1889 Boston Beaneaters

Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Franchise Encyclopedia: 1888 / 1890

83-45, Finished 2nd in National League (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Jim Hart (83-45)
Scored 826 runs, Allowed 626 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 80-48

Ballparks: South End Grounds II ·
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 106, Pitching - 104 · one-year: Batting - 102, Pitching - 99

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1888 / 1890 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Game Results

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Team Batting

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Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Charlie Bennett	34	82	270	247	42	57	8	2	4	28	7		21	43	.231	.296	.328	.624	69	81		2
2	1B	Dan Brouthers*	31	126	565	485	105	181	26	9	7	118	22		66	6	.373	.462	.507	.969	163	246		14
3	2B	Hardy Richardson	34	132	589	536	122	163	33	10	6	79	47		48	44	.304	.367	.437	.803	117	234		5
4	SS	Joe Quinn	24	112	474	444	57	116	13	5	2	69	24		25	21	.261	.308	.327	.635	72	145		5
5	3B	Billy Nash	24	128	562	481	84	132	20	2	3	76	26		79	44	.274	.379	.343	.722	97	165		2
6	OF	King Kelly	31	125	574	507	120	149	41	5	9	78	68		65	40	.294	.376	.448	.824	123	227		2
7	OF	Tom Brown*	28	90	422	362	93	84	10	5	2	24	63		59	56	.232	.341	.304	.645	76	110		1
8	OF	Dick Johnston	26	132	582	539	80	123	16	4	5	67	34		41	60	.228	.285	.301	.586	59	162		2
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	UT	Charlie Ganzel	27	73	292	275	30	73	3	5	1	43	13		15	11	.265	.308	.324	.632	71	89		2
10	SS	Pop Smith	32	59	235	208	21	54	13	4	0	32	11		23	30	.260	.345	.361	.705	91	75		4
11	IF	Irv Ray*	25	9	37	33	8	10	1	0	0	2	1		4	0	.303	.378	.333	.712	94	11		0
12	UT	Jerry Hurley	26	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0		0
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
13	P	John Clarkson	27	73	273	262	36	54	9	3	2	23	8		11	59	.206	.238	.286	.524	42	75		0
14	P	Old Hoss Radbourn	34	35	133	122	17	23	1	0	1	13	3		9	19	.189	.256	.221	.477	30	27		2
15	P	Kid Madden*	21	24	89	86	7	25	1	0	0	14	4		3	7	.291	.315	.302	.617	68	26		0
16	P	Bill Daley?	21	9	21	20	2	3	1	0	0	0	0		1	8	.150	.190	.200	.390	6	4		0
17	P	Bill Sowders	24	7	18	17	2	4	0	0	0	0	0		1	2	.235	.278	.235	.513	40	4		0
		Team Totals	28.7	133	5140	4628	826	1251	196	54	42	666	331		471	450	.270	.343	.363	.706	92	1681		41
		Rank in 8 NL teams				7	3	4	5	6	5		1	1	3	4	4	3	4	4		5		4		1
Rk	Pos		Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

* - bats left-handed, # - bats both, else - bats right, ? - unknown; OPS_lg for OPS+ does not include pitchers.

Team Pitching

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Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
1	SP	John Clarkson	27	49	19	.721	2.73	73	72	1	68	8	1	620.0	589	280	188	16	203		284	17	0	16	2641	153	1.277	8.6	0.2	2.9	4.1	1.40
2	SP	Old Hoss Radbourn	34	20	11	.645	3.67	33	31	2	28	1	0	277.0	282	151	113	14	72		99	8	0	4	1180	114	1.278	9.2	0.5	2.3	3.2	1.38
3	SP	Kid Madden*	21	10	10	.500	4.40	22	19	3	18	1	1	178.0	194	131	87	7	71		64	16	0	7	807	95	1.489	9.8	0.4	3.6	3.2	0.90
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB
4		Bill Daley*	21	3	3	.500	4.31	9	7	2	4	0	0	48.0	34	29	23	1	43		40	2	0	2	221	98	1.604	6.4	0.2	8.1	7.5	0.93
5		Bill Sowders	24	1	2	.333	5.14	7	4	3	3	0	3	42.0	53	35	24	3	23		10	2	0	2	202	82	1.810	11.4	0.6	4.9	2.1	0.43
6		Billy Nash	24	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	1		0	0	0	0	4		1.000	0.0	0.0	9.0	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	27.4	83	45	.648	3.36	133	133	12	121	10	5	1166.0	1152	626	435	41	413		497	45	0	31	5055	125	1.342	8.9	0.3	3.2	3.8	1.20
		Rank in 8 NL teams		1	7		1				4	1	1	4	2	1	1	5	3		2
Rk	Pos		Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB

* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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	Age	G	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Pos. Summary
Charlie Bennett	34	82		516	419	74	23	9	.955	6.01	22						C
Dan Brouthers	31	126		1336	1243	58	35	78	.974	10.33							1B
Tom Brown	28	90		202	169	13	20	1	.901	2.02							OF
John Clarkson	27	76		236	37	172	27	8	.886	2.75							P-OF-3B
Bill Daley	21	9		24	3	20	1	3	.958	2.56							P
Charlie Ganzel	27	79		409	292	87	30	19	.927	4.80	11						C-OF-1B-SS-3B
Jerry Hurley	26	2		5	2	2	1	0	.800	2.00	0						OF-C
Dick Johnston	26	132		315	267	22	26	6	.917	2.19							OF
King Kelly	31	136		308	211	53	44	6	.857	1.94	13						OF-C
Kid Madden	21	24		48	9	35	4	2	.917	1.83							P-OF
Billy Nash	24	129		529	205	274	50	25	.905	3.71							P-3B
Joe Quinn	24	112		547	174	314	59	36	.892	4.36							SS-2B-3B
Old Hoss Radbourn	34	36		79	19	58	2	6	.975	2.14							P-OF-3B
Irv Ray	25	9		28	9	15	4	2	.857	2.67							SS-3B
Hardy Richardson	34	132		687	320	316	51	45	.926	4.82							2B-OF
Pop Smith	32	59		327	121	170	36	23	.890	4.93							SS
Bill Sowders	24	7		14	3	11	0	0	1.000	2.00							P
Team Totals	28.7	133		5610	3503	1694	413	269	.926	4.19	46
Rank in 8 NL teams							6	2	3
	Age	G	CG	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	PO	Pos. Summary

Team Player Value--Batters

League Register · WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

	Age	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Acquired	Pos. Summary
Charlie Bennett	34	270	-14	0	0	0	12	5	9	12	1.4	0	0.0	1.4	$	Purchased	2
Dan Brouthers*	31	565	58	-3	0	0	4	0	16	75	6.8	71	6.7	0.1	$4,700	Purchased	*3
Tom Brown*	28	422	-12	8	0	0	4	-6	12	6	0.6	2	0.2	0.4	$2,000	Unknown	*O
John Clarkson	27	273	-27	1	0	0	0	12	9	-5	-0.2	-5	-0.5	0.3	$	Purchased	1/O5
Bill Daley?	21	21	-3	0	0	0	0	1	1	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$	Purchased	/1
Charlie Ganzel	27	292	-10	-1	0	0	5	1	9	4	0.6	-1	-0.1	0.7	$	Purchased	2O/365
Jerry Hurley	26	4	-1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-0.1	-1	-0.1	0.0	$		/2O
Dick Johnston	26	582	-34	2	0	0	0	-7	17	-22	-1.8	-22	-2.1	0.3	$2,500		*O
King Kelly	31	574	20	6	0	0	-3	-6	16	33	2.9	36	3.4	-0.5	$4,000	Purchased	*O2
Kid Madden*	21	89	-4	-1	0	0	0	3	3	1	0.2	1	0.1	0.1	$2,000		1/O
Billy Nash	24	562	4	-2	0	0	8	4	16	30	3.0	22	2.1	0.9	$3,000		*5/1
Joe Quinn	24	474	-15	-1	0	0	3	5	14	6	0.9	3	0.3	0.6	$		64/5
Old Hoss Radbourn	34	133	-13	0	0	0	0	5	4	-4	-0.2	-4	-0.4	0.2	$4,000	Assigned--by lg	1/O5
Irv Ray*	25	37	0	0	0	0	-1	0	1	0	0.0	1	0.1	-0.1	$	Unknown	/65
Hardy Richardson	34	589	16	5	0	0	9	-1	17	46	4.3	37	3.5	0.8	$4,200	Purchased	4O
Pop Smith	32	235	-2	-2	0	0	-7	4	8	1	0.1	8	0.8	-0.7	$	Purchased	6
Bill Sowders	24	18	-1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0.1	1	0.1	0.0	$		/1
Team Total	28.7	5140	-38	12	0	0	34	21	153	182	18.5	148	14.0	4.5	$26,400
	Age	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Acquired	Pos. Summary

Team Player Value--Pitchers

League Register · WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

	Age	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Acquired
John Clarkson	27	620.0	72	280	471	13	1.0	191	16.0	$	Purchased
Bill Daley*	21	48.0	7	29	36	1	1.0	7	0.6	$	Purchased
Kid Madden*	21	178.0	19	131	135	4	1.0	4	0.5	$
Billy Nash	24	1.0	0	0	1	0	1.0	1	0.1	$
Old Hoss Radbourn	34	277.0	31	151	210	6	1.0	59	5.0	$	Assigned--by lg
Bill Sowders	24	42.0	4	35	32	1	1.0	-3	-0.2	$
Team Total	27.4	1166.0	133	626	885	25	1.0	259	22.0	$
	Age	IP	GS	R	Rrep	Rdef	aLI	RAR	WAR	Salary	Acquired

1888 / 1890 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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