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Home >> Teams >> MLB Franchises >> American League >> St. Louis Browns >> 1945 Team Capsule

1945 St. Louis Browns (MLB)

+ American League

Nickname:	Browns
W-L Record:	81-70 .536
Rank:	3rd in American League
Run Differential:	597-548 + 49
Roster Continuity	76.42% 7/15
Manager(s):	Luke Sewell
General Manager:
Location:
Ballpark:	Sportsman's Park
Attendance:	482,986 12/16
Playoffs:	Did not qualify
Top Draft Pick:	All picks
Years Active:	1890-2016
Franchise Information

Coaching Staff

Assistant Coach: Jack Tobin
Assistant Coach: Zack Taylor
Assistant Coach: Fred Hoffmann

Organization Affiliates

MLB:

St. Louis Browns (MLB-AL)

81-70

Organizational Player Roster
St. Louis Browns Affiliate History

American League Standings
Team	W	L	WPct	GBL
Detroit	88	65	.575	--
Washington	87	67	.565	1.5
St. Louis	81	70	.536	6.0
NY Yankees	81	71	.533	6.5
Cleveland	73	72	.503	11.0
Chi White Sox	71	78	.477	15.0
Boston	71	83	.461	17.5
Philadelphia	52	98	.347	34.5

Batting Statistics

Batting Statistics

#	Player	Pos	Age	Diff	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	GDP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	secA	Babip	K/BB	AB/HR	TB	PA
5	Vern Stephens	SS	24	�	149	571	90	165	27	3	24	89	2	1	55	70	1		5		0	.289	.352	.473	825	.184	.282	.296	1.27	23.8	270	632
4	Don Gutteridge	2B	33	�	143	543	72	129	24	3	2	49	9	6	43	46	1		8		6	.238	.295	.304	599	.066	.151	.257	1.07	271.5	165	595
3	George McQuinn	1B	35	�	139	483	69	134	31	3	7	61	1	1	65	51	1		12		0	.277	.364	.398	762	.120	.255	.299	0.78	69.0	192	561
11	Milt Byrnes	OF	28	�	133	442	53	110	29	4	8	59	1	3	78	84	1		19		6	.249	.363	.387	750	.138	.310	.291	1.08	55.3	171	540
1	Len Schulte	3B-2B	28	�	119	430	37	106	16	1	0	36	0	3	24	35	0		11		0	.247	.286	.288	574	.042	.091	.268	1.46	--	124	465
8	Frank Mancuso	C	27	�	119	365	39	98	13	3	1	38	0	2	46	44	2		4		0	.268	.354	.329	683	.060	.181	.303	0.96	365.0	120	417
15	Gene Moore	OF	35	�	110	354	48	92	16	2	5	50	1	3	40	26	1		5		3	.260	.337	.359	696	.099	.206	.269	0.65	70.8	127	400
12	Mike Kreevich	OF	37	�	84	295	34	70	11	1	2	21	4	1	37	27	0		7		7	.237	.322	.302	624	.064	.200	.256	0.73	147.5	89	339
6	Mark Christman	3B	31	�	78	289	32	80	7	4	4	34	1	0	19	19	3		0		6	.277	.328	.370	698	.093	.163	.286	1.00	72.3	107	311
1,14	Pete Gray	OF	30	�	77	234	26	51	6	2	0	13	5	6	13	11	0		6		2	.218	.259	.261	520	.043	.094	.229	0.85	--	61	253
23	Lou Finney	OF-1B	34	�	57	213	24	59	8	4	2	22	0	0	21	6	1		5		9	.277	.345	.380	725	.103	.202	.278	0.29	106.5	81	240
-	Babe Martin	OF	25	�	54	185	13	37	5	2	2	16	0	1	11	24	0		7		0	.200	.245	.281	526	.081	.135	.220	2.18	92.5	52	203
9	Red Hayworth	C	30	�	56	160	7	31	4	0	0	17	0	2	7	6	0		1		4	.194	.228	.219	447	.025	.056	.201	0.86	--	35	168
28	Chet Laabs	OF	33	�	35	109	15	26	4	3	1	8	0	0	16	17	3		3		0	.239	.352	.358	710	.119	.266	.275	1.06	109.0	39	131
24	Nels Potter	P	33	�	32	92	3	28	2	0	0	5	0	0	2	7	0		5		3	.304	.319	.326	645	.022	.043	.329	3.50	--	30	99
22	Sig Jakucki	P	35	�	30	70	7	13	1	1	2	6	0	0	2	8	0		3		1	.186	.208	.314	522	.129	.157	.183	4.00	35.0	22	75
21	Tex Shirley	P	27	�	43	70	7	20	1	0	0	8	1	0	0	11	1		2		0	.286	.296	.300	596	.014	.029	.339	--	--	21	73
25	Al Hollingsworth	P	37	�	28	61	4	12	3	0	1	4	0	0	4	4	0		3		2	.197	.246	.295	541	.098	.164	.196	1.00	61.0	18	68
19	Jack Kramer	P	27	�	29	61	4	9	2	0	0	6	0	0	11	21	0		7		0	.148	.278	.180	458	.033	.213	.225	1.91	--	11	79
29	Bob Muncrief	P	29	�	28	45	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	6	0		8		0	.067	.087	.133	220	.067	.089	.077	6.00	--	6	54
7	Joe Schultz	C	26	�	41	44	1	13	2	0	0	8	0	0	3	1	0		0		0	.295	.340	.341	681	.045	.114	.302	0.33	--	15	47
2	Ellis Clary	3B	28	�	26	38	6	8	1	0	1	2	0	2	2	3	0		1		0	.211	.250	.316	566	.105	.105	.206	1.50	38.0	12	41
20	Lefty West	P	29	�	24	27	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	11	0		1		1	.074	.074	.074	148	.000	.000	.125	--	--	2	28
26	Sam Zoldak	P	26	�	27	20	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	0		0		0	.050	.050	.050	100	.000	.000	.083	--	--	1	20
36	Ox Miller	P	30	�	6	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		1		0	.182	.182	.182	364	.000	.000	.222	--	--	2	12
17,35	Earl Jones	P	26	�	10	10	2	2	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	4	0		0		0	.200	.200	.600	800	.400	.400	.200	--	10.0	6	10
16	George Caster	P	37	�	10	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		0		0	.333	.333	.333	666	.000	.000	1.000	--	--	1	3
10	Cliff Fannin	P	21	�	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		0	.000	.000	.000	0	.000	.000	.000	--	--	0	1
27,31	Al LaMacchia	P	23	�	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		0		0	.000	.000	.000	0	.000	.000	-	--	--	0	1
Batting Totals					1697	5227	597	1302	215	37	63	557	25	31	500	555	15	0	124		50	.249	.315	.341	656	.091	.186	.269	1.11	83.0	1780	5851

Pitching Statistics

Pitching Statistics

#	Player	Age	Diff	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	HB	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	K/BB
24	Nels Potter	33	�	15	11	2.47	32	32	21	3	0	0	255.1	212	75	70	10	68	129	1	0	0	1.10	7.48	0.35	2.40	4.55	1.90
19	Jack Kramer	27	�	10	15	3.36	29	25	15	3	3	2	193.0	190	85	72	13	73	99	2	0	0	1.36	8.86	0.61	3.40	4.62	1.36
22	Sig Jakucki	35	�	12	10	3.52	30	24	15	1	4	2	192.1	188	84	75	9	65	55	2	1	0	1.32	8.81	0.42	3.05	2.58	0.85
21	Tex Shirley	27	�	8	12	3.62	32	24	10	2	5	0	183.2	191	79	74	8	93	77	5	0	0	1.54	9.34	0.39	4.55	3.77	0.83
25	Al Hollingsworth	37	�	12	9	2.71	26	22	15	1	3	1	173.1	164	60	52	4	68	64	2	0	0	1.34	8.53	0.21	3.54	3.33	0.94
29	Bob Muncrief	29	�	13	4	2.71	27	15	10	0	11	1	145.2	132	51	44	8	44	54	1	1	0	1.21	8.14	0.49	2.71	3.33	1.23
20	Lefty West	29	�	3	4	3.65	24	8	1	0	5	0	74.1	71	37	30	2	31	38	0	0	0	1.38	8.64	0.24	3.77	4.62	1.23
26	Sam Zoldak	26	�	3	2	3.34	26	1	1	0	14	0	69.2	74	32	26	3	18	19	1	1	0	1.31	9.51	0.39	2.31	2.44	1.06
17,35	Earl Jones	26	�	0	0	2.57	10	0	0	0	4	1	28.1	18	10	8	0	18	13	1	0	0	1.29	5.79	0.00	5.79	4.18	0.72
36	Ox Miller	30	�	2	1	1.61	4	3	3	0	0	0	28.1	23	5	5	2	5	4	1	0	0	1.00	7.39	0.64	1.61	1.29	0.80
16	George Caster	37	�	1	2	6.75	10	0	0	0	6	1	15.2	20	13	12	0	7	9	0	0	0	1.69	11.25	0.00	3.94	5.06	1.29
10	Cliff Fannin	21	�	0	0	2.70	5	0	0	0	2	0	10.1	8	3	3	0	5	5	0	0	0	1.30	7.20	0.00	4.50	4.50	1.00
27,31	Al LaMacchia	23	�	2	0	2.00	5	0	0	0	4	0	9.0	6	2	2	0	3	2	0	0	0	1.00	6.00	0.00	3.00	2.00	0.67
36	Pete Appleton	41	�	0	0	18.00	2	0	0	0	1	0	2.1	3	5	4	0	7	1	0	0	0	5.00	13.50	0.00	31.50	4.50	0.14
23	Dee Sanders	24	�	0	0	54.00	2	0	0	0	1	0	1.1	7	7	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	8.00	63.00	0.00	9.00	9.00	1.00
Batting Totals				81	70	3.14	264	154	91	10	63	8	1383	1307	548	483	59	506	570	16	3	0	1.31	8.51	0.38	3.29	3.71	1.13

Fielding Statistics
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Frank Mancuso	C	115		467	55	6	10	.989	0.00
Red Hayworth	C	55		216	23	2	5	.992	0.00
Joe Schultz	C	4		15	1	1	0	.941	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
George McQuinn	1B	136		1143	105	11	87	.991	0.00
Lou Finney	1B	22		165	14	1	13	.994	0.00
Babe Martin	1B	6		36	4	2	1	.952	0.00
Milt Byrnes	1B	2		14	1	0	0	1.000	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Don Gutteridge	2B	128		334	334	21	66	.970	0.00
Len Schulte	2B	37		72	63	12	12	.918	0.00
Ellis Clary	2B	3		1	0	3	0	.250	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Mark Christman	3B	77		79	137	6	12	.973	0.00
Len Schulte	3B	71		75	149	9	9	.961	0.00
Ellis Clary	3B	16		15	21	2	3	.947	0.00
Vern Stephens	3B	4		2	11	2	2	.867	0.00
Lou Finney	3B	1		1	0	1	0	.500	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Vern Stephens	SS	144		256	439	28	69	.961	0.00
Len Schulte	SS	14		20	33	2	3	.964	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Milt Byrnes	OF	125		319	12	4	0	.988	0.00
Gene Moore	OF	100		184	10	6	0	.970	0.00
Mike Kreevich	OF	81		230	3	2	0	.991	0.00
Pete Gray	OF	61		162	3	7	1	.959	0.00
Babe Martin	OF	48		116	7	1	2	.992	0.00
Lou Finney	OF	36		68	4	1	1	.986	0.00
Chet Laabs	OF	35		68	1	1	0	.986	0.00
Don Gutteridge	OF	14		23	0	1	0	.958	0.00
Player	Pos	G	Inn	PO	A	E	DP	Fpct	RF
Nels Potter	P	32	255	13	43	3	4	.949	1.98
Tex Shirley	P	32	183	8	31	2	3	.951	1.92
Sig Jakucki	P	30	192	7	42	1	0	.980	2.30
Jack Kramer	P	29	193	10	39	1	4	.980	2.28
Bob Muncrief	P	27	145	9	22	2	1	.939	1.92
Al Hollingsworth	P	26	173	14	38	0	2	1.000	2.70
Sam Zoldak	P	26	69	3	9	1	0	.923	1.56
Lefty West	P	24	74	2	7	0	0	1.000	1.09
George Caster	P	10	15	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.78
Earl Jones	P	10	28	0	3	0	1	1.000	0.96
Cliff Fannin	P	5	10	0	1	0	1	1.000	0.89
Al LaMacchia	P	5	9	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.00
Ox Miller	P	4	28	0	2	1	0	.667	0.64
Pete Appleton	P	2	2	0	2	0	0	1.000	8.57
Dee Sanders	P	2	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	8.18