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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Bert Blyleven

Bert Blyleven was elected to the Hall of Fame in his fourteenth year of eligibility, 2011, with 79.7% of the vote.

Five highlights of Bert Blyleven's career:

Bert Blyleven was born in the Netherlands. He is the only person elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a major-league player who was born outside of the Western Hemisphere.

Blyleven was the youngest player in major-leage baseball when he debuted on June 5, 1970, at the age of 19 years and 60 days old. Blyleven was the sixth-oldest player in the major leagues in his final season, 1992, when he was 41 years old.

Blyleven pitched 200 or more innings in 16 seasons. His 4,970 career innings pitched is the 14th-most in major-league history. Blyleven had 200 or more strikeouts eight times and his 3,701 career strikeouts are the fifth-most in major-league history.

Blyleven threw 60 complete-game shutouts in his career, the ninth-highest total in major-league history.

Blyleven pitched for two World Series winners: the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates and 1987 Minnesota Twins. For his career, Blyleven pitched 23 innings in the two World Series (4 games, 3 starts) with a traditional record of 2-1 with a 2.35 ERA. His overall postseason record was 5-1 with a 2.47 ERA in 47.1 innings pitched.

The first two tables below present Bert Blyleven's career as measured by Player won-lost records, in and out of context.

Season	Team	Age	Games	pWins	pLosses	pWORL	pWOPA

Basic Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1970	MIN	19	27	10.5	10.3	2.0	0.7
1971	MIN	20	38	18.0	15.5	5.6	3.6
1972	MIN	21	39	17.9	17.1	3.9	1.8
1973	MIN	22	40	18.7	13.6	7.3	5.2
1974	MIN	23	37	15.8	12.8	5.0	3.2
1975	MIN	24	35	15.0	11.9	5.0	3.2
+– 1976		25	36	17.5	14.5	5.2	3.2
	MIN		12	4.9	4.8	0.8	0.2
	TEX		24	12.6	9.7	4.4	3.0
1977	TEX	26	30	13.3	10.8	4.3	2.7
1978	PIT	27	37	15.3	13.5	4.4	2.7
1979	PIT	28	38	12.7	12.5	2.6	1.1
1980	PIT	29	37	11.4	12.9	0.8	-0.7
1981	CLE	30	20	8.0	6.8	2.3	1.3
1982	CLE	31	4	1.3	1.6	0.0	-0.2
1983	CLE	32	24	8.9	8.5	1.6	0.5
1984	CLE	33	33	14.1	9.3	6.6	5.0
+– 1985		34	37	17.5	15.2	4.7	2.5
	CLE		23	10.3	8.9	2.8	1.5
	MIN		14	7.2	6.3	1.9	1.0
1986	MIN	35	36	17.5	16.9	3.0	0.8
1987	MIN	36	37	16.7	15.9	3.2	1.0
1988	MIN	37	33	11.7	14.5	-0.9	-2.6
1989	CAL	38	33	13.7	9.4	6.1	4.5
1990	CAL	39	23	6.7	8.4	-0.5	-1.5