1944 San Francisco Seals Statistics

Pacific Coast League (PCL) - Class: AA
Team Record: 86-83
Finished 3rd in the PCL
Manager: Lefty O'Doul (86-83)
Location: San Francisco, California
Ballpark: Seals Stadium
Attendance: 316,044, Avg. 3,740

1944 San Francisco Seals Roster

Playoffs - San Francisco Seals 4 games, Oakland Oaks 1
Finals - San Francisco Seals 4 games, Los Angeles Angels 3

The San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League ended the 1944 season with a record of 86 wins and 83 losses, finishing third in the PCL.

The Seals scored 691 runs and surrendered 664 runs. Hank Steinbacher accounted for 86 RBI. Gus Suhr topped batters with significant playing time by connecting at a .279 clip. Tom Seats recorded 25 wins on the mound for the team, while Bob Joyce and Ray Harrell added 15 or more victories also Tom Seats earned a 2.36 ERA, best among qualifying pitchers.

Jimmy Ripple, Bob Joyce, Jimmy Adair, Win Ballou, Del Young, Sam Gibson, Joe Sprinz, Bruce Ogrodowski, Frenchy Uhalt, Bill Werle, Ray Harrell, Dino Restelli, Gus Suhr, Hank Steinbacher, Ben Guintini, Lefty O'Doul, Tom Seats and Neill Sheridan were all players from the 1944 San Francisco Seals who played in the Majors during their careers.

Lefty O'Doul served as manager.

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Pitching:

Player	W	L	W%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF
Tom Seats	25	13	.658	2.36	39	37		34	6		320.0	295	109	84		51		129	3	0	2
Bob Joyce	21	20	.512	2.81	41	36		30	1		324.0	338	142	101		73		105	3	2	5
Ray Harrell	20	18	.526	2.61	44	37		28	5		300.0	294	109	87		91		168	2	0	4
Bill Werle	14	19	.424	4.05	36	35		24	0		289.0	331	160	130		84		129	4	0	12
Sam Gibson	4	8	.333	3.95	18	17		8	1		114.0	124	51	50		26		27	2	0	0
Win Ballou	1	1	.500	4.50	13	0		0	0		14.0	27	10	7		7		5
Okey Flowers	1	2	.333	0.00	12	4		0	0		36.0	52				30		11
Rudy Parsons	0	0		0.00	6	0		0	0		11.0	16				7		2
Ray Elliott	0	0		0.00	1	0		0	0		3.0	3				1		0
Knowles Piercey	0	2	.000	2.94	15	3		1	0		49.0	63	28	16		15		16	1	1	1
Totals	86	83	.509	2.93	225	169	0	125	13	0	1460.0	1543	609	475	0	385	0	592	15	3	24	0

Batting:

Player	GP	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	DP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
Frenchy Uhalt	154	691	612	86	169	17	4	0	52	37		75	29	.276	.357	.317	.674	194		2	2
Gus Suhr	164	680	588	81	164	36	5	0	75	6		87	45	.279	.372	.357	.729	210		0	5
Del Young	149	583	541	52	125	15	4	0	53	4		31	31	.231	.274	.274	.548	148		1	10
Hank Steinbacher	137	562	492	54	122	27	8	1	86	10		68	44	.248	.339	.341	.681	168		0	2
Joe Futernick	120	462	398	62	116	8	2	0	28	15		24	18	.291	.335	.322	.657	128		2	38
Ben Guintini	117	447	408	47	100	17	7	2	59	10		23	59	.245	.306	.336	.642	137		13	3
John Cavalli	109	440	387	45	83	13	6	2	44	3		39	66	.214	.293	.295	.588	114		4	10
Joe Sprinz	92	320	272	38	75	6	2	0	28	3		43	22	.276	.375	.312	.687	85		0	5
Bruce Ogrodowski	90	300	266	26	72	12	0	0	29	0		27	9	.271	.340	.316	.656	84		1	6
Willis Enos	82	264	241	26	68	13	5	1	31	2		20	28	.282	.340	.390	.730	94		1	2
John Trutta	79	273	241	22	63	14	0	0	28	4		16	27	.261	.318	.320	.638	77		4	12
Dino Restelli	38	157	137	23	47	10	5	1	19	6		13	17	.343	.423	.511	.934	70		6	1
Logan Hooper	71	183	159	21	46	5	0	0	13	11		16	12	.289	.362	.321	.682	51		2	6
Neill Sheridan	42	164	150	30	44	5	2	4	21	6		12	26	.293	.346	.433	.779	65		0	2
Bob Joyce	41	131	118	19	34	3	1	2	13	0		8	5	.288	.339	.381	.720	45		1	4
Wally Carroll	31	87	74	11	33	4	0	0	9	1		11	3	.446	.518	.500	1.018	37		0	2
Tom Seats	39	125	118	13	32	6	2	0	10	1		2	9	.271	.289	.356	.645	42		1	4
Bill Werle	37	120	107	11	22	4	1	0	10	0		11	23	.206	.280	.262	.541	28		0	2
Ray Harrell	44	115	92	6	17	1	0	1	8	1		6	23	.185	.242	.228	.471	21		1	16
Jimmy Adair	23	60	54	4	11	2	1	0	2	0		4	8	.204	.259	.278	.536	15		0	2
Sam Gibson	18	48	45	5	9	1	0	0	5	0		2	1	.200	.234	.222	.456	10		0	1
Okey Flowers	12	10	10		2	0	0	0	0	0				.200	.200	.200	.400	2
Knowles Piercey	15	14	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	6	.000	.071	.000	.071	0		0	0
Rudy Parsons	6	3	3		0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Ray Elliott	5	4	4		0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Win Ballou	13	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	0				.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Lefty O'Doul	1	1	1		0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	0
Totals	1729	6245	5532	682	1454	219	55	14	623	120	0	539	511	.263	.333	.330	.662	1825	0	39	135	0	0

Fielding:

Player	Pos	GP	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	RF/G	PB	SB	CS
Gus Suhr	1B	164	1443	87	18	116	.988	9.329
Del Young	2B	148	466	395	33	88	.963	5.818
Jimmy Adair	2B	15	43	35	3	4	.963	5.200
Joe Futernick	2B	11	23	27	1	4	.980	4.545
John Trutta	3B	73	58	132	21	11	.900	2.603
Ben Guintini	3B	56	62	111	25	8	.874	3.089
John Cavalli	3B	33	35	69	9	4	.920	3.152
Joe Sprinz	C	91	347	75	9	6	.979	4.637	8
Bruce Ogrodowski	C	86	344	49	9	6	.978	4.570	3
Frenchy Uhalt	OF	154	388	17	6	4	.985	2.630
Hank Steinbacher	OF	127	227	7	8	3	.967	1.843
Ben Guintini	OF	54	101	4	3	0	.972	1.944
Logan Hooper	OF	51	76	3	4	2	.952	1.549
Willis Enos	OF	51	88	5	0	1	1.000	1.824
Neill Sheridan	OF	38	77	4	8	0	.910	2.132
Dino Restelli	OF	30	71	5	0	1	1.000	2.533
Wally Carroll	OF	19	32	2	3	1	.919	1.789
Ray Harrell	P	44	6	44	10	3	.833	1.136
Bob Joyce	P	41	14	97	2	8	.982	2.707
Tom Seats	P	39	14	70	8	2	.913	2.154
Bill Werle	P	36	9	79	3	2	.967	2.444
Sam Gibson	P	18	6	27	1	2	.971	1.833
Knowles Piercey	P	15	2	9	0	0	1.000	.733
Win Ballou	P	13	0	3	0	0	1.000	.231
Okey Flowers	P	12	1	5	2	0	.750	.500
Rudy Parsons	P	6						.000
Ray Elliott	P	1						.000
Joe Futernick	SS	101	190	301	44	41	.918	4.861
John Cavalli	SS	73	127	217	46	37	.882	4.712
Totals		1600	4250	1879	276	354	.957	3.831	11	0	0

Average attendance is based upon the number of actual home dates where known (most leagues from 1992 and later). Where the number of home dates is not known, the average is calculated using half the team's total games.

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