Baseball may be over, but check out our Football, Basketball, and Hockey Sites.
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Don Gordon

Don Gordon
Donald Thomas Gordon

Bats Right, Throws Right
Height 6' 1", Weight 175 lb.
Schools The Citadel, University of South Carolina

Debut April 10, 1986
  vs. TEX 0.7 IP, 2 H, 0 SO, 1 BB, 2 ER
Final Game September 29, 1988
Born October 10, 1959 in New York, NY

Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 31st round of the 1982 amateur draft. (All Transactions)

 About biographical information

BR Bullpen: Find or enter more info for this person (what's this?)
Oracle: Find all of this player's teammates.

Like this page? Sponsor it for $5.

  

Pitching  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons /
Gamelogs: / Splits: / HR Log / PI Finders:Game / Streak / Event / PI vs. Batter
/ Neutralize Stats
 Year Ag Tm  Lg  W   L   G   GS  CG SHO  GF SV   IP     H    R   ER   HR  BB   SO  HBP  WP  BFP  IBB  BK  ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
 1986 26 TOR AL   0   1  14   0   0   0   6  1   21.7   28   20   17   1    8   13   1   0   102   1   0  7.06  4.27   60 1.662
 1987 27 TOT AL   0   3  26   0   0   0   9  1   50.7   57   36   23   5   15   23   4   0   228   3   0  4.09  4.52  111 1.421
         TOR AL   0   0   5   0   0   0   2  0   11.0    8    5    5   2    3    3   0   0    43   0   0  4.09  4.52  110 1.000
         CLE AL   0   3  21   0   0   0   7  1   39.7   49   31   18   3   12   20   4   0   185   3   0  4.08  4.52  111 1.538
 1988 28 CLE AL   3   4  38   0   0   0  15  1   59.3   65   33   29   5   19   20   3   2   261   3   4  4.40  4.09   93 1.416
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
  3 Yr WL% .273   3   8  78   0   0   0  30  3  131.7  150   89   69  11   42   56   8   2   591   7   4  4.72  4.29   91 1.458
+--------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+--+------+----+----+----+---+----+----+---+---+-----+---+---+-----+-----+----+-----+
 162 Game Avg     2   6  68   0   0   0  26  2  114.7  130   77   60   9   36   48   6   1   515   6   3  4.72  4.29   91 1.458
 Career High      3   4  38   0   0   0  15  1   59.3   65   36   29   5   19   23   4   2   261   3   4  4.09  4.52  111 1.416

* indicates the value is park adjusted (now all 3-year factors)

Pitch Data Summary (Show or Hide)

Fielding  Glossary / Hide Partial Seasons
 Year Ag Tm  Lg Pos   G     PO    A    E   DP    FP   lgFP  RFg  lgRFg  RF9  lgRF9  GS   Inn  
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+
+---- Fielding Sorted by Year ------+
1986 26 TOR AL P 14 1 2 2 0 .600 .968 0.21 0.68 1.24 1.82 0 21.7 1987 27 TOT AL P 26 3 11 2 1 .875 .959 0.54 0.67 2.49 1.83 0 50.7 TOR AL P 5 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 0.20 0.68 0.82 1.80 0 11.0 CLE AL P 21 3 10 2 1 .867 .956 0.62 0.67 2.95 1.84 0 39.7 1988 28 CLE AL P 38 4 12 1 0 .941 .964 0.42 0.67 2.43 1.78 0 59.3
+---- Fielding Sorted by Position --+
1986 26 TOR AL P 14 1 2 2 0 .600 .968 0.21 0.68 1.24 1.82 0 21.7 1987 27 TOT AL P 26 3 11 2 1 .875 .959 0.54 0.67 2.49 1.83 0 50.7 TOR AL P 5 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.000 0.20 0.68 0.82 1.80 0 11.0 CLE AL P 21 3 10 2 1 .867 .956 0.62 0.67 2.95 1.84 0 39.7 1988 28 CLE AL P 38 4 12 1 0 .941 .964 0.42 0.67 2.43 1.78 0 59.3
+--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Position Total P* 78 8 25 5 1 .868 .962 0.42 0.67 2.26 1.80 0 131.7 +--------------+---+----+------+----+----+----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----+------+ Overall Total 78 8 25 5 1 .868 .962 0.42 0.67 2.25 1.80 0 132
An Important note about our fielding stats


Similar Pitchers View in Pop-up

Compare Stats
  1. Sherman Jones (991)
  2. Joe Schaffernoth (990)
  3. Tom Baker (989)
  4. Carroll Sembera (989)
  5. Jay Aldrich (988)
  6. Dave Johnson (988)
  7. Mike Buddie (988)
  8. Gary Neibauer (987)
  9. By Speece (987)
  10. Rocky Childress (987)
Most Similar by Age 
  1. Brandon Puffer (989)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

Explanation of Similarity Scores


Transactions 

June 7, 1982: Drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 31st round of the 1982 amateur draft.

June 23, 1984: Released by the Detroit Tigers.

June 25, 1984: Signed as a Free Agent with the Toronto Blue Jays.

August 10, 1987: Sent by the Toronto Blue Jays to the Cleveland Indians to complete an earlier deal made on August 9, 1987. The Toronto Blue Jays sent a player to be named later and Darryl Landrum (minors) to the Cleveland Indians for Phil Niekro. The Toronto Blue Jays sent Don Gordon (August 10, 1987) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.


The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. Last transaction is September 30, 2007.
Salaries Leaders
1987Toronto Blue Jays$71,500
Career (may be incomplete)$71,500

Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, member of SABR.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
Uniforms 
View Don Gordon's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines
a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit

Other References 
Error?     Compare     Search Baseball Index     Other Links@google.com     Baseball Library     Baseball-Almanac.com     Retrosheet     The Baseball Cube     The Baseball Page     WhatIfSports: Don Gordon    

Viewed 8809 times through December 5, 2008.
Name and misspellings: Donald Donnie Donny dave Don donald Thomas gordan Gordon

Pages Updated through October 30,2008. Pages designed and created by Baseball-Reference part of Sports Reference, Inc. (Copyright ©2000-2007).
Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org and RetroSheet.org..

You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > Don Gordon
Quick Index: Play Index | Players | Teams | Leagues | Managers | Leaders | Awards | Postseason | Box Scores | Minors | Draft
  SportingNews.com | Stat of the Day | SR Blog | Tutorial Videos | All-Star | Travel | Bullpen Wiki | Random
Return to the Baseball-Reference.com Home Page

Stats updated through October 30, 2008.


Copyright © 2000-2008 Sports Reference, LLC, All rights reserved.
A Sports Reference LLC Site : About BR | About Sports Reference | Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service

Partner With: FantasyPlayers.com. Contact Fantasy Sports Ventures for advertising information.