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1940 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1940
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City, New York
record
league_place	3rd
owners	Estate of Jacob Ruppert
general_managers	Ed Barrow
managers	Joe McCarthy
radio	WABC (AM)
(Mel Allen, Jay C. Flippen)

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The 1940 New York Yankees season was the team's 38th season. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy. Their home games were played at Yankee Stadium. 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.

Offseason

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

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1940 New York Yankees
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league 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	G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
C	106	372	45	92	.247	9	54	0
1B	155	568	51	150	.264	12	73	1
2B	155	616	112	173	.281	30	103	18
3B	139	588	102	147	.250	10	53	4
SS	145	546	84	106	.194	4	31	14
OF	138	500	102	143	.286	21	93	8
OF	132	508	93	179	.352	31	133	1
OF	118	379	68	102	.269	19	71	3

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

G	AB	R	H	Avg.	HR	RBI	SB
90	293	57	90	.307	10	53	1
73	228	34	68	.298	4	37	7
45	124	17	30	.242	1	10	1
34	63	10	25	.397	1	15	0
12	27	3	5	.185	0	2	0
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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
30	226.0	15	12	3.38	97
30	189.1	14	8	3.28	87
27	172.0	8	7	4.60	56
27	164.0	8	9	4.55	71
16	109.2	7	5	3.69	43
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

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
24	118.2	8	3	3.03	60
27	99.1	4	6	5.53	26
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

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
35	8	4	9	3.69	23
25	3	5	2	5.74	39
13	1	1	0	1.86	5
5	0	0	0	0.00	1

Farm system

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

Arkansas–Missouri League folded, July 1, 1940

Notes

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/sauerha01.shtml Hank Sauer page at Baseball Reference]
"1940 New York Yankees Statistics".
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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