1954 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 68-86
Finished 5th in the AL
Attendance: 1,079,847, Avg. 15,008
Ballpark: Briggs Stadium
Manager: Fred Hutchinson (68-86)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1954 Detroit Tigers Roster
1954 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1954 season with a record of 68 wins and 86 losses, finishing fifth in the AL.

The Tigers scored 584 runs and surrendered 664 runs. Ray Boone led Detroit with 20 home runs and recorded 85 runs batted in. Harvey Kuenn paced all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .306. Steve Gromek topped the team with 18 wins and a team-best 2.74 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Fred Hutchinson 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	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Steve Gromek	18	16	.529	2.74	36	32	4	17	4	1	252.7	236	85	77	26	57	102	12	0	1	1049
Ned Garver	14	11	.560	2.81	35	32	3	16	3	1	246.3	216	93	77	20	62	93	4	0	2	1003
George Zuverink	9	13	.409	3.59	35	25	7	9	2	4	203.0	201	93	81	22	62	70	8	0	1	869
Billy Hoeft	7	15	.318	4.58	34	25	5	10	4	1	175.0	180	93	89	22	59	114	4	0	3	752
Dick Marlowe	5	4	.556	4.18	38	2	20	0	0	2	84.0	76	45	39	11	40	39	0	0	1	363
Al Aber	5	11	.313	3.97	32	18	6	4	0	3	124.7	121	63	55	8	40	54	3	0	0	528
Ralph Branca	3	3	.500	5.76	17	5	4	0	0	0	45.3	63	33	29	10	30	15	2	0	0	227
Ted Gray	3	5	.375	5.38	19	10	5	2	0	0	72.0	70	48	43	8	56	29	2	1	1	332
Ray Herbert	3	6	.333	5.87	42	4	15	0	0	0	84.3	114	64	55	6	50	44	2	0	3	402
Bob Miller	1	1	.500	2.45	32	1	22	0	0	1	69.7	62	25	19	1	26	27	0	0	1	287
Frank Lary	0	0		2.45	3	0	1	0	0	0	3.7	4	1	1	0	3	5	0	0	0	17
Dick Donovan	0	0		10.50	2	0	0	0	0	0	6.0	9	7	7	1	5	2	0	0	0	32
Dick Weik	0	1	.000	7.16	9	1	5	0	0	0	16.3	23	14	13	3	16	9	1	0	1	85
Totals	68	86	.442	3.81	334	155	97	58	13	13	1383.0	1375	664	585	138	506	603	38	1	14	5946

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF
Harvey Kuenn	155	696	656	81	201	28	6	5	48	9	9	29	13	.306	.335	.390	.725	256	19	1	6	4
Ray Boone	148	622	543	76	160	19	7	20	85	4	2	71	53	.295	.376	.466	.842	253	18	2	2	4
Bill Tuttle	147	602	530	64	141	20	11	7	58	5	8	62	60	.266	.343	.385	.728	204	15	2	5	3
Al Kaline	138	535	504	42	139	18	3	4	43	9	5	22	45	.276	.305	.347	.652	175	21	0	7	2
Jim Delsing	122	426	371	39	92	24	2	6	38	4	4	49	38	.248	.336	.372	.708	138	6	1	3	2
Walt Dropo	107	354	320	27	90	14	2	4	44	0	1	24	41	.281	.328	.375	.703	120	13	0	6	4
Frank House	114	392	352	35	88	12	1	9	38	2	1	31	34	.250	.307	.366	.673	129	7	1	1	7
Frank Bolling	117	413	368	46	87	15	2	6	38	3	5	36	51	.236	.302	.337	.639	124	5	0	6	3
Bob Nieman	91	279	251	24	66	14	1	8	35	0	2	22	32	.263	.319	.422	.741	106	10	0	3	3
Fred Hatfield	81	256	218	31	64	12	0	2	25	4	2	28	24	.294	.385	.376	.761	82	5	5	4	1
Wayne Belardi	88	294	250	27	58	7	1	11	24	1	0	33	34	.232	.330	.400	.730	100	6	5	3	3
Red Wilson	54	204	170	22	48	11	1	2	22	3	1	27	12	.282	.379	.394	.773	67	8	0	6	1
Steve Gromek	36	98	79	6	15	0	0	0	3	0	0	8	21	.190	.273	.190	.463	15	0	1	10	0
Ned Garver	36	90	79	3	13	2	0	0	4	0	1	6	15	.165	.224	.190	.413	15	0	0	5	0
Hoot Evers	30	66	60	5	11	4	0	0	5	1	0	5	8	.183	.258	.250	.508	15	2	1	0	0
Billy Hoeft	35	63	52	5	10	6	0	0	6	0	0	10	24	.192	.317	.308	.625	16	1	0	0	1
George Zuverink	35	74	64	1	8	1	0	0	3	0	1	1	14	.125	.138	.141	.279	9	2	0	9	0
Chuck Kress	24	38	37	4	7	0	1	0	3	0	1	1	4	.189	.211	.243	.454	9	0	0	0	0
Bud Souchock	25	41	39	6	7	0	1	3	8	1	1	2	10	.179	.220	.462	.681	18	1	0	0	0
Don Lund	35	60	54	4	7	2	0	0	3	1	0	4	3	.130	.186	.167	.353	9	3	0	1	1
Matt Batts	12	24	21	1	6	1	0	0	5	0	0	2	4	.286	.333	.333	.667	7	0	0	0	1
Chick King	11	31	28	4	6	0	1	0	3	0	0	3	8	.214	.290	.286	.576	8	1	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	54	42	37	13	6	2	0	1	2	1	0	5	9	.162	.262	.297	.559	11	0	0	0	0
Al Aber	32	45	39	3	5	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	17	.128	.167	.128	.295	5	1	0	3	1
Ralph Branca	17	15	13	2	4	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	3	.308	.400	.385	.785	5	1	0	0	0
Johnny Pesky	20	20	17	5	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	3	1	.176	.300	.353	.653	6	2	0	0	0
Ray Herbert	42	19	17	5	3	0	1	1	3	0	0	2	4	.176	.263	.471	.734	8	1	0	0	0
Dick Marlowe	38	19	18	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	11	.167	.211	.222	.433	4	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	34	15	15	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.133	.133	.200	.333	3	0	0	0	0
Ted Gray	19	22	22	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.045	.045	.045	.091	1	0	0	0	0
Al Lakeman	5	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
George Bullard	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Donovan	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Weik	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Lary	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0
Walt Streuli	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1921	5865	5233	584	1351	215	41	90	552	48	44	492	603	.258	.322	.367	.688	1918	148	19	80	41

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	WP	SB	CS	CS%
Walt Dropo	1B	95	79	728.3	681	54	3	60	.996	9.082	7.737	0	0	0	0
Wayne Belardi	1B	79	71	602.7	636	51	8	54	.988	1.259	8.696	0	0	0	0
Chuck Kress	1B	7	5	52.0	63	5	2	4	.971	11.769	9.714	0	0	0	0
Frank Bolling	2B	113	100	904.0	248	232	13	54	.974	4.779	4.248	0	0	0	0
Fred Hatfield	2B	54	46	395.7	114	126	7	29	.972	5.459	4.444	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	2B	15	9	83.3	26	36	2	6	.969	6.696	4.133	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	3B	148	148	1272.3	170	332	19	22	.964	3.551	3.392	0	0	0	0
Fred Hatfield	3B	15	7	85.3	15	26	4	4	.911	4.324	2.733	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	3B	8	0	18.3	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.473	.375	0	0	0	0
Bud Souchock	3B	2	0	7.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	7.714	3.000	0	0	0	0
Frank House	C	107	99	880.0	434	56	4	7	.992	5.011	4.579	4	9	23	32	58.2
Red Wilson	C	53	50	440.0	245	25	1	7	.996	5.523	5.094	1	5	9	11	55.0
Matt Batts	C	8	4	43.0	24	5	1	1	.967	6.070	3.625	0	0	1	1	50.0
Al Lakeman	C	4	2	18.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	5.000	2.500	0	0	0	0
Walt Streuli	C	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0	0
Bill Tuttle	OF	145	143	1271.3	364	18	6	3	.985	2.704	2.634	0	0	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	135	133	1180.7	283	16	9	0	.971	2.279	2.215	0	0	0	0
Jim Delsing	OF	108	97	845.0	221	5	1	0	.996	2.407	2.093	0	0	0	0
Bob Nieman	OF	62	60	469.7	119	2	2	0	.984	2.319	1.952	0	0	0	0
Hoot Evers	OF	24	12	138.0	33	1	0	0	1.000	2.217	1.417	0	0	0	0
Don Lund	OF	31	8	129.3	32	1	1	0	.971	2.296	1.065	0	0	0	0
Chick King	OF	7	7	58.0	22	1	1	1	.958	3.569	3.286	0	0	0	0
Bud Souchock	OF	9	5	55.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.127	1.444	0	0	0	0
Chuck Kress	OF	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Steve Gromek	P	36	32	252.7	16	26	1	1	.977	1.496	1.167	0	0	0	0
Ned Garver	P	35	32	246.3	21	48	2	2	.972	2.521	1.971	0	0	0	0
George Zuverink	P	35	25	203.0	18	46	3	3	.955	2.837	1.829	0	0	0	0
Billy Hoeft	P	34	25	175.0	6	18	1	2	.960	1.234	.706	0	0	0	0
Al Aber	P	32	18	124.7	13	21	2	2	.944	2.455	1.063	0	0	0	0
Ray Herbert	P	42	4	84.3	7	24	1	2	.969	3.308	.738	0	0	0	0
Dick Marlowe	P	38	2	84.0	5	11	1	0	.941	1.714	.421	0	0	0	0
Ted Gray	P	19	10	72.0	0	9	1	1	.900	1.125	.474	0	0	0	0
Bob Miller	P	32	1	69.7	4	9	1	0	.929	1.679	.406	0	0	0	0
Ralph Branca	P	17	5	45.3	2	6	0	1	1.000	1.588	.471	0	0	0	0
Dick Weik	P	9	1	16.3	0	1	1	0	.500	.551	.111	0	0	0	0
Dick Donovan	P	2	0	6.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.500	0	0	0	0
Frank Lary	P	3	0	3.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
Harvey Kuenn	SS	155	155	1365.0	294	496	28	85	.966	5.209	5.097	0	0	0	0
Reno Bertoia	SS	3	0	11.0	0	3	1	1	.750	2.455	1.000	0	0	0	0
Ray Boone	SS	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0	0
George Bullard	SS	1	0	3.0	2	2	1	0	.800	12.000	4.000	0	0	0	0
Totals		1725	1395	12447.0	4145	1719	128	352	.979	4.240	3.399	5	14	33	44	57.1

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