What's exceptional about Grant Balfour Oakland Athletics 2011 ?
Seasons:
few hits; losing team; season
Grant Balfour of the Oakland Athletics gave up the 9th-fewest hits per nine innings (6.4) of the 373 pitchers in 2011 who played on a losing team.
beat out by Aroldis Chapman of the Cincinnati Reds (4.3), Tyler Clippard of the Washington Nationals (4.9), Greg Holland of the Kansas City Royals (5.6), and Josh Johnson of the Florida Marlins (5.8), and 4 others, ending with David Pauley of the Seattle Mariners (6.3).
beat out by Aroldis Chapman of the Cincinnati Reds (4.3), Tyler Clippard of the Washington Nationals (4.9), Greg Holland of the Kansas City Royals (5.6), and Josh Johnson of the Florida Marlins (5.8), and 4 others, ending with David Pauley of the Seattle Mariners (6.3).
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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/
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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/
Grant Balfour of the 2011 Oakland Athletics threw right-handed, played on a losing team, played in Oakland-Alameda Country Coliseum, and was born in Australia.
Sources
- salary ($3.75M)
- achievement score (1.1 see References)
- assists (4)
- complete games (0)
- double plays (1)
- games finished (15)
- games played (62)
- games started (0)
- innings pitched (62.0)
- putouts (2)
- saves (2)
- shutouts (0)
- strikeouts (59)
- strikeouts per nine innings (8.6)
- wins (5)
- balks (0)
- earned run average (2.47)
- earned runs (17)
- errors (0)
- hit by pitch (0)
- hits (44)
- hits per nine innings (6.4)
- homers given up (8)
- homers per nine innings (1.2)
- intentional walks (1)
- losses (2)
- runs allowed (17)
- walks (20)
- walks per nine innings (2.9)
- wild pitches (0)
- age (34 yrs)
- batters faced (242)
- height (6'2")
- innings pitched per game (1.0)
- weight (200 lbs)
Sources
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