1937 Philadelphia Athletics Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 54-97
Finished 7th in the AL
Attendance: 430,738, Avg. 8,047
Ballpark: Shibe Park
Manager: Connie Mack (39-80)
Manager: Earle Mack (15-17)
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1937 Philadelphia Athletics Roster
1937 Philadelphia Athletics Results

The Philadelphia Athletics of the American League ended the 1937 season with a record of 54 wins and 97 losses, finishing seventh in the AL.

The Athletics tallied 699 runs, worst in the circuit, and surrendered 854 runs. Bob Johnson and Wally Moses paced Philadelphia with 25 home runs apiece. Bob Johnson drove in 108 runs. Wally Moses led all qualifying hitters on the roster with a .320 average. Harry Kelley topped the squad with 13 wins, while Eddie Smith recorded a 3.94 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Connie Mack and Earle Mack 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
Harry Kelley	13	21	.382	5.36	41	29	8	14	0	0	205.0	267	154	122	16	79	68	3	0	6	964
George Caster	12	19	.387	4.43	34	33	1	19	3	0	231.7	227	141	114	23	107	100	2	0	2	1005
Bud Thomas	8	15	.348	4.99	35	26	6	6	1	0	169.7	208	108	94	15	52	54	1	2	5	763
Buck Ross	5	10	.333	4.89	28	22	2	7	1	0	147.3	183	102	80	12	63	37	2	0	8	673
Al Williams	4	1	.800	5.38	16	8	5	2	0	1	75.3	88	51	45	0	49	27	1	0	3	349
Lynn Nelson	4	9	.308	5.90	30	4	21	1	0	2	116.0	140	78	76	12	51	49	2	0	1	531
Eddie Smith	4	17	.190	3.94	38	23	11	14	1	5	196.7	178	100	86	18	90	79	4	0	2	847
Herman Fink	2	1	.667	4.05	28	3	13	1	0	1	80.0	82	43	36	6	35	18	1	0	2	352
Bill Kalfass	1	0	1.000	3.00	3	1	2	1	0	0	12.0	10	4	4	0	10	9	0	0	0	54
Chubby Dean	1	0	1.000	4.00	2	1	1	0	0	0	9.0	7	4	4	0	6	4	0	0	0	40
Fred Archer	0	0		6.00	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.0	4	2	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	13
Randy Gumpert	0	0		12.00	10	1	5	0	0	0	12.0	16	17	16	1	15	5	1	0	2	65
George Turbeville	0	4	.000	4.77	31	3	14	0	0	0	77.3	80	50	41	2	56	17	0	1	9	360
Totals	54	97	.358	4.85	297	154	89	65	6	9	1335.0	1490	854	720	105	613	469	17	3	40	6016

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	HBP	SH
Wally Moses	154	712	649	113	208	48	13	25	86	9	7	54	38	.320	.374	.550	.925	357	2	7
Bob Johnson	138	576	477	91	146	32	6	25	108	9	7	98	65	.306	.425	.556	.981	265	1	0
Billy Werber	128	576	493	85	144	31	4	7	70	35	13	74	39	.292	.386	.414	.799	204	1	8
Skeeter Newsome	122	489	438	53	111	22	1	1	30	11	5	37	22	.253	.312	.315	.627	138	0	14
Lou Finney	92	404	379	53	95	14	9	1	20	2	5	20	16	.251	.288	.343	.631	130	0	5
Rusty Peters	116	385	339	39	88	17	6	3	43	4	4	41	59	.260	.339	.372	.711	126	0	5
Earle Brucker	102	368	317	40	82	16	5	6	37	1	2	48	30	.259	.356	.397	.754	126	0	3
Chubby Dean	104	358	309	36	81	14	4	2	31	2	1	42	10	.262	.350	.353	.703	109	0	7
Jesse Hill	70	275	242	32	71	12	3	1	37	16	3	31	20	.293	.374	.380	.754	92	0	2
Jack Rothrock	88	260	232	28	62	15	0	0	21	1	0	28	15	.267	.346	.332	.678	77	0	0
Frankie Hayes	60	217	188	24	49	11	1	10	38	0	0	29	34	.261	.359	.489	.849	92	0	0
Lynn Nelson	74	120	113	18	40	6	2	4	29	1	0	6	13	.354	.387	.549	.935	62	0	1
Wayne Ambler	56	175	162	3	35	5	0	0	11	1	0	13	8	.216	.274	.247	.521	40	0	0
Bill Cissell	34	135	117	15	31	7	0	1	14	0	0	17	10	.265	.358	.350	.709	41	0	1
Gene Hasson	28	111	98	12	30	6	3	3	14	0	0	13	14	.306	.387	.520	.908	51	0	0
George Caster	37	93	90	6	19	4	0	0	11	0	0	2	24	.211	.228	.256	.484	23	0	1
Eddie Smith	40	77	73	4	17	6	0	0	3	1	0	2	11	.233	.253	.315	.568	23	0	2
Harry Kelley	41	75	71	6	16	5	0	0	8	0	0	2	5	.225	.257	.296	.553	21	1	1
Babe Barna	14	38	36	10	14	2	0	2	9	1	0	2	6	.389	.421	.611	1.032	22	0	0
Bill Conroy	26	67	60	4	12	1	1	0	3	1	0	7	9	.200	.284	.250	.534	15	0	0
Ace Parker	38	100	94	8	11	0	1	2	13	0	0	4	17	.117	.153	.202	.355	19	0	2
Warren Huston	38	57	54	5	7	3	0	0	3	0	1	2	9	.130	.161	.185	.346	10	0	1
George Turbeville	31	26	26	3	6	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	6	.231	.231	.308	.538	8	0	0
Bud Thomas	35	58	47	3	6	1	0	1	5	0	0	4	25	.128	.196	.213	.409	10	0	7
Herman Fink	28	24	24	0	5	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	.208	.208	.208	.417	5	0	0
Buck Ross	28	54	49	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	24	.102	.185	.102	.287	5	0	0
Eddie Yount	4	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	2	0	0
Doyt Morris	6	13	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.154	.154	.154	.308	2	0	0
Al Williams	16	28	24	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	13	.083	.120	.083	.203	2	0	3
Randy Gumpert	10	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	1	0	0
Bill Kalfass	3	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0
Hal Wagner	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0
Fred Archer	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0
Totals	1763	5886	5228	699	1398	278	60	94	649	95	48	583	557	.267	.341	.397	.739	2078	5	70

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB
Gene Hasson	1B	28	290	8	0	31	1.000	1.643	0
Lou Finney	1B	50	428	28	5	38	.989	9.120	0
Chubby Dean	1B	78	705	38	7	55	.991	9.526	0
Bill Conroy	1B	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Babe Barna	1B	1	9	2	0	3	1.000	11.000	0
Jack Rothrock	2B	1	2	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	0
Rusty Peters	2B	70	138	170	11	34	.966	4.400	0
Ace Parker	2B	9	10	10	0	2	1.000	2.222	0
Bob Johnson	2B	2	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Warren Huston	2B	16	27	40	6	12	.918	4.188	0
Lou Finney	2B	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Bill Cissell	2B	33	87	115	8	17	.962	6.121	0
Wayne Ambler	2B	56	107	149	12	34	.955	4.571	0
Billy Werber	3B	125	132	260	17	25	.958	3.136	0
Rusty Peters	3B	31	37	54	13	2	.875	2.935	0
Warren Huston	3B	2	1	5	1	2	.857	3.000	0
Hal Wagner	C	1	1	0	0	1	1.000	1.000	0
Frankie Hayes	C	56	208	23	7	4	.971	4.125	9
Bill Conroy	C	18	57	6	0	2	1.000	3.500	2
Earle Brucker	C	92	323	48	11	13	.971	4.033	4
Eddie Yount	OF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	0
Billy Werber	OF	3	9	0	0	0	1.000	3.000	0
Eddie Smith	OF	2	3	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	0
Jack Rothrock	OF	58	130	2	1	0	.992	2.276	0
Ace Parker	OF	5	8	0	1	0	.889	1.600	0
Lynn Nelson	OF	6	16	1	0	0	1.000	2.833	0
Wally Moses	OF	154	323	16	15	4	.958	2.201	0
Doyt Morris	OF	3	7	0	0	0	1.000	2.333	0
Bob Johnson	OF	133	313	14	8	3	.976	2.459	0
Jesse Hill	OF	68	163	4	8	0	.954	2.456	0
Lou Finney	OF	39	91	2	7	1	.930	2.385	0
Babe Barna	OF	9	8	0	2	0	.800	.889	0
Al Williams	P	16	2	14	1	5	.941	1.000	0
George Turbeville	P	31	2	14	5	0	.762	.516	0
Bud Thomas	P	35	7	17	0	0	1.000	.686	0
Eddie Smith	P	38	6	28	0	1	1.000	.895	0
Buck Ross	P	28	7	28	1	2	.972	1.250	0
Lynn Nelson	P	30	3	14	0	0	1.000	.567	0
Harry Kelley	P	41	10	32	0	2	1.000	1.024	0
Bill Kalfass	P	3	0	1	0	0	1.000	.333	0
Randy Gumpert	P	10	1	3	0	0	1.000	.400	0
Herman Fink	P	28	0	16	0	1	1.000	.571	0
Chubby Dean	P	2	1	2	0	0	1.000	1.500	0
George Caster	P	34	8	44	4	2	.929	1.529	0
Fred Archer	P	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	0
Rusty Peters	SS	13	16	42	5	3	.921	4.462	0
Ace Parker	SS	19	36	50	9	10	.905	4.526	0
Skeeter Newsome	SS	122	256	408	32	76	.954	5.443	0
Warren Huston	SS	15	12	13	2	3	.926	1.667	0
Totals		1619	4005	1725	199	388	.966	3.539	15

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