Bill Butler - MLB, Minor League Baseball Statistics

High Level

MLB

Years

1969-1978 (1969-1977)

Proper Name

William Franklin Butler

Positions

P (219)

Height / Weight

6-2 / 210

Bats / Throws

Left / Left

Birthdate

March 12,1947 Age: 79.091

Place

Hyattsville, Maryland

High School

Herndon (Herndon,VA)

Drafted/Signed

1965-37-662-Detroit Tigers

MLB Debut

April 9,1969

MLBAM ID

111823

Retrosheet#

butlb101

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year	teams	g	gs	cg	gr	gf	w	l	wpct	tm-w	tm-l	tm-w%	hold	sv	blsv	gs%	cg%	inn1	inn2	inn3	inn4	inn5	inn6	inn7	inn8	inn9	inn10	inn11	inn12	innx	ip-s	ip-r	avg_st	avg_rel	lmi	emi	gsc1	gsc2
1969	KCA	34	29	5	5	1	9	10	.474	15	19	.441	0	0	0	85.3	17.2	29	29	28	28	27	23	13	11	9	4	2	1	0	180.2	13.0	6.2	2.6	14	2	51.66	53.00
1970	KCA	25	25	2	0	0	4	12	.250	9	16	.360	0	0	0	100.0	8.0	25	24	22	21	20	15	12	8	5	1	0	0	0	140.2	0.0	5.6	--	16	0	50.60	49.36
1971	KCA	14	6	0	8	3	1	2	.333	4	10	.286	0	0	0	42.9	0.0	6	6	5	8	8	6	5	2	3	0	0	0	0	28.1	16.0	4.7	2.0	6	4	44.17	41.33
1972	CLE	6	2	0	4	1	0	0	--	1	5	.167	0	0	0	33.3	0.0	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	6.1	5.1	3.2	1.3	3	0	48.00	46.50
1974	MIN	26	12	2	14	7	4	6	.400	10	16	.385	2	1	0	46.2	16.7	14	15	15	13	11	15	13	10	6	0	0	0	0	56.0	42.2	4.7	3.0	12	14	42.08	41.75
1975	MIN	23	8	1	15	5	5	4	.556	8	15	.348	0	0	0	34.8	12.5	8	10	11	12	15	16	12	9	4	0	0	0	0	37.1	44.1	4.7	3.0	14	12	39.13	38.75
1977	MIN	6	4	0	2	0	0	1	.000	1	5	.167	0	0	0	66.7	0.0	4	4	5	4	3	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	18.1	2.2	4.6	1.3	3	2	41.50	40.00
Tot:		134	86	10	48	17	23	35	.397	48	86	.358	2	1	0	64.2	11.6	88	90	88	88	86	78	57	41	29	5	2	1	0	467.7	124.0	5.4	2.6	68	34	47.77	47.48

g: Games Pitched ... gs: Games Started ... cg: Complete Games ... gr: Games Relieved ... gf: Games Finished ... w: Wins ... l: Losses ... wpct: Win Percentage ... tm-w: Team Wins in games pitched ... tm-l: Team losses in games pitched ... tm-w%: Team win% when pitching ... hold: Holds ... sv: Saves ... blsv: Blown Saves ... gs%: Games Started% ... cg%: Complete Games% ... inn#: Appearances in this inning ... innx: Appearances in 13th+ inning ... ip-s: Innings Pitched as Starter ... ip-r: Innings Pitched as Reliever ... avg_st: Average innings pitched per start ... avg_rel: Average innings pitched per relief appearance ... lmi: Left game mid-inning ... emi: Entered game mid-inning ... gsc1: Average Game Score using Bill James Formula (as starter) ... gsc2: Average Game Score using Tom Tango formula (as starter)

On Base - Pitching

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year	teams	g	pa	ab	onbs	onbs2	obp	obp2	h	bb	hbp	roe	fc	fo	ci	sgl	dbl	tpl	hr	ifh	bnt	b-h	hr1	hr2	hr3	hr4	iphr	rbi	hr-rbi	hr-rbi%	bb4	bb1op	ron	br	rbi%
1969	KCA	34	837	727	268	302	.320	.361	174	91	3	9	2	23	0	113	43	3	15	16	21	6	10	4	1	0	0	75	21	28.00	1	9	369	486	12.3
1970	KCA	25	609	511	204	226	.335	.371	117	86	1	6	0	15	0	76	22	2	17	8	15	3	8	8	1	0	0	52	27	51.92	3	9	267	338	10.4
1971	KCA	14	194	171	63	72	.325	.371	45	18	0	2	1	5	0	34	4	1	6	4	8	1	3	1	1	1	0	20	12	60.00	0	2	92	132	10.6
1972	CLE	6	52	41	19	21	.365	.404	9	10	0	1	0	1	0	8	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	33.33	0	1	19	26	7.7
1974	MIN	26	427	362	148	161	.347	.377	91	56	1	3	3	7	0	58	15	9	9	8	5	0	5	3	1	0	0	44	14	31.82	0	11	189	274	12.8
1975	MIN	23	377	332	135	160	.358	.424	100	35	0	7	1	17	0	66	18	4	12	4	12	7	7	0	5	0	0	65	22	33.85	0	4	189	258	20.5
1977	MIN	6	94	78	35	44	.372	.468	19	15	1	2	3	4	0	11	3	0	5	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	15	11	73.33	0	1	42	58	17.2
Tot:		134	2590	2222	872	44	.337	.381	555	311	6	30	10	72	0	366	105	19	65	41	62	17	35	19	9	2	0	274	108	39.42	4	37	1167	1572	13.3

G: Games ... PA: Plate Appearances ... AB: At Bats ... ONBS: On base (H+BB+HBP) ... ONBS2: All On Base (H+BB+HBP+ERROR+FC+FO) ... OBP: On Base Percentage ... OBP2: On Base Percentage for ONBS2 ... H: Hits ... BB: Walks ... HBP: Hit by Pitch ... ROE: Reached on Error ... FC: Fielder`s Choice ... FO: Forceouts ... CI: Catcher`s Interference ... SGL: Singles ... DBL: Doubles ... TPL: Triples ... HR: Home Runs ... IFH: Infield Hits ... BNT: Bunts ... B-H: Bunt hits ... PH-H: Pinch Hits ... PH-HR: Pinch hit home runs ... HR1: Solo home runs ... HR2: 2-run Homers ... HR3: 3-run Homers ... HR4: Grand Slams ... IPHR: Inside the park homers ... RBI: Runs batted in ... HR-RBI: RBIS on Home Runs ... HR-RBI%: % of RBIs on Home Runs ... RBI2: Runs batted in on outs ... BB4: Walks on 4 pitches ... BB1OP: Walks with 1st base open ... RON: PA with runners on ... BR: # of Baserunners ... RBI%: % of opportunities with RBI ... OPP: RBI Opportunities Points ... CONV: RBIs points converted ... CONV%: Converted% ... LDOF: Leadoff ... OB: Leadoff onbase ... LD-OB%: Leadoff onbase% ... LAST: Last batter of game ... WOH: Walk-off Hits ... WOHR: Walk-off Home Runs

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year	teams	g	pa	ab	outs	go	ao	ratio	fly	lo	pop	out_if	out_of	out_pr	rbi_out	so	so%	so3	sw	cal	fc	fo	gdp	opp	gdp%	loc1	loc2	loc3	loc4	loc5	loc6	loc7	loc8	loc9
1969	KCA	34	837	727	15	122	267	0.46	184	44	39	592	245	11	5	156	18.64	2	156	0	2	23	4	155	2.6	18	15	53	44	64	75	124	94	78
1970	KCA	25	609	511	13	93	221	0.42	187	11	23	404	205	10	5	75	12.32	0	75	0	0	15	12	131	9.2	15	17	46	42	50	48	81	71	52
1971	KCA	14	194	171	13	35	57	0.61	44	6	7	134	60	5	0	32	16.49	0	32	0	1	5	1	42	2.4	9	2	10	16	13	16	33	21	16
1972	CLE	6	52	41	7	7	18	0.39	18	0	0	37	15	0	0	6	11.54	0	6	0	0	1	0	7	0.0	0	1	6	1	3	6	6	7	5
1974	MIN	26	427	362	9	59	128	0.46	95	17	16	316	111	9	5	79	18.50	0	79	0	3	7	7	79	8.9	4	5	16	38	28	31	51	54	51
1975	MIN	23	377	332	15	72	99	0.73	64	19	16	276	101	8	8	55	14.59	0	55	0	1	17	3	84	3.6	15	2	20	23	30	22	60	52	43
1977	MIN	6	94	78	12	24	26	0.92	15	9	2	60	34	3	0	5	5.32	0	5	0	3	4	5	22	22.7	1	0	6	5	13	11	11	10	6
Tot:		134	2590	2222	84	412	816	0.50	607	106	103	1819	771	46	23	408	15.75	2	408	0	10	72	32	520	6.2	62	42	157	169	201	209	366	309	251

G: Games ... PA: Plate Appearances ... AB: At Bats ... Outs: Outs ... GO: Groundouts ... AO: Air Outs ... ratio: Groundouts/Airouts ... FLY: Flyballs ... LO: Lineouts ... POP: Popouts ... OUT_IF: Infield Outs ... OUT_OF: Outfield Outs ... OUT_PR: Productive Outs ... RBI_OUT: RBIs on outs ... SO: Strikeouts ... SO%: Strikeout% ... SO3: Struck out on 3 pitches ... SW: Strikeouts swinging ... CAL: Strikeouts looking ... FC: Reached on fielders choice ... FO: Reached on forceout ... GDP: Grounded into Double Play ... OPP: Double play opportunities ... GDP%: Grounded into double play% ... LOC1-9: Balls hit to position location

Baserunning - Pitching

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year	teams	g	pa	ab	sb	sb2	sb3	sbh	di	sb%	cs	cs2	cs3	csh	pthr	pckff	wppb	adv_out	oob	onbs	r	rs%	inh-r	inh-s	%	beq-r	beq-s	%
1969	KCA	34	837	727	3	3	0	0	0	37.5	5	4	0	1	0	1	5	28	5	302	77	25.50	2	1	50.00	30	15	50.00
1970	KCA	25	609	511	5	4	1	0	0	41.7	7	7	0	0	0	0	5	24	1	226	57	25.22	0	0	--	26	9	34.62
1971	KCA	14	194	171	3	3	0	0	0	60.0	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	2	72	21	29.17	8	3	37.50	9	1	11.11
1972	CLE	6	52	41	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	21	3	14.29	0	0	--	5	0	0.00
1974	MIN	26	427	362	1	1	0	0	0	8.3	11	10	1	0	0	0	1	19	4	161	44	27.33	20	2	10.00	20	5	25.00
1975	MIN	23	377	332	7	7	0	0	0	53.8	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	20	0	160	66	41.25	20	13	65.00	20	8	40.00
1977	MIN	6	94	78	1	0	0	1	0	33.3	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	44	16	36.36	2	0	0.00	2	1	50.00
Tot:		134	2590	2222	20	18	1	1	0	36.4	35	31	3	1	0	1	13	102	14	986	284	28.80	52	19	36.54	112	39	34.82

G: Games ... PA: Plate Appearances ... AB: At Bats ... SB: Stolen Bases ... SB2: Steals of 2b ... SB3: Steals of 3b ... SBH: Steals of home ... DI: Advanced on defensive indifference ... SB%: Stolen base % ... CS: Caught stealing ... CS2: Caught stealing 2b ... CS3: Caught stealing 3b ... CSH: Caught stealing home ... PTHR: Pickoff throws ... PCKFF: Picked off ... WPPB: Advancement on wild pitch or passed ball ... ADV_OUT: Runner advanced on out ... OOB: Out on bases ... onbs Runners on base ... R: Runs scored ... RS%: % of times on base run scored ... inh-r Inherited runners ... inhr-s Inherited runners scored ... beq-r Bequeathed runners (runners on base when leaving game) ... beq-s Bequeathed runners scored ... % % related to prior 2 columns

Pitches - Pitching

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year	teams	g	pa	ab	pit	str	bal	fou	sw	cal	inplay	swings	cont	p-pa	str%	bal%	swng%	cont%	fou%	play%	fps	fpsw	fpsw%	fpip	fpip%	gb	air	gb%
1969	KCA	34	837	727	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	166	287	0.58
1970	KCA	25	609	511	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	110	227	0.48
1971	KCA	14	194	171	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	44	57	0.77
1972	CLE	6	52	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	9	18	0.50
1974	MIN	26	427	362	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	68	134	0.51
1975	MIN	23	377	332	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	90	104	0.87
1977	MIN	6	94	78	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	28	26	1.08
Tot:		134	2590	2222	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	515	853	0.60

G: Games ... PA: Plate Appearances ... AB: At bats ... PIT: Pitches ... STR: Strikes ... BAL: Balls ... FOU: Fouls ... SW: Swing and miss ... CAL: Called strikes ... INPLAY: Balls put in play ... SWINGS: Total swings ... CONT: Contacts ... P-PA: Pitches per plate appearance ... STR%: Strikes% ... Ball%: Balls% ... SWNG%: Swing % ... CONT%: Contact% (per swing) ... FOU%: Foul ball% ... PLAY: Ball in Play% ... FPS: First pitch strikes ... FPSW: First pitch swings ... FPSW%: First pitch swing%... FPIP: First pitches in play ... FPIP%: First pitches in play% ... RUNGO: Runners going while batting ... HIT_RUN: Hit and Runs ... GB Ground balls ... Air Balls in air ... GB% Groundball%

Games - Batting

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year	teams	g	gs	cg	gf	ph	pr	dr	gs%	cg%	exit ph	exit pr	exit dr	ln1	ln2	ln3	ln4	ln5	ln6	ln7	ln8	ln9	pos-p	pos-c	pos-1b	pos-2b	pos-3b	pos-ss	pos-lf	pos-cf	pos-rf	pos-dh
1969	KCA	34	29	5	6	0	0	5	85.3	17.2	18	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	31	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1970	KCA	21	21	2	2	0	0	0	100.0	9.5	13	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1971	KCA	13	5	1	3	0	0	8	38.5	20.0	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1972	CLE	5	1	0	2	0	0	4	20.0	0.0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tot:		73	56	8	13	0	0	17	76.7	14.3	37	0	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	60	73	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

G: Games ... GS: Games Started ... CG: Completed Games ... GF: Games Finished ... PH: Pinch Hitter ... PR: Pinch Runner ... DR: Defensive Replacement ... GS%: Games Started % ... CG: Complete Games% ... EXIT PH: Exited for Pinch Hitter ... exit PR: Exited for Pinch Runner ... exit DR: Exited for defensive replacement ... ln1-9: Lineup Slots 1-9 ... Games at position

On Base - Batting

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year	teams	g	pa	ab	onbs	onbs2	obp	obp2	h	bb	hbp	roe	fc	fo	ci	sgl	dbl	tpl	hr	ifh	bnt	b-h	ph_h	ph_hr	hr1	hr2	hr3	hr4	iphr	rbi	hr-rbi	hr-rbi%	rbi2	bb4	bb1op	ron	br	rbi%	opp	conv	conv%	ldof	ob	ld-ob%	last	woh	wohr
1969	KCA	34	70	60	8	11	.114	.157	3	5	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00	1	0	0	31	47	6.4	111	3	2.70	15	2	13.33	1	0	0
1970	KCA	21	49	44	6	7	.122	.143	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0.00	2	1	0	19	24	8.3	61	4	6.56	7	1	14.29	0	0	0
1971	KCA	13	13	12	1	2	.077	.154	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00	0	0	0	6	10	10.0	22	1	4.55	4	0	0.00	0	0	0
1972	CLE	5	1	1	0	1	.000	1.000	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	1	1	0.0	3	0	0.00	0	0	--	0	0	0
Tot:		73	133	117	15	1	.113	.158	6	9	0	0	0	6	0	6	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0.00	3	1	0	57	82	7.3	197	8	4.06	26	3	11.54	1	0	0

Outs - Batting

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year	teams	g	pa	ab	outs	go	ao	ratio	fly	lo	pop	out_if	out_of	out_pr	rbi_out	so	so%	so3	sw	cal	fc	fo	gdp	opp	gdp%	loc1	loc2	loc3	loc4	loc5	loc6	loc7	loc8	loc9
1969	KCA	34	70	60	57	16	5	3.20	3	1	1	47	23	2	0	38	54.29	1	38	0	0	3	1	15	6.7	4	1	0	1	10	7	4	0	0
1970	KCA	21	49	44	42	10	2	5.00	2	0	0	37	12	1	0	31	63.27	0	31	0	0	1	1	7	14.3	2	0	1	2	6	1	0	2	0
1971	KCA	13	13	12	11	1	0	--	0	0	0	12	1	0	1	10	76.92	0	10	0	0	1	0	2	0.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0
1972	CLE	5	1	1	1	1	0	--	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	--	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tot:		73	133	117	111	28	7	4.00	5	1	1	96	37	3	1	79	59.40	1	79	0	0	6	2	24	8.3	6	1	1	4	17	8	4	4	0

Baserunning - Batting

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year	teams	g	pa	sb	sb2	sb3	sbh	di	sb%	cs	cs2	cs3	csh	s12	s13	s23	s2h	d13	d1h	advx	adv_opp	adv_pct	pthr	pckff	wppb	adv_out	oob	r	onbs	run%
1969	KCA	34	70	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	9.09
1970	KCA	21	49	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0.00
1971	KCA	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0.00
1972	CLE	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.00
Tot:		73	133	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	0	0	0	0	0	1	21	4.76

G: Games ... PA: Plate Appearances ... AB: At Bats ... SB: Stolen Bases ... SB2: Steals of 2b ... SB3: Steals of 3b ... SBH: Steals of home ... DI: Advanced on defensive indifference ... SB%: Stolen base % ... CS: Caught stealing ... CS2: Caught stealing 2b ... CS3: Caught stealing 3b ... CSH: Caught stealing home ... S12: Advanced from 1st to 2nd on singled... S13: Advanced from 1st to 3rd on single ... S23: Advanced from 2nd to 3rd on single ... S2H: Scored from 2nd on single ... D13: Advanced from 1nd to 3rd on double ... D1H: Scored from 1st on double ... ADVX: Advanced an extra base on hit ... ADV-OPP Advancement opportunities on hits ... ADV_PCT: Advanced extra base % ... PTHR: Pickoff throws ... PCKFF%: Picked off ... WPPB: Advanced on wild pitch or passed ball ... ADV_OUT: Advanced on out ... OOB: Out on bases ... R: Runs scored ... ONBS: On base ... RUN%: % of times on base run scored

Pitches - Batting

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year	teams	g	pa	pit	str	bal	fou	sw	cal	inplay	swings	cont	p-pa	str%	bal%	swng%	cont%	fou%	play%	fps	fpsw	fpsw%	fpip	fpip%	rungo	hit_run	gb	air	gb%
1969	KCA	34	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	21	5	4.20
1970	KCA	21	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	12	2	6.00
1971	KCA	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	1	1	1.00
1972	CLE	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	1	0	--
Tot:		73	133	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0	35	8	4.38

G: Games ... PA: Plate Appearances ... PIT: Pitches ... STR: Strikes ... BAL: Balls ... FOU: Fouls ... SW: Swing and miss ... CAL: Called strikes ... INPLAY: Balls put in play ... SWINGS: Total swings ... CONT: Contacts ... P-PA: Pitches per plate appearance ... STR%: Strikes% ... Ball%: Balls% ... SWNG%: Swing % ... CONT%: Contact% (per swing) ... FOU%: Foul ball% ... PLAY: Ball in Play% ... FPS: First pitch strikes ... FPSW: First pitch swings ... FPSW%: First pitch swing%... FPIP: First pitches in play ... FPIP%: First pitches in play% ... RUNGO: Runners going while batting ... HIT_RUN: Hit and Runs ... GB Ground balls ... Airballs Balls in air ... GB% Groundball%