1940 New York Yankees season

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1940 New York Yankees
Major League affiliations
  • American League (since 1901)
Location
  • Yankee Stadium (since 1923)
  • New York City, New York (since 1903)
Other information
Owner(s)Estate of Jacob Ruppert
General manager(s)Ed Barrow
Manager(s)Joe McCarthy
Local radioWABC (AM)
(Mel Allen, Jay C. Flippen)
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The 1940 New York Yankees season was the team's 38th season in New York and its 40th overall. The team finished in third place with a record of 88–66, finishing two games behind the American League champion Detroit Tigers and one game behind the second-place Cleveland Indians. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy. Their home games were played at Yankee Stadium.

Offseason[]

  • October 14, 1939: Hank Sauer was drafted from the Yankees by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1939 minor league draft.[1]

Regular season[]

Season standings[]

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American League 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
Detroit Tigers 90 64 0.584 — 50–29 40–35
Cleveland Indians 89 65 0.578 1 51–30 38–35
New York Yankees 88 66 0.571 2 52–24 36–42
Boston Red Sox 82 72 0.532 8 45–34 37–38
Chicago White Sox 82 72 0.532 8 41–36 41–36
St. Louis Browns 67 87 0.435 23 37–39 30–48
Washington Senators 64 90 0.416 26 36–41 28–49
Philadelphia Athletics 54 100 0.351 36 29–42 25–58


Record vs. opponents[]

1940 American League Records
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Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston — 11–11 8–14 11–11 9–13 18–4 12–10 13–9
Chicago 11–11 — 6–16 13–9 11–11–1 16–6 13–9 12–10
Cleveland 14–8 16–6 — 11–11 10–12 14–8 11–11–1 13–9
Detroit 11–11 9–13 11–11 — 14–8 11–11 18–4–1 16–6
New York 13–9 11–11–1 12–10 8–14 — 13–9 14–8 17–5
Philadelphia 4–18 6–16 8–14 11–11 9–13 — 8–14 8–14
St. Louis 10–12 9–13 11–11–1 4–18–1 8–14 14–8 — 11–11
Washington 9–13 10–12 9–13 6–16 5–17 14–8 11–11 —


Roster[]

1940 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers
  •  8 Bill Dickey
  • 26 Buddy Rosar

Infielders

Outfielders Manager
  • -- Joe McCarthy

Coaches

Player stats[]

= Indicates team leader

Batting[]

Starters by position[]

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen Bases

Pos Player G AB R H Avg. HR RBI SB
C Bill Dickey 106 372 45 92 .247 9 54 0
1B Babe Dahlgren 155 568 51 150 .264 12 73 1
2B Joe Gordon 155 616 112 173 .281 30 103 18
3B Red Rolfe 139 588 102 147 .250 10 53 4
SS Frankie Crosetti 145 546 84 106 .194 4 31 14
OF Charlie Keller 138 500 102 143 .286 21 93 8
OF Joe DiMaggio 132 508 93 179 .352 31 133 1
OF George Selkirk 118 379 68 102 .269 19 71 3

[2]

Other batters[]

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; R = Runs; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in; SB = Stolen bases

Player G AB R H Avg. HR RBI SB
Tommy Henrich 90 293 57 90 .307 10 53 1
Buddy Rosar 73 228 34 68 .298 4 37 7
Bill Knickerbocker 45 124 17 30 .242 1 10 1
Buster Mills 34 63 10 25 .397 1 15 0
Jake Powell 12 27 3 5 .185 0 2 0
Mike Chartak 11 15 2 2 .133 0 3 0

Pitching[]

Starting pitchers[]

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Red Ruffing 30 226 15 12 3.38 97
Marius Russo 30 189.1 14 8 3.28 87
Spud Chandler 27 172 8 7 4.60 56
Marv Breuer 27 164 8 9 4.55 71
Monte Pearson 16 109.2 7 5 3.69 43
Tiny Bonham 12 99.1 9 3 1.90 37

Other pitchers[]

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G IP W L ERA SO
Atley Donald 24 118.2 8 3 3.03 60
Steve Sundra 27 99.1 4 6 5.53 26
Lefty Gomez 9 27.1 3 3 6.59 14

Relief pitchers[]

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Player G W L SV ERA SO
Johnny Murphy 35 8 4 9 3.69 23
Bump Hadley 25 3 5 2 5.74 39
Oral Hildebrand 13 1 1 0 1.86 5
Lee Grissom 5 0 0 0 0.00 1

Farm system[]

See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AA Kansas City Blues American Association Billy Meyer
AA Newark Bears International League Johnny Neun
A Binghamton Triplets Eastern League Bruno Betzel
B Norfolk Tars Piedmont League Ray White
B Augusta Tigers Sally League Phil Page
B Wenatchee Chiefs Western International League John Kerr and
C Amsterdam Rugmakers Canadian–American League Eddie Sawyer
C Akron Yankees Middle Atlantic League Pip Koehler
C Idaho Falls Russets Pioneer League
C Joplin Miners Western Association
D Neosho Yankees Arkansas–Missouri League
D Easton Yankees Eastern Shore League Ray Powell
D Butler Yankees Pennsylvania State Association Tom Kain
D Norfolk Yankees Western League Doc Bennett

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Newark, Binghamton, Amsterdam, Akron, Butler

Arkansas–Missouri League folded, July 1, 1940[3]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Hank Sauer page at Baseball Reference
  2. ^ "1940 New York Yankees Statistics".
  3. ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

References[]

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