1944 Season- Seamheads Negro Leagues Database

1944 Season

1943 / 1945

Tom Wilson (President)
Ed Bolden (Vice President)
Cumberland Posey (Secretary)
Abe Manley (Treasurer)

Top Hitter

Pedro
Pagés

Top Pitcher

Ramón
Bragaña

Leaders

OPS+

#	Player	Team	OPS+
1	Jesse Douglas	CAG	221
2	Ed Steele	BBB	212
3	Buck Leonard	EAS/HG	199
4	Josh Gibson	EAS/HG	184
5	Parnell Woods	CBE	184
6	Bill Hoskins	BEG	179
7	Lázaro Salazar	MTY	175
8	Alberto Hernández	PUE	174
9	Dave Harper	CIC/KCM	174
10	Artie Wilson	BBB/WES	170

K/BB

#	Player	Team	SO/BB
1	Satchel Paige	KCM/SAS	3.96
2	Bill Byrd	MULT	3.41
3	Tom Glover	BEG	3.38
4	Porter Moss	MRS	3.27
5	Luis Tiant	NYC	2.85
6	George Jefferson	CBE	2.82
7	Booker McDaniel	KCM/SAS	2.68
8	Roosevelt Davis	CIC	2.63
9	Verdell Mathis	MRS/WES	2.18
10	Alfred Saylor	BBB	2.18

All-1944 Team

Glossary

Left Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Theolic Smith	ROM	4.2	0.5	0.0
Vidal López	MTY	3.6	2.9	-1.4
Agustín Bejerano	VEZ	3.3	1.5	2.2
Jesús Díaz	JN2	2.0	1.8	0.6
Felino Cárdenas	TPC	1.5	-0.7	2.6

Center Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Pedro Pagés	PUE	6.3	3.3	3.1
Alejandro Crespo	JN2	3.7	2.7	1.0
Pedro Formental	VEZ	2.8	3.1	-0.3
Sam Jethroe	CBE/WES	1.6	0.8	0.8
Jerry Benjamin	HG	1.4	1.2	0.2

Right Field	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Epitacio Torres	MTY	5.0	2.2	3.2
Wild Bill Wright	ROM	4.4	3.5	1.2
Alberto Hernández	PUE	4.4	4.1	0.6
Dave Hoskins	HG	1.9	1.3	0.2
Ed Steele	BBB	1.9	2.4	-0.4

Shortstop	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Artie Wilson	BBB/WES	3.0	1.9	0.8
Silvio García	ROM/VEZ	2.7	2.9	-0.8
Alejandro Uriarte	MTY	2.6	1.1	1.1
Willie Wells	ROM/VEZ	2.3	2.1	-0.2
Sam Bankhead	EAS/HG	2.3	0.7	1.2

Second Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Roberto Ávila	PUE	3.4	3.3	-0.3
Bonnie Serrell	MULT	3.3	2.5	0.5
Heberto Blanco	MTY	3.1	1.5	1.2
Chile Gómez	VEZ	2.3	-0.1	2.1
Tommy Sampson	BBB	2.2	1.1	1.0

Third Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Carlos Blanco	JN2	4.1	2.9	1.2
Luis Montes de Oca	PUE	1.8	0.2	1.6
Herb Souell	KCM/SAS	1.4	1.3	0.1
Walter Cannady	CIC/HG	1.1	0.7	0.3
Parnell Woods	CBE	1.0	1.2	-0.3

First Base	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Lázaro Salazar	MTY	8.8	4.1	0.4
Buck Leonard	EAS/HG	3.7	3.5	0.5
Angel Castro	TPC	3.1	1.4	2.3
Ismael Montalvo	JN2	1.6	0.6	0.9
Lennie Pearson	NE/NOS	1.2	0.5	0.9

Catcher	Tm	WAR	Off	Fld
Salvador Hernández	VEZ	3.5	2.1	1.2
Josh Gibson	EAS/HG	2.3	2.7	-0.6
Roy Campanella	MULT	1.9	1.5	0.4
Quincy Trouppe	ROM	1.8	0.9	0.8
Lou Louden	NOS/NYC	1.1	0.6	0.4

Starting Pitcher	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
Ramón Bragaña	VEZ	325.1	10.3	10.2	0.9
Ray Brown	HG	136.1	4.7	3.7	1.0
Adrián Zabala	PUE	121.2	4.4	3.7	0.8
Satchel Paige	KCM/SAS	103.1	4.2	4.3	0.0
Bill Ricks	PS	148.0	3.7	3.7	0.0
Jesús Valenzuela	TPC	235.0	3.2	4.1	-0.9
Agapito Mayor	MULT	257.1	3.1	2.9	0.2
Verdell Mathis	MRS/WES	91.0	3.0	2.3	0.4
Henry Miller	PS	68.2	2.4	2.3	0.1
Bill Byrd	MULT	80.0	2.3	2.4	-0.1
Henry McHenry	TPC/VEZ	221.1	2.3	2.3	0.2
Donald Troy	BEG	55.1	2.3	2.4	-0.1
Cocaína García	PUE	206.0	2.2	2.0	0.2
Manuel Fortés	JN2	177.1	1.9	1.7	0.7
Eugene Bremer	CBE/WES	42.2	1.8	1.7	0.1

Relief Pitcher	Tm	IP	WAR	Pit	Off
George Jefferson	CBE	68.2	2.3	2.6	-0.2
Nate Moreland	TPC	234.1	2.3	3.5	-0.9
Booker McDaniel	KCM/SAS	79.2	2.2	1.8	0.4
Daniel Ríos	MTY	223.2	2.2	2.4	-0.2
Willie Hutchinson	MRS	49.0	1.6	1.8	-0.1
Gilberto Garza	JN2	77.2	1.5	1.7	-0.3
Willie Hubert	HG	24.0	1.0	1.1	-0.1
Barney Morris	EAS/NYC	61.1	1.0	1.2	-0.2
Chet Brewer	ROM	146.1	0.8	0.5	0.2
Pete Morales	ROM	92.1	0.7	1.1	-0.4
Alberto Leal	MTY	143.2	0.7	0.5	0.2
Guadalupe Ortegón	JN2	212.2	0.7	1.5	-0.8
Dan Bankhead	BBB	9.2	0.6	0.4	0.3
Leroy Sutton	CAG	20.1	0.6	0.7	-0.1
Connie Rector	NBY	32.0	0.6	0.5	0.1

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