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Ken Schrom

Kenneth Marvin Schrom

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 2", Weight: 195 lb.

Born: November 23, 1954 in Grangeville, ID
High School: Grangeville HS (Grangeville, ID)
School: University of Idaho (Moscow, ID)
Drafted by the California Angels in the 17th round of the 1976 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 8, 1980
Teams (by GP): Twins/Indians/BlueJays 1980-1987

Final Game: October 3, 1987
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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
1976	21	ANA-min	Rk	1	5	.167	3.75	16	4					48.0	42	31	20	0	32								1.542	7.9	0.0	6.0			IDF · PION
1977	22	ANA-min	A,AA	5	2	.714	2.06	41	1		1	1	7	83.0	58	22	19	3	39	0	69	6	1	2			1.169	6.3	0.3	4.2	7.5	1.77	QDS,SLS,ELP · MIDW,CALL,TL
1978	23	ANA-min	AA	9	6	.600	4.69	33	19		5	0	2	165.0	180	93	86	24	52	0	126	5	1	1			1.406	9.8	1.3	2.8	6.9	2.42	ELP · TL
1979	24	ANA-min	AA,AAA	7	8	.467	5.08	28	25		7	0	1	172.0	207	111	97	19	78	1	110	3	0	2			1.657	10.8	1.0	4.1	5.8	1.41	ELP,SLC · TL,PCL
1980	25	TOR-ANA-min	AAA	0	3	.000	4.83	40	0		0	0	9	69.0	73	44	37	2	37	3	43	3	0	6			1.594	9.5	0.3	4.8	5.6	1.16	SYR,SLC · IL,PCL
1980	25	TOR	AL	1	0	1.000	5.23	17	0	6	0	0	1	31.0	32	18	18	2	19	3	13	0	0	0	140	84	1.645	9.3	0.6	5.5	3.8	0.68

1981	26	TOR-min	AAA	4	6	.400	3.72	42	3	29	0	0	6	104.0	86	44	43	10	41	1	72	4	1	4			1.221	7.4	0.9	3.5	6.2	1.76	SYR · IL
1982	27	TOR-min	AAA	4	5	.444	5.14	27	8	6	1	0	0	98.0	102	61	56	10	41	6	49	3	2	6			1.459	9.4	0.9	3.8	4.5	1.20	SYR · IL
1982	27	TOR	AL	1	0	1.000	5.87	6	0	1	0	0	0	15.1	13	11	10	3	15	3	8	0	0	1	71	78	1.826	7.6	1.8	8.8	4.7	0.53
1983	28	MIN-min	AAA	3	1	.750	4.55	5	5	0	0	0	0	31.2	30	19	16	4	14	1	20	1	0	0			1.389	8.5	1.1	4.0	5.7	1.43	TOL · IL
1983	28	MIN	AL	15	8	.652	3.71	33	28	2	6	1	0	196.1	196	92	81	14	80	3	80	9	1	2	843	114	1.406	9.0	0.6	3.7	3.7	1.00
1984	29	MIN-min	AA	0	0		2.70	2	2	0	0	0	0	10.0	10	8	3	1	6	0	10	1	0	2			1.600	9.0	0.9	5.4	9.0	1.67	ORL · SOUL
1984	29	MIN	AL	5	11	.313	4.47	25	21	1	3	0	0	137.0	156	75	68	15	41	2	49	1	0	2	596	94	1.438	10.2	1.0	2.7	3.2	1.20
1985	30	MIN	AL	9	12	.429	4.99	29	26	1	6	0	0	160.2	164	95	89	28	59	2	74	0	0	2	679	88	1.388	9.2	1.6	3.3	4.1	1.25
1986	31	CLE	AL	14	7	.667	4.54	34	33	1	3	1	0	206.0	217	118	104	34	49	3	87	12	1	2	883	91	1.291	9.5	1.5	2.1	3.8	1.78	AS
1987	32	CLE	AL	6	13	.316	6.50	32	29	0	4	1	0	153.2	185	126	111	29	57	1	61	3	2	4	695	70	1.575	10.8	1.7	3.3	3.6	1.07
1989	34	MIL-min	AA	1	2	.333	2.65	5	5	0	1	0	0	34.0	36	19	10	3	10	1	19	1	2	0			1.353	9.5	0.8	2.6	5.0	1.90	ELP · TL
7 Yrs				51	51	.500	4.81	176	137	12	22	3	1	900.0	963	535	481	125	320	17	372	25	4	13	3907	89	1.426	9.6	1.3	3.2	3.7	1.16
162 Game Avg.				11	11	.500	4.81	38	30	3	5	1	0	196	209	116	104	27	70	4	81	5	1	3	849	89	1.426	9.6	1.3	3.2	3.7	1.16

MIN (3 yrs)				29	31	.483	4.34	87	75	4	15	1	0	494.0	516	262	238	57	180	7	203	10	1	6	2118	99	1.409	9.4	1.0	3.3	3.7	1.13
CLE (2 yrs)				20	20	.500	5.38	66	62	1	7	2	0	359.2	402	244	215	63	106	4	148	15	3	6	1578	80	1.412	10.1	1.6	2.7	3.7	1.40
TOR (2 yrs)				2	0	1.000	5.44	23	0	7	0	0	1	46.1	45	29	28	5	34	6	21	0	0	1	211	82	1.705	8.7	1.0	6.6	4.1	0.62

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
1980	25	TOR	AL	31.0	17	0	18	5.23	4.72	0.09	-0.38	109.0	4.64	-2	-0.2	1.6	-0.1	-0.1	1	.487	.499	$

1982	27	TOR	AL	15.1	6	0	11	6.46	4.72	0.13	-0.37	107.0	4.52	-3	-0.3	.8	0.0	-0.2	-2	.446	.498	$
1983	28	MIN	AL	196.1	33	28	92	4.22	4.54	0.09	0.12	104.6	4.78	12	1.3	.6	-0.1	2.8	33	.539	.508	$
1984	29	MIN	AL	137.0	25	21	75	4.93	4.42	0.72	0.11	105.5	4.02	-13	-1.3	.8	-0.1	-0.3	0	.447	.492	$
1985	30	MIN	AL	160.2	29	26	95	5.32	4.59	0.24	0.13	106.7	4.77	-10	-1.0	.7	-0.1	0.3	7	.467	.494	$150,000
1986	31	CLE	AL	206.0	34	33	118	5.16	4.55	-0.28	0.15	99.1	4.93	-6	-0.6	1.3	-0.1	1.0	17	.484	.497	$275,000	AS
1987	32	CLE	AL	153.2	32	29	126	7.38	4.85	-0.33	0.14	102.3	5.44	-33	-3.0	1.2	-0.1	-1.8	-15	.407	.482	$450,000
7 Seasons				900.0	176	137	535	5.35	4.59	0.06	0.10	103.7	4.80	-55	-5.1	1.1	-0.6	1.7	42	.471	.496	$875,000

MIN (3 yrs)				494.0	87	75	262	4.77	4.52	0.31	0.12	105.5	4.57	-11	-1.0	.7	-0.3	2.8	41	.488	.498	$150,000
CLE (2 yrs)				359.2	66	62	244	6.11	4.68	-0.30	0.15	100.5	5.15	-39	-3.5	1.2	-0.2	-0.8	2	.446	.489	$725,000
TOR (2 yrs)				46.1	23	0	29	5.63	4.72	0.10	-0.37	108.3	4.60	-5	-0.5	1.4	-0.1	-0.3	-0	.476	.498	$

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
1986	CLE	AL	31

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
1980	25	TOR	AL	17	140	117	18	32	5	1	2	2	0	19	13	.274	.372	.385	.757	.291	45	1	0	3	1	3	0

1982	27	TOR	AL	6	71	56	11	13	1	0	3	2	0	15	8	.232	.394	.411	.805	.222	23	3	0	0	0	3	1
1983	28	MIN	AL	33	843	738	92	196	50	1	14	16	12	80	80	.266	.341	.393	.734	.279	290	18	9	7	9	3	6
1984	29	MIN	AL	25	596	548	75	156	30	1	15	9	5	41	49	.285	.333	.425	.759	.289	233	8	1	2	4	2	8
1985	30	MIN	AL	29	679	603	95	164	33	3	28	9	11	59	74	.272	.333	.476	.809	.267	287	8	0	9	8	2	4
1986	31	CLE	AL	34	883	802	118	217	40	3	34	23	4	49	87	.271	.318	.455	.773	.264	365	17	12	8	12	3	14
1987	32	CLE	AL	32	695	620	126	185	37	3	29	12	6	57	61	.298	.357	.508	.865	.291	315	10	3	9	6	1	11
7 Yrs				176	3907	3484	535	963	196	12	125	73	38	320	372	.276	.338	.447	.785	.277	1558	65	25	38	40	17	44
162 Game Avg.				38	849	757	116	209	43	3	27	16	8	70	81	.276	.338	.447	.785	.277	338	14	5	8	9	4	10
MLB Averages																.260	.325	.391	.716	.285

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1980	25	TOR	AL	-1.9	-0.2	142	0.9	2.1	-1.2	.75	-0.2	1.3	5.6	0.6	0.75	0.9	5	3	8

1982	27	TOR	AL	-2.0	-0.2	74	-0.3	0.3	-0.6	.32	-0.3	-0.7	-3.4	-0.3	0.32	-2.9	1	1	4
1983	28	MIN	AL	11.0	1.1	876	1.1	15.8	-14.7	1.04	0.3	0.8	8.1	0.8	1.04	1.5	0	2	3
1984	29	MIN	AL	-3.4	-0.3	609	-0.9	9.9	-10.8	.99	-0.5	-0.4	-7.6	-0.7	0.99	-5.4	1	1	2
1985	30	MIN	AL	-9.0	-0.9	704	-0.4	11.3	-11.7	.90	-1.0	0.6	-8.0	-0.8	0.90	-12.0	0	1	2
1986	31	CLE	AL	-10.1	-1.0	914	-0.3	14.6	-14.9	.94	-1.4	1.2	-9.4	-0.9	0.94	-16.0	0	1	0
1987	32	CLE	AL	-34.8	-3.1	721	-2.8	11.5	-14.2	.99	-2.2	-0.6	-39.5	-3.5	0.99	-25.3	1	0	2
7 Yrs				-50.1	-4.6	4040	-2.6	65.4	-68.1	.95	-5.3	2.5	-54.1	-4.9	0.95	-59.2	8	9	21

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
1983	28	MIN	AL	33	28	14	8	6	1	2	17	11	.607	3	2	6	1	19	68%	49.6	74	16	30	8	15	5	4.5	5.0	6.6
1984	29	MIN	AL	25	21	5	11	5	0	5	8	13	.381	3	1	3	0	13	62%	46.9	72	26	27	9	3	7	3.9	3.5	6.0
1985	30	MIN	AL	29	26	9	12	5	4	3	12	14	.462	4	3	6	0	9	35%	46.9	82	22	25	13	8	12	4.2	4.6	5.8
1986	31	CLE	AL	34	33	14	7	12	5	2	22	11	.667	3	2	3	1	16	48%	47.7	87	13	33	14	1	14	5.3	5.7	6.2
1987	32	CLE	AL	32	29	6	13	10	1	1	11	18	.379	2	3	4	1	8	28%	40.1	80	10	34	13	2	12	4.6	5.0	5.0
5 Yrs				153	137	48	51	38	11	13	70	67	.511	15	11	22	3	65	47%	46	87	10	149	57	29	50	4.6	4.9	5.9
MLB Averages													.500						51%	50	98	-12					4.4	4.3	6.2

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
1980	25	TOR	AL	17	17	6	1	0	1	1	0	100%	1	0	20	2	10%	9	.750	5	3	8	2	3	12	10	7	8	5	10	2	5.5

1982	27	TOR	AL	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	8	4	50%	3	.322	1	1	4	1	0	5	5	1	5	1	6	0	7.7
1983	28	MIN	AL	33	5	2	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	7	1	14%	5	1.042	0	2	3	0	1	4	3	2	3	1	3	0	7.2
1984	29	MIN	AL	25	4	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	4	2	50%	1	.987	1	1	2	0	0	4	2	2	2	1	2	0	7.5
1985	30	MIN	AL	29	3	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	5	3	60%	5	.897	0	1	2	0	0	3	2	1	3	0	3	0	10.3
1986	31	CLE	AL	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0%	7	.939	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	4.0
1987	32	CLE	AL	32	3	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	1	4	3	75%	3	.993	1	0	2	1	0	2	2	1	2	1	2	0	8.3
7 Yrs				176	39	12	3	0	1	1	0	100%	2	1	51	15	29%		.953	8	9	21	4	4	31	25	14	24	9	27	2	6.8

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1980	25	TOR	AL	140	60%	1.4%	9.3%	13.6%	5.7%	25%	0.98	74%	29	1	3%

1982	27	TOR	AL	71	45%	4.2%	11.3%	21.1%	5.6%	31%	0.81	63%	22	3	14%
1983	28	MIN	AL	843	45%	1.7%	9.5%	9.5%	7.7%	33%	0.90	77%	155	18	12%
1984	29	MIN	AL	596	43%	2.5%	8.2%	6.9%	7.7%	30%	0.68	82%	117	8	7%
1985	30	MIN	AL	679	46%	4.1%	10.9%	8.7%	9.4%	39%	0.79	75%	106	8	8%
1986	31	CLE	AL	883	45%	3.9%	9.9%	5.6%	8.7%	36%	0.64	78%	162	17	10%
1987	32	CLE	AL	695	48%	4.2%	8.8%	8.2%	9.9%	37%	0.66	77%	133	10	8%
7 Yrs				3907	46%	3.2%	9.5%	8.2%	8.5%	35%	0.74	77%	724	65	9%
MLB Averages					41%	2.2%	13.9%	8.5%	6.8%	29%	1.09	74%			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
1980	25	TOR	AL	140	32			2	0	6	1	1	1	1	10	4	1	40%	0	0	0	60	2	0	100%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0

1982	27	TOR	AL	71	13			3	1	4	2	1	0	3	4	3	0	75%	1	1	0	36	2	0	100%	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
1983	28	MIN	AL	843	196			14	0	19	3	11	9	5	37	20	3	54%	6	2	3	321	16	12	57%	15	9	1	3	0	0	1	1	20	0
1984	29	MIN	AL	596	156			15	0	9	6	9	6	9	29	18	3	62%	8	2	0	217	9	5	64%	7	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	8	0
1985	30	MIN	AL	679	164			28	0	6	13	15	21	7	32	20	4	63%	4	2	0	221	9	11	45%	9	9	0	2	0	0	2	0	11	0
1986	31	CLE	AL	883	217			34	0	9	17	17	16	18	43	28	1	65%	14	2	1	313	23	4	85%	21	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	21	0
1987	32	CLE	AL	695	185			29	0	17	12	17	16	13	40	28	2	70%	11	4	1	247	12	6	67%	11	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	17	0
7 Yrs				3907	963			125	1	70	54	71	69	56	195	121	14	62%	44	13	5	1415	73	38	66%	67	32	5	5	1	1	3	1	81	0
MLB Averages																		54%							67%

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+
1980	25	1	0	1.000	5.23	17	0	6	0	0	1	31.0	32	18	18	2	19	3	13	0	0	0	140	84	1.645	9.3	0.6	5.5	3.8	0.68	84
1981	26	1	0	1.000	5.23	17	0	6	0	0	1	31.0	32	18	18	2	19	3	13	0	0	0	140	84	1.645	9.3	0.6	5.5	3.8	0.68	84
1982	27	2	0	1.000	5.44	23	0	7	0	0	1	46.1	45	29	28	5	34	6	21	0	0	1	211	82	1.705	8.7	1.0	6.6	4.1	0.62	82
1983	28	17	8	.680	4.04	56	28	9	6	1	1	242.2	241	121	109	19	114	9	101	9	1	3	1054	106	1.463	8.9	0.7	4.2	3.7	0.89	106
1984	29	22	19	.537	4.20	81	49	10	9	1	1	379.2	397	196	177	34	155	11	150	10	1	5	1650	101	1.454	9.4	0.8	3.7	3.6	0.97	101
1985	30	31	31	.500	4.43	110	75	11	15	1	1	540.1	561	291	266	62	214	13	224	10	1	7	2329	97	1.434	9.3	1.0	3.6	3.7	1.05	97
1986	31	45	38	.542	4.46	144	108	12	18	2	1	746.1	778	409	370	96	263	16	311	22	2	9	3212	95	1.395	9.4	1.2	3.2	3.8	1.18	95
1987	32	51	51	.500	4.81	176	137	12	22	3	1	900.0	963	535	481	125	320	17	372	25	4	13	3907	89	1.426	9.6	1.3	3.2	3.7	1.16	89

Neutralized Pitching

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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
1980	25	1	2	.333	5.10	30.0	31	19	17	2	18	13	0	1.633	9.3	5.4	3.9	0.72	0.6	17

1982	27	0	1	.000	5.79	14.0	13	10	9	3	15	7	0	2.000	8.4	9.6	4.5	0.47	1.9	6
1983	28	10	10	.500	3.97	186.0	197	91	82	14	80	76	9	1.489	9.5	3.9	3.7	0.95	0.7	33
1984	29	6	8	.429	4.70	132.0	157	77	69	15	41	47	1	1.500	10.7	2.8	3.2	1.15	1.0	25
1985	30	6	11	.353	5.12	153.0	162	97	87	28	58	70	0	1.438	9.5	3.4	4.1	1.21	1.6	29
1986	31	9	13	.409	4.86	200.0	221	120	108	35	50	84	12	1.355	9.9	2.3	3.8	1.68	1.6	34
1987	32	5	11	.313	6.28	152.0	181	118	106	28	56	60	3	1.559	10.7	3.3	3.6	1.07	1.7	32
7 Yrs		37	56	.398	4.96	867.0	962	532	478	125	318	357	25	1.476	10.0		3.7	1.12	1.3	176

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games 1986	Win-Loss % s c a p y 1986 AL .667 (5th)	Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y 1986 AL 2.141 (6th)	Home Runs s c a p y 1985 AL 28 (9th) 1986 AL 34 (5th)
Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1983 AL 0.642 (8th)	Losses s c a p y 1987 AL 13 (10th)	Earned Runs s c a p y 1987 AL 111 (7th)	Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1983 AL 9 (3rd) 1986 AL 12 (3rd)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink	Pitching - 5 (1889), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 5 (1306), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 3 (1711), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Explanation of Similarity Scores

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