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U L Washington
U L Washington

Bats: Both , Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11" , Weight: 175 lb.

Born: October 27, 1953 in Stringtown, OK
High School: Stringtown (Stringtown, OK)
Signed by the Kansas City Royals as an amateur free agent in 1972. (All Transactions)
Debut: September 6, 1977
Final Game: October 4, 1987
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Standard Batting

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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
1977	23	KCR	AL	10	26	20	0	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	5	4	.200	.360	.350	.710	94	7	0	0	1	0	0	/6
1978	24	KCR	AL	69	142	129	10	34	2	1	0	9	12	6	10	20	.264	.314	.295	.609	71	38	2	0	2	1	0	64/D
1979	25	KCR	AL	101	300	268	32	68	12	5	2	25	10	7	20	44	.254	.299	.358	.658	76	96	1	0	6	6	1	64/D5
1980	26	KCR	AL	153	614	549	79	150	16	11	6	53	20	7	53	78	.273	.336	.375	.711	95	206	13	0	10	2	0	*6
1981	27	KCR	AL	98	384	339	40	77	19	1	2	29	10	10	41	43	.227	.310	.307	.616	80	104	6	0	3	1	1	*6
1982	28	KCR	AL	119	487	437	64	125	19	3	10	60	23	7	38	48	.286	.338	.412	.750	106	180	4	0	5	7	0	*6/D
1983	29	KCR	AL	144	604	547	76	129	19	6	5	41	40	7	48	78	.236	.298	.320	.618	71	175	3	1	7	1	0	*6/D
1984	30	KCR	AL	63	189	170	18	38	6	0	1	10	4	6	14	31	.224	.281	.276	.558	56	47	1	0	4	1	0	6
1985	31	MON	NL	68	209	193	24	48	9	4	1	17	6	3	15	33	.249	.301	.352	.654	87	68	2	0	0	1	1	4/65
1986	32	PIT	NL	72	155	135	14	27	0	4	0	10	6	0	15	27	.200	.278	.259	.537	48	35	1	0	4	1	2	6/4
1987	33	PIT	NL	10	14	10	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.300	.417	.300	.717	95	3	0	0	2	0	1	/56
11 Seasons				907	3124	2797	358	703	103	36	27	255	132	53	261	409	.251	.313	.343	.656	82	959	33	1	44	21	6
162 Game Avg.				162	558	500	64	126	18	6	5	46	24	9	47	73	.251	.313	.343	.656	82	171	6	0	8	4	1

KCR (8 yrs)				757	2746	2459	319	625	94	28	26	228	120	50	229	346	.254	.316	.347	.663	83	853	30	1	38	19	2
PIT (2 yrs)				82	169	145	15	30	0	4	0	10	6	0	17	30	.207	.288	.262	.550	52	38	1	0	6	1	3
MON (1 yr)				68	209	193	24	48	9	4	1	17	6	3	15	33	.249	.301	.352	.654	87	68	2	0	0	1	1

AL (8 yrs)				757	2746	2459	319	625	94	28	26	228	120	50	229	346	.254	.316	.347	.663	83	853	30	1	38	19	2
NL (3 yrs)				150	378	338	39	78	9	8	1	27	12	3	32	63	.231	.296	.314	.609	71	106	3	0	6	2	4

Advanced Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1977	23	KCR	AL	26	17	3	4.7	102	.250	.200	.269	.360	.333	.350	.409	.710	.742	94	.509	-0.0	0.0	.813	.450	.150	.0
1978	24	KCR	AL	142	106	12	3.0	96	.309	.264	.264	.314	.330	.295	.390	.609	.720	71	.343	-5.2	-0.5	.524	.155	.031	.0
1979	25	KCR	AL	300	220	30	3.6	104	.289	.254	.272	.299	.337	.358	.412	.658	.749	76	.384	-9.5	-0.9	.572	.190	.104	3.3
1980	26	KCR	AL	614	431	70	4.4	99	.308	.273	.269	.336	.331	.375	.399	.711	.731	95	.477	-4.4	-0.4	.649	.222	.102	9.2
1981	27	KCR	AL	384	282	32	3.0	88	.254	.227	.255	.310	.319	.307	.371	.616	.690	80	.368	-7.7	-0.8	.522	.201	.080	3.3
1982	28	KCR	AL	487	335	65	5.2	98	.298	.286	.264	.338	.328	.412	.402	.750	.730	106	.558	3.7	0.4	.724	.249	.126	13.9
1983	29	KCR	AL	604	436	59	3.6	98	.267	.236	.265	.298	.328	.320	.401	.618	.728	71	.398	-22.6	-2.3	.600	.232	.084	8.9
1984	30	KCR	AL	189	144	13	2.4	97	.266	.224	.264	.281	.326	.276	.398	.558	.724	56	.242	-10.2	-1.0	.424	.124	.053	1.6
1985	31	MON	NL	209	151	21	3.8	91	.294	.249	.254	.301	.321	.352	.379	.654	.700	87	.447	-3.7	-0.4	.573	.197	.104	1.7
1986	32	PIT	NL	155	114	12	2.8	99	.248	.200	.264	.278	.334	.259	.398	.537	.732	48	.318	-10.2	-1.0	.514	.215	.059	.0
1987	33	PIT	NL	14	9	2	6.0	106	.429	.300	.269	.417	.339	.300	.419	.717	.758	95	.602	0.0	0.0	.714	.200	.000
11 Seasons				3124	2245	319	3.8	97	.284	.251	.264	.313	.328	.343	.396	.656	.724	82	.428	-69.9	-7.0	.596	.213	.092	44.8
162 Game Avg.				558	401	57	3.8	97	.284	.251	.264	.313	.328	.343	.396	.656	.724	82	.428	-69.9	-7.0	.596	.213	.092	8

KCR (8 yrs)				2746	1971	284	3.9	97	.284	.254	.265	.316	.328	.347	.397	.663	.725	83	.430	-56.1	-5.6	.602	.214	.093	42.7
PIT (2 yrs)				169	123	14	3.1	100	.259	.207	.264	.288	.335	.262	.399	.550	.734	52	.346	-10.1	-1.0	.526	.214	.055	.0
MON (1 yr)				209	151	21	3.8	91	.294	.249	.254	.301	.321	.352	.379	.654	.700	87	.448	-3.7	-0.4	.573	.197	.104	1.7

AL (8 yrs)				2746	1971	284	3.9	97	.284	.254	.265	.316	.328	.347	.397	.663	.725	83	.430	-56.1	-5.6	.602	.214	.093	42.7
NL (3 yrs)				378	274	35	3.4	94	.279	.231	.258	.296	.327	.314	.388	.609	.715	71	.403	-13.8	-1.4	.553	.204	.083	1.8

Postseason Batting

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Series	Opp	Rslt	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1980	26	KCR	AL	ALCS	NYY	W	3	13	11	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	3	.364	.462	.455	.916	5	0	0	0	0	0
1980	26	KCR	AL	WS	PHI	L	6	25	22	1	6	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	6	.273	.250	.273	.523	6	0	0	1	2	0
1981	27	KCR	AL	ALDS	OAK	L	3	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	1	0	0

1984	30	KCR	AL	ALCS	DET	L	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
3 Seasons (4 Series)							14	49	43	2	12	1	0	0	3	0	2	2	11	.279	.298	.302	.600	13	0	0	2	2	0
1 ALDS							3	10	9	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.222	.222	.222	.444	2	0	0	1	0	0
2 ALCS							5	14	12	1	4	1	0	0	1	0	1	2	4	.333	.429	.417	.845	5	0	0	0	0	0
1 WS							6	25	22	1	6	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	6	.273	.250	.273	.523	6	0	0	1	2	0

Ratio Batting*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1977	23	KCR	AL	26	0.0%	15.4%	19.2%	7.7%	50%	0.80	5.0		20.0	0.86	62%
1978	24	KCR	AL	142	0.0%	14.1%	7.0%	2.1%	9%	2.00	6.5		14.3	1.79	77%
1979	25	KCR	AL	300	0.7%	14.7%	6.7%	6.3%	28%	2.20	6.1	134.0	10.7	1.04	76%
1980	26	KCR	AL	614	1.0%	12.7%	8.6%	5.4%	22%	1.47	7.0	91.5	10.4	1.28	76%
1981	27	KCR	AL	384	0.5%	11.2%	10.7%	5.7%	29%	1.05	7.9	169.5	11.7	1.41	77%
1982	28	KCR	AL	487	2.1%	9.9%	7.8%	6.6%	26%	1.26	9.1	43.7	7.3	1.05	79%
1983	29	KCR	AL	604	0.8%	12.9%	8.0%	5.0%	23%	1.63	7.0	109.4	13.3	1.10	77%
1984	30	KCR	AL	189	0.5%	16.4%	7.4%	3.7%	18%	2.21	5.5	170.0	17.0	0.98	74%
1985	31	MON	NL	209	0.5%	15.8%	7.2%	6.7%	29%	2.20	5.8	193.0	11.4	1.48	77%
1986	32	PIT	NL	155	0.0%	17.4%	9.7%	2.6%	15%	1.80	5.0		13.5	1.34	70%
1987	33	PIT	NL	14	0.0%	21.4%	14.3%	0.0%	0%	1.50	3.3			2.00	50%
11 Seasons				3124	0.9%	13.1%	8.4%	5.3%	24%	1.57	6.8	103.6	11.0	1.21	76%
MLB Averages

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

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Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	SBH	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1977	23	KCR	AL	0	0	0%	13	1	0	100%	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0%	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1978	24	KCR	AL	1	0	23%	63	12	6	67%	10	6	2	0	0	0	2	2	2	4	42%	8	6	2	1	0	1	3	1	2
1979	25	KCR	AL	4	0	35%	117	10	7	59%	10	7	0	0	0	0	3	2	3	8	37%	28	21	7	2	2	0	11	3	8
1980	26	KCR	AL	4	0	37%	257	20	7	74%	19	7	1	0	0	0	4	2	9	9	43%	49	31	18	7	6	0	25	7	17
1981	27	KCR	AL	0	0	33%	138	10	10	50%	9	9	1	1	0	0	4	2	0	11	51%	23	14	9	3	2	1	15	4	11
1982	28	KCR	AL	5	0	35%	184	23	7	77%	20	7	3	0	0	0	3	2	4	10	45%	23	15	8	10	5	4	18	5	11
1983	29	KCR	AL	6	0	41%	191	40	7	85%	37	6	3	1	0	0	5	3	7	12	67%	17	6	9	10	4	6	18	2	15
1984	30	KCR	AL	5	0	33%	71	4	6	40%	4	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	41%	13	7	6	3	2	1	6	4	2
1985	31	MON	NL	2	0	37%	69	6	3	67%	5	3	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	2	39%	16	11	5	2	2	0	8	3	5
1986	32	PIT	NL	5	0	33%	51	6	0	100%	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	50%	8	6	2	3	0	3	3	1	2
1987	33	PIT	NL	0	0	20%	6	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0%	2	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	0
11 Seasons				32	0	35%	1160	132	53	71%	120	51	12	2	0	0	23	14	29	66	46%	188	120	66	42	24	16	108	31	73
MLB Averages

Situational Hitting*

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						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1977	23	KCR	AL	26	100%	4			0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	3	0	0%	3	1	33%	18	1	6%	1	0	0%	2	1	50%	0
1978	24	KCR	AL	142	100%	34			1	1	0	0	0.81	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100%	20	2	10%	6	3	50%	89	9	10%	5	4	80%	5	3	60%	0
1979	25	KCR	AL	300	100%	68			2	0	0	0	3.11	2	0	4	1	1	0	2	0	7	6	86%	39	1	3%	27	15	56%	163	23	14%	20	9	45%	19	8	42%	0
1980	26	KCR	AL	614	100%	150			3	1	0	0	1.59	6	0	17	1	5	3	3	0	10	10	100%	118	13	11%	73	30	41%	379	49	13%	28	15	54%	47	16	34%	0
1981	27	KCR	AL	384	100%	77			0	0	0	0		2	0	5	1	1	0	2	0	6	3	50%	77	6	8%	43	16	37%	238	29	12%	23	13	57%	22	9	41%	0
1982	28	KCR	AL	487	100%	125			2	0	0	0	1.62	10	0	10	1	9	2	8	0	7	5	71%	86	4	5%	68	24	35%	288	53	18%	33	22	67%	46	20	43%	0
1983	29	KCR	AL	604	100%	129			3	0	0	0	1.89	5	0	9	0	5	1	4	1	10	7	70%	91	3	3%	60	23	38%	317	38	12%	27	14	52%	58	22	38%	0
1984	30	KCR	AL	189	100%	38			0	0	0	0		1	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	5	4	80%	23	1	4%	16	7	44%	91	11	12%	10	4	40%	10	4	40%	0
1985	31	MON	NL	209	100%	48			20	3	0	1	1.46	1	0	3	0	1	1	0	0	3	0	0%	43	2	5%	25	8	32%	124	16	13%	12	5	42%	13	6	46%	0
1986	32	PIT	NL	155	100%	27			29	5	0	1	1.99	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	100%	34	1	3%	16	7	44%	91	10	11%	12	5	42%	7	4	57%	0
1987	33	PIT	NL	14	100%	3			6	2	0	0	1.10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	100%	2	0	0%	2	2	100%	6	0	0%	0	0		1	0	0%	0
11 Seasons				3124	100%	703			66	12	0	2	1.73	27	0	56	4	23	7	20	1	57	44	77%	536	33	6%	339	136	40%	1804	239	13%	171	91	53%	230	93	40%	0
MLB Averages

Cumulative Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1977	23	10	26	20	0	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	5	4	.200	.360	.350	.710	94	7	0	0	1	0	0
1978	24	79	168	149	10	38	3	2	0	10	13	6	15	24	.255	.321	.302	.623	74	45	2	0	3	1	0
1979	25	180	468	417	42	106	15	7	2	35	23	13	35	68	.254	.307	.338	.645	75	141	3	0	9	7	1
1980	26	333	1082	966	121	256	31	18	8	88	43	20	88	146	.265	.324	.359	.683	87	347	16	0	19	9	1
1981	27	431	1466	1305	161	333	50	19	10	117	53	30	129	189	.255	.320	.346	.666	85	451	22	0	22	10	2
1982	28	550	1953	1742	225	458	69	22	20	177	76	37	167	237	.263	.325	.362	.687	90	631	26	0	27	17	2
1983	29	694	2557	2289	301	587	88	28	25	218	116	44	215	315	.256	.318	.352	.670	86	806	29	1	34	18	2
1984	30	757	2746	2459	319	625	94	28	26	228	120	50	229	346	.254	.316	.347	.663	83	853	30	1	38	19	2
1985	31	825	2955	2652	343	673	103	32	27	245	126	53	244	379	.254	.315	.347	.662	84	921	32	1	38	20	3
1986	32	897	3110	2787	357	700	103	36	27	255	132	53	259	406	.251	.313	.343	.656	82	956	33	1	42	21	5
1987	33	907	3124	2797	358	703	103	36	27	255	132	53	261	409	.251	.313	.343	.656	82	959	33	1	44	21	6

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1977	23	10	25	20	0	4	1	1	0	1	1	5	4	.200	.360	.350	.710	3	10
1978	24	69	143	131	11	36	2	1	0	10	13	11	20	.275	.329	.305	.634	13	69
1979	25	102	296	270	32	69	12	5	2	25	10	20	44	.256	.301	.359	.660	30	101
1980	26	153	612	555	83	156	17	11	6	56	21	55	78	.281	.345	.384	.729	74	153
1981	27	148	595	525	71	128	32	2	3	52	17	68	65	.244	.329	.330	.659	58	98
1982	28	119	491	444	67	132	20	3	11	63	24	40	48	.297	.350	.430	.780	68	119
1983	29	144	616	561	80	143	21	7	6	43	44	53	78	.255	.320	.349	.669	62	144
1984	30	63	186	171	19	39	6	0	1	11	4	14	31	.228	.285	.281	.566	14	63
1985	31	68	216	198	28	53	10	4	1	20	7	17	33	.268	.324	.374	.698	24	68
1986	32	72	156	138	14	30	0	4	0	10	7	17	27	.217	.301	.275	.577	12	72
1987	33	10	14	11	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	.364	.500	.364	.864	2	10
11 Seasons		958	3350	3024	406	794	121	38	30	291	148	303	431	.263	.328	.357	.685	360	907
162 Game Avg.		162	566	511	69	134	20	6	5	49	25	51	73	.263	.328	.357	.685	61	907

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1954 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.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank, Glossary

Triples s c a p y
1980 AL 11 (3rd)

Stolen Bases s c a p y
1983 AL 40 (7th)

Caught Stealing s c a p y
1981 AL 10 (5th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray Ink Batting - 3 (2006), Average HOFer ≈ 144

Hall of Fame Monitor Batting - 5 (1493), Likely HOFer ≈ 100

Hall of Fame Standards Batting - 3 (3145), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Batters

Compare Stats to Similars

Most Similar by Ages

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Bill Spiers (971) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ricky Gutierrez (974) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Monte Cross (963) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Kevin Stocker (970) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ricky Gutierrez (966) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Heinie Wagner (966) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Heinie Wagner (957) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Heinie Wagner (957) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball Library Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet The Baseball Page WhatIfSports: U L Washington

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Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
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Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons (like '#1972', '#1970-1980-sum', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum') 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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Gray Ink	Batting - 3 (2006), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Monitor	Batting - 5 (1493), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 3 (3145), Average HOFer ≈ 50