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1949 Boston Red Sox (MLB)

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Nickname:	Red Sox
W-L Record:	96-58 .623
Rank:	2^nd in American League
Run Differential:	896-667 + 229
Roster Continuity	93.99% 1/16
Manager(s):	Joe McCarthy
General Manager:	Joe Cronin (1949-09-28), Joe Cronin
Location:	Boston, Massachusetts
Ballpark:	Fenway Park
Attendance:	1,596,650 5/16
Playoffs:	Did not qualify
Top Draft Pick:	All picks
Years Active:	1901-2016
Franchise Information
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Coaching Staff

Bullpen Coach: Johnny Schulte
First Base Coach: Earle Combs
Hitting Coach: Paul Schreiber
Third Base Coach: Kiki Cuyler

Organization Affiliates

MLB:

Boston Red Sox (MLB-AL)

96-58

Organizational Player Roster
Boston Red Sox Affiliate History

American League Standings
Team	W	L	WPct	GBL
NY Yankees	97	57	.630	--
Boston	96	58	.623	1.0
Cleveland	89	65	.578	8.0
Detroit	87	67	.565	10.0
Philadelphia	81	73	.526	16.0
Chi White Sox	63	91	.409	34.0
St. Louis	53	101	.344	44.0
Washington	50	104	.325	47.0

Batting Statistics

Batting Statistics

#	Player	Pos	Age	Diff	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	HBP	IBB	SH	SF	GDP	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	ISO	secA	Babip	K/BB	AB/HR	TB	PA
5	Vern Stephens	SS	28		155	610	113	177	31	2	39	159	2	2	101	73	0		0		19	.290	.391	.539	930	.249	.415	.277	0.72	15.6	329	711
7	Dom DiMaggio	OF	32		145	605	126	186	34	5	8	60	9	7	96	55	2		3		10	.307	.404	.420	824	.112	.274	.328	0.57	75.6	254	706
6	Johnny Pesky	3B	29		148	604	111	185	27	7	2	69	8	4	100	19	4		5		12	.306	.408	.384	792	.078	.250	.314	0.19	302.0	232	713
9	Ted Williams	OF	30		155	566	150	194	39	3	43	159	1	1	162	48	2		0		22	.343	.490	.650	1140	.307	.594	.318	0.30	13.2	368	730
1	Bobby Doerr	2B	31		139	541	91	167	30	9	18	109	2	2	75	33	0		7		31	.309	.393	.497	890	.189	.327	.304	0.44	30.1	269	623
2	Al Zarilla	OF	30		124	474	68	133	32	4	9	71	4	4	48	51	4		1		14	.281	.352	.422	774	.141	.243	.300	1.06	52.7	200	527
10	Billy Goodman	1B	23		122	443	54	132	23	3	0	56	2	0	58	21	2		6		14	.298	.382	.363	745	.065	.201	.313	0.36	--	161	509
8	Birdie Tebbetts	C	36		122	403	42	109	14	0	5	48	8	1	62	22	1		6		14	.270	.369	.342	711	.072	.243	.277	0.35	80.6	138	472
14	Matt Batts	C	27		60	157	23	38	9	1	3	31	1	0	25	22	1		0		4	.242	.350	.369	719	.127	.293	.265	0.88	52.3	58	183
11	Billy Hitchcock	1B	32		55	147	22	30	6	1	0	9	2	3	17	11	1		5		7	.204	.291	.259	550	.054	.163	.221	0.65	--	38	170
23	Tommy O'Brien	OF	30		49	125	24	28	5	0	3	10	1	0	21	12	0		3		4	.224	.336	.336	672	.112	.288	.227	0.57	41.7	42	149
17	Mel Parnell	P	27		39	114	9	29	3	0	0	13	0	0	3	10	0		10		4	.254	.274	.281	555	.026	.053	.279	3.33	--	32	127
16	Ellis Kinder	P	34		43	92	11	12	2	0	0	7	0	1	6	24	0		9		3	.130	.184	.152	336	.022	.076	.176	4.00	--	14	107
15	Joe Dobson	P	32		33	68	5	10	0	0	0	2	1	0	10	22	0		5		1	.147	.256	.147	403	.000	.162	.217	2.20	--	10	83
22	Chuck Stobbs	P	19		26	53	8	11	2	0	0	5	0	0	3	9	0		6		2	.208	.250	.245	495	.038	.094	.250	3.00	--	13	62
4	Sam Mele	OF	26		18	46	1	9	1	1	0	7	2	0	7	14	0		2		3	.196	.302	.261	563	.065	.261	.281	2.00	--	12	55
3	Walt Dropo	1B	26		11	41	3	6	2	0	0	1	0	0	3	7	0		0		2	.146	.205	.195	400	.049	.122	.176	2.33	--	8	44
27	Lou Stringer	2B	32		35	41	10	11	4	0	1	6	0	0	5	10	0		0		1	.268	.348	.439	787	.171	.293	.333	2.00	41.0	18	46
18	Jack Kramer	P	31		21	35	4	9	1	0	0	3	0	0	9	13	0		2		1	.257	.409	.286	695	.029	.286	.409	1.44	--	10	46
19,36	Mickey McDermott	P	20		12	33	3	7	3	0	0	6	0	0	3	6	0		0		0	.212	.278	.303	581	.091	.182	.259	2.00	--	10	36
24	Merl Combs	3B	29		14	24	5	5	1	0	0	1	0	0	9	0	0		1		0	.208	.424	.250	674	.042	.417	.208	0.00	--	6	34
21	Tex Hughson	P	33		29	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0		4		0	.045	.045	.045	90	.000	.000	.063	--	--	1	26
2	Stan Spence	OF	34		7	20	3	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	6	1	0		0		0	.150	.346	.200	546	.050	.350	.158	0.17	--	4	26
20	Walt Masterson	P	29		18	17	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	0		0		0	.118	.250	.118	368	.000	.176	.200	2.33	--	2	20
19	Mickey Harris	P	32		7	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0		2		1	.083	.154	.083	237	.000	.083	.111	3.00	--	1	15
12	Earl Johnson	P	30		19	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	7	0		0		0	.000	.083	.000	83	.000	.091	.000	7.00	--	0	12
26	Frank Quinn	P	21		8	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0		0		0	.167	.167	.167	334	.000	.000	.333	--	--	1	6
28	Tom Wright		25		5	4	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0		0		0	.250	.400	.500	900	.250	.500	.333	1.00	--	2	5
35	Windy McCall	P	23		5	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1		0	.667	.667	.667	1334	.000	.000	.667	--	--	2	4
34	Babe Martin	C	29		2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		0	.000	.000	.000	0	.000	.000	.000	--	--	0	2
33	Dave Ferriss	P	27		4	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3000	1.000	1.000	1.000	--	--	2	1
Batting Totals					1630	5320	896	1500	272	36	131	835	43	25	835	510	17	0	78		169	.282	.379	.420	799	.139	.299	.293	0.61	40.6	2237	6233

Pitching Statistics

Pitching Statistics

#	Player	Age	Diff	W	L	ERA	G	GS	CG	SHO	GF	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BK	HB	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	K/BB
17	Mel Parnell	27		25	7	2.78	39	33	27	4	5	2	295.1	258	102	91	8	134	122	9	0	0	1.33	7.87	0.24	4.09	3.72	0.91
16	Ellis Kinder	34		23	6	3.36	43	30	19	6	10	4	252.0	251	103	94	21	99	138	1	0	0	1.39	8.96	0.75	3.54	4.93	1.39
15	Joe Dobson	32		14	12	3.85	33	27	12	2	5	2	212.2	219	103	91	12	97	87	4	2	0	1.48	9.25	0.51	4.10	3.68	0.90
22	Chuck Stobbs	19		11	6	4.03	26	19	10	0	2	0	152.0	145	72	68	10	75	70	1	1	0	1.45	8.59	0.59	4.44	4.14	0.93
18	Jack Kramer	31		6	8	5.14	21	18	7	2	2	1	111.2	126	70	64	8	49	24	2	1	0	1.56	10.13	0.64	3.94	1.93	0.49
19,36	Mickey McDermott	20		5	4	4.05	12	12	6	2	0	0	80.0	63	37	36	5	52	50	2	0	0	1.44	7.09	0.56	5.85	5.63	0.96
21	Tex Hughson	33		4	2	5.31	29	2	0	0	17	3	77.2	82	49	46	5	41	35	3	0	0	1.58	9.46	0.58	4.73	4.04	0.85
20	Walt Masterson	29		3	4	4.25	18	5	1	0	7	4	55.0	58	30	26	2	35	19	0	0	0	1.69	9.49	0.33	5.73	3.11	0.54
12	Earl Johnson	30		3	6	7.53	19	3	0	0	8	0	49.1	65	45	41	1	29	20	1	1	0	1.92	11.94	0.18	5.33	3.67	0.69
19	Mickey Harris	32		2	3	4.97	7	6	2	0	1	0	37.2	53	26	21	3	20	14	1	0	0	1.92	12.55	0.71	4.74	3.32	0.70
26	Frank Quinn	21		0	0	2.86	8	0	0	0	5	0	22.0	18	7	7	2	9	4	0	0	0	1.23	7.36	0.82	3.68	1.64	0.44
35	Windy McCall	23		0	0	12.00	5	0	0	0	1	0	9.1	13	12	12	2	10	8	2	0	0	2.56	13.00	2.00	10.00	8.00	0.80
28,35	Harry Dorish	27		0	0	2.25	5	0	0	0	4	0	7.2	7	2	2	1	1	5	0	0	0	1.00	7.88	1.13	1.13	5.63	5.00
33	Dave Ferriss	27		0	0	3.86	4	0	0	0	2	0	6.2	7	3	3	1	4	1	0	0	0	1.57	9.00	1.29	5.14	1.29	0.25
28	Jack Robinson	28		0	0	2.25	3	0	0	0	0	0	4.0	4	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	0	1.25	9.00	0.00	2.25	2.25	1.00
25	Denny Galehouse	37		0	0	13.50	2	0	0	0	1	0	2.0	4	3	3	1	3	0	0	0	0	3.50	18.00	4.50	13.50	0.00	0.00
35	Johnnie Wittig	35		0	0	9.00	1	0	0	0	1	0	2.0	2	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	2.00	9.00	0.00	9.00	0.00	0.00
Batting Totals				96	58	3.97	275	155	84	16	71	16	1377	1375	667	608	82	661	598	27	6	0	1.48	8.99	0.54	4.32	3.91	0.90

Player	Age	P	C	1B	2B	3B	SS	LF	CF	RF	OF	DH	P %	C %	1B %	2B %	3B %	SS %	LF %	CF %	RF %	OF %	PO	A	E
Matt Batts	27	0	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	.977	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	193	23	5
Merl Combs	29	0	0	0	0	9	1	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	--	.923	1.000	--	--	--	--	13	12	2
Dom DiMaggio	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	144	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.977	420	13	10
Joe Dobson	32	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	12	30	0
Bobby Doerr	31	0	0	0	139	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	.980	--	--	--	--	--	--	395	439	17
Harry Dorish	27	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1	2	0
Walt Dropo	26	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	103	4	0
Dave Ferriss	27	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1	0	0
Denny Galehouse	37	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	1	0
Billy Goodman	23	0	0	117	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	.992	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1069	79	9
Mickey Harris	32	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	2	8	0
Billy Hitchcock	32	0	0	29	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	.993	.973	--	--	--	--	--	--	277	30	3
Tex Hughson	33	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	3	5	0
Earl Johnson	30	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.889	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	3	5	1
Ellis Kinder	34	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.972	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	7	28	1
Jack Kramer	31	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	3	19	0
Babe Martin	29	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0
Walt Masterson	29	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.889	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1	7	1
Windy McCall	23	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	0	0
Mickey McDermott	20	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.941	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	2	14	1
Sam Mele	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.955	20	1	1
Tommy O'Brien	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	32	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.984	58	2	1
Mel Parnell	27	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	8	53	0
Johnny Pesky	29	0	0	0	0	148	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	--	.970	--	--	--	--	--	184	333	16
Frank Quinn	21	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	3	3	0
Jack Robinson	28	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1	2	0
Stan Spence	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	1.000	14	1	0
Vern Stephens	28	0	0	0	0	0	155	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	--	--	.966	--	--	--	--	257	508	27
Chuck Stobbs	19	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.909	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	5	25	3
Lou Stringer	32	0	0	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	--	--	.978	--	--	--	--	--	--	25	20	1
Birdie Tebbetts	36	0	118	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	--	.980	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	481	51	11
Ted Williams	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	155	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.983	337	12	6
Johnnie Wittig	35	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	0	1	0
Al Zarilla	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	122	0	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	.984	241	6	4