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What's exceptional about Lefty Gomez New York Yankees 1934 ?


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wins a lot; season

Lefty Gomez of the New York Yankees had the highest winning percentage (83.9%) of all 216 pitchers in 1934.

beat Dizzy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals (81.1%), Jack Knott of the St. Louis Browns (76.9%), Firpo Marberry of the Detroit Tigers (75.0%), and Schoolboy Rowe of the Detroit Tigers (75.0%), and others, ending with Milt Gaston of the Chicago White Sox (24.0%).



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References

  1. Batting, pitching, fielding, personal, team, and awards data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  2. A pitcher's winning percentage is only counted if the number of decisions (wins plus losses) is at least 10. The raw data come from the archive at seanlahman.com. This database is copyright 1996-2014 by Sean Lahman. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For details see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

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Lefty Gomez of the 1934 New York Yankees threw left-handed, was a 20-game winner, made the All-Star team, played on a winning team, would make it into the Hall of Fame, played in Yankee Stadium I, and was born in California.

  • achievement score (7.2 see References)
  • assists (42)
  • complete games (25)
  • double plays (2)
  • games finished (5)
  • games played (38)
  • games started (33)
  • innings pitched (281.7)
  • putouts (7)
  • saves (1)
  • shutouts (6)
  • strikeouts (158)
  • strikeouts per nine innings (5.0)
  • winning percentage (83.9%)
  • wins (26)
  • balks (0)
  • earned run average (2.33)
  • earned runs (73)
  • errors (1)
  • hit by pitch (0)
  • hits (223)
  • hits per nine innings (7.1)
  • homers given up (12)
  • homers per nine innings (.4)
  • losses (5)
  • runs allowed (86)
  • walks (96)
  • walks per nine innings (3.1)
  • wild pitches (3)
  • age (26 yrs)
  • batters faced (1,142)
  • height (6'2")
  • innings pitched per game (7.4)
  • weight (173 lbs)

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