1961 DETROIT TIGERS

| Level: MLB

Location: Detroit,MI
Team Record: 101-61 .623
Result: 2nd in American League
Manager(s): Bob Scheffing
General Manager: Rick Ferrell
Stadium: Tiger Stadium
Attendance: 1,600,710
Playoffs: Did not qualify

Detroit Tigers affiliate history

Oldest Player: Gerry Staley (40)
Youngest Player: Bill Freehan (19)
Longest Tenure: Al Kaline (9)
Top Hitter: Norm Cash (1)
Top Pitcher: Jim Bunning (2)
Top Draft Pick:

Roster Continuity: 59.73%

American League Standings

Teams	W	L	Pct	GB
NY Yankees	109	53	.673	--
Detroit	101	61	.623	8.0
Baltimore	95	67	.586	14.0
Chi White Sox	86	76	.531	23.0
Cleveland	78	83	.484	30.5
Boston	76	86	.469	33.0
Minnesota	70	90	.437	38.0
LA Angels	70	91	.435	38.5
KC Athletics	61	100	.379	47.5
Washington	61	100	.379	47.5

BATTING STATISTICS

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Advanced Stats

Extra

Batting Orders

Defensive Lineups

Feats

Splits Analysis

#	Player	Pos	Rk	Age	Drafted	HiLvl	G	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	babip	SA	ISO	bb/k	HR%	Sgl	XBH	XBH%	BB%	SO%	G/F	P/Pa	Pit	Str	Bal	Swg
2	Jake Wood	2b	11	24	-	MLB	162	731	515	84	4.4	.311	-.139	.118	0.41	1.5	129	42	24.6	7.9	19.3	1.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
38	Bill Bruton	of	29	35	-	MLB	160	668	466	85	5.0	.264	-.128	.127	0.92	2.5	116	37	24.2	9.1	9.9	0.95	0.0	0	0	0	0
6	Al Kaline	of	6	26	UDFA: 1953	MLB	153	665	422	134	8.6	.323	-.189	.191	1.57	2.9	123	67	35.3	9.9	6.3	1.11	0.0	0	0	0	0
7	Rocky Colavito	of	3	27	-	MLB	163	708	440	149	9.1	.263	-.098	.290	1.51	6.4	92	77	45.6	16.0	10.6	0.79	0.0	0	0	0	0
25	Norm Cash	1b	1	26	UDFA: 1955	MLB	159	672	367	173	12.7	.370	-.118	.301	1.46	6.1	122	71	36.8	18.5	12.6	0.98	0.0	0	0	0	0
9	Chico Fernandez	ss	77	29	-	MLB	133	476	351	44	3.4	.271	-.159	.074	0.80	0.6	86	22	20.4	7.6	9.5	1.13	0.0	0	0	0	0
1	Steve Boros	3b	43	24	-	MLB	116	485	312	67	5.8	.287	-.093	.094	1.62	1.0	82	25	23.4	14.0	8.7	0.66	0.0	0	0	0	0
10	Dick Brown	c	-	26	-	MLB	93	336	244	46	5.1	.277	-.201	.208	0.39	4.8	52	30	36.6	6.5	17.0	0.91	0.0	0	0	0	0
3	Dick McAuliffe	2b-ss	78	21	UDFA: 1957	MLB	80	315	222	39	4.7	.278	-.175	.133	0.62	1.9	51	22	30.1	7.6	12.4	1.57	0.0	0	0	0	0
12	Mike Roarke	c	-	30	-	MLB	86	253	188	18	2.6	.247	-.135	.061	0.65	0.8	42	9	17.6	7.9	12.3	0.85	0.0	0	0	0	0
4	Charlie Maxwell	of	-	34	-	MLB	79	153	103	20	5.3	.243	-.076	.176	0.83	3.3	19	11	36.7	13.1	15.7	0.59	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Frank Lary	p	-	31	-	MLB	42	115	88	5	1.7	.300	-.204	.047	0.11	0.9	22	3	12.0	2.6	23.5	0.79	0.0	0	0	0	0
40	Bubba Morton	of	-	29	-	MLB	77	120	81	16	5.3	.349	-.185	.120	0.36	1.7	23	8	25.8	7.5	20.8	1.25	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Jim Bunning	p	-	29	-	MLB	38	104	92	-5	-1.4	.186	-.110	.010	0.07	0.0	12	1	7.7	1.9	28.8	1.27	0.0	0	0	0	0
28	Bobo Osborne	1b-3b	-	25	-	MLB	71	114	75	15	5.2	.237	.011	.140	1.33	1.8	11	9	45.0	17.5	13.2	1.86	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Don Mossi	p	-	32	-	MLB	35	91	72	2	0.6	.240	-.089	.063	0.21	1.1	10	3	23.1	6.6	30.8	1.53	0.0	0	0	0	0
21	Paul Foytack	p	-	30	-	MLB	32	61	51	2	1.2	.262	-.204	.074	0.09	1.6	10	2	16.7	1.6	18.0	2.36	0.0	0	0	0	0
8	Reno Bertoia	3b-2b	82	26	-	MLB	24	51	38	4	2.9	.243	-.109	.087	0.38	2.0	8	2	20.0	5.9	15.7	1.31	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Phil Regan	p	-	24	-	MLB	33	46	41	-3	-1.7	.120	.000	.025	0.20	0.0	2	1	33.3	6.5	32.6	1.27	0.0	0	0	0	0
8	Ozzie Virgil	3b	-	28	-	MLB	20	31	28	0	-0.3	.125	-.100	.100	0.20	3.2	3	1	25.0	3.2	16.1	1.63	0.0	0	0	0	0
5	Frank House	c	-	31	-	MLB	17	28	20	3	4.5	.238	-.045	.137	2.00	0.0	3	2	40.0	14.3	7.1	1.13	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Ron Kline	p	-	29	-	MLB	10	22	18	0	0.3	.300	-.167	.055	0.00	0.0	2	1	33.3	0.0	36.4	9.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	George Alusik	of	-	26	-	MLB	15	16	13	0	-0.4	.182	-.071	.000	0.25	0.0	2	0	0.0	6.3	25.0	0.50	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Harry Chiti	c	-	28	-	MLB	5	13	12	-1	-1.8	.100	.000	.000	0.50	0.0	1	0	0.0	7.7	15.4	0.80	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Terry Fox	p	-	25	-	MLB	39	14	11	0	-0.8	.400	-.083	.000	0.14	0.0	2	0	0.0	7.1	50.0	3.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Bill Freehan	c	-	19	UDFA: 1961	MLB	4	11	6	2	9.4	.400	-.300	.000	--	0.0	4	0	0.0	9.1	0.0	5.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
37	Hank Aguirre	p	-	30	-	MLB	45	13	13	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	61.5	4.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
32	Bob Bruce	p	-	28	-	MLB	14	12	10	0	0.9	.143	.111	.111	1.00	0.0	0	1	100.0	16.7	16.7	1.33	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Bill Fischer	p	-	30	-	MLB	26	7	7	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	28.6	1.50	0.0	0	0	0	0
3	Chuck Cottier	2b	74	25	-	MLB	10	9	6	1	4.0	.333	-.143	.000	1.00	0.0	2	0	0.0	11.1	11.1	1.50	0.0	0	0	0	0
24	George Thomas	of	-	23	-	MLB	17	6	6	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	66.7	1.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
22	Vic Wertz	of-1b	-	36	-	MLB	8	6	5	0	-0.3	.200	-.167	.000	0.00	0.0	1	0	0.0	0.0	16.7	0.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
5	Dick Gernert	1b	-	32	-	MLB	6	6	5	1	5.3	.000	.000	.600	0.50	16.7	0	1	100.0	16.7	33.3	1.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Hal Woodeshick	p	-	28	-	MLB	12	5	4	0	-1.3	.000	.250	.000	1.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	20.0	20.0	--	0.0	0	0	0	0
45	Howie Koplitz	p	-	23	-	MLB	4	4	4	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	25.0	2.00	0.0	0	0	0	0
11	Fred Gladding	p	-	25	UDFA: 1956	MLB	8	3	3	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	100.0	--	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Jerry Casale	p	-	27	-	MLB	3	3	3	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	100.0	--	0.0	0	0	0	0
32	Ron Nischwitz	p	-	23	-	MLB	6	2	2	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	100.0	--	0.0	0	0	0	0
46	Joe Grzenda	p	-	24	-	MLB	4	1	0	1	--	1.000	-1.000	.000	--	0.0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	--	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Jim Donohue	p	-	22	-	MLB	14	1	2	-	-	.000	.000	.000	--	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0	--	0.0	0	0	0	0
20	Gerry Staley	p	-	40	-	MLB	13	1	1	-	-	.000	.000	.000	0.00	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.0	100.0	--	0.0	0	0	0	0
Totals: (41 players)							--	6378	4347	888	5.5	.285	-.134	.000	0.78	2.8	1033	448	30.2	10.6	13.6	1.00	--	0	0	0	0

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