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Hall-of-Famers as Seen Through Player Won-Lost Records: Rollie Fingers

Rollie Fingers was elected to the Hall of Fame in his 2nd year of eligibility, 1992, with 81.2% of the vote.

Five highlights of Rollie Fingers's career:

Rollie Fingers was named to seven All-Star teams. He received MVP votes seven times and Cy Young votes four times.

Fingers led his league in saves three times and won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year award four times.

Fingers was named World Series MVP in 1974. In the 1974 World Series, Fingers pitched in four games winning one and saving two with a 1.93 ERA in 9.1 innings pitched.

Fingers won the American League Cy Young and MVP awards in 1981. In that strike-shortened season, Fingers had a 6-3 record with a league-leading 28 saves and a 1.04 ERA in 78 innings pitched.

Fingers established a new major-league record for career saves when he earned his 244th career save in 1980. He finished his career with 341 saves and held the career record for saves until 1991.

The first two tables below present Rollie Fingers'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
1968	OAK	21	1	0.0	0.1	0.0	0.0
1969	OAK	22	60	6.7	7.9	0.1	-1.1
1970	OAK	23	45	8.7	8.7	1.7	0.5
1971	OAK	24	48	7.0	7.0	1.3	0.2
1972	OAK	25	65	7.9	5.0	4.0	2.8
1973	OAK	26	62	8.0	5.9	3.2	1.9
1974	OAK	27	76	8.6	5.7	4.0	2.7
1975	OAK	28	76	9.1	5.6	4.6	3.3
1976	OAK	29	70	9.2	8.3	2.2	0.6
1977	SDN	30	78	9.1	7.7	2.8	1.3
1978	SDN	31	67	9.2	6.7	3.8	2.5
1979	SDN	32	54	5.0	7.8	-1.8	-2.9
1980	SDN	33	66	7.5	6.6	2.1	0.8
1981	MIL	34	47	7.1	3.7	4.1	3.2
1982	MIL	35	50	7.9	3.9	4.7	3.7