1881 Providence Grays Statistics

National League (NL)
Team Record: 47-37
Finished 2nd in the NL
Ballpark: Messer Street Grounds
Manager: Jack Farrell (24-27)
Manager: Tom York (23-10)
Location: Providence, Rhode Island

1881 Providence Grays Roster
1881 Providence Grays Results

The Providence Grays of the National League ended the 1881 season with a record of 47 wins and 37 losses, finishing second in the NL.

The Grays plated 447 runs and yielded 426 runs. John Ward recorded 53 runs batted in. Joe Start topped batters with significant playing time by hitting .328. Old Hoss Radbourn recorded 25 wins on the mound for the team, while John Ward as well added 15 or more victories as well John Ward earned a 2.13 ERA, leading regularly-used pitchers.

Jack Farrell and Tom York coached the team.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	WP	BF
Old Hoss Radbourn	25	11	.694	2.43	41	36	4	34	3	325.3	309	162	88	1	64	117	17	1380
John Ward	18	18	.500	2.13	39	35	5	32	3	330.0	326	183	78	2	53	119	32	1398
Bobby Mathews	4	8	.333	3.17	14	14	0	10	1	102.3	121	81	36	2	21	28	9	473
Totals	47	37	.560	2.40	94	85	9	76	7	757.7	756	426	202	5	138	264	58	3251

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB
Joe Start	79	357	348	56	114	12	6	0	29	9	7	.328	.345	.397	.741	138
Paul Hines	80	374	361	65	103	27	5	2	31	13	12	.285	.310	.404	.715	146
Tom York	85	345	316	57	96	23	5	2	47	29	26	.304	.362	.427	.790	135
John Ward	85	362	357	56	87	18	6	0	53	5	10	.244	.254	.328	.582	117
Jack Farrell	84	374	345	69	82	16	5	5	36	29	23	.238	.297	.357	.653	123
Jerry Denny	85	325	320	38	77	16	2	1	24	5	44	.241	.252	.313	.565	100
Old Hoss Radbourn	72	280	270	27	59	9	0	0	28	10	15	.219	.246	.252	.498	68
Emil Gross	51	195	182	15	50	9	4	1	24	13	11	.275	.323	.385	.708	70
Bill McClellan	68	274	259	30	43	3	1	0	16	15	21	.166	.212	.185	.397	48
Barney Gilligan	46	192	183	19	40	7	2	0	20	9	24	.219	.255	.279	.534	51
Lew Brown	18	79	75	9	18	3	1	0	10	4	13	.240	.278	.307	.585	23
Bobby Mathews	16	62	57	6	11	1	0	0	4	5	6	.193	.258	.211	.469	12
Henry Myers	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Totals	770	3223	3077	447	780	144	37	11	322	146	214	.253	.287	.335	.622	1031

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	Inn.	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/9	RF/G	PB
Joe Start	1B	79	713.0	837	17	33	50	.963	1.780	1.810	0
Lew Brown	1B	5	44.0	52	1	2	4	.964	1.841	1.600	0
Paul Hines	1B	1	2.0	0	0	0	0		.000	.000	0
Jack Farrell	2B	82	724.0	204	271	64	40	.881	5.905	5.793	0
Paul Hines	2B	4	28.0	6	9	5	2	.750	4.821	3.750	0
Bill McClellan	2B	1	7.0	2	3	0	0	1.000	6.429	5.000	0
Jerry Denny	3B	85	758.0	144	181	62	12	.840	3.859	3.824	0
Emil Gross	C	50	442.0	240	70	37	5	.893	6.312	6.200	56
Barney Gilligan	C	36	316.0	184	41	17	9	.930	6.408	6.250	25
Tom York	OF	85	758.0	159	17	29	1	.859	2.090	2.071	0
Paul Hines	OF	78	680.0	178	14	22	2	.897	2.541	2.462	0
John Ward	OF	40	370.0	57	14	9	0	.888	1.727	1.775	0
Old Hoss Radbourn	OF	25	180.0	18	7	11	0	.694	1.250	1.000	0
Bill McClellan	OF	17	139.0	21	3	4	0	.857	1.554	1.412	0
Lew Brown	OF	13	80.0	9	1	2	0	.833	1.125	.769	0
Jack Farrell	OF	3	25.0	2	2	4	0	.500	1.440	1.333	0
Bobby Mathews	OF	5	21.0	3	0	1	0	.750	1.286	.600	0
Barney Gilligan	OF	1	12.0	2	0	1	0	.667	1.500	2.000	0
Emil Gross	OF	1	10.0	1	0	1	0	.500	.900	1.000	0
John Ward	P	39	330.0	26	77	7	7	.936	2.809	2.641	0
Old Hoss Radbourn	P	41	325.0	25	71	10	2	.906	2.658	2.341	0
Bobby Mathews	P	14	102.0	1	16	4	2	.810	1.500	1.214	0
Bill McClellan	SS	50	432.0	59	147	35	18	.855	4.292	4.120	0
John Ward	SS	13	123.0	20	39	13	4	.819	4.317	4.538	0
Old Hoss Radbourn	SS	13	114.0	14	43	9	6	.864	4.500	4.385	0
Barney Gilligan	SS	10	83.0	8	32	7	0	.851	4.337	4.000	0
Henry Myers	SS	1	7.0	1	2	0	0	1.000	3.857	3.000	0
Totals		792	6825.0	2273	1078	389	164	.896	4.419	4.231	81

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