1. 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/
   
2. 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/
   

John Smoltz of the 1988 Atlanta Braves threw right-handed, was debuting in the majors, played on a losing team, played in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, and was born in Michigan.

• achievement score (-0.8 see References)
• assists (6)
• complete games (0)
• double plays (1)
• games finished (0)
• games played (12)
• games started (12)
• innings pitched (64.0)
• putouts (4)
• saves (0)
• shutouts (0)
• strikeouts (37)
• strikeouts per nine innings (5.2)
• wins (2)
• balks (1)
• earned run average (5.48)
• earned runs (39)
• errors (0)
• hit by pitch (2)
• hits (74)
• hits per nine innings (10.4)
• homers given up (10)
• homers per nine innings (1.4)
• intentional walks (4)
• losses (7)
• runs allowed (40)
• walks (33)
• walks per nine innings (4.6)
• wild pitches (2)
• age (21 yrs)
• batters faced (297)
• height (6'3")
• innings pitched per game (5.3)
• weight (210 lbs)

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