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The 1931 season of the American League was the thirty-first season of the league.

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Standings

Bold indicates league champion, Italics indicates World Series champion

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	WPCT	GB	RS (RS/G)	RA (RA/G)	AVG	OBP	SLG	ERA	FPCT
1	Philadelphia Athletics	153	107	45	1	.699	-.-	858 (5.61)	626 (4.09)	0.287	0.351	0.435	3.47	0.976
2	New York Yankees	155	94	59	2	.606	13.5	1067 (6.88)	760 (4.90)	0.297	0.380	0.457	4.20	0.972
3	Washington Senators	156	92	62	2	.590	16.0	843 (5.40)	691 (4.43)	0.285	0.342	0.400	3.76	0.976
4	Cleveland Indians	155	78	76	1	.503	30.0	885 (5.71)	833 (5.37)	0.296	0.361	0.419	4.63	0.963
5	St. Louis Browns	154	63	91	0	.409	45.0	722 (4.69)	870 (5.65)	0.271	0.331	0.390	4.76	0.963
6	Boston Red Sox	153	62	90	1	.405	45.0	625 (4.08)	800 (5.23)	0.262	0.314	0.349	4.60	0.970
7	Detroit Tigers	154	61	93	0	.396	47.0	651 (4.23)	836 (5.43)	0.268	0.328	0.371	4.59	0.964
8	Chicago White Sox	156	56	97	3	.359	51.5	704 (4.51)	939 (6.02)	0.260	0.320	0.343	5.04	0.960

League leaders

Bold indicates league record, Italics indicate all-time record

Batting

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Games Played	Joe Cronin	Washington Senators	156
At Bats	Earl Averill	Cleveland Indians	627
Runs Scored	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	163
Hits	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	211
Doubles	Earl Webb	Boston Red Sox	67
Triples	Roy Johnson	Detroit Tigers	19
Home Runs	Lou Gehrig Babe Ruth	New York Yankees New York Yankees	46
Total Bases	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	410
Runs Batted In	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees	184
Stolen Bases	Ben Chapman	New York Yankees	61
Caught Stealing	Ben Chapman	New York Yankees	23
Walks	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	128
Hit by Pitch	Bing Miller	Philadelphia Athletics	10
Strikeouts	Jimmie Foxx	Philadelphia Athletics	84
Sacrifice Hits	Mule Haas	Philadelphia Athletics	19
Batting Average	Al Simmons	Philadelphia Athletics	0.390
On-Base Percentage	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	0.495
Slugging Percentage	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	0.700
On-Base plus Slugging	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	1.195
On-Base plus Slugging Plus	Babe Ruth	New York Yankees	219

Pitching

Statistic	Leader	Team	Number
Wins	Lefty Grove	Philadelphia Athletics	31
Losses	Pat Caraway Dolly Gray	Chicago White Sox St. Louis Browns	24
Win-Loss Percentage	Lefty Grove	Philadelphia Athletics	0.886
Appearances	Bump Hadley	Washington Senators	55
Games Started	Dolly Gray	St. Louis Browns	37
Complete Games	Wes Ferrell Lefty Grove	Cleveland Indians Philadelphia Athletics	27
Shutouts	Lefty Grove	Philadelphia Athletics	4
Games Finished	Chad Kimsey	St. Louis Browns	35
Saves	Wilcy Moore	Boston Red Sox	10
Innings Pitched	Rube Walberg	Philadelphia Athletics	291.0
Batters Faced	Rube Walberg	Philadelphia Athletics	1248
Hits Allowed	Dolly Gray	St. Louis Browns	323
Home Runs Allowed	Earl Whitehill	Detroit Tigers	22
Base-on-Balls Allowed	Wes Ferrell	Cleveland Indians	130
Hit Batsmen	Art Herring	Detroit Tigers	8
Strikeouts	Lefty Grove	Philadelphia Athletics	175
Wild Pitches	Tommy Bridges	Detroit Tigers	9
Balks	Carl Fischer	Washington Senators	3
Runs Allowed	Dolly Gray	St. Louis Browns	187
Earned Runs Allowed	Pat Caraway	Chicago White Sox	152
Earned Run Average	Lefty Grove	Philadelphia Athletics	2.06
Walks plus Hits per Inning Pitched	Lefty Grove	Philadelphia Athletics	1.077

Postseason

In the World Series, the American League champion Philadelphia Athletics were defeated by the National League's St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3.

Award winners

The winner of the league's Most Valuable Player Award, given its Most Valuable Player, was Lefty Grove, a pitcher with the Philadelphia Athletics. In the award's voting, he had 78 out of a possible 80 points.

Umpires

• Bick Campbell
• Tom Connolly
• Bill Dinneen
• Harry Geisel
• Bill Guthrie
• George Hildebrand
• Bill McGowan
• Pat Monahan*
• George Moriarty
• Dick Nallin
• Red Ormsby
• Brick Owens
• Roy Van Graflan

* Denotes a fill-in umpire