Batting Leaders Pitching Leaders Fielding Leaders

Louis Rodman Whitaker

First name: Lou

Last name: Whitaker

Birthdate: 1957-05-12

Bats: L Throws: R

MLBAM ID: 124154

Retro ID: whitl001

Batting – Career

Year	Team	Off GS	Def GS	Game Shares	WAR	W	L	Victory Shares
1977	DET	0.5	0.1	0.6	-0.1	0.1	0.5	0
1978	DET	7.0	1.9	9.0	4.0	6.7	2.3	20
1979	DET	6.6	1.7	8.4	4.6	7.1	1.3	21
1980	DET	6.9	2.0	9.0	2.3	5.0	4.0	15
1981	DET	4.9	1.6	6.5	4.1	6.0	0.4	18
1982	DET	7.9	2.2	10.0	5.4	8.3	1.7	25
1983	DET	9.0	2.3	11.3	7.3	10.7	0.7	32
1984	DET	7.7	2.0	9.8	4.1	7.0	2.8	21
1985	DET	8.8	2.2	11.0	4.8	8.0	3.0	24
1986	DET	8.1	2.1	10.2	4.4	7.4	2.8	22
1987	DET	8.3	2.2	10.5	3.0	6.0	4.4	18
1988	DET	6.1	1.5	7.6	3.5	5.7	1.9	17
1989	DET	7.8	2.0	9.8	4.7	7.6	2.2	23
1990	DET	6.9	1.8	8.7	2.7	5.3	3.5	16
1991	DET	7.0	1.8	8.8	5.5	8.1	0.7	24
1992	DET	6.8	1.6	8.3	3.6	6.1	2.3	18
1993	DET	5.7	1.4	7.1	4.3	6.4	0.8	19
1994	DET	4.5	1.0	5.6	2.6	4.3	1.3	13
1995	DET	3.6	0.7	4.3	1.7	3.0	1.4	9
Career		124.1	32.1	156.5	72.5	118.8	38.0	355

Detailed Batting Components

Year	Team	PA	BatRuns	Adj R	RISP	BSR	DP	ROE	Fld	Pos	RAA	RPW	WAA	Pos Wins	LgA	WAM	DVoDH
1977	DET	37	-1	-1	0	0	0	0	-1	0	-2	9.7	-0.2	0.0	0.0	-0.2	0
1978	DET	567	5	4	1	4	0	-1	11	2	19	9.2	2.1	0.2	-0.1	2.2	26
1979	DET	520	10	8	0	10	0	1	8	2	27	9.9	2.7	0.2	0.0	2.9	21
1980	DET	568	-16	-17	2	3	2	1	11	2	2	10.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.5	27
1981	DET	382	3	2	-1	4	1	0	15	2	21	8.6	2.5	0.2	0.1	2.8	27
1982	DET	619	9	10	-1	4	1	0	14	2	28	9.4	3.0	0.2	0.1	3.3	31
1983	DET	720	27	30	1	2	2	0	10	3	45	9.7	4.6	0.3	0.1	5.0	28
1984	DET	629	10	11	-4	2	1	2	5	2	17	9.7	1.8	0.2	0.1	2.1	20
1985	DET	701	20	21	1	1	2	-2	-2	2	21	9.5	2.2	0.2	0.1	2.5	15
1986	DET	651	8	9	-2	4	0	-1	10	2	20	9.9	2.0	0.2	0.1	2.3	26
1987	DET	684	3	6	-7	8	2	0	-4	2	5	10.4	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.8	12
1988	DET	477	14	16	0	0	-1	-1	1	2	15	9.2	1.6	0.2	0.1	1.9	13
1989	DET	611	23	24	3	0	2	0	-6	2	23	9.5	2.4	0.2	0.1	2.7	9
1990	DET	552	6	5	-1	0	0	-1	4	2	7	9.9	0.7	0.2	0.0	0.9	17
1991	DET	572	31	30	0	4	1	0	1	2	36	10.3	3.5	0.2	0.0	3.7	14
1992	DET	544	25	24	6	-2	1	-2	-9	1	18	10.2	1.8	0.1	0.0	1.9	3
1993	DET	476	22	22	0	1	1	-1	6	1	29	10.9	2.7	0.1	0.0	2.8	17
1994	DET	372	11	10	-2	5	0	-1	4	1	16	11.5	1.4	0.1	0.0	1.5	12
1995	DET	285	11	11	0	1	-1	0	-3	1	8	10.7	0.7	0.1	0.0	0.8	3
Career		9,967	221	225	-4	51	14	-6	75	33	355	-	36.2	3.3	0.9	40.4	321

Defense

Infield Defense

Year	Team	POS	BIP	Chances	OAA	OAA adj	DER Runs	Play+	GB+	DP Start	DP Turn	DP Runs	Total Fielding Runs
1977	DET	2B	236	37	-2.0	-2	-1	-4	-5	-0.2	-0.2	0	-1
1978	DET	2B	3616	678	14.0	13	9	52	39	0.4	1.1	2	11
1979	DET	2B	3153	541	5.0	5	4	14	17	0.9	2.8	4	8
1980	DET	2B	3843	684	16.0	15	11	34	7	-0.1	0.2	0	11
1981	DET	2B	2854	520	21.0	20	14	30	23	0.9	0.1	1	15
1982	DET	2B	3994	675	19.0	18	13	11	20	1.1	-0.4	1	14
1983	DET	2B	4096	679	14.0	14	10	-10	-22	-1.3	1.7	0	10
1984	DET	2B	3614	621	8.0	8	6	-2	-13	-0.1	-0.6	-1	5
1985	DET	2B	3935	631	-1.0	-1	-1	-42	-44	0.2	-1.3	-1	-2
1986	DET	2B	3674	593	14.0	14	10	-1	17	0.8	-0.8	0	10
1987	DET	2B	3823	616	-4.0	-4	-3	-33	-12	1.0	-2.0	-1	-4
1988	DET	2B	2803	460	4.0	4	3	-9	-12	-0.5	-1.2	-2	1
1989	DET	2B	3721	610	-7.0	-7	-5	-19	-23	0.2	-1.6	-1	-6
1990	DET	2B	3260	543	6.0	6	4	8	10	0.2	0.1	0	4
1991	DET	2B	3413	550	-3.0	-3	-2	-13	-6	1.5	1.6	3	1
1992	DET	2B	3187	511	-11.0	-11	-8	-28	-30	1.2	-1.9	-1	-9
1993	DET	2B	2727	490	10.0	10	8	35	31	0.2	-1.7	-2	6
1994	DET	2B	2093	380	7.0	7	5	21	17	0.0	-1.1	-1	4
1995	DET	2B	1504	260	-1.0	-1	-1	0	0	0.1	-1.7	-2	-3
		2B	59546	10079	109.0	105	76	44	14	6.5	-6.9	-1	75

Batting – Postseason

Year	Team	Off GS	Def GS	Game Shares	WAR	W	L	Victory Shares
1984	DET	0.5	0.1	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.2	1
1987	DET	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.3	0.4	0.0	1
Career		0.8	0.2	1.0	0.6	0.8	0.2	2

Postseason Batting Components

Year	Team	PA	BatRuns	Adj R	RISP	BSR	ROE	Fld	RAA	RPW	WAA	WAM	DVoDH
1984	DET	37	-1	-1	-1	1	1	1	1	8.1	0.1	0.1	2
1987	DET	24	1	1	0	0	0	1	2	11.4	0.2	0.2	2
Career		61	0	0	-1	1	1	2	3	-	0.3	0.3	4

Glossary

Click to expand glossary

Stat description
GS	Game Shares
WAM	Wins above Majors. Formerly wins above average, but WAM! sounds better than WAA. Credit to Don Sobocinski for the name.
WAR	Wins above Replacement
VS	Victory Shares
W	Wins - Not traditional pitcher wins. Estimate of the number of wins each pitcher was responsible for. His share, as opposed to the shares of his fielders and offense.
L	Losses - See wins above, just the opposite side of the final score.
BatRuns	Batting runs above average
Adj R	Park adjusted batting runs
RISP	Runs for hitting better or worse than overall with runners in scoring position
BSR	Baserunning runs
DP	Double play avoidance runs
ROE	Runs from reaching on error
Fld	Fielding runs
Pos	Position adjustment
DH	Designated hitter adjustment
Pit	Pitcher batting adjustment
RAA	Runs above average before position and league adjustment
RPW	Runs per win
WAA	Wins above average before position and league adjustment
POS Wins	Position adjustment converted to wins
LGA	League quality adjustment
DVoDH	Defensive Value (in runs) over designated hitter
G	Games pitched
GS	Game shares. For pitchers based on innings and leverage index
XR	Expected runs based on ballparks and opponents faced
DR	Defensive runs support
Role	Starter vs reliever role adjustment
LgAdj	League adjustment
R+	Runs above average
LI	Leverage index
R_lev+	Leverage adjusted runs above average
Chances	Estimated opportunies to make a defensive play
BIP	Balls in play while this player was on the field
OAA	Outs above average, based on defensive efficiency assigned at the player level
OAA adj	Park adjusted outs above average
DER runs	Run value of outs above average
Frame Runs	Runs from framing balls and strikes
SB Runs	Stolen base prevention runs
Block Runs	Wild pitch and passed ball prevention runs
Err Runs	Catcher error prevention runs
Catcher Runs	Catcher runs from SB, errors, PB, and WP. Does not include framing.
Play+	plays made above average per ball in play
GB+	ground ball plays above average per ball in play
DP Start	Runs from starting double plays
DP Turn	Runs from turning double plays
DP runs	Total double play runs
OF Arm opps	Opportunities for an outfielder to make a throwing play
OF Arm runs	Runs from throwing from the outfield

The information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by
Retrosheet. Interested parties may contact Retrosheet at "www.retrosheet.org".