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The 1945 Season as seen through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

I have recently updated my Player won-lost records to incorporate Retrosheet's latest release of play-by-play data. This included the release of deduced games for an additional season: 1945.

The 1945 season was the last season played during World War II (which ended during the 1945 baseball season). Major League Baseball during World War II - especially the last three seasons of World War II - was an odd mix of a handful of stars who ended up not being drafted for various reasons, aging players too old for war getting an unexpected final hurrah, and a number of players who may have never made a major-league roster had it not been for World War II. Perhaps the most famous of this latter group saw his only major-league action in 1945: one-armed outfielder Pete Gray, who played in 77 games for the St. Louis Browns.

As a resident of the North Side of Chicago, the 1945 season has another special significance: it was (as I write this) the last time the Chicago Cubs played in a World Series.

The Best of 1945

I calculate Player won-lost records two ways: pWins, which tie to team wins and eWins, which control for context and the ability of one's teammates. For players with more pWins than eWins, their Player wins contributed to more team wins than one might expect; for players with more eWins than pWins, just the opposite is true: their Player wins translated into fewer team wins than expected. Or more briefly: a player with more pWins than eWins was better in context, a player with more eWins than pWins was worse in context.

The top 10 players in pWins above Positional Average and Replacement Level were as follows.

		pWins over Positional Average Top 10 Players						pWins over Replacement Level Top 10 Players
	Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL		Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL
1	Hal Newhouser	22.1	14.5	4.4	6.1	1	Hal Newhouser	22.1	14.5	4.4	6.1
2	Steve Gromek	17.2	12.1	3.0	4.4	2	Vern Stephens	24.7	19.8	3.0	4.7
3	Vern Stephens	24.7	19.8	3.0	4.7	3	Steve Gromek	17.2	12.1	3.0	4.4
4	Roger Wolff	17.0	11.8	2.9	4.3	4	Hank Wyse	18.1	13.2	2.9	4.4
5	Hank Wyse	18.1	13.2	2.9	4.4	5	Roger Wolff	17.0	11.8	2.9	4.3
6	Claude Passeau	15.8	10.9	2.8	4.1	6	Andy Pafko	22.5	15.9	2.8	4.2
7	Andy Pafko	22.5	15.9	2.8	4.2	7	Dave Ferriss	18.5	14.5	2.6	4.1
8	Harry Brecheen	11.9	6.9	2.7	3.6	8	Claude Passeau	15.8	10.9	2.8	4.1
9	Phil Cavarretta	18.7	12.4	2.7	3.9	9	Red Barrett	18.2	14.2	2.4	4.0
10	George Myatt	19.7	14.2	2.7	4.0	10	George Myatt	19.7	14.2	2.7	4.0

The top 10 players in eWins above Positional Average and Replacement Level were as follows.

		eWins over Positional Average Top 10 Players						eWins over Replacement Level Top 10 Players
	Player	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWORL		Player	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWORL
1	Hal Newhouser	21.1	15.4	3.4	5.1	1	Hal Newhouser	21.1	15.4	3.4	5.1
2	Snuffy Stirnweiss	23.8	18.8	2.7	4.3	2	Snuffy Stirnweiss	23.8	18.8	2.7	4.3
3	Phil Cavarretta	18.7	12.4	2.7	3.9	3	Vern Stephens	24.4	20.1	2.6	4.3
4	Vern Stephens	24.4	20.1	2.6	4.3	4	Tommy Holmes	24.5	17.9	2.3	3.9
5	Nels Potter	16.2	12.2	2.4	3.7	5	Phil Cavarretta	18.7	12.4	2.7	3.9
6	Claude Passeau	15.2	11.4	2.3	3.6	6	Nels Potter	16.2	12.2	2.4	3.7
7	Tommy Holmes	24.5	17.9	2.3	3.9	7	Roy Cullenbine	24.2	18.2	2.0	3.6
8	Eddie Lake	19.8	16.5	2.0	3.4	8	Claude Passeau	15.2	11.4	2.3	3.6
9	Roger Wolff	16.0	12.8	2.0	3.4	9	Eddie Lake	19.8	16.5	2.0	3.4
10	Roy Cullenbine	24.2	18.2	2.0	3.6	10	Roger Wolff	16.0	12.8	2.0	3.4

As noted above, the 1945 season saw many of the most famous baseball players of the 1940s off to war: Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial. Hall-of-Famers Hank Greenberg and Bob Feller returned from multi-season absences during the 1945 season, but too late, in both cases, to make the above leaders' tables.

And so, instead, we are left with Cleveland Indians pitcher Steve Gromek (19-9, 2.55, 251 IP), Washington Senators pitcher Roger Wolff (20-10, 2.12, 250 IP), and New York Yankees second baseman Snuffy Stirnweiss (.309/.385/.476, AL-leading 107 runs scored, 195 hits, 22 triples, and 33 stolen bases). The top two players in three of the four tables above, however, should be, I think, reasonably well known to fans of baseball history.

Hal Newhouser

I wrote about Hal Newhouser in my article on the 1946 season. From 1944 - 1946, Hal Newhouser had a traditional won-lost record of 80-27 with a 1.99 ERA over 918.1 innings pitched. In 1945, Newhouser led the American League in traditional pitcher wins (25), innings pitched (313.1), strikeouts (212), complete games (29), shutouts (8), and ERA (1.81).

Controlling for context, 1945 was the best season of Hal Newhouser's career, as measured by eWins over either positional average or replacement level. Newhouser adjusted very well to the return of most major-leaguers in 1946, posting career highs in pWOPA and pWORL in 1946. His career tailed off somewhat after that, although he was still solidly above average for three more seasons, through 1949.

Hal Newhouser's career record, as measured by Player won-lost record (for the games for which I have play-by-play data), is shown in the next table.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Hal Newhouser Basic Player Won-Lost Records
												Value Decomposition
1939	DET	18	1	0.5	0.6	0.463	-0.0	0.0	0.5	0.6	0.461	-0.0	0.0
1940	DET	19	28	8.1	9.6	0.457	-0.6	0.2	8.2	9.5	0.465	-0.4	0.4
1941	DET	20	33	10.4	12.1	0.461	-0.6	0.4	10.5	11.9	0.469	-0.4	0.6
1942	DET	21	39	11.2	11.6	0.490	0.0	1.0	11.5	11.3	0.503	0.3	1.3
1943	DET	22	37	12.0	12.9	0.483	-0.1	1.0	12.5	12.4	0.503	0.4	1.5
1944	DET	23	47	21.4	13.9	0.607	4.4	5.9	20.0	15.3	0.565	2.9	4.4
1945	DET	24	40	22.1	14.5	0.604	4.4	6.1	21.1	15.4	0.578	3.4	5.1
1946	DET	25	37	22.4	14.4	0.609	4.6	6.4	21.0	15.9	0.568	3.1	4.9
1947	DET	26	40	19.1	16.9	0.530	1.7	3.1	19.3	16.7	0.535	1.8	3.3
1948	DET	27	39	19.8	14.9	0.570	2.9	4.4	19.3	15.4	0.555	2.4	3.9
1949	DET	28	38	17.9	14.9	0.546	2.0	3.3	17.9	14.9	0.546	2.0	3.3
1950	DET	29	35	14.7	14.8	0.497	0.4	1.7	14.3	15.2	0.484	-0.0	1.3
1951	DET	30	17	6.3	5.9	0.518	0.4	0.9	6.6	5.6	0.542	0.7	1.2
1952	DET	31	26	8.7	9.0	0.494	0.2	1.0	9.0	8.7	0.507	0.4	1.2
1953	DET	32	7	1.2	2.1	0.373	-0.4	-0.2	1.3	2.0	0.392	-0.3	-0.1
1954	CLE	33	26	3.3	2.6	0.557	0.4	0.8	3.3	2.7	0.552	0.4	0.7
1955	CLE	34	2	0.1	0.1	0.509	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.1	0.366	-0.0	-0.0
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CAREER (reg. season)			492	199.3	170.8	0.538	19.7	36.1	196.3	173.8	0.530	16.7	33.1
			------	------	------				------	------
PostSeason (career)			4	1.6	1.6	0.494		0.2	1.6	1.5	0.516		0.2
			------	------	------	------		------	------	------	------		------
COMBINED			496	200.8	172.4	0.538		36.3	197.9	175.3	0.530		33.4

Vern Stephens

Unlike Hal Newhouser, Vern Stephens is not in the Hall of Fame. He did, however, make a fairly lengthy appearance in Bill James's book about the Hall of Fame, The Politics of Glory. In that book, James devoted a chapter to comparing Vern Stephens and Phil Rizzuto. Rizzuto was not in the Hall of Fame when James wrote the book, but he had considerable Hall-of-Fame support and was elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans' Committee shortly after The Politics of Glory was published, in 1994. Here's what Player won-lost records say about that same comparison.

Season	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Vern Stephens						Phil Rizzuto
1941	3	0.1	0.0	0.791	0.0	0.0	133	16.9	15.2	0.526	1.0	2.4
1942	145	20.8	19.7	0.514	0.9	2.5	144	21.1	16.1	0.567	2.7	4.2
1943	137	20.6	17.4	0.543	1.7	3.1
1944	145	24.0	16.9	0.587	4.3	6.0
1945	149	24.7	19.8	0.556	3.0	4.7
1946	115	15.5	14.8	0.511	0.5	1.7	126	15.7	15.4	0.504	0.3	1.6
1947	150	20.8	20.2	0.507	0.2	1.9	153	20.4	17.6	0.537	1.4	2.9
1948	155	25.8	20.6	0.555	2.8	4.7	128	15.2	15.4	0.497	0.1	1.3
1949	155	27.3	18.1	0.601	4.8	6.6	153	20.8	17.8	0.540	1.8	3.3
1950	149	23.5	18.6	0.557	2.8	4.4	155	22.3	17.6	0.558	2.7	4.2
1951	109	13.5	11.4	0.543	0.8	1.8	144	19.9	16.9	0.541	1.9	3.4
1952	92	10.4	9.5	0.524	0.5	1.3	152	20.1	18.0	0.528	1.2	2.7
1953	90	8.4	8.3	0.503	-0.2	0.5	134	15.1	12.8	0.542	1.4	2.6
1954	101	10.6	10.9	0.492	-0.5	0.3	127	10.5	10.0	0.511	0.4	1.3
1955	25	1.7	2.0	0.448	-0.2	-0.1	81	4.9	4.9	0.500	0.1	0.5
1956							31	1.9	1.8	0.504	0.1	0.2
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CAREER RECORDS	1,720	247.5	208.2	0.543	21.3	39.5	1,661	204.8	179.6	0.533	15.1	30.6

Seasons in italics are extrapolated to include games currently missing from Retrosheet's play-by-play files.

Player won-lost records basically reach the same conclusion as Bill James, who clarified his position on Stephens vs. Rizzuto in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: "I can still see it either way." (p. 607, paperback edition)

As measured by pWOPA and pWORL, Stephens has better career numbers and the three strongest seasons, but two of Stephens' best season were 1944 and 1945, when Rizzuto (and most other Hall-of-Famers of the era) was away fighting World War II.

Vern Stephens's career record, as measured by Player won-lost record (for the games for which I have play-by-play data), is shown in the next table.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Vern Stephens Basic Player Won-Lost Records
												Value Decomposition
1941	SLA	20	3	0.1	0.0	0.791	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.421	-0.0	-0.0
1942	SLA	21	145	20.8	19.7	0.514	0.9	2.5	20.8	19.7	0.514	0.8	2.4
1943	SLA	22	137	20.6	17.4	0.543	1.7	3.1	20.7	17.3	0.545	1.8	3.2
1944	SLA	23	145	24.0	16.9	0.587	4.3	6.0	22.9	17.9	0.560	3.2	4.9
1945	SLA	24	149	24.7	19.8	0.556	3.0	4.7	24.4	20.1	0.548	2.6	4.3
1946	SLA	25	115	15.5	14.8	0.511	0.5	1.7	16.1	14.2	0.532	1.2	2.4
1947	SLA	26	150	20.8	20.2	0.507	0.2	1.9	22.3	18.6	0.544	1.8	3.4
1948	BOS	27	155	25.8	20.6	0.555	2.8	4.7	24.5	21.9	0.527	1.5	3.4
1949	BOS	28	155	27.3	18.1	0.601	4.8	6.6	25.7	19.7	0.566	3.3	5.1
1950	BOS	29	149	23.5	18.6	0.557	2.8	4.4	22.4	19.7	0.531	1.7	3.3
1951	BOS	30	109	13.5	11.4	0.543	0.8	1.8	13.3	11.6	0.533	0.5	1.5
1952	BOS	31	92	10.4	9.5	0.524	0.5	1.3	10.1	9.8	0.507	0.2	1.0
+– 1953		32	90	8.4	8.3	0.503	-0.2	0.5	8.4	8.4	0.498	-0.3	0.4
	CHA		44	3.7	3.4	0.524	0.1	0.4	3.3	3.8	0.466	-0.3	-0.0
	SLA		46	4.7	5.0	0.488	-0.3	0.1	5.1	4.6	0.522	0.1	0.5
1954	BAL	33	101	10.6	10.9	0.492	-0.5	0.3	11.1	10.4	0.516	-0.0	0.9
+– 1955		34	25	1.7	2.0	0.448	-0.2	-0.1	2.0	1.7	0.533	0.1	0.2
	BAL		3	0.1	0.2	0.364	-0.0	-0.0	0.1	0.2	0.422	-0.0	-0.0
	CHA		22	1.6	1.9	0.455	-0.2	-0.0	1.9	1.6	0.541	0.1	0.3
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CAREER (reg. season)			1,720	247.5	208.2	0.543	21.3	39.5	244.5	211.2	0.536	18.3	36.4
			------	------	------				------	------
PostSeason (career)			6	0.7	0.9	0.418		-0.0	0.8	0.8	0.489		0.1
			------	------	------	------		------	------	------	------		------
COMBINED			1,726	248.2	209.1	0.543		39.4	245.2	212.0	0.536		36.5

1945 World Series

The 1945 World Series was probably most notable as the last World Series appearance (through at least 2015) by the Chicago Cubs, who lost in seven games to the Detroit Tigers. The top performances of the 1945 World Series, as measured by Player won-lost records, are presented in the next table.

	1945 World Series: Top Player Performances
		pWins	pLosses	pWORL
Hank Greenberg	DET	1.6	0.8	0.5
Claude Passeau	CHN	1.0	0.4	0.3

Hank Greenberg, who rejoined the Tigers on July 1, 1945 after four years in the Army batted .304/.467/.696 in the World Series with 2 home runs, 7 runs scored, and 7 RBI. Dizzy Trout went 1-1 with a 0.66 ERA in 13.2 innings.

For the losing Cubs, Claude Passeau started 2 games and relieved in a third, earning a record of 1-0 with a 2.70 ERA in 16.2 innings of work. Phil Cavarretta batted .423/.500/.615 in the seven games, although his performance ended up looking less impressive in context (e.g., Cavarretta went 3-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI in the Cubs' 9-3 Game 7 loss).

Best of 1945 by Factor and Position

Next, let's look at the top players in (context-neutral, teammate-adjusted) eWins over Positional Average in various aspects of the game. The numbers in this section have all been normalized to extrapolate player games for which I am missing play-by-play data. As above, this adjustment is based on individual player games for which I have play-by-play data.

Best by Factor: Batting, Baserunning, Pitching, Fielding

There are four basic factors for which players earn Player won-lost records: Batting, Baserunning, Pitching, and Fielding. The top players in 1945 in eWOPA by factor were as follows.

	Batting
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Tommy Holmes	17.8	11.6	2.8

Positional Average excludes pitcher offense

	Baserunning
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Johnny Dickshot	1.9	1.0	0.4

Positional Average excludes pitcher offense

	Pitching
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Hal Newhouser	15.4	11.8	3.6
Preacher Roe	11.9	8.9	3.1
Claude Passeau	11.1	8.1	3.0
Roger Wolff	12.7	9.7	3.0
Nels Potter	12.7	9.7	2.9
Ray Prim	8.0	5.4	2.6

	Fielding, P
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Red Barrett	0.6	0.3	0.4

	Fielding, C
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Mike Tresh	2.8	1.9	0.9

	Fielding, 1B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Babe Dahlgren	3.1	2.5	0.6

	Fielding, 2B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Pete Coscarart	5.0	4.3	0.7

	Fielding, 3B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Steve Mesner	6.1	4.4	1.7

	Fielding, SS
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Buddy Kerr	8.2	7.0	1.3

	Fielding, LF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Red Schoendienst	6.1	4.9	1.2

	Fielding, CF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Carden Gillenwater	7.3	6.1	1.2

	Fielding, RF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Roy Cullenbine	7.4	6.6	0.8

Best by Position

Next, we look at 1945 Major-League leaders in eWOPA by position. The figures shown here only include Player decisions earned while playing this particular position, and include no contextual adjustments (expected or actual).

	Catcher
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Bill Salkeld	9.2	6.4	1.6

	First Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Phil Cavarretta	16.1	10.6	2.3

	Second Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Snuffy Stirnweiss	23.8	19.4	2.4

	Third Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Whitey Kurowski	18.3	14.5	1.7

	Shortstop
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Vern Stephens	21.1	17.9	2.1

	Left Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Jeff Heath	15.2	11.8	1.3

	Center Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Buster Adams	18.2	14.8	1.3

	Right Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Roy Cullenbine	22.7	17.3	1.7

	Starting Pitcher
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Hal Newhouser	15.8	11.7	2.1

	Relief Pitcher
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Jittery Joe Berry	7.1	6.3	0.4

For relief pitchers, context-neutral records may not be the best measure of how good they are, as context can matter a great deal, depending on how a pitcher is used. Here are the top relief pitchers of 1945 in context, in terms of pWins and pWOPA.

Player	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Top Relief Pitchers of 1945, based on pWORL
Andy Karl	9.0	7.8	0.536	0.8	1.7
Jittery Joe Berry	6.0	5.5	0.523	0.4	1.1
Ace Adams	7.1	7.0	0.506	0.2	1.0
Cy Buker	4.5	3.8	0.543	0.4	0.9
Johnny Hutchings	9.0	10.0	0.474	-0.3	0.7

Finally, here are the best at three oft-forgotten positions that can nevertheless matter: pitcher offense, pinch hitting, and pinch running.

	Pitcher Offense
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Dave Ferriss	2.4	2.2	0.6

	Pinch Hitter
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Rene Monteagudo	1.7	1.1	0.4

	Pinch Runner
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Bill L. Mueller	0.1	0.0	0.1

Noteworthy Players of 1945

Notable Debuts

The 1945 season saw the major-league debut of one player who would eventually be elected to the Hall of Fame (with some extra credit for his post-playing managerial career) - Red Schoendienst - and one player who is not in the Hall of Fame but has been elected to Baseball Think Factory's Hall of Merit - Billy Pierce.

Red Schoendienst's 1945 debut was fairly typical throughout baseball history. He was 22 years old in 1945 and appeared in 137 games for the St. Louis Cardinals, mostly in left field, before settling in as the Cardinals' second baseman for a decade.

In contrast, the circumstances behind Billy Pierce's major-league debut were fairly unique to World War II. Pierce was 18 years old in 1945 and went from the Detroit sandlots to appearing in five games for the eventual World Champion Tigers. Pierce would not reappear in the major leagues until 1948 when he was 21 years old. The next table compares the career records of Red Schoendienst and Billy Pierce, as measured by Player won-lost records.

Season	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Red Schoendienst						Billy Pierce
1945	137	18.9	17.4	0.521	0.3	1.7	5	0.1	0.5	0.136	-0.2	-0.2
1946	142	18.0	16.5	0.522	0.9	2.3
1947	151	18.4	18.2	0.504	0.7	2.1
1948	119	12.4	12.9	0.489	-0.2	0.9	22	2.3	2.5	0.473	-0.1	0.2
1949	151	20.2	18.7	0.520	0.8	2.3	39	10.5	12.3	0.461	-0.6	0.3
1950	153	17.9	19.7	0.477	-0.7	0.7	40	15.2	15.1	0.501	0.5	1.9
1951	135	17.8	16.7	0.517	0.7	2.0	39	16.9	12.7	0.572	2.5	3.8
1952	152	22.0	17.6	0.555	2.4	3.9	35	15.5	13.3	0.538	1.6	2.9
1953	146	20.8	16.8	0.554	2.2	3.8	42	18.3	15.4	0.543	1.9	3.4
1954	148	18.9	19.1	0.498	0.1	1.7	38	12.5	12.1	0.509	0.6	1.8
1955	145	17.3	17.6	0.496	0.3	1.7	34	15.9	10.4	0.605	3.1	4.2
1956	132	13.1	15.1	0.465	-0.6	0.6	39	17.5	14.8	0.542	1.8	3.3
1957	150	20.7	17.8	0.537	1.7	3.3	41	18.4	14.5	0.560	2.5	3.8
1958	106	11.7	12.3	0.488	0.0	0.9	35	17.2	14.5	0.542	1.8	3.1
1959	5	0.0	0.1	0.097	-0.1	-0.1	34	15.1	13.5	0.528	1.2	2.5
1960	67	6.3	6.2	0.503	0.2	0.7	31	12.8	10.2	0.557	1.7	2.6
1961	72	3.1	3.9	0.438	-0.3	0.1	39	10.9	9.9	0.524	0.8	1.7
1962	98	3.8	4.5	0.459	-0.2	0.2	30	11.5	8.5	0.575	1.9	2.7
1963	6	0.2	0.2	0.430	-0.0	0.0	38	6.0	7.6	0.440	-0.6	0.1
1964							34	2.1	2.0	0.517	0.1	0.4
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CAREER RECORDS	2,215	261.5	251.2	0.510	8.0	28.9	615	218.8	189.8	0.535	20.6	38.4

Final Farewells

The 1945 season saw the final major-league appearances for four players who have subsequently been elected to the Hall of Fame: Jimmie Foxx, Joe Cronin, Paul Waner, and Lloyd Waner.

It is probably the case that all four of these players only appeared in the major leagues in 1945 because of World War II.

The final two tables of this article compare the career records of these four players. Since (as I write this) the only season of their careers for which Retrosheet has released full play-by-play data is the final one, these players' records are extrapolated here to include missing games based on actual games for which Retrosheet has released data (for seasons for which Retrosheet has released at least some data). All of the numbers here should therefore be taken with a fairly large grain of salt.

Season	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Jimmie Foxx						Joe Cronin
1925	10	0.2	0.2	0.491	0.0	0.0
1926	26	0.8	1.1	0.422	-0.2	-0.1	38	2.3	2.7	0.458	-0.2	-0.0
1927	61	3.8	3.8	0.503	-0.1	0.3	12	0.4	0.5	0.443	-0.1	-0.0
1928	118	14.9	11.5	0.565	1.6	2.7	63	6.2	8.5	0.421	-0.9	-0.3
1929	149	19.3	11.4	0.629	3.0	4.2	145	20.1	19.5	0.507	0.7	2.4
1930	153	23.4	13.1	0.642	4.1	5.7	154	27.4	19.8	0.580	4.3	6.4
1931	139	18.8	12.1	0.609	2.7	4.0	156	23.3	19.7	0.541	2.2	4.0
1932	154	23.1	13.0	0.639	4.0	5.5	143	21.6	18.1	0.544	2.1	3.8
1933	149	21.7	13.0	0.625	3.6	5.0	152	25.2	19.3	0.566	3.3	5.1
1934	150	20.6	12.6	0.620	2.8	4.2	127	18.4	17.7	0.510	0.5	2.1
1935	147	17.6	13.8	0.561	1.3	2.5	144	20.4	20.8	0.495	-0.0	1.6
1936	155	21.1	15.1	0.583	1.8	3.4	81	9.0	9.8	0.481	-0.2	0.6
1937	150	19.3	13.5	0.588	1.8	3.2	148	20.0	19.1	0.512	0.7	2.3
1938	149	22.4	13.0	0.632	3.4	4.8	143	21.9	17.2	0.561	2.5	4.0
1939	124	17.9	10.7	0.626	2.6	3.8	143	21.6	17.7	0.549	2.4	4.0
1940	144	19.1	12.5	0.605	3.0	4.2	149	20.9	18.1	0.536	1.9	3.5
1941	135	17.8	13.0	0.579	1.4	2.8	143	18.0	16.7	0.519	0.8	2.3
1942	100	8.5	9.0	0.486	-0.7	0.0	45	3.5	2.3	0.606	0.6	0.9
1943							59	3.3	2.9	0.531	0.2	0.5
1944	15	0.2	0.7	0.242	-0.2	-0.2	76	5.5	5.5	0.503	-0.2	0.3
1945	89	6.5	7.5	0.466	-0.5	0.1	3	0.4	0.2	0.678	0.1	0.1
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CAREER RECORDS	2,317	297.2	200.6	0.597	35.3	56.3	2,124	289.3	256.1	0.530	20.8	43.8

Seasons in italics are extrapolated to include games currently missing from Retrosheet's play-by-play files.

Season	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Paul Waner						Lloyd Waner
1926	144	21.9	18.2	0.547	1.1	2.6
1927	155	24.9	18.0	0.580	2.5	4.3	150	21.3	17.6	0.548	1.4	3.0
1928	152	23.1	19.5	0.542	0.9	2.6	152	19.6	20.1	0.494	-0.6	1.0
1929	151	23.4	18.0	0.565	1.7	3.4	151	23.2	19.6	0.542	1.1	2.9
1930	145	21.8	18.4	0.542	0.6	2.4	68	7.6	8.2	0.481	-0.3	0.4
1931	150	22.1	20.8	0.515	-0.2	1.6	154	22.1	21.0	0.513	0.1	2.0
1932	154	26.1	20.6	0.559	1.5	3.5	134	19.3	16.1	0.545	1.4	2.9
1933	154	24.6	18.9	0.565	1.9	3.6	121	14.5	14.7	0.496	-0.4	0.8
1934	146	22.2	20.3	0.522	0.5	2.3	140	18.1	20.9	0.463	-2.1	-0.4
1935	139	21.1	16.7	0.558	1.7	3.2	122	16.9	15.5	0.522	0.5	1.9
1936	148	23.9	18.9	0.558	1.7	3.6	106	13.0	11.5	0.532	0.5	1.6
1937	154	22.9	19.0	0.546	0.9	2.6	129	16.8	16.3	0.508	-0.0	1.4
1938	148	21.6	19.4	0.527	0.7	2.3	147	18.8	16.9	0.527	0.8	2.2
1939	126	15.4	16.2	0.487	-1.0	0.4	112	10.9	13.4	0.449	-1.5	-0.4
1940	89	6.6	6.6	0.499	-0.2	0.3	70	4.1	4.9	0.456	-0.5	-0.1
1941	106	11.2	12.0	0.483	-0.8	0.2	77	5.6	7.6	0.427	-1.2	-0.6
1942	114	11.3	11.8	0.489	-0.7	0.3	101	7.8	10.8	0.419	-1.6	-0.8
1943	82	8.8	7.5	0.540	0.4	1.0
1944	91	4.9	4.7	0.508	0.0	0.5	34	1.1	0.7	0.601	0.2	0.3
1945	1	0.1	0.0	0.982	0.0	0.0	23	0.3	0.3	0.499	0.0	0.1
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CAREER RECORDS	2,549	357.8	305.7	0.539	13.1	40.9	1,991	241.1	236.1	0.505	-2.2	17.9

Seasons in italics are extrapolated to include games currently missing from Retrosheet's play-by-play files.

All articles are written so that they pull data directly from the most recent version of the Player won-lost database. Hence, any numbers cited within these articles should automatically incorporate the most recent update to Player won-lost records. In some cases, however, the accompanying text may have been written based on previous versions of Player won-lost records. I apologize if this results in non-sensical text in any cases.

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