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1961 Detroit Tigers Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1960 / 1962)
101-61, Finished 2nd in American League
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Scored 841 runs, Allowed 671 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 98-64
Manager: Bob Scheffing (101-61)
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,600,710 (2nd of 10)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 103, Pitching - 102; one-year: Batting - 96, Pitching - 94
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1960 / 1962 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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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	Dick Brown	26	93	336	308	32	82	12	2	16	45	0	2	22	57	.266	.312	.474	.786	105	146	10	0	3	3	2
2	1B	Norm Cash*	26	159	672	535	119	193	22	8	41	132	11	5	124	85	.361	.487	.662	1.148	201	354	16	9	2	2	19
3	2B	Jake Wood	24	162	731	663	96	171	17	14	11	69	30	9	58	141	.258	.320	.376	.695	83	249	8	4	2	4	2
4	SS	Chico Fernandez	29	133	476	435	41	108	15	4	3	40	8	5	36	45	.248	.305	.322	.627	66	140	14	0	4	1	4
5	3B	Steve Boros	24	116	485	396	51	107	18	2	5	62	4	2	68	42	.270	.382	.364	.746	99	144	8	8	6	7	2
6	LF	Rocky Colavito	27	163	708	583	129	169	30	2	45	140	1	2	113	75	.290	.402	.580	.982	157	338	14	2	2	8	2
7	CF	Bill Bruton*	35	160	668	596	99	153	15	5	17	63	22	6	61	66	.257	.327	.384	.712	88	229	9	3	5	3	0
8	RF	Al Kaline	26	153	665	586	116	190	41	7	19	82	14	1	66	42	.324	.393	.515	.909	139	302	16	4	4	5	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	IF	Dick McAuliffe*	21	80	315	285	36	73	12	4	6	33	2	3	24	39	.256	.322	.389	.711	87	111	5	4	1	1	0
10	C	Mike Roarke	30	86	253	229	21	51	6	1	2	22	0	0	20	31	.223	.283	.284	.567	51	65	6	0	2	2	3
11	LF	Charlie Maxwell*	34	79	153	131	11	30	4	2	5	18	0	0	20	24	.229	.333	.405	.738	94	53	1	1	0	1	2
12	RF	Bubba Morton	29	77	120	108	26	31	5	1	2	19	3	1	9	25	.287	.342	.407	.749	98	44	1	1	0	2	1
13	CI	Bobo Osborne*	25	71	114	93	8	20	7	0	2	13	1	0	20	15	.215	.354	.355	.709	88	33	1	0	1	0	0
14	IF	Reno Bertoia	26	24	51	46	6	10	1	0	1	4	2	0	3	8	.217	.265	.304	.570	50	14	0	0	2	0	0
15	UT	Ozzie Virgil	29	20	31	30	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	5	.133	.161	.233	.395	3	7	2	0	0	0	0
16	C	Frank House*	31	17	28	22	3	5	1	1	0	3	0	0	4	2	.227	.333	.364	.697	85	8	1	0	1	1	0
17	RF	George Alusik	26	15	16	14	0	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	4	.143	.188	.143	.330	-11	2	0	0	0	1	0
18	C	Harry Chiti	28	5	13	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.083	.154	.083	.237	-35	1	1	0	0	0	0
19	C	Bill Freehan	19	4	11	10	1	4	0	0	0	4	0	0	1	0	.400	.455	.400	.855	129	4	0	0	0	0	0
20	MI	Chuck Cottier	25	10	9	7	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	.286	.375	.286	.661	78	2	0	0	1	0	0
21		Dick Gernert	32	6	6	5	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	2	.200	.333	.800	1.133	189	4	1	0	0	0	0
22		Vic Wertz*	36	8	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	-11	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	UT	George Thomas	23	17	6	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	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
24	P	Frank Lary	31	42	115	108	13	25	2	0	1	5	0	0	3	27	.231	.259	.278	.537	42	30	2	1	3	0	0
25	P	Jim Bunning	29	38	104	100	6	13	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	30	.130	.147	.140	.287	-23	14	3	0	2	0	0
26	P	Don Mossi*	32	35	91	79	8	13	2	0	1	8	0	0	6	28	.165	.224	.228	.451	20	18	0	0	6	0	0
27	P	Paul Foytack	30	32	61	54	4	12	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	11	.222	.236	.296	.533	40	16	3	0	6	0	0
28	P	Phil Regan	24	33	46	40	4	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	3	15	.075	.140	.100	.240	-35	4	1	0	3	0	0
29	P	Ron Kline	29	10	22	18	2	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	8	.167	.211	.222	.433	15	4	0	1	3	0	0
30	P	Terry Fox	25	39	14	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	.167	.231	.167	.397	7	2	0	0	1	0	0
31	P	Hank Aguirre	30	45	13	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	3	1	0
32	P	Bob Bruce	28	14	12	9	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	.111	.273	.222	.495	33	2	1	0	1	0	0
33	P	Bill Fischer	30	26	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Hal Woodeshick	28	12	5	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	-42	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Howie Koplitz	23	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Fred Gladding*	25	8	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Jerry Casale	27	3	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Ron Nischwitz#	23	6	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	P	Jim Donohue	22	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	1	0	0	0	0
40	P	Jerry Staley	40	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
41	P	Joe Grzenda	24	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	432	1	0	0	0	0	0
42	P	Manny Montejo	25	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0						0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	27.4	163	6378	5561	841	1481	215	53	180	779	98	36	673	865	.266	.347	.421	.768	102	2342	125	38	64	42	39
		Rank in 10 AL teams				2	1	2	8	1	3		2	4	2	4	1	1	2	2		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

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

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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	Frank Lary	31	23	9	.719	3.24	36	36	0	22	4	0	275.1	252	117	99	24	66	2	146	6	0	6	1127	127	1.155	8.2	0.8	2.2	4.8	2.21
2	SP	Jim Bunning	29	17	11	.607	3.19	38	37	1	12	4	1	268.0	232	113	95	25	71	3	194	9	0	2	1110	129	1.131	7.8	0.8	2.4	6.5	2.73
3	SP	Don Mossi*	32	15	7	.682	2.96	35	34	1	12	1	1	240.1	237	97	79	29	47	3	137	0	2	1	981	139	1.182	8.9	1.1	1.8	5.1	2.91
4	SP	Paul Foytack	30	11	10	.524	3.93	32	20	4	6	0	0	169.2	152	81	74	27	56	0	89	2	0	1	702	105	1.226	8.1	1.4	3.0	4.7	1.59
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
5	CL	Terry Fox	25	5	2	.714	1.41	39	0	25	0	0	12	57.1	42	12	9	6	16	1	32	3	0	0	231	291	1.012	6.6	0.9	2.5	5.0	2.00
6	RP	Phil Regan	24	10	7	.588	5.25	32	16	7	6	0	2	120.0	134	70	70	19	41	1	46	1	0	1	526	78	1.458	10.1	1.4	3.1	3.5	1.12
7	RP	Hank Aguirre*	30	4	4	.500	3.25	45	0	21	0	0	8	55.1	44	22	20	5	38	3	32	2	0	4	244	126	1.482	7.2	0.8	6.2	5.2	0.84
8	RP	Bill Fischer	30	3	2	.600	5.01	26	1	13	0	0	3	46.2	54	28	26	10	17	2	18	0	0	2	205	82	1.521	10.4	1.9	3.3	3.5	1.06
9	RP	Bob Bruce	28	1	2	.333	4.43	14	6	2	0	0	0	44.2	57	28	22	6	24	2	25	2	0	0	210	93	1.813	11.5	1.2	4.8	5.0	1.04
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
10		Ron Kline	29	5	3	.625	2.72	10	8	1	3	1	0	56.1	53	25	17	3	17	1	27	0	0	3	237	151	1.243	8.5	0.5	2.7	4.3	1.59
11		Jim Donohue	22	1	1	.500	3.54	14	0	8	0	0	1	20.1	23	10	8	2	15	2	20	0	0	2	98	116	1.869	10.2	0.9	6.6	8.9	1.33
12		Hal Woodeshick*	28	1	1	.500	7.85	12	2	2	0	0	0	18.1	25	17	16	3	17	1	13	0	0	1	98	52	2.291	12.3	1.5	8.3	6.4	0.76
13		Fred Gladding	25	1	0	1.000	3.31	8	0	2	0	0	0	16.1	18	7	6	1	11	1	11	2	0	1	79	124	1.776	9.9	0.6	6.1	6.1	1.00
14		Manny Montejo	25	0	0		3.86	12	0	2	0	0	0	16.1	13	7	7	2	6	1	15	2	0	1	68	106	1.163	7.2	1.1	3.3	8.3	2.50
15		Jerry Staley	40	1	1	.500	3.38	13	0	8	0	0	2	13.1	15	6	5	1	6	1	8	0	0	1	60	122	1.575	10.1	0.7	4.1	5.4	1.33
16		Howie Koplitz	23	2	0	1.000	2.25	4	1	2	1	0	0	12.0	16	6	3	0	8	1	9	0	0	1	59	182	2.000	12.0	0.0	6.0	6.8	1.13
17		Jerry Casale	27	0	0		5.25	3	1	0	0	0	0	12.0	15	8	7	3	3	0	6	0	0	2	51	78	1.500	11.3	2.3	2.3	4.5	2.00
18		Ron Nischwitz*	23	0	1	.000	5.56	6	1	2	0	0	0	11.1	13	12	7	2	8	1	8	0	0	0	56	74	1.853	10.3	1.6	6.4	6.4	1.00
19		Joe Grzenda*	24	1	0	1.000	7.94	4	0	0	0	0	0	5.2	9	5	5	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	28	52	1.941	14.3	3.2	3.2	0.0	0.00
		Team Totals	29.2	101	61	.623	3.55	163	163	101	62	10	30	1459.1	1404	671	575	170	469	27	836	29	2	29	6170	116	1.283	8.7	1.0	2.9	5.2	1.78
		Rank in 10 AL teams		2	9		3				1	4	5	2	4	3	3	8	1		8331
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	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary
Hank Aguirre	30	45	0	55.1	10	1	7	2	0	.800									1.30	0.18						P
George Alusik	26	1	0	7.0	0	0	0	0	0		-0.5	-85.7	-0.5	-0.5	0.0	0			0.00	0.00						RF
Reno Bertoia	26	21	12	115.0	43	17	24	2	5	.953	-1.6	-16.7	-1.6	-1.1	-0.5		0		3.21	1.95						3B-2B-SS
Steve Boros	24	116	115	1007.0	322	115	192	15	15	.953	-5.3	-6.3	-5.3	-5.6	0.2		0		2.74	2.65						3B
Dick Brown	26	91	84	727.2	503	460	38	5	7	.990	9.0	14.8						9	6.16	5.47	6	14	19	24	56%	C
Bob Bruce	28	14	6	44.2	7	5	1	1	0	.857									1.21	0.43						P
Bill Bruton	35	155	141	1291.1	415	406	4	5	2	.988	8.8	8.2	5.8	1.7	4.0	3			2.86	2.65						CF
Jim Bunning	29	38	37	268.1	53	21	29	3	6	.943									1.68	1.32						P
Jerry Casale	27	3	1	12.0	6	2	2	2	2	.667									3.00	1.33						P
Norm Cash	26	157	157	1390.0	1369	1231	127	11	121	.992	8.6	7.4	6.6	0.4	6.2		2		8.79	8.65						1B
Harry Chiti	28	5	4	37.0	22	19	3	0	0	1.000	1.0	32.4						1	5.35	4.40	1	1	2	3	60%	C
Rocky Colavito	27	170	161	1425.0	356	331	16	9	4	.975	19.0	16.0	9.0	4.6	4.4	10			2.19	2.04						LF-RF
Chuck Cottier	25	10	1	28.1	17	9	7	1	3	.941	-0.5	-21.2	-0.5	-0.2	-0.2		0		5.08	1.60						SS-2B
Jim Donohue	22	14	0	20.1	2	0	2	0	0	1.000									0.89	0.14						P
Chico Fernandez	29	129	118	1047.1	562	217	322	23	59	.959	3.1	3.6	3.1	0.6	2.4		0		4.63	4.18						SS-3B
Bill Fischer	30	26	1	46.1	11	6	5	0	0	1.000									2.14	0.42						P
Terry Fox	25	39	0	57.1	19	6	12	1	1	.947									2.83	0.46						P
Paul Foytack	30	32	20	169.2	21	8	13	0	2	1.000									1.11	0.66						P
Bill Freehan	19	3	3	22.0	18	14	4	0	0	1.000	-1.0	-54.5						-1	7.36	6.00	0	1	2	0	0%	C
Fred Gladding	25	8	0	16.1	3	1	1	1	0	.667									1.10	0.25						P
Joe Grzenda	24	4	0	5.2	3	1	2	0	0	1.000									4.76	0.75						P
Frank House	31	14	5	59.1	38	36	1	1	0	.974	-1.0	-20.2						-1	5.61	2.64	0	2	3	1	25%	C
Al Kaline	26	165	148	1309.1	390	376	10	4	3	.990	29.2	26.8	22.2	10.6	11.4	7	0		2.65	2.34						RF-CF-3B-LF
Ron Kline	29	10	8	56.1	9	2	7	0	1	1.000									1.44	0.90						P
Howie Koplitz	23	4	1	12.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000									0.75	0.25						P
Frank Lary	31	36	36	275.1	88	32	55	1	5	.989									2.84	2.42						P
Charlie Maxwell	34	26	22	193.0	55	51	2	2	0	.964	2.9	18.0	1.9	-0.3	2.2	1			2.47	2.04						LF-RF
Dick McAuliffe	21	77	70	614.0	265	92	154	19	32	.928	-8.2	-16.0	-7.2	-3.5	-3.7		-1		3.61	3.19						SS-3B
Manny Montejo	25	12	0	16.1	0	0	0	0	0										0.00	0.00						P
Bubba Morton	29	30	18	158.0	48	45	1	2	1	.958	3.7	28.1	1.7	1.7	0.0	2			2.62	1.53						RF-LF-CF
Don Mossi	32	35	34	240.1	48	7	40	1	8	.979									1.76	1.34						P
Ron Nischwitz	23	6	1	11.1	3	1	1	1	0	.667									1.59	0.33						P
Bobo Osborne	25	19	14	133.1	76	60	15	1	6	.987	0.1	0.9	0.1	1.1	-1.0		0		5.06	3.95						1B-3B
Phil Regan	24	32	16	120.0	15	7	8	0	0	1.000									1.12	0.47						P
Mike Roarke	30	85	67	606.1	410	383	22	5	5	.988	3.0	5.9						3	6.01	4.76	6	10	17	14	45%	C
Jerry Staley	40	13	0	13.1	4	1	3	0	0	1.000									2.70	0.31						P
George Thomas	23	3	0	9.1	4	3	1	0	1	1.000	-0.6	-77.1	-0.6	-0.5	-0.1		0		3.86	1.33						SS-RF
Ozzie Virgil	29	14	4	69.0	23	13	9	1	2	.957	-0.7	-12.2	-0.7	0.2	-0.9		0	0	2.87	1.57	0	1	1	0	0%	3B-SS-C-2B
Hal Woodeshick	28	12	2	18.1	12	2	8	2	0	.833									4.91	0.83						P
Jake Wood	24	162	160	1425.1	801	380	396	25	83	.969	-9.5	-8.0	-5.5	-4.3	-1.2		-4		4.90	4.79						2B
Team Totals	27.5	163	1467	13134.0	6053	4362	1545	146	374	.976	59.5	5.4	28.5	4.9	23.2	23	-3	11	4.05	3.27	13	29	44	42	49%
Rank in 10 AL teams								5	7	6
	Age	G	GS	Inn	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rtot/yr	Rtz	Rtzrd	Rtzhm	Rof	Rdp	Rctch	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%	Pos. Summary

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