1939 Detroit Tigers
81 - 73
1938 / 1940 (Organization)
5th place in the AL (26.5 GB)
Home Record:
Away Record: 		42 - 35 (.545)
39 - 38 (.506)		 +0.6 wins
+3.4 wins
   
Scored/Expected: 849 / 861 ( -12 )
Allowed/Expected: 762 / 863 ( +101 )
Pyth Record: 85 - 69 (-4)
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Briggs Stadium
Attendance: 836,279 Avg Att: 10,722 (1.54)
Att Rank: 2 / 8 Lg Avg: 6,944
       
Park Factor: 1.07    
HR Factor: 1.17 R/L HR: 1.17 / 1.16
Notes:


Pitching

Filters
Role
Throws
#
R
H
K
1 Bobo Newsom
SP
31.9
246.0
55.6
29.1
66.5
43.1
-0.3
73.3
73.0
6.8
1.3
8.3
1.7
-65.5
0.0
0.0
2 Tommy Bridges
SP
32.5
198.0
38.0
29.3
64.5
25.8
22.4
56.1
75.7
5.6
-3.4
5.3
0.9
-31.6
0.0
0.0
3 Dizzy Trout
SP
24.0
162.0
19.8
14.4
13.0
12.3
-3.3
9.2
6.3
9.2
-1.8
-3.2
-1.0
-5.1
0.0
0.0
4 Archie McKain*
SP
28.1
129.7
15.8
9.4
33.6
19.6
0.8
0.3
1.0
4.9
1.8
-0.6
0.5
7.1
0.0
0.0
5 Bud Thomas
RP
28.8
47.3
4.7
-4.5
10.7
5.9
-0.0
-3.8
-3.8
-3.0
0.6
1.3
0.0
0.0
6 Bob Harris
SW
24.2
18.0
3.3
-3.0
2.8
1.1
-0.5
2.3
1.9
-2.5
0.2
-0.4
-0.0
-5.1
0.0
0.0
7 Floyd Giebell
RP
29.6
15.3
2.6
-0.5
-6.5
-0.4
-4.7
2.5
-1.7
0.5
0.2
-6.5
0.0
0.0
8 Hal Newhouser*
SP
18.1
5.0
0.1
0.5
1.0
2.5
-1.8
2.1
0.4
0.4
0.1
0.6
-0.0
-3.4
0.0
0.0
9 Roxie Lawson
SP
33.2
11.3
0.1
-0.7
4.1
5.6
-2.1
-0.4
-2.2
-0.0
0.2
-0.4
-0.0
-1.5
0.0
0.0
10 Al Benton
SP
28.3
150.0
-0.1
8.5
-1.4
-7.8
10.6
6.2
15.6
2.6
1.2
-3.7
-0.7
8.3
0.0
0.0
11 Vern Kennedy
SP
32.3
21.0
-1.9
-3.0
-1.4
-1.1
0.4
0.7
1.0
-2.1
-0.7
-0.7
-0.2
-3.1
0.0
0.0
12 Jim Walkup
RP
29.5
12.0
-2.5
-3.6
-3.8
-0.2
-2.2
-0.2
-2.1
-1.8
0.2
-3.6
0.0
0.0
13 George Gill
SP
30.4
8.7
-2.6
-0.5
-3.1
-3.4
1.2
-2.7
-1.7
-0.2
0.1
-0.4
-0.0
3.8
0.0
0.0
14 Red Lynn
RP
25.5
8.3
-2.8
-1.9
-1.7
-0.9
1.0
-0.5
0.3
-1.2
-0.9
-0.6
0.0
0.0
15 Fred Hutchinson
SP
19.9
84.7
-3.0
-8.8
-10.8
3.4
-12.5
-12.5
-23.6
-1.3
1.2
-2.0
-0.5
-0.1
0.0
0.0
16 Cotton Pippen
SP
28.2
14.0
-4.3
0.4
-1.6
-0.6
0.8
-1.1
-0.3
0.4
0.2
-0.8
-0.1
2.5
0.0
0.0
17 Harry Eisenstat*
SW
23.7
29.7
-5.4
-0.3
-0.6
-5.0
4.4
-5.9
-2.0
-0.3
0.4
0.2
-0.1
10.3
0.0
0.0
18 Slick Coffman
RP
28.6
42.3
-9.7
-3.0
-6.4
-0.4
-2.1
-7.7
-9.6
-0.0
-0.4
-0.4
-0.0
5.1
0.0
0.0
19 Schoolboy Rowe
SP
29.5
164.0
-10.4
-2.6
7.1
-7.4
11.7
-13.7
-3.3
-2.6
0.3
-2.0
-0.0
23.1
0.0
0.0
1367.3
97.4
59.2
166.1
92.1
23.7
104.3
125.0
15.1
1.0
-0.4
0.4
-64.6
0.0
0.0

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