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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Gaylord Perry

Gaylord Perry was elected to the Hall of Fame in his 3rd year of eligibility, 1991, with 77.2% of the vote.

Five highlights of Gaylord Perry's career:

Gaylord Perry was one of the starting pitchers in the first major-league baseball game which I attended in person. Perry pitched nine shutout innings allowing four hits with nine strikeouts but got no decision. Fellow Hall-of-Famer Jim Palmer pitched eleven shutout innings but Perry's Texas Rangers beat Palmer's Baltimore Orioles (who I was rooting for), 1-0.

Gaylord Perry won the American League Cy Young award in 1972 in his first season with the Cleveland Indians. He won the National League Cy Young award in 1978 in his first season with the San Diego Padres. Perry was the first pitcher to win a Cy Young award in each league.

Perry's older brother, Jim, won the American League Cy Young award in 1970. Jim and Gaylord Perry are the only brothers to each win a Cy Young award.

Perry had 20 or more traditional pitcher wins a total of five times in his career, for three different teams, the San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, and San Diego Padres. He led his league in wins three times, once for each of these three teams. Gaylord Perry amassed a total of 314 pitcher wins in his career, 17th most alltime.

Perry led his league in innings pitched twice. He pitched 300 or more innings in a season six times and 250 or more innings twelve times, including eleven consecutive seasons from 1966 through 1976. His 5,350 career innings pitched is the sixth-most in major-league history.

The first two tables below present Gaylord Perry'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
1962	SFN	23	13	2.3	2.5	0.2	-0.1
1963	SFN	24	32	3.2	4.9	-0.9	-1.6
1964	SFN	25	46	12.2	10.7	3.6	2.0
1965	SFN	26	49	11.4	12.8	0.8	-0.7
1966	SFN	27	36	17.4	12.6	7.5	5.7
1967	SFN	28	42	18.0	17.8	3.5	1.3
1968	SFN	29	39	15.7	14.7	3.9	2.2
1969	SFN	30	40	20.6	18.9	5.4	3.0
1970	SFN	31	41	22.1	19.8	6.0	3.5
1971	SFN	32	38	16.3	16.0	3.3	1.4
1972	CLE	33	41	24.1	18.5	9.3	6.8
1973	CLE	34	41	19.9	18.5	4.0	1.5
1974	CLE	35	37	17.4	15.1	4.6	2.5
+– 1975		36	37	17.1	15.9	3.5	1.4
	CLE		15	6.9	7.9	0.0	-0.9
	TEX		22	10.2	8.0	3.5	2.3
1976	TEX	37	32	13.7	10.4	5.0	3.5
1977	TEX	38	34	14.8	12.6	4.2	2.3
1978	SDN	39	37	16.0	12.0	6.5	4.8
1979	SDN	40	32	13.7	12.5	3.7	2.1
+– 1980		41	34	11.0	11.6	1.0	-0.4
	NYA		10	2.6	2.6	0.3	-0.0
	TEX		24	8.5	9.0	0.7	-0.4
1981	ATL	42	24	8.5	8.4	1.6	0.6
1982	SEA	43	32	11.0	11.7	0.9	-0.5
+– 1983		44	30	9.3	12.5	-1.7	-3.1
	KCA		14	4.4	5.2	-0.1	-0.8
	SEA		16	4.9	7.3	-1.5	-2.3
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			787	315.6	290.2	76.1	38.2
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			2	0.9	1.1	0.1	-0.1
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			789	316.5	291.3	76.1	38.2

Season	Team	Age	Games	eWins	eLosses	eWORL	eWOPA

Expected Player Won-Lost Records
						Value Decomposition
1962	SFN	23	13	2.3	2.5	0.2	-0.1
1963	SFN	24	32	3.4	4.6	-0.4	-1.0
1964	SFN	25	46	11.9	10.9	3.1	1.5
1965	SFN	26	49	11.4	12.8	1.0	-0.6
1966	SFN	27	36	16.5	13.5	5.9	4.1
1967	SFN	28	42	19.1	16.7	6.0	3.8
1968	SFN	29	39	16.3	14.1	5.2	3.5
1969	SFN	30	40	20.8	18.8	5.9	3.5
1970	SFN	31	41	22.5	19.4	7.2	4.8
1971	SFN	32	38	15.9	16.4	2.8	0.9
1972	CLE	33	41	24.1	18.6	9.9	7.4
1973	CLE	34	41	20.1	18.3	4.5	2.0
1974	CLE	35	37	18.6	14.0	6.9	4.8
+– 1975		36	37	18.5	14.5	6.3	4.2
	CLE		15	7.4	7.3	1.1	0.1
	TEX		22	11.1	7.1	5.2	4.1
1976	TEX	37	32	13.9	10.2	5.4	3.9
1977	TEX	38	34	15.2	12.1	5.0	3.2
1978	SDN	39	37	14.6	13.4	4.2	2.5
1979	SDN	40	32	13.3	13.0	3.2	1.6
+– 1980		41	34	11.5	11.1	1.9	0.5
	NYA		10	2.4	2.8	0.0	-0.3
	TEX		24	9.0	8.4	1.9	0.8
1981	ATL	42	24	8.3	8.6	1.2	0.2
1982	SEA	43	32	11.6	11.1	2.1	0.6
+– 1983		44	30	10.6	11.2	1.0	-0.4
	KCA		14	4.9	4.7	0.9	0.3
	SEA		16	5.7	6.5	0.1	-0.7
			------	------	------	------	------
CAREER (reg. season)			787	320.1	285.7	88.7	50.8
			------	------	------	------	------
PostSeason (career)			2	1.0	1.0	0.1	0.0
			------	------	------	------	------
COMBINED			789	321.1	286.8	88.8	50.8

Gaylord Perry led his league in traditional pitcher wins three times for three different teams. He also had back-to-back 15-win seasons for a fourth team and even managed a 10-win season at the age of 43 for a fifth team.

Shifting to my player wins, Perry earned 25 or more pWins for four franchises (and 15 pWins for a fifth, the Seattle Mariners). Shifting to pWins over replacement level (pWORL), Perry earned at least 10.0 pWORL for the same four teams.

The next table shows all teams with 10 or more pWORL for four or more franchises.

Player	Team	pWins	pLoss	pWOPA	pWORL
Gary Sheffield
	Florida Marlins	78.3	68.9	4.8	12.0
	Los Angeles Dodgers	74.5	60.3	9.9	16.6
	New York Yankees	47.4	36.6	9.2	13.4
	Atlanta Braves	44.8	31.0	11.6	15.4
Gaylord Perry
	San Francisco Giants	139.1	130.6	16.6	33.4
	Cleveland Indians	68.3	60.0	9.9	18.0
	Texas Rangers	47.2	39.9	7.8	13.4
	San Diego Padres	29.7	24.6	7.0	10.2
Roger Clemens
	Boston Red Sox	174.9	124.8	52.4	72.4
	New York Yankees	71.8	59.3	13.6	22.7
	Houston Astros	36.0	25.4	12.9	16.8
	Toronto Blue Jays	34.3	19.0	15.7	19.4
Roberto Alomar
	Toronto Blue Jays	97.6	85.8	14.4	23.3
	Cleveland Indians	63.5	51.0	14.2	19.9
	San Diego Padres	61.2	56.5	5.0	10.6
	Baltimore Orioles	54.3	48.6	7.6	12.7

Article last updated: June 16, 2020

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