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1962 American League Statistics & Leaders

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League Standings     Minor League Standings
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Players Division Team W L WPct GB Detroit 96 66 .593 -- Seattle 86 76 .531 10 Minnesota 82 80 .506 14 New York (A) 76 86 .469 20 Toronto 55 107 .340 41	Union Division Team W L WPct GB Oakland 96 66 .593 -- Tampa Bay 87 75 .537 9 Boston (A) 84 78 .519 12 Cleveland (A) 74 88 .457 22 Worcester 54 108 .333 42

Post-Season Results
World Championship (4-3)	Pittsburgh Pirates over Seattle Mariners
AL League Series (4-3)	Seattle Mariners over Tampa Bay Devil Rays
AL Divisional Series (4-1)	Seattle Mariners over Oakland Athletics
AL Divisional Series (4-1)	Tampa Bay Devil Rays over Detroit Tigers

League Batting Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	BB	SO	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS
TAM	4.9	798	162	5549	1462	214	39	185	635	1037	.263	.339	.416	.755
OAK	4.6	749	162	5579	1497	229	39	127	519	813	.268	.331	.392	.722
MIN	4.5	723	162	5592	1478	270	59	123	487	842	.264	.323	.400	.723
BOS	4.4	710	162	5489	1365	248	29	158	581	1018	.249	.321	.391	.711
DET	4.0	653	162	5555	1414	280	32	145	395	864	.255	.304	.395	.699
NYA	4.0	644	162	5618	1458	264	20	105	412	843	.260	.310	.370	.680
CLE	3.8	615	162	5579	1380	212	32	129	465	1075	.247	.305	.366	.671
SEM	3.7	603	162	5488	1325	223	36	115	428	951	.241	.296	.358	.654
TOR	3.4	546	162	5406	1175	223	37	111	376	981	.217	.268	.334	.602
WOR	3.2	525	162	5372	1191	176	38	105	425	1195	.222	.279	.327	.606
Totals	4.1	6566	1620	55227	13745	2339	361	1303	4723	9619	.249	.308	.375	.683
Average		657	162	5523	1374	234	36	130	472	962

League Pitching Stats     Help
Team	R/G	R	G	ERA	IP	H	H/G	BB	BB/G	SO	SO/G	SV
DET	3.3	540	162	3.02	1455.3	1187	7.3	451	2.8	948	5.9	33
SEM	3.7	594	162	3.24	1479.7	1345	8.3	484	3.0	911	5.6	30
NYA	3.8	623	162	3.65	1459.0	1304	8.0	451	2.8	1073	6.6	31
OAK	3.9	631	162	3.50	1464.0	1393	8.6	465	2.9	1143	7.1	29
BOS	4.2	673	162	3.88	1457.3	1259	7.8	541	3.3	1183	7.3	30
MIN	4.2	678	162	3.97	1445.0	1375	8.5	456	2.8	838	5.2	21
TAM	4.2	688	162	3.79	1457.3	1560	9.6	383	2.4	1010	6.2	29
CLE	4.3	698	162	3.88	1462.7	1431	8.8	527	3.3	988	6.1	35
TOR	4.9	788	162	4.50	1444.7	1517	9.4	536	3.3	779	4.8	20
WOR	5.1	819	162	4.63	1426.7	1501	9.3	595	3.7	803	5.0	17
Totals	4.2	6732	1620	3.80	14551.6	13872	8.6	4889	3.0	9676	6.0	275
Average		673	162		1455	1387		489		968		28

League Miscellaneous Stats     Help
Team	ExpW	ExpL	Diff	AS	aAS	BAW	PAW	RAW	FAW	PRF	PHrF	Attendance		Manager
DET	95	67	1	5	13	0	1	3	17	1.07	1.09	2,359,531		Pie Traynor
MIN	86	76	-4	5	16	1	0	3	26	0.89	0.90	1,601,772		Cookie Lavagetto
TAM	92	70	-5	5	16	0	2	1	11	0.96	0.79	2,427,961		Ricky Sanford
NYA	83	79	-7	2	10	0	1	1	7	1.06	1.06	1,394,274		Jason Spiegel
OAK	94	68	2	2	12	1	6	1	14	1.02	1.04	2,414,281		Marwan Najdawi
SEM	82	80	4	2	9	6	0	1	15	0.85	0.84	1,534,109		Peter Fletcher
BOS	85	77	-1	1	7	7	0	0	9	0.97	0.95	2,426,563		Brian Rodgers
CLE	72	90	2	1	11	1	0	2	9	1.01	1.10	1,622,448		Jason Morton
TOR	55	107	0	1	3	0	0	1	3	1.06	0.98	1,522,388		Chuck Glidden
WOR	50	112	4	1	7	0	0	1	15	1.07	0.95	1,763,528		Taylor Jordan

League Win Shares     Help
Team	Total	Offensive	Pitching	Fielding	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	OF
OAK	288	141.99	100.38	45.60	0.00	4.23	11.86	4.41	12.97	12.14
DET	288	104.68	128.02	55.28	13.13	3.15	7.04	5.71	9.19	17.07
TAM	261	154.11	76.33	30.54	3.94	3.84	8.10	2.73	6.26	5.67
SEM	258	108.74	102.28	46.95	7.68	2.06	8.17	6.02	10.05	12.99
BOS	252	131.42	77.61	42.94	7.50	2.87	4.74	5.06	5.10	17.69
MIN	246	141.58	71.49	32.89	10.32	3.45	2.54	4.72	4.05	7.82
NYA	228	90.51	92.96	44.51	5.88	2.55	4.54	5.37	9.38	16.79
CLE	222	97.58	82.35	42.04	9.02	2.42	5.93	5.30	7.47	11.91
TOR	165	68.66	64.58	31.74	7.26	1.79	8.19	2.89	3.84	7.78
WOR	162	70.52	59.73	31.72	9.36	4.42	3.78	2.99	4.88	6.29

League Award Winners
Silver Slugger:	Harmon Killebrew	BOS	.302, 38 HR, 103 RBI
Platinum Arm:	Gene Conley	OAK	27-6, 2.15, 343.7 IP, 331 K
Bronze Rookie:	Tony Taylor	CLE	.284, 12 HR, 67 RBI
Gold Glove Winners
P	Ralph Lumenti	TAM	1.000, 21 PO, 39 A, 0 E
C	Joe Torre	MIN	.999, 659 PO, 37 A, 1 E 35.5% (11-31) Runners Thrown Out
1B	Dick Gray	WOR	.987, 1340 PO, 105 A, 19 E
2B	Bill Mazeroski	TOR	.990, 290 PO, 605 A, 9 E
3B	Jim King	MIN	.987, 93 PO, 356 A, 6 E
SS	Harvey Kuenn	DET	.966, 201 PO, 584 A, 28 E
LF	Bob Nieman	SEM	.979, 93 PO, 2 A, 2 E
CF	Whitey Herzog	BOS	1.000, 302 PO, 3 A, 0 E
RF	Larry Doby	WOR	.988, 241 PO, 6 A, 3 E

League Batting Leaderboards     Help

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

Batting Average Cepeda DET .331 Torre MIN .315 Torre BOS .307* Flood NYA .304 Clemente TOR .304	On-Base Pct Killebrew BOS .435 Sawatski TAM .398 Gentile TAM .394 Siebern TAM .388 Cepeda DET .380	Slugging Pct Killebrew BOS .599 Siebern TAM .538 Cepeda DET .531 Sawatski TAM .523 Adcock DET .510	OPS Killebrew BOS 1.034 Siebern TAM .926 Sawatski TAM .922 Cepeda DET .911 Gentile TAM .898
XR Killebrew BOS 124.0 Siebern TAM 115.7 Cepeda DET 106.0 Cash BOS 102.2 Snider SEM 96.5	Games Moon WOR 159 Santo SEM 158 Burton CLE 157 Cepeda DET 157 Davis MIN 157	At-Bats Kuenn DET 635 Walls TAM 634 Brock SEM 633 Adcock DET 616 Alou CLE 612	Runs Siebern TAM 104 Killebrew BOS 103 Belardi OAK 101 Kokos TAM 93 Kuenn DET 92
Hits Cepeda DET 198 Walls TAM 189 Alou CLE 180 Brock SEM 176 Kuenn DET 176	Total Bases Cepeda DET 318 Killebrew BOS 315 Adcock DET 314 Siebern TAM 312 Cash BOS 276	Singles Walls TAM 146 Brock SEM 138 Kuenn DET 134 Cepeda DET 130 Alou CLE 129	Doubles Clemente TOR 47 Cepeda DET 41 Bell DET 40 Killebrew BOS 40 Torre MIN 39
Triples Skinner MIN 11 Gray WOR 10 Gilliam OAK 9 McDougald   9 Brock SEM 8	Homeruns Killebrew BOS 38 Adcock DET 35 Cash BOS 34 Siebern TAM 34 Robinson BOS 29	RBIs Adcock DET 121 Palys OAK 115 Robinson BOS 104 Killebrew BOS 103 Belardi OAK 97	Stolen Bases Brock SEM 65 Wood SEM 33 Shetrone TAM 26 Pinson SEM 23 Davis MIN 22
Caught Stealing Brock SEM 27 Wood SEM 16 Gilliam OAK 13 Davis MIN 9 Pinson SEM 8	Walks Killebrew BOS 120 Gentile TAM 93 Cash BOS 90 Siebern TAM 90 Snider SEM 87	Strikeouts Burton CLE 176 Glaviano MIN 160 Hadley WOR 145 Doby WOR 131 Robinson BOS 130

League Pitching Leaderboards     Help

ERA Conley OAK 2.15 Qualters NYA 2.23 Chance SEM 2.55 Presko DET 2.58 McDevitt DET 2.72	Wins Conley OAK 27 Hall NYA 22 Presko DET 22 Qualters NYA 22 Score BOS 21	Losses Toth WOR 26 Humphreys TOR 23 Terry CLE 23 Cardwell BOS 22 Fisher TOR 22	Winning Pct Conley OAK .818 Presko DET .759 Collum DET .720 Pierce OAK .714 Score BOS .700
Saves Fornieles BOS 21 Meyer NYA 21 Kemmerer DET 19 Maas CLE 19 Naranjo OAK 19	Games Pitched Kemmerer DET 96 Podres CLE 82 Fornieles BOS 80 Reniff SEM 74 Sanchez TAM 72	Games Started Fisher TOR 44 Maloney SEM 44 Qualters NYA 44 Terry CLE 43 Toth WOR 43	Complete Games Drysdale NYA 24 Perry MIN 23 Toth WOR 23 Conley OAK 21 Cardwell BOS 15
Shutouts Conley OAK 7 Collum DET 4 Daley MIN 3 Delock TAM 3 Drysdale NYA 3	Innings Pitched Conley OAK 343.7 Maloney SEM 340.0 Toth WOR 335.7 Chance SEM 332.3 Fisher TOR 330.3	Hits Allowed Toth WOR 396 Terry CLE 366 Fisher TOR 343 Kiely TAM 333 Perry MIN 331	Homeruns Allowed Maloney SEM 40 Toth WOR 40 Pierce OAK 39 Terry CLE 39 Score BOS 37
Strikeouts Score BOS 446 Conley OAK 331 Maloney SEM 301 Qualters NYA 278 Drabowsky CLE 244	Walks Allowed Score BOS 138 Broglio WOR 132 Maloney SEM 121 Pappas CLE 121 Daley MIN 120	Walks per 9IP Kiely TAM 0.9 Hall NYA 1.1 Drysdale NYA 1.5 Jester OAK 1.5 Terry CLE 1.7	Hits per 9IP Score BOS 5.1 Peterson DET 5.6 Presko DET 6.3 Qualters NYA 6.6 Conley OAK 7.0
Strikeouts per 9IP Score BOS 13.5 Peterson DET 9.8 Duren NYA 9.3 Lumenti TAM 8.7 Conley OAK 8.7	WHiP Peterson DET 1.01 Drysdale NYA 1.02 Score BOS 1.03 Conley OAK 1.03 McDevitt DET 1.05	OAVG Score BOS .164 Peterson DET .177 Presko DET .198 Qualters NYA .203 Conley OAK .212	OOBP Peterson DET .261 Score BOS .262 Conley OAK .263 Drysdale NYA .271 Presko DET .275
OSLG Qualters NYA .274 Conley OAK .284 McDevitt DET .290 Peterson DET .293 Presko DET .294	OOPS Conley OAK .548 Qualters NYA .549 Peterson DET .554 McDevitt DET .566 Presko DET .569

League All-Stars
Joe Adcock	Matty Alou	Orlando Cepeda
Roberto Clemente	Gene Conley	Paul Foytack
Jim Gentile	Dick Gray	Dick Hall
Al Kaline	Harmon Killebrew	Harvey Kuenn
Danny McDevitt	Gil McDougald	Stu Miller
Billy Pierce	Joe Presko	Tom Qualters
Hal Reniff	Raul Sanchez	Carl Sawatski
Norm Siebern	Duke Snider	Tony Taylor
Joe Torre

League Top Salaries
Rank	Name	Team	Salary
1.	Gene Conley	OAK	$ 22,100,000
2.	Joe Adcock	DET	$ 18,000,000
3.	Harmon Killebrew	BOS	$ 12,930,000
4.	Tom Qualters	NYA	$ 12,100,000
5.	Ike Delock	TAM	$ 9,000,000
	Gil McDougald	MIN	$ 9,000,000
7.	Duke Snider	SEM	$ 8,200,000
8.	Bob Skinner	MIN	$ 7,750,000
9.	Carl Sawatski	TAM	$ 7,220,000
10.	Al Kaline	MIN	$ 7,000,000
	Ryne Duren	NYA	$ 7,000,000
	Stu Miller	TAM	$ 7,000,000
13.	Dean Stone	TAM	$ 6,750,000
14.	Ramon Monzant	BOS	$ 6,614,286
15.	Leo Kiely	TAM	$ 6,500,000
	Randy Jackson	TOR	$ 6,500,000
17.	Roy Sievers	TAM	$ 6,250,000
18.	Jim Gilliam	OAK	$ 6,100,000
19.	Paul Foytack	MIN	$ 6,000,000
20.	Wally Post	DET	$ 5,900,000
21.	Orlando Cepeda	DET	$ 5,514,286
22.	Jackie Jensen	OAK	$ 5,500,000
23.	Frank Robinson	BOS	$ 5,470,000
	Dick Kokos	TAM	$ 5,470,000
25.	Whitey Lockman	OAK	$ 5,410,000

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