American League Pitching Leaders

Wins Above Replacement--all

<strong>Wins Above Replacement</strong><br>A single number that presents the number of wins the player added<br>to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add.<br>Scale for a single-season: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter,<br>0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level <br>Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Waddell • PHA 9.3
2. Killian • DET 8.0
3. Plank • PHA 7.4
4. Davis • CHW 7.2
5. Young • BOS 7.1
6. Howell • SLB 6.4
7. Joss • CLE 6.2
8. Tannehill • BOS 6.0
9. Davis • PHA 5.9
10. Orth • NYY 5.8

WAR for Pitchers

<strong>Wins Above Replacement for Pitchers</strong><br>A single number that presents the number of wins the player added<br>to the team above what a replacement player (think AAA or AAAA) would add. This value includes defensive support and includes additional value for high leverage situations.<br>Scale: 8+ MVP Quality, 5+ All-Star Quality, 2+ Starter,<br>0-2 Reserve, < 0 Replacement Level <br> Developed by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com

1. Waddell • PHA 9.4
2. Young • BOS 7.1
3. Killian • DET 6.9
4. Plank • PHA 6.7
5. Joss • CLE 6.2
6. Howell • SLB 5.9
7. Orth • NYY 5.9
8. Chesbro • NYY 5.1
Altrock • CHW 5.1
10. Tannehill • BOS 5.0

Earned Run Average

<strong>9 * ER / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played.<br>Bold indicates lowest ERA using current stats<br><span class=glimmer>Gold</span> means awarded ERA title at end of year.

1. Waddell • PHA 1.48
2. White • CHW 1.76
3. Young • BOS 1.82
4. Coakley • PHA 1.84
5. Altrock • CHW 1.88
6. Howell • SLB 1.98
7. Joss • CLE 2.01
8. Owen • CHW 2.10
9. Smith • CHW 2.13
10. Chesbro • NYY 2.20

Wins

Wins

1. Waddell • PHA 27
2. Plank • PHA 24
3. Altrock • CHW 23
Killian • DET 23
5. Tannehill • BOS 22
6. Owen • CHW 21
Mullin • DET 21
8. Joss • CLE 20
9. Chesbro • NYY 19
Smith • CHW 19

Win-Loss %

<strong>Win-Loss Percentage</strong><br>W / (W + L)<br>For players, leaders need one decision for every ten team games.<br>For managers, minimum to qualify for leading is 320 games.

1. Waddell • PHA .730
2. Tannehill • BOS .710
3. Coakley • PHA .692
4. Plank • PHA .667
5. Altrock • CHW .657
6. Rhoads • CLE .640
7. Joss • CLE .625
8. Killian • DET .622
9. Bender • PHA .621
10. Owen • CHW .618

Walks & Hits per IP

<strong>(BB + H)/IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Young • BOS 0.867
2. Waddell • PHA 0.977
3. Owen • CHW 0.994
4. White • CHW 1.006
5. Joss • CLE 1.021
6. Plank • PHA 1.044
7. Altrock • CHW 1.068
8. Hughes • WSH 1.092
9. Howell • SLB 1.093
10. Tannehill • BOS 1.093

Hits per 9 IP

<strong>9 x H / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Waddell • PHA 6.326
2. Smith • CHW 6.634
3. Young • BOS 6.960
4. Howell • SLB 7.022
5. White • CHW 7.052
6. Hughes • WSH 7.383
7. Owen • CHW 7.437
8. Plank • PHA 7.451
9. Hess • CLE 7.540
10. Killian • DET 7.554

Bases On Balls per 9 IP

<strong>9 x BB / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Young • BOS 0.842
2. Joss • CLE 1.448
3. Owen • CHW 1.509
4. Bernhard • CLE 1.755
5. Altrock • CHW 1.796
6. Orth • NYY 1.798
7. Wolfe • WSH 1.830
8. Winter • BOS 1.839
9. Dinneen • BOS 1.847
10. Glade • SLB 1.898

Strikeouts per 9 IP

<strong>9 x SO / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Waddell • PHA 7.859
2. Young • BOS 5.894
3. Bender • PHA 5.581
4. Howell • SLB 5.517
5. Hogg • NYY 5.488
6. Plank • PHA 5.452
7. Smith • CHW 5.277
8. Coakley • PHA 5.118
9. Chesbro • NYY 4.629
10. Hughes • WSH 4.603

Games Played

Games Played or Pitched

1. Waddell • PHA 46
2. Mullin • DET 44
3. Patten • WSH 42
Owen • CHW 42
5. Plank • PHA 41
Chesbro • NYY 41
7. Powell • 2TM 40
Orth • NYY 40
9. Hughes • WSH 39
Smith • CHW 39
Hogg • NYY 39
Killian • DET 39

Saves

Saves

1. Buchanan • SLB 2
2. Dinneen • BOS 1
Griffith • NYY 1
Hogg • NYY 1
Kitson • DET 1
Puttmann • NYY 1
Wolfe • WSH 1
Powell • 2TM 1

Innings Pitched

Innings Pitched

1. Mullin • DET 347.2
2. Plank • PHA 346.2
3. Owen • CHW 334.0
4. Waddell • PHA 328.2
5. Howell • SLB 323.0
6. Young • BOS 320.2
7. Altrock • CHW 315.2
8. Killian • DET 313.1
9. Patten • WSH 309.2
10. Orth • NYY 305.1

Strikeouts

Strikeouts

1. Waddell • PHA 287
2. Plank • PHA 210
Young • BOS 210
4. Howell • SLB 198
5. Smith • CHW 171
6. Mullin • DET 168
7. Chesbro • NYY 156
8. Hughes • WSH 149
9. Coakley • PHA 145
10. Bender • PHA 142

Games Started

Games Started

1. Plank • PHA 41
Mullin • DET 41
3. Owen • CHW 38
Chesbro • NYY 38
5. Killian • DET 37
Orth • NYY 37
Howell • SLB 37
8. Patten • WSH 36
9. Hughes • WSH 35
10. Altrock • CHW 34
Waddell • PHA 34

Complete Games

Complete Game

1. Howell • SLB 35
Mullin • DET 35
Plank • PHA 35
4. Killian • DET 33
5. Owen • CHW 32
6. Young • BOS 31
Joss • CLE 31
Altrock • CHW 31
9. Patten • WSH 29
10. Moore • CLE 28
Glade • SLB 28

Shutouts

Shutouts<br>No runs allowed and a complete game.

1. Killian • DET 8
2. Waddell • PHA 7
3. Hughes • WSH 6
Tannehill • BOS 6
Orth • NYY 6
6. Donovan • DET 5
7. Plank • PHA 4
Howell • SLB 4
Hess • CLE 4
Rhoads • CLE 4
Smith • CHW 4
White • CHW 4
Bender • PHA 4
Young • BOS 4

Home Runs

Home Runs Hit/Allowed

1. Gibson • BOS 9
2. Orth • NYY 8
Sudhoff • SLB 8
4. Dinneen • BOS 7
Tannehill • BOS 7
6. Moore • CLE 6
Owen • CHW 6
8. Waddell • PHA 5
Chesbro • NYY 5
Winter • BOS 5
Bernhard • CLE 5
Bender • PHA 5

Bases on Balls

Bases on Balls/Walks

1. Mullin • DET 138
2. Smith • CHW 107
3. Killian • DET 102
4. Howell • SLB 101
Hogg • NYY 101
Donovan • DET 101
7. Moore • CLE 92
8. Bender • PHA 90
Waddell • PHA 90
10. Patten • WSH 86

Hits

Hits/Hits Allowed

1. Mullin • DET 303
2. Patten • WSH 300
3. Plank • PHA 287
4. Owen • CHW 276
5. Altrock • CHW 274
6. Orth • NYY 273
7. Killian • DET 263
8. Chesbro • NYY 262
9. Glade • SLB 257
10. Howell • SLB 252

Strikeouts / Base On Balls

<strong>SO/W or SO/BB</strong><br>For recent years, pitching leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played.<br>No batting leaders computed.

1. Young • BOS 7.000
2. Waddell • PHA 3.189
3. Joss • CLE 2.870
4. Plank • PHA 2.800
5. Owen • CHW 2.232
6. Winter • BOS 2.204
7. Chesbro • NYY 2.197
8. Glade • SLB 2.190
9. White • CHW 2.069
10. Coakley • PHA 1.986

Home Runs per 9 IP

<strong>9 x HR / IP</strong><br>For recent years, leaders need 1 IP<br>per team game played

1. Smith • CHW 0.000
Killian • DET 0.000
3. Hess • CLE 0.042
4. Hogg • NYY 0.044
5. Wolfe • WSH 0.049
6. Howell • SLB 0.056
7. Donovan • DET 0.064
8. Townsend • WSH 0.068
9. White • CHW 0.069
10. Coakley • PHA 0.071

Losses

Losses

1. Glade • SLB 25
2. Howell • SLB 22
3. Patten • WSH 21
Mullin • DET 21
5. Sudhoff • SLB 20
Hughes • WSH 20
7. Young • BOS 19
8. Winter • BOS 17
9. Orth • NYY 16
Townsend • WSH 16

Earned Runs

Earned Runs Allowed

1. Patten • WSH 108
2. Dinneen • BOS 101
3. Mullin • DET 97
Orth • NYY 97
5. Kitson • DET 87
Plank • PHA 87
Winter • BOS 87
8. Glade • SLB 86
9. Powell • 2TM 84
10. Sudhoff • SLB 81
Donovan • DET 81

Wild Pitches

Wild Pitches

1. Hess • CLE 18
2. Hogg • NYY 14
3. Smith • CHW 13
4. Bender • PHA 12
5. Pelty • SLB 10
Waddell • PHA 10
7. Plank • PHA 9
Howell • SLB 9
Morgan • SLB 9
10. White • CHW 8

Hit By Pitch

Times Hit by a Pitch.

1. Plank • PHA 24
2. Moore • CLE 18
3. Townsend • WSH 15
4. Killian • DET 13
Tannehill • BOS 13
Sudhoff • SLB 13
Hogg • NYY 13
8. Howell • SLB 12
Pelty • SLB 12
10. Joss • CLE 11
Bender • PHA 11
Kitson • DET 11
Glade • SLB 11

Batters Faced

Batters Faced

1. Mullin • DET 1,428
2. Plank • PHA 1,362
3. Owen • CHW 1,282
4. Howell • SLB 1,275
5. Patten • WSH 1,268
6. Killian • DET 1,260
7. Waddell • PHA 1,257
8. Altrock • CHW 1,228
9. Orth • NYY 1,201
10. Chesbro • NYY 1,193

Games Finished

Games Finished<br>Credited to the last pitcher to appear for a team in a game.<br>Complete Games are not counted as Games Finished.

1. Griffith • NYY 17
2. Hogg • NYY 13
3. Powell • 2TM 12
Bender • PHA 12
5. Waddell • PHA 11
6. Townsend • WSH 9
7. Winter • BOS 8
8. Walsh • CHW 7
Buchanan • SLB 7
Puttmann • NYY 7

Adjusted ERA+

<strong>ERA+</strong><br>100*[lgERA/ERA]<br>Adjusted to the player&#x2019;s ballpark(s).

1. Waddell • PHA 181
2. Young • BOS 147
3. Coakley • PHA 146
4. White • CHW 140
5. Joss • CLE 132
6. Chesbro • NYY 132
7. Altrock • CHW 131
8. Howell • SLB 127
9. Killian • DET 119
10. Plank • PHA 119

Fielding Independent Pitching

<strong>Fielding Independent Pitching</strong><br>this stat measures a pitcher's effectiveness at preventing HR, BB, HBP and causing SO<br><tt>(13*HR + 3*(BB+HBP) - 2*SO)/IP + Constant<sub>lg</sub></tt><br>The constant is set so that each season major-league average FIP is the same as the major-league avg ERA

1. Young • BOS 1.69
2. Waddell • PHA 1.89
3. Plank • PHA 2.28
4. Joss • CLE 2.38
5. Coakley • PHA 2.42
6. Howell • SLB 2.43
7. Chesbro • NYY 2.47
8. White • CHW 2.47
9. Glade • SLB 2.49
10. Smith • CHW 2.53

Adj. Pitching Runs

<strong>Adjusted Pitching Runs</strong><br>A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others<br>that estimates a pitcher&#x2019;s total contributions<br>to a team&#x2019;s runs total via linear weights.<br>0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Waddell • PHA 40
2. Young • BOS 28
3. White • CHW 24
4. Altrock • CHW 24
5. Joss • CLE 20
6. Plank • PHA 19
7. Howell • SLB 17
8. Coakley • PHA 17
9. Killian • DET 16
10. Chesbro • NYY 15

Adj. Pitching Wins

<strong>Adjusted Pitching Wins</strong><br>A set of formulas developed by Gary Gillette, Pete Palmer and others<br>that estimates a pitcher&#x2019;s total contributions<br>to a team&#x2019;s wins with his arm.<br>0.0 is an avg performance, <0 is worse than avg and >0 is better than avg

1. Waddell • PHA 4.7
2. Young • BOS 3.2
3. White • CHW 2.7
4. Altrock • CHW 2.7
5. Joss • CLE 2.3
6. Plank • PHA 2.2
7. Howell • SLB 1.9
8. Coakley • PHA 1.9
9. Killian • DET 1.8
10. Chesbro • NYY 1.7

A ** by the stat's value indicates the player had fewer than the required number of at bats or plate appearances for the BA, OBP, SLG or OPS title that year. In order to rank the player, the necessary number of hitless at bats were added to the player's season total. The value printed here is their actual value and not the value used to rank them, therefore some numbers may appear out of order.

For batting rate stats, generally a minimum of 3.1 Plate Appearances/G, 1.0 IP/G, 0.67 Gm and Chances/Team Game (fielding), 0.2 SB att/Team Game (catchers), and 0.1 SB att/Team Game (baserunners only since 1951), and 0.1 decision/G for single-season leaderboards generally needed for rate statistics. For pitcher fielding the minimums are reduced by a third. For LF, CF, RF fielding stats, we only have reliable data since 1898, so all leaders are since 1898. Explanation of min. requirements

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