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José Santiago

Jose Rafael (Alfonso) Santiago (Palillo)

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 15, 1940 in Juana Diaz, P.R.
Signed by the Kansas City Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1959. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 9, 1963
Teams (by GP): RedSox/Athletics 1963-1970

Final Game: July 6, 1970
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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
1959	18	OAK-min	D-,D	9	9	.500	3.65	26	16					138.0	142	87	56	2	89								1.674	9.3	0.1	5.8			GRI,OLE · NESL,NYPL
1960	19	OAK-min	D	15	6	.714	3.30	35	27					207.0	196	113	76	4	96								1.411	8.5	0.2	4.2			ABQ · SOPH
1961	20	OAK-min	C,AA	13	14	.481	4.35	37	29					223.1	217	127	108	19	134								1.572	8.7	0.8	5.4			VIS,SHV · CALL,SOUA
1962	21	OAK-min	AA	16	9	.640	3.88	38	29		14	2		232.0	233	122	100	11	93	4	188	8	0	7			1.405	9.0	0.4	3.6	7.3	2.02	ABQ · TL
1963	22	OAK-min	AAA	12	15	.444	3.66	34	26					194.0	176	99	79	13	82		153						1.330	8.2	0.6	3.8	7.1	1.87	POR · PCL
1963	22	KCA	AL	1	0	1.000	9.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	8	7	7	4	2	0	6	0	1	0	31	46	1.429	10.3	5.1	2.6	7.7	3.00
1964	23	OAK-min	AAA	0	0		0.00	1	0		0	0		2.0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0			0.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0		DAL · PCL
1964	23	KCA	AL	0	6	.000	4.73	34	8	6	0	0	0	83.2	84	53	44	9	35	1	64	4	0	1	372	82	1.422	9.0	1.0	3.8	6.9	1.83
1965	24	OAK-min	AAA	6	3	.667	2.19	28	7		5	2		119.0	94	34	29	6	42	6	135	1	1	4			1.143	7.1	0.5	3.2	10.2	3.21	VAN · PCL
1965	24	KCA	AL	0	0		9.00	4	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	8	5	5	1	4	2	8	0	0	0	28	42	2.400	14.4	1.8	7.2	14.4	2.00
1966	25	BOS	AL	12	13	.480	3.66	35	28	3	7	1	2	172.0	155	87	70	17	58	0	119	2	0	5	723	104	1.238	8.1	0.9	3.0	6.2	2.05
1967	26	BOS	AL	12	4	*.750*	3.59	50	11	16	2	0	5	145.1	138	61	58	15	47	3	109	2	0	3	605	98	1.273	8.5	0.9	2.9	6.8	2.32
1968	27	BOS	AL	9	4	.692	2.25	18	18	0	7	2	0	124.0	96	34	31	9	42	0	86	3	1	6	497	142	1.113	7.0	0.7	3.0	6.2	2.05	AS
1969	28	BOS	AL	0	0		3.52	10	0	3	0	0	0	7.2	11	5	3	2	4	0	4	0	0	0	39	115	1.957	12.9	2.3	4.7	4.7	1.00
1970	29	BOS-min	AAA	7	4	.636	3.62	19	9		1	0	1	77.0	80	42	31	5	33	5	47	2	0	3			1.468	9.4	0.6	3.9	5.5	1.42	LOU · IL
1970	29	BOS	AL	0	2	.000	10.32	8	0	2	0	0	1	11.1	18	13	13	0	8	1	8	0	0	0	59	40	2.294	14.3	0.0	6.4	6.4	1.00
1971	30	BOS-min	AAA	7	6	.538	4.08	32	9		4	0	2	128.0	145	70	58	8	57	5	78	2	1	8			1.578	10.2	0.6	4.0	5.5	1.37	LOU · IL
8 Yrs				34	29	.540	3.74	163	65	33	16	3	8	556.0	518	265	231	57	200	7	404	11	2	15	2354	97	1.291	8.4	0.9	3.2	6.5	2.02
162 Game Avg.				10	9	.540	3.74	49	19	10	5	1	2	166	154	79	69	17	60	2	120	3	1	4	702	97	1.291	8.4	0.9	3.2	6.5	2.02

BOS (5 yrs)				33	23	.589	3.42	121	57	24	16	3	8	460.1	418	200	175	43	159	4	326	7	1	14	1923	104	1.253	8.2	0.8	3.1	6.4	2.05
KCA (3 yrs)				1	6	.143	5.27	42	8	9	0	0	0	95.2	100	65	56	14	41	3	78	4	1	1	431	74	1.474	9.4	1.3	3.9	7.3	1.90

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
1963	22	KCA	AL	7.0	4	0	7	9.00	4.21	-0.07	-0.18	116.0	4.76	-3	-0.3	.6	0.0	-0.2	-3	.417	.498	$
1964	23	KCA	AL	83.2	34	8	53	5.70	4.07	-0.27	-0.09	107.2	4.56	-9	-1.0	.7	-0.1	-0.5	-3	.470	.494	$
1965	24	KCA	AL	5.0	4	0	5	9.00	3.76	-0.21	-0.15	100.3	3.83	-3	-0.3	.7	0.0	-0.2	-2	.424	.498	$5,400
1966	25	BOS	AL	172.0	35	28	87	4.55	3.90	0.15	0.06	109.7	4.18	-4	-0.5	1.9	-0.1	0.7	7	.486	.497	$11,000
1967	26	BOS	AL	145.1	50	11	61	3.78	3.68	0.22	-0.04	109.9	3.76	2	0.2	1.4	-0.2	1.2	11	.504	.501	$
1968	27	BOS	AL	124.0	18	18	34	2.47	3.33	0.15	0.05	106.3	3.44	15	2.0		-0.1	2.9	22	.613	.513	$	AS
1969	28	BOS	AL	7.2	10	0	5	5.87	4.49	-0.02	-0.18	108.6	4.70	-1	-0.1	.4	0.0	0.0	-0	.490	.499	$
1970	29	BOS	AL	11.1	8	0	13	10.32	4.37	0.10	-0.18	110.9	4.54	-7	-0.7	1.5	-0.2	-0.8	-6	.409	.496	$
8 Seasons				556.0	163	65	265	4.29	3.76	0.09	-0.00	108.6	3.98	-12	-0.8	1.1	-0.5	3.1	25	.495	.499	$16,400

BOS (5 yrs)				460.1	121	57	200	3.91	3.70	0.17	0.02	108.9	3.87	4	0.9	1.3	-0.5	4.0	34	.508	.501	$11,000
KCA (3 yrs)				95.2	42	8	65	6.11	4.07	-0.25	-0.10	107.5	4.54	-16	-1.7	.7	0.0	-0.9	-9	.460	.497	$5,400

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
1967	26	BOS	AL	WS	L	STL	0	2	.000	5.59	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.2	16	6	6	0	3	0	6	0	0	0	45	1.966	14.9	0.0	2.8	5.6	2.00
1 WS							0	2	.000	5.59	3	2	0	0	0	0	9.2	16	6	6	0	3	0	6	0	0	0	45	1.966	14.9	0.0	2.8	5.6	2.00

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
1968	BOS	AL	27

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
1963	22	KCA	AL	4	31	29	7	8	1	1	4	0	0	2	6	.276	.323	.793	1.116	.211	23	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964	23	KCA	AL	34	372	326	53	84	16	1	9	6	3	35	64	.258	.336	.396	.732	.295	129	5	4	6	1	1	8
1965	24	KCA	AL	4	28	22	5	8	1	0	1	0	0	4	8	.364	.462	.545	1.007	.538	12	0	0	2	0	2	1
1966	25	BOS	AL	35	723	650	87	155	16	9	17	14	4	58	119	.238	.300	.369	.670	.265	240	12	2	7	6	0	10
1967	26	BOS	AL	50	606	551	61	138	21	2	15	4	2	47	109	.250	.311	.377	.689	.287	208	12	2	6	1	3	7
1968	27	BOS	AL	18	497	447	34	96	15	2	9	5	7	42	86	.215	.286	.318	.604	.246	142	16	3	4	1	0	9
1969	28	BOS	AL	10	39	34	5	11	0	0	2	0	0	4	4	.324	.395	.500	.895	.321	17	1	0	1	0	0	2
1970	29	BOS	AL	8	58	50	13	18	5	0	0	0	1	8	8	.360	.448	.460	.908	.429	23	1	0	0	0	1	0
8 Yrs				163	2354	2109	265	518	75	15	57	29	17	200	404	.246	.313	.376	.689	.278	794	47	11	26	9	7	37
162 Game Avg.				49	702	629	79	154	22	4	17	9	5	60	120	.246	.313	.376	.689	.278	237	14	3	8	3	2	11
MLB Averages																.247	.312	.369	.681	.275

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1963	22	KCA	AL	-3.1	-0.3	32	0.0	0.2	-0.1	.27	-0.5	0.6	-3.6	-0.3	0.27	-5.4	1	0	3
1964	23	KCA	AL	-9.2	-1.0	384	-1.6	4.0	-5.7	.74	-0.8	-1.4	-10.9	-1.1	0.74	-10.0	1	10	15
1965	24	KCA	AL	-2.6	-0.3	28	-0.2	0.1	-0.3	.47	-0.2	-0.2	-4.8	-0.5	0.47	-2.7	0	1	3
1966	25	BOS	AL	0.3	0.0	746	-1.7	12.1	-13.7	1.00	0.0	-1.7	-5.3	-0.5	1.00	-1.7	2	4	1
1967	26	BOS	AL	1.2	0.1	618	-1.3	9.3	-10.5	.91	-0.2	-1.2	-4.7	-0.5	0.91	-3.7	13	7	19
1968	27	BOS	AL	12.9	1.6	517	1.5	9.0	-7.4	.98	0.9	0.6	15.7	1.9	0.98	9.5	0	0	0
1969	28	BOS	AL	-0.3	-0.0	39	-0.0	0.2	-0.2	.31	-0.3	0.2	-1.6	-0.2	0.31	-2.5	1	2	5
1970	29	BOS	AL	-6.6	-0.7	58	-0.3	1.1	-1.5	1.41	-0.3	0.1	-7.7	-0.7	1.41	-5.6	4	0	4
8 Yrs				-7.3	-0.5	2422	-3.6	35.9	-39.5	.91	-1.4	-2.5	-22.9	-2.0	0.91	-22.0	22	24	50

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
1964	23	KCA	AL	34	8	0	5	3	0	0	2	6	.250	1	2	0	0	0	0%	39.2	60	21	20	7	3	1	4.4	1.9	3.4

1966	25	BOS	AL	35	28	12	12	4	0	1	15	13	.536	1	1	7	1	16	57%	52.5	86	23	25	12	12	7	4.1	4.3	5.8
1967	26	BOS	AL	50	11	4	1	6	1	0	7	4	.636	0	4	2	0	6	55%	52.8	88	29	16	7	5	3	6.4	5.7	6.6
1968	27	BOS	AL	18	18	9	4	5	2	3	10	8	.556	1	1	7	2	13	72%	61.1	86	18	11	3	6	6	3.7	4.1	6.9
4 Yrs				137	65	25	22	18	3	4	34	31	.523	3	8	16	3	35	54%	53	88	18	72	29	26	17	4.4	4.3	6.0
MLB Averages													.500						56%	54	116	0					4.0	3.9	6.4

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
1963	22	KCA	AL	4	4	2	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		8	.266	1	0	3	0	1	3	0	4	3	0	3	0	5.3
1964	23	KCA	AL	34	26	6	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	31	6	19%	3	.743	1	10	15	0	2	24	16	10	18	3	19	1	6.5
1965	24	KCA	AL	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	4	2	50%	3	.469	0	1	3	0	0	4	3	1	2	2	3	0	3.8
1966	25	BOS	AL	35	7	3	0	1	2	2	0	100%	2	0	12	4	33%	4	1.000	2	4	1	3	1	3	5	2	3	2	3	3	3.7
1967	26	BOS	AL	50	39	16	8	3	7	5	2	71%	7	0	38	20	53%	6	.911	13	7	19	9	7	23	21	18	25	5	28	13	5.6

1969	28	BOS	AL	10	10	3	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	10	5	50%	8	.310	1	2	5	2	0	8	4	6	1	4	1	2	2.3
1970	29	BOS	AL	8	8	2	0	2	1	1	0	100%	2	1	5	3	60%	8	1.407	4	0	4	2	2	4	2	6	4	4	4	1	4.3
7 Yrs				145	98	33	9	7	10	8	2	80%	12	1	100	40	40%		.897	22	24	50	16	13	69	51	47	56	20	61	20	5.2

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1963	22	KCA	AL	31	58%	12.9%	19.4%	6.5%	19.4%	75%	1.50	61%	2	0	0%
1964	23	KCA	AL	372	56%	2.4%	17.2%	9.4%	7.0%	31%	1.34	68%	78	5	6%
1965	24	KCA	AL	28	57%	3.6%	28.6%	14.3%	7.1%	25%	0.40	46%	10	0	0%
1966	25	BOS	AL	723	53%	2.4%	16.5%	8.0%	5.8%	27%	1.04	72%	132	12	9%
1967	26	BOS	AL	606	61%	2.5%	18.0%	7.8%	6.3%	28%	1.11	71%	124	12	10%
1968	27	BOS	AL	497	53%	1.8%	17.3%	8.5%	5.2%	27%	1.11	71%	80	16	20%
1969	28	BOS	AL	39	62%	5.1%	10.3%	10.3%	5.1%	18%	1.11	72%	11	1	9%
1970	29	BOS	AL	58	60%	0.0%	13.8%	13.8%	8.6%	28%	0.79	72%	18	1	6%
8 Yrs				2354	56%	2.4%	17.2%	8.5%	6.2%	28%	1.11	70%	455	47	10%
MLB Averages					47%	2.1%	15.6%	8.3%	6.1%	28%	1.10	73%			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
1963	22	KCA	AL	31	8			4	0	0	2	2	4	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	6	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1964	23	KCA	AL	372	84			9	1	17	6	3	8	1	25	13	5	52%	8	1	2	145	6	3	67%	6	3	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	0
1965	24	KCA	AL	28	8			1	0	3	1	0	1	0	4	3	0	75%	1	0	0	15	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1966	25	BOS	AL	723	155			17	0	12	6	11	8	9	41	28	6	68%	10	5	2	248	14	4	78%	11	2	3	1	0	1	1	1	13	0
1967	26	BOS	AL	606	138			15	0	22	8	7	11	4	32	14	9	44%	7	3	2	222	4	2	67%	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0
1968	27	BOS	AL	497	96			9	0	3	6	3	5	4	13	6	2	46%	9	6	0	167	5	7	42%	5	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	9	0
1969	28	BOS	AL	39	11			2	0	5	0	2	2	0	4	2	1	50%	2	0	0	18	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1970	29	BOS	AL	58	18			0	0	5	0	0	0	0	11	5	2	45%	0	0	0	24	0	1	0%	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8 Yrs				2354	518			57	1	67	29	28	39	18	130	71	25	55%	37	15	6	845	29	17	63%	26	14	3	1	0	2	4	1	35	0
MLB Averages																		49%							62%

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+
1963	22	1	0	1.000	9.00	4	0	2	0	0	0	7.0	8	7	7	4	2	0	6	0	1	0	31	46	1.429	10.3	5.1	2.6	7.7	3.00	46
1964	23	1	6	.143	5.06	38	8	8	0	0	0	90.2	92	60	51	13	37	1	70	4	1	1	403	77	1.423	9.1	1.3	3.7	6.9	1.89	77
1965	24	1	6	.143	5.27	42	8	9	0	0	0	95.2	100	65	56	14	41	3	78	4	1	1	431	74	1.474	9.4	1.3	3.9	7.3	1.90	74
1966	25	13	19	.406	4.24	77	36	12	7	1	2	267.2	255	152	126	31	99	3	197	6	1	6	1154	91	1.323	8.6	1.0	3.3	6.6	1.99	91
1967	26	25	23	.521	4.01	127	47	28	9	1	7	413.0	393	213	184	46	146	6	306	8	1	9	1759	93	1.305	8.6	1.0	3.2	6.7	2.10	93
1968	27	34	27	.557	3.60	145	65	28	16	3	7	537.0	489	247	215	55	188	6	392	11	2	15	2256	100	1.261	8.2	0.9	3.2	6.6	2.09	100
1969	28	34	27	.557	3.60	155	65	31	16	3	7	544.2	500	252	218	57	192	6	396	11	2	15	2295	100	1.271	8.3	0.9	3.2	6.5	2.06	100
1970	29	34	29	.540	3.74	163	65	33	16	3	8	556.0	518	265	231	57	200	7	404	11	2	15	2354	97	1.291	8.4	0.9	3.2	6.5	2.02	97

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
1963	22	0	0		9.00	7.0	8	8	7	4	2	6	0	1.429	10.3	2.6	7.7	3.00	5.1	4
1964	23	4	5	.444	4.94	82.0	84	50	45	9	35	63	4	1.451	9.2	3.8	6.9	1.80	1.0	34
1965	24	0	0		9.00	5.0	8	6	5	1	4	9	0	2.400	14.4	7.2	16.2	2.25	1.8	4
1966	25	9	9	.500	3.81	170.0	157	80	72	17	59	117	2	1.271	8.3	3.1	6.2	1.98	0.9	35
1967	26	7	8	.467	4.24	136.0	145	71	64	16	49	102	2	1.426	9.6	3.2	6.8	2.08	1.1	50
1968	27	8	4	.667	3.00	114.0	106	42	38	10	46	79	3	1.333	8.4	3.6	6.2	1.72	0.8	18
1969	28	0	0		3.38	8.0	11	3	3	2	4	4	0	1.875	12.4	4.5	4.5	1.00	2.3	10
1970	29	0	1	.000	10.64	11.0	18	14	13	0	8	8	0	2.364	14.7	6.5	6.5	1.00	0.0	8
8 Yrs		28	27	.509	4.17	533.0	537	274	247	59	207	388	11	1.396	9.1		6.6	1.87	1.0	163

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1968	Win-Loss % s c a p y 1967 AL .750 (1st)	Losses s c a p y 1966 AL 13 (10th)

All-Star Games
1968

Win-Loss % s c a p y
1967 AL .750 (1st)

Losses s c a p y
1966 AL 13 (10th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink	Pitching - 3 (562), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 3 (2136), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 11 (915), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 11 (742), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

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Larry Jackson (981) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ron Robinson (984) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Lee Stange (988) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Johnny Lanning (977) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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