1971 New York Yankees Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 82-80
Finished 4th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,070,771, Avg. 15,350
Ballpark: Yankee Stadium I
Manager: Ralph Houk (82-80)
Location: New York, New York

1971 New York Yankees Roster
1971 New York Yankees Results

The New York Yankees of the American League ended the 1971 season with a record of 82 wins and 80 losses, finishing fourth in the AL's East Division.

The Yankees plated 648 runs and allowed 641 runs. Bobby Murcer paced New York with 25 home runs, and Roy White walloped 20 or more as well. Bobby Murcer drove in 94 runs and topped all qualifying hitters on the roster by hitting .331. Mel Stottlemyre led the team with 16 wins, while Fritz Peterson added 15 or more wins also Mel Stottlemyre registered a 2.87 earned run average, leading 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
Mel Stottlemyre	16	12	.571	2.87	35	35	0	19	7	0	269.7	234	100	86	16	69	6	132	4	0	5	1091
Fritz Peterson	15	13	.536	3.05	37	35	2	16	4	1	274.0	269	106	93	25	42	7	139	4	1	6	1104
Stan Bahnsen	14	12	.538	3.35	36	34	2	14	3	0	242.0	221	99	90	20	72	8	110	5	1	9	993
Steve Kline	12	13	.480	2.96	31	30	0	15	1	0	222.3	206	87	73	21	37	7	81	0	1	3	888
Mike Kekich	10	9	.526	4.07	37	24	5	3	0	0	170.3	167	89	77	13	82	11	93	4	0	8	748
Lindy McDaniel	5	10	.333	5.04	44	0	28	0	0	4	69.7	82	41	39	12	24	6	39	0	0	5	310
Jack Aker	4	4	.500	2.59	41	0	20	0	0	4	55.7	48	20	16	3	26	9	24	0	0	3	237
Roger Hambright	3	1	.750	4.39	18	0	14	0	0	2	26.7	22	13	13	5	10	2	14	0	0	2	110
Al Closter	2	2	.500	5.08	14	1	1	0	0	0	28.3	33	22	16	4	13	7	22	2	0	2	135
Rob Gardner	0	0		3.00	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.0	3	1	1	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	13
Terry Ley	0	0		5.00	6	0	5	0	0	0	9.0	9	9	5	1	9	2	7	2	0	0	49
Gary Jones	0	0		9.00	12	0	5	0	0	0	14.0	19	14	14	1	7	1	10	0	0	0	69
Gary Waslewski	0	1	.000	3.28	24	0	8	0	0	1	35.7	28	15	13	2	16	2	17	1	0	1	151
Bill Burbach	0	1	.000	10.80	2	0	1	0	0	0	3.3	6	6	4	0	5	2	3	0	0	2	22
Jim Hardin	0	2	.000	5.08	12	3	3	0	0	0	28.3	35	19	16	3	9	3	14	1	0	2	126
Totals	81	80	.503	3.45	351	162	95	67	15	12	1452.0	1382	641	556	126	423	73	707	23	3	48	6046

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
Bobby Murcer	146	624	529	94	175	25	6	25	94	14	8	91	60	.331	.427	.543	.969	287	9	0	1	3	13
Horace Clarke	159	696	625	76	156	23	7	2	41	17	7	64	43	.250	.321	.318	.639	199	14	2	4	1	2
Roy White	147	634	524	86	153	22	7	19	84	14	7	86	66	.292	.388	.469	.857	246	10	7	0	17	7
Felipe Alou	131	501	461	52	133	20	6	8	69	5	5	32	24	.289	.334	.410	.744	189	15	2	1	5	3
Danny Cater	121	456	428	39	118	16	5	4	50	0	3	19	25	.276	.308	.364	.672	156	18	2	4	3	4
Thurman Munson	125	517	451	71	113	15	4	10	42	6	5	52	65	.251	.335	.368	.703	166	10	7	4	3	1
Gene Michael	139	514	456	36	102	15	0	3	35	3	3	48	64	.224	.299	.276	.576	126	17	3	3	4	8
Jerry Kenney	120	395	325	50	85	10	3	0	20	9	8	56	38	.262	.368	.311	.679	101	10	1	9	4	3
Ron Blomberg	64	216	199	30	64	6	2	7	31	2	4	14	23	.322	.363	.477	.840	95	2	0	1	2	3
John Ellis	83	271	238	16	58	12	1	3	34	0	0	23	42	.244	.322	.340	.663	81	12	6	1	3	5
Jake Gibbs	70	224	206	23	45	9	0	5	21	2	2	12	23	.218	.270	.335	.605	69	3	3	2	1	1
Ron Swoboda	54	170	138	17	36	2	1	2	20	0	0	27	35	.261	.391	.333	.724	46	4	3	1	1	1
Ron Hansen	61	159	145	6	30	3	0	2	20	0	0	9	27	.207	.245	.269	.514	39	5	0	0	5	2
Jim Lyttle	49	97	86	7	17	5	0	1	7	0	2	8	18	.198	.271	.291	.562	25	3	1	1	1	2
Mel Stottlemyre	35	103	94	6	16	1	0	1	11	0	0	5	29	.170	.210	.213	.423	20	1	0	3	1	0
Stan Bahnsen	36	88	79	6	12	2	1	0	3	0	0	1	32	.152	.163	.203	.365	16	0	0	8	0	0
Frank Baker	43	98	79	9	11	2	0	0	2	3	0	16	22	.139	.281	.165	.446	13	2	0	2	1	3
Rusty Torres	9	26	26	5	10	3	0	2	3	0	1	0	8	.385	.385	.731	1.115	19	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Kline	31	75	66	6	9	1	0	0	1	0	0	4	16	.136	.186	.152	.337	10	1	0	5	0	0
Ron Woods	25	36	32	4	8	1	0	1	2	0	0	4	2	.250	.333	.375	.708	12	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Kekich	37	62	52	2	8	0	0	0	4	0	0	2	11	.154	.185	.154	.339	8	0	0	8	0	0
Curt Blefary	21	39	36	4	7	1	0	1	2	0	0	3	5	.194	.256	.306	.562	11	1	0	0	0	0
Fritz Peterson	37	105	85	2	7	1	0	0	8	0	0	5	22	.082	.132	.094	.226	8	2	0	14	1	0
Danny Walton	5	14	14	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	7	.143	.143	.357	.500	5	0	0	0	0	0
Roger Hambright	18	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	1	0	0	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	44	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.111	.111	.111	.222	1	0	0	1	0	0
Gary Waslewski	24	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Len Boehmer	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Tepedino	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Bill Burbach	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Al Closter	14	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jim Hardin	12	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gary Jones	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jack Aker	41	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	3	0	0
Rob Gardner	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Ley	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	1932	6164	5413	648	1377	195	43	97	607	75	55	581	717	.254	.328	.360	.688	1949	140	37	77	56	58

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
John Ellis	1B	65	64	539.0	625	35	7	66	.990	11.020	1.154	0	0	0
Danny Cater	1B	78	57	536.0	564	62	3	54	.995	1.511	8.026	0	0	0
Felipe Alou	1B	42	37	348.0	377	20	2	23	.995	1.267	9.452	0	0	0
Curt Blefary	1B	4	4	29.0	41	2	0	1	1.000	13.345	1.750	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	1B	1	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Horace Clarke	2B	156	153	1381.0	386	455	16	97	.981	5.481	5.391	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	2B	9	8	62.0	28	17	2	7	.957	6.532	5.000	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	3B	109	88	818.0	69	237	15	20	.953	3.367	2.807	0	0	0
Danny Cater	3B	52	49	410.0	41	111	10	7	.938	3.337	2.923	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	3B	30	24	216.0	16	51	6	9	.918	2.792	2.233	0	0	0
Len Boehmer	3B	1	1	8.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	2.000	0	0	0
Thurman Munson	C	117	114	1019.0	547	67	1	4	.998	5.423	5.248	9	23	36	61.0
Jake Gibbs	C	51	48	431.0	229	12	3	1	.988	5.032	4.725	1	15	5	25.0
John Ellis	C	2	0	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Roy White	OF	145	145	1284.0	306	8	0	1	1.000	2.201	2.166	0	0	0
Bobby Murcer	OF	143	140	1258.0	317	10	5	1	.985	2.339	2.287	0	0	0
Felipe Alou	OF	80	73	663.0	129	3	2	0	.985	1.792	1.650	0	0	0
Ron Blomberg	OF	57	49	451.0	96	1	3	1	.970	1.936	1.702	0	0	0
Ron Swoboda	OF	47	41	354.0	80	2	3	0	.965	2.085	1.745	0	0	0
Jim Lyttle	OF	29	21	193.0	47	1	0	0	1.000	2.238	1.655	0	0	0
Rusty Torres	OF	5	5	43.0	13	0	0	0	1.000	2.721	2.600	0	0	0
Ron Woods	OF	9	3	42.0	13	0	1	0	.929	2.786	1.444	0	0	0
Curt Blefary	OF	6	5	37.0	6	1	1	0	.875	1.703	1.167	0	0	0
Danny Walton	OF	4	4	28.0	4	0	0	0	1.000	1.286	1.000	0	0	0
Frank Tepedino	OF	1	0	2.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Thurman Munson	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Fritz Peterson	P	37	35	274.0	14	54	1	7	.986	2.234	1.838	0	0	0
Mel Stottlemyre	P	35	35	270.0	23	55	4	6	.951	2.600	2.229	0	0	0
Stan Bahnsen	P	36	34	242.0	18	55	4	5	.948	2.715	2.028	0	0	0
Steve Kline	P	31	30	222.0	24	49	1	1	.986	2.959	2.355	0	0	0
Mike Kekich	P	37	24	170.0	5	37	0	1	1.000	2.224	1.135	0	0	0
Lindy McDaniel	P	44	0	70.0	2	14	0	0	1.000	2.057	.364	0	0	0
Jack Aker	P	41	0	56.0	10	12	3	0	.880	3.536	.537	0	0	0
Gary Waslewski	P	24	0	36.0	3	5	0	0	1.000	2.000	.333	0	0	0
Jim Hardin	P	12	3	28.0	4	2	0	0	1.000	1.929	.500	0	0	0
Al Closter	P	14	1	28.0	0	8	1	0	.889	2.571	.571	0	0	0
Roger Hambright	P	18	0	27.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	2.000	.333	0	0	0
Gary Jones	P	12	0	14.0	1	1	1	0	.667	1.286	.167	0	0	0
Terry Ley	P	6	0	9.0	1	3	1	0	.800	4.000	.667	0	0	0
Rob Gardner	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Bill Burbach	P	2	0	3.0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Gene Michael	SS	136	128	1149.0	243	474	20	88	.973	5.616	5.272	0	0	0
Frank Baker	SS	38	29	255.0	53	97	8	28	.949	5.294	3.947	0	0	0
Jerry Kenney	SS	5	3	27.0	5	12	0	4	1.000	5.667	3.400	0	0	0
Ron Hansen	SS	3	2	21.0	8	4	0	0	1.000	5.143	4.000	0	0	0
Totals		1777	1457	13061.0	4351	1983	125	433	.981	4.365	3.564	10	38	41	51.9

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