% 2.1% 10% 78%
1941 26 CIN NL 884 0.9% 9.1% 6.7% 2.6% 13% 81%
1942 27 CIN NL 704 1.0% 11.1% 11.2% 2.6% 12% 74%
1943 28 CIN NL 1084 0.6% 6.4% 9.9% 2.8% 13% 81%
1944 29 CIN NL 113 0.0% 5.3% 10.6% 1.8% 8% 83%
1945 30 CIN NL 146 2.7% 3.4% 18.5% 74%
1947 32 CIN NL 162 3.1% 4.9% 19.1% 72%
1948 33 PIT NL 828 59% 10.8% 39.9% 51.3% 22.2% 19% 1.97 413% 32 3 9%
1949 34 PIT NL 340 60% 4.7% 12.4% 23.3% 9.3% 22% 0.94 131% 47 6 13%
10 Yrs 4410 59% 1.6% 9.5% 12.8% 3.6% 13% 1.34 96% 79 9 11%
MLB Averages 48% 1.5% 9.8% 9.8% 3.4% 14% 0.95 84% 10%

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
1939 24 CIN NL 1 0 0
1940 25 CIN NL 30 0 0
1941 26 CIN NL 180 8 2
1942 27 CIN NL 157 7 2
1943 28 CIN NL 235 6 0
1944 29 CIN NL 25 0 0
1945 30 CIN NL 39 4 1
1947 32 CIN NL 42 5 0
1948 33 PIT NL 158 184 17 0 1 2 0 1 1 8 6 0 75% 1 9 0 60 4 2 67% 3 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 670
1949 34 PIT NL 193 81 9 0 4 5 3 3 5 9 3 1 33% 2 0 0 82 1 3 25% 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 147
10 Yrs 351 974 56 0 5 7 3 4 6 17 9 1 53% 3 14 0 142 5 5 50% 4 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 6 817
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 IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB ERA+
1939 24 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 2.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0.500 4.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
1940 25 1 2 .333 1.77 16 1 12 1 0 2 35.2 31 12 7 0 17 9 0 0 0 149 221 1.346 7.8 0.0 4.3 2.3 0.53 221
1941 26 20 6 .769 2.18 49 23 16 16 4 3 252.1 211 80 61 8 76 89 5 0 2 1033 168 1.137 7.5 0.3 2.7 3.2 1.17 168
1942 27 27 17 .614 2.76 78 42 21 23 5 3 410.2 368 154 126 15 155 167 9 0 4 1733 127 1.274 8.1 0.3 3.4 3.7 1.08 127
1943 28 48 28 .632 2.71 114 75 24 42 10 6 671.0 603 241 202 21 262 236 11 0 4 2819 127 1.289 8.1 0.3 3.5 3.2 0.90 127
1944 29 50 30 .625 2.76 118 79 24 44 10 6 697.2 628 253 214 21 274 242 11 0 4 2932 125 1.293 8.1 0.3 3.5 3.1 0.88 125
1945 30 51 34 .600 2.98 130 82 30 44 10 6 727.1 667 280 241 25 301 247 11 0 5 3078 116 1.331 8.3 0.3 3.7 3.1 0.82 116
1946 31 51 34 .600 2.98 130 82 30 44 10 6 727.1 667 280 241 25 301 247 11 0 5 3078 116 1.331 8.3 0.3 3.7 3.1 0.82 116
1947 32 52 34 .605 3.20 146 85 36 44 10 6 757.2 709 310 269 30 332 255 12 0 5 3237 109 1.374 8.4 0.4 3.9 3.0 0.77 109
1948 33 64 44 .593 3.25 174 112 37 56 13 7 948.2 893 393 343 47 413 318 15 0 14 4065 111 1.377 8.5 0.4 3.9 3.0 0.77 111
1949 34 65 52 .556 3.40 190 124 40 57 13 8 1023.0 974 438 387 56 458 342 19 1 14 4406 107 1.400 8.6 0.5 4.0 3.0 0.75 107

Neutralized Pitching

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works
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
1939 24 0 0 0.00 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1
1940 25 2 1 .667 2.18 33.0 32 9 8 0 18 9 0 1.515 8.7 4.9 2.5 0.50 0.0 15
1941 26 17 7 .708 2.42 219.0 192 66 59 9 63 81 5 1.164 7.9 2.6 3.3 1.29 0.4 33
1942 27 7 10 .412 4.56 156.0 178 88 79 8 90 77 5 1.718 10.3 5.2 4.4 0.86 0.5 29
1943 28 16 11 .593 3.23 251.0 261 100 90 7 119 67 2 1.514 9.4 4.3 2.4 0.56 0.3 36
1944 29 1 1 .500 4.50 26.0 27 14 13 0 13 6 0 1.538 9.3 4.5 2.1 0.46 0.0 4
1945 30 0 3 .000 9.00 28.0 41 31 28 4 28 5 0 2.464 13.2 9.0 1.6 0.18 1.3 12
1947 32 1 2 .333 8.10 30.0 43 30 27 5 32 8 1 2.500 12.9 9.6 2.4 0.25 1.5 16
1948 33 12 9 .571 3.43 197.0 189 83 75 17 83 65 3 1.381 8.6 3.8 3.0 0.78 0.8 28
1949 34 3 5 .375 5.16 75.0 81 48 43 9 45 24 4 1.680 9.7 5.4 2.9 0.53 1.1 16
10 Yrs 59 49 .546 3.73 1017.0 1044 469 422 59 491 342 20 1.509 9.2 3.0 0.70 0.5 190

* 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

All-Star Games
1948

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1941 NL (5, 28%)
1943 NL (7, 20%)
0.49 Career Shares (453rd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1941 NL  6.2 (5th)

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
1941 NL  5.8 (3rd)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
1941 NL  2.24 (1st)
1943 NL  2.63 (8th)
1948 NL  3.49 (10th)

Wins s c a p y
1941 NL  19 (3rd)
1943 NL  21 (1st)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
1941 NL  .826 (1st)
1943 NL  .656 (7th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
1941 NL  1.103 (3rd)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1941 NL  7.477 (5th)
1943 NL  8.124 (7th)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
1941 NL  2.451 (9th)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
1942 NL  4.434 (6th)

Saves s c a p y
1943 NL  3 (10th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
1943 NL  260.3 (6th)

Games Started s c a p y
1943 NL  33 (5th)

Complete Games s c a p y
1941 NL  15 (10th)
1943 NL  19 (7th)
1948 NL  12 (9th)

Shutouts s c a p y
1941 NL  4 (5th)
1943 NL  5 (3rd)
1948 NL  3 (6th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1948 NL  17 (10th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1942 NL  79 (9th)
1943 NL  107 (3rd)

Hits s c a p y
1943 NL  235 (8th)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
1941 NL  0.332 (7th)
1943 NL  0.207 (8th)

Earned Runs s c a p y
1943 NL  76 (10th)

Wild Pitches s c a p y
1948 NL  9 (2nd)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1941 NL  5 (5th)
1942 NL  4 (10th)

Batters Faced s c a p y
1943 NL  1,086 (6th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
1941 NL  161 (1st)
1943 NL  127 (9th)
1948 NL  117 (9th)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
1941 NL  31 (2nd)
1943 NL  22 (7th)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
1941 NL  3.4 (2nd)
1943 NL  2.4 (7th)
1948 NL  1.3 (10th)

             

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 11 (210), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 48 (537), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 22 (574), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 10 (838), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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