John Tsitouris

Full Name: John Philip Tsitouris	Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 0"/175	First Game: June 13, 1957
Birthdate: May 4, 1936	Final Game: April 24, 1968
Birthplace: Monroe, North Carolina	MLB Experience: 11 years
Bat/Throw: Right/Right

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Born on May 4, 1936 in Monroe, North Carolina, John Tsitouris (John Philip Tsitouris) played for the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics and Cincinnati Reds over the course of his 11 year career. Tsitouris broke into the bigs on June 13, 1957 with the Detroit Tigers, and put up a 4.97 ERA in 83.1 innings pitched in 1959, his rookie year.

Most people believe that John Tsitouris's best season was 1963, when he posted a 3.16 ERA, won 12 games and struck out 113 batters.

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Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	HR	BB	IB	WP	HBP
1957	DET	A	2	0	1	0	8.10	2	3	3	0	0	0	3.1	8	0	2	0	0	0
1958	KC	A	1	1	0	0	3.00	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	2	0	2	0	1	0
1959	KC	A	24	10	4	3	4.97	50	52	46	0	0	0	83.1	90	3	35	3	4	3
1960	KC	A	14	2	0	2	6.55	12	25	24	0	0	0	33	38	3	21	1	5	8
1962	CIN	N	4	2	1	0	.84	7	2	2	1	1	0	21.1	13	0	7	0	1	3
1963	CIN	N	30	21	12	8	3.16	113	73	67	8	3	0	191	167	20	38	1	10	11
1964	CIN	N	37	24	9	13	3.80	146	90	74	6	1	2	175.1	178	20	75	6	11	5
1965	CIN	N	31	20	6	9	4.95	91	87	72	3	0	1	131	134	18	65	1	15	9
1966	CIN	N	1	0	0	0	18.00	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	0	1	0	0	0
1967	CIN	N	2	1	1	0	3.38	4	3	3	0	0	0	8	4	1	6	0	0	0
1968	CIN	N	3	3	0	3	7.11	6	10	10	0	0	0	12.2	16	6	8	0	0	1
Total	NL		108	71	29	33	3.83	367	267	230	18	5	3	540.1	515	65	200	8	37	29
Total	AL		41	13	5	5	5.43	65	81	74	0	0	0	122.2	138	6	60	4	10	11
Total			149	84	34	38	4.13	432	348	304	18	5	3	663	653	71	260	12	47	40

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Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1957	DET	A	P	2	0	3.1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000
1958	KC	A	P	1	1	3	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000
1959	KC	A	P	24	10	83	3	13	2	0	2	2	1	1	.889
1960	KC	A	P	14	2	32.2	2	6	0	0	0	4	0	0	1.000
1962	CIN	N	P	4	2	21.1	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000
1963	CIN	N	P	30	21	191	13	16	1	0	0	9	2	0	.967
1964	CIN	N	P	37	24	175.1	14	23	0	1	3	9	7	1	1.000
1965	CIN	N	P	31	20	131	5	19	2	0	2	6	8	1	.923
1966	CIN	N	P	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
1967	CIN	N	P	2	1	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1968	CIN	N	P	3	3	12.2	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
Total			P	149	84	662.1	41	85	5	1	7	33	18	3	.962

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Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	2B	BB	SO	HBP	SH	GDP
1957	DET	A	2	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0	0	0
1958	KC	A	1	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1959	KC	A	24	20	1	3	0	.150	.190	.150	0	1	7	0	3	1
1960	KC	A	14	6	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1	0	1	0
1962	CIN	N	4	5	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	3	0	1	0
1963	CIN	N	30	62	0	5	3	.081	.079	.081	0	0	21	0	3	3
1964	CIN	N	37	58	7	11	3	.190	.217	.224	2	2	17	0	2	2
1965	CIN	N	31	43	1	3	1	.070	.109	.070	0	1	14	1	3	0
1966	CIN	N	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967	CIN	N	2	0	0	0	0	.000	1.000	.000	0	1	0	0	1	0
1968	CIN	N	3	2	0	0	0	.000	.333	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Total	NL		108	170	8	19	7	.112	.140	.124	2	5	55	1	10	5
Total	AL		41	28	1	3	0	.107	.138	.107	0	1	9	0	4	1
Total			149	198	9	22	7	.111	.140	.121	2	6	64	1	14	6

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Signed as an amateur free agent by Detroit Tigers (1954).
Traded by Detroit Tigers with Bill Tuttle, Jim Small, Duke Maas, Frank House, Kent Hadley and a player to be named later to Kansas City Athletics in exchange for Gus Zernial, Billy Martin, Tom Morgan, Lou Skizas, Mickey McDermott and Tim Thompson (November 20, 1957); Kansas City Athletics received Jim McManus (April 3, 1958).
Traded by Kansas City Athletics with John Briggs to Cincinnati Reds in exchange for Joe Nuxhall (January 25, 1961).

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