1916 New York Giants Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 86-66
Finished 4th in the NL
Attendance: 552,056, Avg. 11,806
Ballpark: Polo Grounds IV
Manager: John McGraw (86-66)
Location: New York, New York

1916 New York Giants Roster
1916 New York Giants Results

The New York Giants of the National League ended the 1916 season with a record of 86 wins and 66 losses, finishing fourth in the NL.

The Giants led the circuit with 597 runs, fueled by 42 home runs. New York surrendered 504 runs. Dave Robertson paced the squad with 12 home runs Benny Kauff drove in 74 runs. Dave Robertson topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .307. Pol Perritt paced the team with 18 wins, while Rube Benton, too added 15 or more wins, too Ferdie Schupp recorded a 0.90 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

John McGraw 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
Pol Perritt	18	11	.621	2.62	40	28	7	17	5	2	251.0	243	82	73	11	56	115	7	0	3	1030
Rube Benton	16	8	.667	2.87	38	30	6	15	3	2	238.7	210	84	76	5	58	115	10	0	5	960
Jeff Tesreau	14	14	.500	2.92	40	33	4	23	5	2	268.3	249	103	87	9	65	113	6	2	9	1090
Ferdie Schupp	9	3	.750	0.90	30	11	17	8	4	1	140.3	79	22	14	1	37	86	5	0	2	525
Slim Sallee	9	4	.692	1.37	15	11	2	7	2	0	111.7	96	24	17	2	10	35	0	0	1	426
Fred Anderson	9	13	.409	3.40	38	27	5	13	2	2	188.0	206	99	71	7	38	98	5	0	9	806
George Smith	3	0	1.000	2.61	9	1	6	0	0	0	20.7	14	8	6	0	6	9	1	0	3	82
Ralph Stroud	3	2	.600	2.70	10	4	3	0	0	1	46.7	47	18	14	1	9	16	1	0	2	194
Christy Mathewson	3	4	.429	2.33	12	6	4	4	1	2	65.7	59	27	17	3	7	16	0	0	0	256
Hank Ritter	1	0	1.000	0.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	5.0	3	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	17
Rube Schauer	1	4	.200	2.96	19	3	11	1	0	0	45.7	44	22	15	0	16	24	2	0	2	194
Emilio Palmero	0	3	.000	8.04	4	1	1	0	0	0	15.7	17	14	14	2	8	8	1	0	1	71
Totals	86	66	.566	2.60	258	155	67	88	22	12	1397.3	1267	503	404	41	310	638	39	2	38	5651

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Dave Robertson	150	620	587	88	180	18	8	12	69	21	17	14	56	.307	.326	.426	.752	250	3	16
George Burns	155	696	623	105	174	24	8	5	41	37	26	63	47	.279	.346	.368	.714	229	1	9
Benny Kauff	154	632	552	71	146	22	15	9	74	40	26	68	65	.264	.348	.408	.756	225	3	9
Art Fletcher	133	542	500	53	143	23	8	3	66	15	0	13	36	.286	.323	.382	.705	191	14	15
Larry Doyle	113	488	441	55	118	24	10	2	47	17	0	27	23	.268	.316	.381	.697	168	4	16
Fred Merkle	112	449	401	45	95	19	3	7	44	17	0	33	46	.237	.308	.352	.659	141	8	7
Bill Rariden	120	415	351	23	78	9	3	1	29	4	0	55	32	.222	.333	.274	.606	96	3	6
Buck Herzog	77	319	280	40	73	10	4	0	25	19	16	22	24	.261	.326	.325	.651	91	5	12
Bill McKechnie	71	273	260	22	64	9	1	0	17	7	0	7	20	.246	.269	.288	.557	75	1	5
Heinie Zimmerman	40	161	151	22	41	4	0	0	19	9	8	7	10	.272	.304	.298	.602	45	0	3
Walter Holke	34	121	111	16	39	4	2	0	13	10	0	6	16	.351	.390	.423	.813	47	1	3
Lew McCarty	25	77	68	6	27	3	4	0	9	0	0	7	9	.397	.453	.559	1.012	38	0	2
Jeff Tesreau	41	98	94	8	18	2	1	1	4	0	0	1	14	.191	.200	.266	.466	25	0	3
Hans Lobert	48	85	76	6	17	3	2	0	11	2	0	5	8	.224	.272	.316	.587	24	0	4
Edd Roush	39	71	69	4	13	0	1	0	5	4	0	1	4	.188	.200	.217	.417	15	0	1
Mickey Doolin	18	56	51	4	12	3	1	1	3	1	0	2	4	.235	.264	.392	.656	20	0	3
George Kelly	49	84	76	4	12	2	1	0	3	1	0	6	24	.158	.220	.211	.430	16	0	2
Slim Sallee	15	38	35	1	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	2	4	.257	.297	.286	.583	10	0	1
Fred Anderson	38	64	58	6	8	2	1	0	3	0	0	1	18	.138	.167	.207	.374	12	1	4
Herb Hunter	21	28	28	3	7	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	5	.250	.250	.357	.607	10	0	0
Brad Kocher	34	67	65	1	7	2	0	0	1	0	0	2	10	.108	.134	.138	.273	9	0	0
Rube Benton	38	84	78	3	7	0	1	0	3	1	0	2	21	.090	.113	.115	.228	9	0	4
Pol Perritt	40	92	83	7	7	3	0	0	4	0	0	4	30	.084	.126	.120	.247	10	0	5
Ferdie Schupp	30	42	41	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	17	.098	.119	.098	.217	4	0	0
Rube Schauer	19	9	9	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.222	.222	.333	.556	3	0	0
Red Dooin	15	17	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.118	.118	.118	.235	2	0	0
Red Killefer	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	1	0	0
Ralph Stroud	10	16	14	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	4	.071	.133	.071	.205	1	0	1
Lew Wendell	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Emilio Palmero	5	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	0	0	0
Christy Mathewson	12	23	17	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	4	.000	.190	.000	.190	0	0	2
George Smith	9	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	1
Heinie Stafford	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Fred Brainard	2	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Jose Rodriguez	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Hank Ritter	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Duke Kelleher	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Totals	1678	5686	5152	597	1305	188	74	42	500	206	93	356	558	.253	.307	.343	.650	1767	44	134

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB
Fred Merkle	1B	112	1183	58	20	61	.984	11.080	0
George Kelly	1B	13	100	2	2	4	.981	7.846	0
Herb Hunter	1B	2	13	0	0	0	1.000	6.500	0
Walter Holke	1B	34	331	13	1	15	.997	1.118	0
Heinie Zimmerman	2B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Buck Herzog	2B	44	90	128	5	18	.978	4.955	0
Larry Doyle	2B	113	270	352	26	53	.960	5.504	0
Mickey Doolin	2B	2	1	0	1	0	.500	.500	0
Heinie Zimmerman	3B	40	38	77	7	5	.943	2.875	0
Bill McKechnie	3B	71	70	134	13	8	.940	2.873	0
Hans Lobert	3B	20	14	35	2	2	.961	2.450	0
George Kelly	3B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Herb Hunter	3B	6	8	5	0	0	1.000	2.167	0
Buck Herzog	3B	27	29	70	5	4	.952	3.667	0
Fred Brainard	3B	2	3	2	3	0	.625	2.500	0
Bill Rariden	C	119	576	144	21	10	.972	6.050	12
Lew McCarty	C	24	112	26	1	2	.993	5.750	0
Brad Kocher	C	30	75	15	2	1	.978	3.000	4
Duke Kelleher	C	1	0	0	0	0		.000	0
Red Dooin	C	15	30	5	1	0	.972	2.333	1
Edd Roush	OF	15	18	2	1	1	.952	1.333	0
Dave Robertson	OF	144	248	17	11	5	.960	1.840	0
George Kelly	OF	12	6	0	0	1	1.000	.500	0
Benny Kauff	OF	154	329	22	14	6	.962	2.279	0
George Burns	OF	155	289	19	12	3	.963	1.987	0
Jeff Tesreau	P	40	12	67	1	2	.988	1.975	0
Ralph Stroud	P	10	0	12	0	0	1.000	1.200	0
George Smith	P	9	1	8	1	0	.900	1.000	0
Ferdie Schupp	P	30	1	24	4	0	.862	.833	0
Rube Schauer	P	19	1	11	2	0	.857	.632	0
Slim Sallee	P	15	4	16	0	3	1.000	1.333	0
Hank Ritter	P	3	0	2	0	0	1.000	.667	0
Pol Perritt	P	40	12	55	4	2	.944	1.675	0
Emilio Palmero	P	4	0	7	0	0	1.000	1.750	0
Christy Mathewson	P	12	5	25	0	1	1.000	2.500	0
Rube Benton	P	38	6	57	0	3	1.000	1.658	0
Fred Anderson	P	38	2	38	0	0	1.000	1.053	0
Buck Herzog	SS	9	21	40	7	6	.897	6.778	0
Art Fletcher	SS	133	253	497	48	56	.940	5.639	0
Mickey Doolin	SS	16	31	46	2	6	.975	4.813	0
Totals		1573	4184	2031	217	278	.966	3.951	17

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