1974 New York Yankees Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 89-73
Finished 2nd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,273,075, Avg. 17,923
Ballpark: Shea Stadium
Manager: Bill Virdon (89-73)
Location: New York, New York

1974 New York Yankees Roster
1974 New York Yankees Results

The New York Yankees of the American League ended the 1974 season with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, finishing second in the AL's East Division.

The Yankees scored 671 runs and surrendered 623 runs. Graig Nettles led New York with 22 home runs Bobby Murcer drove in 88 runs. Lou Piniella paced batters with significant playing time by hitting .305. Pat Dobson and Doc Medich topped the team with 19 wins each, while Pat Dobson recorded a 3.07 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Bill Virdon 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
Pat Dobson	19	15	.559	3.07	39	39	0	12	2	0	281.0	282	111	96	23	75	5	157	4	1	6	1170
Doc Medich	19	15	.559	3.60	38	38	0	17	4	0	279.7	275	122	112	24	91	8	154	8	1	5	1173
Dick Tidrow	11	9	.550	3.87	33	25	4	5	0	1	190.7	205	99	82	14	53	7	100	4	0	4	811
Sparky Lyle	9	3	.750	1.66	66	0	59	0	0	15	114.0	93	30	21	6	43	7	89	1	0	7	469
Rudy May	8	4	.667	2.28	17	15	1	8	2	0	114.3	75	36	29	5	48	0	90	4	1	2	459
Mike Wallace	6	0	1.000	2.41	23	1	8	0	0	0	52.3	42	18	14	3	35	3	34	0	0	5	227
Mel Stottlemyre	6	7	.462	3.58	16	15	1	6	0	0	113.0	119	54	45	7	37	3	40	4	0	3	485
Larry Gura	5	1	.833	2.41	8	8	0	4	2	0	56.0	54	17	15	2	12	1	17	0	0	0	230
Steve Kline	2	2	.500	3.46	4	4	0	0	0	0	26.0	26	12	10	3	5	0	6	1	0	1	106
Dick Woodson	1	2	.333	5.79	8	3	2	0	0	0	28.0	34	19	18	6	12	2	12	1	0	1	128
Dave Pagan	1	3	.250	5.11	16	6	2	1	0	0	49.3	49	29	28	1	28	0	39	0	0	3	214
Cecil Upshaw	1	5	.167	3.02	36	0	17	0	0	6	59.7	53	25	20	1	24	3	27	3	0	0	240
Sam McDowell	1	6	.143	4.69	13	7	3	0	0	0	48.0	42	27	25	6	41	2	33	0	0	3	224
Fred Beene	0	0		2.70	6	0	3	0	0	1	10.0	9	4	3	1	2	0	10	1	0	0	42
Ken Wright	0	0		3.18	3	0	1	0	0	0	5.7	5	2	2	0	7	0	2	0	2	1	29
Tippy Martinez	0	0		4.26	10	0	4	0	0	0	12.7	14	7	6	0	9	2	10	1	2	4	60
Fritz Peterson	0	0		4.70	3	1	2	0	0	0	7.7	13	4	4	1	2	1	5	0	0	1	38
Rick Sawyer	0	0		16.20	1	0	0	0	0	0	1.7	2	3	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	8
Tom Buskey	0	1	.000	6.35	4	0	2	0	0	1	5.7	10	4	4	1	3	1	3	1	0	0	30
Totals	89	73	.549	3.32	344	162	109	53	10	24	1455.3	1402	623	537	104	528	45	829	33	7	47	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
Bobby Murcer	156	679	606	69	166	25	4	10	88	14	5	57	59	.274	.332	.378	.710	229	11	2	2	12	10
Lou Piniella	140	567	518	71	158	26	0	9	70	1	8	32	58	.305	.341	.407	.748	211	18	2	4	11	7
Elliott Maddox	137	550	466	75	141	26	2	3	45	6	5	69	48	.303	.395	.386	.781	180	11	4	8	3	4
Graig Nettles	155	638	566	74	139	21	1	22	75	1	0	59	75	.246	.316	.403	.718	228	9	3	1	9	8
Thurman Munson	144	571	517	64	135	19	2	13	60	2	0	44	66	.261	.316	.381	.697	197	14	1	1	8	12
Roy White	136	555	473	68	130	19	8	7	43	15	6	67	44	.275	.367	.393	.761	186	7	4	8	3	5
Jim Mason	152	487	440	41	110	18	6	5	37	1	2	35	87	.250	.302	.352	.654	155	6	0	7	5	1
Chris Chambliss	110	427	400	38	97	16	3	6	43	0	0	23	43	.243	.282	.343	.625	137	9	0	2	2	1
Ron Blomberg	90	301	264	39	82	11	2	10	48	2	1	29	33	.311	.375	.481	.856	127	5	2	0	6	2
Sandy Alomar	76	299	279	35	75	8	0	1	27	6	4	14	25	.269	.302	.308	.610	86	6	0	4	2	0
Bill Sudakis	89	293	259	26	60	8	0	7	39	0	0	25	48	.232	.296	.344	.639	89	2	1	2	6	1
Gene Michael	81	193	177	19	46	9	0	0	13	0	0	14	24	.260	.313	.311	.623	55	6	0	1	1	0
Rick Dempsey	43	119	109	12	26	3	0	2	12	1	0	8	7	.239	.288	.321	.609	35	5	0	1	1	0
Fernando Gonzalez	51	130	121	11	26	5	1	1	7	0	0	7	7	.215	.258	.298	.555	36	3	0	2	0	0
Otto Velez	27	84	67	9	14	1	1	2	10	0	0	15	24	.209	.345	.343	.689	23	1	0	0	2	1
Mike Hegan	18	62	53	3	12	2	0	2	9	1	1	5	9	.226	.317	.377	.694	20	2	2	2	0	0
Horace Clarke	24	53	47	3	11	1	0	0	1	1	0	4	5	.234	.294	.255	.549	12	1	0	2	0	0
Fred Stanley	33	42	38	2	7	0	0	0	3	1	2	3	2	.184	.244	.184	.428	7	2	0	1	0	0
Alex Johnson	10	28	28	3	6	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	3	.214	.214	.357	.571	10	0	0	0	0	0
Walt Williams	43	56	53	5	6	0	0	0	3	1	0	1	10	.113	.127	.113	.240	6	3	0	1	1	0
Duke Sims	5	16	15	1	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	5	.133	.188	.200	.388	3	0	0	0	0	0
Terry Whitfield	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	1	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Ray Hart	10	22	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	.053	.182	.053	.234	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	66	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Deidel	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	1	0	0	0	0
Larry Murray	6	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ken Wright	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mel Stottlemyre	19	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Tidrow	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dick Woodson	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Wallace	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Cecil Upshaw	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Sawyer	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Pat Dobson	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Larry Gura	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Steve Kline	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Rudy May	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Sam McDowell	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Doc Medich	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Tippy Martinez	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Pagan	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fritz Peterson	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Fred Beene	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2088	6181	5524	671	1451	220	30	101	637	53	35	515	690	.263	.324	.368	.692	2034	122	21	49	72	52

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Chris Chambliss	1B	106	103	920.7	873	78	8	93	.992	9.297	8.972	0	0	0
Bill Sudakis	1B	33	28	258.0	277	23	3	31	.990	1.465	9.091	0	0	0
Otto Velez	1B	21	18	148.7	136	5	2	8	.986	8.536	6.714	0	0	0
Mike Hegan	1B	17	13	123.0	137	8	0	9	1.000	1.610	8.529	0	0	0
Lou Piniella	1B	1	0	5.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	5.000	0	0	0
Sandy Alomar	2B	76	75	672.0	184	192	9	45	.977	5.036	4.947	0	0	0
Gene Michael	2B	45	39	323.3	86	106	6	29	.970	5.344	4.267	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	2B	42	32	283.7	86	82	3	22	.982	5.330	4.000	0	0	0
Horace Clarke	2B	20	9	95.0	27	27	0	5	1.000	5.116	2.700	0	0	0
Fred Stanley	2B	15	7	74.0	23	32	0	10	1.000	6.689	3.667	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	2B	2	0	7.3	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.682	1.500	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	3B	154	154	1368.3	147	377	21	29	.961	3.447	3.403	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	3B	7	4	46.0	4	16	1	1	.952	3.913	2.857	0	0	0
Bill Sudakis	3B	3	2	19.0	1	3	1	0	.800	1.895	1.333	0	0	0
Otto Velez	3B	2	2	16.0	3	3	0	0	1.000	3.375	3.000	0	0	0
Gene Michael	3B	2	0	5.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	1.000	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	3B	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Thurman Munson	C	137	137	1202.7	743	75	22	10	.974	6.121	5.971	6	72	38	34.5
Rick Dempsey	C	31	25	237.3	152	22	4	0	.978	6.598	5.613	1	6	16	72.7
Jim Deidel	C	2	0	7.3	7	1	0	0	1.000	9.818	4.000	0	0	1	100.0
Duke Sims	C	1	0	7.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	7.714	6.000	0	1	0	0.0
Bill Sudakis	C	1	0	1.0	2	0	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	1	0	0.0
Bobby Murcer	OF	156	153	1363.0	297	21	7	2	.978	2.100	2.038	0	0	0
Lou Piniella	OF	130	128	1103.0	265	16	3	0	.989	2.293	2.162	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	OF	135	115	1059.7	334	18	5	4	.986	2.990	2.607	0	0	0
Roy White	OF	67	66	569.7	141	2	1	1	.993	2.259	2.134	0	0	0
Ron Blomberg	OF	19	15	129.7	32	2	0	0	1.000	2.360	1.789	0	0	0
Walt Williams	OF	24	6	99.3	20	1	1	0	.955	1.903	.875	0	0	0
Otto Velez	OF	3	2	17.0	1	0	1	0	.500	.529	.333	0	0	0
Terry Whitfield	OF	1	1	9.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Dempsey	OF	2	0	7.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Larry Murray	OF	3	0	4.3	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Alex Johnson	OF	1	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Pat Dobson	P	39	39	281.0	22	32	3	4	.947	1.730	1.385	0	0	0
Doc Medich	P	38	38	279.7	18	35	3	3	.946	1.706	1.395	0	0	0
Dick Tidrow	P	33	25	190.7	8	22	3	2	.909	1.416	.909	0	0	0
Rudy May	P	17	15	114.3	4	8	0	0	1.000	.945	.706	0	0	0
Sparky Lyle	P	66	0	114.0	3	11	1	2	.933	1.105	.212	0	0	0
Mel Stottlemyre	P	16	15	113.0	7	14	0	0	1.000	1.673	1.313	0	0	0
Cecil Upshaw	P	36	0	59.7	6	12	2	1	.900	2.715	.500	0	0	0
Larry Gura	P	8	8	56.0	4	8	0	0	1.000	1.929	1.500	0	0	0
Mike Wallace	P	23	1	52.3	4	3	1	0	.875	1.204	.304	0	0	0
Dave Pagan	P	16	6	49.3	3	5	0	0	1.000	1.459	.500	0	0	0
Sam McDowell	P	13	7	48.0	1	2	1	0	.750	.563	.231	0	0	0
Dick Woodson	P	8	3	28.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	.643	.250	0	0	0
Steve Kline	P	4	4	26.0	0	4	0	0	1.000	1.385	1.000	0	0	0
Tippy Martinez	P	10	0	12.7	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.421	.200	0	0	0
Fred Beene	P	6	0	10.0	1	3	0	0	1.000	3.600	.667	0	0	0
Fritz Peterson	P	3	1	7.7	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.174	.333	0	0	0
Ken Wright	P	3	0	5.7	2	1	0	0	1.000	4.765	1.000	0	0	0
Tom Buskey	P	4	0	5.7	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Rick Sawyer	P	1	0	1.7	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.800	2.000	0	0	0
Jim Mason	SS	152	144	1217.0	241	430	25	87	.964	4.962	4.414	0	0	0
Gene Michael	SS	39	13	169.3	35	63	3	11	.970	5.209	2.513	0	0	0
Fred Stanley	SS	19	5	64.0	9	27	1	4	.973	5.063	1.895	0	0	0
Fernando Gonzalez	SS	3	0	4.0	4	0	1	0	.800	9.000	1.333	0	0	0
Graig Nettles	SS	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Totals		1818	1458	13098.0	4366	1797	142	413	.977	4.235	3.390	7	80	55	40.7

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