1970 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 79-83
Finished 4th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,501,293, Avg. 19,752
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium
Manager: Mayo Smith (79-83)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1970 Detroit Tigers Roster
1970 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1970 season with a record of 79 wins and 83 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's East Division.

The Tigers plated 666 runs and allowed 731 runs. Jim Northrup paced Detroit with 24 home runs, while Al Kaline, Norm Cash, Bill Freehan and Willie Horton each walloped 20 or more, too. Jim Northrup drove in 80 runs. Al Kaline topped all regular hitters by hitting .278. Mickey Lolich led the team with 14 wins and a team-best 3.80 ERA, tops among regularly-used pitchers.

Mayo Smith 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
Mickey Lolich	14	19	.424	3.80	40	39	0	13	3	0	272.7	272	125	115	27	109	3	230	5	0	14	1181
Les Cain	12	7	.632	3.84	29	29	0	5	0	0	180.7	167	92	77	15	98	1	156	7	1	9	793
Joe Niekro	12	13	.480	4.06	38	34	2	6	2	0	213.0	221	107	96	28	72	4	101	3	0	1	914
Daryl Patterson	7	1	.875	4.85	43	0	14	0	0	2	78.0	81	47	42	9	39	1	55	5	1	6	351
Mike Kilkenny	7	6	.538	5.16	36	21	5	3	0	0	129.0	141	77	74	10	70	0	105	2	1	3	588
John Hiller	6	6	.500	3.03	47	5	18	1	1	3	104.0	82	39	35	12	46	4	89	2	0	3	432
Tom Timmermann	6	7	.462	4.11	61	0	43	0	0	27	85.3	90	44	39	3	34	11	49	2	0	4	378
Fred Scherman	4	4	.500	3.23	48	0	20	0	0	1	69.7	61	28	25	5	28	3	58	1	1	6	290
Earl Wilson	4	6	.400	4.41	18	16	0	4	1	0	96.0	87	53	47	15	32	1	74	2	0	0	404
Denny McLain	3	5	.375	4.63	14	14	0	1	0	0	91.3	100	51	47	19	28	0	52	3	1	0	402
Bob Reed	2	4	.333	4.86	16	4	4	0	0	2	46.3	54	25	25	5	14	0	26	0	0	1	201
Dennis Saunders	1	1	.500	3.21	8	0	4	0	0	1	14.0	16	5	5	1	5	1	8	1	0	0	64
Fred Lasher	1	3	.250	5.00	12	0	8	0	0	3	9.0	10	6	5	0	12	1	8	1	0	1	50
Norm McRae	0	0		2.87	19	0	4	0	0	0	31.3	26	13	10	1	25	0	16	1	0	6	143
Jerry Robertson	0	0		3.68	11	0	5	0	0	0	14.7	19	8	6	1	5	1	11	0	0	1	69
Lerrin LaGrow	0	1	.000	7.30	10	0	2	0	0	0	12.3	16	11	10	2	6	0	7	0	0	1	59
Totals	79	83	.488	4.09	450	162	129	33	7	39	1447.3	1443	731	658	153	623	31	1045	35	5	56	6319

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
Mickey Stanley	142	623	568	83	143	21	11	13	47	10	1	45	56	.252	.305	.396	.701	225	19	0	7	3	1
Jim Northrup	139	576	504	71	132	21	3	24	80	3	6	58	68	.262	.343	.458	.802	231	12	7	2	5	6
Al Kaline	131	555	467	64	130	24	4	16	71	2	2	77	49	.278	.377	.450	.826	210	20	1	3	7	5
Dick McAuliffe	146	639	530	73	124	21	1	12	50	5	6	101	62	.234	.358	.345	.704	183	1	3	3	2	7
Willie Horton	96	404	371	53	113	18	2	17	69	0	1	28	43	.305	.354	.501	.855	186	7	2	0	3	6
Cesar Gutierrez	135	451	415	40	101	11	6	0	22	4	3	18	39	.243	.275	.299	.573	124	8	1	14	3	6
Norm Cash	130	452	370	58	96	18	2	15	53	0	1	72	58	.259	.383	.441	.823	163	16	5	0	5	6
Bill Freehan	117	458	395	44	95	17	3	16	52	0	3	52	48	.241	.332	.420	.752	166	11	4	3	4	5
Don Wert	128	419	363	34	79	13	0	6	33	1	3	44	56	.218	.307	.303	.610	110	13	4	5	3	7
Elliott Maddox	109	293	258	30	64	13	4	3	24	2	3	30	42	.248	.332	.364	.697	94	6	3	1	1	1
Dalton Jones	89	229	191	29	42	7	0	6	21	1	1	33	33	.220	.333	.351	.684	67	3	1	1	3	4
Gates Brown	81	148	124	18	28	3	0	3	24	0	0	20	14	.226	.331	.323	.654	40	3	1	0	3	0
Ike Brown	56	113	94	17	27	5	0	4	15	0	0	13	26	.287	.376	.468	.844	44	2	1	4	1	0
Jim Price	52	156	132	12	24	4	0	5	15	0	0	21	23	.182	.290	.326	.616	43	6	0	1	2	0
Gene Lamont	15	48	44	3	13	3	1	1	4	0	0	2	9	.295	.340	.477	.818	21	0	1	1	0	0
Joe Niekro	39	88	66	8	13	3	1	0	7	0	0	7	17	.197	.274	.273	.547	18	0	0	15	0	0
Les Cain	29	72	68	2	11	1	0	1	9	0	0	1	18	.162	.174	.221	.395	15	1	0	3	0	0
Mickey Lolich	42	101	82	4	11	0	0	0	3	1	0	12	29	.134	.245	.134	.379	11	3	0	7	0	0
Ken Szotkiewicz	47	98	84	9	9	1	0	3	9	0	0	12	29	.107	.216	.226	.443	19	1	0	1	1	2
Earl Wilson	18	36	31	2	6	1	0	1	3	0	0	2	16	.194	.235	.323	.558	10	1	0	2	1	0
Russ Nagelson	28	38	32	5	6	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	6	.188	.297	.188	.485	6	0	0	1	0	0
Kevin Collins	25	25	24	2	5	1	0	1	3	0	0	1	10	.208	.240	.375	.615	9	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Kilkenny	37	44	39	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	19	.077	.075	.077	.152	3	0	0	4	1	0
Tim Hosley	7	13	12	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	6	.167	.154	.417	.571	5	0	0	0	1	0
Fred Scherman	48	12	12	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	2	0	0	0	0	0
Denny McLain	14	34	31	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	.065	.065	.097	.161	3	0	0	3	0	0
Bob Reed	17	13	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.083	.154	.083	.237	1	0	0	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	10	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Timmermann	61	16	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Lasher	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dennis Saunders	8	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Hiller	47	25	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	9	.000	.042	.000	.042	0	0	0	1	0	0
Daryl Patterson	43	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Norm McRae	19	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jerry Robertson	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2128	6199	5377	666	1282	207	38	148	619	29	30	656	825	.238	.322	.374	.696	2009	134	34	83	49	56

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Norm Cash	1B	114	100	910.0	868	70	10	76	.989	9.277	8.228	0	0	0
Al Kaline	1B	52	48	403.0	374	31	4	39	.990	9.045	7.788	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	1B	9	8	68.0	67	6	1	10	.986	9.662	8.111	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	1B	10	4	49.0	43	4	0	4	1.000	8.633	4.700	0	0	0
Kevin Collins	1B	1	1	9.0	5	1	0	0	1.000	6.000	6.000	0	0	0
Russ Nagelson	1B	1	1	8.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	4.000	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	2B	127	116	1032.0	280	333	16	75	.975	5.346	4.827	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	2B	35	25	252.0	59	70	2	18	.985	4.607	3.686	0	0	0
Ike Brown	2B	23	21	155.0	41	31	5	8	.935	4.181	3.130	0	0	0
Don Wert	2B	2	0	5.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	5.400	1.500	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	2B	1	0	3.0	2	1	0	1	1.000	9.000	3.000	0	0	0
Don Wert	3B	117	100	916.0	94	191	14	20	.953	2.800	2.436	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	3B	40	35	318.0	41	83	11	8	.919	3.509	3.100	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	3B	18	15	114.0	9	25	2	4	.944	2.684	1.889	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	3B	12	11	93.0	3	24	2	5	.931	2.613	2.250	0	0	0
Ike Brown	3B	1	1	6.0	1	2	2	0	.600	4.500	3.000	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	C	114	110	984.0	742	42	2	6	.997	7.171	6.877	8	41	36	46.8
Jim Price	C	38	37	325.0	266	8	6	2	.979	7.588	7.211	4	19	7	26.9
Gene Lamont	C	15	12	112.0	87	8	0	0	1.000	7.634	6.333	3	7	5	41.7
Tim Hosley	C	4	3	26.0	22	3	0	0	1.000	8.654	6.250	0	1	3	75.0
Jim Northrup	OF	136	135	1193.0	284	4	2	1	.993	2.173	2.118	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	OF	132	124	1130.0	317	3	0	0	1.000	2.549	2.424	0	0	0
Willie Horton	OF	96	96	844.0	154	10	3	1	.982	1.749	1.708	0	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	91	75	687.0	156	3	2	1	.988	2.083	1.747	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	OF	37	26	248.0	55	2	1	1	.983	2.069	1.541	0	0	0
Gates Brown	OF	26	26	192.0	37	1	2	0	.950	1.781	1.462	0	0	0
Ike Brown	OF	4	2	26.0	7	0	1	0	.875	2.423	1.750	0	0	0
Russ Nagelson	OF	4	2	23.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.565	1.000	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	P	40	39	273.0	9	46	2	1	.965	1.813	1.375	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	38	34	213.0	17	35	1	1	.981	2.197	1.368	0	0	0
Les Cain	P	29	29	181.0	8	24	2	0	.941	1.591	1.103	0	0	0
Mike Kilkenny	P	36	21	129.0	6	20	1	1	.963	1.814	.722	0	0	0
John Hiller	P	47	5	104.0	3	10	0	0	1.000	1.125	.277	0	0	0
Earl Wilson	P	18	16	96.0	5	13	1	1	.947	1.688	1.000	0	0	0
Denny McLain	P	14	14	91.0	7	14	0	1	1.000	2.077	1.500	0	0	0
Tom Timmermann	P	61	0	85.0	7	10	1	0	.944	1.800	.279	0	0	0
Daryl Patterson	P	43	0	78.0	5	8	1	0	.929	1.500	.302	0	0	0
Fred Scherman	P	48	0	70.0	8	7	1	2	.938	1.929	.313	0	0	0
Bob Reed	P	16	4	46.0	2	4	0	0	1.000	1.174	.375	0	0	0
Norm McRae	P	19	0	31.0	3	7	2	1	.833	2.903	.526	0	0	0
Jerry Robertson	P	11	0	15.0	0	1	1	0	.500	.600	.091	0	0	0
Dennis Saunders	P	8	0	14.0	2	5	0	0	1.000	4.500	.875	0	0	0
Lerrin LaGrow	P	10	0	12.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	.200	0	0	0
Fred Lasher	P	12	0	9.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000	.167	0	0	0
Cesar Gutierrez	SS	135	127	1065.0	183	326	23	60	.957	4.301	3.770	0	0	0
Ken Szotkiewicz	SS	44	27	256.0	32	101	4	20	.971	4.676	3.023	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	SS	15	6	75.0	16	34	3	3	.943	6.000	3.333	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	SS	19	2	51.0	6	14	2	0	.909	3.529	1.053	0	0	0
Totals		1923	1458	13025.0	4343	1640	133	371	.978	4.134	3.111	15	68	51	42.9

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