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1974 St. Louis Cardinals 86 - 75

1973 / 1975 (Organization)

2nd place in the NL East (1.5 GB)
Home Record: Away Record:	44 - 37 (.543) 42 - 38 (.525)	+0.8 wins +4.7 wins

Scored/Expected: 677 / 700 ( -23 ) Allowed/Expected: 643 / 703 ( +60 )
Pyth Record: 84 - 77 (+2)

Dressed to the Nines

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Pitching Stats	Minor Lg Affiliates	BR Bullpen
Def Lineups	Batting Orders	Wikipedia

Busch Stadium II
Attendance:	1,838,413	Avg Att:	22,696 (1.30)
Att Rank:	3 / 12	Lg Avg:	17,467

Park Factor:	1.03
HR Factor:	0.96	R/L HR:	0.93 / 1.01

Notes:

All-Original St. Louis Cardinals

WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com

Left Field	Tm	Age	WAR
Leron Lee	CLE	26.3	0.9
Jerry Mumphrey	SLN	21.8	0.0
Boots Day	MON	26.8	-0.5

Center Field	Tm	Age	WAR
Bake McBride	SLN	25.4	4.3
Luis Melendez	SLN	24.9	0.2
Larry Herndon	SLN	20.7	0.0

Right Field	Tm	Age	WAR
Jose Cruz	SLN	26.9	1.1
Jim Dwyer	SLN	24.5	0.4

Shortstop	Tm	Age	WAR
Dal Maxvill	MULT	35.4	0.2
Mike Tyson	SLN	24.5	-0.0
Mick Kelleher	HOU	26.9	-0.4
Jerry Davanon	SLN	28.9	-0.5

Second Base	Tm	Age	WAR
Tom Heintzelman	SLN	27.7	0.2
Phil Gagliano	CIN	32.5	-0.1

Third Base	Tm	Age	WAR
Gaylen Pitts	OAK	28.1	0.3
Bill Stein	CHA	27.4	-0.0
Ed Crosby	CLE	25.1	-0.4
Ken Reitz	SLN	23.0	-0.4

First Base	Tm	Age	WAR
Willie Montanez	PHI	26.3	0.6
Jim Hickman	SLN	37.1	0.5
Nate Colbert	SDN	28.2	0.2
Keith Hernandez	SLN	20.7	0.1

Catcher	Tm	Age	WAR
Ted Simmons	SLN	24.9	3.6
Marc Hill	SLN	22.4	0.1
Chris Cannizzaro	SDN	36.2	-0.1
Skip Jutze	HOU	28.1	-0.1
Tim McCarver	MULT	32.7	-0.2
Bill Plummer	CIN	27.3	-0.5

Starting Pitcher	Tm	Age	IP	WAR
Steve Carlton *	PHI	29.5	291.0	4.8
Jerry Reuss *	PIT	25.0	260.0	2.2
Ed Sprague	ML4	28.8	94.0	2.0
Bob Forsch	SLN	24.5	100.0	1.8
Nelson Briles	KCA	30.9	103.0	1.8
Bob Gibson	SLN	38.6	240.0	1.8
Ray Sadecki *	NYN	33.5	103.0	1.2
Harry Parker	NYN	26.8	131.0	1.0
Clay Kirby	CIN	26.0	230.7	0.9
Mike Torrez	MON	27.8	186.3	0.9
Reggie Cleveland	BOS	26.1	221.3	-0.3
Ray Bare	SLN	25.2	24.3	-0.5

Swingman	Tm	Age	IP	WAR
Lindy McDaniel	KCA	38.6	106.7	1.0

Relief Pitcher	Tm	Age	IP	WAR
Chuck Taylor	MON	32.2	107.7	3.4
Al Hrabosky *	SLN	24.9	88.3	1.2
Pedro Borbon	CIN	27.6	139.0	0.5
Bob Miller	NYN	35.4	78.0	0.3
John Denny	SLN	21.6	2.0	-0.1
Wayne Granger	CHA	30.3	7.7	-0.2
Tom Hilgendorf *	CLE	32.3	48.3	-0.7

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The statistics used were obtained free of charge from The Baseball Databank.

Wins Above Replacement data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com.

Defensive Regression Analysis data used here was obtained with permission from Michael Humphreys, author of Wizardry.

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

Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
Images can also be viewed at the Hall of Fame online exhibit Dressed to the Nines

Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James