1927 Detroit Tigers season - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Detroit Tigers
Detroit Tigers
The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

season was a season in American baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

. It involved the Detroit Tigers attempting to win the American League

American League

The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League , is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to major...

, and they finished in fourth place.

Outfielder Harry Heilmann

Harry Heilmann

Harry Edwin Heilmann , nicknamed “Slug,” was a Major League Baseball player who played 17 seasons with the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1952.Heilmann was a line drive hitter who won four American League batting crowns: in 1921, 1923, 1925 and...

won his fourth American League

American League

batting title with a .398 batting average

Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...

Offseason

January 15, 1927: Otto Miller, Billy Mullen
Billy Mullen
William John Mullen , is a former professional baseball player who played third base from 1920-1928.-Surviving family:...

, Frank O'Rourke
Frank O'Rourke (baseball)
James Francis O'Rourke was a Canadian infielder in Major League Baseball. He played fourteen seasons in the major leagues with the Boston Braves , Brooklyn Robins , Washington Senators , Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers , and St...

and Lefty Stewart
Lefty Stewart
Walter Cleveland "Lefty" Stewart was a professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of ten seasons in Major League Baseball between 1921 and 1935. He played for the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, and Cleveland Indians.-External links:...

were traded by the Tigers to the St. Louis Browns
Baltimore Orioles
The Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland in the United States. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league...

for Pinky Hargrave
Pinky Hargrave
William McKinley "Pinky" Hargrave was a Major League Baseball catcher who played ten seasons with the Washington Senators , St. Louis Browns , Detroit Tigers , and Boston Braves . Born in New Haven, Indiana, Hargrave was the younger brother of Cincinnati Reds catcher, Bubbles Hargrave...

, Marty McManus
Marty McManus
Martin Joseph "Marty" McManus was a Major League Baseball infielder who played principally as a second baseman and third baseman .-St. Louis Browns: 1920-1926:...

and Bobby LaMotte
Bobby LaMotte
Robert Eugene LaMotte was a Major League Baseball infielder. He played all or part of five seasons in the majors, between and , for the Washington Senators and St. Louis Browns...

.
January 27, 1927: Ty Cobb
Ty Cobb
Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb , nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder. He was born in Narrows, Georgia...

was released by the Tigers.

Regular season

May 31, 1927: Johnny Neun
Johnny Neun
John Henry Neun was an American first baseman for the Detroit Tigers and the Boston Braves from 1925 to 1931.-Career:...

of the Tigers executed an unassisted triple play
Unassisted triple play
In baseball, an unassisted triple play occurs when a defensive player makes all three putouts by himself in one continuous play, without any teammates touching the ball . In Major League Baseball , it is one of the rarest of individual feats, along with hitting four home runs in one game and the...

. Neun caught a line drive, tagged the runner off first base and tagged second base before the other runner returned.

Roster

1927 Detroit Tigers
Roster
Pitchers		Catchers Infielders		Outfielders Other batters		Manager Coaches

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	88	246	69	.280	0	39
1B	112	365	95	.260	1	42
2B	133	508	161	.317	4	61
SS	116	419	115	.274	5	59
3B	139	559	149	.267	1	45
OF	151	593	177	.298	6	90
OF	141	505	201	.398	14	120
OF	143	527	189	.359	9	114

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
	108	369	99	.268	9	69
	79	204	66	.324	0	27

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
	30	172.2	13	7	4.69	37
	10	67	5	4	4.84	18

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
	31	172	10	6	3.98	41

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
	7	0	0	0	8.03	5

Farm system

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