1897 Pittsburgh Pirates
60 - 71
1896 / 1898 (Organization)
8th place in the NL (32.5 GB)
Home Record:
Away Record: 		38 - 27 (.585)
22 - 44 (.333)		 -2.4 wins
-3.0 wins
   
Scored/Expected: 676 / 765 ( -89 )
Allowed/Expected: 835 / 761 ( -74 )
Pyth Record: 52 - 79 (+8)
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Attendance: 165,950 Avg Att: 2,553 (0.70)
Att Rank: 8 / 12 Lg Avg: 3,664
       
Park Factor: 0.97    
HR Factor: 0.75 R/L HR: 0.70 / 0.82
Notes:


Formation
Filters
Home Grown
Positions
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via
1 Elmer Smith
LF
29.3
3.1
20.0
10.1
6
N
Not Available
2 Patsy Donovan
RF
32.3
0.9
13.2
4.2
6
N
Not Available
3 Joe Sugden
C
26.9
-0.6
3.8
-3.6
5
Y
Not Available
4 Frank Killen
SP
26.6
2.4
21.2
8.9
5
N
3
21
1893
 Trade WSN NL
5 Pink Hawley
SP
24.6
2.3
18.4
7.0
3
N
1
17
1895
 Trade SLN NL
6 Bill Merritt
C
26.9
0.2
3.3
-1.7
3
N
6
23
1895
 Purchased CIN NL
7 Denny Lyons
1B
31.3
0.3
3.0
0.2
2
N
Not Available
8 Jim Hughey
SP
28.3
0.0
7.3
1.7
2
N
Not Available
9 Charlie Hastings
SP
26.6
1.2
7.8
3.4
2
N
Not Available
10 Jim Gardner
SP
22.7
0.1
4.9
0.8
2
Y
Not Available
11 Dick Padden
2B
26.8
1.3
14.4
2.7
2
Y
Not Available
12 Bones Ely
SS
34.1
1.5
14.1
1.9
2
N
1
1
1896
 Trade SLN NL
13 Harry Davis
1B
24.0
1.5
14.3
5.5
2
N
7
25
1896
 Trade NY1 NL
14 Jesse Hoffmeister
3B
25.1
0.3
5.3
1.3
1
Y
Not Available
15 Charlie Kuhns
3B
20.7
-0.0
0.0
-0.1
1
Y
Not Available
16 Tom Leahy
LF
28.1
-0.1
1.6
-0.4
1
N
Not Available
17 Jack Rothfuss
1B
25.2
0.4
2.9
0.9
1
Y
Not Available
18 Jesse Tannehill
CF
23.0
1.4
13.3
4.7
1
N
9
26
1896
 Draft (Rule 5) Richmond (Virginia)
19 Jim Donnelly
3B
32.0
-0.5
1.0
-2.8
1
N
11
11
1896
 Trade BLN NL
20 Steve Brodie
CF
28.8
0.7
10.1
1.8
1
N
11
11
1896
 Trade BLN NL
WAR data courtesy of Baseball-Reference.com


Player Pos Hometown
Steve Brodie CF Warrenton, VA (USA)
Harry Davis 1B Philadelphia, PA (US)
Jim Donnelly 3B Meriden, CT (USA)
Patsy Donovan RF County Cork (Ireland)
Bones Ely SS North Girard, PA (USA)
Jim Gardner SP Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
Charlie Hastings SP Ironton, OH (USA)
Pink Hawley SP Beaver Dam, WI (USA)
Jesse Hoffmeister 3B
Jim Hughey SP Wakeshma, MI (USA)
Frank Killen SP Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
Charlie Kuhns 3B Freeport, PA (USA)
Tom Leahy LF New Haven, CT (USA)
Denny Lyons 1B Cincinnati, OH (USA)
Bill Merritt C Lowell, MA (USA)
Dick Padden 2B Wheeling, WV (USA)
Jack Rothfuss 1B Newark, NJ (USA)
Elmer Smith LF Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
Joe Sugden C Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Jesse Tannehill CF Dayton, KY (US)

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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James