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1946 New York Yankees season

Season for the Major League Baseball team the New York Yankees

Field	Value
name	New York Yankees
season	1946
league	American League
ballpark	Yankee Stadium
city	New York City, New York
record
league_place	3rd
owners	Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping and Del Webb
general_managers	Larry MacPhail
managers	Joe McCarthy, Bill Dickey, Johnny Neun
radio	WINS (AM)
(Mel Allen, Russ Hodges)

(Mel Allen, Russ Hodges) |}}

The 1946 New York Yankees season was the team's 44th season. The team finished with a record of 87–67, finishing 17 games behind the Boston Red Sox. New York was managed by Joe McCarthy, Bill Dickey, and Johnny Neun. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.

Offseason

Prior to 1946 season: Frank Verdi was signed as an amateur free agent by the Yankees.

Regular season

On May 24, Joe McCarthy, who had managed the team since 1931 and led them to seven World Championships, resigned. Although he had been in ill health, there were also underlying issues with team executive Larry MacPhail and frustrations with the team's performance, especially that of pitcher Joe Page, with whom he had an argument the previous day on the team plane. Long-time Yankee catcher Bill Dickey took over the team. Dickey himself resigned on September 12, and coach Johnny Neun finished out the year at the helm.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

June 17, 1946: Frank Colman was purchased by the Yankees from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Roster

1946 New York Yankees roster
Roster
Pitchers

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	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	100	330	98	.297	16	64
1B	108	323	75	.232	9	49
2B	112	376	79	.210	11	47
SS	126	471	121	.257	2	38
3B	129	487	122	.251	0	37
OF	132	503	146	.290	25	95
OF	150	538	148	.275	30	101
OF	150	565	142	.251	19	83

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
102	332	86	.259	10	40
85	296	77	.260	4	35
56	134	35	.261	2	10
47	86	26	.302	2	10
28	59	17	.288	0	3
37	40	9	.225	0	2
14	39	8	.205	0	4
7	24	8	.333	0	1
7	22	8	.364	2	4
13	21	6	.286	0	1
5	15	4	.267	1	5
4	12	1	.083	0	0
8	12	1	.083	0	0
5	6	2	.333	0	1
3	3	0	.000	0	0
2	2	1	.500	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
34	257.1	20	8	2.10	138
31	249.2	16	13	2.23	120
18	104.2	5	8	3.70	30
8	61.0	5	1	1.77	19
2	16.0	2	0	3.94	11

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
31	136.0	9	8	3.57	77
33	132.2	11	3	2.31	63
26	103.0	6	7	2.97	54
23	81.0	3	4	5.33	32
14	40.1	2	2	4.46	11
14	30.1	1	1	6.53	26
8	18.2	0	2	4.34	7
3	11.1	0	2	4.76	4
4	9.1	0	1	5.79	5
2	8.1	0	1	5.40	4
3	6.1	0	1	8.53	4
4	3.1	1	1	16.20	1

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
27	4	2	7	3.40	19
13	2	1	1	2.29	22
3	0	1	0	12.71	3
3	0	0	0	9.00	3
2	0	0	0	10.80	0

Farm system

References

[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/verdifr01.shtml Frank Verdi page at Baseball Reference]
"Joe McCarthy".
"New York Yankees team history at Baseball Library".
[https://books.google.com/books?id=xEohYBGQfEgC&dq=joe+mccarthy+resigned+yankees+1946+macphail&pg=PA283 Google Books result: ''The Yankee Encyclopedia'' By Mark Gallagher, Walter LeConte, p. 281]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110717103900/http://theyplayedthegame.tripod.com/id5.htm Joe Page at They Played the Game]
[https://books.google.com/books?id=xEohYBGQfEgC&dq=joe+mccarthy+resigned+yankees+1946&pg=PA283 Google Books result: ''The Yankee Encyclopedia'', p. 283]
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/c/colmafr01.shtml Frank Colman page at Baseball Reference]
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., ''The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball'', 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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