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Dan Warthen

Daniel Dean Warthen

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Both, Throws: Left
Height: 6' 0", Weight: 200 lb.

Born: December 1, 1952 in Omaha, NE
High School: North HS (Omaha, NE)
Drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 2nd round of the 1971 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: May 18, 1975
Teams (by GP): Expos/Astros/Phillies 1975-1978

Final Game: September 29, 1978
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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
1971	18	WSN-min	A-	9	3	.750	3.96	14	14		10	0	0	109.0	109	64	48	9	49	0	101	5	1	2			1.450	9.0	0.7	4.0	8.3	2.06	WTR · NORL
1972	19	WSN-min	AA	3	4	.429	4.11	10	7		3	0	0	46.0	40	24	21	3	20	1	38	1	1	2			1.304	7.8	0.6	3.9	7.4	1.90	QUE · EL
1973	20	WSN-min	AA	8	6	.571	3.57	36	17					141.0	106	71	56	8	107								1.511	6.8	0.5	6.8			QUE · EL
1974	21	WSN-min	AA,AAA	11	8	.579	3.15	28	27		7	0	0	177.0	160	79	62	13	98	2	126	2	1	9			1.458	8.1	0.7	5.0	6.4	1.29	QUE,MEM · EL,IL
1975	22	WSN-min	AAA	2	5	.286	2.33	8	8		2	0	0	54.0	32	16	14	4	30	1	48	2	0	0			1.148	5.3	0.7	5.0	8.0	1.60	MEM · IL
1975	22	MON	NL	8	6	.571	3.11	40	18	12	2	0	3	167.2	130	62	58	8	87	4	128	1	3	5	700	124	1.294	7.0	0.4	4.7	6.9	1.47
1976	23	WSN-min	AAA	4	0	1.000	3.18	8	4		2	1	0	34.0	22	17	12	0	20	1	34	1	1	0			1.235	5.8	0.0	5.3	9.0	1.70	DEN · AA
1976	23	MON	NL	2	10	.167	5.30	23	16	1	2	1	0	90.0	76	59	53	8	66	2	67	2	0	2	405	70	1.578	7.6	0.8	6.6	6.7	1.02
1977	24	PHI-min	AAA	1	1	.500	9.00	7	4		0	0	0	16.0	12	17	16	2	28	0	23	0	0	7			2.500	6.8	1.1	15.8	12.9	0.82	OKC · AA
1977	24	TOT	NL	2	4	.333	7.22	15	6	2	1	0	0	38.2	37	37	31	7	43	1	27	0	1	3	193	54	2.069	8.6	1.6	10.0	6.3	0.63
1977	24	MON	NL	2	3	.400	7.97	12	6	1	1	0	0	35.0	33	34	31	7	38	1	26	0	1	2	172	48	2.029	8.5	1.8	9.8	6.7	0.68
1977	24	PHI	NL	0	1	.000	0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.2	4	3	0	0	5	0	1	0	0	1	21		2.455	9.8	0.0	12.3	2.5	0.20
1978	25	PHI-min	AAA	13	8	.619	4.09	27	27		12	1	0	196.0	181	116	89	21	110	4	144	3	2	7			1.485	8.3	1.0	5.1	6.6	1.31	OKC · AA
1978	25	HOU	NL	0	1	.000	4.22	5	1	3	0	0	0	10.2	10	5	5	3	2	0	2	0	2	0	43	81	1.125	8.4	2.5	1.7	1.7	1.00
1979	26	PIT-min	AAA	10	9	.526	3.56	49	11		1	0	3	154.0	139	69	61	11	80	5	92	4	0	7			1.422	8.1	0.6	4.7	5.4	1.15	POR · PCL
1980	27	PIT-min	AAA	3	1	.750	3.32	22	3		0	0	1	57.0	48	32	21	6	36	2	30	2	1	3			1.474	7.6	0.9	5.7	4.7	0.83	POR · PCL
1981	28	PIT-min	AA	0	1	.000	11.45	10	0	6	0	0	0	11.0	11	16	14	0	16	0	12	2	0	3			2.455	9.0	0.0	13.1	9.8	0.75	BFL · EL
1982	29	PIT-min	A	0	0		0.75	17	0	13	0	0	0	24.0	18	5	2	0	8	1	20	1	0	2			1.083	6.8	0.0	3.0	7.5	2.50	AXN · CARL
4 Yrs				12	21	.364	4.31	83	41	18	5	1	3	307.0	253	163	147	26	198	7	224	3	6	10	1341	88	1.469	7.4	0.8	5.8	6.6	1.13
162 Game Avg.				7	12	.364	4.31	46	22	10	3	1	2	168	139	89	81	14	109	4	123	2	3	5	735	88	1.469	7.4	0.8	5.8	6.6	1.13

MON (3 yrs)				12	19	.387	4.37	75	40	14	5	1	3	292.2	239	155	142	23	191	7	221	3	4	9	1277	87	1.469	7.3	0.7	5.9	6.8	1.16
PHI (1 yr)				0	1	.000	0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.2	4	3	0	0	5	0	1	0	0	1	21		2.455	9.8	0.0	12.3	2.5	0.20
HOU (1 yr)				0	1	.000	4.22	5	1	3	0	0	0	10.2	10	5	5	3	2	0	2	0	2	0	43	81	1.125	8.4	2.5	1.7	1.7	1.00

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
1975	22	MON	NL	167.2	40	18	62	3.33	4.10	0.05	0.02	106.1	4.32	17	2.0	1.4	0.0	3.3	34	.549	.512	$
1976	23	MON	NL	90.0	23	16	59	5.90	4.16	-0.12	0.07	105.9	4.62	-14	-1.5	.5	-0.0	-0.8	-5	.437	.491	$
1977	24	MON	NL	35.0	12	6	34	8.74	4.41	0.14	0.06	99.7	4.31	-17	-1.6	.9	-0.0	-1.4	-14	.364	.490	$
1977	24	PHI	NL	3.2	3	0	3	7.36	4.52	0.49	-0.35	101.0	3.73	-2	-0.2	.8	0.0	-0.1	-1	.449	.499	$
1978	25	HOU	NL	10.2	5	1	5	4.22	4.14	-0.30	0.01	85.8	3.82	-1	-0.1	2.7	-0.0	0.0	0	.487	.500	$
4 Seasons				307.0	83	41	163	4.78	4.16	0.00	0.03	104.6	4.38	-16	-1.3	1.3	-0.0	1.0	15	.484	.498	$

MON (3 yrs)				292.2	75	40	155	4.77	4.16	0.01	0.04	105.3	4.41	-14	-1.1	1.2	-0.0	1.1	15	.485	.498	$
PHI (1 yr)				3.2	3	0	3	7.36	4.52	0.49	-0.35	101.0	3.73	-2	-0.2	.8	0.0	-0.1	-1	.449	.499	$
HOU (1 yr)				10.2	5	1	5	4.22	4.14	-0.30	0.01	85.8	3.82	-1	-0.1	2.7	-0.0	0.0	0	.487	.500	$

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
1975	22	MON	NL	40	699	598	62	130	20	7	8	10	9	87	128	.217	.315	.314	.629	.261	188	17	1	7	6	4	8
1976	23	MON	NL	23	405	328	59	76	12	2	8	10	6	66	67	.232	.361	.354	.715	.266	116	9	2	6	3	2	6
1977	24	MON	NL	12	172	126	34	33	6	0	7	3	3	38	26	.262	.430	.476	.906	.277	60	4	0	7	1	1	2
1977	24	PHI	NL	3	21	15	3	4	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	.267	.450	.267	.717	.286	4	0	0	1	0	0	1
1977	24	TOT	NL	15	193	141	37	37	6	0	7	3	3	43	27	.262	.432	.454	.886	.278	64	4	0	8	1	1	3
1978	25	HOU	NL	5	43	40	5	10	2	0	3	0	0	2	2	.250	.279	.525	.804	.194	21	1	0	0	1	0	0
4 Yrs				83	1340	1107	163	253	40	9	26	23	18	198	224	.229	.344	.351	.696	.262	389	31	3	21	11	7	17
162 Game Avg.				46	735	607	89	139	22	5	14	13	10	109	123	.229	.344	.351	.696	.262	213	17	2	12	6	4	9
MLB Averages																.259	.325	.379	.704	.282

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PtchR	PitchW	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	LevHi	LevMd	LevLo
1975	22	MON	NL	14.8	1.6	728	1.9	16.0	-14.2	1.25	1.4	0.1	23.3	2.4	1.25	16.4	7	6	9
1976	23	MON	NL	-13.8	-1.4	423	-1.9	6.1	-8.0	.98	-0.9	-1.0	-18.1	-1.8	0.98	-11.2	1	0	6
1977	24	TOT	NL	-15.7	-1.5	204	-1.5	2.1	-3.6	.81	-1.4	-0.4	-14.4	-1.4	0.81	-17.1	2	0	6
1977	24	MON	NL	-16.2	-1.5	182	-1.0	2.1	-3.1	.83	-1.1	-0.1	-12.6	-1.2	0.83	-15.1	1	0	5
1977	24	PHI	NL	0.5	0.0	22	-0.5	0.0	-0.5	.58	-0.3	-0.5	-1.8	-0.2	0.58	-2.0	1	0	1
1978	25	HOU	NL	-0.7	-0.1	45	-0.6	0.5	-1.1	.91	-0.2	-0.4	-1.9	-0.2	0.91	-2.1	2	0	1
4 Yrs				-15.4	-1.4	1400	-2.1	24.8	-26.9	1.09	-1.2	-0.7	-11.1	-0.9	1.09	-14.0	12	6	22

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
1975	22	MON	NL	40	18	4	5	9	0	1	10	8	.556	0	6	2	0	12	67%	57.3	82	18	18	12	11	2	3.5	2.3	7.0
1976	23	MON	NL	23	16	2	10	4	0	3	4	12	.250	1	2	2	1	6	38%	48.4	81	31	27	12	1	10	3.5	3.1	4.9
1977	24	TOT	NL	15	6	1	3	2	1	0	1	5	.167	1	1	1	0	0	0%		54	26	16	9	5	1	5.2	7.4	4.7
1977	24	MON	NL	12	6	1	3	2	1	0	1	5	.167	1	1	1	0	0	0%	39.7	54	26	13	9	5	1	5.2	7.4	4.7
1978	25	HOU	NL	5	1	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	.000	0	0	0	0	1	100%	65.0	65	65	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.0	8.0
4 Yrs				80	41	7	19	15	1	5	15	26	.366	2	9	5	1	19	46%	51	82	18	58	33	17	13	3.7	3.1	5.9
MLB Averages													.500						54%	51	105	-13					4.2	4.2	6.5

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
1975	22	MON	NL	40	22	12	4	1	3	3	0	100%	4	1	13	4	31%	7	1.246	7	6	9	5	4	13	9	13	11	8	11	7	5.6
1976	23	MON	NL	23	7	1	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	5	5	100%	4	.983	1	0	6	0	1	6	2	5	4	2	4	1	4.7
1977	24	TOT	NL	15	9	2	1	1	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0%		.807	2	0	6	0	2	7	2	7	4	3	4	1	3.4
1977	24	MON	NL	12	6	1	1	0	0	0	0		0	0	3	0	0%	6	.835	1	0	5	0	1	5	2	4	3	2	3	1	3.3
1977	24	PHI	NL	3	3	1	0	1	0	0	0		0	0	0	0		6	.576	1	0	1	0	1	2	0	3	1	1	1	0	3.7
1978	25	HOU	NL	5	4	3	0	0	1	0	1	0%	1	0	4	3	75%	8	.913	2	0	1	1	1	2	2	2	0	2	0	1	2.0
4 Yrs				83	42	18	5	2	4	3	1	75%	5	1	25	12	48%		1.093	12	6	22	6	8	28	15	27	19	15	19	10	4.7

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	GO/AO	IP%	DPopp	DPs	DP%
1975	22	MON	NL	700	29%	1.1%	18.3%	12.5%	5.0%	27%	0.86	67%	144	17	12%
1976	23	MON	NL	405	20%	2.0%	16.5%	16.3%	5.4%	29%	0.92	63%	93	9	10%
1977	24	TOT	NL	193	20%	3.6%	14.0%	22.3%	6.7%	35%	0.95	56%	46	4	9%
1977	24	MON	NL	172	20%	4.1%	15.1%	22.1%	7.6%	39%	0.90	55%	38	4	11%
1977	24	PHI	NL	21	19%	0.0%	4.8%	23.8%	0.0%	0%	1.50	67%	8	0	0%
1978	25	HOU	NL	43	23%	7.0%	4.7%	4.7%	11.6%	50%	0.88	84%	4	1	25%
4 Yrs				1341	25%	1.9%	16.7%	14.8%	5.6%	30%	0.89	65%	287	31	11%
MLB Averages					45%	1.9%	12.9%	8.6%	6.3%	27%	1.09	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
1975	22	MON	NL	699	130			8	0	12	6	2	3	5	37	19	6	51%	8	5	1	281	10	9	53%	8	8	2	0	0	1	2	2	18	1
1976	23	MON	NL	405	76			8	0	11	7	1	3	5	34	16	6	47%	6	2	0	163	10	6	63%	7	5	3	1	0	0	1	1	8	0
1977	24	TOT	NL	193	37			7	0	6	7	0	3	4	11	5	3	45%	3	3	1	88	3	3	50%	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0
1977	24	MON	NL	172	33			7	0	6	7	0	3	4	10	4	3	40%	2	2	1	73	3	3	50%	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
1977	24	PHI	NL	21	4			0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	100%	1	1	0	15	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
1978	25	HOU	NL	43	10			3	0	1	3	0	2	1	3	3	0	100%	0	0	0	12	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
4 Yrs				1340	253			26	0	30	23	3	11	15	85	43	15	51%	17	10	2	544	23	18	56%	17	16	6	1	0	1	3	3	36	1
MLB Averages																		52%							65%

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+
1975	22	8	6	.571	3.11	40	18	12	2	0	3	167.2	130	62	58	8	87	4	128	1	3	5	700	124	1.294	7.0	0.4	4.7	6.9	1.47	124
1976	23	10	16	.385	3.88	63	34	13	4	1	3	257.2	206	121	111	16	153	6	195	3	3	7	1105	98	1.393	7.2	0.6	5.3	6.8	1.27	98
1977	24	12	20	.375	4.31	78	40	15	5	1	3	296.1	243	158	142	23	196	7	222	3	4	10	1298	89	1.481	7.4	0.7	6.0	6.7	1.13	89
1978	25	12	21	.364	4.31	83	41	18	5	1	3	307.0	253	163	147	26	198	7	224	3	6	10	1341	88	1.469	7.4	0.8	5.8	6.6	1.13	88

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
1975	22	10	7	.588	3.26	160.0	131	64	58	8	88	122	1	1.369	7.4	5.0	6.9	1.39	0.5	40
1976	23	3	6	.333	5.86	86.0	78	62	56	8	68	64	2	1.698	8.2	7.1	6.7	0.94	0.8	23
1977	24	1	3	.250	7.78	37.0	38	36	32	7	44	26	0	2.216	9.2	10.7	6.3	0.59	1.7	15
1978	25	0	1	.000	5.40	10.0	11	7	6	3	2	2	0	1.300	9.9	1.8	1.8	1.00	2.7	5
4 Yrs		14	17	.452	4.67	293.0	258	169	152	26	202	214	3	1.570	7.9		6.6	1.06	0.8	83

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1975 NL 6.978 (3rd)	Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y 1975 NL 6.871 (4th)	Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y 1975 NL 0.429 (6th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1975 NL 124 (8th)
Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y 1975 NL 23.29 (8th)	Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y 1975 NL 2.4 (9th)

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1948-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

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Pitching - 2 (2466), Average HOFer ≈ 185

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

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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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