What's exceptional about Phil Niekro New York Yankees 1985 ?
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older; season
Phil Niekro of the New York Yankees was the oldest (46 yrs) of all 436 pitchers in 1985.
outdid Jerry Koosman of the Philadelphia Phillies (43 yrs), Tommy John of the California Angels (42 yrs), Tommy John of the Oakland Athletics (42 yrs), and Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies (41 yrs), and 431 others, ending with Ed Correa of the Chicago White Sox (19 yrs).
outdid Jerry Koosman of the Philadelphia Phillies (43 yrs), Tommy John of the California Angels (42 yrs), Tommy John of the Oakland Athletics (42 yrs), and Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies (41 yrs), and 431 others, ending with Ed Correa of the Chicago White Sox (19 yrs).
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A player's age is calculated by subtracting his birth year from the season year. 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/
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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/
Phil Niekro of the 1985 New York Yankees threw right-handed, played on a winning team, would make it into the Hall of Fame, played in Yankee Stadium II, and was born in Ohio.
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- salary ($600K)
- achievement score (.800 see References)
- assists (20)
- complete games (7)
- double plays (5)
- games finished (0)
- games played (33)
- games started (33)
- innings pitched (220.0)
- putouts (11)
- saves (0)
- shutouts (1)
- strikeouts (149)
- strikeouts per nine innings (6.1)
- winning percentage (57.1%)
- wins (16)
- balks (2)
- earned run average (4.09)
- earned runs (100)
- errors (0)
- hit by pitch (2)
- hits (203)
- hits per nine innings (8.3)
- homers given up (29)
- homers per nine innings (1.2)
- intentional walks (1)
- losses (12)
- runs allowed (110)
- walks (120)
- walks per nine innings (4.9)
- wild pitches (5)
- age (46 yrs)
- batters faced (955)
- height (6'1")
- innings pitched per game (6.7)
- weight (180 lbs)
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