1970 New York Yankees Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 93-69
Finished 2nd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,136,879, Avg. 16,476
Ballpark: Yankee Stadium I
Manager: Ralph Houk (93-69)
Location: New York, New York

1970 New York Yankees Roster
1970 New York Yankees Results

The New York Yankees of the American League ended the 1970 season with a record of 93 wins and 69 losses, finishing second in the AL's East Division.

The Yankees scored 680 runs and allowed 612 runs. Bobby Murcer led New York with 23 home runs, while Roy White walloped 20 or more as well. Roy White recorded 94 runs batted in. Thurman Munson paced all regular hitters by hitting .302. Fritz Peterson topped the squad with 20 wins, and Mel Stottlemyre also added 15 or more victories also Fritz Peterson registered a 2.90 earned run average, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Ralph Houk 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
Fritz Peterson	20	11	.645	2.90	39	37	0	8	2	0	260.3	247	102	84	24	40	6	127	3	1	2	1051
Mel Stottlemyre	15	13	.536	3.09	37	37	0	14	0	0	271.0	262	110	93	23	84	8	126	6	0	10	1136
Stan Bahnsen	14	11	.560	3.33	36	35	0	6	2	0	232.7	227	100	86	23	75	4	116	2	0	3	977
Lindy McDaniel	9	5	.643	2.01	62	0	51	0	0	29	111.7	88	29	25	7	23	5	81	0	0	3	436
Mike Kekich	6	3	.667	4.83	26	14	4	1	0	0	98.7	103	59	53	12	55	3	63	1	0	4	446
Steve Kline	6	6	.500	3.41	16	15	0	5	0	0	100.3	99	42	38	8	24	3	49	0	0	1	420
Ron Klimkowski	6	7	.462	2.65	45	3	10	1	1	1	98.3	80	36	29	7	33	7	40	3	0	2	399
Jack Aker	4	2	.667	2.06	41	0	28	0	0	16	70.0	57	19	16	3	20	5	36	4	0	1	284
Steve Hamilton	4	3	.571	2.78	35	0	16	0	0	3	45.3	36	16	14	3	16	5	33	1	0	2	186
John Cumberland	3	4	.429	3.94	15	8	5	1	0	0	64.0	62	31	28	9	15	3	38	0	1	1	266
Mike McCormick	2	0	1.000	6.10	9	4	3	0	0	0	20.7	26	15	14	2	13	1	12	0	0	0	101
Gary Waslewski	2	2	.500	3.11	26	5	5	0	0	0	55.0	42	20	19	4	27	4	27	4	0	1	229
Joe Verbanic	1	0	1.000	4.60	7	0	3	0	0	0	15.7	20	9	8	1	12	0	8	1	0	0	78
Rob Gardner	1	0	1.000	4.91	1	1	0	0	0	0	7.3	8	4	4	2	4	0	6	0	0	0	33
Gary Jones	0	0		0.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	9
Loyd Colson	0	0		4.50	1	0	1	0	0	0	2.0	3	1	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	9
Bill Burbach	0	2	.000	10.26	4	4	0	0	0	0	16.7	23	19	19	2	9	0	10	1	0	2	83
Totals	93	69	.574	3.25	402	163	127	36	5	49	1471.7	1386	612	531	130	451	54	777	26	2	32	6143

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
Roy White	162	712	609	109	180	30	6	22	94	24	10	95	66	.296	.387	.473	.860	288	13	0	1	7	11
Danny Cater	155	621	582	64	175	26	5	6	76	4	2	34	44	.301	.340	.393	.734	229	19	2	1	2	6
Horace Clarke	158	732	686	81	172	24	2	4	46	23	7	35	35	.251	.286	.309	.595	212	12	2	2	7	5
Bobby Murcer	159	680	581	95	146	23	3	23	78	15	10	87	100	.251	.348	.420	.768	244	7	2	4	6	5
Thurman Munson	132	526	453	59	137	25	4	6	53	5	7	57	56	.302	.386	.415	.801	188	13	7	5	4	6
Gene Michael	134	493	435	42	93	10	1	2	38	3	1	50	93	.214	.292	.255	.548	111	8	0	4	4	5
Jerry Kenney	140	461	404	46	78	10	7	4	35	20	6	52	44	.193	.284	.282	.566	114	11	0	3	2	2
Curt Blefary	99	318	269	34	57	6	0	9	37	1	3	43	37	.212	.324	.335	.658	90	6	3	0	3	3
John Ellis	78	249	226	24	56	12	1	7	29	0	1	18	47	.248	.305	.403	.708	91	5	2	0	3	0
Ron Woods	95	262	225	30	51	5	3	8	27	4	2	33	35	.227	.324	.382	.707	86	10	0	3	1	3
Jake Gibbs	49	163	153	23	46	9	2	8	26	2	0	7	14	.301	.331	.542	.874	83	4	1	0	2	1
Jim Lyttle	87	140	126	20	39	7	1	3	14	3	6	10	26	.310	.355	.452	.807	57	2	0	2	2	1
Ron Hansen	59	113	91	13	27	4	0	4	14	0	1	19	9	.297	.420	.473	.892	43	1	1	1	1	0
Frank Baker	35	133	117	6	27	4	1	0	11	1	2	14	26	.231	.323	.282	.605	33	1	2	0	0	0
Pete Ward	66	87	77	5	20	2	2	1	18	0	0	9	17	.260	.333	.377	.710	29	1	0	0	1	0
Fritz Peterson	39	99	90	7	20	3	0	2	7	0	0	0	24	.222	.228	.322	.550	29	0	1	7	1	0
Mel Stottlemyre	38	102	85	8	16	2	2	2	7	0	0	14	25	.188	.303	.329	.632	28	0	0	3	0	0
Stan Bahnsen	36	84	74	3	11	0	1	0	1	0	0	2	34	.149	.171	.176	.347	13	0	0	8	0	0
Frank Tepedino	16	20	19	2	6	2	0	0	2	0	1	1	2	.316	.350	.421	.771	8	1	0	0	0	0
Bobby Mitchell	10	25	22	1	5	2	0	0	4	0	2	2	3	.227	.320	.318	.638	7	0	1	0	0	0
Steve Kline	16	37	28	3	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	4	10	.179	.303	.179	.482	5	0	1	4	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	62	25	24	2	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	7	.167	.167	.208	.375	5	0	0	1	0	0
Mike Kekich	26	36	32	2	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	7	.094	.147	.094	.241	3	0	0	2	0	0
Joe Verbanic	7	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0	0	0	0
Rob Gardner	1	3	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.667	1.000	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mike McCormick	9	5	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Waslewski	26	11	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	.100	.100	.100	.200	1	0	0	1	0	0
Jack Aker	41	17	16	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	.063	.063	.063	.125	1	1	0	1	0	0
John Cumberland	15	20	17	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	12	.059	.059	.059	.118	1	0	0	3	0	0
Ron Klimkowski	45	23	19	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	9	.053	.053	.053	.105	1	0	0	4	0	0
Steve Hamilton	35	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Burbach	4	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Jones	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Loyd Colson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2037	6211	5492	680	1381	208	41	111	627	105	61	588	808	.251	.324	.365	.689	2004	115	25	60	46	48

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Danny Cater	1B	131	99	938.0	981	70	8	79	.992	1.084	8.023	0	0	0
John Ellis	1B	53	49	397.0	449	37	4	35	.992	11.018	9.170	0	0	0
Pete Ward	1B	13	10	82.0	83	3	0	7	1.000	9.439	6.615	0	0	0
Curt Blefary	1B	6	4	45.0	56	2	0	9	1.000	11.600	9.667	0	0	0
Frank Tepedino	1B	1	1	9.0	10	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	0	0	0
Horace Clarke	2B	157	157	1418.0	379	478	18	95	.979	5.439	5.459	0	0	0
Gene Michael	2B	3	3	27.0	11	9	0	1	1.000	6.667	6.667	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	2B	2	2	18.0	3	7	0	1	1.000	5.000	5.000	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	2B	1	1	9.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.000	2.000	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	3B	135	107	1032.0	111	300	17	18	.960	3.584	3.044	0	0	0
Danny Cater	3B	42	42	337.0	24	83	8	10	.930	2.858	2.548	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	3B	11	8	50.0	5	16	0	1	1.000	3.780	1.909	0	0	0
John Ellis	3B	5	5	41.0	0	3	1	0	.750	.659	.600	0	0	0
Gene Michael	3B	4	1	12.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.500	.500	0	0	0
Thurman Munson	C	125	119	1093.0	631	80	8	11	.989	5.855	5.688	10	31	33	51.6
Jake Gibbs	C	44	42	360.0	208	19	3	1	.987	5.675	5.159	1	10	7	41.2
John Ellis	C	2	2	19.0	12	1	0	0	1.000	6.158	6.500	1	0	1	100.0
Roy White	OF	161	161	1452.0	315	6	2	0	.994	1.990	1.994	0	0	0
Bobby Murcer	OF	155	152	1382.0	375	15	3	3	.992	2.540	2.516	0	0	0
Curt Blefary	OF	79	75	584.0	103	1	3	0	.972	1.603	1.316	0	0	0
Ron Woods	OF	78	55	553.0	108	6	3	1	.974	1.855	1.462	0	0	0
Jim Lyttle	OF	70	33	347.0	84	2	1	0	.989	2.231	1.229	0	0	0
Bobby Mitchell	OF	7	5	46.0	20	0	0	0	1.000	3.913	2.857	0	0	0
Danny Cater	OF	7	7	43.0	11	0	0	0	1.000	2.302	1.571	0	0	0
Frank Tepedino	OF	1	1	8.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mel Stottlemyre	P	37	37	271.0	22	51	1	3	.986	2.424	1.973	0	0	0
Fritz Peterson	P	39	37	260.0	12	52	3	7	.955	2.215	1.641	0	0	0
Stan Bahnsen	P	36	35	233.0	17	40	4	3	.934	2.202	1.583	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	P	62	0	112.0	7	19	3	2	.897	2.089	.419	0	0	0
Steve Kline	P	16	15	100.0	14	14	0	2	1.000	2.520	1.750	0	0	0
Mike Kekich	P	26	14	99.0	5	10	2	0	.882	1.364	.577	0	0	0
Ron Klimkowski	P	45	3	98.0	5	18	1	0	.958	2.112	.511	0	0	0
Jack Aker	P	41	0	70.0	4	11	1	0	.938	1.929	.366	0	0	0
John Cumberland	P	15	8	64.0	2	6	0	0	1.000	1.125	.533	0	0	0
Gary Waslewski	P	26	5	55.0	7	10	1	0	.944	2.782	.654	0	0	0
Steve Hamilton	P	35	0	45.0	0	9	0	0	1.000	1.800	.257	0	0	0
Mike McCormick	P	9	4	21.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	.857	.222	0	0	0
Bill Burbach	P	4	4	17.0	0	2	1	0	.667	1.059	.500	0	0	0
Joe Verbanic	P	7	0	16.0	2	7	0	0	1.000	5.063	1.286	0	0	0
Rob Gardner	P	1	1	7.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000	0	0	0
Gary Jones	P	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Loyd Colson	P	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Gene Michael	SS	123	120	1074.0	248	379	28	78	.957	5.254	5.098	0	0	0
Frank Baker	SS	35	32	292.0	62	118	5	22	.973	5.548	5.143	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	SS	15	11	106.0	20	39	1	6	.983	5.009	3.933	0	0	0
Totals		1868	1467	13246.0	4407	1929	130	395	.980	4.305	3.392	12	41	41	50.0

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