1921 Chicago White Sox season

1921 Chicago White Sox
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Owner(s) Charles Comiskey
Manager(s) Kid Gleason
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The 1921 Chicago White Sox season involved the White Sox attempting to win the American League pennant. However, with the core of the team banned after the Black Sox Scandal broke, they fell back to seventh place.

Regular season

Owner Charles Comiskey struggled to find replacements for his stars. For example, new third baseman Eddie Mulligan had a .623 OPS, lowest among the team's regulars and quite a drop from Buck Weaver's .785 in 1920.

The pitching staff took a much worse beating. Chicago had lost its two best starters in Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams and could not recover. Red Faber won 25 games with a league-leading 2.48 ERA. The only other pitcher over .500 was Dickey Kerr, who indeed allowed more hits and earned runs than anyone else in the majors. Number three starter Roy Wilkinson went 4–20, and nobody else started more than 10 games.

Season standings

American League W L Pct. GB Home Road
New York Yankees 9855 0.641 — 53–25 45–30
Cleveland Indians 9460 0.610 4½ 51–26 43–34
St. Louis Browns 8173 0.526 17½ 43–34 38–39
Washington Senators 8073 0.523 18 46–30 34–43
Boston Red Sox 7579 0.487 23½ 41–36 34–43
Detroit Tigers 7182 0.464 27 37–40 34–42
Chicago White Sox 6292 0.403 36½ 37–40 25–52
Philadelphia Athletics 53100 0.346 45 28–47 25–53

Record vs. opponents

1921 American League Records

Sources:
Team BOS CWS CLE DET NYY PHI STL WSH
Boston —15–78–1415–77–1512–109–139–13
Chicago 7–15—7–158–1413–914–87–156–16
Cleveland 14–815–7—13–98–1415–717–512–10
Detroit 7–1514–89–13—5–1714–7–112–1010–12
New York 15–79–1314–817–5—17–513–913–8
Philadelphia 10–128–147–157–14–15–17—5–1711–11–1
St. Louis 13–915–75–1710–129–1317–5—12–10
Washington 13–916–610–1212–108–1311–11–110–12—

Roster

1921 Chicago White Sox
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Player stats

Batting

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 Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI
3BEddie Mulligan151609153.251145
SSErnie Johnson142613181.295151

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
Harvey McClellan6319635.179114
George Lees20429.21404
Eddie Murphy651.20000

Pitching

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
Red Faber43330.225152.48124
Dickey Kerr44308.219174.7280
John Russell1166.1255.2915
Dominic Mulrenan1256287.2310

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
Roy Wilkinson32198.14205.1350
Shovel Hodge36142.2686.5625
Cy Twombly727.2125.867
Sarge Connally522.1016.456
Hod Fenner27007.711

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
Lum Davenport130306.889
Rusty Pence40008.442
Charlie Blackburn10000.000

Awards and honors

League top ten finishers

Red Faber

  • MLB leader in ERA (2.48)
  • #3 in AL in wins (25)
  • #4 in AL in strikeouts (124)

Dickey Kerr

  • MLB leader in earned runs allowed (162)
  • MLB leader in hits allowed (357)
  • #3 in AL in losses (17)
  • #3 in AL in walks allowed (96)

Roy Wilkinson

  • #2 in AL in losses (20)

References

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