Franchise Encyclopedia: 1915 / 1917
87-67, Finished 3rd in American League (Schedule and Results)
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Manager: Hughie Jennings (87-67)
Scored 670 runs, Allowed 595 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 85-69
Ballpark: Navin Field (ballparks.com) · Attendance: 616,772 (2nd of 8)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 104, Pitching - 101 · one-year: Batting - 104, Pitching - 103
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| Rk | Pos | Age | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | TB | GDP | HBP | SH | SF | IBB | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C | Oscar Stanage | 33 | 94 | 318 | 291 | 16 | 69 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 30 | 3 | 17 | 48 | .237 | .286 | .316 | .602 | 78 | 92 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| 2 | 1B | George Burns | 23 | 135 | 527 | 479 | 60 | 137 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 73 | 12 | 22 | 30 | .286 | .327 | .382 | .709 | 109 | 183 | 7 | 19 | ||||
| 3 | 2B | Ralph Young# | 27 | 153 | 614 | 528 | 60 | 139 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 45 | 20 | 20 | 62 | 43 | .263 | .342 | .322 | .664 | 96 | 170 | 1 | 23 | |||
| 4 | SS | Donie Bush# | 28 | 145 | 653 | 550 | 73 | 124 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 34 | 19 | 75 | 42 | .225 | .319 | .267 | .587 | 73 | 147 | 1 | 27 | ||||
| 5 | 3B | Ossie Vitt | 26 | 153 | 705 | 597 | 88 | 135 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 42 | 18 | 75 | 28 | .226 | .314 | .295 | .608 | 80 | 176 | 1 | 32 | ||||
| 6 | OF | Sam Crawford* | 36 | 100 | 368 | 322 | 41 | 92 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 42 | 10 | 37 | 10 | .286 | .359 | .401 | .760 | 124 | 129 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| 7 | OF | Ty Cobb* | 29 | 145 | 636 | 542 | 113 | 201 | 31 | 10 | 5 | 68 | 68 | 24 | 78 | 39 | .371 | .452 | .493 | .944 | 179 | 267 | 2 | 14 | |||
| 8 | OF | Bobby Veach* | 28 | 150 | 645 | 566 | 92 | 173 | 33 | 15 | 3 | 91 | 24 | 15 | 52 | 41 | .306 | .367 | .433 | .800 | 136 | 245 | 3 | 24 | |||
| Rk | Pos | Age | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | TB | GDP | HBP | SH | SF | IBB | ||||||
| 9 | UT | Harry Heilmann | 21 | 136 | 513 | 451 | 57 | 127 | 30 | 11 | 2 | 73 | 9 | 42 | 40 | .282 | .349 | .410 | .760 | 124 | 185 | 5 | 15 | ||||
| 10 | C | Del Baker | 24 | 61 | 115 | 98 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 8 | .153 | .245 | .194 | .439 | 30 | 19 | 1 | 5 | ||||
| 11 | UT | Marty Kavanagh | 25 | 58 | 90 | 78 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 9 | 15 | .141 | .239 | .192 | .431 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| 12 | C | Red McKee* | 25 | 32 | 84 | 76 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 11 | .211 | .268 | .276 | .545 | 61 | 21 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 13 | C | Tubby Spencer | 32 | 19 | 65 | 54 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 6 | .370 | .443 | .481 | .924 | 173 | 26 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 14 | OF | George Harper* | 24 | 44 | 62 | 56 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | .161 | .230 | .179 | .408 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 15 | SS | Ben Dyer | 23 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .286 | .333 | .357 | .690 | 104 | 5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 16 | MI | Frank Fuller# | 23 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | .100 | .182 | .100 | .282 | -17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 17 | OF | Jack Dalton | 30 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .182 | .182 | .182 | .364 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | 3B | Babe Ellison | 19 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 19 | 3B | George Maisel | 24 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 20 | C | Billy Sullivan | 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| 21 | P | Harry Coveleski# | 30 | 44 | 120 | 118 | 7 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 38 | .212 | .218 | .271 | .490 | 45 | 32 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 22 | P | Hooks Dauss | 26 | 39 | 92 | 72 | 8 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 30 | .222 | .364 | .361 | .725 | 114 | 26 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| 23 | P | Jean Dubuc | 27 | 52 | 87 | 78 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 12 | .256 | .318 | .308 | .625 | 85 | 24 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 24 | P | Bill James# | 29 | 30 | 53 | 44 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 24 | .068 | .128 | .068 | .196 | -42 | 3 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| 25 | P | George Cunningham | 21 | 35 | 50 | 41 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 12 | .268 | .388 | .415 | .802 | 137 | 17 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| 26 | P | Willie Mitchell | 26 | 23 | 43 | 36 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 6 | .250 | .357 | .250 | .607 | 80 | 9 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 27 | P | Bernie Boland | 24 | 49 | 39 | 32 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 12 | .250 | .351 | .250 | .601 | 78 | 8 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| 28 | P | Earl Hamilton* | 24 | 5 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .077 | .143 | .077 | .220 | -35 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 29 | P | Howard Ehmke | 22 | 5 | 14 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 30 | P | George Boehler | 24 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .000 | .400 | .000 | .400 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 31 | P | Eric Erickson | 21 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 32 | P | Deacon Jones | 23 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 33 | P | Bill McTigue* | 25 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 34 | P | Grover Lowdermilk | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Team Totals | 27.2 | 155 | 5969 | 5193 | 673 | 1371 | 202 | 96 | 17 | 560 | 190 | 59 | 545 | 529 | .264 | .337 | .350 | .687 | 103 | 1816 | 0 | 29 | 202 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Rank in 8 AL teams | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Rk | Pos | Age | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | CS | BB | SO | TB | GDP | HBP | SH | SF | IBB |
| Rk | Pos | Age | W | L | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SP | Harry Coveleski* | 30 | 21 | 11 | .656 | 1.97 | 44 | 39 | 4 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 324.1 | 278 | 105 | 71 | 6 | 63 | 108 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 1248 | 145 | 1.051 | 7.7 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 3.0 | 1.71 | |
| 2 | SP | Hooks Dauss | 26 | 19 | 12 | .613 | 3.21 | 39 | 29 | 9 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 238.2 | 220 | 102 | 85 | 2 | 90 | 95 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 961 | 89 | 1.299 | 8.3 | 0.1 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 1.06 | |
| 3 | SP | Bill James | 29 | 8 | 12 | .400 | 3.68 | 30 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 151.2 | 141 | 76 | 62 | 1 | 79 | 61 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 642 | 78 | 1.451 | 8.4 | 0.1 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 0.77 | |
| 4 | SP | Willie Mitchell* | 26 | 7 | 5 | .583 | 3.31 | 23 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 127.2 | 119 | 53 | 47 | 1 | 48 | 60 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 523 | 86 | 1.308 | 8.4 | 0.1 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 1.25 | |
| Rk | Pos | Age | W | L | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF | ||||||||||
| 5 | RP | Jean Dubuc | 27 | 10 | 10 | .500 | 2.96 | 36 | 16 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 170.1 | 134 | 66 | 56 | 1 | 84 | 40 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 663 | 96 | 1.280 | 7.1 | 0.1 | 4.4 | 2.1 | 0.48 | |
| 6 | RP | George Cunningham | 21 | 7 | 10 | .412 | 2.75 | 35 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 150.1 | 146 | 71 | 46 | 0 | 74 | 68 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 619 | 104 | 1.463 | 8.7 | 0.0 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 0.92 | |
| 7 | RP | Bernie Boland | 24 | 10 | 3 | .769 | 3.94 | 46 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 130.1 | 111 | 69 | 57 | 1 | 73 | 59 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 539 | 72 | 1.412 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 0.81 | |
| 8 | RP | Eric Erickson | 21 | 0 | 0 | 2.81 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.0 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 101 | 1.313 | 7.3 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 0.88 | ||
| Rk | Pos | Age | W | L | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF | ||||||||||
| 9 | Earl Hamilton* | 24 | 1 | 2 | .333 | 2.65 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 37.1 | 34 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 160 | 108 | 1.500 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 5.3 | 1.7 | 0.32 | ||
| 10 | Howard Ehmke | 22 | 3 | 1 | .750 | 3.13 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 37.1 | 34 | 16 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 150 | 91 | 1.313 | 8.2 | 0.0 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 1.00 | ||
| 11 | George Boehler | 24 | 1 | 1 | .500 | 4.72 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13.1 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 60 | 1.575 | 8.1 | 0.0 | 6.1 | 5.4 | 0.89 | ||
| 12 | Deacon Jones | 23 | 0 | 0 | 2.57 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 111 | 1.714 | 9.0 | 0.0 | 6.4 | 2.6 | 0.40 | |||
| 13 | Bill McTigue* | 25 | 0 | 0 | 5.06 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 56 | 1.875 | 8.4 | 0.0 | 8.4 | 1.7 | 0.20 | |||
| 14 | Grover Lowdermilk | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9.000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 81.0 | 0.0 | 0.00 | ||||
| Team Totals | 26.4 | 87 | 67 | .565 | 2.97 | 155 | 155 | 74 | 81 | 8 | 13 | 1410.0 | 1254 | 595 | 465 | 12 | 578 | 531 | 62 | 3 | 37 | 5688 | 96 | 1.299 | 8.0 | 0.1 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 0.92 | |||
| Rank in 8 AL teams | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 4699 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rk | Pos | Age | W | L | G | GS | GF | CG | SHO | SV | IP | H | R | ER | HR | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | BK | WP | BF |
| Age | G | G_LF | G_CF | G_RF | Ch | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | Pos. Summary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Del Baker | 24 | 59 | 198 | 164 | 29 | 5 | 4 | .975 | 3.27 | 2 | C | |||
| George Boehler | 24 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.20 | P | ||||
| Bernie Boland | 24 | 46 | 26 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 1 | .962 | 0.54 | P | ||||
| George Burns | 23 | 124 | 1431 | 1355 | 54 | 22 | 71 | .985 | 11.36 | 1B | ||||
| Donie Bush | 28 | 144 | 747 | 278 | 435 | 34 | 41 | .954 | 4.95 | SS | ||||
| Ty Cobb | 29 | 144 | 0 | 143 | 0 | 370 | 335 | 18 | 17 | 9 | .954 | 2.45 | OF-1B | |
| Harry Coveleski | 30 | 44 | 128 | 4 | 119 | 5 | 5 | .961 | 2.80 | P | ||||
| Sam Crawford | 36 | 81 | 1 | 0 | 78 | 112 | 104 | 6 | 2 | 3 | .982 | 1.36 | OF-1B | |
| George Cunningham | 21 | 35 | 58 | 6 | 49 | 3 | 2 | .948 | 1.57 | P | ||||
| Jack Dalton | 30 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 0.75 | OF | |
| Hooks Dauss | 26 | 39 | 96 | 5 | 85 | 6 | 2 | .938 | 2.31 | P | ||||
| Jean Dubuc | 27 | 36 | 84 | 7 | 73 | 4 | 5 | .952 | 2.22 | P | ||||
| Ben Dyer | 23 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.75 | SS | ||||
| Howard Ehmke | 22 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.20 | P | ||||
| Babe Ellison | 19 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.50 | 3B | ||||
| Eric Erickson | 21 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | .500 | 0.38 | P | ||||
| Frank Fuller | 23 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 2 | .846 | 1.22 | 2B-SS | ||||
| Earl Hamilton | 24 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 3.60 | P | ||||
| George Harper | 24 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .938 | 1.07 | OF | |
| Harry Heilmann | 21 | 116 | 5 | 6 | 66 | 502 | 442 | 47 | 13 | 16 | .974 | 4.22 | OF-1B-2B | |
| Bill James | 29 | 30 | 56 | 4 | 46 | 6 | 1 | .893 | 1.67 | P | ||||
| Deacon Jones | 23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 2.00 | P | ||||
| Marty Kavanagh | 25 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 22 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1.000 | 1.57 | OF-2B-3B | |
| Grover Lowdermilk | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.00 | P | ||||
| George Maisel | 24 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .857 | 2.00 | 3B | ||||
| Red McKee | 25 | 26 | 112 | 76 | 31 | 5 | 3 | .955 | 4.12 | 0 | C | |||
| Bill McTigue | 25 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.33 | P | ||||
| Willie Mitchell | 26 | 23 | 24 | 2 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .958 | 1.00 | P | ||||
| Tubby Spencer | 32 | 19 | 80 | 58 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .988 | 4.16 | 1 | C | |||
| Oscar Stanage | 33 | 94 | 518 | 392 | 110 | 16 | 11 | .969 | 5.34 | 10 | C | |||
| Billy Sullivan | 41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | C | ||||
| Bobby Veach | 28 | 150 | 150 | 0 | 0 | 368 | 342 | 14 | 12 | 4 | .967 | 2.37 | OF | |
| Ossie Vitt | 26 | 153 | 621 | 210 | 389 | 22 | 32 | .965 | 3.92 | 3B-SS | ||||
| Ralph Young | 27 | 153 | 840 | 373 | 438 | 29 | 56 | .965 | 5.30 | 2B-SS-3B | ||||
| Team Totals | 27.0 | 155 | 6501 | 4217 | 2073 | 211 | 272 | .968 | 3.94 | 13 | ||||
| Rank in 8 AL teams | 6 | 7 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Age | G | G_LF | G_CF | G_RF | Ch | PO | A | E | DP | Fld% | RF/G | PB | Pos. Summary |