1971 Detroit Tigers Statistics

American League (AL)
Team Record: 91-71
Finished 2nd in the AL's East Division
Attendance: 1,591,037, Avg. 20,663
Ballpark: Tiger Stadium
Manager: Billy Martin (91-71)
Location: Detroit, Michigan

1971 Detroit Tigers Roster
1971 Detroit Tigers Results

The Detroit Tigers of the American League ended the 1971 season with a record of 91 wins and 71 losses, finishing second in the AL's East Division.

The Tigers scored 701 runs and yielded 645 runs. Norm Cash walloped 32 home runs for Detroit, while Bill Freehan, Jim Northrup, Willie Horton, Aurelio Rodriguez, Al Kaline and Dick McAuliffe each swatted 20 or more, too. Norm Cash recorded 91 runs batted in. Willie Horton led batters with significant playing time by hitting .289. Mickey Lolich earned 25 wins on the mound for the team, plus Joe Coleman, too added 15 or more wins, too Mickey Lolich recorded a 2.92 ERA, best among regularly-used pitchers.

Billy Martin 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
Mickey Lolich	25	14	.641	2.92	45	45	0	29	4	0	376.0	336	133	122	36	92	2	308	7	0	7	1538
Joe Coleman	20	9	.690	3.15	39	38	0	16	3	0	286.0	241	106	100	17	96	3	236	7	1	7	1174
Fred Scherman	11	6	.647	2.71	69	1	40	1	0	20	113.0	91	38	34	11	49	7	46	5	0	2	464
Les Cain	10	9	.526	4.35	26	26	0	3	1	0	144.7	121	77	70	14	91	1	118	6	1	6	635
Tom Timmermann	7	6	.538	3.86	52	2	23	0	0	4	84.0	82	36	36	6	37	3	51	3	0	2	362
Joe Niekro	6	7	.462	4.49	31	15	5	0	0	1	122.3	136	62	61	13	49	3	43	2	0	2	540
Mike Kilkenny	4	5	.444	5.00	30	11	5	2	0	1	86.3	83	52	48	8	44	3	47	2	0	4	387
Dean Chance	4	6	.400	3.51	31	14	5	0	0	0	89.7	91	43	35	5	50	4	64	4	1	4	405
Bill Gilbreth	2	1	.667	4.80	9	5	0	2	0	0	30.0	28	17	16	4	21	1	14	2	0	1	133
Jim Hannan	1	0	1.000	3.27	7	0	3	0	0	0	11.0	7	4	4	1	7	0	6	1	0	1	46
Bill Zepp	1	1	.500	5.12	16	4	4	0	0	2	31.7	41	20	18	2	17	3	15	3	0	1	150
Dave Boswell	0	0		6.23	3	0	1	0	0	0	4.3	3	3	3	0	6	0	3	0	0	0	22
Chuck Seelbach	0	0		13.50	5	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	6	6	6	2	7	0	1	1	0	0	24
Jim Foor	0	0		18.00	3	0	1	0	0	0	1.0	2	2	2	0	4	0	2	0	0	0	9
Ron Perranoski	0	1	.000	2.50	11	0	7	0	0	2	18.0	16	9	5	2	3	1	8	1	0	0	72
Daryl Patterson	0	1	.000	4.82	12	0	3	0	0	0	9.3	14	7	5	1	6	1	5	1	2	2	48
Jack Whillock	0	2	.000	5.63	7	0	2	0	0	1	8.0	10	5	5	0	2	0	6	0	0	0	35
Bill Denehy	0	3	.000	4.22	31	1	10	0	0	1	49.0	47	25	23	4	28	0	27	4	0	1	224
Totals	91	71	.562	3.63	427	162	109	53	8	32	1468.3	1355	645	593	126	609	32	1000	49	5	40	6268

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
Aurelio Rodriguez	154	639	604	68	153	30	7	15	39	4	6	27	93	.253	.288	.401	.688	242	14	3	3	2	6
Bill Freehan	148	586	516	57	143	26	4	21	71	2	7	54	48	.277	.353	.465	.818	240	13	9	3	4	9
Willie Horton	119	498	450	64	130	25	1	22	72	1	5	37	75	.289	.349	.496	.845	223	15	7	0	4	8
Norm Cash	135	523	452	72	128	10	3	32	91	1	0	59	86	.283	.372	.531	.903	240	5	7	1	4	7
Jim Northrup	136	524	459	72	124	27	2	16	71	7	4	60	43	.270	.355	.442	.797	203	14	2	0	3	9
Ed Brinkman	159	589	527	40	120	18	2	1	37	1	4	44	54	.228	.293	.275	.568	145	14	7	6	5	7
Al Kaline	133	501	405	69	119	19	2	15	54	4	6	82	57	.294	.416	.462	.878	187	12	7	1	6	9
Mickey Stanley	139	432	401	43	117	14	5	7	41	1	3	24	44	.292	.329	.404	.733	162	7	0	3	4	5
Dick McAuliffe	128	537	477	67	99	16	6	18	57	4	1	53	67	.208	.293	.379	.672	181	8	5	1	1	4
Gates Brown	82	218	195	37	66	2	3	11	29	4	2	21	17	.338	.408	.549	.957	107	4	2	0	0	2
Tony Taylor	55	196	181	27	52	10	2	3	19	5	1	12	11	.287	.335	.414	.749	75	4	1	2	0	1
Dalton Jones	83	148	138	15	35	5	0	5	11	1	3	9	21	.254	.304	.399	.703	55	3	1	0	0	1
Ike Brown	59	132	110	20	28	1	0	8	19	0	1	19	25	.255	.359	.482	.841	53	4	0	1	2	1
Mickey Lolich	45	148	115	9	15	2	0	0	7	0	0	16	55	.130	.242	.148	.390	17	4	1	16	0	0
Jim Price	29	62	54	4	13	2	0	1	7	0	0	6	3	.241	.323	.333	.656	18	3	1	0	1	1
Kevin Collins	35	41	41	6	11	2	1	1	4	0	0	0	12	.268	.268	.439	.707	18	1	0	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	39	112	96	1	9	2	0	0	2	0	0	6	39	.094	.146	.115	.260	11	3	0	9	1	0
Les Cain	27	58	55	7	8	1	0	1	2	0	0	1	23	.145	.161	.218	.379	12	0	0	2	0	0
Cesar Gutierrez	38	39	37	8	7	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	3	.189	.211	.189	.400	7	0	1	1	0	0
Fred Scherman	69	30	24	3	5	0	0	0	4	0	0	3	9	.208	.321	.208	.530	5	0	1	2	0	0
Joe Niekro	32	38	30	5	4	1	0	0	2	0	0	2	9	.133	.188	.167	.354	5	0	0	6	0	0
Tim Hosley	7	16	16	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	0	0	1	.188	.188	.563	.750	9	1	0	0	0	0
John Young	2	4	4	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.750	1.250	3	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Gilbreth	9	11	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	.182	.182	.182	.364	2	0	0	0	0	0
Marv Lane	8	15	14	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	3	.143	.200	.143	.343	2	0	0	0	0	0
Mike Kilkenny	30	25	24	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	.083	.083	.083	.167	2	0	0	1	0	0
Gene Lamont	7	15	15	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	5	.067	.067	.067	.133	1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Timmermann	52	22	19	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	11	.053	.100	.053	.153	1	0	0	2	0	0
Jack Whillock	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	11	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Zepp	16	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Hannan	7	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bill Denehy	31	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.600	.000	.600	0	0	0	1	0	0
Dean Chance	31	22	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	.000	.000	.000	.000	0	0	0	1	0	0
Daryl Patterson	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Chuck Seelbach	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Jim Foor	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Dave Boswell	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0					0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	2085	6196	5502	701	1399	214	38	179	652	35	43	540	854	.254	.325	.405	.730	2226	129	55	62	37	70

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	GS	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB	SB	CS	CS%
Norm Cash	1B	131	122	1105.0	1020	75	9	105	.992	8.919	8.359	0	0	0
Jim Northrup	1B	32	22	208.0	236	16	5	23	.981	1.904	7.875	0	0	0
Ike Brown	1B	17	16	113.0	104	7	0	5	1.000	8.841	6.529	0	0	0
Al Kaline	1B	5	2	29.0	27	1	0	3	1.000	8.690	5.600	0	0	0
John Young	1B	1	0	6.0	7	0	0	0	1.000	1.500	7.000	0	0	0
Tim Hosley	1B	1	0	5.0	5	0	0	0	1.000	9.000	5.000	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	1B	3	0	3.0	4	0	0	1	1.000	12.000	1.333	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	2B	123	117	1034.0	322	308	8	86	.987	5.484	5.122	0	0	0
Tony Taylor	2B	51	38	383.0	114	107	1	29	.995	5.193	4.333	0	0	0
Ike Brown	2B	8	6	42.0	12	13	1	3	.962	5.357	3.125	0	0	0
Cesar Gutierrez	2B	2	1	5.0	2	1	0	1	1.000	5.400	1.500	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	2B	1	0	4.0	0	1	0	0	1.000	2.250	1.000	0	0	0
Kevin Collins	2B	1	0	1.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	18.000	2.000	0	0	0
Aurelio Rodriguez	3B	153	148	1322.0	127	341	23	33	.953	3.186	3.059	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	3B	13	10	81.0	4	16	2	2	.909	2.222	1.538	0	0	0
Ike Brown	3B	4	2	26.0	6	6	1	2	.923	4.154	3.000	0	0	0
Kevin Collins	3B	4	1	17.0	1	5	0	0	1.000	3.176	1.500	0	0	0
Cesar Gutierrez	3B	5	0	12.0	1	3	0	1	1.000	3.000	.800	0	0	0
Tony Taylor	3B	3	1	10.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	2.700	1.000	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	C	144	142	1265.0	912	50	4	6	.996	6.844	6.681	7	67	36	35.0
Jim Price	C	25	13	138.0	99	7	2	2	.981	6.913	4.240	3	12	5	29.4
Gene Lamont	C	7	4	41.0	38	2	2	0	.952	8.780	5.714	2	1	1	50.0
Tim Hosley	C	4	3	24.0	21	0	0	0	1.000	7.875	5.250	0	1	0	0.0
Willie Horton	OF	118	117	1012.0	176	8	7	1	.963	1.636	1.559	0	0	0
Al Kaline	OF	129	105	977.0	207	6	0	0	1.000	1.962	1.651	0	0	0
Mickey Stanley	OF	139	98	976.0	315	10	4	3	.988	2.997	2.338	0	0	0
Jim Northrup	OF	108	94	862.0	205	4	4	0	.981	2.182	1.935	0	0	0
Gates Brown	OF	56	49	372.0	68	2	1	0	.986	1.694	1.250	0	0	0
Dalton Jones	OF	16	13	112.0	17	0	0	0	1.000	1.366	1.063	0	0	0
Ike Brown	OF	9	7	54.0	10	0	1	0	.909	1.667	1.111	0	0	0
Marv Lane	OF	6	3	31.0	6	0	0	0	1.000	1.742	1.000	0	0	0
Kevin Collins	OF	2	0	8.0	3	0	0	0	1.000	3.375	1.500	0	0	0
Bill Freehan	OF	1	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Mickey Lolich	P	45	45	376.0	9	40	1	2	.980	1.173	1.089	0	0	0
Joe Coleman	P	39	38	286.0	18	32	3	2	.943	1.573	1.282	0	0	0
Les Cain	P	26	26	145.0	5	19	1	2	.960	1.490	.923	0	0	0
Joe Niekro	P	31	15	122.0	9	25	1	1	.971	2.508	1.097	0	0	0
Fred Scherman	P	69	1	113.0	7	23	0	1	1.000	2.389	.435	0	0	0
Dean Chance	P	31	14	90.0	6	16	6	0	.786	2.200	.710	0	0	0
Mike Kilkenny	P	30	11	86.0	4	14	2	0	.900	1.884	.600	0	0	0
Tom Timmermann	P	52	2	84.0	4	14	0	2	1.000	1.929	.346	0	0	0
Bill Denehy	P	31	1	49.0	4	6	0	0	1.000	1.837	.323	0	0	0
Bill Zepp	P	16	4	32.0	3	6	0	0	1.000	2.531	.563	0	0	0
Bill Gilbreth	P	9	5	30.0	1	7	0	0	1.000	2.400	.889	0	0	0
Ron Perranoski	P	11	0	18.0	0	2	1	0	.667	1.000	.182	0	0	0
Jim Hannan	P	7	0	11.0	1	5	0	1	1.000	4.909	.857	0	0	0
Daryl Patterson	P	12	0	9.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	2.000	.167	0	0	0
Jack Whillock	P	7	0	8.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	2.250	.286	0	0	0
Chuck Seelbach	P	5	0	4.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Dave Boswell	P	3	0	4.0	0	2	0	0	1.000	4.500	.667	0	0	0
Jim Foor	P	3	0	1.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0	0	0
Ed Brinkman	SS	159	158	1396.0	235	513	15	91	.980	4.822	4.704	0	0	0
Cesar Gutierrez	SS	14	4	59.0	11	22	1	2	.971	5.034	2.357	0	0	0
Dick McAuliffe	SS	7	0	10.0	4	2	0	1	1.000	5.400	.857	0	0	0
Ike Brown	SS	1	0	5.0	1	1	0	0	1.000	3.600	2.000	0	0	0
Aurelio Rodriguez	SS	1	0	3.0	1	3	0	2	1.000	12.000	4.000	0	0	0
Totals		1931	1458	13220.0	4395	1747	106	413	.983	4.181	3.181	12	81	42	34.1

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