1908 Detroit Tigers
90 - 63
1907 / 1909 (Organization)
1st place in the AL
Home Record:
Away Record: 		44 - 33 (.571)
46 - 30 (.605)		 +2.5 wins
+11.0 wins
   
Scored/Expected: 647 / 543 ( +104 )
Allowed/Expected: 547 / 549 ( +2 )
Pyth Record: 88 - 65 (+2)
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Bennett Park
Attendance: 436,199 Avg Att: 5,592 (0.96)
Att Rank: 5 / 8 Lg Avg: 5,806
       
Park Factor: 1.04    
HR Factor: 0.96 R/L HR: 1.25 / 0.83
Notes:
- American League Champions
- Lost to Chicago Cubs in the World Series

Batting

Filters
Bats
#
R
H
K
1 Ty Cobb
RF
21.5
635
53.1
43.4
92.6
58.6
14.7
17.2
12.6
2.6
49.3
0.0
37.5
-7.4
39.9
0.2
0.0
17.4
0.0
0.0
2 Sam Crawford
CF
28.2
654
40.1
36.8
83.3
33.4
11.2
13.6
8.3
5.6
46.5
0.0
30.3
-5.6
30.1
-3.0
0.0
-7.0
0.0
0.0
3 Matty McIntyre
LF
28.1
672
39.9
26.1
37.5
52.6
11.0
3.9
5.0
-1.5
11.5
0.0
56.1
40.0
59.3
0.9
0.0
-8.9
0.0
0.0
4 Claude Rossman
1B
27.0
571
20.9
23.3
53.0
6.9
4.0
16.1
6.2
0.7
29.8
0.0
12.3
-10.3
12.5
-4.3
0.0
-9.6
0.0
0.0
5 Germany Schaefer
SS
32.4
665
9.3
5.0
14.4
22.5
-1.9
1.3
2.6
0.8
9.4
0.0
-2.5
-6.4
-8.8
-5.2
0.0
20.1
0.0
0.0
6 Donie Bush
SS
20.7
79
2.1
3.0
1.4
-0.1
3.9
-1.3
0.1
-0.2
-1.6
0.0
3.9
1.9
3.5
-0.7
0.0
-1.3
0.0
0.0
7 Ira Thomas
C
27.4
108
0.5
5.7
-0.1
-12.0
10.6
-2.0
-1.2
-0.4
-5.9
0.0
4.1
-2.0
4.9
0.0
0.0
-4.7
0.0
0.0
8 Charley O'Leary
SS
25.7
231
-1.5
0.2
0.9
-9.6
-0.7
2.5
0.4
-0.8
0.6
0.0
-3.0
-6.1
-2.7
1.9
0.0
-3.0
0.0
0.0
9 Clay Perry
3B
26.5
18
-2.2
-2.3
-3.4
-3.0
-1.2
-0.5
-0.2
-0.1
-1.2
0.0
-2.5
-1.2
-2.4
0.8
0.0
-0.4
0.0
0.0
10 Davy Jones
CF
28.0
138
-2.4
-5.3
-9.5
6.5
-2.7
-2.1
-0.7
-0.3
-4.2
0.0
-3.3
4.0
-3.0
-1.3
0.0
6.5
0.0
0.0
11 Red Killefer
2B
23.2
85
-3.8
-2.8
-6.9
-5.4
-0.3
-1.4
-1.0
-0.3
-4.1
0.0
-4.3
-2.5
-5.3
0.2
0.0
1.5
0.0
0.0
12 Boss Schmidt
C
27.8
454
-4.5
6.3
0.7
-30.9
11.8
0.6
-2.4
-0.1
-5.6
0.0
-4.9
-13.7
-5.0
-1.2
0.0
-9.7
0.0
0.0
13 Fred Payne
C
27.8
55
-6.4
-8.3
-11.3
-4.0
-6.9
-1.5
-0.6
-0.2
-3.1
0.0
-6.7
-0.6
-7.4
2.5
0.0
-0.2
0.0
0.0
14 Red Downs
2B
24.9
303
-13.9
-8.4
-9.0
-25.6
-4.7
1.5
-0.4
-0.0
-0.7
0.0
-21.0
-14.8
-20.2
-1.8
0.0
-5.3
0.0
0.0
15 Bill Coughlin
3B
30.0
450
-19.6
-14.5
-35.3
-32.4
-0.1
-7.7
-4.1
-1.5
-20.8
0.0
-17.1
-6.3
-16.9
2.9
0.0
-4.4
0.0
0.0
5118
111.6
108.3
208.2
57.4
48.6
40.1
24.7
4.4
99.9
0.0
79.1
-31.0
78.7
-8.0
0.0
-8.6
0.0
0.0
 
#
R
H
K
1 George Mullin
P
28.0
137
8.6
10.4
14.0
6.3
9.5
-1.2
1.2
0.8
3.6
0.0
12.8
1.5
13.2
1.5
0.0
0.6
0.0
0.0
2 Herm Malloy
P
23.1
9
0.5
1.4
1.0
-0.9
1.8
-0.2
-0.1
-0.0
-0.4
0.0
1.1
-0.4
1.1
-0.0
0.0
-0.1
0.0
0.0
3 George Suggs
P
26.0
12
0.5
0.2
0.8
1.0
-0.6
0.7
-0.1
-0.0
0.6
0.0
0.6
0.5
0.5
-0.0
0.0
-0.1
0.0
0.0
4 Bill Donovan
P
31.7
93
0.1
-1.4
-4.1
5.3
-0.1
-1.2
-0.6
-0.1
-2.7
0.0
3.4
6.4
3.9
-0.4
0.0
1.2
0.0
0.0
5 Ed Siever
P
33.2
19
-0.7
-0.2
-1.0
-1.7
0.5
-0.5
-0.1
-0.0
-0.8
0.0
-0.9
-0.8
-0.9
-0.1
0.0
-0.1
0.0
0.0
6 George Winter
P
30.2
20
-1.0
-1.2
-2.0
-1.7
-0.6
-0.5
-0.1
-0.0
-0.8
0.0
-1.9
-0.8
-2.1
-0.1
0.0
-0.1
0.0
0.0
7 Ed Willett
P
24.3
70
-2.3
-0.8
-2.8
-5.5
0.9
-0.6
-0.5
-0.1
-2.0
0.0
-2.6
-2.9
-2.5
0.7
0.0
-0.4
0.0
0.0
8 Ed Killian
P
31.6
73
-3.6
-2.9
-3.1
-4.1
-2.5
1.3
-0.5
-0.1
-0.2
0.0
-5.7
-3.0
-5.1
-0.3
0.0
-0.3
0.0
0.0
9 Ed Summers
P
23.6
117
-6.2
-6.0
-9.1
-9.1
-3.3
-0.8
-0.8
-0.1
-3.1
0.0
-10.5
-4.9
-10.4
-0.5
0.0
-0.5
0.0
0.0
550
-4.2
-0.4
-6.1
-10.4
5.6
-3.0
-1.6
0.3
-5.7
0.0
-3.6
-4.4
-2.3
0.8
0.0
0.3
0.0
0.0

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