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1937 Philadelphia Athletics Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics
(Franchise Encyclopedia: 1936 / 1938)
54-97, Finished 7th in American League
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Scored 699 runs, Allowed 854 runs. Pythagorean W-L: 62-89
Manager: Connie Mack (39-80) and Earle Mack (15-17)
Ballpark: Shibe Park (ballparks.com)
Attendance: 430,738 (6th of 8)
Park Factors  Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.
  multi-year: Batting - 98, Pitching - 102;   one-year: Batting - 94, Pitching - 96

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1936 / 1938 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 Earle Brucker 36 102 368 317 40 82 16 5 6 37 1 2 48 30 .259 .356 .397 .754 91 126 0 3
2 1B Chubby Dean* 20 104 358 309 36 81 14 4 2 31 2 1 42 10 .262 .350 .353 .703 79 109 0 7
3 2B Rusty Peters 22 116 385 339 39 88 17 6 3 43 4 4 41 59 .260 .339 .372 .711 81 126 0 5
4 SS Skeeter Newsome 26 122 489 438 53 111 22 1 1 30 11 5 37 22 .253 .312 .315 .627 60 138 0 14
5 3B Billy Werber 29 128 576 493 85 144 31 4 7 70 35 13 74 39 .292 .386 .414 .799 103 204 1 8
6 OF Jesse Hill 30 70 275 242 32 71 12 3 1 37 16 3 31 20 .293 .374 .380 .754 92 92 0 2
7 OF Wally Moses* 26 154 712 649 113 208 48 13 25 86 9 7 54 38 .320 .374 .550 .925 132 357 2 7
8 OF Bob Johnson 31 138 576 477 91 146 32 6 25 108 9 7 98 65 .306 .425 .556 .981 147 265 1 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
9 UT Lou Finney* 26 92 404 379 53 95 14 9 1 20 2 5 20 16 .251 .288 .343 .631 60 130 0 5
10 OF Jack Rothrock# 32 88 260 232 28 62 15 0 0 21 1 0 28 15 .267 .346 .332 .678 73 77 0 0
11 C Frankie Hayes 22 60 217 188 24 49 11 1 10 38 0 0 29 34 .261 .359 .489 .849 114 92 0 0
12 2B Wayne Ambler 21 56 175 162 3 35 5 0 0 11 1 0 13 8 .216 .274 .247 .521 33 40 0 0
13 2B Bill Cissell 33 34 135 117 15 31 7 0 1 14 0 0 17 10 .265 .358 .350 .709 81 41 0 1
14 1B Gene Hasson* 21 28 111 98 12 30 6 3 3 14 0 0 13 14 .306 .387 .520 .908 129 51 0 0
15 MI Ace Parker 25 38 100 94 8 11 0 1 2 13 0 0 4 17 .117 .153 .202 .355 -11 19 0 2
16 C Bill Conroy 22 26 67 60 4 12 1 1 0 3 1 0 7 9 .200 .284 .250 .534 37 15 0 0
17 MI Warren Huston 23 38 57 54 5 7 3 0 0 3 0 1 2 9 .130 .161 .185 .346 -12 10 0 1
18 UT Babe Barna* 22 14 38 36 10 14 2 0 2 9 1 0 2 6 .389 .421 .611 1.032 159 22 0 0
19 OF Doyt Morris 20 6 13 13 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 .154 .154 .154 .308 -22 2 0 0
20 OF Eddie Yount 21 4 7 7 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .286 .286 .286 .571 46 2 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
21 P Lynn Nelson* 32 74 120 113 18 40 6 2 4 29 1 0 6 13 .354 .387 .549 .935 135 62 0 1
22 P George Caster 29 37 93 90 6 19 4 0 0 11 0 0 2 24 .211 .228 .256 .484 23 23 0 1
23 P Eddie Smith# 23 40 77 73 4 17 6 0 0 3 1 0 2 11 .233 .253 .315 .568 44 23 0 2
24 P Harry Kelley 31 41 75 71 6 16 5 0 0 8 0 0 2 5 .225 .257 .296 .553 40 21 1 1
25 P Bud Thomas 26 35 58 47 3 6 1 0 1 5 0 0 4 25 .128 .196 .213 .409 4 10 0 7
26 P Buck Ross 22 28 54 49 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 24 .102 .185 .102 .287 -25 5 0 0
27 P Al Williams 23 16 28 24 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 13 .083 .120 .083 .203 -47 2 0 3
28 P George Turbeville 22 31 26 26 3 6 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 6 .231 .231 .308 .538 36 8 0 0
29 P Herman Fink 25 28 24 24 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 .208 .208 .208 .417 6 5 0 0
30 P Bill Kalfass 21 3 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0
31 P Randy Gumpert 19 10 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .333 .333 .333 .667 70 1 0 0
32 P Fred Archer* 27 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 0
Team Totals 27.0 154 5886 5228 699 1398 278 60 94 649 95 48 583 557 .267 .341 .397 .739 87 2078 5 70
Rank in 8 AL teams 8 8 8 6 7 5 1 3 5 3 8 8 7 7 8
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
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* - 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 George Caster 29 12 19 .387 4.43 34 33 1 19 3 0 231.2 227 141 114 23 107 100 2 0 2 1005 106 1.442 8.8 0.9 4.2 3.9 0.93
2 SP Harry Kelley 31 13 21 .382 5.36 41 29 8 14 0 0 205.0 267 154 122 16 79 68 3 0 6 964 88 1.688 11.7 0.7 3.5 3.0 0.86
3 SP Eddie Smith* 23 4 17 .190 3.94 38 23 11 14 1 5 196.2 178 100 86 18 90 79 4 0 2 847 120 1.363 8.1 0.8 4.1 3.6 0.88
4 SP Bud Thomas 26 8 15 .348 4.99 35 26 6 6 1 0 169.2 208 108 94 15 52 54 1 2 5 763 95 1.532 11.0 0.8 2.8 2.9 1.04
5 SP Buck Ross 22 5 10 .333 4.89 28 22 2 7 1 0 147.1 183 102 80 12 63 37 2 0 8 673 96 1.670 11.2 0.7 3.8 2.3 0.59
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
6 RP Lynn Nelson 32 4 9 .308 5.90 30 4 21 1 0 2 116.0 140 78 76 12 51 49 2 0 1 531 80 1.647 10.9 0.9 4.0 3.8 0.96
7 RP Herman Fink 25 2 1 .667 4.05 28 3 13 1 0 1 80.0 82 43 36 6 35 18 1 0 2 352 116 1.463 9.2 0.7 3.9 2.0 0.51
8 RP George Turbeville* 22 0 4 .000 4.77 31 3 14 0 0 0 77.1 80 50 41 2 56 17 0 1 9 360 99 1.759 9.3 0.2 6.5 2.0 0.30
9 RP Al Williams 23 4 1 .800 5.38 16 8 5 2 0 1 75.1 88 51 45 0 49 27 1 0 3 349 88 1.819 10.5 0.0 5.9 3.2 0.55
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 Randy Gumpert 19 0 0 12.00 10 1 5 0 0 0 12.0 16 17 16 1 15 5 1 0 2 65 39 2.583 12.0 0.8 11.3 3.8 0.33
11 Bill Kalfass* 21 1 0 1.000 3.00 3 1 2 1 0 0 12.0 10 4 4 0 10 9 0 0 0 54 157 1.667 7.5 0.0 7.5 6.8 0.90
12 Chubby Dean* 20 1 0 1.000 4.00 2 1 1 0 0 0 9.0 7 4 4 0 6 4 0 0 0 40 118 1.444 7.0 0.0 6.0 4.0 0.67
13 Fred Archer* 27 0 0 6.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.0 4 2 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 13 79 1.333 12.0 0.0 0.0 6.0
Team Totals 26.3 54 97 .358 4.85 154 154 89 65 6 9 1335.0 1490 854 720 105 613 469 17 3 40 6016 97 1.575 10.0 0.7 4.1 3.2 0.77
Rank in 8 AL teams 7 2 6 3 7 8 3 7 6 6 5 7
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
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* - throws left-handed, # - throws both, else - throws right, ? - unknown

Team Fielding--Totals

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Age G G_LF G_CF G_RF Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/G PB Pos. Summary
Wayne Ambler 21 56 268 107 149 12 34 .955 4.57 2B
Fred Archer 27 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 1.00 P
Babe Barna 22 10 9 0 0 21 17 2 2 3 .905 1.90 OF-1B
Earle Brucker 36 92 382 323 48 11 13 .971 4.03 4 C
George Caster 29 34 56 8 44 4 2 .929 1.53 P
Bill Cissell 33 33 210 87 115 8 17 .962 6.12 2B
Bill Conroy 22 19 64 58 6 0 2 1.000 3.37 2 C-1B
Chubby Dean 20 80 753 706 40 7 55 .991 9.33 1B-P
Herman Fink 25 28 16 0 16 0 1 1.000 0.57 P
Lou Finney 26 90 2 37 0 562 519 31 12 39 .979 6.11 1B-OF-2B
Randy Gumpert 19 10 4 1 3 0 0 1.000 0.40 P
Gene Hasson 21 28 298 290 8 0 31 1.000 10.64 1B
Frankie Hayes 22 56 238 208 23 7 4 .971 4.13 9 C
Jesse Hill 30 68 3 65 0 175 163 4 8 0 .954 2.46 OF
Warren Huston 23 33 107 40 58 9 17 .916 2.97 2B-SS-3B
Bob Johnson 31 135 129 6 0 337 314 15 8 3 .976 2.44 OF-2B
Bill Kalfass 21 3 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0.33 P
Harry Kelley 31 41 42 10 32 0 2 1.000 1.02 P
Doyt Morris 20 3 2 1 0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 2.33 OF
Wally Moses 26 154 0 0 154 354 323 16 15 4 .958 2.20 OF
Lynn Nelson 32 36 6 0 0 34 19 15 0 0 1.000 0.94 P-OF
Skeeter Newsome 26 122 696 256 408 32 76 .954 5.44 SS
Ace Parker 25 33 2 3 0 124 54 60 10 12 .919 3.45 SS-2B-OF
Rusty Peters 22 114 486 191 266 29 39 .940 4.01 2B-3B-SS
Buck Ross 22 28 36 7 28 1 2 .972 1.25 P
Jack Rothrock 32 59 6 52 0 136 132 3 1 0 .993 2.29 OF-2B
Eddie Smith 23 40 1 1 0 37 9 28 0 1 1.000 0.93 P-OF
Bud Thomas 26 35 24 7 17 0 0 1.000 0.69 P
George Turbeville 22 31 21 2 14 5 0 .762 0.52 P
Hal Wagner 21 1 1 1 0 0 1 1.000 1.00 0 C
Billy Werber 29 128 1 2 0 418 141 260 17 25 .959 3.13 3B-OF
Al Williams 23 16 17 2 14 1 5 .941 1.00 P
Eddie Yount 21 2 1 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 OF
Team Totals 26.6 154 5929 4005 1725 199 388 .966 3.54 15
Rank in 8 AL teams 1 5 8
Age G G_LF G_CF G_RF Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/G PB Pos. Summary

1936 / 1938 Batting, Pitching, & Fielding Statistics

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