1971 Washington Senators Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 63-96
Finished 5th in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 655,156, Avg. 8,509
Ballpark: R.F.K. Stadium
Manager: Ted Williams (63-96)
Location: Washington, District of Columbia

1971 Washington Senators Roster
1971 Washington Senators Results

The Washington Senators of the American League ended the 1971 season with a record of 63 wins and 96 losses, finishing fifth in the AL's East Division.

The Senators plated 537 runs and allowed 660 runs. Frank Howard paced Washington with 26 home runs and drove in 83 runs, while leading hitters with significant playing time by connecting at a .279 clip. Dick Bosman topped the squad with 12 wins and a team-best 3.73 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Ted Williams 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
Dick Bosman	12	16	.429	3.73	35	35	0	7	1	0	236.7	245	110	98	29	71	9	113	5	0	2	993
Denny McLain	10	22	.313	4.28	33	32	1	9	3	0	216.7	233	115	103	31	72	8	103	3	1	4	931
Paul Lindblad	6	4	.600	2.58	43	0	23	0	0	8	83.7	58	25	24	6	29	6	50	2	0	2	331
Bill Gogolewski	6	5	.545	2.75	27	17	3	4	1	0	124.3	112	39	38	5	39	6	70	2	0	1	514
Joe Grzenda	5	2	.714	1.92	46	0	21	0	0	5	70.3	54	19	15	2	17	7	56	1	0	2	273
Casey Cox	5	7	.417	3.98	54	11	21	0	0	7	124.3	131	69	55	9	40	8	43	7	0	5	543
Pete Broberg	5	9	.357	3.47	18	18	0	7	1	0	124.7	104	57	48	10	53	2	89	10	4	10	527
Denny Riddleberger	3	1	.750	3.23	57	0	18	0	0	1	69.7	67	27	25	9	32	7	56	1	0	2	296
Jackie Brown	3	4	.429	5.94	14	9	0	0	0	0	47.0	60	34	31	9	27	2	21	1	0	3	223
Jim Shellenback	3	11	.214	3.53	40	15	11	3	1	0	120.0	123	56	47	10	49	5	47	3	1	2	524
Darold Knowles	2	2	.500	3.52	12	0	6	0	0	2	15.3	17	6	6	2	6	1	16	0	0	0	70
Horacio Pina	1	1	.500	3.59	56	0	21	0	0	2	57.7	47	26	23	2	31	7	38	4	0	3	250
Gerry Janeski	1	5	.167	4.96	23	10	4	0	0	1	61.7	72	38	34	5	34	4	19	3	0	1	281
Mike Thompson	1	6	.143	4.86	16	12	0	0	0	0	66.7	53	39	36	3	54	2	41	3	0	6	301
Totals	63	95	.399	3.70	474	159	129	30	7	26	1418.7	1376	660	583	132	554	74	762	45	6	43	6057

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
Frank Howard	153	633	549	60	153	25	2	26	83	1	0	77	121	.279	.367	.474	.840	260	29	2	0	5	20
Del Unser	153	648	581	63	148	19	6	9	41	11	6	59	68	.255	.325	.355	.679	206	4	2	4	2	10
Don Mincher	100	384	323	35	94	15	1	10	45	2	1	53	52	.291	.389	.437	.826	141	7	2	1	5	4
Dave Nelson	85	358	329	47	92	11	3	5	33	17	8	23	29	.280	.328	.377	.705	124	9	1	4	1	2
Toby Harrah	127	428	383	45	88	11	3	2	22	10	9	40	48	.230	.300	.290	.590	111	8	0	2	3	3
Dick Billings	116	380	349	32	86	14	0	6	48	2	5	21	54	.246	.296	.338	.634	118	5	5	1	4	1
Tim Cullen	125	443	403	34	77	13	4	2	26	2	0	33	47	.191	.252	.258	.510	104	11	0	6	1	4
Paul Casanova	94	329	311	19	63	9	1	5	26	0	3	14	52	.203	.238	.286	.524	89	8	1	1	2	1
Bernie Allen	97	262	229	18	61	11	1	4	22	2	1	33	27	.266	.359	.376	.734	86	2	0	0	0	1
Elliott Maddox	128	312	258	38	56	8	2	1	18	10	4	51	42	.217	.344	.275	.619	71	6	0	1	2	3
Lenny Randle	75	249	215	27	47	11	0	2	13	1	1	24	56	.219	.298	.298	.595	64	3	1	7	2	2
Larry Biittner	66	189	171	12	44	4	1	0	16	1	0	16	20	.257	.323	.292	.615	50	7	1	0	1	3
Tommy McCraw	122	234	207	33	44	6	4	7	25	3	3	19	38	.213	.291	.382	.672	79	4	5	0	3	2
Jeff Burroughs	59	204	181	20	42	9	0	5	25	1	0	22	55	.232	.319	.365	.683	66	4	1	0	0	0
Joe Foy	41	158	128	12	30	8	0	0	11	4	1	27	14	.234	.363	.297	.660	38	4	0	1	2	0
Mike Epstein	24	101	85	6	21	1	1	1	9	1	0	12	31	.247	.366	.318	.684	27	0	4	0	0	1
Curt Flood	13	40	35	4	7	0	0	0	2	0	1	5	2	.200	.300	.200	.500	7	1	0	0	0	0
Richie Scheinblum	27	57	49	5	7	3	0	0	4	0	0	8	5	.143	.263	.204	.467	10	2	0	0	0	0
Dick Bosman	35	88	75	5	7	1	0	0	3	0	0	8	31	.093	.181	.107	.287	8	1	0	5	0	0
Jim French	14	49	41	6	6	2	0	0	4	0	2	7	7	.146	.271	.195	.466	8	3	0	1	0	0
Denny McLain	33	71	58	0	6	1	1	0	7	0	0	4	22	.103	.161	.155	.316	9	0	0	9	0	0
Jim Shellenback	40	32	30	3	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	10	.167	.194	.200	.394	6	1	0	1	0	0
Bill Gogolewski	27	38	32	1	5	1	0	0	4	0	0	2	14	.156	.206	.188	.393	6	1	0	4	0	0
Pete Broberg	18	48	44	2	5	2	0	1	4	0	0	1	22	.114	.133	.227	.361	10	0	0	3	0	0
Tom Ragland	10	24	23	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.174	.208	.174	.382	4	3	1	0	0	0
Jim Mason	3	10	9	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.333	.400	.333	.733	3	0	0	0	0	0
Gerry Janeski	23	17	14	2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	.214	.267	.214	.481	3	0	0	2	0	0
Paul Lindblad	43	19	19	2	3	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.158	.158	.263	.421	5	0	0	0	0	0
Frank Fernandez	18	37	30	0	3	0	0	0	4	0	0	4	10	.100	.194	.100	.294	3	2	0	1	2	0
Jackie Brown	14	15	15	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	10	.133	.133	.133	.267	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Thompson	16	20	17	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	13	.118	.250	.118	.368	2	0	1	0	0	0
Casey Cox	54	28	26	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	19	.077	.111	.077	.188	2	0	0	1	0	0
Don Wert	20	46	40	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	0	4	10	.050	.156	.075	.231	3	2	1	1	0	1
Joe Grzenda	46	9	7	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	4	.143	.143	.143	.286	1	0	0	2	0	0
Horacio Pina	56	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denny Riddleberger	57	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	.000	.333	.000	.333	0	0	0	0	0	0
Darold Knowles	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rick Stelmaszek	6	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Fahey	2	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2152	5986	5290	537	1219	189	30	86	501	68	45	575	956	.230	.307	.326	.634	1726	127	28	58	35	58

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Don Mincher	1B	88	86	725.0	705	59	8	80	.990	9.484	8.682	0	0	0
Frank Howard	1B	68	48	427.0	414	58	4	40	.992	9.948	6.941	0	0	0
Mike Epstein	1B	24	24	208.0	224	12	2	30	.992	1.212	9.833	0	0	0
Tommy McCraw	1B	30	0	48.0	44	1	1	3	.978	8.438	1.500	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	1B	3	1	11.0	11	1	1	1	.923	9.818	4.000	0	0	0
Tim Cullen	2B	78	69	593.0	165	213	1	47	.997	5.737	4.846	0	0	0
Lenny Randle	2B	66	60	530.0	178	178	12	50	.967	6.045	5.394	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	2B	41	24	217.0	54	69	5	10	.961	5.101	3.000	0	0	0
Tom Ragland	2B	10	6	59.0	18	15	0	3	1.000	5.034	3.300	0	0	0
Don Wert	2B	1	0	12.0	2	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	3.000	0	0	0
Joe Foy	2B	3	0	6.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	3.000	.667	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	2B	1	0	2.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	4.500	1.000	0	0	0
Dave Nelson	3B	84	80	714.0	63	149	14	15	.938	2.672	2.524	0	0	0
Joe Foy	3B	37	36	311.0	44	77	5	12	.960	3.502	3.270	0	0	0
Bernie Allen	3B	34	32	262.0	31	57	5	6	.946	3.023	2.588	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	3B	12	4	54.0	4	14	1	3	.947	3.000	1.500	0	0	0
Toby Harrah	3B	7	5	46.0	6	14	1	1	.952	3.913	2.857	0	0	0
Don Wert	3B	7	2	27.0	2	7	2	1	.818	3.000	1.286	0	0	0
Dick Billings	3B	2	0	5.0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.800	.500	0	0	0
Paul Casanova	C	83	81	717.0	416	40	7	4	.985	5.724	5.494	6	32	17	34.7
Dick Billings	C	62	61	548.0	337	35	3	5	.992	6.109	6.000	16	44	21	32.3
Jim French	C	14	13	115.0	60	7	1	2	.985	5.243	4.786	1	4	4	50.0
Bill Fahey	C	2	2	17.0	8	2	1	0	.909	5.294	5.000	0	1	1	50.0
Rick Stelmaszek	C	3	1	13.0	4	1	0	0	1.000	3.462	1.667	0	0	1	100.0
Frank Fernandez	C	1	1	9.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	5.000	5.000	0	3	0	0.0
Del Unser	OF	151	143	1280.0	394	10	8	2	.981	2.841	2.675	0	0	0
Frank Howard	OF	100	100	811.0	141	7	1	0	.993	1.642	1.480	0	0	0
Elliott Maddox	OF	103	58	602.0	197	7	2	1	.990	3.050	1.981	0	0	0
Jeff Burroughs	OF	50	47	407.0	82	3	3	0	.966	1.880	1.700	0	0	0
Tommy McCraw	OF	60	41	390.0	90	1	4	0	.958	2.100	1.517	0	0	0
Larry Biittner	OF	41	40	338.0	72	6	5	0	.940	2.077	1.902	0	0	0
Dick Billings	OF	32	25	222.0	41	2	1	0	.977	1.743	1.344	0	0	0
Richie Scheinblum	OF	13	10	92.0	23	5	2	1	.933	2.739	2.154	0	0	0
Curt Flood	OF	10	8	71.0	16	0	1	0	.941	2.028	1.600	0	0	0
Frank Fernandez	OF	6	5	43.0	7	1	0	0	1.000	1.674	1.333	0	0	0
Dick Bosman	P	35	35	237.0	21	27	1	1	.980	1.823	1.371	0	0	0
Denny McLain	P	33	32	217.0	27	26	0	1	1.000	2.198	1.606	0	0	0
Pete Broberg	P	18	18	125.0	10	12	0	1	1.000	1.584	1.222	0	0	0
Bill Gogolewski	P	27	17	124.0	10	18	1	1	.966	2.032	1.037	0	0	0
Casey Cox	P	54	11	124.0	5	20	1	2	.962	1.815	.463	0	0	0
Jim Shellenback	P	40	15	120.0	2	26	2	4	.933	2.100	.700	0	0	0
Paul Lindblad	P	43	0	84.0	3	18	0	1	1.000	2.250	.488	0	0	0
Denny Riddleberger	P	57	0	70.0	6	8	0	1	1.000	1.800	.246	0	0	0
Joe Grzenda	P	46	0	70.0	0	11	0	0	1.000	1.414	.239	0	0	0
Mike Thompson	P	16	12	67.0	6	12	1	0	.947	2.418	1.125	0	0	0
Gerry Janeski	P	23	10	62.0	7	12	0	2	1.000	2.758	.826	0	0	0
Horacio Pina	P	56	0	58.0	3	14	0	2	1.000	2.638	.304	0	0	0
Jackie Brown	P	14	9	47.0	6	9	0	0	1.000	2.872	1.071	0	0	0
Darold Knowles	P	12	0	15.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	1.200	.167	0	0	0
Toby Harrah	SS	116	97	900.0	181	307	23	69	.955	4.880	4.207	0	0	0
Tim Cullen	SS	62	54	442.0	97	166	10	39	.963	5.355	4.242	0	0	0
Don Wert	SS	7	5	47.0	5	15	0	1	1.000	3.830	2.857	0	0	0
Jim Mason	SS	3	3	26.0	8	13	1	1	.955	7.269	7.000	0	0	0
Joe Foy	SS	1	0	3.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	3.000	1.000	0	0	0
Totals		1990	1431	12770.0	4256	1772	141	443	.977	4.248	3.029	23	84	44	34.4

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