1970 Detroit Tigers Statistics

1969 Season 1971 Season

Record: 79-83-0, Finished 4th in AL_East (Schedule and Results)

Manager: Mayo Smith (79-83)

General Manager: Jim Campbell

Scouting Director: Ed Katalinas

Ballpark: Tiger Stadium

Attendance: 1,501,293 (2nd of 12)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 101, Pitching - 101
One-year: Batting - 104, Pitching - 104

Pythagorean W-L: 74-88, 666 Runs, 731 Runs Allowed

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162. Oct 1, DET (79-83) beat CLE, 1-0

Top 12 Players

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Regular Season

Standard Batting Table
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	WAR	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	rOBA	Rbat+	TB	GIDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
1	Bill Freehan	28	C	2.9	117	458	395	44	95	17	3	16	52	0	3	52	48	.241	.332	.420	.752	106	.349	108	166	11	4	3	4	5	*2/H	AS
2	Norm Cash*	36	1B	2.1	130	452	370	58	96	18	2	15	53	0	1	72	58	.259	.383	.441	.823	126	.376	127	163	16	5	0	5	6	*3H
3	Dick McAuliffe*	30	2B	3.0	146	639	530	73	124	21	1	12	50	5	6	101	62	.234	.358	.345	.704	95	.340	101	183	1	3	3	2	7	*46H5
4	César Gutiérrez	27	SS	-2.0	135	451	415	40	101	11	6	0	22	4	3	18	39	.243	.275	.299	.573	58	.266	44	124	8	1	14	3	6	*6
5	Don Wert	31	3B	-1.6	128	419	363	34	79	13	0	6	33	1	3	44	56	.218	.307	.303	.610	69	.296	69	110	13	4	5	3	7	*5H/4
6	Willie Horton	27	LF	1.9	96	404	371	53	113	18	2	17	69	0	1	28	43	.305	.354	.501	.855	133	.392	138	186	7	2	0	3	6	7/9	AS
7	Mickey Stanley	27	CF	1.7	142	623	568	83	143	21	11	13	47	10	1	45	56	.252	.305	.396	.701	92	.346	101	225	19	0	7	3	1	*8/3H	GG
8	Al Kaline	35	RF	3.2	131	555	467	64	130	24	4	16	71	2	2	77	49	.278	.377	.450	.826	127	.384	132	210	20	1	3	7	5	93/H
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	WAR	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	rOBA	Rbat+	TB	GIDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
9	Jim Northrup*	30	OF	1.6	139	576	504	71	132	21	3	24	80	3	6	58	68	.262	.343	.458	.802	119	.360	117	231	12	7	2	5	6	*987/H
10	Elliott Maddox	22	UT	0.1	109	293	258	30	64	13	4	3	24	2	3	30	42	.248	.332	.364	.697	92	.330	94	94	6	3	1	1	1	5H76/948
11	Dalton Jones*	26	2B	0.1	89	229	191	29	42	7	0	6	21	1	1	33	33	.220	.333	.351	.684	89	.320	85	67	3	1	1	3	4	H453
12	Jim Price	28	C	-0.5	52	157	132	12	24	4	0	5	15	0	0	21	23	.182	.290	.326	.616	69	.300	70	43	6	0	1	2	0	2H
13	Gates Brown*	31	LF	-0.3	81	148	124	18	28	3	0	3	24	0	0	20	14	.226	.331	.323	.654	81	.320	85	40	3	1	0	3	0	H7
14	Ike Brown	28	2B	0.2	56	113	94	17	27	5	0	4	15	0	0	13	26	.287	.376	.468	.844	131	.407	149	44	2	1	4	1	0	H4/759
15	Ken Szotkiewicz*	23	SS	-0.1	47	98	84	9	9	1	0	3	9	0	0	12	29	.107	.216	.226	.443	22	.234	21	19	1	0	1	1	2	6/H
16	Gene Lamont*	23	C	0.5	15	48	44	3	13	3	1	1	4	0	0	2	9	.295	.340	.477	.818	123	.386	133	21	0	1	1	0	0	2
17	Russ Nagelson*	25	UT	-0.2	28	38	32	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	6	.188	.297	.188	.485	37	.245	29	6	0	0	1	0	0	H/793
18	Kevin Collins*	23	1B	0.0	25	25	24	2	5	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	10	.208	.240	.375	.615	67	.276	54	9	0	0	0	0	0	H/3
19	Tim Hosley	23	C	0.1	7	13	12	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	6	.167	.154	.417	.571	51	.308	76	5	0	0	0	1	0	/2H
Rk	Player	Age	Pos	WAR	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	rOBA	Rbat+	TB	GIDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos	Awards
20	Mickey Lolich#	29	P	0.2	42	101	82	4	11	0	0	0	3	1	0	12	29	.134	.245	.134	.379	7	.221	5	11	3	0	7	0	0	1/H
21	Joe Niekro	25	P	0.6	39	88	66	8	13	3	1	0	7	0	0	7	17	.197	.274	.273	.547	51	.257	27	18	0	0	15	0	0	1/H
22	Les Cain*	22	P	0.1	29	72	68	2	11	1	0	1	9	0	0	1	18	.162	.174	.221	.395	8	.207	-1	15	1	0	3	0	0	1
23	Mike Kilkenny	25	P	-0.4	37	44	39	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	19	.077	.075	.077	.152	-58	.092	-97	3	0	0	4	1	0	1/H
24	Earl Wilson	35	P	0.2	18	36	31	2	6	1	0	1	3	0	0	2	16	.194	.235	.323	.558	52	.251	32	10	1	0	2	1	0	1
25	Denny McLain	26	P	-0.2	14	34	31	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	.065	.065	.097	.161	-56	.102	-89	3	0	0	3	0	0	1
26	John Hiller	27	P	-0.3	47	25	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.000	.042	.000	.042	-88	.030	-133	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
27	Tom Timmermann	30	P	-0.2	61	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-146	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
28	Bob Reed	25	P	-0.1	17	13	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.083	.154	.083	.237	-33	.125	-55	1	0	0	0	0	0	1/H
29	Fred Scherman*	25	P	0.0	48	12	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	-8	.152	-36	2	0	0	0	0	0	1
30	Daryl Patterson*	26	P	-0.2	43	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-145	0	1	0	0	0	0	1
31	Dennis Saunders#	21	P	-0.1	8	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-147	0	0	0	0	0	0	/1
32	Norm McRae	22	P	0.0	19	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-373	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
33	Fred Lasher	28	P	0.0	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-136	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
34	Lerrin LaGrow	21	P	0.0	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	.000	-136	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
35	Jerry Robertson#	26	P	0.0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0								0	0	0	0	0	0	1
	Team Totals			12.3	162	6200	5377	666	1282	207	38	148	619	29	30	656	825	.238	.322	.374	.696	91	.329	92	2009	134	34	83	49	56
	Non-Pitcher Totals			12.8		5739	4978	646	1233	201	37	146	596	28	30	632	677	.248	.334	.391	.725	99	.341	101	1946	128	34	47	47	56
	Pitcher Totals			-0.5		461	399	20	49	6	1	2	23	1	0	24	148	.123	.172	.158	.330	-9	.173	-30	63	6	0	36	2	0

Team Pitching

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Mickey Lolich*	29	14	19	.424	3.80	40	39	0	13	3	0	272.2	272	125	115	27	109	3	230	5	0	14	1181	99	3.49	1.397	9.0	0.9	3.6	7.6	2.11
2	SP	Joe Niekro	25	12	13	.480	4.06	38	34	2	6	2	0	213.0	221	107	96	28	72	4	101	3	0	1	914	93	4.45	1.376	9.3	1.2	3.0	4.3	1.40
3	SP	Les Cain*	22	12	7	.632	3.84	29	29	0	5	0	0	180.2	167	92	77	15	98	1	156	7	1	9	793	98	3.73	1.467	8.3	0.7	4.9	7.8	1.59
4	SP	Mike Kilkenny*	25	7	6	.538	5.16	36	21	5	3	0	0	129.0	141	77	74	10	70	0	105	2	1	3	588	73	3.69	1.636	9.8	0.7	4.9	7.3	1.50
5	SP	Earl Wilson	35	4	6	.400	4.41	18	16	0	4	1	0	96.0	87	53	47	15	32	1	74	2	0	0	404	86	4.19	1.240	8.2	1.4	3.0	6.9	2.31
6	SP	Denny McLain	26	3	5	.375	4.63	14	14	0	1	0	0	91.1	100	51	47	19	28	0	52	3	1	0	402	81	5.22	1.401	9.9	1.9	2.8	5.1	1.86
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
7	CL	Tom Timmermann	30	6	7	.462	4.11	61	0	43	0	0	27	85.1	90	44	39	3	34	11	49	2	0	4	378	92	3.21	1.453	9.5	0.3	3.6	5.2	1.44
8	RP	John Hiller*	27	6	6	.500	3.03	47	5	18	1	1	3	104.0	82	39	35	12	46	4	89	2	0	3	432	124	3.81	1.231	7.1	1.0	4.0	7.7	1.93
9	RP	Daryl Patterson	26	7	1	.875	4.85	43	0	14	0	0	2	78.0	81	47	42	9	39	1	55	5	1	6	351	78	4.42	1.538	9.3	1.0	4.5	6.3	1.41
10	RP	Fred Scherman*	25	4	4	.500	3.23	48	0	20	0	0	1	69.2	61	28	25	5	28	3	58	1	1	6	290	117	3.15	1.278	7.9	0.6	3.6	7.5	2.07
11	RP	Norm McRae	22	0	0		2.87	19	0	4	0	0	0	31.1	26	13	10	1	25	0	16	1	0	6	143	132	4.52	1.628	7.5	0.3	7.2	4.6	0.64
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
12		Bob Reed	25	2	4	.333	4.86	16	4	4	0	0	2	46.1	54	25	25	5	14	0	26	0	0	1	201	78	3.83	1.468	10.5	1.0	2.7	5.1	1.86
13		Jerry Robertson	26	0	0		3.68	11	0	5	0	0	0	14.2	19	8	6	1	5	1	11	0	0	1	69	105	3.05	1.636	11.7	0.6	3.1	6.8	2.20
14		Dennis Saunders	21	1	1	.500	3.21	8	0	4	0	0	1	14.0	16	5	5	1	5	1	8	1	0	0	64	120	3.71	1.500	10.3	0.6	3.2	5.1	1.60
15		Lerrin LaGrow	21	0	1	.000	7.30	10	0	2	0	0	0	12.1	16	11	10	2	6	0	7	0	0	1	59	53	5.07	1.784	11.7	1.5	4.4	5.1	1.17
16		Fred Lasher	28	1	3	.250	5.00	12	0	8	0	0	3	9.0	10	6	5	0	12	1	8	1	0	1	50	79	5.19	2.444	10.0	0.0	12.0	8.0	0.67
		Team Totals	26.5	79	83	.488	4.09	162	162	129	33	7	39	1447.1	1443	731	658	153	623	31	1045	35	5	56	6319	92	3.93	1.427	9.0	1.0	3.9	6.5	1.68
		Rank in 12 AL teams		7	6		10				5	7	7	8	11	10	10	8	10		2
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W