1945 New York Yankees season

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1945 New York Yankees
Major League affiliations
  • American League (since 1901)
Location
  • Yankee Stadium (since 1923)
  • New York City (since 1903)
Other information
Owner(s)Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping and Del Webb
General manager(s)Larry MacPhail
Manager(s)Joe McCarthy
Local radioWINS (AM)
(Al Helfer, Bill Slater)
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The 1945 New York Yankees season was the team's 43rd season in New York and its 45th overall. The team finished in fourth place in the American League with a record of 81–71, finishing 6.5 games behind the Detroit Tigers. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.

Regular season[]

Season standings[]

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American League 		W L Pct. GB Home Road
Detroit Tigers 88 65 0.575 — 50–26 38–39
Washington Senators 87 67 0.565 1½ 46–31 41–36
St. Louis Browns 81 70 0.536 6 47–27 34–43
New York Yankees 81 71 0.533 6½ 48–28 33–43
Cleveland Indians 73 72 0.503 11 44–33 29–39
Chicago White Sox 71 78 0.477 15 44–29 27–49
Boston Red Sox 71 83 0.461 17½ 42–35 29–48
Philadelphia Athletics 52 98 0.347 34½ 39–35 13–63


Record vs. opponents[]

1945 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 — 9–13 11–11 12–10–1 6–16 14–8 8–14–1 11–11–1
Chicago 13–9 — 11–8–1 10–12 9–12 12–10 8–13 8–14
Cleveland 11–11 8–11–1 — 11–11 12–9 12–6–1 11–10 8–14
Detroit 10–12–1 12–10 11–11 — 15–7 15–7–1 15–6 10–12
New York 16–6 12–9 9–12 7–15 — 16–6 7–15 14–8
Philadelphia 8–14 10–12 6–12–1 7–15–1 6–16 — 10–12–1 5–17
St. Louis 14–8–1 13–8 10–11 6–15 15–7 12–10–1 — 11–11–1
Washington 11–11–1 14–8 14–8 12–10 8–14 17–5 11–11–1 —


Roster[]

1945 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

  • 22 Paul Waner
 Manager
  • -- Joe McCarthy

Coaches

Player stats[]

Batting[]

Starters by position[]

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

Pos Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
C Mike Garbark 60 176 38 .216 1 26
1B Nick Etten 152 565 161 .285 18 111
2B Snuffy Stirnweiss 152 632 195 .309 10 64
SS Frankie Crosetti 130 441 105 .238 4 48
3B Oscar Grimes 142 480 127 .265 4 45
OF Bud Metheny 133 509 126 .248 8 53
OF Tuck Stainback 95 327 84 .257 5 32
OF Hersh Martin 117 408 109 .267 7 53

Other batters[]

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
Russ Derry 78 253 57 .225 13 45
Charlie Keller 44 163 49 .301 10 34
Aaron Robinson 50 160 45 .281 8 24
Johnny Lindell 41 159 45 .283 1 20
Bill Drescher 48 126 34 .270 0 15
Herb Crompton 36 99 19 .192 0 12
Mike Milosevich 30 69 15 .217 0 7
Joe Buzas 30 65 17 .262 0 6
Don Savage 34 58 13 .224 0 3
Paul Waner 1 0 0 --- 0 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
Bill Bevens 29 184 13 9 3.67 76
Tiny Bonham 23 180.2 8 11 3.29 42
Monk Dubiel 26 151.1 10 9 4.64 45
Hank Borowy 18 132.1 10 5 3.13 35
Red Ruffing 11 87.1 7 3 2.89 24
Atley Donald 9 63.2 5 4 2.97 19
Spud Chandler 4 31 2 1 4.65 12

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
Al Gettel 27 154.2 9 8 3.90 67
Bill Zuber 21 127 5 11 3.19 50
Joe Page 20 102 6 3 2.82 50

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
Jim Turner 30 3 4 10 3.64 22
Ken Holcombe 23 3 3 0 1.79 20
Steve Roser 11 0 0 0 3.67 11
Paul Schreiber 2 0 0 0 4.15 1

Farm system[]

See also: Minor League Baseball
Level Team League Manager
AA Kansas City Blues American Association Casey Stengel
AA Newark Bears International League Billy Meyer
A Binghamton Triplets Eastern League Bill Cronin
B Norfolk Tars Piedmont League Garland Braxton
D Wellsville Yankees PONY League and

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Newark[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

External links[]

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