Oil Can Boyd

Full Name: Dennis Ray Boyd	Primary Position: P
Height/Weight: 6' 1"/155	First Game: September 13, 1982
Birthdate: October 6, 1959	Final Game: October 1, 1991
Birthplace: Meridian, Mississippi	MLB Experience: 10 years
Bat/Throw: Right/Right

Rate this Player

3.04

(25 votes)

1 Biography
2 Statistics
3 Transactions
4 Trivia
5 Video Gallery
6 Picture Gallery
7 See Also
8 Categories

[edit] Biography

Born on October 6, 1959 in Meridian, Mississippi, Oil Can Boyd (Dennis Ray Boyd) played for the Boston Red Sox, Montreal Expos and Texas Rangers over the course of his 10 year career. Boyd broke into the bigs on September 13, 1982 with the Boston Red Sox, and put up a 3.28 ERA in 98.2 innings pitched in 1983, his rookie year.

Most people believe that Oil Can Boyd's best season was 1985, when he posted a 3.70 ERA, won 15 games and struck out 154 batters.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Pitching Stats

Year	Team		G	GS	W	L	ERA	K	R	ER	CG	SHO	IP	H	HR	BB	IB	WP	HBP
1982	BOS	A	3	1	0	1	5.40	2	5	5	0	0	8.1	11	2	2	0	1	0
1983	BOS	A	15	13	4	8	3.28	43	46	36	5	0	98.2	103	9	23	0	3	1
1984	BOS	A	29	26	12	12	4.37	134	109	96	10	3	197.2	207	18	53	5	5	1
1985	BOS	A	35	35	15	13	3.70	154	117	112	13	3	272.1	273	26	67	3	1	4
1986	BOS	A	30	30	16	10	3.78	129	99	90	10	0	214.1	222	32	45	1	3	2
1987	BOS	A	7	7	1	3	5.89	12	31	24	0	0	36.2	47	6	9	1	0	2
1988	BOS	A	23	23	9	7	5.34	71	82	77	1	0	129.2	147	25	41	2	0	2
1989	BOS	A	10	10	3	2	4.42	26	31	29	0	0	59	57	8	19	0	2	0
1990	MON	N	31	31	10	6	2.93	113	64	62	3	3	190.2	164	19	52	10	3	3
1991	TEX	A	12	12	2	7	6.68	33	47	46	0	0	62	81	12	17	1	0	0
1991	MON	N	19	19	6	8	3.52	82	49	47	1	1	120.1	115	9	40	2	2	0
1991	Total		31	31	8	15	4.59	115	96	93	1	1	182.1	196	21	57	3	2	0
Total	NL		50	50	16	14	3.15	195	113	109	4	4	311	279	28	92	12	5	3
Total	AL		164	157	62	63	4.30	604	567	515	39	6	1078.2	1148	138	276	13	15	12
Total			214	207	78	77	4.04	799	680	624	43	10	1389.2	1427	166	368	25	20	15

[edit] Fielding Stats

Year	Team		POS	G	GS	INN	PO	A	ERR	DP	PB	SB	CS	PkO	AVG
1982	BOS	A	P	3	1	8.1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000
1983	BOS	A	P	15	13	98.2	5	10	1	1	1	9	4	0	.938
1984	BOS	A	P	29	26	197.2	20	31	2	3	0	10	11	0	.962
1985	BOS	A	P	35	35	272.1	42	41	1	2	3	15	18	0	.988
1986	BOS	A	P	30	30	214.1	24	27	2	4	0	14	10	0	.962
1987	BOS	A	P	7	7	36.2	4	11	0	0	0	3	2	0	1.000
1988	BOS	A	P	23	23	129.2	8	15	2	0	1	10	9	0	.920
1989	BOS	A	P	10	10	59	7	10	0	1	0	8	4	1	1.000
1990	MON	N	P	31	31	190.2	7	24	3	1	4	25	6	0	.912
1991	TEX	A	P	12	12	62	4	6	0	1	2	3	3	0	1.000
1991	MON	N	P	19	19	120.1	7	11	0	0	5	11	9	0	1.000
1991	Total		P	31	31	182.1	11	17	0	1	7	14	12	0	1.000
Total			P	214	207	1389.2	128	187	11	13	16	108	76	1	.966

[edit] Batting Stats

Year	Team		G	AB	R	H	RBI	AVG	OBP	SLG	BB	SO	SH	GDP
1982	BOS	A	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1983	BOS	A	15	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1984	BOS	A	29	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1985	BOS	A	35	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1986	BOS	A	30	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1987	BOS	A	7	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1988	BOS	A	23	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1989	BOS	A	10	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1990	MON	N	31	59	1	3	0	.051	.051	.051	0	20	12	1
1991	TEX	A	12	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
1991	MON	N	19	36	1	3	2	.083	.154	.083	3	19	3	0
1991	Total		31	36	1	3	2	.083	.154	.083	3	19	3	0
Total	NL		50	95	2	6	2	.063	.092	.063	3	39	15	1
Total	AL		164	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Total			214	95	2	6	2	.063	.092	.063	3	39	15	1

[edit] Transactions

Selected by Boston Red Sox in the 16th round of the free-agent draft (June 3, 1980).
Granted free agency (November 13, 1989).
Signed by Montreal Expos (December 7, 1989).
Traded by Montreal Expos to Texas Rangers in exchange for Jonathan Hurst, Joey Eischen and a player to be named later (July 21, 1991); Montreal Expos received Travis Buckley (September 1, 1991).
Granted free agency (October 31, 1991).

[edit] Trivia

[edit] Video Gallery

Add Videos

[edit] Picture Gallery

Add Pictures

[edit] See Also

[edit] Categories

Retrieved from "http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Oil_Can_Boyd"

This page was last modified 22:51, 6 November 2007. Content is available under the GFDL.