Bio
- Debut
- 1968
Bio
- Debut
- 1968
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 198
- W
- 17
- L
- 23
- ERA
- 3.84
- IP
- 408.0
- K
- 188
- BB
- 206
- WHIP
- 1.50
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | ATH | 47 | 3 | 4 | 3.28 | 68.2 | 34 | 34 | 1.24 |
| 1969 | ATH | 27 | 1 | 1 | 4.47 | 46.1 | 20 | 31 | 1.68 |
| 1971 | CIN | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 11.0 | 7 | 1 | 0.82 |
| 1972 | CIN | 33 | 3 | 3 | 4.13 | 56.2 | 25 | 26 | 1.43 |
| 1973 |  CIN/STL/MIL | 43 | 1 | 4 | 5.43 | 56.1 | 24 | 40 | 1.70 |
| 1974 | MIL | 20 | 7 | 2 | 2.39 | 94.0 | 57 | 31 | 1.33 |
| 1975 | MIL | 18 | 1 | 7 | 4.68 | 67.1 | 21 | 40 | 1.80 |
| 1976 | MIL | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7.04 | 7.2 | 0 | 3 | 2.22 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 3
- SHO
- 0
- K/9
- 4.1
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | ATH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1969 | ATH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971 | CIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1972 | CIN | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1973 | CIN/STL/MIL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1974 | MIL | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1975 | MIL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Ed Sprague's career stats?
Ed Sprague played 8 seasons for the Athletics, the Reds and the Brewers. He had 17 wins and 188 strikeouts with a 3.84 ERA over 408.0 innings. His best season was 1974: 7 wins, a 2.39 ERA and 57 strikeouts.
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