1952 Detroit Tigers

50-104 • 0.325 Win% • 8th in AL

📊 Season Record

50 Wins
104 Losses
0.325 Win %
8th Rank
557 R 738 RA
Diff -181

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557 Runs Scored
738 Runs Allowed
-181 Run Diff
1,026K Attendance

📈 vs. 1952 AL Average

Batting Avg .243 4% below the 1952 league average (.252)
OBP .315 3% below the 1952 league average (.326)
SLG .301 2% below the 1952 league average (.308)
Team ERA 4.25 16% worse than the 1952 league average (3.67)
Runs Scored 557 14% below the 1952 league average (649 R)

🏟️ Home Ballpark

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StadiumTiger Stadium
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Home Games 77
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Total Attendance 1,026,966
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Avg per Game 13,337

⚾ Batting Leaders

Batting Avg

1 Russ Sullivan 0.327 2 Harvey Kuenn 0.325 3 George Kell 0.296 4 Johnny Groth 0.284 5 Jerry Priddy 0.283

Home Runs

1 Walt Dropo 23 2 Vic Wertz 17 3 Bud Souchock 13 4 Cliff Mapes 9 5 Pat Mullin 7

RBI

1 Walt Dropo 70 2 Johnny Groth 51 3 Vic Wertz 51 4 Bud Souchock 45 5 Joe Ginsberg 36
Player G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB AVG
Johnny Groth 141 524 56 149 0 0 4 51 51 39 2 0.284
Walt Dropo 115 459 56 128 0 0 23 70 26 63 2 0.279
Fred Hatfield 112 441 42 104 0 0 2 25 35 52 2 0.236
Joe Ginsberg 113 307 29 68 0 0 6 36 51 21 1 0.221
Vic Wertz 85 285 46 70 0 0 17 51 46 44 1 0.246
Jerry Priddy 75 279 37 79 0 0 4 20 42 29 1 0.283
Bud Souchock 92 265 40 66 0 0 13 45 21 28 1 0.249
Pat Mullin 97 255 29 64 0 0 7 35 31 30 4 0.251
Al Federoff 74 231 14 56 0 0 0 14 16 13 1 0.242
Cliff Mapes 86 193 26 38 0 0 9 23 27 42 0 0.197
Neil Berry 73 189 22 43 0 0 0 13 22 19 1 0.228
Johnny Pesky 69 177 26 45 0 0 1 9 41 11 1 0.254
Matt Batts 56 173 11 41 0 0 3 13 14 22 1 0.237
Don Kolloway 65 173 19 42 0 0 2 21 7 19 0 0.243
George Kell 39 152 11 45 0 0 1 17 15 13 0 0.296
Don Lenhardt 45 144 18 27 0 0 3 13 28 18 0 0.188
Johnny Lipon 39 136 17 30 0 0 0 12 16 6 3 0.221
Jim Delsing 33 113 14 31 0 0 3 15 11 8 1 0.274
Harvey Kuenn 19 80 2 26 0 0 0 8 2 1 2 0.325
Ted Gray 36 76 3 13 0 0 0 2 1 19 0 0.171
Art Houtteman 36 69 2 7 0 0 0 2 2 10 0 0.101
Virgil Trucks 35 64 3 12 0 0 1 3 1 11 1 0.188
Bob Swift 28 58 3 8 0 0 0 4 7 7 0 0.138
Russ Sullivan 15 52 7 17 0 0 3 5 3 5 1 0.327
Bill Wight 23 50 2 11 0 0 0 4 1 7 0 0.220
Johnny Hopp 42 46 5 10 0 0 0 3 6 7 0 0.217
Hal Newhouser 26 46 5 10 0 0 0 4 10 9 0 0.217
Billy Hoeft 34 40 3 6 0 0 0 1 2 15 0 0.150
George Lerchen 14 32 1 5 0 0 1 3 7 10 1 0.156
Bill Tuttle 7 25 2 6 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0.240
Don Lund 8 23 1 7 0 0 0 1 3 3 0 0.304
Marlin Stuart 30 23 3 2 0 0 0 2 3 6 0 0.087
Fred Hutchinson 17 18 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0.056
Ben Taylor 7 18 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.167
Hal White 41 11 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0.182
Dizzy Trout 10 9 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0.333
Dick Littlefield 28 7 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0.143
Bud Black 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Ken Johnson 9 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0.333
Ned Garver 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.000
Carl Linhart 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Dave Madison 10 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0.000
Dick Marlowe 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Hoot Evers 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.000
Alex Garbowski 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000
Wayne McLeland 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.000

🎯 Pitching Leaders

ERA

1 Fred Hutchinson 3.38 2 Hal White 3.69 3 Hal Newhouser 3.74 4 Bill Wight 3.88 5 Virgil Trucks 3.97

Wins

1 Ted Gray 12 2 Hal Newhouser 9 3 Art Houtteman 8 4 Virgil Trucks 5 5 Bill Wight 5

Strikeouts

1 Ted Gray 138 2 Virgil Trucks 129 3 Art Houtteman 109 4 Billy Hoeft 67 5 Bill Wight 65
Player W L ERA G GS SV IP H ER BB SO
Ted Gray 12 17 4.14 35 32 0 224.0 101 138
Art Houtteman 8 20 4.36 35 28 1 221.0 65 109
Virgil Trucks 5 19 3.97 35 29 1 197.0 82 129
Hal Newhouser 9 9 3.74 25 19 0 154.0 47 57
Bill Wight 5 9 3.88 23 19 0 143.2 55 65
Billy Hoeft 2 7 4.32 34 10 4 125.0 63 67
Marlin Stuart 3 2 4.93 30 9 1 91.1 48 32
Hal White 1 8 3.69 41 0 5 63.1 39 18
Dick Littlefield 0 3 4.34 28 1 1 47.2 25 32
Fred Hutchinson 2 1 3.38 12 1 0 37.1 9 12
Dizzy Trout 1 5 5.33 10 2 1 27.0 19 20
Dave Madison 1 1 7.80 10 1 0 15.0 10 7
Ken Johnson 0 0 6.35 9 1 0 11.1 11 10
Dick Marlowe 0 2 7.36 4 1 0 11.0 3 3
Ned Garver 1 0 2.00 1 1 0 9.0 3 3
Bud Black 0 1 10.13 2 2 0 8.0 5 0
Wayne McLeland 0 0 10.13 4 0 0 2.2 6 0

👥 Roster (46)

Matt Batts Neil Berry Bud Black Jim Delsing Walt Dropo Hoot Evers Al Federoff Alex Garbowski Ned Garver Joe Ginsberg Ted Gray Johnny Groth +34 more

46 players

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