1986 Detroit Tigers season explained

Detroit Tigers
Season:	1986
League:	American League
Division:	East
Ballpark:	Tiger Stadium
City:	Detroit, Michigan
Owners:	Tom Monaghan
General Managers:	Bill Lajoie
Managers:	Sparky Anderson
Television:	WDIV-TV (George Kell, Al Kaline) PASS (Larry Osterman, Jim Northrup)
Radio:	WJR (Ernie Harwell, Paul Carey)

The Detroit Tigers' 1986 season was a season in American baseball. It involved the Detroit Tigers attempting to win the American League East.

Offseason

• November 13, 1985: Bárbaro Garbey was traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Oakland Athletics for Dave Collins.^[1]
• December 12, 1985: Darnell Coles was traded by the Seattle Mariners to the Detroit Tigers for Rich Monteleone.^[2]
• January 16, 1986: Dave Engle was traded by the Minnesota Twins to the Detroit Tigers for Chris Pittaro and Alejandro Sánchez.^[3]

Regular season

Notable transactions

• April 25, 1986: Brian Harper was signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers.^[4]
• August 10, 1986: Ken Hill was traded by the Detroit Tigers with a player to be named later to the St. Louis Cardinals for Mike Heath. The Detroit Tigers sent Mike Laga (September 2, 1986) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.^[5]
• August 10, 1986: Dave Engel was released by the Detroit Tigers.^[3]

Roster

1986 Detroit Tigers
Roster
Pitchers		Catchers Infielders		Outfielders		Manager Coaches

Player stats

Batting

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		91	327	84	.257	22	62
1B		151	507	122	.241	29	85
2B		144	584	157	.269	20	73
SS		151	574	159	.277	21	75
3B		142	521	142	.273	20	86
LF		106	283	70	.247	8	37
CF		126	403	101	.251	12	53
RF		119	441	118	.268	28	86
DH		81	210	70	.333	13	51

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
	124	419	113	.270	1	27
	98	281	76	.270	3	25
	98	236	56	.237	6	19
	56	150	46	.307	3	18
	65	130	30	.231	1	9
	30	98	26	.265	4	11
	35	86	22	.256	0	4
	24	49	12	.245	3	8
	15	45	9	.200	3	8
	16	43	12	.279	0	6
	19	36	5	.139	0	3
	16	34	6	.176	0	2
	13	24	3	.125	0	0
	7	24	8	.333	1	2
	2	7	0	.000	0	1

Starting pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	35	267.0	21	8	3.27	223
	34	217.1	15	12	4.56	93
	32	188.1	12	9	4.16	119
	20	116.0	5	10	4.66	56

Other pitchers

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

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
	33	138.1	11	4	3.51	79
	37	122.2	3	7	4.33	68
	16	67.2	3	6	5.72	36
	6	20.0	1	2	4.50	18

Relief pitchers

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

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
	64	8	7	24	3.55	77
	34	3	6	3	3.88	37
	25	4	1	3	1.92	17
	22	0	0	2	4.05	12
	22	1	2	0	3.41	21
	13	0	1	0	7.29	16
	5	0	0	1	4.09	5
	3	0	0	0	4.05	3

Farm system

See also: Minor League Baseball.

^[6]

References

1. Web site: Barbaro Garbey Stats.
2. https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/colesda01.shtml Darnell Coles Statistics
3. Web site: Dave Engle Stats.
4. Web site: Brian Harper Stats.
5. https://www.baseball-reference.com/h/hillke01.shtml Ken Hill Statistics
6. Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

External links

• 1986 Detroit Tigers season at Baseball Reference