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Stan Bahnsen

Birthdate:

12/15/1944

Height / Weight:

6' 2" / 203 lbs.

Place of Birth:

Council Bluffs, IA, USA

Bats / Throws:

R / R

Baseball Historian Biography

A durable mound master, Stan Bahnsen pitched in 4 games at age 22 for the New York Yankees in 1966 and then spent all of 1967 with Syracuse of the International League, going 9-11 with a 3.52 ERA. Brought up by the New Yorkers the next season, he won the 1968 AL Rookie of the Year after going 17-12 with a stingy 2.05 ERA while completing 10 of 34 starts in 267.1 innings. He followed that with records of 9-16, a 14-11 and a 14-12 then was traded to the Chicago White Sox for third baseman Rick McKinney on December 2, 1971.

Stan Bahnsen was an instant success with the White Sox posting a 21-16 record with a 3.60 earned run average for the 1972 AL West second place team. Although he fell to 18-21 in 1973 he started a career-high 42 games and worked a career-high 282.1 innings and on September 21, 1973 vs Cleveland he pitched a no-hitter through 8 and two-thirds innings before yielding a hit. Altogether he strung up a streak of pitching over 200 innings seven straight years, and started at least 33 games during the same time period, 1968 thru 1974.

From 1978-1982 Stan Bahnsen pitched mainly as a relief set-up man, and he was very good at that, too.

Pitching Statistics

Year	Team	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	WP	HBP	BK	ERA
1966	NYY (AL)	4	3	1	1	1	1	0	23.0	15	9	9	3	7	0	16	3	0	0	3.52
1968	NYY (AL)	37	34	17	12	0	10	1	267.1	216	72	61	14	68	6	162	4	2	1	2.05
1969	NYY (AL)	40	33	9	16	1	5	2	220.2	222	102	94	28	90	9	130	10	0	0	3.83
1970	NYY (AL)	36	35	14	11	0	6	2	232.2	227	100	86	23	75	4	116	3	2	0	3.33
1971	NYY (AL)	36	34	14	12	0	14	3	242.0	221	99	90	20	72	8	110	9	5	1	3.35
1972	CHW (AL)	43	41	21	16	0	5	1	252.1	263	107	101	22	73	1	157	8	6	0	3.60
1973	CHW (AL)	42	42	18	21	0	14	4	282.1	290	128	112	20	117	2	120	10	5	0	3.57
1974	CHW (AL)	38	35	12	15	0	10	1	216.1	230	128	113	17	110	6	102	8	4	1	4.70
1975	OAK (AL)	21	16	6	7	0	2	0	100.0	88	42	36	2	37	1	49	9	3	0	3.24
1975	CHW (AL)	12	12	4	6	0	2	0	67.1	78	49	45	9	40	0	31	1	3	0	6.01
1976	OAK (AL)	35	14	8	7	0	1	1	143.0	124	55	53	13	43	3	82	7	2	0	3.34
1977	MON (NL)	23	22	8	9	0	3	1	127.1	142	76	68	14	38	2	58	4	0	0	4.81
1977	OAK (AL)	11	2	1	2	1	0	0	22.0	24	16	15	5	13	5	21	2	1	0	6.14
1978	MON (NL)	44	1	1	5	7	0	0	75.0	74	35	32	9	31	2	44	2	0	0	3.84
1979	MON (NL)	55	0	3	1	5	0	0	94.1	80	34	33	10	42	4	71	2	0	0	3.15
1980	MON (NL)	57	0	7	6	4	0	0	91.1	80	40	31	7	33	4	48	6	0	0	3.05
1981	MON (NL)	25	3	2	1	1	0	0	49.0	45	27	27	7	24	0	28	1	1	0	4.96
1982	PHI (NL)	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	13.1	8	2	2	0	3	1	9	0	0	0	1.35
1982	CAL (AL)	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	9.2	13	6	5	0	8	1	5	0	0	0	4.66
19 years		574	327	146	149	20	73	16	2529.0	2440	1127	1013	223	924	59	1359	89	34	3	3.60

Batting Statistics

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	IBB	HBP	SH	SF	AVG	OBP	SLG
1966	NYY (AL)	4	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.143	.143	SLG
1968	NYY (AL)	37	81	4	4	0	0	0	3	6	49	0	0	0	0	10	1	.49	.114	SLG
1969	NYY (AL)	40	60	1	5	1	0	0	1	2	33	0	0	0	0	9	0	.83	.113	SLG
1970	NYY (AL)	36	74	3	11	0	1	0	1	2	34	0	0	0	0	8	0	.149	.171	SLG
1971	NYY (AL)	36	79	6	12	2	1	0	3	1	32	0	0	0	0	8	0	.152	.163	SLG
1972	CHW (AL)	44	92	5	14	2	0	0	2	1	38	0	0	0	1	3	0	.152	.170	SLG
1973	CHW (AL)	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
1974	CHW (AL)	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
1975	OAK (AL)	21	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
1975	CHW (AL)	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
1976	OAK (AL)	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
1977	MON (NL)	23	42	0	5	2	0	0	7	3	18	0	0	0	0	4	0	.119	.178	SLG
1977	OAK (AL)	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
1978	MON (NL)	44	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.91	.91	SLG
1979	MON (NL)	55	14	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	.71	.71	SLG
1980	MON (NL)	57	9	1	1	1	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111	.385	SLG
1981	MON (NL)	25	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	.111	.111	SLG
1982	CAL (AL)	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
1982	PHI (NL)	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.0	.0	SLG
19 years		575	479	22	56	8	2	1	19	19	225	0	0	0	1	43	1	.117	.152	.SLG

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