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DET 1939 Summary

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Batters

Player GS PA Bat Runs Baserunning Fielding WAM WAR VS
Earl Averill 5.1 366 0 0 -2 0.2 1.3 8
Beau Bell 2.3 167 -7 -3 -2 -1.4 -0.9 -1
Al Benton 0.6 52 -10 0 0 -0.4 -0.3 0
Tommy Bridges 1.1 87 -9 1 0 0.0 0.2 2
Mark Christman 0.2 16 -1 0 -2 -0.3 -0.2 -1
Slick Coffman 0.1 7 -1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Frank Croucher 6.0 351 -19 -1 -7 -1.9 -0.7 3
Roy Cullenbine 3.0 214 -2 0 -3 -0.7 -0.1 2
Harry Eisenstat 0.1 9 0 -1 0 0.0 0.0 0
Les Fleming 0.2 16 -5 0 0 -0.5 -0.5 -1
Pete Fox 7.8 561 -12 0 22 0.8 2.4 14
Charlie Gehringer 7.7 487 26 3 4 3.5 5.1 22
Floyd Giebell 0.0 3 -1 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
George Gill 0.0 2 -1 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
Hank Greenberg 8.5 604 42 3 2 3.8 5.5 24
Bob Harris 0.1 5 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0
Pinky Higgins 8.6 561 -12 -4 -6 -1.9 -0.1 7
Fred Hutchinson 0.4 35 0 0 0 0.5 0.6 2
Vern Kennedy 0.1 7 -1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Red Kress 2.9 178 -9 0 -4 -1.3 -0.7 0
Chet Laabs 0.2 18 1 0 2 0.4 0.5 2
Roxie Lawson 0.1 5 -1 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Red Lynn 0.0 2 -1 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
Barney McCosky 10.2 692 4 7 7 1.8 3.9 21
Benny McCoy 3.6 227 3 3 4 1.2 1.9 9
Archie McKain 0.6 49 0 0 0 0.5 0.6 2
Hal Newhouser 0.0 1 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Bobo Newsom 1.2 102 -15 -1 0 -0.5 -0.2 0
Dixie Parsons 0.0 2 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Cotton Pippen 0.1 5 0 0 0 0.1 0.1 0
Billy Rogell 3.4 206 -9 1 2 -0.4 0.3 4
Schoolboy Rowe 0.8 69 -5 0 0 0.3 0.5 2
Merv Shea 0.0 2 -1 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
Birdie Tebbetts 6.6 377 -16 -3 -3 -1.3 0.0 6
Bud Thomas 0.1 11 -2 0 0 -0.1 -0.1 0
Dizzy Trout 0.7 60 -6 0 0 0.1 0.3 1
Dixie Walker 2.5 178 2 0 3 0.1 0.6 4
Jim Walkup 0.0 1 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0
Rudy York 6.0 376 13 2 -3 1.1 2.3 12
Total 90.9 6,111 -55 7 14 3.4 22.0 144

Pitchers

Pitcher Game Shares W L WAR VS
Bobo Newsom 11.5 10.9 0.5 7.5 33
Tommy Bridges 9.3 8.0 1.4 5.3 24
Dizzy Trout 7.5 5.3 2.1 3.1 16
Archie McKain 6.1 4.5 1.7 2.7 14
Al Benton 7.2 4.0 3.2 1.9 12
Schoolboy Rowe 7.6 3.2 4.4 1.0 10
Bud Thomas 2.4 1.4 1.0 0.7 4
Bob Harris 0.8 0.6 0.2 0.4 2
Floyd Giebell 0.7 0.5 0.1 0.3 2
Roxie Lawson 0.9 0.4 0.4 0.1 1
Fred Hutchinson 3.8 1.2 2.6 0.1 4
Hal Newhouser 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0 0
George Gill 0.4 0.1 0.3 0.0 0
Vern Kennedy 1.0 0.2 0.8 -0.1 1
Cotton Pippen 0.6 0.1 0.5 -0.1 0
Jim Walkup 0.6 0.1 0.5 -0.1 0
Red Lynn 0.2 -0.1 0.3 -0.2 0
Harry Eisenstat 1.3 0.2 1.2 -0.2 1
Slick Coffman 1.4 0.1 1.3 -0.3 0
Total 63.5 40.8 22.6 22.1 124
Glossary
GSGame Shares
WAMWins above Majors. Formerly wins above average, but WAM! sounds better than WAA. Credit to Don Sobocinski for the name.
WARWins above Replacement
VSVictory Shares
WWins - Not traditional pitcher wins. Estimate of the number of wins each pitcher was responsible for. His share, as opposed to the shares of his fielders and offense.
LLosses - See wins above, just the opposite side of the final score.

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