1972 Detroit Tigers Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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1972 Detroit Tigers Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1971 / 1973)
86-70, Finished 1st in AL East
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Scored 558 runs, Allowed 514 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 84-72
Manager: Billy Martin (86-70)
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 1,892,386 (1st of 12)
Park Factors Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
multi-year: Batting - 103, Pitching - 103; one-year: Batting - 114, Pitching - 113

Postseason:

Lost AL Championship Series (3-2) to Oakland Athletics

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1971 / 1973 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

Redesign Note: Summary Batting, Pitching and Fielding Stats are below. Detailed Batting, Pitching, and Fielding Stats are available using the navigation bar just above this note or the "Detailed" links beside the table headers. Leaderboards have been removed since all tables are now sortable by clicking the headers. The all-stars and salaries are on the roster page linked above.

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	Bill Freehan	30	111	430	374	51	98	18	2	10	56	0	1	48	51	.262	.354	.401	.755	122	150	7	6	1	1	0
2	1B	Norm Cash*	37	137	501	440	51	114	16	0	22	61	0	2	50	64	.259	.338	.445	.783	129	196	9	4	4	3	13
3	2B	Dick McAuliffe*	32	122	470	408	47	98	16	3	8	30	0	0	59	59	.240	.339	.353	.692	104	144	2	2	1	0	7
4	SS	Ed Brinkman	30	156	571	516	42	105	19	1	6	49	0	0	38	51	.203	.259	.279	.538	59	144	14	3	7	7	9
5	3B	Aurelio Rodriguez	24	153	639	601	65	142	23	5	13	56	2	3	28	104	.236	.272	.356	.628	84	214	14	2	7	1	4
6	LF	Willie Horton	29	108	367	333	44	77	9	5	11	36	0	0	27	47	.231	.293	.387	.681	99	129	8	3	2	2	5
7	CF	Mickey Stanley	29	142	475	435	45	102	16	6	14	55	1	0	29	49	.234	.278	.395	.673	97	172	15	0	3	8	8
8	RF	Al Kaline	37	106	314	278	46	87	11	2	10	32	1	0	28	33	.313	.374	.475	.849	149	132	11	2	1	5	5
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	OF	Jim Northrup*	32	134	469	426	40	111	15	2	8	42	4	7	38	47	.261	.324	.362	.686	102	154	16	2	3	0	6
10	LF	Gates Brown*	33	103	283	252	33	58	5	0	10	31	3	0	26	28	.230	.304	.369	.673	98	93	7	2	0	3	3
11	2B	Tony Taylor	36	78	247	228	33	69	12	4	1	20	5	1	14	34	.303	.346	.404	.749	120	92	8	2	1	2	0
12	C	Tom Haller*	35	59	139	121	7	25	5	2	2	13	0	1	15	14	.207	.292	.331	.623	83	40	1	0	2	1	4
13	C	Duke Sims*	31	38	121	98	11	31	4	0	4	19	0	0	19	18	.316	.432	.480	.912	168	47	1	1	3	0	0
14	UT	Ike Brown	30	51	101	84	12	21	3	0	2	10	1	2	17	23	.250	.376	.357	.733	117	30	5	0	0	0	1
15	UT	Paul Jata	22	32	82	74	8	17	2	0	0	3	0	1	7	14	.230	.296	.257	.553	64	19	1	0	1	0	0
16	UT	Frank Howard	35	14	37	33	1	8	1	0	1	7	0	0	4	8	.242	.324	.364	.688	103	12	0	0	0	0	0
17	2B	John Knox*	23	14	14	13	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.077	.143	.154	.297	-13	2	0	0	0	0	0
18	OF	Wayne Comer	28	27	10	9	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	.111	.100	.111	.211	-38	1	0	0	0	1	0
19		Dalton Jones*	28	7	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	OF	Marvin Lane	22	8	6	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	OF	Ike Blessitt	22	4	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	SS	John Gamble	24	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	1B	Joe Staton*	24	6	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	.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	Mickey Lolich#	31	41	121	89	3	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	39	.067	.245	.067	.313	-4	6	3	1	11	0	0
25	P	Joe Coleman	25	40	102	82	5	9	0	0	0	5	0	1	5	30	.110	.161	.110	.271	-19	9	3	0	15	0	0
26	P	Tom Timmermann	32	35	50	44	3	6	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	25	.136	.208	.136	.345	3	6	0	1	2	0	0
27	P	Woodie Fryman	32	16	44	40	0	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	7	.125	.125	.125	.250	-26	5	0	0	4	0	0
28	P	Chuck Seelbach	24	61	26	21	1	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	4	11	.143	.280	.238	.518	54	5	0	0	1	0	0
29	P	Bill Slayback	24	23	25	23	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	.174	.174	.174	.348	3	4	0	0	2	0	0
30	P	Fred Scherman*	27	57	24	22	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.091	.130	.091	.221	-34	2	0	0	1	0	0
31	P	Joe Niekro	27	18	14	12	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	4	.250	.308	.333	.641	89	4	0	0	1	0	0
32	P	Les Cain*	24	5	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	-16	1	0	0	1	0	0
33	P	John Hiller	29	24	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	P	Fred Holdsworth	20	2	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	97	1	0	0	0	0	0
35	P	Chris Zachary*	28	25	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	248	1	0	0	0	0	0
36	P	Phil Meeler	23	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	P	Ron Perranoski*	36	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	P	Bill Gilbreth*	24	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	30.8	156	5721	5099	558	1206	179	32	122	531	17	21	483	793	.237	.305	.356	.661	94	1815	125	31	74	34	65
		Rank in 12 AL teams				9	5	9	8	2	3		12	12	7	9	8	6	4	5		5
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	Mickey Lolich*	31	22	14	.611	2.50	41	41	0	23	4	0	327.1	282	100	91	29	74	5	250	11	0	6	1321	126	1.088	7.8	0.8	2.0	6.9	3.38
2	SP	Joe Coleman	25	19	14	.576	2.80	40	39	0	9	3	0	280.0	216	99	87	23	110	7	222	9	0	9	1145	113	1.164	6.9	0.7	3.5	7.1	2.02
3	SP	Tom Timmermann	32	8	10	.444	2.89	34	25	3	3	2	0	149.2	121	57	48	12	41	1	88	5	0	3	614	110	1.082	7.3	0.7	2.5	5.3	2.15
4	SP	Woodie Fryman*	32	10	3	.769	2.06	16	14	0	6	1	0	113.2	93	31	26	6	31	3	72	7	0	5	468	154	1.091	7.4	0.5	2.5	5.7	2.32
5	SP	Bill Slayback	24	5	6	.455	3.20	23	13	5	3	1	0	81.2	74	36	29	4	25	1	65	1	0	2	340	99	1.212	8.2	0.4	2.8	7.2	2.60
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
6	CL	Chuck Seelbach	24	9	8	.529	2.89	61	3	34	0	0	14	112.0	96	39	36	6	39	4	76	3	0	6	455	109	1.205	7.7	0.5	3.1	6.1	1.95
7	RP	Fred Scherman*	27	7	3	.700	3.64	57	3	27	0	0	12	94.0	91	43	38	5	53	9	53	5	0	1	410	87	1.532	8.7	0.5	5.1	5.1	1.00
8	RP	Joe Niekro	27	3	2	.600	3.83	18	7	4	1	0	1	47.0	62	20	20	3	8	1	24	1	0	2	199	83	1.489	11.9	0.6	1.5	4.6	3.00
9	RP	John Hiller*	29	1	2	.333	2.03	24	3	8	1	0	3	44.1	39	13	10	4	13	2	26	3	0	2	186	156	1.173	7.9	0.8	2.6	5.3	2.00
10	RP	Chris Zachary	28	1	1	.500	1.41	25	1	9	0	0	1	38.1	27	6	6	2	15	2	21	1	0	1	154	224	1.096	6.3	0.5	3.5	4.9	1.40
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
11		Lerrin LaGrow	23	0	1	.000	1.32	16	0	6	0	0	2	27.1	22	4	4	0	6	2	9	0	0	1	106	240	1.024	7.2	0.0	2.0	3.0	1.50
12		Les Cain*	24	0	3	.000	3.80	5	5	0	0	0	0	23.2	18	12	10	2	16	0	16	0	0	0	103	83	1.437	6.8	0.8	6.1	6.1	1.00
13		Ron Perranoski*	36	0	1	.000	7.71	17	0	5	0	0	0	18.2	23	16	16	2	8	1	10	1	0	0	85	41	1.661	11.1	1.0	3.9	4.8	1.25
14		Phil Meeler	23	0	1	.000	4.32	7	0	2	0	0	0	8.1	10	6	4	0	7	1	5	0	0	1	42	73	2.040	10.8	0.0	7.6	5.4	0.71
15		Fred Holdsworth	20	0	1	.000	12.86	2	2	0	0	0	0	7.0	13	10	10	0	2	0	5	0	0	1	34	25	2.143	16.7	0.0	2.6	6.4	2.50
16		Bill Gilbreth*	24	0	0		16.20	2	0	0	0	0	0	5.0	10	9	9	1	4	0	2	0	0	0	27	20	2.800	18.0	1.8	7.2	3.6	0.50
17		Bob Strampe	22	0	0		11.57	7	0	4	0	0	0	4.2	6	6	6	0	7	1	4	0	0	0	27	27	2.786	11.6	0.0	13.5	7.7	0.57
18		Jim Foor*	23	1	0	1.000	14.73	7	0	1	0	0	0	3.2	6	6	6	1	6	1	2	0	0	1	23	21	3.273	14.7	2.5	14.7	4.9	0.33
19		Don Leshnock*	25	0	0		0.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5		2.000	18.0	0.0	0.0	18.0
20		Mike Kilkenny*	27	0	0		9.00	1	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	35	1.000	9.0	9.0	0.0	0.0
		Team Totals	28.1	86	70	.551	2.96	156	156	110	46	11	33	1388.1	1212	514	457	101	465	41	952	47	0	41	5748	107	1.208	7.9	0.7	3.0	6.2	2.05
		Rank in 12 AL teams		3	9						5	11	6	5	5	3	4	8	7		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	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
Ike Blessitt	22	2	0	5.0	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	0.4	96.0	0.4	0.0	0.4	0			3.60	1.00						RF-CF
Ed Brinkman	30	156	156	1370.1	735	233	495	7	81	.990	6.8	6.0	7.8	3.5	4.3		-1		4.78	4.67						SS
Gates Brown	33	72	67	497.0	129	121	5	3	1	.977	0.7	1.7	2.7	4.4	-1.7	-2			2.28	1.75						LF
Ike Brown	30	41	25	215.0	135	123	11	1	7	.993	5.3	29.6	6.3	2.1	4.3	-1	0		5.61	3.27						LF-1B-2B-3B-RF-SS
Les Cain	24	5	5	23.2	5	0	3	2	0	.600	0.0	0.0							1.14	0.60						P
Norm Cash	37	134	119	1079.1	1138	1060	70	8	102	.993	-6.2	-6.9	-6.2	-4.1	-2.1		0		9.42	8.43						1B
Joe Coleman	25	40	39	280.0	46	6	39	1	2	.978	0.0	0.0							1.45	1.13						P
Wayne Comer	28	17	0	35.0	6	6	0	0	0	1.000	-0.3	-10.3	-0.3	0.1	-0.4	0			1.54	0.35						LF-CF-RF
Jim Foor	23	7	0	3.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.45	0.14						P
Bill Freehan	30	106	101	894.1	722	654	60	8	9	.989	1.1	1.5	1.1	1.1	0.0		0	0	7.19	6.74	7	26	57	34	37%	C-1B
Woodie Fryman	32	16	14	113.2	19	6	12	1	0	.947	0.0	0.0							1.43	1.13						P
John Gamble	24	1	0	7.0	5	3	2	0	0	1.000	0.2	34.3	0.2	0.0	0.2		0		6.43	5.00						SS
Bill Gilbreth	24	2	0	5.0	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.80	0.50						P
Tom Haller	35	36	32	285.0	235	220	15	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	7.42	6.53	4	10	13	9	41%	C
John Hiller	29	24	3	44.1	10	1	9	0	2	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.03	0.42						P
Fred Holdsworth	20	2	2	7.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.29	0.50						P
Willie Horton	29	110	93	746.1	139	134	5	0	0	1.000	2.6	4.2	1.6	2.6	-1.0	1			1.68	1.26						LF-RF
Frank Howard	35	11	9	66.0	64	56	5	3	5	.953	-1.5	-27.3	-1.5	-0.6	-0.9	0	0		8.32	5.55						1B-LF
Paul Jata	22	23	18	158.0	121	114	6	1	6	.992	0.1	0.8	1.1	-1.1	2.1	-1	0	0	6.84	5.22	0	0	0	0		1B-LF-RF-C
Al Kaline	37	95	68	614.0	157	147	9	1	5	.994	1.5	2.9	-2.5	-0.1	-2.5	4	0		2.29	1.64						RF-1B
Mike Kilkenny	27	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
John Knox	23	4	0	15.0	13	3	10	0	3	1.000	1.7	136.0	1.7	0.0	1.7		0		7.80	3.25						2B
Lerrin LaGrow	23	16	0	27.1	6	2	4	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.98	0.38						P
Gene Lamont	25	1	0	2.0	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0						0	4.50	1.00	0	0	0	0		C
Marvin Lane	22	3	1	13.0	3	3	0	0	0	1.000	-0.4	-36.9	-0.4	-0.2	-0.2	0			2.08	1.00						CF-LF-RF
Don Leshnock	25	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Mickey Lolich	31	41	41	327.1	38	4	32	2	2	.947	0.0	0.0							0.99	0.88						P
Dick McAuliffe	32	120	110	945.1	531	267	251	13	63	.976	-7.1	-9.0	-7.1	-3.3	-3.8		0		4.93	4.32						2B-SS-3B
Phil Meeler	23	7	0	8.1	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							2.16	0.29						P
Joe Niekro	27	18	7	47.0	9	5	4	0	1	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.72	0.50						P
Jim Northrup	32	165	107	1001.1	238	225	8	5	3	.979	1.4	1.7	0.4	1.1	-0.6	1	0		2.09	1.41						RF-CF-LF-1B
Ron Perranoski	36	17	0	18.2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							0.48	0.06						P
Aurelio Rodriguez	24	155	150	1339.1	517	150	350	17	34	.967	10.7	9.6	10.7	5.0	5.7		0		3.36	3.23						3B-SS
Fred Scherman	27	57	3	94.0	19	5	12	2	1	.895	0.0	0.0							1.63	0.30						P
Chuck Seelbach	24	61	3	112.0	21	1	17	3	1	.857	0.0	0.0							1.45	0.30						P
Duke Sims	31	29	28	246.0	164	151	10	3	1	.982	-3.6	-17.6	0.4	0.0	0.4	-1		-3	5.89	5.55	3	5	17	3	15%	C-RF
Bill Slayback	24	23	13	81.2	22	5	15	2	0	.909	0.0	0.0							2.20	0.87						P
Mickey Stanley	29	139	115	1098.1	321	310	9	2	1	.994	-0.5	-0.5	-0.5	3.7	-4.2	0			2.61	2.29						CF
Joe Staton	24	2	0	7.0	5	5	0	0	0	1.000	-0.1	-17.1	-0.1	0.0	-0.1		0		6.43	2.50						1B
Bob Strampe	22	7	0	4.2	0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0.0							0.00	0.00						P
Tony Taylor	36	76	49	467.0	260	130	122	8	26	.969	-5.3	-13.6	-4.3	-0.9	-3.3		-1		4.86	3.32						2B-3B-1B
Tom Timmermann	32	34	25	149.2	26	7	16	3	2	.885	0.0	0.0							1.38	0.68						P
Chris Zachary	28	25	1	38.1	7	2	5	0	0	1.000	0.0	0.0							1.64	0.28						P
Team Totals	30.3	156	1404	12495.0	5874	4161	1617	96	358	.984	7.5	0.7	11.5	13.3	-1.7	1	-2	-3	4.16	3.12	14	41	87	46	35%
Rank in 12 AL teams								12	9	1
	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

1971 / 1973 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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