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What's exceptional about Mel Nelson St. Louis Cardinals 1968 ?


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fewer strikeouts; season

Mel Nelson of the St. Louis Cardinals had the fewest strikeouts per nine innings (2.7) of all 300 pitchers in 1968.

trailed Bill Monbouquette of the New York Yankees (3.2), Mudcat Grant of the Los Angeles Dodgers (3.3), Joe Niekro of the Chicago Cubs (3.3), and Frank Linzy of the San Francisco Giants (3.4), and others, ending with Luke Walker of the Pittsburgh Pirates (9.6).



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References

  1. Batting, pitching, fielding, personal, team, and awards data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  2. Strikeouts, walks, hits and homers per nine innings, and innings per game, are counted only if at least 50 innings were pitched during the season for the specified team. The raw data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Profile

Mel Nelson of the 1968 St. Louis Cardinals threw left-handed, played on a winning team, played in Busch Stadium II, and was born in California.

  • achievement score (.300 see References)
  • assists (9)
  • complete games (1)
  • double plays (0)
  • games finished (8)
  • games played (18)
  • games started (4)
  • innings pitched (52.7)
  • putouts (3)
  • saves (1)
  • shutouts (0)
  • strikeouts (16)
  • strikeouts per nine innings (2.7)
  • wins (2)
  • balks (0)
  • earned run average (2.91)
  • earned runs (17)
  • errors (0)
  • hit by pitch (0)
  • hits (49)
  • hits per nine innings (8.4)
  • homers given up (3)
  • homers per nine innings (.5)
  • intentional walks (3)
  • losses (1)
  • runs allowed (20)
  • walks (9)
  • walks per nine innings (1.5)
  • wild pitches (0)
  • age (32 yrs)
  • batters faced (212)
  • height (6'0")
  • innings pitched per game (2.9)
  • weight (185 lbs)

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