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October 18, 1932
The Series moves across the city from the Polo Grounds in Manhattan to Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. As gaudy as the Giants' regular season record was, it's now looking like the World Series veteran Yankees might just take it all.
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New York Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 2 New York Yankees 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 1 6 1 HR: None Giants IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA F. Fleming L (0-2) 8.0 6 1 1 3 1 0 123 74 2.12 Yankees IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA B. Meyers W (2-0) 9.0 11 0 0 2 6 0 147 92 0.50
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October 19, 1932
So now the Giants face something very close to a must-win situation. If they can't manage to win this game, they face elimination in Yankee Stadium the following day. Of course, all is not done yet: nobody will remember that the Series took 6 or 7 games if the New York National entrants emerge victorious. Everyone, however, will remember the massive choke job if they do lose.
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New York Giants 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 0 New York Yankees 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 X 3 7 1 HR: None Giants IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA J. Burns L (1-1) 8.0 7 3 3 2 3 0 116 70 1.59 Yankees IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA S. Krug W (1-1) 9.0 10 1 0 0 1 0 99 72 0.00 Heroes of the Series: Michael Taylor's hitting .357 for the Yankees with a couple of game-changing hits. On the Giants side, RF Eddie McCrary is the only guy on the team doing any kind of hitting with a .429 series average. Goats: Erik Conn and Emory Jefferson were supposed to be the powerful 1-2 punch that would destroy the Yankees but are hitting .125 and .188 with zero RBIs between them. SS Mike Kennedy is hitting just .133 for the New York junior circuit team and has 3 errors.
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It comes down to the #3 starters from each team: crafty veteran Pinto Rush facing off against Alan Hack, who missed so much of the season. Can the Giants finally break out against the unknown quantity? They'll need to just to stay alive.
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New York Giants 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 1 0 9 19 0 New York Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 2 HR: None Giants IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA R. Rush W (1-0) 9.0 7 0 0 2 0 0 111 64 0.00 Yankees IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA A. Hack L (0-1) 3.0 10 6 3 0 1 0 66 40 9.00 J. Hernández 2.0 2 0 0 1 1 0 28 19 0.00 B. Ruth 3.0 6 3 3 1 0 0 63 39 9.00 L. May 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 19 11 0.00 Game notes: 1B Michael Taylor sprained his ankle trying to leg out a 1st to 3rd move on a base hit. He'll miss the rest of the Series.
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With the offensive outburst in the final game of the year at Yankee Stadium and the loss of series hero Michael Taylor, the Giants suddenly look like they have more than a fleeting chance in this Series. All they need to do is win 2 games in the Polo Grounds. Given that they had 60 wins in 77 tries at home this season, that's not exactly a tough feat.
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New York Yankees 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 New York Giants 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 X 4 10 1 HR: None Yankees IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA B. Meyers 0.1 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 0.49 J.Hernández L(0-1) 4.0 3 1 1 0 0 0 52 35 1.50 P. Hernández 3.0 6 3 3 2 0 0 46 28 9.00 L. May 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 6 0.00 Giants IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA F. Fleming W (1-2) 9.0 7 0 0 2 6 0 152 86 1.38
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October 23, 1932
So this is it. Win or go home from both teams. The Giants have already battled back from a 3-1 deficit to tie the Series and given the newly depleted Yankees roster one has to think that the Senior Circuit club, so heavily favored coming into this match, has to be heavily favored today too. Although the Giants have not hit a home run, each of their starting pitchers has gone the distance in this Series. It's like the dead ball era was transported ahead 20 years for seven games.
Giants 3, Yankees 2 Code:
New York Yankees 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 4
New York Giants 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 12 0
HR: NYY N. Behnke (1, 9th Inning off J. Burns, 0 on, 2 outs)
NYG E. Conn (1, 3rd Inning off S. Krug, 1 on, 2 outs)
Yankees IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA
S. Krug 8.0 10 2 2 3 3 1 119 73 0.72
L. May L (0-1) 0.1 2 1 0 0 1 0 12 8 0.00
Giants IP H R ER BB K HR PI PS ERA
J. Burns W (2-1) 9.0 9 2 2 4 4 1 130 80 1.73
At that point, Rookie of the Year candidate Earl Race earned a spot as scapegoat of the Series. He booted a hot grounder from Benton Wheeler to lead off the inning. Mason Taylor singled in the hole between first and second, Wheeler advancing to 3rd on the play. Then Erik Conn struck out. At this point it should have been a 2-out situation. Instead, Emory Jefferson hit a soft liner just beyond the reach of Race that scored the winning run and left half of the city of New York happy. 3 balls put into play that inning, each one of them hit in the direction of the Yankees second baseman. Did the Giants know something we don't?
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Joshua Cohen Inducted Into The Hall of Fame
Joshua Cohen ended a fantastic career spent primarily in the state of Pennsylvania, announcing his retirement and shortly thereafter getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. "Look, we just do it immediately," said commissioner Johnny Slick. "No, there's no voting. It just happens. Stop asking questions we're not going to answer." Cohen started his career at age 22 with the Philadelphia Athletics and stayed there through the 1925 season. It was there that he put in the best work of his career, winning his lone Gold Glove in 1917 and his MVP in 1920. Perhaps a .336 average with 5 home runs and 88 RBIs doesn't look like much today, but trust us: back then it was something else. After taking leave of the A's, he flitted around the game, landing with the Giants, White Sox, and Pirates, and steadily getting less and less playing time. He still managed to put together 12 consecutive years with at least 170 hits. In 1929 he had a career high 120 runs scored. Cohen finishes his career 2nd all-time in hits with 3,193, 4th in runs with 1,475, 5th in games played with 2,522, and 12th all-time in walks with 1,018. He led the league in games played 3 times, plate appearances, runs, and hits once, and on-base percentage twice. He hit .394 in '25, which amazingly did not earn him his 2nd MVP. Baseball will miss a great player. Code:
Career Batting Stats Year/Team/League Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB AVG OBP SLG 1913 Philadelphia - ML 22 95 409 54 137 7 6 1 38 20 24 34 0.335 0.369 0.389 1914 Philadelphia - ML 23 77 331 49 104 14 2 0 38 19 14 34 0.314 0.352 0.369 1915 Philadelphia - ML 24 117 486 71 156 15 11 1 39 41 30 36 0.321 0.375 0.403 1916 Philadelphia - ML 25 132 548 63 156 14 6 5 54 37 31 37 0.285 0.330 0.359 1917 Philadelphia - ML 26 152 609 80 172 16 7 3 60 80 44 41 0.282 0.367 0.346 1918 Philadelphia - ML 27 152 611 78 190 18 11 1 67 58 22 40 0.311 0.370 0.381 1919 Philadelphia - ML 28 132 537 80 175 11 10 4 52 58 26 21 0.326 0.396 0.406 1920 Philadelphia - ML 29 148 622 99 209 24 5 5 88 53 31 32 0.336 0.386 0.415 1921 Philadelphia - ML 30 129 527 82 190 8 9 4 65 56 21 18 0.361 0.418 0.433 1922 Philadelphia - ML 31 149 615 91 205 17 7 7 86 64 36 9 0.333 0.397 0.418 1923 Philadelphia - ML 32 152 617 92 208 21 5 2 61 69 29 34 0.337 0.405 0.397 1924 Philadelphia - ML 33 149 613 94 224 25 13 9 106 54 24 11 0.365 0.413 0.493 1925 Philadelphia - ML 34 130 548 97 216 22 9 6 84 66 18 8 0.394 0.460 0.500 1926 New York - MLB 35 149 584 94 197 21 10 7 84 79 26 7 0.337 0.414 0.443 1927 New York - MLB 36 153 617 106 203 24 5 3 62 68 24 38 0.329 0.395 0.399 1928 Chicago - MLB 37 152 630 120 196 21 4 11 53 91 35 9 0.311 0.400 0.410 1929 Chicago - MLB 38 112 286 44 97 12 3 3 37 27 14 3 0.339 0.392 0.434 1930 Cincinnati - MLB 39 43 86 14 26 0 1 0 10 11 15 1 0.302 0.378 0.326 1930 Chicago - MLB 39 62 141 24 41 7 2 0 14 24 14 3 0.291 0.389 0.369 1930 Total - MLB 39 105 227 38 67 7 3 0 24 35 29 4 0.295 0.385 0.352 1931 New York - MLB 40 57 103 11 33 3 0 0 13 17 11 2 0.320 0.417 0.350 1932 Pittsburgh - MLB 41 80 222 32 58 9 3 2 17 26 29 3 0.261 0.339 0.356 Total MLB 2522 9742 1475 3193 309 129 74 11281018 518 421 0.328 0.391 0.409
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Rookie of the Year Awards Announced
Fortunately for Earl Race, the voters don't base their awards on the postseason. If they did, you'd think his implosion in the 9th inning against the Giants would have been the difference in a very close AL ROY race. Race came out of nowhere to start all but 4 games at 2nd base for the pennant-winning Yankees this year and, it must be said, was very solid during the regular season. He beat out Charlie Henley of the Detroit Tigers, who might be an even better player if he can ever learn how to work a pitch count. Even with him flailing at every pitch, he hit .345 with 73 extra-base hits. The "show" man in the voting was reliever Charlie Haynes, a long-time minor leaguer who was 9-3 for the Browns and probably their best pitcher. Code:
Batting Stats Year/Team/League Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB AVG OBP SLG Earl Race, NYY 2B 24 150 648 106 210 43 6 2 73 33 57 3 .324 .361 .418 Carl Penley, DET LF 20 117 555 88 190 57 11 6 55 3 60 15 .342 .345 .512 Year/Team/League Age G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER HR BB K CG SHO WHIP Charlie Haynes, STB 26 53 0 9 3 12 3.14 100.1 97 41 35 2 32 31 0 0 1.29 Code:
Batting Stats Year/Team/League Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB AVG OBP SLG John Sundberg, C NYG 24 138 551 73 178 38 4 12 97 36 52 0 .323 .360 .472 Ken Lefebvre, RF BRK 24 60 228 56 78 19 2 10 44 43 11 5 .342 .446 .575 Carson Groth, 1B CHN 20 133 568 76 180 52 8 6 76 28 63 0 .317 .349 .468
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And Here Are The Pitchers Of The Year
I guess one could slate it as a minor upset. The right team won the award but perhaps not the pitcher you'd have thought. John Burns proved that youngsters can get the job done just as well as older guys in winning the POTY award. He more than doubled his win total from his rookie season and actually lowered his HR allowed total despite throwing almost 50 more innings. Cincinnati Reds hurler Earl Crockett saw a similarly major uptick in his pitching ability, improving his own win total from 16 to 27 and leading his team to a (distant) second place. So much has been said about Fred Fleming already that we don't feel the need to repeat it except to say that he was without a doubt the greatest midseason acquisition in the history of the game. 2/3rds of a season just isn't as good as a full one, though. Code:
Year/Team/League Age G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER HR BB K CG SHO WHIP John Burns, NYG 25 39 39 29 8 0 3.26 325.1 328 136 118 17 89 112 30 3 1.28 Earl Crockett, CIN 28 40 40 27 12 0 3.14 330.0 335 132 115 18 67 161 26 2 1.22 Fred Fleming, CLE/NYG 28 40 40 28 8 0 3.00 327.0 304 129 109 24 106 180 30 3 1.25 Code:
Year/Team/League Age G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER HR BB K CG SHO WHIP Bob Hinman, CHA 25 42 42 28 12 0 3.01 358.2 348 147 120 28 48 186 32 4 1.10 Bob 'Eeyore' Meyers, NY 26 40 39 24 12 0 2.54 325.2 317 121 92 13 37 184 26 3 1.09 Steve Krug, NYY 32 36 36 22 11 0 2.95 299.1 293 121 98 10 63 90 25 2 1.19
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MVPs Announced
It was a near-clean sweep for the #1 and #2 teams in the NL this year. The Giants and Reds had the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best pitchers, the top rookie, and, as we shall see, the 1st and 3rd most valuable players. Brad Box was the NL MVP this year. This is the 2nd straight year he's won the award, and he did it in grand fashion, setting a new major league baseball record for RBIs with 151. Although his team finished below .500, you just can't ignore the incredible work with both the stick and the glove of CF Charles Payne of the Philadelphia Phillies. His gaudy numbers were inflated by the Baker Bowl, but they're still insane. 3B Emory Jefferson perhaps should have won the MVP outright but New York writers split between him and teammate Erik Conn. Code:
Batting Stats Year/Team/League Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB AVG OBP SLG Brad Box, RF CIN 27 154 612 138 224 41 10 28 151 111 13 8 .366 .459 .603 Charles Payne, CF PHN 35 150 566 152 190 46 7 38 130 122 39 19 .336 .452 .643 Emory Jefferson, 3B NYG 27 139 555 123 193 26 5 37 133 78 39 0 .348 .425 .613 Code:
Batting Stats Year/Team/League Age G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB K SB AVG OBP SLG Lester Archie, SS, STB 25 154 646 108 249 44 6 17 114 81 31 0 .385 .456 .551 Carter Keeton, LF, NYY 26 127 464 115 155 25 10 22 115 103 52 3 .334 .458 .573 Gustavo Pena, 3B, PHA 35 150 609 103 203 40 13 10 87 103 34 16 .333 .433 .491
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Gold Gloves Announced
Listed below are the Gold Glove winners from each league and the number of times each player has won the award in parentheses: National League ----------------- Pitcher: Lyndon Key CIN (1) Catcher: Anastasio Rodríguez STL (1) First Baseman: Tom Hardy NYG (1) Second Baseman: Dan Manning STL (1) Third Baseman: Jay Calvin CIN (4) Shortstop: Benton Wheeler NYG (3) Left Fielder: Daniel Gravel PIT (1) Center Fielder: Charles Payne PHI (7) Right Fielder: Doug Levin PHI (1) American League ----------------- Pitcher: Mark Dunbar PHA (1) Catcher: Phil Foster NYY (4) First Baseman: Corey Jones PHA (2) Second Baseman: Earl Race NYY (1) Third Baseman: Steve Hunter WAS (1) Shortstop: Chris Gregg WAS (2) Left Fielder: Hollis Ramsdell BOS (1) Center Fielder: Nathan Behnke NYY (1) Right Fielder: Ken Flake BOS (2)
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Boston Red Sox
The Red Sox were the baseball version of "Even Steven" last year. They never got too far down or too far up. In any given month they were no more than 2 games above or below .500. The hitting balanced lots of power with a lack of situational hitting to come out pretty average. So did the pitchingg, although they had to work extra hard to counterbalance a pretty solid defensive effort by the Bostonians. They finally got the job done by not striking anybody out. It's hard to predict anything further from this team than more of the same, as they are neither particularly young nor particularly old. Even Steven. Code:
Record overall 78-76, .506 PCT 3rd, 18.0 GB Home 39-38, .506 PCT Road 39-38, .506 PCT X-innings 5-10, .333 PCT One-run games 20-21, .488 PCT Versus LHP 17-14, .548 PCT Versus RHP 61-62, .496 PCT April 5-4, .556 PCT May 13-15, .464 PCT June 15-13, .536 PCT July 14-13, .519 PCT August 14-13, .519 PCT September 12-14, .462 PCT October 5-4, .556 PCT Team Batting Stats & Rankings Batting Average .287 - 5th in AL On-Base Percentage .339 - 5th in AL Slugging Percentage .432 - 3rd in AL On-Base + Slugging .771 - 4th in AL Runs Scored 830 - 4th in AL Hits 1609 - 5th in AL Extra-Base Hits 514 - 1st in AL Home Runs 121 - 1st in AL Bases-On-Balls 443 - 7th in AL Strikeouts 484 - 5th in AL Stolen Bases 43 - 4th in AL Team Pitching Stats & Rankings Earned Run Average 4.39 - 3rd in AL Starters' ERA 4.35 - 3rd in AL Bullpen ERA 4.58 - 6th in AL Runs allowed 788 - 3rd in AL Hits allowed 1568 - 2nd in AL Opponents AVG .282 - 2nd in AL BABIP .289 - 2nd in AL Home Runs allowed 119 - 7th in AL Bases-On-Balls 469 - 4th in AL Strikeouts 424 - 7th in AL Brian East may have gotten all the glory, but it was Irwin Boulanger who was the real ace of the staff. Prior to last season, East was a bit of a journeyman: he'd had a little bit of success in 1929 with the Bosox but not that much, really, and he was traded on the cheap to the Athletics. When the A's cut him without watching him play a single game, the Cardinals picked him up. After composing a 17-25 record over parts of 2 seasons with the St. Louis NL entrant, he was shipped off for a minor-league middle reliever. Reunited with Boston and more importantly Boston's fast outfield, this pitch-to-contact man enjoyed a career year. Of course, Irwin Boulanger has been the staff ace for almost a decade now and one good season isn't going to move him off that mark. He finished 5th in the AL in strikeouts, a long ways off from the 5 season he led the league in the category but a sign that he can still overpower hitters when he has to. On the minus side, Boulanger and East ranked 1-2 in the junior circuit in home runs allowed. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Brian East 27 22 12 0.647 40 39 0 316.1 328 142 35 75 85 4.04 58.8 Irwin Boulanger 31 15 17 0.469 37 37 0 303 333 132 31 71 126 3.92 59.8 Phil Hendrix 33 12 8 0.600 25 25 0 190 215 74 11 73 38 3.51 43.4 Paul Mair 25 6 8 0.429 25 15 0 115.2 147 77 8 48 18 5.99 -3.1 Roger Sayers 26 7 6 0.538 15 15 0 112.1 118 55 9 43 41 4.41 16.3 Newton Carroll 31 4 8 0.333 37 7 0 90.2 116 56 5 61 24 5.56 1.7 Al Rees 24 3 6 0.333 13 13 0 86 104 48 7 22 17 5.02 6.7 Bob Cooke 28 2 7 0.222 46 0 14 60.2 79 38 5 26 30 5.64 0.7 Alfredo Aquino 29 3 2 0.600 27 0 1 35 41 18 5 18 14 4.63 4.2 Jason Moore 24 1 0 1.000 9 0 0 27 23 9 0 9 16 3.00 8.0 Christian Stanton 22 1 1 0.500 8 3 0 25 34 12 2 15 11 4.32 2.9 Lester Willday 38 2 1 0.667 15 0 0 20.2 30 13 1 8 4 5.66 0.2 Team Totals 28.2 78 76 0.506 297 154 15 1382.1 1568 674 119 469 424 4.39 199.4 Mike Callihan opened up the year as the Sox' starting backstop but a .188 June doomed his chances. Charlie Maynor has been with the Sox as a sometime starter for more than a decade now, so it was no surprise that he was able to take care of things to a pretty good degree when required. Mark Hanke followed up a solid first full season (he also played in the 2nd half of 1930) with an electrifying year. He batted 3rd for the entire season, led all American Leaguers in at-bats, and finished 5th in RBIs. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C Charlie Maynor 32 111 88 353 57 106 39 4 7 47 0 0 19 29 0.300 0.336 0.493 0.829 10.7 C Mike Callihan 29 67 64 225 20 53 6 1 2 20 0 0 16 15 0.236 0.289 0.298 0.587 -13.6 C Paul Washington 25 6 2 11 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.455 0.455 0.545 1.000 1.6 1B Mark Hanke 24 153 153 656 115 222 33 5 28 114 0 0 58 58 0.338 0.393 0.532 0.925 34.6 Second base was handled by the field in '32 but the Red Sox would really like to get a bit more production from the position. The most effective guy was Troy Donahue, who hit .285 - an empty .285, but still .285. It should be said that he did a fine job with the glove. Harland Barrett also did well with the glove, but last year's starter was barely able to hit his prodigious weight. Lamont Miramontes retired following the season. He had a nifty renaissance to his career after being claimed off of waivers by Boston in the winter of 1929, but the juice finally leaked out of the bottle last year. Kinnojo is still only 26 and just seems like he's older because he's been around the Boston organization forever. He finally got a chance to play last year and really made the most of it. Both he and SS Arlen Bopp missed about a month with assorted injuries, giving the backups a little time to shine. Some shone a little more brightly than others. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B *Lamont Miramontes 36 77 69 260 34 59 13 4 0 30 7 4 39 21 0.227 0.328 0.308 0.636 -4.0 2B Troy Donahoe 28 71 55 235 33 67 20 5 1 35 8 6 8 36 0.285 0.309 0.426 0.735 2.8 2B *Harland Barrett 25 45 25 109 11 25 8 1 0 14 1 1 7 2 0.229 0.282 0.321 0.603 -3.8 3B Kinnojo Maeda 26 114 114 500 90 162 40 4 10 52 0 1 39 48 0.324 0.376 0.480 0.856 22.9 3B Ron Smith 24 34 31 148 20 43 13 5 0 12 3 0 6 3 0.291 0.318 0.446 0.764 1.7 SS Arlen Bopp 26 103 98 422 66 139 30 3 2 50 0 0 23 37 0.329 0.361 0.429 0.790 7.0 SS Erik Shelly 32 46 28 120 19 33 4 0 1 12 0 0 14 17 0.275 0.346 0.333 0.679 -3.0 SS Alan Powell 23 32 22 110 15 32 3 1 4 17 0 1 6 7 0.291 0.328 0.445 0.773 0.2 SS #Kent Edge 20 23 21 78 11 18 4 1 0 9 1 1 7 7 0.231 0.294 0.308 0.602 -6.3 The biggest strength of this club, this outfield earned 2 Gold Gloves and might have seen a third had Bill Hampton just stayed healthy. Hollis Ramsdell was the Red Sox clean-up man last year. He excelled at the job. Only 2 players in AL history had more HRs than his 30 last year. Perhaps the league is slightly overshadowed by the long-ball glory of the NL this year, but that's still huge. Ken Flake is a man who reminds the staff fantasy baseballist of a man named Tony Armas. He says he has all the strengths and weaknesses: low average, lots of power, a rocket for an arm in right field... we would argue with this man that unlike this Tony Armas fellow, Flake draws lots of walks and rarely strikes out, but what's the point in arguing with a man who has his own pretend baseball league? In center, Bill Hampton was limited to just 142 at-bats after breaking both his hand and arm. Now 31 years of age, perhaps it's finally time to admit that the good fielding, good hitting Michiganer just lacks the stamina to play a full season. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF Hollis Ramsdell 27 142 141 595 110 202 41 11 30 122 6 2 43 39 0.339 0.386 0.597 0.982 48.9 LF *Gaylord Miner 30 37 9 67 5 15 3 1 0 8 0 0 4 9 0.224 0.274 0.299 0.572 -5.3 LF *Jim Stephens 23 13 0 12 4 4 0 0 1 4 0 1 2 3 0.333 0.429 0.583 1.012 0.8 CF *Steven Bartels 25 72 68 285 26 85 13 3 3 28 5 5 14 19 0.298 0.330 0.396 0.726 -5.7 CF *Bill Hampton 31 40 40 142 29 41 3 3 3 24 3 0 23 14 0.289 0.396 0.415 0.812 5.0 CF *Glenn Desmond 30 49 24 105 12 28 5 1 1 17 1 1 13 9 0.267 0.347 0.362 0.709 -4.8 CF Eric Propst 30 36 25 100 19 26 2 1 1 10 4 2 8 9 0.260 0.315 0.330 0.645 -4.9 RF *Ken Flake 28 131 129 494 89 122 25 3 26 93 2 4 82 39 0.247 0.353 0.468 0.820 9.1 RF Manuel Ortíz 29 14 14 57 8 16 4 1 0 11 1 0 2 7 0.281 0.317 0.386 0.703 -1.4 RF Doyle Asbury 32 18 11 51 3 4 1 0 0 3 1 1 5 8 0.078 0.161 0.098 0.259 -10.1 RF Hilton Walters 20 3 1 6 3 3 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.500 0.500 0.833 1.333 1.7 Code:
Team Totals 27.6 1734 1386 5616 830 1609 331 62 121 787 43 30 443 484 0.287 0.339 0.432 0.771 95.2
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Boston Braves
Well, somebody had to finish last, and why not the Braves? After all, this is a team known for gastronomic excess and financial acumen, not actual baseball playing ability. It's only fitting that as the national economy is deep within a great Depression that this of all teams struggles the most. In any case, this wasn't even the worst finish in Braves history - the 1925 team lost a full 100 games. Unlike the Brooklyn Dodgers, who combined an okay offense with the worst defense of all time, the Braves were merely very bad on both counts. Code:
Record overall 57-97, .370 PCT 8th, 53.0 GB Home 26-51, .338 PCT Road 31-46, .403 PCT X-inning games 4-5, .444 PCT One-run games 17-33, .340 PCT Versus LHP 17-21, .447 PCT Versus RHP 40-76, .345 PCT April 3-5, .375 PCT May 12-16, .429 PCT June 8-18, .308 PCT July 10-18, .357 PCT =August 12-14, .462 PCT September 8-19, .296 PCT October 4-7, .364 PCT Team Batting Stats & Rankings Batting Average .279 - 7th in NL On-Base Percentage .327 - 8th in NL Slugging Percentage .411 - 7th in NL On-Base + Slugging .737 - 7th in NL Runs Scored 743 - 7th in NL Hits 1536 - 7th in NL Extra-Base Hits 470 - 5th in NL Home Runs 96 - tied for 6th in NL Bases-On-Balls 387 - 8th in NL Strikeouts 487 - 5th in NL Stolen Bases 64 - 3rd in NL Team Pitching Stats & Rankings Earned Run Average 5.34 - 7th in NL Starters' ERA 5.32 - 7th in NL Bullpen ERA 5.42 - 7th in NL Runs allowed 939 - 7th in NL Hits allowed 1717 - 7th in NL Opponents AVG .305 - 7th in NL BABIP .317 - 7th in NL Home Runs allowed 103 - 4th in NL Bases-On-Balls 566 - tied for 7th in NL Strikeouts 425 - 7th in NL Bad as the Braves' pitching was, you can't fault the front office for not trying to find the right fit. Boston used 19 pitchers last season and often used a 6-man rotation as they found themselves giving starts to virtually anybody off the street with the stamina to throw 100 or more pitches in a game. Their top starter by default was long-time Dodgers workhorse Adolpho Buanaroti, who came back to his city of origin for one last run. He finished his career with a record of 214-253 and lots of memories. This team's complete failure to put together a pitching staff out of their own farm system doomed them to go out and get guys like Buanoroti. They also signed future Hall of Famer Matt Snyder last offseason. Snyder was effective when he was in there but probably doesn't have the stamina anymore to last a whole season. Merlin Keyes was a scrap-heap pickup; it's amazing that he pitched as well as he did after the Washington Senators cut him with a 2-10 record and an ERA near 6. Only Bill Salyer was both effective and relatively young, and he missed half the season with a shoulder injury. It's hard to say that the worst team in the league will finish any worse than they did, but this is not a blueprint for success. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Adolfo Buanoroti 39 7 16 0.304 29 29 0 202.1 251 108 22 58 36 4.80 17.6 Matt Snyder 37 8 9 0.471 22 22 0 167 186 62 14 35 44 3.34 41.5 Bill Salyer 28 9 8 0.529 22 22 0 162.2 183 79 10 41 34 4.37 21.1 Alex Mossman 25 7 7 0.500 20 20 0 134 168 75 4 70 59 5.04 8.7 Merlin Keyes 38 9 6 0.600 17 17 0 132.2 161 69 13 25 28 4.68 13.8 Todd Rigsby 36 7 7 0.500 51 3 4 113 115 41 6 33 50 3.27 29.5 Bartolo Martínez 29 4 10 0.286 53 0 6 74.2 99 43 4 25 29 5.18 3.6 Clyde Cornett 25 3 5 0.375 15 10 1 68.2 94 55 6 53 8 7.21 -13.1 Matt Boley 21 1 7 0.125 19 11 0 67 96 59 3 62 30 7.93 -18.0 Bill Gainey 28 0 7 0.000 8 8 0 55 86 43 2 39 19 7.04 -9.4 Dorian Wright 21 0 4 0.000 15 4 0 49.2 84 59 3 36 28 10.69 -27.9 Hank Sheppard 29 1 2 0.333 20 3 0 46 55 22 3 21 25 4.30 6.7 Herbert Hermann 21 1 3 0.250 11 4 0 36.1 57 39 7 36 15 9.66 -16.2 Rubén López 19 0 2 0.000 11 0 1 15 26 15 2 13 5 9.00 -6.1 Iestyn Truelove 30 0 1 0.000 6 0 0 13.2 27 19 2 7 5 12.51 -10.7 Dallas Demers 31 0 1 0.000 5 0 0 9 14 9 0 3 5 9.00 -3.6 Jesús Castro 33 0 1 0.000 1 1 0 7 9 6 1 5 1 7.71 -1.6 Jim Jacobs 31 0 1 0.000 3 0 0 6 5 3 1 1 4 4.50 0.7 Pat Ollis 24 0 0 0.000 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 3 0 9.00 -1.1 Team Totals 28.7 57 97 0.370 329 154 12 1361.2 1717 808 103 566 425 5.34 35.7 Neal James is a defensive specialist who put up numbers almost identical to his 1931 season: a little less gap power, but otherwise the same. He is what he is. The Braves picked up John Joseph off the waiver wire; he provided a solid complement to James' skill set. Fernando Dominguez was traded on June 6 for Bill Norman and relief pitching in a white flag trade. He'd been signed for big bucks in the offseason but the front office decided, to paraphrase the stock market, to "sell high". They then turned their attention to Norm Burnett, who did not appear to be ready to handle 1B duties all by himself, and finally a platoon of Burnett and Norman. This situation yielded the team some of their best production. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C Neal James 27 114 108 397 44 100 19 2 14 66 0 0 32 13 0.252 0.306 0.416 0.722 -3.4 C John Joseph 31 19 10 40 4 17 4 1 1 12 0 0 3 2 0.425 0.465 0.650 1.115 7.5 C Brad Brown 25 12 10 34 2 3 1 0 0 4 0 0 4 3 0.088 0.200 0.118 0.318 -6.1 1B Norm Burnett 23 74 65 263 46 76 21 0 11 45 0 0 27 17 0.289 0.355 0.494 0.849 5.0 1B *Bill Norman 21 45 45 186 34 64 21 2 5 22 0 0 21 19 0.344 0.413 0.559 0.973 17.4 1B Fernando Domínguez 35 41 41 161 29 52 9 0 5 22 1 0 18 17 0.323 0.401 0.472 0.873 10.9 Corey Parry played the whole season as the starting 2B because his issues weren't as trying as those of several other positions on the team. He's just a mediocre player who is stretched as a starter but he was good enough for now. Gary Kirkland rebounded from a tough 1931 to have a nice year with the Beantowners. That is, when he was healthy. The good news is, all his hurts were pretty unrelated so hopefully Boston won't need to give the likes of Nick Levine 137 at-bats again. Steve Jordan is a utility beast who can also play second base and right field He's probably least suited to play short, but what the heck. You have to get that bat in the lineup somehow. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B Corey Parry 27 106 105 418 65 112 22 6 5 47 5 4 38 39 0.268 0.328 0.385 0.713 7.1 2B Sam Prendergast 21 15 11 56 6 8 1 0 0 2 0 0 4 3 0.143 0.200 0.161 0.361 -6.3 2B Gerald Anderson 27 15 8 39 2 8 2 0 2 5 0 0 3 3 0.205 0.262 0.410 0.672 -2.9 2B Bob Brady 31 6 4 12 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 0.167 0.333 0.167 0.500 -1.3 3B Gary Kirkland 32 100 99 406 64 126 26 10 3 58 5 6 18 49 0.310 0.346 0.446 0.792 10.7 3B Nick Levine 31 43 38 137 16 26 5 2 2 13 1 1 13 11 0.190 0.261 0.299 0.561 -11.1 3B Bob Rose 22 32 26 104 13 27 12 1 3 20 0 0 6 6 0.260 0.297 0.481 0.778 4.1 3B *Quincy Hudson 27 23 18 80 14 27 6 0 3 17 0 0 9 8 0.338 0.396 0.525 0.921 8.0 SS Steve Jordan 27 108 105 413 54 126 27 6 6 66 13 12 10 48 0.305 0.326 0.443 0.769 2.6 SS *Henry Adams 23 54 42 188 17 52 10 7 1 22 6 2 8 15 0.277 0.310 0.420 0.730 1.1 SS Colin Richards 25 10 9 34 3 8 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 3 0.235 0.250 0.265 0.515 -3.3 Bill Lowry was the only man on the team to qualify for the batting title. He finished well short of contending, but the point here is that this was a team in so much turmoil that they could only give one man those kinds of at-bats. Predictably, Lowry led the club in home runs, runs scored, and RBIs. The age of the outfield gives the Braves some cause for hope. Scott Molloy is the oldest of those projected to start in 1933 and he was born in March of 1906. Dave Conder was a dark horse for Rookie of the Year honors; in the end he really didn't play enough to get up there but the youngster proved he can use his speed as a weapon in the major leagues last year. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF *Scott Molloy 26 113 88 372 57 119 22 6 9 59 7 4 35 29 0.320 0.378 0.484 0.862 15.6 LF *Pat Prentiss 26 80 57 236 26 66 10 4 0 24 0 3 21 13 0.280 0.337 0.356 0.693 -9.6 LF *Mitch Navarrete 19 13 8 38 6 9 3 0 0 2 3 1 1 6 0.237 0.256 0.316 0.572 -3.2 LF *Dave Adams 30 5 0 4 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.250 1.000 1.250 0.7 CF *Dave Conder 23 93 78 344 44 108 20 2 4 19 0 2 19 43 0.314 0.349 0.419 0.768 4.3 CF *Mal Edward 24 43 42 182 30 47 10 3 3 16 16 5 11 11 0.258 0.296 0.396 0.692 0.3 CF *Eric Luther 29 39 38 146 25 49 6 1 2 21 2 1 15 13 0.336 0.399 0.432 0.830 8.2 CF Jack Long 37 19 8 40 9 11 1 1 0 6 1 1 8 4 0.275 0.396 0.350 0.746 0.1 RF *Bill Lowry 24 124 124 523 70 162 28 5 14 61 2 9 39 26 0.310 0.357 0.463 0.820 17.5 RF *Rusty Wines 24 59 42 194 29 49 9 2 0 20 2 0 11 22 0.253 0.292 0.320 0.611 -7.2 RF Kenneth Kennedy 21 3 3 10 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.200 0.200 0.200 0.400 -1.2 Code:
Team Totals 27.3 1747 1386 5504 743 1536 312 62 96 701 64 53 387 487 0.279 0.327 0.411 0.737 69.9
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Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooklyn Dodgers
Let me ask you this, my friends. What's more exciting than seeing lots and lots of runs scored? I mean other than watching your team win. Let's pretend you just didn't say that. It kind of ruins my point. Nobody, and I mean nobody in the entire history of major league baseball was better at getting the other guy to score runs than the Brooklyn Dodgers last year. They gave up a glorious 1,083 runs and a strong October just kept them from a team ERA of 6.00. The old senior circuit records? 982 runs by the 1927 Giants and a 5.39 ERA by the 1930 Cardinals. Truly an historical year. The hitting was mediocre but young but the boys who take their hacks on a regular basis helped things out in their own way, making it so that the already beleaguered pitching staff had to have their opponents hit a ball right at a Dodger in order to create an out. Surprisingly, though, these Dodgers didn't finish dead last. You can thank that young hitting for that. They floundered out of the gate but were actually not doing too bad as of late spring/early summer - as late as the 19th of June, this team was 25-32 - before the bottom completely dropped out on them. The good news is that this was a young struggling team, as opposed to an old struggling team like the Braves. Also, one can't imagine the pitching will be this bad two years in a row... Code:
Record overall 60-94, .390 PCT 7th, 50.0 GB Home 28-49, .364 PCT Road 32-45, .416 PCT X-inning games 8-5, .615 PCT One-run games 15-16, .484 PCT Versus LHP 12-21, .364 PCT Versus RHP 48-73, .397 PCT April 1-7, .125 PCT May 14-14, .500 PCT June 10-16, .385 PCT July 7-23, .233 PCT August 10-16, .385 PCT September 10-15, .400 PCT October 8-3, .727 PCT Team Batting Stats & Rankings Batting Average .283 - 6th in NL On-Base Percentage .341 - 5th in NL Slugging Percentage .418 - 6th in NL On-Base + Slugging .759 - 5th in NL Runs Scored 794 - 6th in NL Hits 1578 - 6th in NL Extra-Base Hits 474 - 4th in NL Home Runs 102 - 4th in NL Bases-On-Balls 489 - 4th in NL Strikeouts 509 - 8th in NL Stolen Bases 65 - 2nd in NL Team Pitching Stats & Rankings Earned Run Average 5.96 - 8th in NL Starters' ERA 6.01 - 8th in NL Bullpen ERA 5.73 - 8th in NL Runs allowed 1083 - 8th in NL Hits allowed 1871 - 8th in NL Opponents AVG .323 - 8th in NL BABIP .333 - 8th in NL Home Runs allowed 135 - 7th in NL Bases-On-Balls 566 - tied for 7th in NL Strikeouts 440 - 4th in NL There are certain things you have to do to give up almost 1100 runs in a season. It's not enough just to have a lot of bad starters and relief pitchers. No, you have to do things like give a man (Herbert Barber) average more than an earned run per IP over the course of almost 50 major league innings. You have to give 170 innings to a man (Bert Dawkins) whose opponents' batting stats would have won that player the MVP (241 hits, 43 doubles, 11 triples, 17 homeruns, 125 RBI, a .345 batting average and .511 slugging percentage). The only half-decent performance the Dodgers got from anybody was Cristobal Rodriguez, who was the player side of what the Dodgers got back in the Eeyore Meyers deal (in truth, that move was to cut payroll). Rodriguez wasn't very good either but at least a lot of his badness can be blamed on the defense. And he did manage to hit double-digits in wins, which is more than can be said about any member of the Boston Braves. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Cristóbal Rodríguez 27 11 13 0.458 30 29 0 224 300 125 21 62 100 5.02 30.6 Bert Dawkins 29 7 16 0.304 24 24 0 171.1 248 118 17 63 62 6.20 3.9 Tom Koehler 26 8 8 0.500 29 24 0 160.1 211 98 21 50 43 5.50 14.4 Justin Manson 24 7 10 0.412 36 21 1 152.1 218 94 14 60 53 5.55 12.8 Joe DeBerry 33 3 12 0.200 17 17 0 107 142 74 7 61 21 6.22 0.5 Alarico Hein 39 8 4 0.667 50 0 8 87.2 113 53 11 34 20 5.44 8.3 Terry Cole 28 4 4 0.500 16 10 0 81.1 117 66 9 38 17 7.30 -7.0 Damon Boulanger 22 3 3 0.500 25 3 2 67.1 96 47 3 22 23 6.28 0.9 Craig Mahone 41 2 3 0.400 20 6 0 59.2 97 48 4 36 7 7.24 -4.7 Bob Meyers 26 3 4 0.429 7 7 0 57.1 55 19 3 11 34 2.98 16.3 Ánibal Olivarez 23 1 5 0.167 31 0 2 52.1 62 37 11 31 24 6.36 0.3 Herbert Barber 20 1 5 0.167 16 6 0 46.2 65 47 6 40 12 9.06 -13.1 Alvin Caviness 21 0 2 0.000 11 3 0 30.1 46 31 2 27 4 9.20 -8.3 Martin Sheets 36 1 2 0.333 17 0 8 25.1 26 10 1 10 14 3.55 6.2 Matt Corwin 33 1 1 0.500 7 2 0 19.2 17 9 1 10 1 4.12 4.3 Marty Mant 33 0 2 0.000 8 2 0 18.1 39 20 1 8 4 9.82 -6.4 David Días 34 0 0 0.000 7 0 0 7.2 19 10 3 3 1 11.74 -4.0 Rusty McEachern 24 0 0 0.000 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 0.0 Team Totals 28.8 60 94 0.390 352 154 21 1368.2 1871 906 135 566 440 5.96 55.1 The first half of the season belonged to Tom Hardy and the second to Rusty McEachern. The straight batting lines make McEachern look like the clear favorite in 1933 but don't be fooled: Hardy is the much better defensive catcher. The Dodgers tried to get McEachern's bat in the lineup by playing him a bit at 1st base down the stretch but truth be told that's a position they are pretty loaded at already. Steve Skeen has had a long and successful career, and while he won't make it into the Hall of Fame he is a man who has hit everywhere he's gone. We don't see him returning to the Bums but stranger things have happened. Ron Mullaney is a career pinch-hitter who was pressed into a little more playing time than he's used to. He wasn't bad, we guess. That being said, Allen Vice has got a, well, vice-grip on this position assuming he comes back fully from a torn tricep injury. The Dodgers tried him in left field last year with particularly disastrous results. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C Tom Hardy 24 89 87 307 34 86 9 0 9 44 0 0 28 28 0.280 0.341 0.397 0.739 -0.5 C Rusty McEachern 24 86 69 257 43 77 9 3 9 47 0 0 33 31 0.300 0.386 0.463 0.849 12.7 C Ronnie Sather 27 8 2 12 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -3.6 1B *Steve Skeen 38 80 72 293 49 83 13 6 11 52 6 4 45 29 0.283 0.378 0.481 0.859 4.1 1B Ron Mullaney 31 77 40 202 33 59 15 2 5 33 0 1 15 16 0.292 0.341 0.460 0.801 -2.6 The Dodgers kept looking for better production and, let's be honest, fielding from second base but time and again Duane Ferrari proved to be the best man for the job. Or at least the least bad man. Best man has a better ring to it. Ferrari only played half the games at second as well as another 49 at third but that's still enough to call him the starter. Nobody, old or young, did a really credible job at the position, at least until Vincente Nunez got 45 September and October at-bats following a very good first professional season in the minors. Jay Calvin is the Dodgers' all-time leader in batting average and was just 39 hits away from leading them in that mark as well when he was shipped off. The rationale at the time was that at the ripe old age of 30 he was starting to lose his touch at the plate. That turned out to be completely false but the team did at least get younger with Adam Kirkham. Kirkham doesn't figure to ever be anything near as good as Calvin was but... when we think of something positive to say about the situation we promise we will say it. Bill Sorensen did well enough at shortstop and he's not old enough for the team to want to get rid of just yet. Younger players are better at between-innings gymnastics, and fans have responded well to that. That is why the Dodgers try to dump guys after they turn 30. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B Duane Ferrari 28 133 127 578 84 171 42 9 1 59 3 2 23 53 0.296 0.321 0.405 0.726 13.2 2B *Scot Jones 34 57 45 199 20 51 8 4 0 24 2 4 9 12 0.256 0.286 0.337 0.622 -4.8 2B #Roldão Fies 22 32 11 62 6 13 5 0 0 4 3 1 2 2 0.210 0.242 0.290 0.533 -5.5 2B *Vincente Núñez 23 10 10 45 7 18 7 0 0 14 1 0 0 4 0.400 0.413 0.556 0.969 6.2 3B *Adam Kirkham 23 72 68 280 31 74 16 6 1 21 1 3 7 31 0.264 0.281 0.375 0.656 -3.0 3B *Jay Calvin 30 45 45 194 29 57 8 2 3 16 8 7 21 12 0.294 0.363 0.402 0.765 2.3 3B Reed Leasure 28 45 43 172 22 53 10 2 6 36 0 0 15 15 0.308 0.362 0.494 0.856 8.0 3B Don Holmes 24 7 7 33 2 9 0 2 0 8 0 1 2 3 0.273 0.314 0.394 0.708 -0.8 SS Bill Sorensen 26 115 115 434 55 122 33 8 3 61 2 3 36 50 0.281 0.342 0.415 0.757 0.4 SS Paul McVey 31 11 3 19 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.105 0.105 0.105 0.211 -3.1 As much as Allen Vice gave to the team at the plate, he took away in the field. We won't publish his fielding numbers because they are liable to make us cry. Suffice it to say that he was a huge reason why the pitching staff looked so bad last year. First base seems like a better place for him. The rest of the outfield wasn't so bad and even provided some sock of their own. Tod Johnson won't be winning a Gold Glove in center field any time soon but as long as the Dodgers keep him on one of the corners he'll be part of what could be a very potent offensive attack in 1933. Ken Lefebvre was just plain explosive in half a season of play. Can anyone imagine what he'll do in a full year? Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF #Allen Vice 25 97 97 384 67 130 31 3 16 71 0 0 42 32 0.339 0.402 0.560 0.962 32.1 LF Bret McGriff 23 74 67 288 41 84 13 5 3 25 14 7 25 20 0.292 0.344 0.403 0.747 -0.4 LF *King Reid 25 17 3 28 6 6 1 0 3 6 0 1 4 4 0.214 0.303 0.571 0.874 0.3 CF Tod Johnson 25 123 121 485 89 157 25 10 15 67 9 2 71 49 0.324 0.409 0.509 0.918 37.3 CF *Dave Macy 28 92 71 308 46 92 12 2 0 35 6 2 30 18 0.299 0.357 0.351 0.707 -3.3 RF *Ken Lefebvre 24 60 59 228 56 78 19 2 10 44 5 2 43 11 0.342 0.446 0.575 1.021 30.2 RF Barry Davis 24 47 44 170 18 42 10 1 2 18 0 0 16 23 0.247 0.310 0.353 0.663 -4.5 RF Gayle Hallett 34 57 24 119 19 33 2 1 4 16 2 2 17 5 0.277 0.372 0.412 0.784 -1.0 RF #Jim Griner 33 12 2 20 0 2 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0.100 0.100 0.150 0.250 -3.5 Code:
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- Jim Rand 33 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -0.3
Team Totals 28 1798 1386 5571 794 1578 302 70 102 746 65 43 489 509 0.283 0.341 0.418 0.759 115.1
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Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox
Always the bridesmaids, never the brides. The White Sox are far too tough to admit to wanting to wear lace and veils but truth be told they would love to finish first once in a while. The past 3 seasons this team has finished in 2nd place in the American League, missing the playoffs by a grand total of 11 games over that time. Last year they could attribute their miss to a very tough July which included a 1-11 stretch. Four of those losses came at the hands of the Yankees; had they swept that series instead of being swept, they World Series would be an entirely different matchup. But it's hard to do second-guessing in the summer months, and the story during the season was that the Sox came on like gangbusters only to fall just short of an injury-depleted Yankees team. The big questions for the AL aren't really so much with this club as they are with whether the Yanks can overcome their injury issues of 1932 as well as whether the Athletics, who finished ahead of the Sox in 1930 and 1931, can rebound from a bad season of their own. The White Sox seem to be there in case the answer is "no". Manager Salvador Lopez doesn't figure to just sit on the sidelines, though. Code:
Record overall 93-61, .604 PCT 2nd, 3.0 GB Home 45-32, .584 PCT Road 48-29, .623 PCT X-inning games 6-6, .500 PCT One-run games 11-22, .333 PCT Versus LHP 25-15, .625 PCT Versus RHP 68-46, .596 PCT April 8-2, .800 PCT May 16-11, .593 PCT June 16-12, .571 PCT July 12-15, .444 PCT August 17-10, .630 PCT September 17-8, .680 PCT October 7-3, .700 PCT Team Batting Stats & Rankings Batting Average .296 - 3rd in AL On-Base Percentage .358 - 3rd in AL Slugging Percentage .445 - 1st in AL On-Base + Slugging .803 - 1st in AL Runs Scored 910 - 3rd in AL Hits 1654 - 3rd in AL Extra-Base Hits 511 - 2nd in AL Home Runs 117 - 2nd in AL Bases-On-Balls 538 - 3rd in AL Strikeouts 452 - 4th in AL Stolen Bases 42 - 5th in AL Team Pitching Stats & Rankings Earned Run Average 3.93 - 2nd in AL Starters' ERA 3.82 - 2nd in AL Bullpen ERA 4.47 - 5th in AL Runs allowed 753 - 2nd in AL Hits allowed 1580 - 3rd in AL Opponents AVG .282 - 3rd in AL BABIP .299 - 4th in AL Home Runs allowed 82 - 3rd in AL Bases-On-Balls 366 - 1st in AL Strikeouts 501 - 3rd in AL With their backs up against the wall, the White Sox went to a 3-man rotation in December. The results were for the most part positive. Bob Hinman wasn't quite as effective, maybe, sporting a 3.88 ERA in September, but he still went 8-2 in the final month and a half to keep the Chisox in it and earn himself a Pitcher of the Year award in the offing. The primary purpose of the 3-man gig was to give Hinman more starts; Bob Gordon, Jose Castillo, Ronald Tinter, and Mike Fisher were all decent but pretty indistinguishable from one another. The question going forward for this rotation is whether or not the 26-year old Hinman is mature enough to be the staff stopper. Relief pitching will also be a big deal for 1932. Usually a relief staff is supposed to perform a little better than the starters since they don't have to go through a lineup more than once or maybe twice if it's long relief. Outside of closer Spencer Mayer, acquired from the Yankees in the offseason (and probably the last time those two teams will be trading with each other for a long while) the bullpen was not very good at all. Improved performance in tight games - the Sox were 11-22 in one run contests last year - could by itself be the difference between a close 2nd place finish and a pennant. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Bob Hinman 25 28 12 0.700 42 42 0 358.2 348 120 28 48 186 3.01 94.4 Bob Gordon 33 17 15 0.531 40 38 0 277 342 124 17 62 67 4.03 39.3 José Castillo 23 16 12 0.571 31 31 0 226.2 269 101 12 77 102 4.01 31.6 Ronald Tinter 35 8 5 0.615 15 13 1 102.1 125 45 3 22 9 3.96 13.3 Mike Fisher 37 7 2 0.778 13 13 0 95.2 87 34 4 26 19 3.20 23.1 Spencer Mayer 33 2 4 0.333 42 0 17 63.2 70 28 4 24 33 3.96 9.6 Ben Gravel 33 5 1 0.833 25 4 0 60 85 34 3 19 17 5.10 0.9 Bryan Mudge 25 1 4 0.200 14 6 0 54 86 36 7 19 22 6.00 -5.2 Mark Bulter 21 5 2 0.714 26 0 1 52 60 23 1 21 16 3.98 7.7 Aaron LeBron 22 2 1 0.667 20 2 1 41.1 48 28 1 28 16 6.10 -4.3 Kent DeLong 26 2 2 0.500 4 4 0 29.2 37 16 2 11 11 4.85 0.9 Armando Sánchez 22 0 1 0.000 8 0 1 10.1 14 8 0 7 3 6.97 -2.2 Ted Carson 24 0 0 0.000 1 1 0 5.1 9 4 0 2 0 6.75 -1.7 Team Totals 27.6 93 61 0.604 281 154 21 1376.2 1580 601 82 366 501 3.93 207.4 The White Sox' catching platoon was as effective as any in the league, combining for 50 doubles, 117 RBIs, and 189 hits. Akins has been with Chicago for a decade now and is the second-longest tenured starter on the club to Hunter Sunday. Ashley Wetherell is no slouch himself and may even overtake Akins for the starting job some day. Bob Wolf put in a typical Bob Wolf season. He didn't get to repeat as MVP because he didn't make a run at .400 a la St. Louis' Les Archie, but he did win Player of the Week 3 times and Batter of the Month for September. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C *Steve Akins 30 114 113 426 54 129 34 4 7 88 0 0 39 35 0.303 0.362 0.451 0.812 18.2 C Ashley Wetherell 26 47 41 160 23 60 16 2 2 29 0 0 9 9 0.375 0.416 0.537 0.954 18.3 1B Bob Wolf 31 127 127 501 105 178 24 7 21 94 2 6 73 26 0.355 0.438 0.557 0.995 54.3 1B #Dave Danna 31 30 8 52 10 12 1 2 2 11 0 0 3 5 0.231 0.273 0.442 0.715 -2.4 Leslie MacGruder provided the sort of gritty spark one expects from their middle infielders. He even played 20 games at first base while Bob Wolf was down with an injury. It's probably not a place you'd want to see him on a regular basis but it just goes to show the kind of true grit he provides. Much as we hate to say it, the time may have run out for Mike Sheridan at the hot corner. He committed 41 errors at the position and fielded just .904 last year. The problem for the White Sox is that they really have no place to put the grandson of the Union general, and they really don't have a great replacement on the squad right now either. Justin Boykins did pretty well at second but lacks the arm for the hot corner. Switching Leslie McGruder over there would be a mistake for similar reasons, plus his pure grittiness would probably cause him to suffer a nasty groin-related injury while diving for a ball down the line. Whatever happens at third, Jeff Davis will no doubt be happy. Much press time has been devoted to the fact that he and Sheridan have played side by side the last couple years. Davis is the grandson of Confederate President Jefferson Davis; although his family moved to the border state of Missouri before he was born, he still holds a certain distrust of all yankees. As a result, he's always been a little hesistant moving to his right. With Sheridan about to leave, that could change. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B *Leslie McGruder 26 132 130 575 101 152 37 6 12 68 0 0 42 46 0.264 0.317 0.412 0.729 14.6 2B Justin Boykins 23 35 25 116 18 34 7 3 7 28 3 3 5 12 0.293 0.320 0.586 0.906 5.7 2B Desmond Chandler 25 27 18 78 8 17 5 0 1 11 1 2 6 0 0.218 0.274 0.321 0.594 -3.1 3B Mike Sheridan 35 147 147 552 95 172 24 8 10 84 0 4 86 35 0.312 0.401 0.438 0.839 31.0 3B John Gray 34 20 10 55 4 14 0 2 1 8 1 0 2 10 0.255 0.281 0.382 0.663 -1.6 SS Jeff Davis 21 108 108 417 68 127 23 12 5 70 5 2 42 16 0.305 0.366 0.453 0.820 15.8 SS Ron Brewer 27 44 44 192 29 57 4 2 3 16 2 1 15 16 0.297 0.348 0.385 0.733 1.1 Usually, moving from right field to center results in a loss of defensive efficiency. Don't tell that to Hunter Sunday. The 5-time Gold Glove award winner was every bit as sturdy in the middle of the field, and got to show off his arm with 14 baserunner kills. Plateside, he did a fine job at driving home Bob Wolf and the rest of the Sox lineup. In left, George Echols had a good rookie year in 1931. In '32 he was given more responsibility and made the most of it, just missing the century mark in runs scored. In right, the platoon of Monte LaPointe and Roland Hardy was simply devastating. That made Hunter Sunday's switch look all the more intelligent. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF #George Echols 23 140 139 587 97 184 38 17 6 80 11 8 58 72 0.313 0.376 0.467 0.843 18.4 LF #Tommy Mills 29 31 2 34 8 12 3 0 0 3 0 0 3 3 0.353 0.405 0.441 0.847 1.7 CF *Hunter Sunday 32 149 149 598 124 187 29 4 28 118 8 5 77 47 0.313 0.392 0.515 0.907 46.9 RF *Monte LaPointe 25 107 103 452 75 146 28 8 8 63 5 4 25 29 0.323 0.360 0.473 0.834 22.2 RF Roland Hardy 24 63 53 237 40 87 8 7 2 36 4 4 28 8 0.367 0.432 0.485 0.918 22.9 RF Gayle Boisvert 31 16 9 49 2 9 2 0 0 6 0 1 2 11 0.184 0.208 0.224 0.432 -6.4 RF *Charlie Cargill 25 11 6 22 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 5 1 0.091 0.286 0.182 0.468 -2.3 Code:
Team Totals 27.6 1629 1386 5588 910 1654 308 86 117 864 42 40 538 452 0.296 0.358 0.445 0.803 260.6
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Chicago Cubs
The defending champion Cubs did not have a good run at a repeat. They suffered a couple of key injuries and really never got on track. Of course, it would have taken a near-perfect run to match the Giants, but Chicago was just not up to the task. Even a late run at .500 ultimately came up short. Going forward, you can never count out a team that won a World Championship so recently but it looks like whatever mojo the Cubbies captured in 1931 has left. This was, after all, only an 88 victory team even when they did take it all. Code:
Record overall 75-79, .487 PCT 4th, 35.0 GB Home 35-42, .455 PCT Road 40-37, .519 PCT X-inning games 6-5, .545 PCT One-run games 25-13, .658 PCT Versus LHP 16-14, .533 PCT Versus RHP 59-65, .476 PCT April 5-4, .556 PCT May 14-17, .452 PCT June 13-14, .481 PCT July 14-16, .467 PCT August 12-15, .444 PCT September 13-11, .542 PCT October 4-2, .667 PCT Team Batting Stats & Rankings Batting Average .288 - 5th in NL On-Base Percentage .335 - 6th in NL Slugging Percentage .423 - 5th in NL On-Base + Slugging .758 - 6th in NL Runs Scored 804 - 4th in NL Hits 1621 - 4th in NL Extra-Base Hits 500 - 3rd in NL Home Runs 96 - tied for 6th in NL Bases-On-Balls 394 - 7th in NL Strikeouts 501 - 7th in NL Stolen Bases 29 - 7th in NL Team Pitching Stats & Rankings Earned Run Average 4.65 - 5th in NL Starters' ERA 4.85 - 5th in NL Bullpen ERA 3.67 - 2nd in NL Runs allowed 834 - 4th in NL Hits allowed 1577 - 3rd in NL Opponents AVG .285 - 3rd in NL BABIP .290 - 2nd in NL Home Runs allowed 133 - 6th in NL Bases-On-Balls 517 - 5th in NL Strikeouts 439 - 5th in NL A good way to describe the Cubs' pitching staff last year was "Moore and less". Paul Moore raised eyebrows in 1931 with an 18-12, 3.47 ERA year that insiders said was deceptive. After all, the 24-year-old Southerner doesn't throw like your standard fireballing young'un. His fastball breaks 90 only on the best of days, and his out pitch is a change of pace. Despite having a skill set of a man 10 years his senior, Moore got things going by pitching to contact. Sometimes a little too much contact - his 32 homeruns were 2nd in the game - but it worked for him more often than not. Brian Law suffered as badly as Moore did well. It's hard to believe, watching him pitch last year, that he went 24-12 back in 1929. He'd ended the 1931 season early with back spasms and never seemed to recover last year. His strikeouts dropped from 105 to 69, his walks went *up* from 69 to 72 despite throwing 30 fewer innings, and as a result his ERA rose by more than two runs from 3.63 to 5.85. Even in Wrigley Field, that ratio is very, very close to the one that makes you lose your job. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Paul Moore 24 21 14 0.600 37 37 0 309.1 327 124 32 95 84 3.61 83.7 Brian Law 31 9 19 0.321 32 32 0 220 294 143 19 72 69 5.85 12.4 Todd Lowman 20 9 12 0.429 28 28 0 207 248 111 24 94 74 4.83 31.9 Kurtis Houk 25 8 6 0.571 19 19 0 135 148 88 14 84 43 5.87 7.0 Al Monteith 35 8 9 0.471 18 18 0 131.2 149 75 12 39 47 5.13 14.6 Don Smith 24 10 5 0.667 30 8 0 94.2 106 38 8 31 30 3.61 25.9 Mark Jacobs 28 5 2 0.714 37 0 10 54 51 20 4 16 33 3.33 16.2 Phil Cutshall 23 1 4 0.200 17 4 0 51.2 65 32 4 18 12 5.57 4.1 Barry Fawcett 32 1 4 0.200 6 6 0 44.1 54 23 3 17 7 4.67 7.4 Reggie Carmody 30 1 1 0.500 16 0 0 36.2 30 13 5 14 17 3.19 10.9 Larry Marron 21 1 1 0.500 22 0 5 33.2 42 18 3 15 10 4.81 5.3 Rehor Bacurik 27 0 2 0.000 20 0 1 30.1 39 15 2 9 10 4.45 5.7 Jim Hogan 28 0 0 0.000 6 2 0 14 12 5 2 5 1 3.21 4.4 Don Weiler 24 1 0 1.000 6 0 0 11.1 12 5 1 8 2 3.97 2.7 Team Totals 26.6 75 79 0.487 294 154 16 1373.2 1577 710 133 517 439 4.65 232.2 Earl Schell seems to have already made the transition from solid starter to potential All-Star. Oh yeah, did we mention? There will be an All-Star Game next year. Hope we didn't let the ol' cat out of the proverbial bag. His backup and platoon mate Will Rolland used to start for the Cubs and was pretty good at it too. Nonetheless he seems to be happy enough in his role. Carson Groth didn't do a lot else but get base hits but he did get a lot of them so we're okay with that. Only 20 years old, he'll only get better as the years wear on. He's already supplanted Ethan Hardin, who is not exactly an old man himself. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C *Earl Schell 22 109 109 414 62 137 31 6 9 59 0 0 47 37 0.331 0.398 0.500 0.898 30.8 C Will Rolland 31 48 42 170 25 63 10 0 0 26 0 1 16 8 0.371 0.425 0.429 0.854 11.3 C Harry DeRosier 24 4 3 12 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.167 0.154 0.250 0.404 -1.4 1B *Carson Groth 20 133 132 568 76 180 52 8 6 76 0 0 28 63 0.317 0.349 0.468 0.817 4.1 1B Ethan Hardin 25 76 28 164 23 55 8 2 4 26 0 0 12 15 0.335 0.379 0.482 0.860 5.7 Ed Lantz was a spot of good news in a sea of disappointment on this team. He more than doubled his walk total in his second full season and found a power stroke as well. John Chastain wasn't so good; he was claimed by the Pirates on waivers, which ends a year and a half with the club. He'll be replaced for now by Fred Harris, who looked very convincing in the latter half of the year. Zhu-lan Zhang is one of six Chinese citizens in organized baseball and no, we refuse to make cracks about his ethnicity. Even though this is 1932, soon to be 1933, and the country is at its peak of thinking such things are funny, we will not join in. Additionally, the fact that he can't hit his way out of a paper bag has nothing to do with his country of origin. He's just not that good of a hitter. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B *Ed Lantz 25 134 126 541 88 165 28 5 12 73 0 1 53 28 0.305 0.370 0.442 0.812 29.6 2B Mark Cook 37 47 23 115 24 34 8 1 3 12 0 1 13 5 0.296 0.367 0.461 0.828 6.3 3B John Chastain 31 119 114 496 72 132 41 6 6 64 2 4 20 64 0.266 0.298 0.409 0.708 -9.3 3B Fred Harris 25 50 48 193 29 63 18 2 5 32 0 0 9 18 0.326 0.356 0.518 0.874 10.1 3B Juan Durango 33 7 5 19 2 4 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 3 0.211 0.250 0.474 0.724 -0.4 SS Zhu-lan Zhang 27 102 102 430 61 110 11 3 11 48 0 1 38 15 0.256 0.320 0.372 0.692 -13.0 SS Brian Ladd 21 29 26 99 10 24 3 1 0 9 0 0 4 9 0.242 0.272 0.293 0.565 -7.3 SS Tom Hill 29 27 18 66 4 15 2 0 1 5 0 1 4 1 0.227 0.271 0.303 0.574 -2.7 Tom Battle and Ernie Parker showed what it is they can do in their partial seasons and gave Cubs fans a glimmer of hope for 1933. Battle missed the first 4 months of the season with an elbow injury, then hit like a monster upon coming back. It may be a stretch to expect him to play a full season, but even 120 games of that kind of production could be enough. Parker hit over .300 in his third of a year, finding that hitting .300 isn't as cool as it used to be. He still got on base a lot. Center field will be manned by... somebody. Great prediction, right? The problem is that nobody the Cubs have really looks all that great for the part. Bob Bodie more or less flunked his audition last season. Don Williams got hurt and really wasn't all that good before the injury. Ray Thompson is there, of course, but the former record-holder for most HRs in a season (he hit 33 in 1930) appears to have lost too much bat speed to be an effective hitter. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF Patrick Cleary 22 70 69 270 36 82 14 5 3 28 6 3 19 25 0.304 0.349 0.426 0.775 1.8 LF *Ernie Parker 25 54 54 207 31 63 12 1 1 17 0 1 26 9 0.304 0.390 0.386 0.776 0.8 LF Ray Mager 26 11 7 27 4 5 3 0 0 7 0 0 3 3 0.185 0.258 0.296 0.554 -1.9 LF Ken Rooney 25 8 3 16 3 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0.125 0.125 0.188 0.313 -2.6 CF Bob Bodie 27 88 80 335 52 89 18 5 8 46 1 1 16 35 0.266 0.301 0.421 0.721 -6.7 CF Don Williams 24 69 66 290 36 90 17 6 1 32 5 6 10 32 0.310 0.331 0.421 0.752 0.5 CF Chris Harris 29 28 15 71 10 21 2 4 0 11 3 2 2 5 0.296 0.316 0.437 0.752 0.2 CF Edgar Reyes 26 18 1 22 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 1 0.091 0.125 0.136 0.261 -4.6 RF *Tom Battle 26 54 54 231 50 92 23 4 15 63 3 3 14 29 0.398 0.431 0.727 1.158 39.2 RF *Eric Eldredge 25 63 62 231 33 53 4 1 6 46 5 3 15 21 0.229 0.281 0.333 0.614 -10.3 RF *Ray Thompson 32 59 45 171 32 36 7 3 5 20 4 1 32 13 0.211 0.340 0.374 0.714 -3.7 Code:
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Team Totals 26.7 1716 1386 5635 804 1621 334 70 96 758 29 29 394 501 0.288 0.335 0.423 0.758 89.5
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Cincinnati Reds
It should be noted that these Reds won more game than the 1931 World Series champion Chicago Cubs. In the end, solidarity proved to be a strong weapon during this greatest of depressions, but it wasn't enough. The Reds started well enough but they really needed to be perfect to win in '32 and... they were not perfect. A 3-11 stretch in mid-May pretty much sealed the deal. This offseason, manager Dave Elder was cruelly lured by Yankee riches and as such the Reds of Cincinnati were forced to look elsewhere for their new manager. The man they nabbed for the job, Bob Reed, was pulled from the unemployment lines. He last managed for the Philadelphia Athletics, where he did not do a great job. This will be his chance to prove himself, and if he does not he shall be the first against the wall. Code:
Record overall 89-65, .578 PCT 2nd, 21.0 GB Home 48-29, .623 PCT Road 41-36, .532 PCT X-inning games 5-6, .455 PCT One-run games 16-15, .516 PCT Versus LHP 27-16, .628 PCT Versus RHP 62-49, .559 PCT April 7-1, .875 PCT May 12-15, .444 PCT June 16-10, .615 PCT July 14-14, .500 PCT August 18-11, .621 PCT September 13-12, .520 PCT October 9-2, .818 PCT Team Batting Stats & Rankings Batting Average .308 - 2nd in NL On-Base Percentage .378 - 1st in NL Slugging Percentage .435 - 3rd in NL On-Base + Slugging .813 - 3rd in NL Runs Scored 974 - 2nd in NL Hits 1743 - 2nd in NL Extra-Base Hits 464 - 6th in NL Home Runs 99 - 5th in NL Bases-On-Balls 632 - 1st in NL Strikeouts 310 - 1st in NL Stolen Bases 39 - 5th in NL Team Pitching Stats & Rankings Earned Run Average 4.24 - 3rd in NL Starters' ERA 4.12 - 2nd in NL Bullpen ERA 5.00 - 6th in NL Runs allowed 779 - 3rd in NL Hits allowed 1637 - 6th in NL Opponents AVG .292 - 6th in NL BABIP .309 - 5th in NL Home Runs allowed 94 - 2nd in NL Bases-On-Balls 424 - 3rd in NL Strikeouts 514 - 2nd in NL Had fortune smiled upon the Reds just a little bit more, Earl Crockett may have been named the Pitcher of the Year. As it was, he led the league in innings pitched, strikeouts, and quality starts, and finished 2nd in earned run average. He's a pitcher who has definitely turned the corner from above-average gamer to staff ace. Outside of Sterling Weaver, who was really bad anyway, this was a very young pitching staff. That's a great sign for years to come. Also a great sign is their ability to blow away hitters: they turned the rare feat of striking out more men than they walked, finishing 2nd in the league-wide K race to do so. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Earl Crockett 28 27 12 0.692 40 40 0 330 335 115 18 67 161 3.14 104.4 Ted O'Toole 30 19 16 0.543 39 39 0 302.1 362 151 34 92 100 4.50 55.8 Lyndon Key 24 14 10 0.583 31 31 0 229.2 289 102 14 62 65 4.00 53.6 Ed Shoulders 29 9 14 0.391 34 25 1 212 275 114 13 81 76 4.84 32.1 Roman Loomis 26 5 3 0.625 12 12 0 87.2 119 49 2 21 30 5.03 11.7 Alan Marable 22 4 3 0.571 13 7 0 64 71 31 4 25 11 4.36 12.7 Morgan Cargile 20 2 4 0.333 28 0 3 46.2 58 27 1 34 29 5.21 5.4 Sterling Weaver 36 4 1 0.800 25 0 6 38.2 55 32 6 13 18 7.45 -4.1 Bill James 26 2 2 0.500 28 0 1 35.2 46 18 1 20 15 4.54 6.4 Mike Harris 21 2 0 1.000 8 0 1 14.2 13 2 0 4 5 1.23 7.4 Martin Sheets 36 1 0 1.000 8 0 0 10.2 14 5 1 5 4 4.22 2.1 Team Totals 27.1 89 65 0.578 266 154 12 1372 1637 646 94 424 514 4.24 287.6 Ed Townsley took a couple steps forward and a couple back in his second full season in the majors. On the plus side, he added a new level of power and proved that he could handle the catching duties over the second half of the season. That's good news for the Reds, given that they were making do with playing him part-time in left field the last two years. On the downside, his average took a bit of a hit and he still can't take a pitch to save his life. Fortunately for him, John Lamar wasn't able to repeat a solid 1930-31 run and the position is the youngster's to lose. Despite only hitting 9 homeruns last year, Bob Leonhardt might be the best pure hitter in the game. All he does is rake. A true student of the game, his 239 hits in 1932 were the most ever by a National Leaguer not named Jay Calvin. And now that he can consider Calvin a teammate, one can only imagine the conversations the two have in the locker room. It must be a regular baseball Algonquin table. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C Ed Townsley 24 100 87 378 52 105 27 3 11 65 0 0 12 25 0.278 0.298 0.452 0.751 0.6 C John Lamar 34 87 84 261 35 70 12 0 2 31 0 0 47 22 0.268 0.386 0.337 0.723 -0.2 C Jim Bartlett 32 52 22 85 14 26 2 0 4 12 0 0 15 4 0.306 0.404 0.471 0.874 5.3 1B *Bob Leonhardt 30 149 149 633 102 239 33 4 9 124 1 0 62 49 0.378 0.434 0.485 0.919 47.6 The Reds quietly put together the two best hitters in the game and put them on the corners. Jay Calvin was looking all but washed up when the Reds traded for him in June. His 1931 year was an off-year by his standards; he "only" had 189 hits and his RBI total of 57 was the smallest since his rookie season. So when he came out of the gate cold, it felt to Brooklyn like it was time to cash in on the guy. All he did afterwards was hit .417 while mostly batting 5th in the Reds' order with peripheral numbers that wound up making 1932 look like just another trip to the salt mines for the Manhattan native. Bill Heath and Augusto Gonzalez both did a superb job up the middle. Neither player is going to get confused with a Gold Glover any time soon but when you hit the way these men do that's not always necessary. They fielded good enough. Heath in particular did well to rebound from a tough 1931 in which he missed most of the year with a broken ankle. He's not the high-average hitter he once was but he still has a keen eye and can knock one into the gap when a pitcher makes a mistake. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B #Bill Heath 29 116 114 468 119 133 28 9 4 45 5 11 93 19 0.284 0.402 0.408 0.810 24.5 2B #Keith Jones 28 55 26 138 17 37 3 2 4 19 0 1 15 8 0.268 0.348 0.406 0.754 4.4 2B #Elmer Copple 22 14 14 67 16 27 4 0 0 8 1 0 2 2 0.403 0.437 0.463 0.899 6.9 3B *Jay Calvin 30 87 87 379 87 158 29 4 1 64 5 7 45 12 0.417 0.477 0.522 0.999 50.1 3B Benjamin Gray 24 49 42 172 20 44 6 4 2 27 0 0 11 15 0.256 0.299 0.372 0.671 -4.4 3B Dean Backman 26 14 14 62 8 23 1 1 1 8 0 0 4 4 0.371 0.409 0.468 0.877 4.8 3B Yoichibei Yamada 23 15 12 45 4 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 0.111 0.149 0.178 0.327 -8.5 3B Johnston Walker 20 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.333 0.333 0.333 0.667 0.0 SS #Augusto González 32 153 153 575 107 174 37 3 13 91 5 2 120 11 0.303 0.423 0.445 0.868 34.2 How does a player from an 89 victory team win the Most Valuable Player Award away from a team that won 110? By playing in every game, for one. For two, playing near-Gold Glove quality defense in right field. And oh yeah, how about setting a major league record for 151 RBIs? Our statistical nuts are tossing around a statistic called "OPS", which is basically just on-base percentage added to slugging. Box had the second highest OPS of the year and of all time to the Phillies' Charles Payne, and since the Reds do not play in the bandbox known as the Baker Bowl, one has to consider that Box had the better year. Does that mean he had the best season of all time? The other outfield positions were not real plusses. In fact, one thing Cincy could do to get themselves up to the level of the Giants is to upgrade left and center field. Last year's CF Dwayne McNeil hit for an okay average, we guess, but that was about it. He got hurt in June and when he was ready to play again in August he said something about free markets to the front office and was promptly released. In the meantime the Reds acquired Victor Ward from the hapless St. Louis Browns. Look, we believe in "to each according to his need" as much as anybody else - more than anybody else, actually, but this team needed Ward badly. Left was kind of a mess, but Gustavo Castro's performance in late September appears to herald his arrival as a big league player. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF Brian James 21 82 80 365 45 112 18 4 8 71 2 0 10 15 0.307 0.330 0.444 0.774 -0.9 LF *Gustavo Castro 22 11 10 40 10 18 4 0 3 13 0 2 4 1 0.450 0.489 0.775 1.264 9.2 CF Victor Ward 30 60 60 247 50 83 17 2 6 65 2 5 25 11 0.336 0.393 0.494 0.887 13.3 CF Dwayne McNeil 29 53 52 224 33 61 6 2 1 32 3 2 12 10 0.272 0.314 0.330 0.644 -11.8 CF *Bill Briggs 27 48 34 153 23 42 6 1 0 22 1 2 15 13 0.275 0.339 0.327 0.666 -5.9 CF *John Buehler 26 44 22 114 13 31 4 0 1 12 0 0 6 13 0.272 0.306 0.333 0.639 -5.5 CF Columbus Glaze 31 35 10 60 9 16 2 0 0 4 4 0 7 5 0.267 0.338 0.300 0.638 -2.2 CF George Glasser 22 24 6 47 8 16 2 0 0 11 0 1 2 2 0.340 0.346 0.383 0.729 -0.1 CF Barry Davis 24 6 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -1.4 RF *Brad Box 27 154 154 612 138 224 41 10 28 151 8 7 111 13 0.366 0.459 0.603 1.062 92.0 Code:
- *Steve Skeen 38 15 0 14 2 5 2 0 0 4 1 0 0 1 0.357 0.333 0.500 0.833 1.1
- *Cliff Shoemake 25 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -0.6
Team Totals 27.1 1694 1386 5650 974 1743 311 54 99 929 39 41 632 310 0.308 0.378 0.435 0.813 263.0
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Cleveland Indians
1933 figures to be a make or break year for the Indians and manager Cy Dickenson. Dickenson, a 3-time Manager of the Year winner with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1920s, finally got some okay results from the team in his third year with the club. They still finished in the second division, though, and only the sheer length of Cleveland's futility has kept the front office from being totally dissatisfied. A couple of key trades made the club younger and added s0me balance between pitching and hitting and between clutch hitting and power. If this club is going to finally take that step forward and have a plus-.500 season for the first time since 1922, they're going to need a lot more out of their lineup. As it stands, Dickenson leads all active managers with 1127 victories. Will he be able to add a World Series title to that mix anytime soon? Code:
Record overall 74-80, .481 PCT 5th, 22.0 GB
Home 34-43, .442 PCT
Road 40-37, .519 PCT
X-innings 12-8, .600 PCT
One-run games 19-15, .559 PCT
Versus LHP 30-21, .588 PCT
Versus RHP 44-59, .427 PCT
April 7-2, .778 PCT
May 12-15, .444 PCT
June 11-17, .393 PCT
July 11-17, .393 PCT
August 19-9, .679 PCT
September 10-13, .435 PCT
October 4-7, .364 PCT
Team Batting Stats & Rankings
Batting Average .278 - 7th in AL
On-Base Percentage .334 - 6th in AL
Slugging Percentage .410 - 6th in AL
On-Base + Slugging .744 - 5th in AL
Runs Scored 792 - 6th in AL
Hits 1547 - 7th in AL
Extra-Base Hits 487 - 4th in AL
Home Runs 104 - 3rd in AL
Bases-On-Balls 471 - 5th in AL
Strikeouts 450 - 3rd in AL
Stolen Bases 24 - tied for 6th in AL
Team Pitching Stats & Rankings
Earned Run Average 4.49 - 4th in AL
Starters' ERA 4.53 - 4th in AL
Bullpen ERA 4.29 - 4th in AL
Runs allowed 843 - 4th in AL
Hits allowed 1615 - 4th in AL
Opponents AVG .286 - 4th in AL
BABIP .298 - 3rd in AL
Home Runs allowed 102 - 6th in AL
Bases-On-Balls 574 - 6th in AL
Strikeouts 464 - 4th in AL
The Indians acquired Jesus Espin, 23-9 in 1931, to be their staff ace. Instead, he seemed to lose focus as the season progressed anf finished the year with a career-worst 21 losses. Espin was 5-1 with a 3.59 ERA as of May 26 but then went 2-11 over his next 13 starts. His ERA was still 4.76 at that point, and as late as August 24th it was looking like he could still pull out a typical Jesus Espin season. From August 25 to the end of the year, however, he was 1-7, allowing 58 runs off of 75 hits and 10 home runs in just 43 2/3rds innings pitched. He's going to need to reverse that trend if he expects to have a job in 1934. Espin's slump opened the door for veteran Paul Rogers and youngster Tim Maisonet to vy for the stopper role for Cleveland. Rogers may not have a lot to show for it but he's posted ERAs of 3.86 and 3.88 for this team over the past 2 years. With a career record of just 84-142, Rogers has lost 20 or more games twice in his career. However, he seems to have found success with very heavy fastball that makes hitters pound the ball into the ground. Maisonet has a similar approach to his success, although his margin of error is much, much lower than Rogers'. Last year he walked less than 2 batters per 9 innings and was second to Rogers with a 55.3% groundball rate. Since his fastball tops out at 85 miles per hour, he pretty much has to be that perfect to not get hammered. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Jesús Espín 35 12 21 0.364 36 36 0 253 311 156 20 136 89 5.55 1.2 Paul Rogers 34 11 14 0.440 35 31 0 250.1 293 108 10 102 84 3.88 47.3 Willard Doe 27 15 15 0.500 31 31 0 241.2 282 122 19 84 60 4.54 28.1 Tim Maisonet 23 9 5 0.643 33 18 0 154.1 183 61 6 33 23 3.56 34.9 Fred Fleming 28 6 6 0.500 14 14 0 101.1 102 39 7 32 59 3.46 21.6 Alan Ford 25 5 6 0.455 15 12 0 92 100 46 10 29 31 4.50 9.6 Ron Anglin 27 4 0 1.000 44 0 2 87.2 93 31 7 37 36 3.18 23.5 Bob Poche 24 3 3 0.500 38 0 6 50.2 48 15 2 30 32 2.66 16.5 Larry Bramble 22 5 1 0.833 6 6 0 50 52 24 3 19 18 4.32 7.0 Brian Cowell 21 1 3 0.250 12 3 0 34 46 27 5 28 9 7.15 -5.9 Steve Petrie 36 3 4 0.429 24 0 7 33 43 18 3 10 11 4.91 2.2 Chad Smalls 20 0 2 0.000 7 3 0 25.2 37 33 7 23 9 11.57 -17.1 Wu You 22 0 0 0.000 11 0 0 17.2 25 14 3 11 3 7.13 -3.0 Team Totals 26.5 74 80 0.481 306 154 15 1391.1 1615 694 102 574 464 4.49 165.8 Yes, Fred Fleming rocked the world after getting shipped off to the Giants. That doesn't mean the Indians did not exact a pretty penny for his services. Dave Echols has an awkward batting stance that scouts just hate but looks can be deceiving. Simply put, the man can rake. Last year he hit a combined .332 for the Giants and Indians. He comes to the team in the nick of time, as Ray Alexander - a man who has, unlike Echols, appeared on top prospect lists - proved incapable of handling full-time catcher duties. Bill Eldridge is still only 26 but has seen his average drop in each of the last 3 seasons and is beginning to look like his best years are behind him. Last year, pitchers began to realize that his bat was not to be feared and his walks dropped nearly in half from 90 to 54. This is a must-rebound season for him. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C Dave Echols 23 65 62 243 27 77 16 1 2 25 0 0 16 24 0.317 0.361 0.416 0.777 10.0 C Ray Alexander 24 64 59 210 17 50 14 0 1 22 0 1 14 11 0.238 0.282 0.319 0.601 -11.0 C Andrés Merced 25 23 20 74 9 22 4 0 2 8 0 0 10 9 0.297 0.386 0.432 0.819 3.5 C Scott Bridges 28 27 13 48 6 10 1 0 1 10 0 0 7 4 0.208 0.304 0.292 0.595 -2.9 1B *Bill Eldridge 25 113 97 401 71 107 23 4 14 61 0 0 54 46 0.267 0.351 0.449 0.800 2.4 1B Mac Tillett 21 60 56 227 36 61 9 1 4 31 7 3 19 6 0.269 0.327 0.370 0.697 -8.8 You wouldn't know it by watching him play but Vernon Friedrich missed the entire 1931 season with a bad shoulder. Those issues are completely behind him now; although some scouts question how long he'll be able to play shortstop, his arm is rated one of the strongest in all of baseball. And at the plate he is unequaled. Forget Chris Gregg: this is the best shortstop in the American League. Carl Kagan was a less-heralded acquisition by Dickenson, coming to the Indians at the end of the 1931 season for two minor-league outfielders, but he's been as key as anybody. Last year he played a serviceable third base and set career highs in hits, doubles, runs scored, and RBIs. Best of all, he's still only 23. And then there's Alphonse Conway. Every year the Indians think they have a replacement for him and yet, every year he seems to end the season as the club's #1 second baseman. He's been their starter since 1927, a string surpassed among Indians 2nd baseman only by the man he replaced, fan favorite Charlie Henderson. Art Tribble seems poised to replace Conway but he's not the first man in that position and we bet he won't be the last. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B Alphonse Conway 28 122 117 510 84 135 32 5 10 65 1 1 40 30 0.265 0.318 0.406 0.724 14.3 2B Art Tribble 22 34 34 159 22 48 13 5 0 12 2 4 3 11 0.302 0.311 0.447 0.758 6.0 3B Carl Kagan 23 139 137 572 83 177 25 4 5 69 2 2 50 41 0.309 0.365 0.393 0.759 17.3 3B Owen Lucas 32 41 22 100 7 27 12 0 0 13 0 0 6 11 0.270 0.308 0.390 0.698 -1.0 SS Vernon Friedrich 25 109 107 448 86 144 24 2 14 61 0 2 67 36 0.321 0.415 0.478 0.893 36.3 SS #Bill Swinney 25 39 33 141 11 28 6 0 0 12 3 3 7 13 0.199 0.232 0.241 0.473 -17.6 SS Jeff Gunn 20 27 25 94 15 35 12 0 2 24 0 2 6 4 0.372 0.406 0.564 0.970 10.7 The other big trade of 1932, and arguably more controversial than the Fleming deal, saw Jay Carbaugh move to the Philadelphia Athletics in exchange for Juan Carlos Munoz. Carbaugh had just come over to the Indians after a fine career with the Chicago White Sox and was expected to be the big piece that would push the Indians into an offensive powerhouse. He hit as well as he ever has but the rest of the team didn't respond so he was moved for Munoz, who had struggled heavily at the time of the trade, hitting just .255 with 4 homeruns and 39 RBIs over 49 games. It looks like all he needed was a change of pace: his rate stats of 306/372/540 with Cleveland are almost exactly equal to his career numbers. Now the Indians just need production from the other two slots. Keenan Thomas looked like he might have what it takes to be Cleveland's right fielder. He was shut down in late August with a torn ligament in his thumb but this was reported to be just a safety measure. Pedro Serrea just doesn't hit lefties well enough to start full-time (.233 with just 2 extra-base hits in 64 at-bats last year). He's still a pesky hitter who belongs at the top of the order against right-handed pitching, even if his power stroke (12 HRs in 1930) has disappeared. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF Jay Carbaugh 35 89 89 360 63 117 14 2 20 66 4 3 34 32 0.325 0.383 0.542 0.925 29.8 LF *Juan Carlos Muñóz 29 64 64 265 45 81 27 4 9 53 1 0 27 17 0.306 0.372 0.540 0.911 18.5 LF Lynn Henderson 30 31 18 79 6 17 4 0 1 11 0 0 5 7 0.215 0.262 0.304 0.566 -8.1 CF *Pedro Serrea 26 105 98 388 57 123 25 3 0 46 1 6 33 20 0.317 0.377 0.397 0.774 10.0 CF Dan Douglas 24 74 50 221 24 54 19 1 3 35 0 2 16 26 0.244 0.292 0.380 0.672 -5.8 CF Rusty Dardar 27 9 8 36 5 16 4 0 2 7 1 0 1 1 0.444 0.459 0.722 1.182 7.9 CF *Carroll Walker 24 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.0 RF *Keenan Thomas 24 105 102 420 58 127 30 8 7 77 0 1 35 22 0.302 0.357 0.462 0.819 21.2 RF *Lou Gould 35 54 21 101 16 20 5 0 4 15 2 1 13 16 0.198 0.294 0.366 0.660 -7.3 Code:
- *Chris Saucier 23 12 0 12 1 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0.333 0.333 0.417 0.750 0.1
- #Preston Connors 28 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -0.3
Team Totals 26.2 1714 1386 5570 792 1547 340 43 104 764 24 31 471 450 0.278 0.334 0.410 0.744 127.7
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Detroit Tigers
Don't look now but the Tigers might have turned a corner. Following a sweep at the hands of the Yankees in Yankee Stadium that concluded August 2nd, Detroit finished the season 32-29. The pitching was pretty terrible from beginning to the end but a strange thing happened: the offense started scoring enough runs to win. They're a typical young team: they don't know how to wait for pitches yet but they rip longballs as well as anybody in the league and are quite fast as well. This is great news for a club with a losing streak that is nearly as long as Cleveland's. It's hard to believe that this is the same club that was the toast of the American League in the teens and early 20s. Code:
Record overall 67-87, .435 PCT 7th, 29.0 GB
Home 34-43, .442 PCT
Road 33-44, .429 PCT
X-inning games 3-10, .231 PCT
One-run games 18-15, .545 PCT
Versus LHP 20-27, .426 PCT
Versus RHP 47-60, .439 PCT
April 4-6, .400 PCT
May 11-16, .407 PCT
June 10-17, .370 PCT
July 10-17, .370 PCT
August 14-13, .519 PCT
September 13-12, .520 PCT
October 5-6, .455 PCT
Team Batting Stats & Rankings
Batting Average .281 - 6th in AL
On-Base Percentage .325 - 8th in AL
Slugging Percentage .417 - 5th in AL
On-Base + Slugging .742 - 7th in AL
Runs Scored 793 - 5th in AL
Hits 1581 - 6th in AL
Extra-Base Hits 500 - 3rd in AL
Home Runs 99 - 4th in AL
Bases-On-Balls 367 - 8th in AL
Strikeouts 533 - 7th in AL
Stolen Bases 47 - 3rd in AL
Team Pitching Stats & Rankings
Earned Run Average 5.29 - 8th in AL
Starters' ERA 5.31 - 7th in AL
Bullpen ERA 5.24 - 7th in AL
Runs allowed 925 - 6th in AL
Hits allowed 1684 - 5th in AL
Opponents AVG .301 - 6th in AL
BABIP .311 - 6th in AL
Home Runs allowed 123 - 8th in AL
Bases-On-Balls 664 - 8th in AL
Strikeouts 452 - 5th in AL
The pitching staff can be summed up by Eric Overcash teaching a bunch of kids how to pitch. Overcash is an unlikely choice for teacher. Detroit was the 6th team of his 10 year career. Sooner or later everybody seems to tire of his game, which doesn't feature anything fantastic but also doesn't have any single noticeable flaw (at least now that he's sort of learned a bit of control). The first five clubs he played for released him outright. For Detroit he managed to overcome giving up a career high 20 homeruns and a BB/K ratio of almost 2:1 to record his third straight .500 or better season. After Overcash the staff consisted of a bunch of young guys who got outs with varying level of consistency. One thing they all had in common was control, or rather a lack thereof. This is what you get, we guess, when Ed Overcash is your pitching mentor. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Ed Overcash 33 14 14 0.500 35 35 0 259.1 288 131 20 124 71 4.55 47.6 Eric Jackson 26 8 8 0.500 29 23 1 167 190 77 15 37 59 4.15 37.3 Ben Armstrong 26 8 9 0.471 43 14 3 138 167 82 9 83 65 5.35 14.9 Marvin Robinson 20 5 8 0.385 23 16 1 127.1 159 82 14 64 55 5.80 6.6 Dan Simmons 30 7 6 0.538 16 16 0 115 152 61 19 41 35 4.77 18.6 Bi-jun Seow 30 6 6 0.500 20 14 0 105 135 61 7 45 16 5.23 12.5 Chadwick Duffy 23 5 5 0.500 50 0 16 78.2 84 30 3 30 45 3.43 22.9 Craig Mahone 41 2 7 0.222 13 9 0 71.1 98 48 8 40 12 6.06 1.5 Charlie Henderson 23 1 7 0.125 10 10 0 56 79 53 3 43 18 8.52 -12.4 Danny Collier 23 5 2 0.714 30 0 2 55.1 61 28 6 29 20 4.55 10.2 Luis López 34 2 3 0.400 8 8 0 48 56 28 1 31 7 5.25 5.6 Harry Stringham 22 0 3 0.000 23 0 0 42.2 53 34 6 30 9 7.17 -3.6 Curtis Ballentine 28 1 3 0.250 6 6 0 27.2 46 28 1 9 8 9.11 -8.5 Bob Gragg 23 0 0 0.000 14 0 1 22.2 41 23 7 12 11 9.13 -6.2 Curt Blue 20 2 1 0.667 13 0 1 18.1 17 2 0 11 6 0.98 9.7 Bryan Debose 21 0 0 0.000 12 0 0 16 25 9 1 10 6 5.06 2.2 Harry Harvey 20 0 3 0.000 3 3 0 10 17 15 2 15 3 13.50 -7.1 Byron Honeycutt 25 1 2 0.333 9 0 0 10 16 13 1 10 6 11.70 -5.4 Team Totals 26 67 87 0.435 357 154 25 1368.1 1684 805 123 664 452 5.29 146.4 Lomond's ability and age screams "trade bait". A strained oblique kept him from setting career highs in runs and RBIs; clearly he is in the prime of his career. This offseason the Tigers need to ask themselves the hard question of whether or not Mark Morrison is ready for the big leagues. If he is, Lomond is out of here. Morrison has hit .372 and .309 in the minors the last two years but so far hasn't been able to translate that success to the world's stage. The Tigers liked John Owen's bat and tried him at first base with less than great results. Some players have a natural position and need to be there to be the most effective. Speaking of first baseman, the Tigers haven't quite given up on David Garrett yet, despite a career average of .251 over 419 at-bats. It's put up or shut up time for him. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C #Jim Lomond 30 102 99 380 66 124 28 5 14 67 0 1 47 26 0.326 0.400 0.537 0.937 34.1 C John Owen 27 71 65 254 34 68 12 0 9 38 0 0 28 18 0.268 0.345 0.421 0.766 -5.4 C Mark Morrison 23 14 10 42 3 11 4 0 0 8 0 0 3 3 0.262 0.311 0.357 0.668 -1.0 1B Don Gordon 29 84 63 247 52 72 11 4 7 39 0 0 42 22 0.291 0.395 0.453 0.849 6.9 1B John Joseph 31 48 28 131 18 30 8 0 1 15 1 0 8 10 0.229 0.277 0.313 0.590 -11.9 1B David Garrett 23 42 30 121 16 24 2 2 4 15 1 0 16 11 0.198 0.295 0.347 0.642 -11.6 1B Garrett Gully 29 26 13 57 4 8 2 1 1 9 0 0 3 7 0.140 0.194 0.263 0.457 -7.6 So far in his three year career, Charlie Parson has alternated two solid seasons with one really horrible one. Needless to say that the Tigers would like him to halt that trend. Last year he was a fantastic utility man, splitting time between third base and right field and ending the season as the Tigers' #3 hitter. Noah Bashford, a waiver-wire pickup from the Philadelphia Phillies, provides the grit and determination one needs at the keystone position. He came into the organization in the nick of time: it as hoped that Ron Paquette would be able to handle the bat well enough to justify his very good fielding but he ultimately proved that he is best suited as a late-inning defensive replacement and emergency sub. That's probably the best role for Yoshifumi Yamamoto as well but Detroit fans love the flashy plays the man makes. He'll at least continue to provide a bit of enjoyment until the team needs actual production from the position. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B Ron Paquette 27 90 76 325 43 77 11 3 2 37 5 5 18 26 0.237 0.281 0.308 0.588 -22.9 2B Jason Irwin 23 92 63 263 35 83 15 2 5 40 1 4 14 17 0.316 0.349 0.445 0.794 11.5 2B Noah Bashford 27 57 55 205 26 63 8 2 3 35 2 2 16 27 0.307 0.353 0.410 0.762 8.6 2B *Phil Beadle 26 5 5 16 2 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 4 0.125 0.211 0.250 0.461 -0.7 3B Charlie Parson 23 136 133 569 89 182 28 7 12 79 6 1 31 61 0.320 0.353 0.457 0.810 22.7 3B Benedict Henderson 33 65 65 290 45 88 24 2 6 36 1 0 19 18 0.303 0.345 0.462 0.807 12.0 SS Yoshifumi Yamamoto 31 110 108 366 34 94 16 4 1 42 2 4 28 37 0.257 0.307 0.331 0.637 -17.6 SS Clarence Hines 22 4 2 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0.143 0.143 0.143 0.286 -1.3 SS Matt Collins 28 7 0 6 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.167 0.167 0.333 0.500 -0.7 Carl Penley looks like the real deal. He set pretty much every record for a teenager that you can imagine. Teenagers, heck - those 57 two-baggers were the most anybody has hit in Major League Baseball history. You would hope that one day he learns that you get to first base for free once you get four balls. Even if he never gets better at the game, though - and you just know he's going to get better - he might end up the best outfielder of the 1930s - and the 1940s. Between Penley, Bill Taylor, Gene Smyth, and Rusty McCarty, the Tigers have four top-quality outfielders who are all under 25 years of age. That's not just a good path to .500, that's a path to American League dominance. Obviously the Tigers have a lot of ground to make up elsewhere but this is one heck of a start. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF Carl Penley 19 117 117 555 88 190 57 11 5 55 15 6 3 60 0.342 0.345 0.512 0.857 23.4 LF *Ed Berndt 27 13 0 13 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0.154 0.214 0.154 0.368 -2.1 CF #Bill Taylor 25 103 102 442 62 130 27 11 7 56 10 3 17 50 0.294 0.319 0.452 0.771 9.2 CF *Gene Smyth 21 74 72 296 44 96 19 2 7 50 0 0 38 19 0.324 0.402 0.473 0.875 19.0 CF Naoya Imai 30 48 30 148 21 35 6 2 1 14 2 0 11 12 0.236 0.287 0.324 0.612 -7.9 CF *Tod Bly 24 21 21 92 14 24 5 3 2 16 0 2 2 5 0.261 0.277 0.446 0.722 -1.6 CF Mal Wenger 31 12 5 24 2 5 4 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 0.208 0.269 0.375 0.644 -0.9 RF #Rusty McCarty 23 58 51 208 31 61 18 3 6 37 0 0 5 25 0.293 0.303 0.495 0.798 5.0 RF Bob Scarbrough 26 39 19 103 15 26 7 0 4 19 0 0 2 7 0.252 0.274 0.437 0.710 -5.0 Code:
- *Cory Atkins 30 4 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.250 0.250 0.500 -0.4
- *Je-myung Kim 22 4 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.250 0.250 0.500 -0.3
Team Totals 26.2 1803 1386 5625 793 1581 336 65 99 748 47 28 367 533 0.281 0.325 0.417 0.742 61.8
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New York Yankees
The 1932 New York Yankees will not be on any greatest teams list but they were a lot better than they looked. This team won 96 games despite losing a massive amount of games to injury and even led the World Series 3 games to 1 before the injury bug struck again. Some call it poetic justice, given the way this team bought so many of its stars, but in doing so the Yankees are helping the rest of the league - the cash infusion they gave to the St. Louis Browns in exchange for Carter Keeton probably saved them from folding. Obviously, they're the odds-on favorite to repeat. It's tough to imagine them getting more injured than last year. Their pitching stood up to the Year of the Hitter and put forward a dead ball era looking earned run average. And the much-maligned offense somehow managed to score 916 runs. Look for 4 pennants in 6 years... and counting. Code:
Record overall 96-58, .623 PCT 1st, - GB
Home 44-33, .571 PCT
Road 52-25, .675 PCT
X-inning games 9-5, .643 PCT
One-run games 16-17, .485 PCT
Versus LHP 31-14, .689 PCT
Versus RHP 65-44, .596 PCT
April 6-3, .667 PCT
May 17-12, .586 PCT
June 18-10, .643 PCT
July 19-9, .679 PCT
August 17-11, .607 PCT
September 13-11, .542 PCT
October 6-2, .750 PCT
Team Batting Stats & Rankings
Batting Average .303 - 1st in AL
On-Base Percentage .365 - 2nd in AL
Slugging Percentage .433 - 2nd in AL
On-Base + Slugging .798 - 3rd in AL
Runs Scored 916 - 2nd in AL
Hits 1703 - 2nd in AL
Extra-Base Hits 484 - 5th in AL
Home Runs 82 - 6th in AL
Bases-On-Balls 546 - 2nd in AL
Strikeouts 431 - 2nd in AL
Stolen Bases 58 - 2nd in AL
Team Pitching Stats & Rankings
Earned Run Average 3.37 - 1st in AL
Starters' ERA 3.30 - 1st in AL
Bullpen ERA 3.38 - 1st in AL
Runs allowed 657 - 1st in AL
Hits allowed 1372 - 1st in AL
Opponents AVG .254 - 1st in AL
BABIP .274 - 1st in AL
Home Runs allowed 63 - 1st in AL
Bases-On-Balls 457 - 3rd in AL
Strikeouts 572 - 1st in AL
Even losing Alan Hack and Ken Wilcher for most of the season, the 1-2 punch of Eeyore Meyers and Steve Krug was more than enough to keep the Yankees in the game. Meyers finished 2 strikeouts behind Bob Hinman for #1 in the major leagues. Still only 26, Meyers already has his name mentioned on future Hall of Fame lists. And why not? He has a fastball that tops 98 miles per hour, is unflappable on the mound, and has pinpoint control. He even hit a career-high 5 doubles last year. Krug takes a slightly different approach. Rather than overpower his opponents, he tosses whatever he can come up with that day: he throws five pitches for strikes. His main move is mixing up a two-seam fastball with a pitch that looks like a two-seamer but runs a little slower and dips a bit more. Hitters expecting the former drive the latter into the ground. His strikeout total, then, is deceptively low: this is a man who does in one pitch what other guys take at least three to do. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP Steve Krug 32 22 11 0.667 36 36 0 299.1 293 98 10 63 90 2.95 79.2 Bob Meyers 26 21 8 0.724 33 32 0 268.1 262 73 10 26 150 2.45 87.0 Gary Scurry 29 9 9 0.500 34 22 0 171 195 76 7 74 81 4.00 22.9 Tim Bunker 23 9 6 0.600 22 16 0 125.2 123 64 9 101 44 4.58 8.2 Elvin Gram 41 8 6 0.571 17 17 0 115 113 52 6 34 36 4.07 13.1 Alan Hack 32 10 1 0.909 14 14 0 113.1 92 31 8 22 43 2.46 36.8 Lowell May 23 5 5 0.500 43 0 13 67.2 58 12 2 30 38 1.60 28.8 Juan Hernández 28 2 0 1.000 25 0 0 54 54 26 2 16 30 4.33 5.2 Johnny Watson 25 4 2 0.667 24 0 0 47 36 25 2 32 30 4.79 1.8 Barry Ruth 28 2 4 0.333 15 5 0 46 62 21 2 25 8 4.11 5.6 Ken Wilcher 36 2 1 0.667 4 4 0 27 21 6 1 13 3 2.00 9.1 Keenan Hubbard 37 1 2 0.333 5 4 0 24 34 17 2 6 5 6.38 -3.9 Cristóbal Rodríguez 27 1 1 0.500 2 2 0 16 10 6 2 7 9 3.38 2.2 Keith Lamb 24 0 2 0.000 2 2 0 10.1 14 10 0 7 3 8.71 -5.2 Pedro Hernández 29 0 0 0.000 3 0 1 3.2 5 3 0 1 2 7.36 -1.0 Team Totals 29.3 96 58 0.623 279 154 14 1388.1 1372 520 63 457 572 3.37 289.7 Phil Foster may not have the prototypical swing of a cleanup hitter but that's where he played after Carter Keeton went down for the year. Foster was Keeton's teammate last year in St. Louis and came to the Yanks in '32 as a free agent. Despite a stroke designed more for extra-base hits than homerun, he just missed the century mark in RBIs. As it was, 99 was a career high. Mike Kennedy did everything the Yankees asked of him. Well, almost everything. He opened the year at shortstop, moved to first base after Jesus Vazquez failed to win the hearts and minds of Yankees fans, and then moved back to shortstop with the late-season emergence of Michael Taylor. We say "almost" because Kennedy's initial switch to first was due as much to Kennedy's troubles at short as anything wrong with the converted catcher. Kennedy commited 31 errors in 77 games at the hardest position to field in baseball, and even then his .919 fielding average went up about 15 points in the last month. Clearly the Yankees need to move him somewhere else, but where? The infield is full. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C Phil Foster 36 136 135 581 97 192 38 2 7 99 0 0 40 32 0.330 0.372 0.439 0.811 30.1 C Bob Weaver 30 17 9 39 7 11 2 1 0 3 1 0 4 5 0.282 0.364 0.385 0.748 1.1 1B #Mike Kennedy 28 150 150 645 125 209 39 10 17 116 2 6 67 18 0.324 0.387 0.495 0.882 44.6 1B *Jesús Vásquez 29 71 53 230 25 62 12 0 3 38 0 1 17 8 0.270 0.315 0.361 0.676 -4.2 1B Michael Taylor 24 23 23 96 14 36 11 2 1 14 0 0 7 7 0.375 0.417 0.563 0.980 9.9 1B Willis Collins 29 35 12 65 13 12 5 1 2 14 0 0 7 5 0.185 0.284 0.385 0.668 -5.3 Earl Race was having the kind of season kids only dream about but it turned into a nightmare in the World Series. The Garden City, New York native played in the 2-hole all year long, scored 106 times, and played some fantastic second base en route to winning the Rookie of the Year award. Like a lot of young players, staying focused was a problem and he seemed to lose it in the 9th inning of Game Seven. The Giants hit baseball after baseball at him and to be honest it was a bit of charity on the part of the scorer to only charge him with one error in that fatal frame. An elite team like the Yankees have little use for that lack of clutch; the chances that Race will start the year as a Yankee are very slim. Part of what makes Race expendable is the play of Quincy Hudson and Gilbert Nelson. Hudson came over in yet another lopsided trade plus cash; his former team was the Boston Braves. All he did was hit .327 with 17 homeruns combined; his 14 circuit clouts with the Yanks were second on the team. Gilbert Nelson proved he still has it at the ripe old age of 34. Nelson works counts, aggravates opposing pitching with foul tips, and finds a way to reach base 200+ times a year. He's just as pesky with the glove. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP
2B Earl Race 24 150 149 648 106 210 43 6 2 73 3 2 33 57 0.324 0.361 0.418 0.779 36.0
2B Jeff Godfrey 26 22 5 36 8 14 0 1 1 9 2 0 2 2 0.389 0.421 0.528 0.949 5.1
3B *Quincy Hudson 27 79 79 321 58 104 13 3 14 72 0 2 22 29 0.324 0.369 0.514 0.883 17.6
SS Gilbert Nelson 34 152 152 564 85 172 37 10 0 79 1 2 87 57 0.305 0.394 0.406 0.800 23.7
SS *Henry Adams 23 7 5 23 4 9 1 0 0 4 1 0 1 3 0.391 0.417 0.435 0.851 2.2
Team Totals 27.8 1648 1386 5616 916 1703 322 80 82 864 58 44 546 431 0.303 0.365 0.433 0.798 263.0
Carter Keeton was so good, he missed the last month of the season and still finished 2nd in MVP voting. His slugging percentage last year set a Yankees record. One can only imagine the kind of numbers he's going to put up in a full season at Yankee Stadium where he doesn't have to spend the first month or so acclimating himself to his surrounding. Nathan Behnke was the club leadoff hitter; like so many other members of this team, he specialized in getting deep into counts without ending at-bats in strikeouts. He also won the Gold Glove in center field for the first time in his young career. Right field is, how shall we say, a position of improvement for 1933. The Yanks never could find a guy who was really up to the task. Last year's starter John Faber did the best of the crowd and figures to get better as he gets older, but the Yanks are not in a position where they should be waiting for youngsters to develop. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF *Carter Keeton 26 127 123 464 115 155 25 10 22 103 3 7 103 52 0.334 0.458 0.573 1.031 61.5 LF Oscar Nickel 24 27 21 87 13 23 2 2 2 18 1 0 5 2 0.264 0.309 0.402 0.711 -2.5 LF #Shelby West 20 5 1 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.250 0.333 0.250 0.583 -0.6 CF Nathan Behnke 25 138 137 598 109 193 37 11 4 69 25 16 76 21 0.323 0.398 0.441 0.840 30.5 RF *John Faber 22 90 89 341 47 105 19 14 1 46 11 5 27 21 0.308 0.355 0.455 0.809 6.1 RF *Roberto Silva 24 81 53 216 36 60 9 1 2 30 5 1 21 5 0.278 0.336 0.356 0.693 -1.1 RF Bill Gwaltney 24 57 36 168 24 44 6 4 3 26 3 2 16 27 0.262 0.324 0.399 0.723 -1.5 Code:
- *Scot Jones 34 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -0.1
- *Bill Michael 23 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -0.1
Team Totals 27.8 1648 1386 5616 916 1703 322 80 82 864 58 44 546 431 0.303 0.365 0.433 0.798 263.0
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For all of this team's achievements - and there were many - the best part of this team's season came after a string of losses. They did not finish the season well, losing 6 straight at one point and only ekeing out the record for wins in a season by splitting a double-header on the last day of the season. And when they lost 3 of the first 4 games of the World Series to the Yankees, it was really beginning to look like the Giants were a paper tiger. That's when they proved how great they really were. The Giants of New York outscored their Junior Circuit counterparts 16-2 in winning the final 3 games. First Ryan Rush and Fred Fleming shut the Yankees out, forcing the Yanks to leave 14 men on base in those games. Then, in Game Seven, they held a 2-1 lead into the 9th and then abused rookie Earl Race in the bottom of that frame after Nathan Behnke homered in the 9th off of John Burns to tie it up. A great ending to the greatest season of all time. Code:
Record overall 110-44, .714 PCT 1st, - GB Home 60-17, .779 PCT Road 50-27, .649 PCT X-inning games 6-3, .667 PCT One-run games 24-15, .615 PCT Versus LHP 27-7, .794 PCT Versus RHP 83-37, .692 PCT April 5-3, .625 PCT May 17-11, .607 PCT June 17-10, .630 PCT July 25-4, .862 PCT August 22-4, .846 PCT September 21-4, .840 PCT October 3-8, .273 PCT Team Batting Stats & Rankings Batting Average .309 - 1st in NL On-Base Percentage .373 - 2nd in NL Slugging Percentage .474 - 1st in NL On-Base + Slugging .847 - 1st in NL Runs Scored 1014 - 1st in NL Hits 1752 - 1st in NL Extra-Base Hits 534 - 2nd in NL Home Runs 176 - 1st in NL Bases-On-Balls 594 - 2nd in NL Strikeouts 477 - 4th in NL Stolen Bases 24 - 8th in NL Team Pitching Stats & Rankings Earned Run Average 3.69 - 1st in NL Starters' ERA 3.60 - 1st in NL Bullpen ERA 3.47 - 1st in NL Runs allowed 680 - 1st in NL Hits allowed 1463 - 1st in NL Opponents AVG .268 - 1st in NL BABIP .276 - 1st in NL Home Runs allowed 102 - 3rd in NL Bases-On-Balls 417 - 1st in NL Strikeouts 424 - 8th in NL The status of this pitching staff seems a little precarious, although saying that this team won't win 110 again in 1933 is not exactly sticking one's neck out. The Giants' pitching staff was, on par, in its prime in '32: only one major player was more than 30, but at the same time only one guy was under 26. That was John Burns, the National League Pitcher of the Year. Burns' success mirrored that of New York's. A loss to the Pirates on June 12 dropped him to 5-6 with a 3.54 ERA. From that point on, it was like the league was facing an entirely different pitcher: 24 wins, 2 losses, and 3.15 earned runs per 9 innings. That's right: he was even more effective than Fred Fleming after he came over. There is no controversy. Lost in all that... how about Ryan Rush? This is a pitcher who, despite being a fantastic pitcher by nearly every metric, went 9 full seasons between his first 20-victory campaign in 1919 and his second in 1928. He had to pitch for the lowly Boston Braves, who lost 90 games 3 times and 100 once during that stretch. When they finally did nose their way over .500 as a ballclub, it was behind that 2nd 20-victory excursion. Although Rush is nearing the end of his career, the 331 game winner can still bring the heat, sporting a 4-seamer that sometimes hits 95 miles per hour and a two-seamer that is, if anything, even harder to hit. Code:
Player Age W L Pct G GS SV IP H ER HR BB SO ERA VORP John Burns 25 29 8 0.784 39 39 0 325.1 328 118 17 89 112 3.26 109.5 Ryan Rush 38 23 12 0.657 42 42 0 324.1 351 152 26 102 63 4.22 81.8 Li Alport 29 19 11 0.633 33 33 0 262 314 113 19 60 44 3.88 73.7 Fred Fleming 28 22 2 0.917 26 26 0 225.2 202 70 17 74 121 2.79 85.4 Jim Nardi 28 6 9 0.400 26 14 0 118 136 65 10 51 29 4.96 22.2 Tom Kelley 28 4 0 1.000 27 0 7 43.2 34 16 2 21 26 3.30 14.6 Willis Morin 35 4 0 1.000 20 0 1 40 38 9 3 8 9 2.02 17.8 Takehide Saito 33 2 2 0.500 16 0 1 39 52 22 7 8 15 5.08 6.9 Gordon Stabler 22 1 0 1.000 10 0 0 11.1 8 4 1 4 5 3.18 3.9 Team Totals 29.6 110 44 0.714 239 154 9 1389.1 1463 569 102 417 424 3.69 415.7 Both New York teams had the Rookie of the Year award winners, but the Giants are the ones who intend to keep their champion. 1931's starter Jesus Vasquez was moved to the Yankees to free up the position for youngster John Sundberg, who had blasted the ball in the minors. He continued to belt it in the big leagues. There are some doubts as to his ability to throw runners out and call games, but the Giants pitching can just about call their own game anyway and, well, who steals anymore? It should be said that if he were to get hurt, there's a bit of a drop to the backup level, particularly since George Echols was traded. Both Tom Hardy and Gary Shaw could probably start for any other team in baseball. For the Giants, they form an outrageously useful platoon. Hardy got just 35 at-bats against lefties and Shaw just 25 against righties all season long. That was a huge part of why they were able to combine for 108 runs scored, 37 doubles, 116 RBIs, 220 hits, and a .347 batting average. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP C John Sundberg 24 138 137 551 73 178 38 4 12 97 0 1 36 52 0.323 0.360 0.472 0.832 32.7 C George Jenkins 37 18 17 61 7 16 4 0 1 7 0 0 1 7 0.262 0.274 0.377 0.651 -1.5 C #Fabian Wieland 28 5 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 -1.1 1B #Tom Hardy 26 130 120 477 84 169 28 4 13 87 1 0 78 42 0.354 0.445 0.512 0.956 49.7 1B Gary Shaw 26 54 34 158 24 51 9 3 1 29 0 1 12 13 0.323 0.368 0.437 0.805 3.8 Britt Grim had a nice bounceback year after a disappointing 1931 (he hit .247 with a miniscule .343 slugging percentage). A big part of that comeback was that the Giants religiously kept him out of the lineup against left-handed pitching: he saw southsiders just 40 times in all of 1932 as teammate Dale Sloat took over on those days. Both of those guys were supposed to be AAAA/backup infielder fodder for this team but were pushed into starting by the sudden loss of Nate Moyer on the second of May. Moyer suffered a compound fracture of his elbow on a hit by pitch and got blood poisoning as the doctors attempted to put it back together that night. It was very touch and go for several weeks, and in the end they had to amputate part of his arm to save his life. We'd like to give our best wishes to the Moyer family. In brighter news, Emory Jefferson was one of three - three! - Giants to hit at least 20 homeruns last year. He and Benton Wheeler were not only guys opponents feared at the plate but in the field as well. Jefferson just missed out on his second consecutive Gold Glove and Wheeler won his 3rd in 4 years as a big league ballplayer. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP 2B *Britt Grim 24 90 88 341 58 97 22 3 3 38 3 4 50 19 0.284 0.374 0.393 0.767 16.3 2B Dale Sloat 29 67 57 235 49 76 15 1 5 35 0 1 23 17 0.323 0.386 0.460 0.846 19.6 2B #Nate Moyer 23 10 10 35 9 14 3 0 0 4 0 2 2 3 0.400 0.432 0.486 0.918 3.5 3B Emory Jefferson 27 139 138 555 123 193 26 5 37 133 0 0 78 39 0.348 0.425 0.613 1.038 77.6 3B *Derek Hansen 34 29 18 81 12 19 8 1 0 15 0 0 7 7 0.235 0.297 0.358 0.655 -2.1 SS Benton Wheeler 26 151 151 677 154 237 33 9 24 108 3 5 69 47 0.350 0.410 0.532 0.941 68.6 John Montague was brought over to fill in in right field while Eddy McCrary was out. That experiment did not work out terrifically well and he ended the season on the bench. That's not a great spot for this highly-regarded prospect; look for him to be shipped out this winter. The Mason Taylor acquisition was much better: freed from the second division Washington Senators, Taylor cleared 200 hits for the 4th time in his career and the first since 1927. On top of that, he was errorless in 69 games, effectively making the transition from center field in Washington to left in Gotham. That leaves Erik Conn. Before '32, Conn never hit more than 17 home runs in his career. That's not that odd; nobody else had ever hit more than 32. But in the Year of the Homerun, all that went out the window. He matched his personal best on June 29, set a new one on the 30th, and the hits just kept on coming. Between May and August, when the pennant race still looked somewhat in doubt, Conn hit 26 homeruns in 260 at-bats - a homer every 10 times up. With that much power, he couldn't help but bring home 91 runners during those 3 months. He followed that up by hitting the Giants' only homerun in the World Series. Code:
Pos Player Age G GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO AVG OBP SLG OPS VORP LF *Mason Taylor 29 69 69 292 53 100 13 0 9 43 0 1 45 10 0.342 0.426 0.479 0.906 24.1 LF Dale Becker 24 31 29 118 16 31 5 0 3 14 6 1 7 9 0.263 0.302 0.381 0.683 -3.7 CF Erik Conn 37 152 152 640 150 193 38 9 37 138 9 10 82 67 0.302 0.378 0.563 0.940 50.6 RF *Eddy McCrary 33 80 79 330 68 124 17 3 13 64 0 0 39 14 0.376 0.441 0.564 1.004 45.9 RF *John Montague 22 65 53 214 36 59 7 0 8 46 0 0 30 20 0.276 0.360 0.421 0.781 4.6 RF Martin Hagans 24 39 36 153 19 41 8 1 3 15 2 3 8 8 0.268 0.302 0.392 0.695 -4.2 RF Dave Echols 23 32 29 130 17 47 9 0 2 15 0 0 14 12 0.362 0.428 0.477 0.905 13.2 RF Ken Seibel 27 18 8 48 6 15 7 1 0 10 0 1 1 3 0.313 0.320 0.500 0.820 1.6 RF *Mark Wagner 30 18 7 40 11 12 5 0 3 11 0 0 5 6 0.300 0.378 0.650 1.028 4.1 Code:
Team Totals 28.2 1574 1386 5662 1014 1752 313 45 176 960 24 30 594 477 0.309 0.373 0.474 0.847 406.0
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