1971 Chicago White Sox Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 79-83
Finished 3rd in the AL's West Division
Attendance: 833,891, Avg. 12,064
Ballpark: Comiskey Park
Manager: Chuck Tanner (79-83)
Location: Chicago, Illinois

1971 Chicago White Sox Roster
1971 Chicago White Sox Results

The Chicago White Sox of the American League ended the 1971 season with a record of 79 wins and 83 losses, finishing third in the AL's West Division.

The White Sox plated 617 runs and conceded 597 runs. Bill Melton walloped 33 home runs for Chicago, while Jay Johnstone and Rick Reichardt swatted 20 or more, too. Bill Melton drove in 86 runs. Carlos May led hitters with significant playing time by hitting .294. Wilbur Wood topped the squad with 22 wins, plus Tom Bradley added 15 or more wins, too Wilbur Wood recorded a 1.91 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Chuck Tanner coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Wilbur Wood	22	13	.629	1.91	44	42	2	22	7	1	334.0	272	95	71	21	62	2	210	7	0	6	1316
Tom Bradley	15	15	.500	2.96	45	39	3	7	6	2	285.7	273	111	94	16	74	5	206	2	1	6	1198
Tommy John	13	16	.448	3.61	38	35	0	10	3	0	229.3	244	115	92	17	58	5	131	5	0	10	975
Bart Johnson	12	10	.545	2.93	53	16	24	4	0	14	178.0	148	67	58	9	111	6	153	6	0	11	784
Joe Horlen	8	9	.471	4.26	34	18	10	3	0	2	137.3	150	72	65	12	30	2	82	5	1	3	575
Rich Hinton	3	4	.429	4.44	18	2	6	0	0	0	24.3	27	12	12	1	6	1	15	1	0	1	101
Steve Kealey	2	2	.500	3.84	54	1	26	0	0	6	77.3	69	40	33	10	26	6	50	0	0	2	328
Terry Forster	2	3	.400	3.99	45	3	15	0	0	1	49.7	46	23	22	5	23	3	48	1	1	1	219
Jim Magnuson	1	1	.500	4.50	15	4	6	0	0	0	30.0	30	18	15	0	16	0	11	2	0	0	131
Vicente Romo	1	7	.125	3.38	45	2	16	0	0	5	72.0	52	27	27	5	37	6	48	0	2	3	302
Denny O'Toole	0	0		0.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	7
Pat Jacquez	0	0		4.50	2	0	0	0	0	0	2.0	4	1	1	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	12
Stan Perzanowski	0	1	.000	12.00	5	0	2	0	0	1	6.0	14	10	8	1	3	0	5	0	0	0	38
Don Eddy	0	2	.000	2.38	22	0	6	0	0	0	22.7	19	6	6	3	19	2	14	0	0	0	103
Totals	79	83	.488	3.13	421	162	116	46	16	32	1450.3	1348	597	504	100	468	38	976	29	5	43	6089

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Carlos May	141	574	500	64	147	21	7	7	70	16	7	62	61	.294	.375	.406	.781	203	16	6	1	5	5
Bill Melton	150	621	543	72	146	18	2	33	86	3	3	61	87	.269	.352	.492	.843	267	8	11	1	5	5
Rick Reichardt	138	544	496	53	138	14	2	19	62	5	10	37	90	.278	.335	.429	.764	213	10	6	3	2	0
Walt Williams	114	397	361	43	106	17	3	8	35	5	5	24	27	.294	.344	.424	.767	153	6	5	4	3	1
Jay Johnstone	124	436	388	53	101	14	1	16	40	10	5	38	50	.260	.329	.425	.755	165	4	3	5	2	4
Rich McKinney	114	414	369	35	100	11	2	8	46	0	0	35	37	.271	.334	.377	.711	139	13	2	4	4	1
Mike Andrews	109	408	330	45	93	16	0	12	47	3	5	67	36	.282	.400	.439	.840	145	6	1	6	4	1
Ed Herrmann	101	344	294	32	63	6	0	11	35	2	0	44	48	.214	.317	.347	.664	102	8	2	0	4	12
Pat Kelly	67	252	213	32	62	6	3	3	22	14	9	36	29	.291	.394	.390	.784	83	3	1	1	1	4
Tom Egan	85	281	251	29	60	11	1	10	34	1	0	26	94	.239	.320	.410	.731	103	2	4	0	0	1
Lee Richard	87	288	260	38	60	7	3	2	17	8	9	20	46	.231	.286	.304	.590	79	5	1	5	2	0
Luis Alvarado	99	278	264	22	57	14	1	0	8	1	2	11	34	.216	.246	.277	.523	73	2	0	2	1	2
Mike Hershberger	74	214	177	22	46	9	0	2	15	6	2	30	23	.260	.377	.345	.722	61	5	4	2	1	3
Rich Morales	84	212	185	19	45	8	0	2	14	2	3	22	26	.243	.336	.319	.655	59	3	4	1	0	4
Ed Stroud	53	153	141	19	25	4	3	0	2	4	5	11	20	.177	.237	.248	.485	35	3	0	1	0	0
Steve Huntz	35	96	86	10	18	3	1	2	6	1	0	7	9	.209	.266	.337	.603	29	1	0	2	1	0
Tom Bradley	48	104	96	6	15	0	0	1	6	0	0	1	32	.156	.165	.188	.352	18	0	0	7	0	0
Bart Johnson	53	61	57	3	11	1	0	0	8	0	0	0	12	.193	.207	.211	.417	12	1	1	3	0	0
Tommy John	38	81	69	3	10	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	14	.145	.181	.145	.325	10	0	0	9	0	0
Lee Maye	32	50	44	6	9	2	0	1	7	0	0	5	7	.205	.280	.318	.598	14	2	0	0	1	1
Tony Muser	11	17	16	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.313	.353	.438	.790	7	2	0	0	0	0
Wilbur Wood	44	124	96	1	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	11	57	.052	.150	.052	.202	5	2	0	17	0	0
Vicente Romo	45	13	11	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.364	.417	.364	.780	4	0	0	1	0	0
Chuck Brinkman	15	24	20	0	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	3	5	.200	.304	.200	.504	4	0	0	1	0	1
Bob Spence	14	33	27	2	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	6	.148	.273	.148	.421	4	1	0	0	1	0
Joe Horlen	36	43	40	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	.100	.098	.100	.198	4	0	0	2	1	0
Terry Forster	45	5	5	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.400	.400	.600	1.000	3	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Kealey	54	11	10	1	2	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.500	.700	5	1	0	1	0	0
Ken Hottman	6	17	16	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.125	.176	.125	.301	2	1	0	0	0	0
Don Eddy	22	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Lolich	2	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.125	.125	.250	.375	2	0	0	0	0	0
Stan Perzanowski	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Magnuson	15	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Jacquez	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	18	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	2	0	0
Denny O'Toole	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2081	6114	5382	617	1346	185	30	138	568	83	65	562	870	.250	.325	.373	.697	2005	105	51	81	38	45

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Carlos May	1B	130	123	1117.0	1189	71	18	90	.986	1.152	9.692	0	0	0
Mike Andrews	1B	25	25	197.0	197	11	4	17	.981	9.503	8.320	0	0	0
Bob Spence	1B	7	6	58.0	69	2	1	6	.986	11.017	1.143	0	0	0
Rick Reichardt	1B	9	6	52.0	50	3	1	2	.981	9.173	5.889	0	0	0
Tony Muser	1B	4	2	24.0	23	3	1	1	.963	9.750	6.500	0	0	0
Tom Egan	1B	1	0	3.0	2	0	0	1	1.000	6.000	2.000	0	0	0
Mike Andrews	2B	76	70	640.0	177	191	17	51	.956	5.175	4.842	0	0	0
Rich McKinney	2B	67	64	574.0	148	159	10	34	.968	4.814	4.582	0	0	0
Steve Huntz	2B	14	13	113.0	21	32	0	7	1.000	4.221	3.786	0	0	0
Luis Alvarado	2B	16	13	112.0	31	49	1	12	.988	6.429	5.000	0	0	0
Rich Morales	2B	3	2	12.0	2	5	1	1	.875	5.250	2.333	0	0	0
Bill Melton	3B	148	148	1270.0	116	371	16	26	.968	3.451	3.291	0	0	0
Rich Morales	3B	18	4	79.0	7	16	3	3	.885	2.620	1.278	0	0	0
Steve Huntz	3B	6	5	52.0	7	13	0	1	1.000	3.462	3.333	0	0	0
Rich McKinney	3B	5	5	44.0	3	11	1	0	.933	2.864	2.800	0	0	0
Walt Williams	3B	1	0	5.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.800	1.000	0	0	0
Ed Herrmann	C	97	90	780.0	556	56	3	5	.995	7.062	6.309	16	41	28	40.6
Tom Egan	C	77	67	603.0	443	41	7	2	.986	7.224	6.286	13	50	15	23.1
Chuck Brinkman	C	14	5	67.0	45	4	0	0	1.000	6.582	3.500	3	10	4	28.6
Rick Reichardt	OF	128	122	1064.0	203	4	4	0	.981	1.751	1.617	0	0	0
Jay Johnstone	OF	119	102	921.0	232	9	8	1	.968	2.355	2.025	0	0	0
Walt Williams	OF	90	83	727.0	157	4	0	2	1.000	1.993	1.789	0	0	0
Pat Kelly	OF	61	53	473.0	100	7	1	0	.991	2.036	1.754	0	0	0
Mike Hershberger	OF	59	43	412.0	96	1	4	0	.960	2.119	1.644	0	0	0
Ed Stroud	OF	44	30	292.0	51	0	0	0	1.000	1.572	1.159	0	0	0
Rich McKinney	OF	25	21	191.0	44	1	0	0	1.000	2.120	1.800	0	0	0
Lee Richard	OF	16	8	82.0	20	3	1	1	.958	2.524	1.438	0	0	0
Carlos May	OF	9	9	72.0	17	1	1	0	.947	2.250	2.000	0	0	0
Lee Maye	OF	10	8	62.0	11	1	0	0	1.000	1.742	1.200	0	0	0
Ken Hottman	OF	5	5	38.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	1.184	1.000	0	0	0
Ron Lolich	OF	2	2	16.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	.563	.500	0	0	0
Rich Morales	OF	1	0	0.0	0	0	0	0			.000	0	0	0
Wilbur Wood	P	44	42	334.0	11	65	1	3	.987	2.048	1.727	0	0	0
Tom Bradley	P	45	39	286.0	24	32	2	0	.966	1.762	1.244	0	0	0
Tommy John	P	38	35	229.0	9	34	3	2	.935	1.690	1.132	0	0	0
Bart Johnson	P	53	16	178.0	12	19	3	0	.912	1.567	.585	0	0	0
Joe Horlen	P	34	18	137.0	10	27	2	0	.949	2.431	1.088	0	0	0
Steve Kealey	P	54	1	77.0	5	11	2	0	.889	1.870	.296	0	0	0
Vicente Romo	P	45	2	72.0	0	19	0	1	1.000	2.375	.422	0	0	0
Terry Forster	P	45	3	50.0	4	6	0	0	1.000	1.800	.222	0	0	0
Jim Magnuson	P	15	4	30.0	2	4	0	1	1.000	1.800	.400	0	0	0
Rich Hinton	P	18	2	24.0	0	7	0	1	1.000	2.625	.389	0	0	0
Don Eddy	P	22	0	23.0	1	2	1	0	.750	1.174	.136	0	0	0
Stan Perzanowski	P	5	0	6.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	.200	0	0	0
Denny O'Toole	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Pat Jacquez	P	2	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	.500	0	0	0
Luis Alvarado	SS	71	60	530.0	89	189	12	34	.959	4.721	3.915	0	0	0
Lee Richard	SS	68	54	491.0	87	210	26	30	.920	5.444	4.368	0	0	0
Rich Morales	SS	57	46	406.0	66	138	5	14	.976	4.522	3.579	0	0	0
Steve Huntz	SS	7	2	24.0	3	9	0	2	1.000	4.500	1.714	0	0	0
Totals		1911	1458	13053.0	4347	1843	160	351	.975	4.268	3.239	32	101	47	31.8

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