1951 Season

The 1951 Season as seen through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

As part of their last update, Retrosheet added what they call "deduced games" to supplement their play-by-play data. These are games for which they do not have full play-by-play data, but they have been able to deduce enough about what happened from box scores and newspaper reports that they were able to reconstruct play-by-play data. With the addition of this data, they now have play-by-play data for every major-league game dating back to 1951. I have now incorporated these data into my work, so that I now have complete Player won-lost records for every season from 1951 through 2012.

I already wrote an article that looked at the 2012 season through Player won-lost records. This article goes back and looks at the 1951 season.

The Best of 1951

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	Jackie Robinson	25.7	15.2	5.3	6.9	1	Jackie Robinson	25.7	15.2	5.3	6.9
2	Warren Spahn	22.1	15.8	3.7	5.3	2	Warren Spahn	22.1	15.8	3.7	5.3
3	Sal Maglie	20.4	14.8	3.3	4.8	3	Sal Maglie	20.4	14.8	3.3	4.8
4	Pee Wee Reese	23.0	18.2	2.9	4.5	4	Pee Wee Reese	23.0	18.2	2.9	4.5
5	Monte Irvin	23.4	16.2	2.8	4.4	5	Alvin Dark	23.5	19.0	2.8	4.4
6	Alvin Dark	23.5	19.0	2.8	4.4	6	Monte Irvin	23.4	16.2	2.8	4.4
7	Bobby Thomson	22.6	15.9	2.8	4.3	7	Stan Musial	23.3	16.4	2.7	4.3
8	Stan Musial	23.3	16.4	2.7	4.3	8	Bobby Thomson	22.6	15.9	2.8	4.3
9	E. Mike Garcia	18.2	13.9	2.6	4.0	9	Robin Roberts	20.9	16.8	2.5	4.2
10	Robin Roberts	20.9	16.8	2.5	4.2	10	E. Mike Garcia	18.2	13.9	2.6	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	Jackie Robinson	24.2	16.6	3.9	5.5	1	Jackie Robinson	24.2	16.6	3.9	5.5
2	Stan Musial	23.3	16.4	2.7	4.3	2	Robin Roberts	21.0	16.7	2.6	4.3
3	Roy Campanella	16.4	11.3	2.7	3.8	3	Stan Musial	23.3	16.4	2.7	4.3
4	Ralph Kiner	21.8	15.1	2.6	4.1	4	Warren Spahn	20.9	16.9	2.5	4.1
5	Robin Roberts	21.0	16.7	2.6	4.3	5	Ralph Kiner	21.8	15.1	2.6	4.1
6	Warren Spahn	20.9	16.9	2.5	4.1	6	Roy Campanella	16.4	11.3	2.7	3.8
7	Eddie Joost	20.6	17.0	2.2	3.7	7	Eddie Joost	20.6	17.0	2.2	3.7
8	Larry Doby	19.7	14.6	2.2	3.5	8	Ted Williams	24.5	18.6	2.0	3.7
9	E. Mike Garcia	17.8	14.3	2.2	3.6	9	E. Mike Garcia	17.8	14.3	2.2	3.6
10	Ted Williams	24.5	18.6	2.0	3.7	10	Pee Wee Reese	22.0	19.1	2.0	3.6

By Player won-lost records, the best player in the major leagues in 1951 was very clearly Jackie Robinson, who ends up atop all four tables above. The details of Jackie Robinson's performance by factor are shown in the next table. The numbers in the table below are context-neutral and teammate-adjusted.

eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.
Batting			Baserunning			Fielding
15.1	10.1	0.600	1.9	1.4	0.588	5.8	4.8	0.549

Jackie Robinson's well-rounded excellence in 1951 was true throughout his career. In an article about Reggie Sanders (as part of my series on the 2013 Hall-of-Fame Ballot), I constructed a list of the players who were the most consistently above average at all three basic factors: batting, baserunning, and fielding. The top 10 from that list are repeated below.

Player	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.
		Players with Most Well-Rounded Excellence
		Batting			Baserunning			Fielding
Mike Trout	1,065	111.4	72.0	0.608	10.2	7.6	0.575	34.8	31.9	0.522
Mickey Mantle	2,400	243.3	150.3	0.618	18.6	12.4	0.600	77.0	73.4	0.512
Jackie Robinson	1,382	129.1	100.8	0.562	15.3	12.4	0.552	44.7	38.0	0.540
Al Kaline	2,833	252.6	197.8	0.561	21.1	16.8	0.557	97.6	85.8	0.532
Joe DiMaggio	1,716	178.0	124.7	0.588	12.7	10.2	0.555	69.7	63.7	0.523
Barry Bonds	2,985	306.9	184.7	0.624	28.0	23.8	0.541	117.0	107.7	0.521
Mel Ott	2,494	243.5	157.0	0.608	16.8	14.7	0.533	100.5	90.3	0.527
Jeff Bagwell	2,150	213.3	151.8	0.584	17.2	14.0	0.552	38.4	36.0	0.516
Albert Pujols	2,692	263.1	197.9	0.571	17.6	15.8	0.527	48.0	41.7	0.535
Bill Terry	1,477	131.1	101.8	0.563	11.0	8.9	0.552	23.6	21.8	0.521

Although he would have gotten my vote, Jackie Robinson did not win the 1951 NL MVP award. That was won, instead, by his teammate, catcher Roy Campanella. The AL MVP was also a catcher who played his home games in New York City, Yogi Berra. The next table compares the two league MVPs by Player won-lost records.

	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Yogi Berra	141	16.4	13.1	0.557	1.8	2.9	16.4	13.1	0.557	1.8	2.9
Roy Campanella	143	16.2	11.5	0.586	2.5	3.6	16.4	11.3	0.593	2.7	3.8

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.

Better in Context: Bobby Thomson

Several players show up in the top 10 in pWOPA or pWORL lists above but not in the eWOPA/eWORL lists. The one of these that seems most appropriate for 1951 has to be Bobby Thomson. Bobby Thomson ended the 1951 regular season with what might be the most famous home run in baseball history. It seems perfect that the hitter of perhaps the most clutch home run ever shows up here.

The table below shows Bobby Thomson's Player won-lost records in and out of context.

	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Bobby Thomson	148	22.6	15.9	0.587	2.8	4.3	21.7	16.8	0.564	1.9	3.4

Looking at wins over replacement level, Bobby Thomson had 0.9 more pWORL than eWORL. How much of that was from that one home run?

I calculate the context-neutral win value of Thomson's famous home run as being the same as the value of every other home run hit at the Polo Grounds in 1951, 0.1454 wins. In context, however, that home run was worth 0.8878 wins (and note, that's based solely on the game context, not the pennant implications).

Putting that into the above table, Thomson's 1951 season breaks down as follows.

	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
through Game 155, inn 8	148	21.7	15.9	0.577	2.3	3.8	21.6	16.8	0.562	1.8	3.3
Shot heard round the world		0.9	0.0	1.000			0.1	0.0	1.000
Totals	148	22.6	15.9	0.587	2.8	4.3	21.7	16.8	0.564	1.9	3.4

The extent to which Bobby Thomson's home run was worth more in context is exactly equal to the extent to which the pitcher who threw that pitch, Ralph Branca, performed worse in context. Yet, interestingly, that home run was an aberration in a season in which Branca actually performed quite a bit better than expected in context.

	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Ralph Branca	42	14.2	13.7	0.509	0.5	1.8	13.3	14.7	0.474	-0.4	0.9

Worse in Context: Ralph Kiner

While some players, such as Bobby Thomson, were better in context than their raw context-neutral statistics might suggest, the reverse was also true. Some players' statistics did not translate into team victories to the extent that might have been expected. The player who shows up highest in the top 10 lists for eWOPA and eWORL at the top of this article but does not appear in the pWOPA and pWORL lists is Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Ralph Kiner	151	20.6	16.4	0.557	1.4	2.8	21.8	15.1	0.591	2.6	4.1

Kiner's problem was not really that he was unclutch. Looking at his batting splits, he performed about equally well in various measures of "clutch": high-leverage (OPS of 1.138) v. low-leverage (1.073); 2-outs, RISP (1.084) vs. Bases Empty (1.287); Late & Close (1.015), Tie Games (1.244), vs. Margin > 4 R (1.219).

Kiner's problem, in terms of his performance translating into team wins was, to be blunt about it, that the rest of the 1951 Pittsburgh Pirates weren't very good. Going back to Kiner's batting splits, he played in 87 games that the Pirates lost. In those games, he batted .283/.422/.543 (OPS of .965) with 19 home runs, 42 RBI, and 54 runs scored. And, at the end of those days, all of those hits and walks and RBIs just didn't translate into team wins because the rest of the Pirates' hitters didn't get enough of their own hits and walks and RBIs and the Pirates' pitchers couldn't stop the other teams from scoring enough runs.

Is it Ralph Kiner's fault that he had lousy teammates? No, not at all. But as a simple matter of accounting for team wins and team losses, Kiner's performance in 1951 (and actually, in most years of Kiner's career) just didn't account for as many team wins as it probably should have.

The 1951 World Series

After the excitement of the National League pennant race, the 1951 World Series might have seemed somewhat anti-climactic. The New York Yankees beat their crosstown rivals, the New York Giants, in six games. Players who earned at least 0.1 pWins over replacement level (pWORL) in that World Series are shown in the next table. Not surprisingly, more Yankees show up here than Giants.

	1951 World Series
		pWins	pLosses	pWORL
Gil McDougald	NYA	1.6	0.5	0.6
Ed Lopat	NYA	1.2	0.6	0.4
Alvin Dark	NY1	1.2	0.5	0.4
Hank Bauer	NYA	1.2	0.7	0.3
Jim Hearn	NY1	0.7	0.3	0.2
Dave Koslo	NY1	0.7	0.6	0.2
Joe DiMaggio	NYA	0.9	0.6	0.1
Phil Rizzuto	NYA	0.8	0.7	0.1
Bob Kuzava	NYA	0.2	0.1	0.1

Best of 1951 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.

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 1951 in eWOPA by factor were as follows.

	Batting
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Ralph Kiner	16.1	9.1	3.3

Positional Average excludes pitcher offense

	Baserunning
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Sam Jethroe	2.0	0.9	0.5

Positional Average excludes pitcher offense

	Pitching
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Warren Spahn	16.2	12.8	3.4
Robin Roberts	16.3	13.2	3.1
E. Mike Garcia	12.9	9.9	3.0
Larry Jansen	14.7	11.7	2.9
Sal Maglie	15.5	12.7	2.8

	Fielding, P
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Carl Scheib	0.5	0.2	0.3

	Fielding, C
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Del Rice	1.7	1.0	0.7

	Fielding, 1B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Walt Dropo	1.8	1.3	0.5
Ted Kluszewski	2.4	2.0	0.5

	Fielding, 2B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Jackie Robinson	5.8	4.8	1.0

	Fielding, 3B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Billy Cox	4.3	3.6	0.7
Al Rosen	4.4	3.8	0.7

	Fielding, SS
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Chico Carrasquel	7.1	5.9	1.1

	Fielding, LF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Gus Zernial	7.4	6.3	1.1

	Fielding, CF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Duke Snider	5.2	4.2	1.0
Richie Ashburn	8.3	7.3	1.0

	Fielding, RF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Carl Furillo	8.9	6.6	2.2

Best by Position

Next, we look at 1951 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
Roy Campanella	16.3	11.5	2.5

	First Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Gil Hodges	19.2	14.8	1.8

	Second Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Jackie Robinson	22.8	16.1	3.4

This is one of the top 10 seasons by a second baseman ever (since 1947) as measured by eWins over positional average.

	Third Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Bobby Thomson	10.4	7.0	1.5

	Shortstop
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Eddie Joost	21.1	17.9	2.1

	Left Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Ted Williams	23.7	18.2	1.8

	Center Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Larry Doby	18.9	14.3	2.0

	Right Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Carl Furillo	24.6	20.9	1.5

	Starting Pitcher
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Warren Spahn	16.2	12.7	1.8
Larry Jansen	14.5	11.3	1.6
Robin Roberts	16.3	13.1	1.6

The top two players here, both of whom are Hall-of-Famers, might warrant a closer look. Raw pitching wins are converted into overall player wins by incorporating context (expected in the case of eWins, actual in the case of pWins), as well as pitcher offense. The results for Spahn and Roberts are shown next.

	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Robin Roberts	44	20.9	16.8	0.555	2.5	4.2	21.0	16.7	0.558	2.6	4.3
Warren Spahn	42	22.1	15.8	0.584	3.7	5.3	20.9	16.9	0.553	2.5	4.1

The 1951 season pre-dates the introduction of the Cy Young award (in 1956). It seems pretty clear, however, that the two most deserving contenders for such an award in 1951 if it had existed would have been Robin Roberts and Warren Spahn (not necessarily in that order). Although, it's worth pointing out that the top two pitchers in NL MVP voting that year were Sal Maglie and Preacher Roe (no doubt on the strength of (traditional) pitcher won-lost records of 23-6 and 22-3, respectively).

	Relief Pitcher
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Ellis Kinder	6.2	4.6	0.8

Relief pitching was much less prominent in 1951 than it is today. Nevertheless, Jim Konstanty won the 1950 NL MVP Award on the strength of 74 games and 152 innings pitched, all in relief.

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 1951 in context, in terms of pWins and pWOPA.

Player	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Top Relief Pitchers of 1951, based on pWORL
Ellis Kinder	8.0	4.8	0.628	1.7	2.5
Ted Wilks	5.9	4.0	0.596	1.0	1.6
Luis Aloma	3.7	2.2	0.632	0.8	1.2
Joe Ostrowski	4.9	3.8	0.564	0.7	1.1
Emil 'Dutch' Leonard	4.8	3.9	0.548	0.5	1.0

Kinder pretty well lapped the field. While the role of relief pitchers was very different in 1951 than in 2012 - Kinder led the major leagues with 14 saves in 1951 (although the save statistic hadn't been invented yet) - in terms of Player won-lost records, Kinder's 1951 season actually stacks up reasonably well with the best relief seasons of 2012.

Player	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Top Relief Pitchers of 1951, based on pWORL
Ellis Kinder	8.0	4.8	0.628	1.7	2.5
Craig Kimbrel	7.0	2.4	0.746	2.3	2.9
Fernando Rodney	7.6	3.3	0.699	2.2	2.9
Aroldis Chapman	7.4	3.9	0.657	1.8	2.5

Finally, here is the best at and oft-forgotten positions that can nevertheless matter: pitcher offense.

	Pitcher Offense
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Ned Garver	1.8	1.8	0.4
Carl Scheib	1.3	0.9	0.4
Bobby Shantz	1.6	1.6	0.4
Mel Parnell	1.6	1.6	0.4
Dizzy Trout	1.4	1.2	0.4

Ned Garver had a noteworthy 1951 season. He actually finished second in voting for the AL MVP award. That was probably an overbid, but Garver did have an excellent season.

	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Ned Garver	48	17.5	14.8	0.541	1.8	3.2	17.3	14.9	0.537	1.7	3.1

One particularly noteworthy feature of Ned Garver's season is that he had a winning Player won-lost record in all four factors: batting, baserunning, pitching, and fielding.

eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.
Batting			Baserunning			Pitching			Fielding
1.9	1.8	0.522	0.2	0.1	0.589	12.3	11.0	0.528	0.5	0.4	0.534

The next table shows every player since 1947 who has had a winning record in all four factors with at least 1 batting eWin, 10 pitching eWins, and 0.1 baserunning and fielding eWins. It's a fairly exclusive group (although Garver wasn't the only player to do it in 1951).

Player	Season	Team	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL	Batting	Running	Pitching	Fielding
							eWin Pct.
Joe Shaute	1927	CLE	12.5	13.8	-0.3	0.9	0.510	0.754	0.506	0.587
Wes Ferrell	1931	CLE	19.7	15.7	2.6	4.0	0.581	0.651	0.523	0.580
Wes Ferrell	1935	BOS	16.3	10.5	3.4	4.7	0.585	0.615	0.537	0.699
Bucky Walters	1939	CIN	22.5	14.8	4.5	6.2	0.511	0.639	0.548	0.566
Dizzy Trout	1944	DET	23.8	17.4	3.9	5.7	0.525	0.606	0.573	0.513
Bucky Walters	1944	CIN	19.3	13.0	3.7	5.1	0.504	0.540	0.530	0.515
Dave Ferriss	1945	BOS	18.5	14.5	2.6	4.1	0.518	0.635	0.515	0.540
Fred Hutchinson	1947	DET	16.7	12.5	2.6	3.9	0.514	0.734	0.535	0.503
Johnny Sain	1947	BSN	18.8	14.9	2.6	3.9	0.505	0.609	0.532	0.515
Bob Lemon	1948	CLE	19.8	15.7	2.7	4.2	0.536	0.523	0.552	0.506
Ned Garver	1951	SLA	17.5	14.8	1.8	3.2	0.522	0.589	0.528	0.534
Mel Parnell	1951	BOS	15.0	13.3	1.3	2.5	0.501	0.595	0.522	0.564
Dizzy Trout	1951	DET	11.2	10.7	0.6	1.6	0.528	0.519	0.526	0.514
Jack Harshman	1958	BAL	18.0	16.3	1.4	2.8	0.554	0.543	0.518	0.601
Don Newcombe	1959	CIN	15.8	12.0	2.5	3.7	0.566	0.579	0.552	0.717
Curt Simmons	1961	SLN	11.4	10.2	1.0	1.8	0.520	0.617	0.547	0.603
Warren Spahn	1961	MLN	19.4	15.0	2.8	4.2	0.520	0.609	0.526	0.589
Blue Moon Odom	1969	OAK	15.2	12.1	2.1	3.3	0.564	0.636	0.505	0.593
Catfish Hunter	1971	OAK	20.7	15.4	3.4	4.9	0.523	0.505	0.515	0.694
Claude Osteen	1972	LAN	18.6	14.0	2.9	4.3	0.525	0.605	0.507	0.704
Ken Brett	1973	PHI	13.3	11.1	1.6	2.6	0.539	0.582	0.532	0.566
Andy Messersmith	1974	LAN	18.4	13.6	2.9	4.1	0.512	0.562	0.525	0.511
Bob Forsch	1980	SLN	11.4	10.8	0.7	1.5	0.515	0.593	0.527	0.654
Johnny Cooney	1925	BSN	13.1	11.9	0.9	2.0	0.501	0.578	0.506	0.552
Erv Brame	1930	PIT	14.4	12.0	1.6	2.7	0.525	0.563	0.504	0.563
Wes Ferrell	1930	CLE	21.0	15.4	3.3	4.9	0.513	0.591	0.541	0.619
Ted Lyons	1930	CHA	18.2	13.0	3.1	4.4	0.516	0.567	0.559	0.527
Red Lucas	1929	CIN	15.1	12.3	1.9	3.0	0.502	0.745	0.541	0.674
George Uhle	1923	CLE	22.4	18.2	2.8	4.5	0.549	0.588	0.542	0.548
Joe Bush	1924	NYA	15.7	13.1	1.7	3.0	0.535	0.520	0.505	0.562

And finally, two more (somewhat obscure) positions: pinch hitter and pinch runner.

	Pinch Hitter
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Bill Nicholson	1.1	0.6	0.3

	Pinch Runner
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Jack Maguire	0.1	0.0	0.1

Look at Me, I Can Be, Centerfield

Finally, the city of New York welcomed two rookie centerfielders in 1951 - although one of them played mostly right field in 1951 because there was already a living legend in center field in Yankee Stadium. And what a pair of centerfielders they turned out to be!

Season	Age	Games	pWins	pLoss	pWOPA	pWORL	Age	Games	pWins	pLoss	pWOPA	pWORL
	Willie Mays						Mickey Mantle
1951	20	121	15.3	13.2	0.7	1.9	19	96	12.8	9.0	1.7	2.6
1952	21	34	5.5	3.4	1.0	1.3	20	142	22.3	14.8	3.3	4.8
1953							21	127	20.2	13.0	3.1	4.5
1954	23	151	24.3	16.9	2.8	4.5	22	145	24.0	15.2	3.6	5.2
1955	24	152	27.0	17.7	3.8	5.6	23	147	24.6	14.1	4.5	6.1
1956	25	152	23.1	18.2	1.8	3.4	24	150	24.9	15.1	4.2	5.9
1957	26	152	24.5	18.7	2.1	3.9	25	144	24.8	12.8	5.3	6.9
1958	27	152	25.8	18.6	2.9	4.5	26	150	23.0	15.9	2.8	4.3
1959	28	151	24.8	16.2	3.6	5.3	27	144	20.3	15.0	2.0	3.4
1960	29	153	25.2	19.5	2.0	3.8	28	153	23.3	13.5	4.2	5.6
1961	30	154	25.7	17.7	3.2	5.2	29	153	25.8	14.9	4.8	6.6
1962	31	162	29.3	18.5	4.8	6.6	30	123	19.9	11.3	3.8	5.0
1963	32	157	24.6	19.5	2.0	3.7	31	65	9.0	4.9	1.8	2.4
1964	33	157	25.8	16.4	4.2	5.9	32	143	21.0	13.8	3.1	4.5
1965	34	157	26.2	17.9	3.5	5.2	33	122	13.4	13.1	-0.4	0.7
1966	35	152	25.8	16.6	3.8	5.4	34	108	12.4	11.4	0.1	1.0
1967	36	141	17.7	14.9	0.9	2.4	35	144	15.7	11.9	1.1	2.3
1968	37	148	23.8	16.8	2.8	4.4	36	144	14.3	10.8	1.1	2.1
1969	38	117	14.7	13.0	0.5	1.7
1970	39	139	17.1	14.8	0.7	2.0
1971	40	136	18.0	12.0	2.5	3.7
1972	41	88	9.6	7.8	0.6	1.4
1973	42	66	6.1	6.5	-0.4	0.1
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CAREER RECORDS		2,992	460.1	334.7	49.8	82.0		2,400	351.7	230.4	50.3	73.9

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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