1939 Detroit Tigers season explained

Detroit Tigers
Season:	1939
League:	American League
Ballpark:	Briggs Stadium
City:	Detroit
Owners:	Walter Briggs, Sr.
General Managers:	Jack Zeller
Managers:	Del Baker
Radio:	WWJ (AM) (Ty Tyson) WXYZ (Harry Heilmann)

The 1939 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fifth in the American League with a record of 81–73, 26 games behind the New York Yankees.

Regular season

Notable transactions

• May 13, 1939: Vern Kennedy, Bob Harris, George Gill, Roxie Lawson, Chet Laabs, and Mark Christman were traded by the Tigers to the St. Louis Browns for Red Kress, Beau Bell, Bobo Newsom, and Jim Walkup.^[1]

Roster

1939 Detroit Tigers
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		Outfielders		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	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C		106	341	89	.261	4	53
1B		138	500	156	.312	33	113
2B		118	406	132	.325	16	86
SS		97	324	87	.269	5	40
3B		132	489	135	.276	8	76
OF		87	309	81	.262	10	58
OF		147	611	190	.311	4	58
OF		141	519	153	.295	7	66

Other batters

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

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
	102	329	101	.307	20	68
	55	192	58	.302	1	33
	75	179	43	.240	6	23
	74	174	40	.230	2	23
	51	157	38	.242	1	22
	43	154	47	.305	4	19
	54	134	32	.239	0	24
	5	16	5	.313	0	2
	6	16	4	.250	0	0
	8	16	0	.000	0	1
	4	2	0	.000	0	0
	5	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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	35	246.0	17	10	3.37	164
	29	198.0	17	7	3.50	129
	28	164.0	10	12	4.99	51
	13	84.0	3	6	5.21	22
	4	21.0	0	3	6.43	9
	1	5.0	0	1	5.40	4

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	33	162.0	9	10	3.61	72
	37	150.0	6	8	4.56	67
	32	129.2	5	6	3.68	49
	10	29.2	2	2	6.98	6
	5	18.0	1	1	4.00	9
	3	14.0	0	1	7.07	5
	2	11.1	1	1	4.76	4
	3	8.2	0	1	8.31	1

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	27	7	0	1	4.18	14
	23	2	1	0	6.38	10
	9	1	1	0	2.93	9
	7	0	1	1	7.50	5
	4	0	1	0	8.64	3

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball.

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External links

• 1939 Detroit Tigers season at Baseball Reference

Notes and References

1. https://www.baseball-reference.com/k/kressre01.shtml Red Kress
2. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007