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1947 AL Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
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American Team W L WPct GB Detroit 106 56 .654 -- Tampa Bay 100 62 .617 6 Oakland 94 68 .580 12 Boston (A) 79 83 .488 27 Cleveland 76 86 .469 30 New York (A) 71 91 .438 35 Minnesota 67 95 .414 39 Seattle 49 113 .302 57

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-1)	Cincinnati Reds over Detroit Tigers
AL League Series (4-3)	Detroit Tigers over Tampa Bay Devil Rays

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
TAM	5.9	960	162	5610	1564	271	46	146	824	635	.279	.371	.422	.793
DET	5.4	873	162	5465	1457	269	46	173	831	638	.267	.363	.428	.791
BOS	4.9	794	162	5474	1390	237	46	151	788	602	.254	.348	.397	.745
NYA	4.7	766	162	5563	1480	277	33	138	592	660	.266	.337	.402	.739
OAK	4.7	761	162	5639	1525	271	39	117	533	559	.270	.333	.395	.728
CLE	4.3	703	162	5597	1477	233	43	96	551	625	.264	.330	.372	.702
SEM	4.0	652	162	5533	1414	243	27	66	576	421	.256	.326	.345	.671
MIN	4.0	640	162	5505	1384	248	29	114	547	693	.251	.319	.369	.688
Totals	4.7	6149	1296	44386	11691	2049	309	1001	5242	4833	.263	.341	.391	.732
Average		769	162	5548	1461	256	39	125	655	604

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
DET	4.2	674	162	3.84	1456.3	1285	7.9	585	3.6	695	4.3	34
OAK	4.5	724	162	4.06	1457.3	1442	8.9	619	3.8	675	4.2	36
MIN	4.6	748	162	4.33	1442.0	1441	8.9	607	3.7	518	3.2	19
CLE	4.6	753	162	4.25	1450.0	1410	8.7	677	4.2	557	3.4	29
TAM	4.7	758	162	4.24	1456.3	1577	9.7	546	3.4	526	3.2	30
BOS	4.8	780	162	4.45	1442.0	1499	9.3	576	3.6	549	3.4	21
NYA	5.1	824	162	4.69	1440.7	1508	9.3	712	4.4	667	4.1	20
SEM	5.7	926	162	5.43	1436.0	1529	9.4	770	4.8	504	3.1	21
Totals	4.8	6187	1296	4.41	11580.6	11691	9.0	5092	3.9	4691	3.6	210
Average		773	162		1448	1461		636		586		26

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
OAK	85	77	9	6	15	0	0	0	19	0.93	0.83	2,083,343		Pat Flaherty
DET	100	62	6	4	15	16	1	1	22	0.93	1.00	2,425,140		Pie Traynor
TAM	98	64	2	4	18	3	1	4	15	0.92	0.95	2,342,382		Ricky Sanford
BOS	82	80	-3	3	14	1	1	4	23	1.01	0.86	1,563,720		Brian Rodgers
CLE	76	86	0	3	7	0	2	0	16	1.00	1.07	1,035,232		Gary Davis
NYA	76	86	-5	3	19	0	5	3	16	1.05	0.93	1,990,884		Jason Spiegel
MIN	70	92	-3	1	6	6	1	0	17	1.09	0.93	1,170,413		Joe Kuhel
SEM	56	106	-7	1	7	0	1	0	6	1.08	1.10	1,299,829		Peter Fletcher

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
DET	318	161.67	107.18	49.12	4.85	1.49	10.17	4.36	10.08	18.17
TAM	300	179.49	82.70	37.79	3.92	4.59	9.61	10.27	3.64	5.77
OAK	282	131.97	102.32	47.69	15.53	3.54	4.58	5.18	7.20	11.67
BOS	237	117.49	81.69	37.79	5.13	2.84	6.58	5.89	5.47	11.88
CLE	228	93.90	90.64	43.43	6.26	3.03	5.21	3.70	6.94	18.29
NYA	213	104.29	72.93	35.75	10.32	3.93	2.69	0.76	11.22	6.83
MIN	201	64.70	89.72	46.54	11.16	3.63	9.34	4.78	5.83	11.82
SEM	147	66.19	47.87	32.91	4.13	2.07	3.46	3.74	7.53	11.99

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Ted Williams	DET	.344, 44 HR, 147 RBI
Platinum Arm:	Jack Salveson	CLE	20-12, 2.98, 308.0 IP, 150 K
Bronze Rookie:	Larry Jansen	BOS	18-12, 3.03, 294.0 IP, 115 K
Gold Glove Winners
P	Al Javery	MIN	.964, 27 PO, 79 A, 4 E
C	Hal Wagner	OAK	.998, 571 PO, 61 A, 1 E 50.8% (33-65) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Johnny Mize	TAM	.995, 1764 PO, 130 A, 10 E
2B	Johnny Lucadello	MIN	.983, 266 PO, 545 A, 14 E
3B	Creepy Crespi	MIN	.982, 87 PO, 357 A, 8 E
SS	Alvin Dark	MIN	.968, 234 PO, 631 A, 29 E
LF	Eddie Waitkus	SEM	1.000, 303 PO, 8 A, 0 E
CF	Danny Gardella	CLE	.997, 333 PO, 6 A, 1 E
RF	Phil Cavarretta	SEM	.994, 315 PO, 18 A, 2 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

(*) indicates hit-less at-bats added to meet minimum plate appearances requirement.

Batting Average Williams DET .344 Klein NYA .322 Mize TAM .314 Lewis CLE .313 Cuccinello OAK .310	On-Base Pct Williams DET .452 Stanky DET .415 Fain SEM .414 Mize TAM .408 Reiser TAM .399	Slugging Pct Williams DET .695 Mize TAM .533 Ott DET .509 Ennis MIN .506 Keller DET .502	OPS Williams DET 1.147 Mize TAM .941 Keller DET .885 Ennis MIN .879 Reiser TAM .878
XR Williams DET 149.0 Mize TAM 123.1 Reiser TAM 117.7 Robinson TAM 106.6 Fleming TAM 104.4	Games Hasson CLE 158 Hodges NYA 157 Northey OAK 157 Wyrostek SEM 157 Hopp DET 155	At-Bats Stirnweiss TAM 630 Meyer CLE 604 Dark MIN 600 Hopp DET 596 Mize TAM 593	Runs Mize TAM 123 Williams DET 122 Stirnweiss TAM 115 Robinson TAM 113 Reiser TAM 112
Hits Williams DET 187 Mize TAM 186 Klein NYA 185 Reiser TAM 181 Meyer CLE 173	Total Bases Williams DET 378 Mize TAM 316 Reiser TAM 283 Ennis MIN 273 Cavarretta SEM 272	Singles Klein NYA 141 Stirnweiss TAM 133 Meyer CLE 130 Cuccinello OAK 128 Furillo OAK 125	Doubles Hasson CLE 47 Williams DET 47 Waitkus SEM 42 Cavarretta SEM 40 Keltner OAK 38
Triples Mize TAM 9 Reiser TAM 9 Fleming TAM 8 Ennis MIN 7 Holmes NYA 7	Homeruns Williams DET 44 Hodges NYA 30 Ott DET 28 Keller DET 27 Mize TAM 26	RBIs Williams DET 147 Mize TAM 128 Reiser TAM 105 Robinson TAM 103 Keller DET 99	Stolen Bases Stirnweiss TAM 48 Hopp DET 37 Reiser TAM 35 Dillinger SEM 31 Robinson TAM 22
Caught Stealing Stirnweiss TAM 29 Hopp DET 15 Gionfriddo MIN 12 Reiser TAM 11 Dillinger SEM 10	Walks Williams DET 113 Fleming TAM 109 Cullenbine DET 107 Fain SEM 105 Keller DET 104	Strikeouts Ott DET 103 Hasson CLE 98 Hodges NYA 90 Connors   86 York NYA 85

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Salveson CLE 2.98 Jansen BOS 3.03 Mulcahy DET 3.28 Koslo OAK 3.39 Chipman MIN 3.56	Wins Wynn TAM 23 Mulcahy DET 22 Roe TAM 22 Roser CLE 21 Schanz OAK 21	Losses Gassaway SEM 22 Bauers NYA 21 Chipman MIN 21 Schott CLE 21 Fannin SEM 20	Winning Pct Koslo OAK .818 Winegarner TAM .739 Mulcahy DET .733 Mooty DET .696 Roe TAM .667
Saves Humphries DET 23 Raschi OAK 22 Hallett TAM 17 Conger   16 Barney SEM 13	Games Pitched Hallett TAM 98 Mooty DET 80 Raschi OAK 75 Humphries DET 69 Donovan CLE 67	Games Started Chipman MIN 44 Head OAK 44 Salveson CLE 44 Schanz OAK 44 Roe TAM 43	Complete Games Bauers NYA 17 Mulcahy DET 16 Schanz OAK 15 Javery MIN 14 Krakauskas DET 14
Shutouts Jansen BOS 4 Masterson CLE 4 Chipman MIN 3 Wynn TAM 3 Javery MIN 2	Innings Pitched Schanz OAK 352.0 Bauers NYA 333.0 Wynn TAM 329.7 Head OAK 325.0 Chipman MIN 321.0	Hits Allowed Wynn TAM 365 Schanz OAK 342 Bauers NYA 339 Schott CLE 330 Javery MIN 325	Homeruns Allowed Fannin SEM 40 Schott CLE 40 Fowler SEM 33 Krakauskas DET 33 Roe TAM 33
Strikeouts Schanz OAK 188 Krakauskas DET 179 Head OAK 176 Mulcahy DET 170 Rigney NYA 166	Walks Allowed Gassaway SEM 176 Head OAK 161 Krakauskas DET 156 Scarborough NYA 156 Schott CLE 156	Walks per 9IP Jansen BOS 2.4 Roe TAM 2.6 Byerly BOS 2.6 Chipman MIN 2.7 Mulcahy DET 2.8	Hits per 9IP Page DET 6.6 Krakauskas DET 7.1 Salveson CLE 7.4 Masterson CLE 7.5 Head OAK 7.7
Strikeouts per 9IP Page DET 5.4 Krakauskas DET 5.1 Rigney NYA 5.0 Mulcahy DET 4.9 Head OAK 4.9	WHiP Jansen BOS 1.17 Mulcahy DET 1.19 Chipman MIN 1.21 Page DET 1.22 Salveson CLE 1.24	OAVG Page DET .204 Krakauskas DET .218 Salveson CLE .223 Masterson CLE .228 Head OAK .228	OOBP Jansen BOS .288 Chipman MIN .294 Mulcahy DET .296 Page DET .300 Salveson CLE .301
OSLG Salveson CLE .301 Masterson CLE .342 Page DET .343 Head OAK .354 Krakauskas DET .354	OOPS Salveson CLE .603 Page DET .643 Masterson CLE .647 Jansen BOS .649 Mulcahy DET .651

League All-Stars
Rex Barney	Buddy Blattner	Merv Connors
Al Cuccinello	Harry Eisenstat	Del Ennis
Gene Hasson	Ed Head	Monte Irvin
Larry Jansen	Dave Koslo	Joe Krakauskas
Buddy Lewis	Johnny Mize	Hugh Mulcahy
Roberto Ortiz	Mel Ott	Vic Raschi
Pete Reiser	Jackie Robinson	Jack Salveson
Hal Wagner	Ted Williams	Early Wynn
Rudy York

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	Arky Vaughan	BOS	$ 20,100,000
2.	Ted Williams	DET	$ 12,000,000
3.	Hank Greenberg	SEM	$ 11,250,000
4.	Vito Tamulis	SEM	$ 10,000,000
	Johnny Mize	TAM	$ 10,000,000
6.	Rudy York	NYA	$ 8,000,000
7.	Mel Ott	DET	$ 7,500,000
	Merv Connors	TAM	$ 7,500,000
	Russ Bauers	NYA	$ 7,500,000
	Gene Hasson	CLE	$ 7,500,000
11.	Joe Dobson	DET	$ 7,000,000
	Johnny Rigney	NYA	$ 7,000,000
	Johnny Hopp	DET	$ 7,000,000
14.	Hal Wagner	OAK	$ 6,750,000
15.	Buddy Lewis	CLE	$ 6,500,000
16.	Mort Cooper	OAK	$ 6,080,000
17.	Jack Salveson	CLE	$ 6,000,000
18.	Phil Cavarretta	SEM	$ 5,390,000
19.	Stan Hack	OAK	$ 5,250,000
20.	Al Javery	MIN	$ 5,100,000
21.	Cookie Lavagetto	NYA	$ 5,000,000
	Charlie Keller	DET	$ 5,000,000
	Al Milnar	MIN	$ 5,000,000
	Alex Kampouris	NYA	$ 5,000,000
	Johnny Rizzo	NYA	$ 5,000,000
	Joe Vosmik	TAM	$ 5,000,000
	Jack Bolling	DET	$ 5,000,000

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