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1949 Detroit Tigers season

Major League Baseball season

Field	Value
name	Detroit Tigers
season	1949
league	American League
ballpark	Briggs Stadium
city	Detroit, Michigan
record
league_place	4th
owners	Walter Briggs, Sr.
general_managers	Billy Evans
managers	Red Rolfe
television	WWJ
(Harry Heilmann, Paul Williams, Ty Tyson)
radio	WJBK
(Harry Heilmann, Van Patrick)

(Harry Heilmann, Paul Williams, Ty Tyson) (Harry Heilmann, Van Patrick) |}} The 1949 Detroit Tigers season was a season in American baseball. The team finished fourth in the American League with a record of 87–67, 10 games behind the New York Yankees.

Offseason

November 10, 1948: Marv Grissom was drafted by the Tigers from the Sacramento Solons in the 1948 rule 5 draft.

Regular season

Tigers third baseman George Kell beat Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox for the American League batting title by 0.0002 percentage points (.3429 to .3427).

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

1949 Detroit Tigers
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

	= Indicates team leader

	= Indicates league leader

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	110	331	89	.269	13	56
1B	87	255	71	.278	3	30
2B	109	329	78	.237	0	18
SS	127	439	110	.251	3	59
3B	134	522	179	.343	3	59
OF	103	348	102	.293	11	73
OF	132	432	131	.303	7	72
OF	155	608	185	.304	20	133

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
126	483	142	.294	2	47
104	310	83	.268	12	59
94	240	47	.196	1	15
74	189	45	.238	2	18
67	142	27	.190	4	18
59	126	26	.206	6	19
17	33	6	.182	0	2
5	4	1	.250	0	0
2	2	0	.000	0	0
1	0	0	----	0	0
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
38	292.0	18	11	3.36	144
41	275.0	19	11	2.81	153
34	203.2	15	10	3.71	85
34	195.0	10	10	3.51	96

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
33	188.2	15	7	2.96	54
25	76.0	3	2	6.16	40
14	29.2	0	2	9.10	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
33	3	6	3	4.40	19
27	2	4	0	6.41	17
14	1	3	0	9.87	3
9	1	0	2	0.00	4
5	0	1	0	14.29	2

Awards and honors

George Kell, AL Batting champion

Farm system

Notes

References

1949 Detroit Tigers season at Baseball Reference

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/g/grissma01.shtml Marv Grissom] at ''Baseball Reference''
''Baseball's Top 100: The Game's Greatest Records'', p. 44, Kerry Banks, 2010, Greystone Books, Vancouver, BC, {{ISBN. 978-1-55365-507-7

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