1932 Philadelphia Athletics season explained

Philadelphia Athletics
Season:	1932
League:	American League
Ballpark:	Shibe Park
City:	Philadelphia
Owners:	Connie Mack, Tom Shibe and John Shibe
Managers:	Connie Mack

The 1932 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing second in the American League with a record of 94 wins and 60 losses. The team finished 13 games behind the New York Yankees, breaking their streak of three straight AL championships.

Regular season

Jimmie Foxx had an impressive offensive season – 58 home runs, 169 RBI, and a .364 batting average – and missed the triple crown by just three BA points. He was voted the American League Most Valuable Player. Mickey Cochrane became the first catcher in Major League Baseball history to score 100 runs and have 100 RBI in the same season.^[1]

Notable transactions

September 28, 1932: Al Simmons was purchased from the Athletics by the Chicago White Sox.^[2]

Roster

1932 Philadelphia Athletics
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		OutfieldersOther batters		ManagerCoaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	139	518	160	.349	23	112
1B	154	585	213	.364	58	169
2B	114	409	104	.254	5	37
3B	153	558	148	.265	7	90
SS	135	554	158	.285	18	95
OF	154	670	216	.322	35	151
OF	143	558	170	.305	6	65
OF	92	384	129	.336	3	46

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
95	305	90	.295	7	58
62	215	54	.251	4	24
33	77	21	.273	0	10
26	73	25	.342	1	13
26	60	14	.233	0	6
17	35	8	.229	0	3
10	34	7	.206	0	4
4	6	1	.167	0	0
9	5	1	.200	0	1
1	1	0	.000	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
44	291.2	25	10	2.84	188
42	272.0	17	10	4.73	96
36	245.1	19	13	4.77	109
37	222.2	13	13	5.09	106
23	150.1	12	5	3.83	31

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
20	57.0	4	1	4.58	16
10	45.0	3	4	5.00	24
4	12.2	0	1	7.11	0

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
17	1	2	2	5.51	16
7	0	1	0	8.18	4
6	0	0	0	11.70	5
1	0	0	0	12.00	0

Awards and honors

League top five finishers

Jimmie Foxx

AL leader in home runs (58)
AL leader in RBI (169)
AL leader in runs scored (151)
AL leader in slugging percentage (.749)
#2 in AL in batting average (.364)
#2 in AL in on-base percentage (.469)

Lefty Grove

AL leader in ERA (2.84)
#2 in AL in wins (25)
#2 in AL in strikeouts (188)

Al Simmons

#2 in AL in RBI (151)
#2 in AL in runs scored (144)
#3 in AL in home runs (35)

Farm system

External links

Notes and References

https://books.google.com/books?id=ySoDAAAAMBAJ&dq=100+runs+100+rbi+by+catcher+baseball+digest&pg=PA47 Baseball Digest, September 1995, Vol. 54, No. 9
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/simmoal01.shtml Al Simmons page at Baseball Reference
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007