Vida Blue

Full Name: Vida Rochelle Blue Primary Position: P Height/Weight: 6' 0"/189 First Game: July 20, 1969 Birthdate: July 28, 1949 Final Game: October 2, 1986 Birthplace: Mansfield, Louisiana MLB Experience: 17 years Bat/Throw: Both/Left

Biography

Born on July 28, 1949 in Mansfield, Louisiana, Vida Blue (Vida Rochelle Blue) played for the Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants and Kansas City Royals over the course of his 17 year career. Blue broke into the bigs on July 20, 1969 with the Oakland Athletics, and put up a 1.82 ERA in 312 innings pitched in 1971, his rookie year.

Most people believe that Vida Blue's best season was 1971, when he posted a 1.82 ERA, won 24 games and struck out 301 batters.

Statistics

Pitching Stats

Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	IB	WP	HBP
1969	OAK	A	12	4	1	1	6.64	24	34	31	0	0	1	42	49	13	18	1	1	0
1970	OAK	A	6	6	2	0	2.09	35	12	9	2	2	0	38.2	20	0	12	0	0	1
1971	OAK	A	39	39	24	8	1.82	301	73	63	24	8	0	312	209	19	88	3	10	4
1972	OAK	A	25	23	6	10	2.80	111	55	47	5	4	0	151	117	11	48	3	2	1
1973	OAK	A	37	37	20	9	3.28	158	108	96	13	4	0	263.2	214	26	105	2	15	4
1974	OAK	A	40	40	17	15	3.25	174	118	102	12	1	0	282.1	246	17	98	7	9	1
1975	OAK	A	39	38	22	11	3.01	189	103	93	13	2	1	278	243	21	99	4	4	5
1976	OAK	A	37	37	18	13	2.35	166	90	78	20	6	0	298.1	268	9	63	3	5	1
1977	OAK	A	38	38	14	19	3.83	157	138	119	16	1	0	279.2	284	23	86	5	11	1
1978	SF	N	35	35	18	10	2.79	171	87	80	9	4	0	258	233	12	70	4	5	0
1979	SF	N	34	34	14	14	5.01	138	143	132	10	0	0	237	246	23	111	11	8	1
1980	SF	N	31	31	14	10	2.97	129	79	74	10	3	0	224	202	14	61	8	3	0
1981	SF	N	18	18	8	6	2.45	63	40	34	1	0	0	124.2	97	7	54	3	7	1
1982	KC	A	31	31	13	12	3.78	103	80	76	6	2	0	181	163	20	80	3	4	0
1983	KC	A	19	14	0	5	6.01	53	62	57	1	0	0	85.1	96	12	35	0	6	2
1985	SF	N	33	20	8	8	4.47	103	70	65	1	0	0	131	115	17	80	1	8	1
1986	SF	N	28	28	10	10	3.27	100	65	57	0	0	0	156.2	137	19	77	3	5	0
Total	NL		179	166	72	58	3.52	704	484	442	31	7	0	1131.1	1030	92	453	30	36	3
Total	AL		323	307	137	103	3.14	1471	873	771	112	30	2	2212	1909	171	732	31	67	20
Total			502	473	209	161	3.27	2175	1357	1213	143	37	2	3343.1	2939	263	1185	61	103	23

Fielding Stats

Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	TP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1969	OAK	A	P	12	4	42	1	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	1.000
1970	OAK	A	P	6	6	38.2	1	7	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	1.000
1971	OAK	A	P	39	39	312	15	24	0	0	0	5	7	7	0	1.000
1972	OAK	A	P	25	23	151	4	17	2	0	0	3	6	2	2	.913
1973	OAK	A	P	37	37	263.2	9	30	0	0	0	4	14	7	2	1.000
1974	OAK	A	P	40	40	282.1	10	16	3	0	0	2	12	8	0	.897
1975	OAK	A	P	39	38	278	4	34	1	1	0	0	23	9	1	.974
1976	OAK	A	P	37	37	298.1	3	34	1	2	0	2	20	15	1	.974
1977	OAK	A	P	38	38	279.2	6	42	3	2	0	2	17	23	2	.941
1978	SF	N	P	35	35	258	12	29	0	4	0	2	14	15	3	1.000
1979	SF	N	P	34	34	237	10	42	1	5	0	0	16	16	3	.981
1980	SF	N	P	31	31	224	14	42	1	4	0	0	14	16	5	.982
1981	SF	N	P	18	18	124.2	11	29	1	1	0	2	10	12	6	.976
1982	KC	A	P	31	31	181	14	22	2	0	0	3	8	9	6	.947
1983	KC	A	P	19	14	85.1	3	10	0	1	0	0	12	5	0	1.000
1985	SF	N	P	33	20	131	7	21	2	1	0	3	8	5	5	.933
1986	SF	N	P	28	28	156.2	3	24	2	0	0	0	11	14	2	.931
Total			P	502	473	3343.1	127	427	19	21	0	30	197	164	39	.967

Batting Stats

Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	HR	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	3B	BB	SO	HBP	SH	SB	IBB	GDP
1969	OAK	A	12	10	1	0	0	0	.000	.167	.000	0	0	2	4	0	0	0	0	0
1970	OAK	A	6	15	1	3	1	3	.200	.250	.467	1	0	1	7	0	1	0	0	1
1971	OAK	A	39	102	6	12	0	2	.118	.167	.127	1	0	4	63	2	13	0	0	0
1972	OAK	A	27	45	4	2	0	0	.044	.140	.044	0	0	5	34	0	2	0	0	0
1973	OAK	A	38	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1974	OAK	A	40	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1975	OAK	A	39	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1976	OAK	A	37	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1977	OAK	A	38	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
1978	SF	N	35	79	8	6	1	2	.076	.240	.127	1	0	16	51	1	5	0	0	0
1979	SF	N	37	83	7	10	1	3	.120	.180	.169	1	0	6	35	0	8	0	0	0
1980	SF	N	31	68	3	5	0	1	.074	.111	.088	1	0	3	34	0	7	0	0	0
1981	SF	N	18	35	4	7	0	1	.200	.263	.257	2	0	3	10	0	5	0	0	1
1982	KC	A	31	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1983	KC	A	19	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1985	SF	N	33	30	0	4	0	0	.133	.212	.167	1	0	3	12	0	8	0	0	0
1986	SF	N	28	43	3	4	1	3	.093	.204	.186	1	0	6	20	0	4	0	0	0
Total	NL		182	338	25	36	3	10	.107	.196	.154	7	0	37	162	1	37	0	0	1
Total	AL		326	174	12	17	1	5	.098	.165	.126	2	0	12	109	2	16	0	0	1
Total			508	512	37	53	4	15	.104	.186	.145	9	0	49	271	3	53	0	0	2

Transactions

• Selected by Kansas City Athletics in the 2nd round of the free-agent draft (June 6, 1967).
• Traded by Oakland Athletics to San Francisco Giants in exchange for Gary Alexander, Gary Thomasson, Dave Heaverlo, Alan Wirth, John Henry Johnson, Phil Huffman, $300000 and a player to be named later (March 15, 1978); Oakland Athletics received Mario Guerrero (April 7, 1978).
• Traded by San Francisco Giants with Bob Tufts to Kansas City Royals in exchange for Renie Martin, Craig Chamberlain, Atlee Hammaker and Brad Wellman (March 30, 1982).
• Released by Kansas City Royals (August 5, 1983).
• Signed by San Francisco Giants (April 6, 1985).
• Granted free agency (November 12, 1985).
• Signed by San Francisco Giants (December 17, 1985).
• Granted free agency (November 12, 1986).
• Signed by Oakland Athletics (January 20, 1987).

Trivia

• All-Star Games: 1971, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981
• World Series Champion: 1972, 1973, 1974
• 1971 AL Cy Young Award Winner
• 1971 AL MVP