1916 Cleveland Indians season

The 1916 Cleveland Indians season was a season in American baseball. The team finished sixth in the American League with a record of 77–77, 14 games behind the Boston Red Sox.

1916 Cleveland Indians
Major League affiliations
Location
Other information
OwnersJim Dunn
ManagersLee Fohl
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Regular season

Season standings
American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
Boston Red Sox 9163 0.591 — 49–28 42–35
Chicago White Sox 8965 0.578 2 49–28 40–37
Detroit Tigers 8767 0.565 4 49–28 38–39
New York Yankees 8074 0.519 11 46–31 34–43
St. Louis Browns 7975 0.513 12 45–32 34–43
Cleveland Indians 7777 0.500 14 44–33 33–44
Washington Senators 7677 0.497 14½ 49–28 27–49
Philadelphia Athletics 36117 0.235 54½ 23–53 13–64

Record vs. opponents
1916 American League record

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHA SLB WSH
Boston —14–815–714–811–1116–610–12–111–11–1
Chicago 8–14—13–913–910–1218–415–712–10–1
Cleveland 7–159–13—11–1112–1018–411–11–29–13–1
Detroit 8–149–1311–11—14–8–118–413–914–8
New York 11–1112–1010–128–14–1—15–79–1315–7–1
Philadelphia 6–164–184–184–187–15—5–176–15–1
St. Louis 12–10–17–1511–11–29–1313–917–5—10–12–1
Washington 11–11–110–12–113–9–18–147–15–115–6–112–10–1—

Notable transactions

Roster

Beginning June 26, the Indians pioneered the use of uniform numbers on their home uniform jerseys, the first team to do so in MLB. The numbers were used up till the 1917 season.[2] Uniform numbers, though, were not worn on the away uniforms.

1916 Cleveland Indians
Roster
Pitchers Catchers

Infielders

 Outfielders

Other batters

 Manager

Player stats

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
CSteve O'Neill13037889.235029
1BChick Gandil146533138.259072
2BIvan Howard8124646.187023
SSBill Wambsganss136475117.246045
3BTerry Turner124428112.262038
OFBraggo Roth125409117.286472
OFTris Speaker151546211.386279
OFJack Graney155589142.241554

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
Ray Chapman10934680.231027
Elmer Smith7921359.277340
Joe Evans338212.14601
Tom Daly317316.21908
Walter Barbare134811.22903
Marty Kavanagh194411.250110
Hank DeBerry15339.27304
Josh Billings22315.16101
Danny Moeller25302.06701
Bob Coleman19286.21404
Clyde Engle11264.15401
Lou Guisto6193.15802
Milo Allison14185.27800
Al Bergman8143.21400
Howard Lohr371.14301
Jack Bradley230.00000
Larry Chappell320.00000
Joe Leonard320.00000
Ollie Welf100----00

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
Jim Bagby Sr.48272.216172.6188
Stan Coveleski45232.015133.4176
Guy Morton27149.21262.8988
Fred Beebe20100.2532.4132
Joe Boehling1260.2242.6718
Grover Lowdermilk1051.1153.1628

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
Ed Klepfer31143.0662.5262
Fritz Coumbe29120.1752.0239
Al Gould30106.2562.5341
Otis Lambeth1574.0442.9228
Willie Mitchell1243.2255.1524
Pop-Boy Smith525.2123.864
Ken Penner412.2114.265

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
Marty McHale50005.562
Rip Hagerman200012.271
Red Gunkel10000.001
Shorty Desjardien100018.000

Notes
  1. Tris Speaker page at Baseball Reference
  2. "100 years ago, the Indians were the first to put numbers on their jerseys".

References
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