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Bill Simas

William Anthony Simas

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: November 28, 1971 in Hanford, CA
High School: St. Joseph (Santa Maria, CA)
Drafted by the California Angels in the 6th round of the 1992 amateur draft.
Signed June 22, 1992. (All Transactions)
Debut: August 15, 1995
Team: WhiteSox 1995-2000

Final Game: September 30, 2000
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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…

Standard Pitching

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	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
1992	20	ANA-min	A-	6	5	.545	3.95	14	12	1	0	1	70.2	82	44	31	0	29	2	39	3	1	4	320		1.571	10.4	0.0	3.7	5.0	1.34	BOI · NORW
1993	21	ANA-min	A	5	8	.385	4.95	35	6	19	0	6	80.0	93	60	44	8	36	1	62	3	1	4	376		1.612	10.5	0.9	4.0	7.0	1.72	CDR · MIDW
1994	22	ANA-min	A+,AA	7	2	.778	1.73	50	0	38	0	19	62.1	49	18	12	2	12	1	46	3	2	3	246		0.979	7.1	0.3	1.7	6.6	3.83	LEL,MDL · CALL,TL
1995	23	ANA-CHW-min	AAA	7	4	.636	3.62	37	0	27	0	6	49.2	56	24	20	1	17	3	56	4	0	1	225		1.470	10.1	0.2	3.1	10.1	3.29	VAN,NVL · PCL,AA
1995	23	CHW	AL	1	1	.500	2.57	14	0	4	0	0	14.0	15	5	4	1	10	2	16	1	0	1	66	179	1.786	9.6	0.6	6.4	10.3	1.60
1996	24	CHW	AL	2	8	.200	4.58	64	0	16	0	2	72.2	75	39	37	5	39	6	65	3	0	0	328	104	1.569	9.3	0.6	4.8	8.1	1.67
1997	25	CHW	AL	3	1	.750	4.14	40	0	11	0	1	41.1	46	23	19	6	24	3	38	2	0	2	193	107	1.694	10.0	1.3	5.2	8.3	1.58
1998	26	CHW-min	AAA	1	0	1.000	0.00	5	0	4	0	1	9.0	3	1	0	0	2	1	11	0	0	0	33		0.556	3.0	0.0	2.0	11.0	5.50	CGY · PCL
1998	26	CHW	AL	4	3	.571	3.57	60	0	41	0	18	70.2	54	29	28	12	22	4	56	1	0	1	287	129	1.075	6.9	1.5	2.8	7.1	2.55
1999	27	CHW	AL	6	3	.667	3.75	70	0	21	0	2	72.0	73	36	30	6	32	6	41	6	1	4	324	132	1.458	9.1	0.8	4.0	5.1	1.28
2000	28	CHW	AL	2	3	.400	3.46	60	0	9	0	0	67.2	69	27	26	9	22	6	49	1	0	1	283	146	1.345	9.2	1.2	2.9	6.5	2.23
2002	30	CHW-min	AAA	1	3	.250	3.60	28	0	8	1	2	40.0	46	22	16	4	8	2	22	1	1	3	168		1.350	10.4	0.9	1.8	5.0	2.75	CHR · IL
2003	31	LAD-min	AAA,Rk	4	0	1.000	2.06	27	4	3	0	0	48.0	47	13	11	3	10	0	26	1	0	2	192		1.188	8.8	0.6	1.9	4.9	2.60	LVG,DGR · PCL,GULF
2004	32	SEA-min	AAA	1	1	.500	3.86	9	0	5	0	0	11.2	10	5	5	3	2	0	8	1	0	0	48		1.029	7.7	2.3	1.5	6.2	4.00	TAC · PCL
2005	33	-min	AAA	4	6	.400	2.82	55	0	50	0	21	70.1	64	28	22	6	24	7	59	1	1	0	297		1.251	8.2	0.8	3.1	7.5	2.46	MVA · MEX
6 Seasons				18	19	.486	3.83	308	0	102	0	23	338.1	332	159	144	39	149	27	265	14	1	9	1481	125	1.422	8.8	1.0	4.0	7.0	1.78
162 Game Avg.				4	4	.486	3.83	68	0	23	0	5	75	73	35	32	9	33	6	59	3	0	2	327	125	1.422	8.8	1.0	4.0	7.0	1.78

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary
1995	23	CHW	AL	14.0	5	9	0	1.2	4	0.3	$109,000
1996	24	CHW	AL	72.2	39	51	-1	1.4	12	0.7	$130,000
1997	25	CHW	AL	41.1	23	27	-1	.7	4	0.1	$200,000
1998	26	CHW	AL	70.2	29	46	0	1.4	17	1.3	$250,000
1999	27	CHW	AL	72.0	36	52	-1	1.1	16	1.0	$1,150,000
2000	28	CHW	AL	67.2	27	48	0	1.0	21	1.4	$1,350,000
6 Seasons				338.1	159	233	-3	1.2	74	4.8	$3,189,000

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
2000	28	CHW	AL	ALDS	L	SEA	0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	4	1.000	0.0	0.0	9.0	18.0	2.00
1 ALDS							0	0		9.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	4	1.000	0.0	0.0	9.0	18.0	2.00

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	H	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	Pos
1992	20	ANA-min	A-	14	0	0	0					0	BOI · NORW
1993	21	ANA-min	A	35	0	0	0					0	CDR · MIDW
1994	22	ANA-min	AA,A+	50	0	0	0					0	MDL,LEL · TL,CALL
1995	23	ANA-CHW-min	AAA	37	0	0	0					0	VAN,NVL · PCL,AA
1995	23	CHW	AL	14	0	0	0					0	1
1996	24	CHW	AL	64	0	0	0					0	1
1997	25	CHW	AL	40	0	0	0					0	1
1998	26	CHW-min	AAA	5	0	0	0					0	CGY · PCL
1998	26	CHW	AL	60	0	0	0					0	1
1999	27	CHW	AL	70	0	0	0					0	1
2000	28	CHW	AL	60	0	0	0					0	1
2002	30	CHW-min	AAA	28	0	0	0					0	CHR · IL
2003	31	LAD-min	AAA,Rk	27	2	2	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	LVG,DGR · PCL,GULF
2004	32	SEA-min	AAA	9	0	0	0					0	TAC · PCL
2005	33	-min	AAA	55	0	0	0					0	MVA · MEX
6 Seasons				308	0	0	0					0
162 Game Avg.				162	0	0	0					0

Standard Fielding

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Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO
1995	CHW	AL	23	P	14	14.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		1.80	1.77	1	0	0%	0
1996	CHW	AL	24	P	64	72.2	15	9	5	1	1	.933	1.73	0.22	.960	1.77	1.76	1	2	67%	0
1997	CHW	AL	25	P	40	41.1	6	3	3	0	0	1.000	1.31	0.15	.955	1.70	1.69	4	1	20%	0
1998	CHW	AL	26	P	60	70.2	14	9	5	0	1	1.000	1.78	0.23	.958	1.78	1.76	6	0	0%	0
1999	CHW	AL	27	P	70	72.0	13	7	6	0	1	1.000	1.62	0.19	.952	1.69	1.66	4	1	20%	1
2000	CHW	AL	28	P	60	67.2	9	1	8	0	0	1.000	1.20	0.15	.956	1.62	1.60	0	1	100%	0
	6 Seasons			P	308	338.1	57	29	27	1	3	.982	1.49	0.18	.956	1.72	1.70	16	5	24%	1
	6 Seasons			TOT	308	338.1	57	29	27	1	3	.982	1.49	0.18	.956	1.72	1.70	16	5	24%	1

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

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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.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Games Played s c a p y 1999 AL 70 (10th)

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1999 AL 70 (10th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink

Pitching - 1 (2585), Average HOFer ≈ 185

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

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Hector Carrasco (980) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Transactions

June 1, 1992: Drafted by the California Angels in the 6th round of the 1992 amateur draft. Player signed June 22, 1992.
July 27, 1995: Traded by the California Angels with McKay Christensen, Andrew Lorraine and John Snyder to the Chicago White Sox for Jim Abbott and Tim Fortugno.
November 5, 2001: Granted Free Agency.
February 20, 2002: Signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.
May 23, 2002: Released by the Detroit Tigers.
May 25, 2002: Signed as a Free Agent with the Chicago White Sox.
October 15, 2002: Granted Free Agency.
February 21, 2003: Signed as a Free Agent with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
March 12, 2004: Released by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
August 20, 2004: Signed as a Free Agent with the Seattle Mariners.
September 10, 2004: Released by the Seattle Mariners.

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses

Year	Age	Team	Salary	Sources	Notes
1995	23	Chicago White Sox	$109,000	1996 Joint Exhibit 1
1996	24	Chicago White Sox	$130,000	1997 Joint Exhibit 1
1997	25	Chicago White Sox	$200,000	1997 AP survey
1998	26	Chicago White Sox	$250,000	2001 Joint Exhibit 1
1999	27	Chicago White Sox	$1,150,000	2001 Joint Exhibit 1	Includes $50,000 earned bonus
2000	28	Chicago White Sox	$1,350,000	2001 Joint Exhibit 1
2001	29	Chicago White Sox	$1,950,000	2001 Joint Exhibit 1

Career to date (may be incomplete)			$5,139,000

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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