Frank Viola

1982–1996 · 15 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1960

JavaScript is switched off, so the extra columns cannot be unfolded. Every season below is already on the page and every number in it is real.

Pitching: 14 of 18 columns. Folded away: HR, BFP, CG, SHO. Hitting: 17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Pitching

SeasonTeamLgGGSIPWLSVSOBBHERERAWHIPWARFIP
1982Minnesota TwinsAL2222126.041008438152735.211.510.44.56
1983Minnesota TwinsAL3534210.07150127922421285.491.59-0.65.08
1984Minnesota TwinsAL3535257.71812014973225923.211.162.53.92
1985Minnesota TwinsAL3636250.718140135682621144.091.323.03.79
1986Minnesota TwinsAL3737245.716130191832571234.511.381.84.22
1987Minnesota TwinsAL3636251.71710019766230812.901.184.43.66
1988CYMinnesota TwinsAL3535255.3247019354236752.641.144.82.94
1989Minnesota TwinsAL3636261.013170211742461063.651.234.53.14
1990New York MetsNL3535249.72012018260227742.671.155.32.88
1991New York MetsNL3535231.313150132542591023.971.352.43.83
1992Boston Red SoxAL3535238.01312012189214913.441.272.73.69
1993Boston Red SoxAL2929183.711809172180643.141.372.24.12
1994Boston Red SoxAL6631.011091734164.641.650.25.03
1995Cincinnati RedsNL3314.30104320106.281.60-0.15.89
1996Toronto Blue JaysAL6630.3130182143267.712.11-0.46.83
Career15 seasons4214202836.317615001844864282711753.731.3033.1

Hitting

SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1982Minnesota TwinsAL2200000000000
1983Minnesota TwinsAL3500000000000
1984Minnesota TwinsAL3500000000000
1985Minnesota TwinsAL3600000000000
1986Minnesota TwinsAL3700000000000
1987Minnesota TwinsAL3600000000000
1988Minnesota TwinsAL3500000000000
1989New York MetsNL362923230001170.130.167.130.297-0.3
1990New York MetsNL35928541300040200.153.153.153.306-1.2
1991New York MetsNL3583712920012130.127.151.155.306-1.0
1992Boston Red SoxAL3500000000000
1993Boston Red SoxAL2900000000000
1994Boston Red SoxAL600000000000
1995Cincinnati RedsNL366011000010.167.167.333.5000.0
1996Toronto Blue JaysAL600000000000
Career15 seasons42121018582630063410.141.154.157.311-2.6

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest. On a season where this player both batted and pitched, the WAR column is left unshaded either way: the data keeps one WAR ranking for the year and does not say which of the two it belongs to, and a guess here would put a league lead on the wrong line.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League), NL (National League).

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