1944 Memphis Red Sox Statistics

1943 Season 1945 Season

Record: 49-65-0, Finished 5th in Negro American League

Manager: Ruben Jones (37-50)

Park Factors: (Over 100 favors batters, under 100 favors pitchers.)
Multi-year: Batting - 100, Pitching - 100

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Top 12 Players

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Team Batting

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Team Batting
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1	C	Larry Brown#	42	14	37	29	1	6	2	0	0	2	0		5		.207	.324	.276	.599	85	8	0	0	3		0
2	1B	Jim Canada*	32	24	88	78	4	13	0	0	0	3	0		7		.167	.235	.167	.402	24	13	0	0	3		0
3	2B	Fred Bankhead	31	26	102	91	19	28	3	1	0	10	5		5		.308	.351	.363	.713	119	33	0	1	5		0
4	SS	T.J. Brown	28	17	72	69	4	13	3	0	0	3	0		2		.188	.211	.232	.443	36	16	0	0	1		0
5	3B	Jimmy Ford	31	25	100	90	8	25	3	0	1	13	2		7		.278	.337	.344	.681	110	31	1	1	2		0
6	LF	Fred McDaniel*	31	23	92	84	11	22	4	1	0	7	1		5		.262	.319	.333	.652	101	28	0	2	1		0
7	CF	Neil Robinson	36	25	104	93	10	27	3	1	1	8	6		9		.290	.359	.376	.736	126	35	0	1	1		0
8	RF	Cowan Hyde	37	26	100	96	11	17	5	2	0	4	4		4		.177	.210	.271	.481	47	26	0	0	0		0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
9	UT	Verdell Mathis*	30	21	65	60	6	19	2	1	0	6	1		5		.317	.369	.383	.753	131	23	0	0	0		1
10	UT	Red Longley	34	20	63	50	4	8	1	0	0	5	2		10		.160	.311	.180	.491	52	9	0	1	2		1
11	C	Casey Jones*	25	17	39	36	3	8	2	0	0	5	0		3		.222	.282	.278	.560	72	10	0	0	0		0
12	UT	Buck Felder	28	11	33	25	6	3	2	0	0	0	3		7		.120	.313	.200	.513	59	5	0	0	1		0
13	UT	Pepper Sharpe#	25	6	17	16	2	6	0	1	0	1	0		0		.375	.375	.500	.875	168	8	0	0	1		0
14	OF	Nat Rogers*	50	8	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		1		.143	.250	.143	.393	22	1	0	0	0		1
15	IF	Willie Wells	21	8	7	7	1	1	0	0	0	1	0		0		.143	.143	.143	.286	-12	1	0	0	0		0
16	OF	Felix Evans	33	4	3	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0		0		.333	.333	.667	1.000	205	2	0	0	0		0
17	2B	Spike Garrett?		1	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.500	.500	.500	1.000	208	1	0	0	0		0
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
18	P	Porter Moss	34	9	19	18	0	4	0	0	0	1	1		0		.222	.222	.222	.444	37	4	0	0	1		0
19	P	Willie Hutchinson	29	11	14	13	1	1	0	0	0	0	0		0		.077	.077	.077	.154	-53	1	0	0	1		0
20	P	Robert Keyes*		3	9	9	0	2	1	0	0	0	0		0		.222	.222	.333	.556	70	3	0	0	0		0
21	P	Edgar Chatman?	27	3	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0		0
22	P	Rufus Ligon?	41	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	2	0		0		.250	.250	.250	.500	54	1	0	0	0		0
23	P	Al Jones		1	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1		.000	.250	.000	.250	-21	0	0	0	0		0
24	P	Steve Wylie	33	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0		.000	.000	.000	.000	-100	0	0	0	0		0
25	P	Les Henderson?		2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0							0	0	0	0		0
		Team Totals	32.3	114	990	891	92	207	32	7	2	71	25		71		.232	.293	.291	.584	80	259	1	6	22		3
		Rank in 6 NAL teams				3	5	4	3	4	5		1		3	2	6	6	6	6		4		3
		Non-Pitcher Totals	32.5	114	867	776	85	180	29	6	2	62	23		65		.232	.296	.293	.589	81	227	1	6	20		2
		Pitcher Totals	30.6	114	123	115	7	27	3	1	0	9	2		6		.235	.273	.278	.551	69	32	0	0	2		1
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB

Team Pitching

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Team Pitching
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
1	SP	Verdell Mathis*	30	7	2	.778	2.85	11	9	1	8	1	0	79.0	76	32	25	3	23	0	56	2	0	0	335	121	2.71	1.253	8.7	0.3	2.6	6.4	2.43
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
2	RP	Willie Hutchinson	29	2	2	.500	2.66	9	5	3	4	1	1	44.0	36	14	13	0	16	0	13	1	0	1	177	130	3.25	1.182	7.4	0.0	3.3	2.7	0.81
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W
3		Porter Moss	34	2	4	.333	2.42	9	6	3	3	0	1	48.1	35	17	13	0	11	0	36	2	0	0	197	143	2.00	0.952	6.5	0.0	2.0	6.7	3.27
4		Robert Keyes*		1	2	.333	0.64	3	3	0	2	0	0	28.0	23	8	2	0	10	2	8	1	0	0	123	540	3.29	1.179	7.4	0.0	3.2	2.6	0.80
5		Edgar Chatman	27	0	3	.000	3.60	3	3	0	0	0	0	20.0	23	12	8	0	8	0	14	1	0	0	95	97	2.63	1.550	10.4	0.0	3.6	6.3	1.75
6		Al Jones		0	1	.000	3.38	1	1	0	1	0	0	8.0	7	5	3	0	1	0	4	0	0	0	29	107	2.06	1.000	7.9	0.0	1.1	4.5	4.00
7		Steve Wylie	33	0	0		10.80	1	0	0	0	0	0	3.1	5	5	4	0	2	0	3	0	0	0	19	36	2.68	2.100	13.5	0.0	5.4	8.1	1.50
8		Felix Evans	33	0	0		13.50	1	0	0	0	0	0	2.2	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	30	3.81	2.250	16.9	0.0	3.4	0.0	0.00
9		Rufus Ligon*	41	0	0		7.71	2	0	1	0	0	1	2.1	5	2	2	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	13	53	4.82	3.000	19.3	0.0	7.7	7.7	1.00
10		Les Henderson?		1	0	1.000	0.00	2	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	4		4.18	3.000	13.5	0.0	13.5	13.5	1.00
11		Pepper Sharpe	25	0	0			0	0	0	0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
		Team Totals	30.7	13	14	.481	2.82	114	27	8	18	2	3	236.1	216	99	74	3	75	2	137	8	0	1	1006	124	2.74	1.231	8.2	0.1	2.9	5.2	1.83
		Rank in 6 NAL teams		1	1		1				3	3	2	3	2	1	1	3	4		2
Rk	Pos	Name	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	IBB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	FIP	WHIP	H9	HR9	BB9	SO9	SO/W