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John Tsitouris

John Philip Tsitouris

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 175 lb.

Born: May 4, 1936 in Monroe, NC
High School: Benton Heights (Benton Heights, NC)
Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in 1954. (All Transactions)
Debut: June 13, 1957
Teams (by GP): Reds/Athletics/Tigers 1957-1968

Final Game: April 24, 1968
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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…

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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
1954	18	DET-min	D	0	0		24.00	3						3.0	10	14	8		8								6.000	30.0		24.0			VDS · GAFL
1955	19	DET-min	D	10	9	.526	3.07	31	20					173.0	167	91	59	7	87								1.468	8.7	0.4	4.5			VDS · GAFL
1956	20	DET-min	A,B	18	7	.720	2.08	32	25					216.0	157	61	50	7	68								1.042	6.5	0.3	2.8			AUG,TER · SALL,IIIL
1957	21	DET-min	AAA	10	11	.476	4.14	30	28		13	2		185.0	208	103	85	11	73	3	100	8	1	5			1.519	10.1	0.5	3.6	4.9	1.37	CHL · AA
1957	21	DET	AL	1	0	1.000	8.10	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.1	8	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	18	53	3.000	21.6	0.0	5.4	5.4	1.00
1958	22	OAK-min	AAA,AA	3	5	.375	4.77	25	13		1	1		83.0	84	51	44	10	47	0	22	4	0	5			1.578	9.1	1.1	5.1	2.4	0.47	BFL,LRK · IL,SOUA
1958	22	KCA	AL	0	0		3.00	1	1	0	0	0	0	3.0	2	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	1	13	148	1.333	6.0	0.0	6.0	3.0	0.50
1959	23	-min	AAA	2	6	.250	3.60	9	8		3	0		55.0	57	27	22	2	21	2	26	5	1	3			1.418	9.3	0.3	3.4	4.3	1.24	HSN · AA
1959	23	KCA	AL	4	3	.571	4.97	24	10	4	0	0	0	83.1	90	52	46	3	35	3	50	3	1	4	377	81	1.500	9.7	0.3	3.8	5.4	1.43
1960	24	KCA	AL	0	2	.000	6.55	14	2	4	0	0	0	33.0	38	25	24	3	21	1	12	8	0	5	165	62	1.788	10.4	0.8	5.7	3.3	0.57

1962	26	CIN-min	AAA	13	8	.619	2.92	29	25		16	3		200.0	173	85	65	16	54	3	107	7	0	15			1.135	7.8	0.7	2.4	4.8	1.98	SDG · PCL
1962	26	CIN	NL	1	0	1.000	0.84	4	2	0	1	1	0	21.1	13	2	2	0	7	0	7	3	0	1	83	485	0.938	5.5	0.0	3.0	3.0	1.00
1963	27	CIN	NL	12	8	.600	3.16	30	21	2	8	3	0	191.0	167	73	67	20	38	1	113	11	4	10	778	106	1.073	7.9	0.9	1.8	5.3	2.97
1964	28	CIN	NL	9	13	.409	3.80	37	24	5	6	1	2	175.1	178	90	74	20	75	6	146	5	1	11	774	95	1.443	9.1	1.0	3.8	7.5	1.95
1965	29	CIN	NL	6	9	.400	4.95	31	20	4	3	0	1	131.0	134	87	72	18	65	1	91	9	1	15	593	76	1.519	9.2	1.2	4.5	6.3	1.40
1966	30	CIN-min	AAA	5	4	.556	4.28	32	13		2	1		101.0	121	54	48	12	30	6	67	8	0	3			1.495	10.8	1.1	2.7	6.0	2.23	BFL · IL
1966	30	CIN	NL	0	0		18.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	30	4.000	27.0	0.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
1967	31	PHI-min	AAA	17	7	.708	2.58	28	28		14	3		195.0	175	74	56	14	62	5	126	13	1	14			1.215	8.1	0.6	2.9	5.8	2.03	SDG · PCL
1967	31	CIN	NL	1	0	1.000	3.38	2	1	0	0	0	0	8.0	4	3	3	1	6	0	4	0	0	0	33	118	1.250	4.5	1.1	6.8	4.5	0.67
1968	32	CIN-min	AAA	7	8	.467	2.92	17	17		5	0		111.0	107	42	36	12	34	7	76	3	0	8			1.270	8.7	1.0	2.8	6.2	2.24	INA · PCL
1968	32	CIN	NL	0	3	.000	7.11	3	3	0	0	0	0	12.2	16	10	10	6	8	0	6	1	0	0	62	46	1.895	11.4	4.3	5.7	4.3	0.75
11 Seasons				34	38	.472	4.13	149	84	20	18	5	3	663.0	653	348	304	71	260	12	432	40	7	47	2902	89	1.377	8.9	1.0	3.5	5.9	1.66
162 Game Avg.				10	11	.472	4.13	43	25	6	5	1	1	193	191	102	89	21	76	4	126	12	2	14	847	89	1.377	8.9	1.0	3.5	5.9	1.66

CIN (7 yrs)				29	33	.468	3.83	108	71	11	18	5	3	540.1	515	267	230	65	200	8	367	29	6	37	2329	93	1.323	8.6	1.1	3.3	6.1	1.84
KCA (3 yrs)				4	5	.444	5.35	39	13	8	0	0	0	119.1	130	78	71	6	58	4	63	11	1	10	555	76	1.575	9.8	0.5	4.4	4.8	1.09
DET (1 yr)				1	0	1.000	8.10	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.1	8	3	3	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	18	53	3.000	21.6	0.0	5.4	5.4	1.00

NL (7 yrs)			NL	29	33	.468	3.83	108	71	11	18	5	3	540.1	515	267	230	65	200	8	367	29	6	37	2329	93	1.323	8.6	1.1	3.3	6.1	1.84
AL (4 yrs)			AL	5	5	.500	5.43	41	13	9	0	0	0	122.2	138	81	74	6	60	4	65	11	1	10	573	75	1.614	10.1	0.4	4.4	4.8	1.08

Player Value--Pitchers

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

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary
1957	21	DET	AL	3.1	0	3	2	0	1.0	-1	-0.1	$
1958	22	KCA	AL	3.0	1	1	2	0	1.0	1	0.1	$
1959	23	KCA	AL	83.1	10	52	52	-2	.8	0	-0.1	$
1960	24	KCA	AL	33.0	2	25	20	-1	.7	-5	-0.5	$

1962	26	CIN	NL	21.1	2	2	13	0	1.1	11	1.2	$
1963	27	CIN	NL	191.0	21	73	104	-2	1.0	31	3.4	$
1964	28	CIN	NL	175.1	24	90	94	3	1.1	4	0.3	$
1965	29	CIN	NL	131.0	20	87	74	-2	1.1	-13	-1.6	$
1966	30	CIN	NL	1.0	0	2	1	0	.7	-1	-0.1	$
1967	31	CIN	NL	8.0	1	3	5	0	.4	2	0.1	$
1968	32	CIN	NL	12.2	3	10	6	0	1.0	-4	-0.5	$
11 Seasons				663.0	84	348	373	-4	1.0	25	2.2	$

CIN (7 yrs)				540.1	71	267	297	-1	1.1	30	2.8	$
KCA (3 yrs)				119.1	13	78	74	-3	.8	-4	-0.5	$
DET (1 yr)				3.1	0	3	2	0	1.0	-1	-0.1	$

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
1954	18	DET-min	D	4	0	0																						VDS · GAFL
1955	19	DET-min	D	31	56	56		6	2	1	0						.107	.107	.179	.286		10						VDS · GAFL
1956	20	DET-min	A,B	34	77	77		18	1	0	4						.234	.234	.403	.636		31						AUG,TER · SALL,IIIL
1957	21	DET-min	AAA	31	71	68	8	12	3	0	1	5	0		0	15	.176	.174	.265	.439		18		0	2	1	0	CHL · AA
1957	21	DET	AL	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1958	22	OAK-min	AAA,AA	33	26	26	2	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	4	.038	.038	.000	.038		0		0	0	0	0	BFL,LRK · IL,SOUA
1958	22	KCA	AL	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1959	23	-min	AAA	11	19	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		1	3	.071	.133	.071	.205		1		0	4	0	0	HSN · AA
1959	23	KCA	AL	24	24	20	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.150	.190	.150	.340	-6	3	1	0	3	0	0	1
1960	24	KCA	AL	14	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0	1

1962	26	CIN-min	AAA	30	77	73	5	15	1	0	0	4	0	1	2	13	.205	.224	.219	.443		16		0	1	1		SDG · PCL
1962	26	CIN	NL	4	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	1	0	0	/1
1963	27	CIN	NL	30	66	62	0	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	21	.081	.079	.081	.160	-54	5	3	0	3	1	0	1
1964	28	CIN	NL	37	62	58	7	11	2	0	0	3	0	0	2	17	.190	.217	.224	.441	23	13	2	0	2	0	0	1
1965	29	CIN	NL	31	49	43	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	14	.070	.109	.070	.178	-50	3	0	1	3	1	0	1
1966	30	CIN-min	AAA	32	30	24	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	15	.083	.267	.083	.350		2		0	0	0		BFL · IL
1966	30	CIN	NL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
1967	31	PHI-min	AAA	28	82	70	7	11	1	0	0	3	0	0	8	28	.157	.244	.171	.415		12		0	4	0		SDG · PCL
1967	31	CIN	NL	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000				0	0	0	1	0	0	/1
1968	32	CIN-min	AAA	18	41	35	2	6	1	0	1	5	0	0	3	10	.171	.237	.286	.523		10		0	3	0		INA · PCL
1968	32	CIN	NL	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
11 Seasons				149	221	198	9	22	2	0	0	7	0	0	6	64	.111	.140	.121	.261	-26	24	6	1	14	2	0
162 Game Avg.				162	240	215	10	24	2	0	0	8	0	0	7	70	.111	.140	.121	.261	-26	26	7	1	15	2	0

CIN (7 yrs)				108	188	170	8	19	2	0	0	7	0	0	5	55	.112	.140	.124	.264	-25	21	5	1	10	2	0
KCA (3 yrs)				39	32	27	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.111	.143	.111	.254	-30	3	1	0	4	0	0
DET (1 yr)				2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0

NL (7 yrs)				108	188	170	8	19	2	0	0	7	0	0	5	55	.112	.140	.124	.264	-25	21	5	1	10	2	0
AL (4 yrs)				41	33	28	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.107	.138	.107	.245	-32	3	1	0	4	0	0

Player Value--Batters

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

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos
1957	21	DET	AL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$	/1
1958	22	KCA	AL	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$	/1
1959	23	KCA	AL	24	-3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	-0.1	0	0.0	-0.1	$	1
1960	24	KCA	AL	7	-2	0	0	0	0	1	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$	1

1962	26	CIN	NL	6	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$	/1
1963	27	CIN	NL	66	-12	0	-1	-1	0	5	2	-7	-0.9	-7	-0.7	-0.2	$	1
1964	28	CIN	NL	62	-6	0	1	0	0	5	2	2	0.2	2	0.2	0.0	$	1
1965	29	CIN	NL	49	-9	0	-1	0	0	4	2	-4	-0.6	-4	-0.4	-0.2	$	1

1967	31	CIN	NL	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$	/1
1968	32	CIN	NL	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$	/1
10 Seasons				221	-33	0	-1	-1	0	17	7	-11	-1.6	-11	-1.1	-0.5	$

CIN (6 yrs)				188	-28	0	-1	-1	0	14	6	-10	-1.4	-10	-1.0	-0.4	$
KCA (3 yrs)				32	-5	0	0	0	0	3	1	-1	-0.2	-1	-0.1	-0.1	$
DET (1 yr)				1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0	$

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	CG	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRF9	lgRFG	SB	CS	CS%	PO
1957	DET	AL	21	P	2	0	0	3.1	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	2.70	0.50	.960	1.89	2.00	1	0	0%	0
1958	KCA	AL	22	P	1	1	0	3.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.00	1.00	.960	1.80	1.90	1	0	0%	0
1959	KCA	AL	23	P	24	10	0	83.1	18	3	13	2	0	.889	1.73	0.67	.955	2.05	2.03	2	1	33%	1
1960	KCA	AL	24	P	14	2	0	33.0	8	2	6	0	0	1.000	2.18	0.57	.968	1.96	1.95	4	0	0%	0
1962	CIN	NL	26	P	4	2	1	21.1	4	1	3	0	0	1.000	1.69	1.00	.948	2.07	2.05	1	0	0%	0
1963	CIN	NL	27	P	30	21	8	191.0	30	13	16	1	0	.967	1.37	0.97	.951	2.06	2.06	9	2	18%	0
1964	CIN	NL	28	P	37	24	6	175.1	37	14	23	0	1	1.000	1.90	1.00	.953	2.14	2.13	9	7	44%	1
1965	CIN	NL	29	P	31	20	3	131.0	26	5	19	2	0	.923	1.65	0.77	.956	2.08	2.08	6	8	57%	1
1966	CIN	NL	30	P	1	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.00	0.00		1.80	2.00	0	0		0
1967	CIN	NL	31	P	2	1	0	8.0	3	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.38	1.50	.960	2.02	2.00	0	0		0
1968	CIN	NL	32	P	3	3	0	12.2	3	0	3	0	0	1.000	2.13	1.00	.957	1.99	2.03	0	0		0
	11 Seasons			P	149	84	18	663.0	131	41	85	5	1	.962	1.71	0.85	.955	2.08	2.06	33	18	35%	3
	11 Seasons			TOT	149	84	18	663.0	131	41	85	5	1	.962	1.71	0.85	.955	2.08	2.06	33	18	35%	3

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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y 1963 NL 1.073 (7th)	Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1963 NL 7.869 (10th)	Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y 1963 NL 1.791 (9th)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1964 NL 7.494 (7th)
Bases on Balls s c a p y 1964 NL 75 (7th)	Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y 1963 NL 2.974 (9th)	Wild Pitches s c a p y 1963 NL 10 (7th) 1964 NL 11 (6th) 1965 NL 15 (4th)	Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1960 AL 8 (5th) 1963 NL 11 (4th) 1965 NL 9 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Gray Ink	Pitching - 4 (1971), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 4 (1535), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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Transactions

Before 1954 Season: Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent.
November 20, 1957: Traded by the Detroit Tigers with a player to be named later, Kent Hadley, Frank House, Duke Maas, Jim Small and Bill Tuttle to the Kansas City Athletics for Billy Martin, Mickey McDermott, Tom Morgan, Lou Skizas, Tim Thompson and Gus Zernial. The Detroit Tigers sent Jim McManus (April 3, 1958) to the Kansas City Athletics to complete the trade.
January 25, 1961: Traded by the Kansas City Athletics with John Briggs to the Cincinnati Reds for Joe Nuxhall.

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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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