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Career Summary

Years	G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA	WARP
15	500	3449.3	224	166	1	3.26	50.7

Birth Date	4-8-1946
Height	6' 0"
Weight	195 lbs

Age	78 years, 0 months, 11 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

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MLB Statistics

Historical (past-seasons) WARP is now based on DRA..
cFIP and DRA are not available on a by-team basis and display as zeroes(0). See TOT line for season totals of these stats.
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YEAR	Team	Lg	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-	WARP
1965	KC1	MLB	32	20	133.0	8	8	0	124	46	82	21	101	8.4	3.1	1.4	5.5	0%	.248	1.28	4.30	4.26	111	4.12	103.3	0.9
1966	KC1	MLB	30	25	176.7	9	11	0	158	64	103	17	98	8.0	3.3	0.9	5.2	0%	.255	1.26	3.64	4.02	110	4.30	107.5	0.8
1967	KC1	MLB	35	35	259.7	13	17	0	209	84	196	16	96	7.2	2.9	0.6	6.8	0%	.256	1.13	2.70	2.81	97	3.32	88.1	3.6
1968	OAK	MLB	36	34	234.0	13	13	1	210	69	172	29	92	8.1	2.7	1.1	6.6	0%	.261	1.19	3.30	3.35	105	3.58	104.8	1.1
1969	OAK	MLB	38	35	247.0	12	15	0	210	85	150	34	94	7.7	3.1	1.2	5.5	0%	.242	1.19	4.02	3.35	113	4.07	99.7	1.9
1970	OAK	MLB	40	40	262.3	18	14	0	253	74	178	32	95	8.7	2.5	1.1	6.1	0%	.269	1.25	3.60	3.81	97	3.18	73.1	5.7
1971	OAK	MLB	37	37	273.7	21	11	0	225	80	181	27	94	7.4	2.6	0.9	6.0	0%	.242	1.11	3.23	2.96	101	3.03	77.7	4.9
1972	OAK	MLB	38	37	295.3	21	7	0	200	70	191	21	90	6.1	2.1	0.6	5.8	0%	.207	0.91	2.63	2.04	92	2.08	56.3	8.2
1973	OAK	MLB	36	36	256.3	21	5	0	222	69	124	39	97	7.8	2.4	1.4	4.4	0%	.227	1.14	4.40	3.34	119	3.87	91.6	2.8
1974	OAK	MLB	41	41	318.3	25	12	0	268	46	143	25	97	7.6	1.3	0.7	4.0	0%	.238	0.99	3.16	2.49	91	2.66	64.5	7.9
1975	NYA	MLB	39	39	328.0	23	14	0	248	83	177	25	96	6.8	2.3	0.7	4.9	0%	.222	1.01	3.26	2.58	96	2.85	67.6	7.6
1976	NYA	MLB	36	36	298.7	17	15	0	268	68	173	28	96	8.1	2.0	0.8	5.2	0%	.256	1.13	3.39	3.53	93	2.76	69.2	6.6
1977	NYA	MLB	22	22	143.3	9	9	0	137	47	52	29	96	8.6	3.0	1.8	3.3	0%	.226	1.28	5.68	4.71	133	5.33	119.0	-0.3
1978	NYA	MLB	21	20	118.0	12	6	0	98	35	56	16	92	7.5	2.7	1.2	4.3	0%	.222	1.13	4.27	3.58	119	4.05	97.9	1.0
1979	NYA	MLB	19	19	105.0	2	9	0	128	34	34	15	96	11.0	2.9	1.3	2.9	0%	.301	1.54	4.96	5.31	126	6.80	151.2	-2.0
Career		MLB	500	476	3449.3	224	166	1	2958	954	2012	374	95	7.7	2.5	1.0	5.2	40%	.243	1.13	3.58	3.26	104	3.44	85.0	50.7

Statistics for All Levels

'opp' stats - Quality of opponents faced - have been moved and are available only as OPP_QUAL in the Statistics reports now.
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YEAR	Team	Lg	LG	G	GS	IP	W	L	SV	H	BB	SO	HR	PPF	H/9	BB/9	HR/9	K/9	GB%	BABIP	WHIP	FIP	ERA	cFIP	DRA	DRA-
1965	KC1	MLB	AL	32	20	133.0	8	8	0	124	46	82	21	101	8.4	3.1	1.4	5.5	0%	.248	1.28	4.30	4.26	111	4.12	103.3
1966	KC1	MLB	AL	30	25	176.7	9	11	0	158	64	103	17	98	8.0	3.3	0.9	5.2	0%	.255	1.26	3.64	4.02	110	4.30	107.5
1967	KC1	MLB	AL	35	35	259.7	13	17	0	209	84	196	16	96	7.2	2.9	0.6	6.8	0%	.256	1.13	2.70	2.81	97	3.32	88.1
1968	OAK	MLB	AL	36	34	234.0	13	13	1	210	69	172	29	92	8.1	2.7	1.1	6.6	0%	.261	1.19	3.30	3.35	105	3.58	104.8
1969	OAK	MLB	AL	38	35	247.0	12	15	0	210	85	150	34	94	7.7	3.1	1.2	5.5	0%	.242	1.19	4.02	3.35	113	4.07	99.7
1970	OAK	MLB	AL	40	40	262.3	18	14	0	253	74	178	32	95	8.7	2.5	1.1	6.1	0%	.269	1.25	3.60	3.81	97	3.18	73.1
1971	OAK	MLB	AL	37	37	273.7	21	11	0	225	80	181	27	94	7.4	2.6	0.9	6.0	0%	.242	1.11	3.23	2.96	101	3.03	77.7
1972	OAK	MLB	AL	38	37	295.3	21	7	0	200	70	191	21	90	6.1	2.1	0.6	5.8	0%	.207	0.91	2.63	2.04	92	2.08	56.3
1973	OAK	MLB	AL	36	36	256.3	21	5	0	222	69	124	39	97	7.8	2.4	1.4	4.4	0%	.227	1.14	4.40	3.34	119	3.87	91.6
1974	OAK	MLB	AL	41	41	318.3	25	12	0	268	46	143	25	97	7.6	1.3	0.7	4.0	0%	.238	0.99	3.16	2.49	91	2.66	64.5
1975	NYA	MLB	AL	39	39	328.0	23	14	0	248	83	177	25	96	6.8	2.3	0.7	4.9	0%	.222	1.01	3.26	2.58	96	2.85	67.6
1976	NYA	MLB	AL	36	36	298.7	17	15	0	268	68	173	28	96	8.1	2.0	0.8	5.2	0%	.256	1.13	3.39	3.53	93	2.76	69.2
1977	NYA	MLB	AL	22	22	143.3	9	9	0	137	47	52	29	96	8.6	3.0	1.8	3.3	0%	.226	1.28	5.68	4.71	133	5.33	119.0
1978	NYA	MLB	AL	21	20	118.0	12	6	0	98	35	56	16	92	7.5	2.7	1.2	4.3	0%	.222	1.13	4.27	3.58	119	4.05	97.9
1979	NYA	MLB	AL	19	19	105.0	2	9	0	128	34	34	15	96	11.0	2.9	1.3	2.9	0%	.301	1.54	4.96	5.31	126	6.80	151.2

Plate Discipline

YEAR	Pits	Zone%	Swing%	Contact%	Z-Swing%	O-Swing%	Z-Contact%	O-Contact%	SwStr%

Injury History — No longer being updated

Last Update: 12/31/2014 23:59 ET

Date On	Date Off	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation
1978-06-22	1978-07-17	25	22	Right	Shoulder	Surgery	Manipulation Under Anesthesia for Limited Motion	-	-
1978-05-10	1978-06-21	42	39	Right	Shoulder	Soreness		-	-
1977-04-08	1977-05-05	27	21	-	Foot	Contusion		-	-
1966-07-25	1966-09-03	40	0	-	Abdomen	Surgery	Appendix	1966-07-26	-

Compensation

Year	Team	Salary

Service Time	Agent	Contract Status

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2019 Preseason Forecast

Last Update: 1/27/2017 12:35 ET

PCT	W	L	SV	G	GS	IP	H	BB	SO	HR	BABIP	WHIP	ERA	DRA	VORP	WARP
Weighted Mean	?	?	?	?	?	0.0	?	0	0	?	.000	0.00	0.00	?	0.0	0.0

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BP Chats

Date	Question	Answer
2011-08-04 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Your JAWS articles are one of my favorite parts of the site. Is Catfish Hunter the most underqualified member of the HOF in recent memory? The topic was brought up on a message board recently and the consensus was that I was an idiot for thinking Hunter isn't an obvious HOFer. I was surprised at how poorly Hunter measured via WARP. He seems to have benefited a lot via his home park, the pitching version of Jim Rice, if you will, and his career ERA+ is only 105, which puts him about on par with Tim Wakefield. Actually, my quick estimate of JAWS scores has Wakefield as only 2 points worse than Hunter. (The Groovin' Mahoovin from Atlantic City, NJ)	Thanks for the kind words. Hunter fares poorly on the JAWS scale because of his middling run prevention, and while he's slightly further from the standard at starting pitching than Rice is in left field, he's slightly closer in terms of peak - he was washed up at 33 years old due to injuries that may have had something to do with the problems that felled him later in life. Furthermore, he dusts Rice when it comes to the postseason, having won five World Series rings. (Jay Jaffe)
2010-07-23 13:00:00 (link to chat)	What does JAWS say about George Steinbrenner's chances of making the Hall of Fame? (K. Olbermann from New York, NY)	Oh, a wise guy, eh? JAWS is notably silent on the non-numerical aspects of the Hall, even moreso when it comes to owners. Joe Posnanski recently had an excellent post on the small sample of them in the Hall of Fame. Suffice it to say that if Tom Yawkey, an open racist who ran his team like a country club and spent lavishly in pursuit of a championship that never came is in the Hall of Fame, then Jeffrey Loria belongs, to say nothing of the twice-suspended Steinbrenner. That said, I do believe you can make a stronger case for him than that. Yes, it's possible the Yankees might not have won without his suspensions given that the groundwork for both was laid during them, but anyone who thinks he was divorced from the team's affairs during that period is deluded - read John Helyar's excellent Lords of the Realm to find out how involved he was in the Catfish Hunter signing, for example. I think he belongs. So does a previous Yankee owner, Jacob Ruppert. (Jay Jaffe)
2009-03-06 14:00:00 (link to chat)	Ok, I know it's not likely, but say jamie moyer sticks arounds long enough to get to 300 wins. He's 54 away, and signed for two years. The writers will love the story, and will probably elect him, right? Would he have the lowest jaws score of a HOF pitcher? (Mike from Chicago)	No, not by a longshot. If his career ended today he'd be on the border between the third and fourth quartiles. There are relievers and short-career VC selections below him, and even guys like Catfish Hunter. (Jay Jaffe)

BP Roundtables

Date	Roundtable Name	Comment
2010-07-13 16:30:00	All-Star Game	Mike (oakland): Was Catfish Hunter better than Andy Petitte? He was more famous, and perhaps more colorful, but ultimately, he was not as good at run prevention in his day as Pettite has been in his. Hunter's Pitching Runs Above Average mark is actually in the red, and he was worth just 33.8 WARP over the course of his career; a couple of his seemingly-normal looking seasons come in at replacement level once you adjust for park and era (18-14, 3.81 ERA in 1970, for one). Pettitte is at 58.0 and counting. And they now have the same number of rings if I'm not mistaken. (Jay Jaffe)
2010-07-13 16:30:00	All-Star Game	Oh, absolutely, Steve. Was just reminding myself of that while re-reading John Helyar's Lords of the Realm, about how the Catfish Hunter deal went down. Steinbrenner and Gabe Paul had breakfast the day the deal was struck, and I don't think the topic of discussion was grandchildren. (Jay Jaffe)