Pat Underwood

Patrick John Underwood

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

Born: February 9, 1957 in Kokomo, IN
High School: Kokomo HS (Kokomo, IN)
Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 1st round (2nd pick) of the 1976 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 31, 1979
Team: Tigers 1979-1983

Final Game: June 21, 1983
Relatives: Brother of Tom Underwood
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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	19	DET-min	A	6	2	.750	2.22	12	12					77.0	63	26	19	0	32								1.234	7.4	0.0	3.7			LAK · FLOR
1977	20	DET-min	AA,AAA	12	7	.632	3.97	30	23		6	2	0	154.0	139	85	68	10	59	2	101	5	3	14			1.286	8.1	0.6	3.4	5.9	1.71	MTG,EVN · SOUL,AA
1978	21	DET-min	AAA	5	5	.500	4.15	20	18		2	0	0	104.0	116	57	48	6	31	3	73	1	0	4			1.413	10.0	0.5	2.7	6.3	2.35	EVN · AA
1979	22	DET-min	AAA	2	3	.400	2.81	7	7		2	1		48.0	41	20	15	2	17	1	35	0	0	3			1.208	7.7	0.4	3.2	6.6	2.06	EVN · AA
1979	22	DET	AL	6	4	.600	4.59	27	15	4	1	0	0	121.2	126	64	62	17	29	1	83	2	0	3	508	95	1.274	9.3	1.3	2.1	6.1	2.86
1980	23	DET	AL	3	6	.333	3.59	49	7	24	0	0	5	112.2	121	51	45	12	35	7	60	2	0	2	481	115	1.385	9.7	1.0	2.8	4.8	1.71

1981	24	DET-min	AAA	9	8	.529	3.98	26	26	0	6	0	0	165.0	158	86	73	19	44	3	90	3	2	5			1.224	8.6	1.0	2.4	4.9	2.05	EVN · AA
1982	25	DET	AL	4	8	.333	4.73	33	12	6	2	0	3	99.0	108	66	52	17	22	2	43	0	0	5	428	86	1.313	9.8	1.5	2.0	3.9	1.95
1983	26	CIN-DET-min	AAA	7	4	.636	4.09	20	14	1	3	1	0	94.2	96	48	43	10	27	1	51	0	0	6			1.299	9.1	1.0	2.6	4.8	1.89	INA,EVN · AA
1983	26	DET	AL	0	0		8.71	4	0	2	0	0	0	10.1	11	10	10	1	6	0	2	0	0	1	44	47	1.645	9.6	0.9	5.2	1.7	0.33
1984	27	BAL-min	AAA	0	2	.000	9.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.0	10	9	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	1			3.250	22.5	0.0	6.8	2.2	0.33	ROC · IL
4 Yrs				13	18	.419	4.43	113	34	36	3	0	8	343.2	366	191	169	47	92	10	188	4	0	11	1461	95	1.333	9.6	1.2	2.4	4.9	2.04
162 Game Avg.				6	8	.419	4.43	52	16	17	1	0	4	159	169	88	78	22	43	5	87	2	0	5	676	95	1.333	9.6	1.2	2.4	4.9	2.04

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
1979	22	DET	AL	121.2	27	15	64	4.73	4.57	-0.04	0.02	103.2	4.78	1	0.1	.8	-0.1	1.0	15	.502	.500	$
1980	23	DET	AL	112.2	49	7	51	4.07	4.57	-0.12	-0.18	101.5	4.59	6	0.6	1.4	-0.1	1.5	18	.513	.504	$

1982	25	DET	AL	99.0	33	12	66	6.00	4.57	0.52	-0.02	98.8	3.98	-22	-2.1	1.7	-0.3	-1.7	-12	.435	.487	$
1983	26	DET	AL	10.1	4	0	10	8.71	4.36	0.55	-0.35	96.4	3.34	-6	-0.6	.2	0.2	-0.3	-5	.359	.497	$
4 Seasons				343.2	113	34	191	5.00	4.56	0.11	-0.07	101.2	4.44	-21	-2.0	1.3	-0.3	0.5	16	.482	.497	$

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
1979	22	DET	AL	27	508	469	64	126	28	5	17	7	5	29	83	.269	.312	.458	.771	.293	215	6	2	5	3	1	1
1980	23	DET	AL	49	481	437	51	121	19	3	12	8	4	35	60	.277	.333	.416	.749	.298	182	14	2	6	1	7	7

1982	25	DET	AL	33	428	402	66	108	17	2	17	10	3	22	43	.269	.305	.448	.753	.265	180	3	0	2	2	2	10
1983	26	DET	AL	4	44	38	10	11	4	0	1	1	0	6	2	.289	.386	.474	.860	.286	18	1	0	0	0	0	0
4 Yrs				113	1461	1346	191	366	68	10	47	26	12	92	188	.272	.319	.442	.761	.286	595	24	4	13	6	10	18
162 Game Avg.				52	676	623	88	169	31	5	22	12	6	43	87	.272	.319	.442	.761	.286	275	11	2	6	3	5	8
MLB Averages																.262	.325	.388	.713	.284

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1979	22	DET	AL	-0.6	-0.1	524	0.1	8.8	-8.8	.95	-0.0	0.1	-1.0	-0.1	0.95	-0.6	2	3	6
1980	23	DET	AL	6.3	0.6	496	-1.2	8.2	-9.4	1.05	-0.6	-0.6	4.5	0.4	1.05	1.8	18	5	18

1982	25	DET	AL	-11.4	-1.1	447	-2.6	6.4	-9.1	.93	-1.7	-1.1	-18.3	-1.8	0.93	-15.2	9	6	5
1983	26	DET	AL	-5.0	-0.5	47	-0.0	0.1	-0.1	.08	-0.1	0.1	-3.3	-0.3	0.08	-1.2	0	0	3
4 Yrs				-10.7	-1.0	1514	-3.8	23.5	-27.3	.95	-2.5	-1.5	-18.1	-1.8	0.95	-15.2	29	14	32

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
1979	22	DET	AL	27	15	6	4	5	1	0	8	7	.533	4	1	1	0	8	53%	49.5	80	20	18	4	1	3	5.3	5.3	6.1
1980	23	DET	AL	49	7	1	3	3	0	1	4	3	.571	0	3	0	0	2	29%	39.4	57	27	23	6	1	5	5.4	4.2	5.9

1982	25	DET	AL	33	12	3	7	2	0	0	4	8	.333	2	0	2	0	4	33%	43.1	78	25	18	8	4	6	4.5	4.5	5.5
3 Yrs				109	34	10	14	10	1	1	16	18	.471	6	4	3	0	14	41%	45	80	20	59	18	6	14	5.0	4.8	5.9
MLB Averages													.500						51%	50	99	-12					4.3	4.3	6.3

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
1979	22	DET	AL	27	12	4	0	0	0	0	0		1	1	11	2	18%	5	.950	2	3	6	2	1	9	7	5	8	3	8	1	7.4
1980	23	DET	AL	49	42	24	2	3	5	5	0	100%	13	6	34	8	24%	8	1.055	18	5	18	14	9	19	21	21	21	10	23	9	5.1

1982	25	DET	AL	33	21	6	1	1	5	3	2	60%	9	2	17	7	41%	6	.926	9	6	5	10	4	7	10	11	10	9	10	1	4.8
1983	26	DET	AL	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0%	4	.083	0	0	3	1	0	3	1	3	3	0	3	0	7.8
4 Yrs				113	79	36	3	4	10	8	2	80%	23	9	65	17	26%		.951	29	14	32	27	14	38	39	40	42	22	44	11	5.5

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1979	22	DET	AL	508	24%	3.4%	16.3%	5.7%	9.8%	40%	0.76	73%	69	6	9%
1980	23	DET	AL	481	33%	2.5%	12.5%	7.3%	7.1%	28%	0.96	76%	103	14	14%

1982	25	DET	AL	428	24%	4.0%	10.1%	5.1%	8.4%	33%	1.02	80%	56	3	5%
1983	26	DET	AL	44	43%	2.3%	4.6%	13.6%	11.4%	46%	0.65	80%	9	1	11%
4 Yrs				1461	27%	3.2%	12.9%	6.3%	8.6%	34%	0.89	76%	237	24	10%
MLB Averages					43%	2.0%	12.9%	8.3%	6.6%	28%	1.10	75%			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
1979	22	DET	AL	508	126			17	0	5	11	6	10	7	9	5	1	56%	1	3	1	172	7	5	58%	7	4	0	1	0	0	2	1	10	0
1980	23	DET	AL	481	121			12	0	16	10	2	7	5	37	19	5	51%	7	2	2	175	8	4	67%	8	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	6	0

1982	25	DET	AL	428	108			17	0	6	14	3	7	10	17	12	1	71%	10	5	0	135	10	3	77%	8	3	2	0	0	0	2	2	10	0
1983	26	DET	AL	44	11			1	0	2	0	1	1	0	4	1	0	25%	0	1	1	15	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
4 Yrs				1461	366			47	0	29	35	12	25	22	67	37	7	55%	18	11	4	497	26	12	68%	24	11	2	1	0	0	5	4	28	0
MLB Averages																		54%							66%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1979	22	6	4	.600	4.59	27	15	4	1	0	121.2	126	64	62	17	29	1	83	2	3	508	95	1.274	9.3	1.3	2.1	6.1	2.86	95
1980	23	9	10	.474	4.11	76	22	28	1	5	234.1	247	115	107	29	64	8	143	4	5	989	104	1.327	9.5	1.1	2.5	5.5	2.23	104
1981	24	9	10	.474	4.11	76	22	28	1	5	234.1	247	115	107	29	64	8	143	4	5	989	104	1.327	9.5	1.1	2.5	5.5	2.23	104
1982	25	13	18	.419	4.29	109	34	34	3	8	333.1	355	181	159	46	86	10	186	4	10	1417	98	1.323	9.6	1.2	2.3	5.0	2.16	98
1983	26	13	18	.419	4.43	113	34	36	3	8	343.2	366	191	169	47	92	10	188	4	11	1461	95	1.333	9.6	1.2	2.4	4.9	2.04	95

Neutralized Pitching

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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
1979	22	5	8	.385	4.65	118.0	126	68	61	17	29	80	2	1.314	9.6	2.2	6.1	2.76	1.3	27
1980	23	6	5	.545	3.87	107.0	122	51	46	12	35	57	2	1.467	10.3	2.9	4.8	1.63	1.0	49

1982	25	4	6	.400	5.14	98.0	112	62	56	18	23	42	0	1.378	10.3	2.1	3.9	1.83	1.7	33
1983	26	0	0		12.38	8.0	12	12	11	1	7	2	0	2.375	13.5	7.9	2.3	0.29	1.1	4
4 Yrs		15	19	.441	4.73	331.0	372	193	174	48	94	181	4	1.408	10.1		4.9	1.93	1.3	113

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