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Satchel Paige P

Career Summary

Years	G	IP	W	L	SV	ERA
6	179	476	28	31	32	3.29

Birth Date	7-7-1906
Height	6' 4"
Weight	180 lbs

Age	117 years, 9 months, 12 days
Bats	R
Throws	R

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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
1948	CLE	MLB	21	7	72.7	6	1	1	61	22	43	2		7.6	2.7	0.2	5.3	0%	.260	1.14	2.87	2.48	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
1949	CLE	MLB	31	5	83.0	4	7	5	70	33	54	4		7.6	3.6	0.4	5.9	0%	.258	1.24	3.05	3.04	0	0.00	0.0	0.0
1951	SLA	MLB	23	3	62.0	3	4	5	67	29	48	6	100	9.7	4.2	0.9	7.0	0%	.314	1.55	3.74	4.79	87	4.33	94.9	0.4
1952	SLA	MLB	46	6	138.0	12	10	10	116	57	91	5	107	7.6	3.7	0.3	5.9	0%	.261	1.25	2.82	3.07	99	3.89	92.7	1.2
1953	SLA	MLB	57	4	117.3	3	9	11	114	39	51	12	100	8.7	3.0	0.9	3.9	0%	.264	1.30	4.05	3.53	92	4.10	87.8	1.4
1965	KC1	MLB	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	102	3.0	0.0	0.0	3.0	0%	.111	0.33	1.73	0.00	108	4.35	108.9	0.0
Career		MLB	179	26	476.0	28	31	32	429	180	288	29	69	8.1	3.4	0.5	5.4	38%	.111	1.28	3.28	3.29	64	0.00	0.0	0.0

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-
1948	CLE	MLB	AL	21	7	72.7	6	1	1	61	22	43	2		7.6	2.7	0.2	5.3	0%	.260	1.14	2.87	2.48	0	0.00	0.0
1949	CLE	MLB	AL	31	5	83.0	4	7	5	70	33	54	4		7.6	3.6	0.4	5.9	0%	.258	1.24	3.05	3.04	0	0.00	0.0
1951	SLA	MLB	AL	23	3	62.0	3	4	5	67	29	48	6	100	9.7	4.2	0.9	7.0	0%	.314	1.55	3.74	4.79	87	4.33	94.9
1952	SLA	MLB	AL	46	6	138.0	12	10	10	116	57	91	5	107	7.6	3.7	0.3	5.9	0%	.261	1.25	2.82	3.07	99	3.89	92.7
1953	SLA	MLB	AL	57	4	117.3	3	9	11	114	39	51	12	100	8.7	3.0	0.9	3.9	0%	.264	1.30	4.05	3.53	92	4.10	87.8
1965	KC1	MLB	AL	1	1	3.0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	102	3.0	0.0	0.0	3.0	0%	.111	0.33	1.73	0.00	108	4.35	108.9

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Injury History — No longer being updated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	Transaction	Days	Games	Side	Body Part	Injury	Severity	Surgery Date	Reaggravation

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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
2011-01-05 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Satchel Paige would be the fifth man voted in. (Richie from Washington)	A fine candidate, for certain, though I think the one in the next question is the one who would get the nod... (Jay Jaffe)
2010-08-04 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Steven, as I sit here grinding through my last Friday of studying before the bar exam, I am looking forward to reading something non-law related for the first time in a long time. What baseball biographies would you say are the all time best? And has BP ever considered starting a "Books Blog" with staff reviews of new baseball books, and maybe a list of favorites others may have missed? (achaik from Maine)	Congratulations on making it through law school. One hopes the job market will treat you well. If you don't mind me shifting the question slightly to autobiographies, I love and frequently return to Veeck as in Wreck (Bill Veeck), Nice Guys Finish Last (Leo Durocher, and just reissued), and Maybe I'll Pitch Forever (Satchel Paige). In common with all autobios, the authors skip or gloss the bad stuff and exaggerate the good, but the stories are so great and so well-told that you can live with that. If you want a straight biography, Robert Creamer's "Babe" on Ruth is very good, and so is Charles Alexander on John McGraw. Haven't read the new Mays or Aaron books yet. Finally, I will be crass enough to recommend my own "Forging Genius," on Casey Stengel. ...Christina and I discussed adding a books feature recently, but I imagine a lack of bandwidth for both of us renders that kind of a daunting task. (Steven Goldman)
2009-08-13 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Apropros of the Robyn Hitchcock comments, it's only a hop, skip, and jump via the Venus 3 to Scott McCaughey to "The Baseball Project". It's a fun listen. You must be aware of that, no? (Rob from Princeton)	Yup. I've seen McCaughey back up Hitchcock in concert on a couple of occasions. In fact, there's a concert documentary of a Hitchcock concert in Hoboken, NJ that floats about on cable, and if you watch carefully, you can spot me on the sidelines, along with a couple of pals of mine. I really enjoyed "The Baseball Project." The songs are songs first, not novelty tunes as so many baseball songs are. And many of them, such as the songs about Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige, and Ted Williams are good works of biography, too. (Steven Goldman)
2009-03-13 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Hi Steven ... thanks for the chat, and good to see you at B&N last night. So, did you catch any/all of the 6OT deathmatch between Conn. and Syracuse? (dianagramr from NYC)	Nope. It's not my game, though I have been known to bestir myself for the odd historic moment. By the time I got home from the city last night, I was so whipped I couldn't bring myself to budge from my chair. I love the book tour, but as Satchel Paige said, "The social ramble ain't restful." And good to see you too. I hope we were in good form. I thought we were. (Steven Goldman)
2008-09-10 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Weren't Negro League stats made more available recently? Is there enough quality data & players with overlapping experience to come up with an equalized ranking of all the players from that era? (Tony from Brooklyn, NY)	The funny thing is that those numbers were available to the Hall of Fame subcommittee but unless I've missed something haven't found their way into the general public's availability yet. If they ever do, it will take people smarter than me to determine their weight, though I'd settle just for being able to look at them on Baseball-Reference.com or our site. I mean, who wouldn't want to see what Satchel Paige's year by year numbers look like? (Jay Jaffe)
2008-03-14 13:00:00 (link to chat)	Could you tell us more of that Satchel Paige midnight flight story you referred to recently? (Stewart D from C-ville)	I've had several requests for this, so I think I'll probably do that for the next installment of the column on Monday. There is never a bad time for a Satchel Paige story. (Steven Goldman)
2008-02-27 13:00:00 (link to chat)	If you could go back in time to watch one game, what would it be? I often think it might be the Merkle boner game, though I don't like being jostled by crowds and would thus spend 8 innings seeking high ground. Second choice for me: the game where Satchel Paige called in the outfield and infield in pitching to Josh Gibson, though that might be apocryphal and could break my time machine. How about you? (oira61 from San Francisco)	That's a really tough call. I saw the Reggie 3-HR World Series game on TV when I was a tyke. That might be cool. Any game where Ted Williams had a couple of hits... The game where Casey Stengel let a bird fly out from under his cap... Any game Walter Johnson or Christy Mathewson pitched... Satchel Paige in his prime would be VERY cool to see. Great call there. (Steven Goldman)
2008-01-08 14:00:00 (link to chat)	So I have to say I don't quite understand the Raines HOF love around these parts (although I guess better that than more Rice love.) He was a very good player with a couple of great years and he did all the little things yeah yeah, but basically we are talking about seven at best good/great years and a bunch of filler. He was a good basestealer and an onbase threat, but he wasn't a fantastic defender and he didn't have much power despite playing a position where you usually like to see some. That doesn't seem like a HOF shoe in at all, but rather marginal at best. Obv the Hall is filled with many such characters (and a number of well below marginal ones), but is adding one more really something we want to make a big cause celeb over? (Alex from SF, CA)	Raines had more than a couple of great years. He's one of the top 10 LFs of all time. compares quite favorably to the average HOF LF in terms of his value at his peak and over the course of his career. He was every little bit as valuable as Tony Gwynn both at his peak and over the coursse of his career due to his ability to get on base and to advance himself. From the JAWS piece I wrote: "According to JAWS, Raines compares quite favorably to the average Hall of Fame left fielder, breezing past both career and peak benchmarks. By this measure he ranks as the ninth-best left fielder of all time, behind Barry Bonds, Stan Musial, Rickey Henderson, Ted Williams, Pete Rose, Jim O'Rourke, Ed Delahanty, and Carl Yastrzemski--some pretty fair ballplayers. If that sounds crazy, consider that the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract ranked Raines eighth back in 2001, calling him the second-most valuable leadoff hitter in history, behind only Henderson. If you weren't around for it, he was that good. Raines' overall WARP score ranks 81st all-time, 62nd among hitters. His peak score ranks 122nd all-time, 91st among hitters, and his JAWS is 88th all-time, 67th among hitters. If those numbers sound low, consider that the Hall of Fame contains 198 players whose major league careers we can measure via this method (i.e., non Negro-Leaguers or late-career crossovers like Satchel Paige and Monte Irvin), and historical estimates suggest we're witnessing another 30 or so Hall of Famers currently active." For the rest of the piece please see here: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=7007 (Jay Jaffe)

BP Roundtables

Date	Roundtable Name	Comment
2009-11-02 17:00:00	2009 WS Game Five	And two RBI singles by Werth and Ibanez chase Burnett. "Bases on balls is the curse of a nation." - Satchel Paige. (Jay Jaffe)