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The 1958 Season as seen through the Prism of Player Won-Lost Records

Next in my continuing series of looking at individual seasons through the prism of Player won-lost records is the 1958 season. The most significant feature of the 1958 season, from an historical perspective, is that this was the first season in which major-league baseball was played on the West Coast.

The Best of 1958

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	Ernie Banks	24.8	19.0	3.7	5.3	1	Ernie Banks	24.8	19.0	3.7	5.3
2	Eddie Mathews	21.9	15.6	3.0	4.4	2	Hank Aaron	24.9	17.3	2.9	4.6
3	Hank Aaron	24.9	17.3	2.9	4.6	3	Willie Mays	25.8	18.7	2.8	4.5
4	Willie Mays	25.8	18.7	2.8	4.5	4	Eddie Mathews	21.9	15.6	3.0	4.4
5	Mickey Mantle	23.0	16.0	2.8	4.3	5	Mickey Mantle	23.0	16.0	2.8	4.3
6	Warren Spahn	18.5	15.5	2.5	3.8	6	Jackie Jensen	25.0	18.8	2.2	3.9
7	Bob Turley	17.9	14.5	2.5	3.7	7	Al Kaline	22.6	16.5	2.3	3.8
8	Robin Roberts	18.1	15.0	2.4	3.6	8	Warren Spahn	18.5	15.5	2.5	3.8
9	Lew Burdette	17.7	14.7	2.3	3.6	9	Bob Turley	17.9	14.5	2.5	3.7
10	Whitey Ford	14.3	10.9	2.3	3.3	10	Robin Roberts	18.1	15.0	2.4	3.6

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	Ernie Banks	24.7	18.1	4.0	5.7	1	Ernie Banks	24.7	18.1	4.0	5.7
2	Mickey Mantle	23.2	14.8	3.5	4.9	2	Mickey Mantle	23.2	14.8	3.5	4.9
3	Warren Spahn	19.2	16.1	2.6	3.9	3	Willie Mays	25.2	18.7	2.5	4.2
4	Willie Mays	25.2	18.7	2.5	4.2	4	Rocky Colavito	21.6	15.2	2.5	3.9
5	Rocky Colavito	21.6	15.2	2.5	3.9	5	Warren Spahn	19.2	16.1	2.6	3.9
6	Whitey Ford	14.4	11.0	2.3	3.3	6	Hank Aaron	22.2	16.8	1.9	3.4
7	Lew Burdette	16.8	14.3	2.1	3.3	7	Whitey Ford	14.4	11.0	2.3	3.3
8	Hank Aaron	22.2	16.8	1.9	3.4	8	Pete Runnels	19.6	16.1	1.9	3.3
9	Pete Runnels	19.6	16.1	1.9	3.3	9	Lew Burdette	16.8	14.3	2.1	3.3
10	Jack Harshman	16.9	14.7	1.9	3.1	10	Jackie Jensen	22.8	18.0	1.7	3.2

Most Valuable Players by Player Won-Lost Records

The best player in the major leagues, as measured by Player won-lost records, won the 1958 National League Most Valuable Player Award, Chicago Cubs shortstop Ernie Banks.

The best player in the American League, as measured by Player won-lost records, was Mickey Mantle, who finished fifth in AL MVP voting and received zero first-place votes. This was a fairly common occurrence around this time: Mickey Mantle being the best player in the American League but not winning the MVP award.

Jackie Jensen

The winner of the 1958 American League MVP award was Boston Red Sox outfielder Jackie Jensen. Jensen's name appears on all 4 of the tables above and he had a fine season in 1958 - not as good as Mantle's, but Jensen finished second in the AL to Mantle in pWins over replacement level (pWORL).

The 1958 season was easily Jensen's best, but he was generally very good through most of the 1950s. Jackie Jensen's career, as measured by Player won-lost records, is shown in the next table.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Jackie Jensen Basic Player Won-Lost Records
												Value Decomposition
1950	NYA	23	42	1.5	2.1	0.425	-0.3	-0.2	1.8	2.4	0.424	-0.4	-0.2
1951	NYA	24	56	5.9	4.8	0.551	0.4	0.8	6.4	5.4	0.543	0.4	0.8
+– 1952		25	151	20.7	18.9	0.523	0.4	2.0	22.0	19.9	0.525	0.5	2.2
	NYA		7	0.5	0.7	0.422	-0.1	-0.1	0.5	0.5	0.478	-0.0	0.0
	WS1		144	20.2	18.2	0.526	0.5	2.1	21.5	19.4	0.526	0.6	2.2
1953	WS1	26	147	19.4	18.1	0.517	0.2	1.7	18.2	16.5	0.526	0.5	1.9
1954	BOS	27	152	23.7	20.1	0.541	1.1	2.9	22.9	19.1	0.545	1.2	2.9
1955	BOS	28	152	21.0	18.9	0.527	0.3	1.9	20.5	18.5	0.526	0.3	1.8
1956	BOS	29	151	22.1	18.3	0.546	1.2	2.8	21.7	18.7	0.537	0.8	2.4
1957	BOS	30	145	21.8	18.4	0.543	1.2	2.8	18.9	17.2	0.524	0.4	1.9
1958	BOS	31	154	25.0	18.8	0.571	2.2	3.9	22.8	18.0	0.560	1.7	3.2
1959	BOS	32	148	22.1	18.3	0.547	1.0	2.6	20.5	16.8	0.550	1.0	2.5
1961	BOS	34	137	16.3	17.0	0.490	-1.2	0.2	17.0	17.5	0.493	-1.2	0.4
------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			1,435	199.6	173.6	0.535	6.4	21.6	192.8	169.9	0.532	5.0	19.8
			------	------	------				------	------
PostSeason (career)			1	0.0	0.0	0.000		-0.0	0.0	0.0			0.0
			------	------	------	------		------	------	------	------		------
COMBINED			1,436	199.6	173.6	0.535		21.6	192.8	169.9	0.532		19.8

Top Pitcher in 1958: Warren Spahn

In 1958, a single Cy Young award was given for both leagues. The winner of the 1958 Cy Young Award was Yankees starter Bob Turley. The 1958 Cy Young vote was extremely close. Back then, voters only voted for one person. Turley was named on only one-third of the ballots (5/15), and won a close four-way vote, beating out Braves starters Warren Spahn (4 votes) and Lew Burdette (3 votes) as well as Pirates starter Bob Friend (3 votes).

Based on Player won-lost records, the best pitcher in the major leagues in 1958 was the Cy Young runner-up (who had won the Cy Young the previous season): Warren Spahn. Spahn's 1958 season, while the best season by a pitcher that season, was arguably no better than the 10th best season of Spahn's career.

The next two tables show the top 10 players and top 5 pitchers in career pWins over replacement level, among players for whom I have calculated Player won-lost records.

Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL
	pWins over Replacement Level Top 10 Players
Barry Bonds	462.1	315.1	60.3	90.8
Willie Mays	460.1	335.2	49.6	81.8
Roger Clemens	318.2	228.2	51.1	79.6
Hank Aaron	492.5	372.9	42.2	77.9
Babe Ruth	306.4	178.6	54.2	74.1
Mickey Mantle	351.8	230.7	50.2	73.9
Greg Maddux	328.5	271.4	44.8	73.5
Joe L. Morgan	374.0	292.3	46.2	72.7
Warren Spahn	354.2	293.6	43.8	71.8
Ted Williams	369.6	253.6	44.5	69.9

Player	pWins	pLosses	pWOPA	pWORL
	pWins over Replacement Level Top 5 Pitchers
Roger Clemens	318.2	228.2	51.1	79.6
Greg Maddux	328.5	271.4	44.8	73.5
Warren Spahn	354.2	293.6	43.8	71.8
Randy 'Big Unit' Johnson	281.3	221.0	38.5	64.3
Lefty Grove	248.3	169.6	44.9	63.8

Warren Spahn's career record is shown next. As I said above, his 1958 season, while the best in baseball for a pitcher that year, was just another typical Warren Spahn season - of course, there was nothing "typical" about Warren Spahn or the seasons he put together through the 1950s.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Warren Spahn Basic Player Won-Lost Records
												Value Decomposition
1942	BSN	21	4	0.5	1.1	0.308	-0.3	-0.2	0.8	1.2	0.393	-0.2	-0.1
1946	BSN	25	24	7.9	6.3	0.555	1.0	1.7	7.0	6.3	0.527	0.6	1.2
1947	BSN	26	40	21.3	13.9	0.605	4.3	5.7	18.9	14.0	0.573	3.0	4.3
1948	BSN	27	36	17.3	13.5	0.561	2.5	3.8	17.7	14.8	0.544	2.1	3.4
1949	BSN	28	38	21.1	17.4	0.548	2.5	4.0	19.6	18.1	0.520	1.4	2.8
1950	BSN	29	41	19.5	19.3	0.502	0.9	2.6	19.3	17.0	0.532	1.9	3.5
1951	BSN	30	40	22.1	15.8	0.584	3.7	5.4	19.9	16.0	0.555	2.5	4.1
1952	BSN	31	51	17.9	17.1	0.512	1.0	2.6	19.6	16.7	0.540	2.1	3.8
1953	MLN	32	36	20.1	12.3	0.620	4.6	6.0	18.1	12.9	0.583	3.3	4.6
1954	MLN	33	40	19.9	15.1	0.569	3.2	4.8	18.6	15.9	0.539	2.1	3.7
1955	MLN	34	39	17.3	14.5	0.543	2.0	3.2	15.4	13.9	0.527	1.3	2.5
1956	MLN	35	39	18.5	14.5	0.560	2.7	4.2	18.2	14.3	0.560	2.6	4.1
1957	MLN	36	39	17.9	14.2	0.557	2.6	3.8	16.7	15.1	0.526	1.6	2.8
1958	MLN	37	41	18.5	15.5	0.545	2.5	3.8	19.2	16.1	0.544	2.6	3.9
1959	MLN	38	40	18.8	15.7	0.546	2.3	3.8	18.3	15.4	0.543	2.1	3.6
1960	MLN	39	40	19.0	15.0	0.558	2.8	4.2	16.8	15.4	0.523	1.5	2.9
1961	MLN	40	39	19.4	15.0	0.564	3.0	4.4	18.0	15.0	0.546	2.3	3.7
1962	MLN	41	36	17.2	16.0	0.518	1.4	2.8	17.2	14.4	0.544	2.2	3.5
1963	MLN	42	33	19.6	13.5	0.592	3.9	5.4	16.9	15.2	0.526	1.7	3.1
1964	MLN	43	39	9.0	13.0	0.409	-1.6	-0.4	9.6	13.1	0.423	-1.3	-0.1
+– 1965		44	37	11.4	14.8	0.436	-1.1	0.1	11.3	14.9	0.431	-1.2	-0.1
	NYN		21	7.9	10.9	0.421	-1.1	-0.2	7.2	10.2	0.414	-1.1	-0.3
	SFN		16	3.5	3.9	0.473	-0.1	0.3	4.1	4.7	0.465	-0.1	0.3
------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			772	354.2	293.6	0.547	43.8	71.8	337.2	295.6	0.533	34.0	61.3
			------	------	------				------	------
PostSeason (career)			8	3.1	2.9	0.512		0.5	3.7	3.4	0.522		0.6
			------	------	------	------		------	------	------	------		------
COMBINED			780	357.3	296.5	0.547		72.2	340.9	299.1	0.533		61.9

1958 Postseason

The 1958 World Series was a rematch of the 1957 World Series, pitting the New York Yankees against the Milwaukee Braves. As in 1957, the World Series went 7 games, but with a different final outcome with the Yankees defeating 1957 World Series hero Lew Burdette 6-2 to win the World Series.

The best player in the 1958 World Series, as measured by Player won-lost records, was Braves pitcher Warren Spahn. Spahn was the first player for the losing team to lead in postseason pWORL since 1952. Interestingly, the same player who won the Cy Young award that Player won-lost records thinks Warren Spahn should have won also won the World Series MVP award that, again, Player won-lost records would have been inclined to give to Spahn: Bob Turley.

	1958 World Series: Top Player Performances
		pWins	pLosses	pWORL
Warren Spahn	MLN	1.9	1.5	0.4
Gil McDougald	NYA	1.3	0.6	0.4
Elston Howard	NYA	1.4	0.7	0.4
Don Larsen	NYA	0.9	0.4	0.4
Bill Bruton	MLN	0.9	0.5	0.2
Bill Skowron	NYA	1.1	0.7	0.2
Hank Bauer	NYA	1.2	0.8	0.2
Bob Turley	NYA	1.1	1.1	0.2

Best of 1958 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 1958 in eWOPA by factor were as follows.

	Batting
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Mickey Mantle	16.6	9.8	3.1

Positional Average excludes pitcher offense

Mickey Mantle led the major leagues in batting wins over non-pitcher average 5 times in his 18-year major-league career.

	Baserunning
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Luis Aparicio	1.9	0.9	0.5
Willie Mays	2.1	1.0	0.5

Positional Average excludes pitcher offense

Mickey Mantle is one of two players (since 1939) to lead the major leagues in both batting wins and baserunning wins over non-pitcher average in the same season. The players who have done so are shown in the next table.

	Major-League Leaders in Batting & Baserunning in the same season
		Batting			Baserunning
Player	Season	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Hank Aaron	1963	19.0	11.8	3.3	2.3	1.1	0.6
Rickey Henderson	1990	14.3	8.9	2.7	2.5	1.5	0.5

We now continue with 1958 leaders.

	Pitching
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Whitey Ford	11.6	8.5	3.1

	Fielding, P
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Bobby Shantz	0.4	0.2	0.3

	Fielding, C
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Del Crandall	1.3	0.9	0.4
Sherm Lollar	1.6	1.2	0.4
Earl Battey	0.8	0.4	0.4

	Fielding, 1B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Orlando Cepeda	2.5	2.1	0.4

	Fielding, 2B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Bill Mazeroski	6.2	5.7	0.5
Nellie Fox	5.7	5.3	0.5
Red Schoendienst	3.8	3.4	0.5
Charlie Neal	4.4	4.0	0.5

	Fielding, 3B
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Ken Boyer	5.2	4.3	0.9

	Fielding, SS
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Don Zimmer	5.3	4.3	1.0

	Fielding, LF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Jim Gilliam	3.2	2.6	0.7

	Fielding, CF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Curt Flood	5.2	4.0	1.2

	Fielding, RF
	eWins	eLosses	Net Wins
Roberto Clemente	6.5	5.0	1.5

Best by Position

Next, we look at 1958 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
Sherm Lollar	12.6	10.4	1.2

	First Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Stan Musial	13.8	11.5	0.6
Vic Power	9.6	7.7	0.6

	Second Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Pete Runnels	14.9	12.6	1.5

	Third Base
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Eddie Mathews	19.6	15.9	1.7

	Shortstop
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Ernie Banks	24.6	18.5	3.8

	Left Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Bob Cerv	21.2	16.6	1.3

	Center Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Mickey Mantle	23.0	15.1	3.2

	Right Field
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Rocky Colavito	20.1	14.4	2.2

At a time when the list of major-league corner outfielders included Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Frank Robinson, Al Kaline, and Roberto Clemente, I find it a little surprising that the top left- and right-fielders in MLB in 1958 were apparently Bob Cerv and Rocky Colavito.

Cerv's 1958 season was fairly fluky within the context of his overall career. But Rocky Colavito was legitimately one of the best players in baseball for 8 or 9 seasons and, I believe, has a credible Hall-of-Fame case. I recently wrote a separate article about him.

	Starting Pitcher
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Whitey Ford	12.0	9.0	1.7

	Relief Pitcher
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Dick Hyde	5.7	3.9	0.7

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 1958 in context, in terms of pWins and pWOPA.

Player	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Top Relief Pitchers of 1958, based on pWORL
Dick Hyde	7.1	3.7	0.657	1.5	2.3
Roy Face	5.8	3.4	0.631	1.0	1.7
Tom Acker	6.5	4.9	0.569	0.8	1.5
Ryne Duren	6.1	4.4	0.577	0.7	1.4
Al Worthington	9.5	9.2	0.506	0.2	1.2

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
Warren Spahn	2.7	2.3	0.9

	Pinch Hitter
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Gus Zernial	1.2	0.7	0.3
Bob L. Bowman	1.1	0.6	0.3
Earl Torgeson	0.9	0.5	0.3

	Pinch Runner
	eWins	eLosses	eWOPA
Jim Rivera	0.2	0.1	0.1

Noteworthy Players of 1958

Finally, let's take a look at some players who had noteworthy 1958 seasons.

Notable Debuts

The 1958 season saw the major-league debut of one player who went on to be elected to the Hall of Fame: San Francisco Giants first baseman Orlando Cepeda.

Cepeda was the first of two consecutive Giants' first basemen to win the National League Rookie-of-the-Year award. Cepeda's career record, as measured by Player won-lost records, is presented in the next table.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWin Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	eWins	eLosses	eWin Pct.	eWOPA	eWORL
Orlando Cepeda Basic Player Won-Lost Records
												Value Decomposition
1958	SFN	20	148	15.6	14.6	0.516	-0.2	1.0	16.8	15.2	0.525	0.1	1.3
1959	SFN	21	151	19.0	16.8	0.531	0.4	1.8	18.5	15.1	0.550	1.0	2.4
1960	SFN	22	151	19.2	18.4	0.510	-0.6	0.9	18.5	15.2	0.549	0.8	2.2
1961	SFN	23	152	20.4	15.9	0.561	1.3	2.9	20.7	15.9	0.566	1.5	3.1
1962	SFN	24	162	18.7	14.7	0.561	1.1	2.4	17.9	14.7	0.548	0.7	1.9
1963	SFN	25	156	19.8	14.7	0.575	1.9	3.2	19.5	14.2	0.580	2.0	3.3
1964	SFN	26	142	18.0	13.4	0.573	1.6	2.9	18.0	13.0	0.581	1.9	3.1
1965	SFN	27	33	0.8	0.9	0.459	-0.0	0.1	0.7	1.1	0.399	-0.2	-0.0
+– 1966		28	142	15.5	13.2	0.539	0.4	1.5	15.3	12.6	0.548	0.6	1.7
	SFN		19	2.0	1.0	0.656	0.4	0.5	1.5	1.2	0.554	0.1	0.2
	SLN		123	13.5	12.2	0.526	-0.1	0.9	13.8	11.5	0.547	0.5	1.5
1967	SLN	29	151	22.7	13.7	0.624	3.4	4.9	19.4	13.6	0.588	1.9	3.3
1968	SLN	30	157	17.8	15.0	0.541	0.4	1.7	16.2	15.0	0.518	-0.4	0.9
1969	ATL	31	154	18.7	15.9	0.541	0.3	1.7	16.0	15.1	0.515	-0.6	0.8
1970	ATL	32	148	16.0	15.4	0.509	-0.7	0.6	17.1	13.5	0.560	0.9	2.2
1971	ATL	33	71	7.7	6.7	0.535	0.1	0.6	7.3	6.7	0.521	-0.1	0.4
+– 1972		34	31	2.2	2.4	0.477	-0.3	-0.1	2.4	2.1	0.526	-0.0	0.2
	ATL		28	2.1	2.2	0.488	-0.2	-0.0	2.3	2.0	0.540	0.0	0.2
	OAK		3	0.0	0.1	0.199	-0.0	-0.0	0.1	0.2	0.242	-0.0	-0.0
1973	BOS	35	142	14.3	13.1	0.521	0.6	2.3	12.6	13.1	0.490	-0.3	1.4
1974	KCA	36	33	2.6	2.6	0.493	-0.1	0.3	2.2	2.9	0.431	-0.4	-0.1
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CAREER (reg. season)			2,124	248.7	207.3	0.545	9.6	28.9	239.1	199.0	0.546	9.5	27.9
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PostSeason (career)			22	1.8	2.7	0.396		-0.4	2.1	2.2	0.489		-0.0
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COMBINED			2,146	250.5	210.0	0.545		28.5	241.2	201.2	0.546		27.9

Last Hurrahs

Finally, 1958 was the final season for two players who have been elected to the Baseball Hall osf Fame: longtime Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Bob Lemon and longtime Brooklyn Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese.

One nice thing, from my perspective, is that Lemon and Reese played their entire careers with the two teams for which I have the most complete set of play-by-play data at least since 1947. As a result, I have almost complete career Player won-lost records for the two of them.

Like most players of their generation, Lemon and Reese both missed three full seasons due to military service during World War II. Even with this gap in their records, however, both players have solid Hall-of-Fame caliber career records as measured by Player won-lost records. Pee Wee Reese, in particular, rates as one of the top twenty players in career pWins over either positional average or replacement level among all players for whom I have calculated Player won-lost records.

The career records of Bob Lemon and Pee Wee Reese, as measured by Player won-lost records, are presented in the final table below.

Season	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL	Games	pWins	pLoss	Win Pct.	pWOPA	pWORL
	Bob Lemon						Pee Wee Reese
1940							84	12.0	10.4	0.536	1.1	2.0
1941	4	0.0	0.1	0.210	-0.0	-0.0	152	20.4	18.5	0.524	1.1	2.8
1942	4	0.0	0.1	0.001	-0.0	-0.0	151	22.4	17.8	0.557	2.6	4.2
1943
1944
1945
1946	52	5.1	6.2	0.453	-0.4	0.2	152	23.1	16.4	0.584	3.6	5.2
1947	43	10.4	8.0	0.565	1.5	2.3	142	20.5	14.7	0.582	2.9	4.3
1948	47	19.8	15.7	0.558	2.8	4.3	151	21.0	17.5	0.546	2.0	3.5
1949	45	21.4	14.6	0.594	4.1	5.5	155	23.6	16.6	0.587	3.7	5.4
1950	72	23.0	18.9	0.550	2.9	4.9	141	20.0	14.9	0.573	2.8	4.2
1951	56	18.7	15.9	0.541	1.9	3.5	154	22.9	18.1	0.558	2.9	4.5
1952	50	20.3	15.9	0.562	3.0	4.6	149	19.2	14.9	0.564	2.4	3.7
1953	48	19.9	18.4	0.520	1.6	3.2	139	19.8	13.6	0.593	3.5	4.9
1954	39	17.7	12.7	0.582	3.2	4.6	141	21.7	15.8	0.578	3.4	4.9
1955	48	14.7	12.9	0.532	1.4	2.5	145	18.8	16.5	0.532	1.5	3.0
1956	43	19.1	15.7	0.550	2.4	4.0	147	19.9	17.4	0.533	1.7	3.3
1957	25	7.2	9.3	0.437	-0.8	-0.1	103	10.1	10.8	0.484	-0.3	0.6
1958	15	1.0	1.3	0.449	-0.1	0.0	58	5.3	4.6	0.531	0.4	0.8
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CAREER RECORDS	591	198.4	165.4	0.545	23.5	39.6	2,164	300.7	238.7	0.558	35.2	57.0

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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