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1931 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1931
record
league_place	2nd
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City, New York
owner	Jacob Ruppert
general_manager	Ed Barrow
manager	Joe McCarthy (1st season)
radio

The 1931 New York Yankees season was the team's 29th season. The team finished with a 94–59–2 record (), finishing 13.5 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics. The Yankees played their home games at Yankee Stadium. This team is notable for holding the modern day Major League record for team runs scored in a season with 1,067 (6.88 runs per game average).

New York was managed by future Hall-of-Famer Joe McCarthy; 1931 was his first season with the Yankees after spending the previous five with the Chicago Cubs. The owner and general manager (Jacob Ruppert and Ed Barrow, respectively), would also eventually be indicted into the Hall-of-Fame.

For the second straight season, the Yankees fielded nine players who would eventually be enshrined in the Hall of Fame (Earle Combs, Bill Dickey, Lou Gehrig, Lefty Gomez, Tony Lazzeri, Herb Pennock, Red Ruffing, Babe Ruth, and Joe Sewell). This is the most all time, tied with the previous year's team as well as the 1932 and 1933 Yankees teams. The same nine Hall of Famers played for the 1931, 1932, and 1933 teams, with the 1930 team differing only by not having Joe Sewell and instead featuring Waite Hoyt.

Offseason

December 10, 1930: Cy Perkins was purchased by the Yankees from the Philadelphia Athletics.
January 13, 1931: Harry Rice was selected off waivers from the Yankees by the Washington Senators.

Regular season

First baseman Lou Gehrig set an American League record by driving in 185 runs, breaking his own record of 173 set in 1927. The total, which was six short of Hack Wilson's all-time record of 191 set the previous year, still stands as of the end of the 2022 season.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1931 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

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	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	130	477	156	.327	6	78
1B	155	619	211	.341	46	185
2B	135	484	129	.267	8	83
SS	155	610	171	.280	10	107
3B	130	484	146	.302	6	64
OF	145	534	199	.373	46	162
OF	138	563	179	.318	5	58
OF	149	600	189	.315	17	122

Other batters

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

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
115	248	67	.270	3	32
65	245	59	.241	3	26
46	100	27	.270	0	14
16	47	12	.255	0	7
27	39	13	.333	1	6
44	28	4	.143	0	3
2	10	3	.300	0	1
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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
40	243.0	21	9	2.67	150
37	237.0	16	14	4.41	132
40	196.1	13	8	4.72	106
25	189.1	11	6	4.28	65
18	87.0	6	3	3.41	36

Other pitchers

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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
36	137.2	7	6	3.79	59
27	116.2	9	5	4.32	34
17	74.1	5	5	5.69	39
17	57.2	2	1	5.31	28
7	34.1	2	0	4.19	10

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
	17	2	2	0	6.20	24
	6	0	0	1	12.41	3

Awards and honors

League records

Lou Gehrig, American League single season record, runs batted in (RBI) for a season (185).

Farm system

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Cumberland

Notes

References

"Most Hall-of-Famers on an MLB team in a single season".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/p/perkicy01.shtml Cy Perkins page at Baseball Reference]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/r/riceha01.shtml Harry Rice page at Baseball Reference]
(2007). "Numbelievable!". Triumph Books.
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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